Chapter 897 Sukhoi? Si Guoyi!
Meanwhile, the Hufflepuff girls dormitory.
Elena woke up early, and the habits she had developed in the orphanage for six years did not fade so easily.
For a moment, Elena was still thinking about today's breakfast in a daze, but the steady breathing of the girls around her, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna, quickly brought her back to reality. She was already a Huo Gwartz is a sophomore.
"Elena? Hmm...is it dawn yet?"
Luna turned over and murmured drowsily. Her eyes were closed tightly and she didn't know whether she was awake or talking in her sleep.
"It will be a while before dawn, so you should continue to sleep more..."
Elena touched the owl alarm clock next to the bed and looked at it. Half past five.
Well, it's very punctual, which is in line with the biological clock she developed when she was the little cook and the eldest sister in the orphanage.
However, the curfew in the corridors of Hogwarts Castle will not be lifted until 6:30 at the earliest. If you are woken up by urination at this time, the best choice is to return to the warm quilt and continue to sleep. But since she was automatically awakened by her biological clock, it would be very difficult to fall asleep again, and she didn't intend to tease the sleeping little wings at this time.
In a few hours, they would be heading outside to the Quidditch pitch.
As the first day of Quidditch this season, two games are scheduled this morning and afternoon:
The much-anticipated opening match [All-Star Team VS Gryffindor House Team], and [Hogwarts Freshman Team VS Hufflepuff House Team, exclusively titled with Mrs. Malkin’s robe], were “sleeping” last night The girls will all play today.
Of course, Elena will also appear on the field before the game starts.
At her suggestion, starting from this semester, the Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts added a ceremony to display the trophy - but the Quidditch trophy will still be temporarily placed with the winning team last year until the finals. that week.
On the other hand, as the head coach of the Gryffindor team, she had to go to the stadium for pre-match mobilization after breakfast.
Compared with the past games that were limited to within the school, starting from this year, Hogwarts Quidditch games have released a few "audience tickets" for the wizarding society. Managers of professional teams, Quidditch enthusiasts, relatives and friends The group... all had the opportunity to arrive at Hogwarts to watch the game, and at the same time, enjoy lunch and dinner from different houses according to the seating area they received.
Under such circumstances, Elena had very high expectations for the opening game.
Obviously, this has to be a wonderful, high-level, script-turning performance.
"Ugh, if you think about it carefully, there are still a lot of things to do today..."
Elena yawned, got up, dressed, deftly took out the food reserves from the cage and stuffed them into her chest, opened the door and quietly walked out of the dormitory - if she wanted to think about tactics and process news, then she had better It's better not to stay in the room, otherwise a little guy with a serious sixth sense will definitely be awakened.
"Has Lockhart gone to carry out the ruling? He is such a diligent leader of wizards in black."
In the common room, the silent fire was lit by the flame rune. Elena looked through the action log that Gilderoy Lockhart had entrusted the elf to send to her. She had to admit that this "WIB" The leader has been performing quite well recently.
Due to Quirrell's loss of magic, Lockhart will be with him throughout the opening of Hogwarts.
This is both a protection and an insurance measure.
During the crisis derivation of the "Tarot Club", if an outsider sees through Quirrell's state, intends to use magic to peek into the secrets in Quirrell's mind, or even uses magic to control him, Lockhart will be the first to do so. Complete the execution - whether it is to directly erase the memory or modify the memory, all these can be decided by the WIB chief on the spot.
"Well, everyone from the British Quidditch team will also come... The seats have been spread out, which will help to liven up the atmosphere."
"Ministry of Magic official? Gryffindor stand, so that there is less pressure on the kitchen at noon and evening."
"Reporters...it looks like they need to recruit some elves to keep an eye on them to prevent them from wandering around..."
Elena was in front of the fireplace dealing with the unprocessed documents that had accumulated yesterday. From time to time, she took out some snacks from the "universal breast pad" on her chest to satisfy her cravings. Whenever she finished writing something, she would directly crumple the parchment into a ball and face it. Throw it into the fireplace.
A certain castle administrator maintained the Hogwarts fireplace LAN some time ago.
Now, as long as the fireplace is activated by the magic word "kenaz", it will also be connected to the fireplace in the Hogwarts kitchen by default.
Although it is impossible to directly teleport living people like the Floo Network, simple command transmission can still be done - as long as Elena attaches the magic flame to the parchment ball, it will pass through the flame and appear in the kitchen for the "mission" in front of the fireplace.
A few hours later, noises began to appear in the corridors of the Hufflepuff Common Room and Dormitory.
Elena had already finished processing the documents, and was currently roasting sweet potatoes with tongs in the charcoal fire out of boredom. She guessed that it was almost the normal time to get up, so she took a gentle breath and "ate" the swaying fire, and took the Walking towards the dormitory holding the sweet potato.
Devouring fire does not fill her up, and it even consumes Elena's magic.
It's just that...it's so handsome!
"Wake up, hey, look at my power——"
Elena opened the door and looked at the little wings huddled together, still lying on the bed. She chuckled, grabbed a corner of the quilt and opened it violently. Then, taking advantage of the girls' slow reaction, she rushed up to give them a kiss. Provide wake-up service.
This is the advantage of waking up early. When half asleep and half awake, the wings in bed have no strength to resist.
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"Elena, just wait, you will regret it sooner or later!" Hermione yelled, her face red.
"Oh, Hermione, I think you might be more in danger when Elena is confused -"
Luna said with a slight yawn, holding her broomstick and walking side by side with Hannah at the back.
This afternoon, in the second match of the Quidditch Cup, the freshman team will face off against Hufflepuff House.
However, Miss Lovegood, who serves as the seeker, does not feel that she and Hannah will have many opportunities for head-to-head confrontation - Hannah has never hit her in so many long-range sniper training matches before. .
And, more importantly,——
"Why are you still using this old broom, Hannah?" Luna glanced at her best friend beside her curiously.
"Elena said that the new broom can only be used in the second round of the round-robin——"
Hannah replied with some disappointment, thought for a while, and then added quite seriously.
"Moreover, I haven't fully mastered it yet. Although it is powerful, it is also very physically demanding to use, and if you accidentally hit other players at full speed, it is really dangerous...it needs more debugging and practice. That’s all.”
"There's another reason. The launch of that product hasn't happened yet."
Elena explained casually, looked at the list in her hand, and turned her head with a smile.
"It is also a commercial brand after all. It has signed a confidentiality agreement with the national team. The public debut of the secret weapon must wait until the international competition. By the way, Hannah, everyone from the national team who trained together during the summer vacation will also come today. ."
"Secret weapon? That broomstick you're talking about... can it really fly?"
Hermione raised her eyebrows and looked at the three people behind her suspiciously.
"And I searched a lot of documents and couldn't find the predecessor of the company with the strange name you mentioned - if it is really a well-known company in the field of aviation, then it must have corresponding technical sources..."
"First of all, its name is not surprising at all."
Elena raised her finger, shook it, and whispered meaningfully.
"[sugoi] In the Eastern wizarding world, it means 'powerful'. Of course you can't find any relevant records about it in the Quidditch literature of the British wizarding community, but as far as I know, it It almost represents the current upper limit of the sky field. After the test flight is successful, you will know what the meaning of a cross-era flying broomstick is, after all-"
Elena's blue eyes shone with excitement, she shook her head incomprehensibly and did not continue.
If the "special cold potion" is a combination of the fields of chemistry, pharmacy and magic, then the new version of the flying broomstick that is undergoing final parameter adjustments outside the school can be regarded as the first "magic" industrial product in modern times.
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At the same time, outside Hogwarts, in the research area.
"Oh, come and see her, how fascinating she is..."
Several wizards and former Soviet researchers lay on the table, carefully stroking the strange "flying broomstick" that emitted a metallic light and was shaped like a small missile as if they were stroking a lover.
If it weren't for those fine broom tails behind it, the shape would really look like a missile.
On a mobile whiteboard not far away, some test parameters are roughly listed.
【sugoi-M-17 (name to be determined)】
[Empty weight: 1216 kg]
[Theoretical maximum flight speed: Mach 1.02]
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Further away, Mr. Ognechka, who is the general person in charge of this area, is squatting on the ground, discussing with several goblins very seriously some things that have nothing to do with scientific research. Beside them, there are two more There are two wizard employees of the Destiny Group wearing black trench coats. One person is responsible for recording the conversation, and the other person is responsible for mediating and answering some questions.
"...Oh, okay, okay--"
Ognechka scratched her remaining hair angrily and said impatiently.
"As for the name of the company, it's up to you. You guys in the wizarding world have such a bad taste in naming. I really don't want to talk about it anymore. Just sugoi, sugoi. Although it still sounds weird, compared to other things like Peter Pan and Big Brother Dumbo still sounds much better.”
"As long as you understand, this is also a suitable name that we found after discussing for a long time..."
The goblin commissioner smiled and put away the contract in his hand, carefully placing it in the document bag he carried with him.
"Due to confidentiality considerations, the risk of using Sukhoi directly is still too high, so we chose [sugoi], which has a similar pronunciation and has a special meaning. This way, on the one hand, we can As a camouflage layer for the main body of the company, on the one hand, it can also make it easier for everyone from the Sukhoi Research Bureau to accept psychologically..."
"The name of the company is a trivial matter. After all, it sells magic broomsticks, not fighter jets."
Ognechka waved her hand, frowned, and said in a rough voice.
"But the deployment mode and cockpit you requested, without a fixed steel frame, it is difficult for me to design them while taking into account aerodynamics. This is simply making blind optimization suggestions - supersonic flight in the aircraft The requirements in terms of appearance and thrust are already quite stringent, this is not a matter of sacrificing speed, this will kill people!"
"No, please believe in magic... Mr. Ognechka, people's physiques are different..."
The senior employee from Tianming smiled and shook his head, looked at the panel in his hand, and said.
"If the information I wrote here is correct, you probably haven't seen with your own eyes wizards riding broomsticks and moving at high speed in the sky, right? There happened to be two Quidditch matches at Hogwarts today. I have them here. Two special audience tickets.”
"In terms of dynamic vision, reaction speed, and physical strength, the students at Hogwarts—especially those selected for the Quidditch teams of various houses—may not be much worse than those ace pilots you call . And after watching those games, we hope that you can add a limiter on the broom according to the actual situation..."
"Limiter? You wanted to fly at supersonic speed before, and now you want to reduce the speed?"
Ognechka repeated in confusion, staring at the wizard.
As a senior researcher, what he hates most is the changing demand side, especially when they finally debugged a supersonic cross-generation product, the other party actually asked him to change it back to the original one. plan.
"Well, the theoretical upper limit determines how many rounds of iterations we can release..."
The goblin commissioner of Gringotts raised his finger and said in a sharp voice, his face full of cunning and shrewdness.
“Whether it’s for the market, people’s psychological tolerance, or fairness, when we launch these products, of course we have to iterate slowly and improve the speed and performance of the brooms in waves - only in this way can we have follow-up products. R&D support, you can understand that, right? Besides, we still have to divide military and civilian uses..."
"So what do you mean by that outline idea?"
Ognechka frowned, tapped the shorthand notebook in her hand, and asked in a low voice.
"You asked for the most streamlined flight structure and asked us to optimize the broom, but I have to remind you again that even if all wizards fly tightly on the broom, there will still be obvious differences..."
"Don't worry, regarding this, we have a professional team to take over the subsequent magic development..."
The wizard from the Destiny Group straightened up, exchanged a look with the goblin, and said confidently.
"Anyway, you clean up a little, then select a researcher, and then go with me to watch the Quidditch match next to Hogwarts Castle... By the way, due to the protective effect of the Muggle Expelling Curse, you You may have to sleep for a while while passing through the castle area, and dining can only be done at the grandstand..."
"There are also some corresponding precautions. I will explain them to you in detail next."
"As for your identity, one of the core researchers of [Sugoi Broomstick Company], please make sure you don't say it wrong. This is very important, because we may be arranged to sit with some professional Quidditch players... Of course , if you have any details that you need to ask, I will convey them to you as before..."
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