Chapter 507 Car

The affairs in the territory seemed to have entered an orderly stage, and Gawain finally got a brief rest.

In the study room of the lord's mansion, he finished dealing with the official business accumulated a few days ago, and then leaned back in his spacious seat, listening to the daily affairs reported by Heidi while relaxing.

"...To sum up, all the autumn grain storage and statistics work has been completed, and the winter rations in remote areas have also been distributed. This winter, there should be no large-scale famine outbreaks in the main areas of the southern border...

"The magic web project is still expanding along the cross axis, and it has now covered the Peilin area...

"The commercial messenger sent to the Eastern Territory has departed..."

Gao Wen exhaled slightly: "It's a good day without bad news."

"We can't have bad news every day, but we managed to settle down," Heidi smiled, but halfway through the smile, her expression became a little subtle, "but although there is no bad news, there is one thing that makes people care. Yes—that kid Rebecca seems to be tinkering with something lately..."

Gawain's relaxed expression suddenly stopped: "Rebecca? What has she been doing recently?"

"She built a big pond in the Magic Technology Research Institute..." Heidi said this with an almost blank expression, "Raise ooze monsters in it."

Gawain: "...What is she doing with ooze monsters?!"

"The report submitted said that it was to study the industrial value of ooze monsters, but because it is a group project within the Magic Technology Research Institute, she knows the details of the project herself."

Gao Wen heard a question mark on his forehead, but just when he wanted to continue asking, the magic net terminal installed by the desk suddenly turned on and made a loud buzzing sound.

Gawain activated the terminal at will, but he did not expect that it was Rebecca who appeared in the holographic projection above the machine.

"Rebecca? I was just about to..."

However, Gawain was interrupted halfway through his words. The girl was wearing a researcher's white robe over her dress, her face and hands were covered in oil, and she jumped up and down excitedly in the picture: "Master Ancestor Ancestor!! Car! There is a car!!"

Gawain was stunned by the thoughtless words: "What did you say?"

Heidi couldn't help frowning when she saw Rebecca's no-aristocratic behavior: "Rebecca—have you forgotten etiquette again?"

"Ah! Aunt!" Only then did Rebecca notice that Heidi was also opposite the communicator.

In an instant, expressions and movements stiffened, "You are also..."

"Are you in the machine shop?" Gawain noticed the scene behind the girl after Rebecca stopped jumping, and after seeing the lathes and the wide assembly platform, his heart moved, "Is it a magic car? !"

"Yes! Eggy and I have finally managed to solve the last few problems! We have built a usable chassis!!" Rebecca jumped in front of the communicator excitedly, and the holographic projection in front of Gawain's eyes was eighty percent. They were all occupied by the girl's oily face, "Come and see! Come and see!"

Nicholas Egg's voice came from the background of the communicator: "How come this has become an egg again - didn't you call me Mr. Egg last time?"

After that, Rebecca seemed to say something again, but Gawain didn't have the heart to continue listening. He suddenly got up, turned off the communicator, and said to Heidi as he walked to the door, "Come with me!"

At this time, Heidi was still thinking "Why does Rebecca raise an ooze monster?", but from Gawain's reaction, she realized that Rebecca might have made some amazing results. This result Enough to make the ancestors throw any ooze monsters behind their heads.

She quickly agreed and quickly followed Gawain's pace.

Mechanical Research Institute, next to the "Mechanical Platform" in the first workshop, hundreds of technicians in work clothes or researcher uniforms gathered together, looking at the hard-won results on the platform with eager and proud expressions, Rebecca and Several of his assistants also stood in the crowd, excitedly discussing the possible future uses of this epoch-making creation, while the silver-white Nicholas Egg with a happy smile floated quietly on the mechanical platform. In the nearest place, he felt every subtle detail inside the complex machine, every cog and lever, every repulsion mechanism and pump device ready to go, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled his diameter 1.3 meters in a body that weighs a ton and a half.

There was a heavy and hurried footsteps coming from the door of the workshop, Rebecca immediately raised her head, and after seeing who was coming, she excitedly waved her hand to say hello: "Master Ancestor! Aunt! You are here!!"

Gawain passed through a group of researchers who paid tribute to himself, and looked at the mechanical creation on the circular platform with eager eyes: "Is it?"

"As you can see..." Rebecca raised her hand and pointed at the creature, following the gesture of a butler or a senior attendant introducing guests, "Isn't it beautiful?"

Frankly speaking, in the aesthetics of many people in this era, that thing may not be considered beautiful, but in the eyes of people who have accepted the style of Cecil's magical mechanical painting, it can indeed be associated with "aesthetics". .

It is a complex machine made of black steel. Its shape is slightly similar to the chassis of the car in Gawain's impression, but there are huge differences. Since it is a test product, it does not have a casing, and almost all mechanical structures are directly exposed to the outside. Those assembled gears, levers and axles are like a monster with flesh and blood, which makes it look quite scary - but also There is some kind of strange beauty.

With no outer shell, Gawain could clearly see the many structures of the chassis: four steel wheels were mounted on both sides of the same steel frame, and a miniaturized, specially designed mobile vehicle The second-generation magic energy engine is installed at its tail to provide power. A large number of runes are spread over the entire chassis structure, forming a complete magic net structure. In the center of the chassis, a very conspicuous one can be seen. "Beam" - it is not only a beam that provides structural strength, but also a part of the magic power mechanism. Gawain saw that a large number of runes are concentrated on this beam, and the magic net of the chassis is also connected to the beam, and also There are many connecting rods and wire mechanisms that control the rune trigger are also integrated in the front section of this beam, and this structure makes him feel a sense of sight.

Rebecca quickly answered the source of his sense of sight: "Did you think of the 'power ridge' on the magic warship?"

Gawain suddenly realized: "The same idea?"

"Yeah, the power ridge of the magic warship has given us a lot of inspiration," Rebecca nodded, "integrate various control mechanisms and energy transmission structures into a module, reduce intermediate structures as much as possible, and reduce the number of trivial parts. , the failure rate can be minimized, the reliability of the machine will also be improved, and it is also convenient to repair once a failure occurs - if the failure is too large, the entire power ridge can be replaced directly, so that in the shortest time The entire set of machinery can be reactivated. I think that in the future, as long as it is a large-scale magical machinery, such as vehicles and ships, the structure of the power ridge can be used.”

For a while, Gawain really thought that there was something that could replace this structure, so he nodded slightly: "Very good."

The power ridge structure can be said to be the most typical technical achievement created by local technicians since the establishment of the Magic Technology Research Institute and the Machinery Manufacturing Institute - and not only Gao Wen did not intervene at all, even Rebecca was not a power ridge. The main inventor of architecture.

The one who came up with this structure was a group of apprentices from the Leslie area, who were sent to do the magic transformation of old ships after they were transferred to magic technicians, in order to fit them in a large warship. Entering a large-scale magic device, and integrating all complex systems into a stable and reliable control-energy supply structure, they referred to the control technology of the mage tower and proposed the original concept of power ridge.

After that, nearly a hundred rune masters, mechanics, magicians and craftsmen from all over the southern region worked together, and the first generation of truly practical "power ridges" was built and applied to Aurora and Morningstar.

And now, this technical achievement, which has been proved to be stable and reliable on the magic warship, has been successfully transformed by the technicians of the machine factory and has been successfully miniaturized and installed on the chassis of the first generation magic vehicle.

If Rebecca's plan is reliable, then the "power ridge" architecture will continue to develop and become the central structure of various magic vehicles and various large-scale magic energy facilities in the future - it will continue to improve and popularize until One day in the future, a more epoch-making, more stable and reliable architecture can replace it.

Gawain didn't know how to describe this feeling - although he opened this era, the flashes that emerged in this era were always unexpected to him.

He raised his head and looked at the control part of the "prototype magic car" - there is a chair welded to the front and middle of the chassis, and many control devices are set in front of the seat, just like the exposed mechanical structures in other parts of the chassis, It's also a completely unobstructed "driver's seat".

At least the steering wheel was what he knew.

But several levers and pedals outside the steering wheel are not quite the same as his previous memories.

Obviously, the designers did not completely follow the "conceptual plan" originally proposed by Gawain to design the operating system of this machine. They planned the functions and positions of the levers according to their own habits, and they may also be based on the "rune trigger". It's more likely that these changes have been made in the special operation of the city - they asked the most experienced coachman in the city, and the entire driver's seat was planned based on the coachman's driving experience.

In this regard, Gao Wen will not express his opinion. Although he has the mature design of another world in his mind, and has the experience of two worlds, he knows that his experience is not always applicable, and the expert here is not him. , Whether these things are useful or not depends on the actual test results.

As for now, seeing the unsealed mechanical structure in front of him, the prototype magic car that looks like some kind of punk product, there is only joy in his heart - but due to the burden of his ancestors, he can only be in front of others He made a serious inspection and went around the mechanical platform one after another. When he turned to the third lap, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand and curiously touched the wheel: "...what do you use to make it? tires?"

Due to the deviation between the substance list and the technology tree, Cecil Land has no rubber - neither natural nor artificial - no rubber, and various rubber products, including tires, are naturally out of the question. When designing magic vehicles At the beginning, one of the difficulties that Gawain expected was here.

Tires play a huge role in reducing vibration, making the driver more comfortable and extending the life of the mechanical structure. It provides reliable grip friction, prevents slippage, and prevents direct wear of steel wheels. Excellent design of tires It can also make the vehicle more effortless and save energy...

But without rubber, everything is a fantasy.

Gawain even considered using the suspension structure + crawler to bypass this problem, but now it seems that the team of Rebecca and Nicholas Egg has solved the material problem-although I don't know what they used. What material, but that layer of substance on the outside of the wheel is clearly not rubber.

It is gray-white, rough to the touch and has a certain elasticity. If you smell it carefully, there seems to be a very slight earthy smell.

Rebecca seemed happy to see the omnipotent ancestor also asking herself questions curiously. She crossed her hips with a smug smile on her face: "Lord Ancestor, guess what we used?"

Gawain was stunned for a moment, and then began to search his memory bank, but before he could think of the answer, Heidi, who came with him, rubbed the surface of the wheel with his hands, and then showed an unsure look: "This thing Could it be... no way... you use the ooze excrement to make... tires?!"