Chapter 559 Thoughts

The shining energy sparks jumped between the rune organs, and the surging magic power was distributed from the power ridge to each magic energy engine, accompanied by a loud whistle sound, on the experimental platform hundreds of meters long. , The train consisting of four groups of power carriages and a large number of complex linkages, control systems, and energy supply systems began to move forward slowly.

On the observation tower 100 meters away from the platform, Rebecca and the technicians were concentrating on every detail of the huge, complex and sophisticated mechanical beast, paying attention to every rotation of the wheels, and paying attention to the slave cars. Every roar that came out of the body.

The train traveled for tens of meters, and a power carriage in the middle section suddenly reduced its output as scheduled.

According to the design, the linkage mechanism in the front and rear of the car will respond immediately, and the misplaced rune trigger will redistribute the energy supply of all power cars and release the axle drive of the faulty car to prevent the faulty car from destroying the balance of the entire train. Even damage the mechanical structure of the linkage.

However, an extraordinarily loud noise came from the connector between the second and third power cars, and along with this huge noise, a bright arcane flame suddenly spewed from the magical obelisk on the top of the car. Immediately after, the power ridge connected to the magic obelisk burst into flames - the magic power that was released from nowhere was instantly erupted from between all the rune substrates, and the two power carriages were almost instantly destroyed by a large group of flames. completely swallowed.

The fireball formed by the explosion rose into the air on the experimental platform, and slowly condensed into the word "shame" in the air.

In this virtual proving ground that basically does not need to consider costs and consequences, this small special effect can serve as a good warning and encouragement to project participants.

Countless bright and illusory lines trembled and wandered around on the platform. The carriages and fireballs that were destroyed by the deflagration stagnated in mid-air, showing a clear decomposition structure. On the observation tower in the distance, Rebecca. Scratched his head.

"Oh my god," the marquise said with a cold sweat, "it's fortunate that we did the experiment here..."

Carmel on the side also made a helpless voice: "If it is in reality...Ms. Hetty will be crazy."

Rebecca pouted, not daring to make up for the scene where her aunt hung herself up and beat her after she was crazy, she waved her hand: "Check the reason."

The upper layer of the observation tower immediately broke away from the tower, carrying all the technical staff to the stagnant experimental ruins.

In this experimental space formed by virtual reality, everything becomes extraordinarily convenient.

The two project leaders took a group of technicians and began to analyze the cause of the failure.

They carefully observe, carefully calculate, hypothesize, explore, verify, debate... For the birth of a whole new thing, the wisdom of people and people is brought together, and they are not based on power and status, but on the basis of pure "knowledge and "Truth" is the yardstick, and the whole team gets busy.

At the edge of the crowd, Daniel, who participated in the "Cecil-style scientific research" team for the first time, looked at the scene in front of him with a little daze.

This is the first time he has participated in a team activity since he became a servant of the "Outlander", but the atmosphere and format of this team activity are completely different from what he imagined.

He had imagined that this would be a gloomy and oppressive group, or a tight and cruel organization—most of which were secret organizations, and he had also imagined that the working atmosphere here would be tense, mysterious and full of taboos and heretical knowledge—a cult. Most of them were like this, but he never thought that the real atmosphere here would be like this.

These people seem to be simply pursuing new knowledge and exploring technical possibilities. In this "esoteric force" established by wanderers outside the realm, people's motivation for pursuing truth is even higher than that of the splendid Royal Mages Association. Also simple and pure.

Daniel, who has spent his entire youth and middle age in the Royal Society of Mages, and spent more than ten years as a cultist in the Order of the Eternal Sleepers, is not accustomed to this kind of "pure" atmosphere, or rather the era of this world. None of the mages and scholars in Daniel would be accustomed to this unprecedented atmosphere. However, seeing these people arguing over a technical issue, red-faced and rejoicing over a few calculation results, Daniel couldn't bear the slightest resistance.

He couldn't even help but think of his youthful days, the days when he first came into contact with the mysteries of magic - in his long faded memories, it seemed that only those days still had a hint of it. Warm and colorful.

The uncharted territory and the process of seeking knowledge are the most fascinating.

Beside the test bench, Rebecca pulled a mass of distorted metal parts closer to her. She shook her head: "The mechanical structure of the linkage is defective, too complicated, and reduces reliability..."

As she spoke, she suddenly noticed Daniel standing not far away, so she beckoned: "Master Daniel, what do you think?"

Daniel woke up from a brief thought. He heard Rebecca's greeting and walked over and said, "You don't need to call me Master, just call me Daniel."

Although this girl named Rebecca is still young, she is one of the first messengers of the foreign wanderers, and she is also the bloodline descendant of the body currently used by the foreign wanderers. Although the reason is unknown, the master seems to regard it as a real The descendants of Daniel came to protect and love. After knowing this, Daniel would naturally be more polite in front of Rebecca.

In addition to Rebecca, the ancient arcanist named Carmel is also extraordinary. He is an ancient powerhouse who survived a thousand years ago, the great magus of the Gondor Empire, and even transformed himself with the power of gods. People - also not to be taken lightly.

Compared with such a person, the high-level mage from the Royal Mage Association is really nothing - even if he has taught a legendary powerhouse? Are Outlanders lacking legendary power?

The simple-minded Rebecca couldn't think of what the old mage was sighing in front of her. She just asked the other party's opinion: "Daniel, do you think the magic energy train... Which idea is wrong?"

Daniel glanced at the magical creation with a complex structure and inconceivable mechanical structures everywhere, and shook his head with a wry smile: "To be honest, I still haven't fully understood its principle... I can only help you build a virtual It's just the environment."

Daniel is an expert in the field of dream spells and virtual reality. He is here as a consultant to help Kamal and Rebecca build a laboratory environment, but for the field of magic machinery... Although he also knows a little bit, but his professional level Obviously not comparable to Rebecca.

Rebecca herself didn't expect much to get any answers from Daniel, she just shook her head: "Both of ideas feel very difficult to go..."

"After the power distribution, the problems of overload and interference of high-power engines have been solved, but the mechanical complexity and control difficulty have suddenly increased several times," Carmel said in a low tone, "It is necessary to ensure that multiple power cars can run synchronously. , synchronous control, but also to ensure that the entire system can automatically trim after some of the carriages fail, and can shield the faulty section... With the existing technology and materials, we cannot create a reliable control mechanism."

A technician couldn't help but said: "After all, the train chassis is limited, and we have too little space to play..."

"On the one hand, the large power unit can't be built, and on the other hand, the mechanical structure is complicated and unreliable," Rebecca scratched at her hair again - her hair was already in a mess, "We should probably recombine all the parameters. …”

Daniel watched the scene in front of him silently. Although he didn't know all the secrets of the magic train when he first came into contact with this project, he understood Rebecca's distress very well——

In a project, there may be no problem with calculating data, but there will always be errors and accidents when applied to real objects. This is an inevitable problem that almost any technological product will encounter in the process of moving from paper to reality. His non-implantable neural Soo has studied for more than ten years, and most of the time is stuck at this stage.

He raised his head and carefully observed the complex and huge magical mechanical creation once again.

It's an incredible thing, an incredible idea.

Before coming into contact with the knowledge of outsiders, he never thought that the power of magic could still be used in this form. He never thought that when ordinary people also participated in the supernatural realm, the operation of the whole society would undergo earth-shaking changes.

Every advent of foreign wanderers has its mission, or create, or destroy, or conquer the world, or save the world.

So, this time of His coming... is it to create a world driven by magic technology?

I really want to see with my own eyes what Cecil, who has already popularized the magic machinery, looks like...

"Daniel? Daniel?" Rebecca noticed that the old mage suddenly raised her hair and asked curiously, "Master Daniel, what do you think?"

Daniel woke up from the momentary distraction, he blinked, looked at the mechanical train that had become too bloated and complicated after many renovations, and suddenly said casually: "The power of the magic train... must be placed in the train. up?"

"Where is the power not on the car?" Rebecca said with a look of course, "The power is not on the car, the power... Wait, you say, the power of the train can not be placed on the car?! "

"Ah, I just asked casually," Daniel said quickly, "because I don't know the structure of it..."

"No no no, just listen to whoever says something makes sense," Rebecca interrupted Daniel, "You just said that the power should not be put on the car... Is it on the track?"

Listen to whoever says what makes sense...

For the first time in decades, Daniel heard such words.

This statement really makes sense.

"I don't know the structure of the magic train, but as a 'layman', I know that the purpose of your train is to use it to transport a lot of goods from one place to another," Daniel said as he pondered, " Whether it is to put the power on the car or on the track, as long as it can achieve this purpose - as far as I can see, the large number of mechanical structures installed on the train has seriously exceeded the capacity of the car body. Stuffing things in a car only sacrifices reliability, and if you don't put power on the car...we have a lot of spells that can push a movable entity from the outside...like installing a repulsion mechanism on a track or a traction spell."

Rebecca and Carmel couldn't help but look at each other, and they both saw a bright light in their eyes.

Carmel's is a bit brighter.

"The power can be placed on the track. I didn't expect this idea, I really didn't expect..." Kamal's tone was full of excitement, "But if the power is on the track, you can also control the vehicle to move forward on the train. Backing up and braking? Relying on the Fel Obelisk for remote control? Or... give all control to the manipulator of the track?"

"...The latter is not safe, the train itself must have a way to control the power, at least a braking way, after all, it will transport people in the future, one is pushed on the track and can't stop when something happens. No one dares to sit in the tin can," Rebecca said while thinking, "...We may be able to disassemble the power structure? Or...ah, I have an idea!!"

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the mage technicians with thoughtful expressions around her.

"Everyone, get busy - let's do it again!"