Chapter 508

Hearing Hetty's words, Gawain's expression froze instantly - ooze excrement? !

Over there, Rebecca was still nodding excitedly: "Yes, yes - we kept a large pool in the backyard of the Magic Technology Institute! One of the ooze monsters was caught by me..."

Gawain finally knew what happened to Hetty's report that Rebecca was raising an ooze monster...

"Thank you for being able to figure it out!" Heidi's expression was so weird and weird, "I'm just curious how you linked these two things together..."

Gao Wen couldn't help covering his forehead: "Why do I feel a little sick?"

"It's not disgusting," Rebecca said immediately, "Although it is the excrement of ooze monsters, ooze monsters are almost an elemental creature, and the things they excrete are more like the mixed slag generated in the alchemy reaction. , clean - didn't you tell me, aunt, that the mages of the Violet Kingdom even use the excrement of the ooze monster to apply it on the face to improve the skin?"

Heidi couldn't help covering her face: "...but that's a curse word..."

Rebecca scratched her head: "Hey? Is that so?"

Listening to the conversation between Rebecca and Hetty, Gawain quickly accepted the source of the "tire" in front of him.

He knew about the ooze - a magical creature with weak but strong vitality, usually living near the focus of magic, the product of the combination of earth element and biomass. The wild ooze itself is not offensive, but because its habitat is close to the focus of magic, there are often strong monsters nearby, and it is not easy to catch - but because they are not very useful, except for a few Except for the mages looking for ooze monsters in order to collect specific materials, ordinary people would not have any interest in those low-level elemental creatures.

As an elemental creature, the ooze monsters will leave various gel products after gnawing on the soil and decaying plants, which is their "excretions", but as Rebecca said - as long as you adjust psychologically In place, that's just a by-product of a magical reaction...

But anyway, looking for inspiration from the ooze excrement, and even thinking of making tires with that stuff... This is really a refreshing idea.

With a strange expression, Hetty continued to poke the gray-white slightly elastic "tire" with her fingers, and asked curiously, "You should have dealt with it, right? The normal slime secretion should be softer than this. , and the taste is heavier..."

"We mixed very fine quartz sand into it. As for the smell, we used giant wood gum to remove it. The effect is not bad, but I think there should be room for optimization.

"Rebecca nodded and said, "In addition, in order to make the secretions discharged by the ooze monsters meet the requirements, we have also tested many different 'feeds', and now this feeding formula is definitely not the most suitable..."

Ooze monsters are very strange elemental creatures. They eat everything, and then perform complex magical reactions on the swallowed substances, and absorb energy in the process. Their physiological process is like a continuous alchemy reaction. This also leads to the fact that if what they eat is different, then what they put out will be very different - of course, basically all kinds of viscosities and hardness of gel products.

Looking at the gray-white "tire", Gawain nodded slightly.

I am afraid that there really is no natural rubber in this world, and humans will never be able to make artificial rubber based on the oil industry, but alternatives still appear.

A low-level primitive magical creature has solved a big problem in the magic industry. Regardless of how Rebecca came up with this plan, this fact alone is enough to give Gawain enough confidence in the future.

"Can it start now?" Gawain pointed to the prototype magic car on the mechanical platform and asked expectantly.

"Of course~~" Rebecca said happily, "Before you came, we had already started it in the suspended state once, and adjusted a lot of small problems, and now it can be fully opened. Although I haven't tried it, I think It can even drive outside the workshop."

Gawain didn't talk nonsense: "Show me."

"Okay~~" Rebecca had been waiting for the words of the ancestors, and immediately walked to the mechanical platform while agreeing - obviously, she couldn't wait to personally demonstrate the miracle of the magic industry to everyone. .

Gawain watched Rebecca get on the platform, then climbed onto the pile of mechanical monsters made of steel, watched her sit in the crude seat welded directly to the frame, and then began to pull The levers and wrenches in front of the seat, on the chassis of the prototype magic car, the runes gradually brightened, a low humming sound rang from the connection between the power ridge and the magic engine, and countless gears and levers began to vibrate slightly, A surging power is brewing—

Heidi listened to the movement from the pile of machines, and looked at Rebecca who was playing with the lever excitedly, with worry on her face: "Ancestor, is this thing really okay?"

"You have to trust her," Gao Wen said in a low voice, "and trust the efforts of so many technicians for so long."

Heidi opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but all her words were swallowed after she saw the scene in front of her——

The heavy industrial beast made of black steel with countless exposed mechanical structures let out a low roar, and the rotor-type magic energy engine drove all the mechanical mechanisms to run, accompanied by vibrations and sounds, its four wheels. Slowly started turning.

"Lord Ancestor, look! Let's go!!"

Rebecca shouted happily, and at the same time pulled another lever on the left side of the body, accompanied by a series of clicks of the gears changing positions, the rotation speed of the wheels accelerated - in a series of noises and vibrations, this A huge machine stepped off the platform, like the first cry of a human baby in this world, the sound it made was noisy and loud.

The mechanics and mages around the platform cheered and clapped vigorously.

Gao Wen knew that the machining accuracy of Nicholas eggs could be very high, but that was only when the blueprint had been perfected, and when manufacturing the prototype, in order to verify the blueprint and improve the success rate, in order to leave enough space for all mechanical structures. Safety margins, in order to allow mechanics to confirm the wear rate of all structures and facilitate disassembly and modification, these initial machines will leave an acceptable margin between parts, and these margins cause the prototype magic car to travel. The noises and vibrations of the process—they sounded chaotic, but the Mechanics found it familiar and familiar.

It means that a new mechanical creation is born, and the sound of the collision and friction of gears and levers is the loud announcement after the birth of a new mechanical spirit in this world.

Rebecca drove the rudimentary prototype off the platform, and then controlled it to drive round after round in the vast open space of the workshop, which should have been dressed in a rich aristocratic dress, sitting decorated with flowers and gold. The girl who was drinking tea and enjoying the flowers on the terrace of the sun was wearing a dirty researcher's robe, sitting among a pile of iron frames and parts, and the sound of shouting was even louder than the machinery under her body——

"Lord Ancestor, look! Aunt, look! It's really walking! It can still run!!"

She smiled like a child.

And amid Rebecca's cheerful laughter, the magic car's lever was pushed into a higher acceleration gear - as far as the workshop space would allow, the complex machine sped up again, and it made a loud noise The roar of the magic engine drove the gear set, and the whole car drove quickly to the exit of the workshop: Obviously, Rebecca planned to drive the car outside.

A worried look appeared on Heidi's face, but Gawain lightly pressed her shoulder.

Heidi breathed a sigh of relief, and then put all unnecessary worries aside: there is a legendary powerhouse watching here, and Rebecca and the "machine friend" she created shouldn't be able to make a big deal out of it. trouble.

However, just when she breathed a sigh of relief, the machine car that had run to the door of the workshop suddenly made a strange creaking sound, accompanied by a continuous noise like metal collision, the car was in a series of huge Slowly stopped in the vibration, and the magic runes on the power ridge went out one by one.

Gawain and Hetty looked at each other, and then a large group of people hurried to the place where the locomotive lay.

Rebecca pulled the lever next to the seat and stepped on the pedal under her feet hard. After finding that she couldn't restart, she had to stand up from the seat and jump to the ground with a face of frustration.

"broken."

She said to Gawain with a sad face.

However, just when Gawain wanted to comfort the girl, Rebecca had already turned her head. She took out a wrench and screwdriver from her pocket, and began to dismantle the connection between the magic engine and the mechanical cabin. cover plate.

A large group of technicians immediately surrounded, and Nicholas Egg floated above the locomotive and began to help Rebecca get the stuck and even twisted gears out of the gearbox and differential.

In front of Gawain and Heidi, the mechanics and the magicians began to discuss:

"The shifting place seems to be stuck..."

"The differential seems to be fine...damaged by inertia after the transmission suddenly jammed."

"How can it get stuck... It's okay to test it alone?"

"Is it possible that the lubricating grease is less effective after friction and heat?"

"Definitely not. This kind of alchemy ointment is also used in the golem. The temperature of the power core of the golem is much higher than the friction of the gears..."

"Hey look at this link - it looks like it's stuck! It came off when it vibrated! There's something wrong with the way it's connected in this place!"

While Gawain was still hesitating whether to go in and see the situation, the discussions among the technicians seemed to have come to an end.

Rebecca emerged from the crowd, and there were several oil stains on the girl's face and hands, but her eyes that had been very depressed just now flashed again: "Lord Ancestor, the problem is understood! There is one There is a problem with the connection of the connecting rod..."

"This is our mistake," a machinist in blue work clothes stood up, and Gawain recognized that this was one of Hammer's apprentices. "We didn't estimate the impact of the shock."

"It's okay, it's normal for the prototype to have a problem." Gawain didn't mean to blame anyone at all. On the contrary, his happy mood at the moment was not weakened at all by this small mechanical failure.

Although there was a mechanical failure, it was just an unavoidable episode in the research and development process - Rebecca drove the prototype magic car off the platform, which is the real meaning of today's test.

This shows that at least on the whole, the design of the magic car has been successful.

He raised his head, looked in the direction of the mechanical platform in the center of the workshop, and then looked back at the prototype car that was quietly parked at the door of the workshop.

From stepping off the mechanical platform, testing driving in the workshop, and then driving to the workshop exit, the first magic locomotive should have only traveled four or five hundred meters.

It's good, there are four or five hundred meters.