Chapter 115 Rotating Wheels and Bearings
To be honest, after encountering this metal egg, Gao Wen finally realized how lucky he is in his current situation - he did not lose his memory. He fell into a world dominated by humans. He also had an identity that could be smoothly integrated into the current world (although this identity is somewhat terrifying and supernatural) and a satellite perspective that may be of great use, and most importantly, he has memories from Gao Wen Cecil.
This last point is particularly important. It is precisely because he has memories from both worlds at the same time that he can face this time and space where physical rules are very different from that on the earth. Only when he cannot solve problems with the experience of the earth, he can use the experience of the "world" to overcome difficulties.
However, Nicholas Egg could not do this at all. The situation of this metal ball was simply an extreme point compared to Gao Wen:
He lost his memory, he had no experience and knowledge to take effect in this world, and as soon as he came here, he was caught as a test subject, and most importantly, he fell on the ground of a terrifying upright ape with the style of an egg-shaped creature...
If Gawain wanted to farm in a world with different physical rules, it would be difficult to enter hell, then the ball would have smashed through the ceiling of all the kings in hell, and then rolled into the big pot of the Lord of Hell, with the bottom of the pot still from spicy durian.
Therefore, Gao Wen had to admire the adaptability and mental toughness of this ball: after encountering such a desperate situation, he could still live so calmly and become an excellent funny guy... Could it be that the metal creatures have relatively hard nerves?
"Hey, why did you suddenly stop talking?" Nicholas Egg's voice woke Gao Wen up from his thoughts. The large metal ball floated around the latter. "I still want to hear your suggestions. What do you think I can do? To be honest, I really want to find something to do now..."
Gao Wen immediately thought seriously. In fact, before today, he was thinking: this metal ball from another world with wonderful abilities is probably just an experimental material in the eyes of those Gondor magicians, but in Gao Wen's eyes, he is a potential high-tech talent... Qiushi, but he knew that the ball had just woken up from a deep sleep, and it might take some time to adapt and adjust his mentality, so he didn't rush to force others to work. But now President Egg took the initiative to speak, and he said while sorting out his thoughts: "You have the ability to control the flow of magic and metal. Both of these abilities can come in handy for me, but I don't know the specific parameters of your control of magic and metal, so it's hard to arrange it for you."
"I don't really understand the control of magic," replied the metal ball. "You call those energy magic, but there is actually no such thing in our world. When I influence the flow of magic, I am actually shaking my own magnetic cell body - this is an organ in my body that can generate high-frequency magnetic fields. In our world, when the magnetic cell body vibrates, a protective barrier can be formed on the surface of the body, but here I find that the barrier disappears, but it can affect the energy you call "magic" and make it temporarily invalid..."
Gao Wen immediately interrupted the other party: "You said the magnetic field? Are you actually using the magnetic field to affect the flow of magic power?"
"That's right - including when you talk to me with 'magic', I actually felt its fluctuations with the magnetism... But it's a pity. Although I can feel the magic and use magnetic fields to influence it, I can't use magic like you 'magists'. That female... a magician named Hedy explained to me what mental power and magic models are, but I can't understand a word."
Gao Wen didn't care about the other party's second half of the sentence. He was completely attracted by the fact that "magnetic field affects magic" and fell into great confusion: "Did you confirm that the 'magnetic field' you generate are really the kind of 'magnetic field' that everyone knows in this world? You know, the same noun may refer to completely opposite phenomena in both worlds!"
"This is really confirmed," Nicholas Egg floated up and down for a while, as if imitating human nodding. "Magnetic fields are magnetic fields. Of course, people in this world do not seem to have the concept of magnetic fields. They only know that natural magnets can attract the kind of magnetic force of iron tools, but I have confirmed that the magnetic field generated by my magnetic cell bodies is the same as the natural magnets in this world... What's wrong?"
"I don't know what's wrong," Gao Wen smiled bitterly and spread his hands. "I have done many experiments with magnetic fields, but I have never found that it can affect the flow of magic. Could it be that the magnetic field I use is not strong enough?"
He still didn't finish his sentence: In addition to using magnetic fields to influence magic, he did not succeed in the magnetic generation experiment...
"Strength? I don't think it's much. The magnetic field generated by the magnetic cell is not strong," said the metal ball swaying. "Maybe it's because of the frequency. You didn't use high-frequency magnetic fields? I remember that those "magics" used an oscillating magnetic field a thousand years ago to scan me. How high is the frequency... millions of oscillations per second? That seems to be the highest frequency they can produce, but it's not even one-tenth of the magnetic cell frequency - why don't you try to work hard and increase the frequency of the magnetic field?"
Gao Wen had a blue vein in his mind: In such a broken place where technology was still broken in the Middle Ages, where did he get a high-frequency magnetic field of tens of millions of hertz?
Nicholas Egg is probably the only high-frequency source in the world that can generate such a frequency magnetic field!
Knowing that at this moment, Gao Wen could not find a test environment that meets the conditions, he silently wrote down this matter in his mind, and then prepared to ask about the other party's ability to control metals. But just as he was about to open his mouth, he suddenly saw the door of the brick kiln factory being pushed open, a silly roe deer... a fireball launcher... an iron head... Rebecca ran towards this side in a blink of an eye.
"Sir Ancestor! Sir Ancestor!" Miss Viscount shouted excitedly while running, "Come on, come with me!"
Looking at the girl's excited look, Gao Wen's first reaction was to hide from her side: he was afraid that this stupid roe deer would twitch his brain and throw seventy or eighty big fireballs on his face on the spot...
After Rebecca ran to her and finally breathed evenly, Gao Wen asked her slowly: "You finally exploded Herty's lab with a fireball?"
"Ah...ah?!" Rebecca was startled by Gao Wen's words as soon as she came out, and then waved her hand hard, "No! I'm very careful - I told you that the magic engine you proposed was assembled from us!"
Gao Wen's originally calm expression was instantly replaced by surprise and surprise.
"It's been completed?! Is the test machine?"
"Not yet," Rebecca waved his hand, "waiting for you to go over and test the machine! But Aunt Hetty has tested all its components, and they all come according to the design drawings, and can achieve corresponding results. It should be no problem..."
"Stop talking, leave quickly," Gao Wen could no longer suppress his excitement. He pulled Rebecca and walked out of the brick kiln factory. Halfway through the walk, I remembered that there was a ball, so he turned around and waved, "Come here too, come too - see the good things we designed!"
I'm afraid no one would have thought that the "assembly workshop" of the first generation of magic engines would be so simple.
It is a wooden shed next to Cecil Steel Factory. Apart from some soldiers guarding it, there is no difference between this place and other sheds. There is nothing in it that can remind people of high-tech or cutting-edge magic: except that the most precise rune part is completed in Hetty's laboratory, all parts of the magic engine are beaten and molded by the hands of the blacksmith and rune craftsmen. Therefore, there are neither machine tools nor precision molds here. Rebecca and Hetty took the craftsmen to complete each processing process of the prototype in the most primitive and laborious way.
If it weren't for the magic assistance of this world, Hedy's flame and energy-shaping spells could have a lot of help, the final assembly and welding of the prototype would probably be a problem.
No matter which world it is in, the birth of anything is not easy.
In the central open space of the "assembly workshop", a large piece of burlap covered with something less than two meters high. Its outline was a bit strange. Gao Wen could only vaguely recognize that one of the larger bulges should have a flywheel structure underneath, and its true face was still blocked.
The old blacksmith Hammer and Hetty were standing next to the prototype, and there were some people standing next to them, some of whom were Hammer's apprentices, and the other two were rune craftsmen from the royal capital who had just joined the territory.
"Rebecca must run to find you by himself," Hetty nodded apologetically to Gowen, "This child is a bit reckless."
"She wants to tell me the good news in person, understandable," Gao Wen took a breath and looked at the phone, "Release it and let me see."
Hetty waved his hand, and a translucent hand of plastic power floated into the air and lifted the cover.
Below is a weird machine.
It vaguely has a shadow of the "distant relative" on the earth. It has a huge flywheel, and a connecting rod and crank and crankshaft structure connected to the flywheel. However, it is completely different from any power machine on the earth in Gaowen's memory: it has no cylinders, and is replaced by a "repulsive mechanism" composed of slide rails and pistons and bases located at the middle ends of the machine. The piston is a square iron block with four slide rails passing through its four corners and fixed on a base at both ends. The slightly flickering magic array can be seen on one side of the base facing the piston. On the outer edge of the two repulsive arrays, there are runes extending out. A long metal plate is connected between the two repulsive arrays. The rune trigger structure on the above is connected to one of the repulsive arrays, and this metal plate is connected to the crankshaft of the flywheel through a connecting rod and toggle device.
Whenever the crankshaft turns half a circle, the rune trigger will be moved, and the corresponding rune will establish a connection with one of the repulsive power arrays until the crankshaft turns half a circle, the rune trigger leaves the magic array and enters the connection range of the other magic array, activates the opposite repulsive power mechanism...
In addition to the rune trigger used to "switch repulsive force direction", there is another rune trigger that controls the "total energy" of the two repulsive force arrays. It also relies on the connecting rod to control, and the control rod is located on the side of the machine.
The special repulsive mechanism prevents the machine from needing a cylinder structure, which avoids the maximum precision threshold: mechanical precision, replaced by its precision requirements for magic runes - but this happens to be the feature of "this world".
Hetty looked at the magic engine in front of her in a daze. It had a completely different appearance and internal mechanism from any magical creature in this world. Even though she had participated in the production of the engine herself, she was still a little lost at this moment. But soon she came back to her senses and looked at Gao Wen: "Ancestor, please pull the mechanism down."
It is located at the edge of Cecil Steel Plant. The engine can fully receive energy from the Magic Net in this place. Although there is no "amplification board" like the steel plant compound to enhance energy transmission efficiency, as a low-power verification machine, this energy is enough.
But Gao Wen shook his head: "This is designed together, you two come with me."
Hetty seemed a little hesitant, but Rebecca didn't think so much at all. She could no longer control her curiosity. With Gao Wen's permission, she rushed to the next to the machine in two steps and waved hard: "Aunt Hetty! Come quickly!"
Hetty smiled, put down all the hesitation, and came to Gaowen.
The three hands were placed on the handle that controlled the total energy connection. Then Gao Wen counted down three numbers, and the three of them pressed down the handle with force.
The magic circuit was instantly connected, and the repulsive mechanism at the core of the engine was lit up. As one of the magic circles lighted up, the simple "iron block piston" of rough benzene slowly moved in front of everyone's eyes.
It seemed to be to drive the heavy flywheel. It initially moved very slowly, but when the flywheel moved, the piston quickly moved to the end of the entire repulsive mechanism - the rune trigger used to switch also took effect, and the magic array that lighted up first was extinguished, while the other repulsive array lit up almost at the same time.
Chapter completed!