Chapter 214 Ascension

"Please leave this rune verification with me first. I will help you go through the process and improve the structure. If it succeeds, I will organize it into a file and submit it to the city hall to apply for funds for formal production. By the way, let's deal with the problem of airships."

The dean rubbed his brows, pulled out a stack of reports from the desk, opened the folder, and flipped the neatly arranged papers. He pulled out a thinner stack of papers and handed it to Chongyan who was standing in front of him. He took out another piece of paper and quickly wrote down the lord's design requirements for the airship on it, and stacked it with the paper.

This entire report was originally a scientific research report submitted to the lord to inform him of the progress of various scientific research projects in the territory, and attached detailed research materials.

There are two copies, one of which is kept in the college. The other is given to Ji Lin for confirmation and stored in the archives next to the city hall for backup.

The copy that the dean handed to Chongyan at this time was the monthly research report to be kept in the territory, about the new airship research report delivered this month.

"If you have any needs, you can apply to me. You can also visit the airship at will."

After the dean finished speaking, he asked Chongyan to leave the office and said several words of encouragement to him.

Since this child has such a talent in runes and engineering, why not let him try to overcome the problem. If it really fails, there is no problem for the dean to take over.

After all, the dean has basically solved the problem of the floating stone engine. After countless improvements, the efficiency of the imitation version is 20% lower than the original. This 20% improvement made him lose a few hairs again. In the end, he could only consider tampering with the structural frame to recover this 20% loss.

And the task he gave to Chongyan was just such a task, to design a barely usable airship produced by the territory with an engine.

Maybe this child can have better ideas than himself, the dean sighed, and looked through the lesson plan for tomorrow's class.

Classes during the day, scientific research at night, and half a day off on Saturdays and Sundays.

The lord has already had a long talk with the dean about the second year's plan for the territory. He needs to gain a foothold on the small floating island first. He is not so anxious about the airships used for expeditions to other islands. The small island he has harvested now is enough for his territory to digest for a while.

The territory also needs to expand its agricultural planting area and the number of agricultural product processing facilities during this period of development.

The scientific research plan to be completed in the next six months was also set during this long talk.

The dean looked at the various paper strips pinned to the wall on the right, pulled out one of them, and there were two rows of paper strips on the wall. He collapsed on the chair and wanted to collapse on the chair and close his eyes to rest for a while.

‘Development of production process of fixed paper shell bullets’

‘Refrigeration and preservation technology’

‘Improved mass production plan of steam spiders (add floating stones to reduce the strength requirements of body materials, and try mass production)’

‘Improved 30mm small-caliber support artillery (infantry anti-material support gun, requiring continuous firing to reach 20 times)’

‘Rune device reverse’

‘Improved fishing net (the coarse linen currently used in the territory performs poorly in deeper waters, is easily damaged, and has poor load-bearing capacity)’

‘Mechanical manufacturing and smelting (complete the research on steel frying method, and replace the current crucible metallurgy in the territory. Hydrogen metallurgy technology is too difficult to achieve)’

...

The dean leaned back in his chair and covered his face with the lesson plan.

There are still many things to do, but the lord also has no rest for a week, and the dean is embarrassed to be less diligent than the lord.

So tomorrow, let the elf who wanders around the territory every day and does nothing come over to take two classes. Her students like the botany course she teaches very much. The only drawback is that it is quite troublesome to throw all the plants growing wildly in the classroom outside after each class.

He felt that he needed a good rest for a day.

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Zhongyan lowered his head and flipped the paper in his hand, and the data on it flowed into his mind little by little. Every line of numbers, every formula, accompanied by the description of the dean on the paper, outlined a fat elliptical sphere in his mind.

Such a clumsy thing can actually fly with the help of the strategic resource of floating stone, helping them to touch the sky in advance for many eras.

He also eavesdropped on the conversation between the lord and his father... He didn't know if the person who carefully cultivated him and gave him a name was considered a father. Chongshan didn't ask him for more things except to let him learn from him and try to join the work of the territory.

They said that there would be something like wings to help humans fly into the sky, and then the lord folded a very delicate paper model with a piece of paper. He said it was called a paper airplane. Then he handed it to Chongyan and asked him to try to throw it out.

Chongyan flipped through the research records in his hand and unknowingly turned to the last page, which was the structure diagram of the floating stone keel engine hand-drawn by the dean.

This small stack of paper is everything the territory knows about airships, and it is also the limit of analysis in this month.

The dean was wrong in one thing. He is not very good at engineering. He is just more sensitive to runes than ordinary people.

He can clearly feel every bit of energy flowing through the runes. They are intertwined and connected like living things, reaching a certain resonance and releasing the required properties.

His classmates could not feel the energy flow as he described. The runes in their eyes were dead, like a piece of mud mixed with water and dried in the sun, dry, hard and solid.

If you want to go to the sky, knowing runes is not enough.

So he studied engineering very hard.

If you don't know the problem, ask, and if you don't understand something, read it.

For engineering design problems, he spent half the time asking classmates and half the time thinking. When others were having a barbecue or stealing wild fruits, he was reading hard - if he was tired, he would run out and climb up the tall tree with them to pick fruits.

Only because of this, his progress in engineering could barely keep up with the top 20% of people in the college.

Chongyan's amazing talent in runes made everyone ignore his shortcomings in engineering, but shortcomings are shortcomings, and they will not appear perfect just because others think so.

He looked up and saw his classmates who were having a picnic under the tree. A little higher, he saw the wide canopy of the tree, which covered the surroundings under its shade. Even higher, there were white seabirds flying over the roof of the college with their wings spread.

The delicate paper airplane flew out of Zhongyan's hand, drawing a graceful arc in the air, and the spread paper wings looked like the wings of an angel in the light. He ran to catch up with the paper airplane and catch it in his hand, but it glided in the air on the wind, flying higher and higher.

Until the paper airplane disappeared in the light.