Chapter 142 Floating battleships can really be built (for subscription)

"Floating cannon project, didn't you stop me from watching it yesterday?" Fang Xu asked his sister-in-law puzzledly on the road.

"At that time, I didn't know that the results were achieved! It was Xiaoqinqin who called me in a hurry and said that it was successful. I don't know yet, how did it succeed?" Berry Chenge said eloquently.

"So you don't even know the progress of your project? Gu Qin is taking care of it from the beginning to the end, right?" Fang Xu was speechless.

"I'm called catching the big and letting go of the small. I'm so busy every day, how can I have time to focus on such small things." The sister-in-law was still plausible.

But Fang Xu didn't want to talk to her anymore.

The Institute of Magic Technology is not far from the city hall, or in other words, the various departments in Baihe City are not far from each other.

So the two soon arrived at the Institute of Magical Technology, and saw Gu Qin who was already waiting here, and Li Jian, the current director of the Institute of Magical Technology.

Li Jian, who used to be the factory manager of the No. [-] Magic Engine Factory, couldn't bear the tedious administrative work in the factory after all, and preferred research work.

So after talking with Fang Xu, he happily resigned from his job as the factory director and became the director of the Magic Technology Research Institute full-time.

Of course, this is also because Fang Xu currently has enough employees on Earth, and there is no need to split one person into several people as in the beginning.

Back then, Li Jian had to be the director of the Magic Motor Factory, and also responsible for the research and development of the Magic Technology Research Institute, and even part-time to teach workers professional industrial skills.

It's like one person has several jobs, and he is completely used as a cow and a horse.

Even Gu Qin, a girl, has to work part-time as a researcher at the Institute of Magic Technology, handle administrative work in the TV station, and teach workers industrial skills like everyone else.

In short, during that period of time, it was really busy for one person to use as several people.

Until recently, with all aspects of work on the right track, and more and more employees from the earth, this situation has been improved.

Like Li Jian, not only can he no longer be a teacher for the workers, but he doesn't even need to be the factory director. Now he can concentrate on his favorite research work, as the director of the Magic Technology Research Institute.

As for Gu Qin, she no longer needs to teach people how to operate machine tools, but she still has two jobs, one is the administrative work of the TV station, and the other is the research work of the Magic Technology Research Institute, floating cannons.

The reason for this is also because Gu Qin can't let go of either side. Whether it's the work of the TV station or the work of the research institute, it may be that she has done too much and has feelings, and she doesn't want to lose either side. In addition, everything in the TV station is on the right track , There is nothing she needs to worry about at ordinary times, she still spends more time in the research institute, so she has been taking care of both sides.

There are also many first batch of employees from the earth, basically the same.

Some people can't let go of another job, so they still have to take care of both jobs.

Some people are completely absorbed in doing one kind of work.

For example, there are very few earth employees in the current Magic Technology Research Institute who work part-time in other places.

Because those who can do research work are basically more enthusiastic about inventions and creations, and their minds are devoted to this aspect, so they don't have much energy to think about other things.

In short, as all the work is on the right track, the current Blackstone collar, the original feeling of a grassroots team, is getting weaker and weaker.

Everyone is doing their job.

When they saw Li Jian and Gu Qin, there was nothing to be polite about. After all, they were familiar with each other for a long time and couldn't be more familiar with each other.

And Fang Xu just came to inspect yesterday.

Several people walked inside together and came to the laboratory of the floating cannon project team.

As soon as he opened the door and entered the laboratory, Fang Xu's sight was immediately attracted by a hexagonal metal plate floating in mid-air in the laboratory.

This metal plate has only a thin layer, and it looks metallic. It seems to be some kind of steel plate, or it seems to be an alloy. It is about one meter in diameter.

There are continuous bulges on the surface, which seem to be some kind of magic array arranged.

And on this hexagonal metal plate, there is also a cylinder standing.

The diameter of the cylinder is about half a meter, and it is located in the center of the hexagonal metal plate.

A metal plate in the shape of a hexagon, with a cylinder supported on it, is just suspended in the laboratory.

That cylinder, Fang Xu recognized at a glance, is the new generation of magic generator.

Inside the cylinder are engraved energy-gathering circles and lightning magic circles.

The energy-gathering circle gathers magic power and activates the lightning magic circle.

However, because the concentration of magic power gathered by the energy-gathering circle was not enough, the lightning technique could not be activated successfully, resulting in the failure of the lightning technique to activate and a weak current.

The energy-gathering circle continuously activates the lightning technique, and the lightning technique fails to activate continuously, and weak currents are continuously generated.

In order to achieve the purpose of power generation.

This is the power generation principle of the cylindrical magic generator.

But now such a magic generator is installed on a hexagonal metal plate and suspended in mid-air.

Fang Xu thought of a lot in an instant.

In the floating cannon laboratory at this time, Richard, the deputy director, and some other earth employees, magician employees, are also waiting here.

Obviously, everyone is also curious about the results of the floating cannon project team, so they came to watch the excitement.

There is nothing to chat with, a group of scientific researchers are not good at chatting.

Gu Qin directly began to introduce her achievements.

"The floating cannon project was originally proposed by our little berry princess, who used the six-ring magic levitation technique to make floating cannons! But later her interest shifted to other areas, and she was making movies and What are you doing, just forget about this project completely." While introducing Gu Qin, she didn't forget to complain about Berry.

If there is any difference between the employees from Earth and the people in Ark World, the most important point may be that the class consciousness is not so obvious.

Although there are classes on the earth, it is not a big deal for employees to complain about their bosses. Even if the boss hears about it, the most they can do is change jobs.

But in the world of Ark, the people complain about the nobles. It’s good that the nobles can’t hear it. It’s good luck to hack to death when they hear it. It’s not new to be tortured to death.

So in comparison, the employees from the earth have even less awe of the superiors, so Gu Qin is not polite when she complains about the little princess Berry Morning Song.

Even everyone in the lab laughed together.

Even the native magicians of the Ark World are the same, obviously they have all followed suit!

"How can it be called forgotten, I gave you full power, otherwise you would not have achieved this result now, right!" Who knows that Her Royal Highness the little princess is not willing to be ridiculed by the crowd, she embraces her hands, plausibly serious Talk nonsense.

Until Fang Xu patted her on the head.

"Okay, please stop saying a few words, I can't even listen to this."

"Woo~" Her Royal Highness the little princess stared at Fang Xu dissatisfied, seeing that it meant that she wanted to take a bite out of Fang Xu.

On the other side, Gu Qin also continued to introduce.

"At the beginning, I also felt that this project was impossible to succeed. Although the six-ring magic can be reproduced with a magic circle, magic spar can only be used to drive the magic circle. And given the rarity and cost of magic spar, it is obviously impossible. It is used as a consumable."

"So after Berry completely threw the project to me, I just came here to make soy sauce every day, and didn't do any serious research at all."

Gu Qin shrugged and spoke the truth.

Everyone in the lab laughed again, only Berry Chenge puffed her cheeks, looking swollen, but had nothing to say.

"Until two months ago, Mr. Richard, Mr. Hal, and Mr. Cook, the three of them creatively replaced magic power with electricity to drive magic puppets and succeeded in creating magic puppets. I suddenly got Inspiration. Since electricity can be used to activate the magic pipeline inside the magic puppet, can it be used to drive the levitation magic circle?"

"The magic power pipeline itself is a complex array of runes. In a sense, it can also be said to be a variant of the magic circle. Since electricity can drive the magic power pipeline, it can also drive the floating magic circle in theory."

"So I went through a lot of experiments and gradually discovered some rules."

"Electricity and magic power are different after all. Magic power can be directly used to drive the magic circle, but if electricity wants to drive the magic circle, it needs a certain frequency change, just like some kind of password! I guess this may involve I haven't researched the essence between electricity and magic power yet, but I have found the current frequency that can be used to drive the floating magic circle."

"As long as the current flows through the levitation magic circle at this frequency, it can produce the same effect as magic power and successfully drive the magic circle to function."

"And the floating magic circle in front of me is the result."

"Although the floating cannon can't be practically applied until the recoil problem is solved, the application prospect of the floating magic circle is definitely greater than that of the floating cannon."

As Gu Qin said, she also pushed the floating magic circle with the cylindrical magic generator on it.

I saw the floating array of hexagonal metal plates slowly and firmly drifting forward along with her thrust.

It wasn't until Fang Xu stretched out his hand to stop it that the metal plate stopped again.

Immediately, Fang Xu tried to move the metal plate with his hands. It felt a little heavy, and he needed a little force to push it, instead of being able to float out with a light touch like a hydrogen balloon.

However, it is only natural to think of the weight, or mass, of the metal plate and the cylindrical magic generator on it.

"I didn't expect it to actually work out." Fang Xu said with emotion.

In fact, it was not only Fang Xu who was emotional, but the whole laboratory, except for the people who belonged to this laboratory, who knew the progress of the experiment long ago, and the rest of the people who came to watch the excitement were also emotional.

Everyone is not an idiot, the change that the floating magic circle can bring is really too huge.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is earth-shaking.

And Fang Xu felt a little regretful, that this thing can only be used in the magical environment of the Ark World.

It is useless on the earth without magic power.

Because although the floating magic circle also produces the effect of floating under the drive of electricity, the process of the magic circle's function still needs to interact with the ubiquitous magic power in the air to achieve it.

Or to put it another way, if we compare the environment full of magic in this world to the magic ocean, then the function of the floating magic circle is to make objects float in the magic ocean of this world.

And in a world without magical oceans?Then naturally it will not float.

The earth is such a world without a magical ocean, so even if the floating magic circle can be driven by electricity, it cannot generate buoyancy on the earth.

But soon, Fang Xu cleared his mind, the earth can't be used, and the world here is enough.

"Can it be mass-produced?" Fang Xu asked.

"No problem. The magic array on the metal plate is very simple to arrange, and it can be made on a machine tool. The only problem is that the materials used in the magic array are more precious, which will increase the cost."

"If these precious materials are removed, it is not impossible to use, but there is no way to make it so small, the metal plate must be enlarged." Gu Qin said after thinking.

"Then zoom in." Fang Xu said immediately.

"Then there's no problem, the rest is a production line." Gu Qin said.

"For the newly arrived batch of production lines, one can be separated to specialize in the production of this kind of floating unit, and it should be called the floating unit." Fang Xu thought for a while and decided.

Then asked the most concerned question.

"If we build a particularly large floating unit, or directly make the bulkhead of the battleship into a huge floating unit, can a battleship fly?"

Fang Xu's eyes lit up when he said this.

Floating battleship, space battleship, or floating fortress, you can call it whatever you want.

Anyway, Fang Xu now feels that he seems to see these things waving to him.

If it had been a few months earlier, Fang Xu wouldn't have dared to think that the Blackstone collar would be able to make such a thing one day.

It can only be said that the combination of magic and science produces energy that no one thought of beforehand.

"Let the battleship fly? Do you want to build a floating battleship? In theory, of course it is feasible." Gu Qin's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly.

As an engineering dog, even a girl, how could she not be excited about this kind of industrial miracle?

Except for Gu Qin, the rest of the people in the laboratory had similar expressions.

After all, anyone who can stay in the Institute of Magic Technology counts as one, and who is not interested in big industry?

After thinking about it, Gu Qin continued.

"However, if you really want to build a floating battleship, my suggestion is that it is best not to design a huge floating unit. Once such a floating unit is damaged, it may cause the entire battleship to fall. The fault tolerance rate is too low It’s better! It’s better to build many small floating units and piece them together to form enough buoyancy. In this way, even if some floating units are damaged, the remaining floating units can ensure that the floating battleship will not crash.”

"That's right, that's how it should be. If the first floating warship is to be built, what kind of building should we build?" Fang Xu nodded in agreement with Gu Qin's opinion.

And following Fang Xu's inquiry, everyone in the entire laboratory immediately started discussing in one go.

Everyone has their own opinions on what the floating battleship will look like.

But everyone agrees that it cannot be built like a warship in the sea.

For example, in a certain movie, turning an aircraft carrier into an aerospace ship is simply a joke.

Can the boats used in the water be the same as the boats used in the sky?

If you want to build it, you have to build something similar to a spaceship!

In short, everyone has their own different opinions.

While Fang Xu listened to everyone's discussion, he frowned more and more, and finally shouted to stop.

"I know everyone has a good heart and wants to build the most advanced floating battleship in one step! But I don't think that's necessary."

"The progress of any industry comes bit by bit. It is impossible for us to design a perfect floating battleship from scratch."

"Even if it is designed, we can't make it with our current industrial foundation."

"So my request is, as long as it can be used."

"It's like converting a tractor into a tank during World War I on Earth."

"How do you do it? The chassis of the tractor is welded with steel plates and equipped with guns, and it becomes a tank."

"So we can do the same now. There is no need to think about so many high-end things. It is very simple to build a floating warship. The floating units can pile up enough buoyancy, and then put a shell on it to fly."

"Even if it's a wooden shell, let him fly first. Even if it can't be used as a battleship, it's good to be a transport ship first to help transport ammunition supplies!"

"This thing doesn't need to be launched like a boat, even if the wind leaks from all sides, it's fine!"

"It's like a tank. It started from a simple shell on a tractor in World War I, and gradually developed into a high-tech tank like it is now!"

"So we don't need to worry, those tall floating battleships can be discussed later."

"We are based on the present, as simple as it is, as long as it can be used."

"The first floating battleship I want, or if it is not called a battleship, it is called a floating battleship. My requirements are very simple, it can fly, can hold supplies, and can hold munitions."

"Even if it's made of wood."

"Everyone should know that I ordered the electromagnetic gun from the earth, just to deal with the mage group on Fengyan Chenge."

"At first, I was still worried about how the electromagnetic gun should be transported to the battlefield, and how to maneuver on the battlefield after transporting it."

"It's all right now, let's use the airship to maneuver! Put the electromagnetic gun on the airship, even if it is an airship with a wooden shell, as long as the keel is made of steel, it can withstand the recoil of the electromagnetic gun."

"The recoil of the electromagnetic gun is much lighter than that of the artillery. Even if only the keel is made of steel, it is enough to bear. When the mage group of Fengyan Chenge is, the floating ship will fly there, and the electromagnetic gun will call there. "

"I don't believe it, but let him run away."

At this moment, Fang Xu was in high spirits.

The appearance of the floating unit, as well as the upcoming floating ship, can be regarded as solving a big problem for him.

Originally, he was still worried that even if the electromagnetic gun was brought over, how to use it and how to maneuver it on the battlefield.

Well now, with the floating ship, the electromagnetic gun is completely alive.

"If you just use the floating unit to accumulate buoyancy, and then let the floating ship with a wooden shell fly, it will be very simple." Gu Qin nodded repeatedly.

The rest of the researchers also nodded.

However, after thinking about it, Li Jian put forward a different opinion.

"Is there enough time? Even if you simply use the floating unit to accumulate buoyancy and put it on a wooden shell, if you want to catch up with the battle that is about to happen, it may be too late."

"Yeah, time is too tight."

"Our industrial base!"

Everyone also frowned.

After Fang Xu's hot-blooded brain cooled down, he also felt that it was too late.

For a while, the research room fell into silence.

After Fang Xu's words, everyone realized that if the floating ship can be built well, even if it is made of wood, after installing the electromagnetic gun, it will play a great role in the next war.

Everyone is still very concerned about this war, and they all hope to win. After all, if they lose, everything will be lost.

So everyone also really wants to be able to mount the electromagnetic gun on the floating ship to support the battlefield, but the time is really too late.

It was at this time that Berry Chenge, who had been listening all the time, suddenly had an idea when he rolled his eyes.

"Since we can't make it in time, how about outsourcing? Let the rabbit country help to make it! According to what you said, it's just a shell with a floating unit inside. It's that simple. With the industrial capacity of the rabbit country, it will be very fast. Will it be finished?" Berry Chenge raised her hand and said.

In an instant, the eyes of the group of people waiting in the lab who were still concentrating on thinking hard, suddenly lit up.

"Yes, you can ask Rabbit Country to help make it!"

"Such a simple method, why didn't I think of it!"

Fang Xu also laughed, grabbed his sister-in-law's head with both hands, and rubbed it hard.

"Ah, your hair is messed up, brother-in-law, you will avenge your kindness!"

The sister-in-law, who was holding her head, stared at Fang Xu fiercely.

And Fang Xu has already looked at Gu Qin and Li Jian.

"If we only build the floating unit and use it at full capacity, can we build enough for a floating ship within three days?" Fang Xu asked.

"Three days are too late, but one week is enough!" Li Jian, the former director of the Magic Engine Factory, said immediately.

"Five days, I'll only give you five days! Let's order the casing from Rabbit Country. With the speed over there, five days will definitely be fine, it's just a casing." Fang Xu affirmed.

"Then work overtime, it's not a big problem." Li Jian thought for a while and said.

Immediately thereafter a suggestion was made.

"However, if you order the shell from Rabbit Country, you can't use wood. Use iron, which is faster."

"That's right, in the Rabbit Country, it's probably more troublesome to make wood than iron, and the price may be more expensive, so it's better to have iron! It's cheap and fast." Fang Xu nodded and said at the same time. The industrial gap on both sides sighed.

"When will we be able to make iron cheaper than wood?"

"There will be such a day." Gu Qin comforted.

Although many of the labs are earth employees, after staying here for a long time, they finally have some feelings for Blackstone.

"In this way, you can draw the blueprint now, roughly get the specifications of the outer shell, and then I will immediately wear it to Zhang Wei, and let him start work right now. Let's try to get everything done in five days, and the airship will be completed in five days." Once assembled, the electromagnetic gun is also installed, and you can go to the battlefield." Fang Xu calmed down and said immediately.

So the lab immediately got busy.

Fang Xu stood aside and watched everyone busy, pushing the six-diamond floating unit back and forth with his hands.

As if pushing a brand new future, his eyes were full of longing for a moment.

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