Chapter 1014 Adult Day
Graycastle, Neverwinter City.
Since the news of holding the enthronement ceremony was announced, Roland left all the preparations to Barov, and the latter seemed to be particularly attentive. Not only was he busy every day, but he also had the ceremonial officer of the old royal capital announce Ms. Lan Qi invited Neverwinter, obviously not wanting to make any mistakes.
As for himself, apart from occasionally checking the filming progress of Phantom, he devoted the rest of his time to finalizing the internal combustion engine.
Since there are certain errors in the weights and measures of the two worlds, the prototypes need to pass stability tests. In addition, the fractionated oil products are uneven, and design redundancy must be taken into consideration. In the absence of simulation calculation methods, , he can only use physical objects for debugging.
Manufacturing - experimenting - scrapping - improving - repeating again, Roland seemed to have returned to his school days, running between the castle and the back mountain of the north slope every day, living a busy and fulfilling research life. Those things he had not touched for a long time The knowledge has become vivid again in this half month.
Of course, Anna was not with me at that time.
What's even better is that her enthusiasm for new things is no less than her own.
Whenever he saw her focusing on assembling those precision parts, and casually touching the sweat beads on the tip of her nose to leave a string of mimeographs, Roland couldn't help but feel emotional - her desire for creation and knowledge seemed to be innate. , just like her flame, hot and pure.
This inner spirit is beyond what can be described by appearance, and you will never tire of looking at it.
Whenever a decisive progress was made, Anna's smile could almost be described as all things blooming - he even felt that the joy derived from creation was far more important to her than becoming a queen.
She has never concealed her thoughts - as long as the two of them can stay together, she doesn't care too much about the false reputation.
Of course, Roland also knew that sometimes the name was not meant to be shown to the other party, but to be shown to everyone.
This is inevitable as long as humans are social animals.
After marking a series of revised dimensions on the drawing, he put down the quill and rubbed his sore neck.
If nothing else goes wrong, the design drawings in front of us are likely to be finalized - after all, the previous batch of prototypes has been running stably for several days, and the accumulated working time has been able to meet the current use needs.
As a second-generation power source, the principle of the internal combustion engine is not complicated and can be regarded as an evolved version of the steam engine. The first generation power source used steam to push the piston. No matter how clever the design, it could not avoid the energy loss caused by steam transportation. Therefore, people naturally thought that putting this force directly into the cylinder would inevitably greatly improve work efficiency. , the internal combustion engine was born.
Mix oil and air and then spray it into the cylinder to cause it to burn violently. The expanded airflow will push the piston to operate and at the same time suck new fuel into the cylinder. It sounds simple, but it is a huge project to implement. . For example, steam engines have very low requirements for sealing. The gap between the piston and the cylinder of early products can even be filled with a finger. Felt and linen can be used to seal the gap, but it is obviously not feasible to switch to an internal combustion engine.
It is not powered by the outside like a steam engine. Every cycle of the piston needs to be completed by itself. Therefore, if the seal is not tight, it will cause the cylinder to misfire and shut down.
In other words, only when the material level and processing technology reach a certain level can this simple principle be turned into reality. It is precisely because of this that the first internal combustion engine in history was actually born decades later than the electric motor.
The first-generation internal combustion engine solution designed by Roland has two directions, one is the cylinder in-line type, and the other is the cylinder ring type. The former is stupid, big, black and thick, made of cast iron. It can be made as stable as possible, and it can be put into factories for large-scale production. The latter is also called a radial engine. Due to its short crankshaft and compact structure, it can be made very compact and is very suitable for spacecraft use. It is much more refined than the former as a whole. It is made of aluminum alloy and can only be processed by Anna for the time being.
The reason why Roland dared to develop two sets of products in the research and development stage was simply to stand on the shoulders of its predecessors. For these two time-tested works, a lot of information can be found in the dream world. Compared with the steam engine that has gone through four generations, the starting point this time is much higher.
Coupled with the information revealed by the high-level devil, he had to speed up his pace.
It is difficult to rely solely on ground defense to be watertight in the face of a large number of threats from the sky. This expedition has proved this.
If the plan can be realized, human beings will be qualified to compete with the enemy in the air for the first time.
"Your Majesty, don't move."
Nightingale suddenly spoke.
Roland paused immediately and glanced back.
Are there... enemies?
Then he saw Nightingale come over and put her hand on the top of his head. Then with a slight pain, she placed a strand of hair in front of him.
"Uh, is this white hair?" Roland didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment.
Although the color of gray hair itself is very light, these hair strands are indeed a bit white and have almost lost their luster from the roots.
"What's more," Nightingale fumbled for a while, "Have you had too little rest recently?"
"Have it?"
"You used to sleep in in the winter, and recently you get up earlier than me, and you have to enter the dream world at night. That can't be considered true sleep, right?" She continued, "Yawning from time to time is proof of fatigue. You still My hair will start to turn gray before I reach thirty, how can I continue like this?"
Seeing the other party's solemn admonishment, Roland couldn't help but feel a lot lighter, and even the fatigue from work faded a bit. She was not affected too much. It seemed that the agreement did play a vital role.
"Don't worry, this is far from the limit. I have experienced this before."
"..." Nightingale looked questioning, but obviously she could tell that this was not a lie.
Because he really wasn't lying, "Generally speaking, there will be a long period of palpitations first, as if the chest is particularly empty; and then you feel that you can't feel energetic all over. At this time, you need to be careful. If you have a strong reaction If you do, you will cough non-stop, and even draw blood—cough cough cough cough—"
Halfway through, he suddenly coughed violently.
"Hey, are you okay?" Nightingale suddenly looked nervous, patted his back and said, "Do you need me to call Nana?"
Roland took a deep breath, "No...it's okay, I just choked on my saliva."
"real?"
"Don't worry, I -"
He turned his head and couldn't help but freeze for a moment - the distance between them was almost so close that they were touching each other. As their eyes met, the two of them held their breath involuntarily.
"Your Majesty," at this moment, the office door was pushed open and Wendy walked in, "I have one thing to ask for... hmm? What are you doing?"
"Me?" Roland blinked and realized that there was no one in front of him. He kept a half-reclined posture. Needless to say, he knew that it must be quite weird.
"Your Majesty is practicing gymnastics." Nightingale was lying down beside the coffee table at some point, chewing dried fish with a very leisurely look. "It is easy to get sore all over after sitting for a long time. He can try the effect on himself first." .”
"So that's it," Wendy said thoughtfully, "Is this the gymnastics technique you mentioned before that you plan to promote in the academy? But...is it really effective if it is put like this?"
"Uh, okay," Roland regained his posture awkwardly. For some reason, he always felt that the innocent-looking Nightingale was trying his best to hold back laughter, "By the way, what do you want to say?"
"That's right, Your Majesty," Wendy opened the record book in her hand, "According to last year's records, today should be Lightning's coming-of-age day."