Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 242 Victor and Blitz

Victor clamped the core device under his arm, took the medicine bottle in Li Lin's hand suspiciously, looked at the slightly viscous liquid inside, and asked, "What is this?"

"Didn't you ask Jess why I suddenly grew taller and stronger at Gilaman's house some time ago?"

Li Lin smiled and put the other two bottles of potion on the table, "It's called gene enhancement potion, it can greatly improve the quality of the body, and the weaker the constitution, the more obvious the effect of drinking it."

Victor raised his eyebrows, and the way he looked at the potion in his hand changed. He didn't doubt Li Lin's statement at all.

The changes in his body are there, and he has no reason to lie to himself.

"does it have any side effects?"

Victor looked down at his right leg, which was fixed with a metal bracket, with a slightly moved expression.

If you drink it, will your body...

"A side effect... it takes at least 30 minutes to take effect, and your strength will soar, it will take a while to get used to it."

"Equivalent to no side effects." Victor took a deep breath and looked at Li Lin sincerely. "This is so important to me, thank you."

"Where are you talking? We are good friends, shouldn't we help each other?"

"Friend..." Victor was stunned for a long time, with a bright smile on his face, "Yes, friend."

With that said, Victor handed the medicine bottle back to Li Lin, and returned the other two bottles to him.

Li Lin didn't understand his behavior, "...you are?"

"You save it for me first."

"Aren't you going to drink now? Wait 30 minutes and you might be able to get rid of the cane."

Victor shook his head, "Now is not the time, I'm afraid I won't be able to control my strength later and damage the machine."

He passed by Li Lin with a cane, and turned his head to signal him to keep up with him, "Evolution Day is coming, now the main thing is to finish the robot, this is the result I want to show this year."

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After more than ten minutes, the two walked to the laboratory building of the college.

Li Lin originally wanted to fly Victor directly, but he didn't express this idea because he was afraid that his body would not be able to bear it.

Night labs are open to lecturer level and above.

In addition to the attached laboratory next to the office, each lecturer can also apply for a research area in the laboratory building, but there is a time limit.

If there is no research result for a period of time, the applied experimental area will be taken back, and the next application will have to wait for a long time.

Victor applied for a laboratory more than three months ago to study intelligent robots.

Since the auxiliary chip at that time was not yet intelligent, Victor's main design content was how to make a core device powered by the original crystal.

After Gilamann's expedition brought back the original crystals and donated three of them to the academy for research, with Heimerdinger's care, Victor immediately applied for an original crystal and began to debug his own device.

Although there is a smart chip now, it has not been put into use in batches. In addition, Li Lin purchased the chips produced in the previous batches. Except for relevant personnel, most people do not know its existence.

Moreover, Victor himself firmly believes that even without a smart chip, he can create an intelligent robot.

After showing his ID card to the security personnel along the road, the two quickly arrived at a small laboratory on the second floor.

A ditch waste-scavenging robot completely made of steel and bronze, with a pair of huge hands, a round upper body, short legs, and a copper-yellow body lying quietly on the huge workbench. The few around it have not turned on the power supply and have lost their power. The mechanical arm hangs down.

Li Lin looked at the very familiar robot, which completely matched the image in his mind, and he was sure that it was "Blitz".

It's just whether the original crystal is still the one from the original world line, and will Britz change if it is installed...

The wings of the butterfly have been flapping, and the development and direction of the two cities have undergone tremendous changes. No matter how much you think about it, it will not help. Li Lin is also very helpless about this.

After Victor turned on the power of the laboratory, he manipulated several mechanical arms to open the hatch in the robot's chest that was originally filled with alchemy chemical fuel.

After his transformation, this robot can no longer be loaded with alchemy fuel, and can only accommodate his own special original crystal core.

Wait until Victor loads the core power supply device into the robot's chest, closes the hatch cover and screw on the screws.

Not long after, a trace of blue electric arc flashed across the bronze surface of the robot, immediately attracting the attention of Li Lin and Victor.

Immediately afterwards, more arcs bounced and staggered, flashing bright blue light, and making a "sizzling" sound.

"This is..." Victor was surprised, "This has never happened to other robots."

Rather than cleaning up toxic waste in the gutter, robots that follow a fixed code program are called "steam robots", and they should be called "alchemy technology robots" more accurately.

It's just that they generate a lot of heat during normal operations, use water to dissipate heat and emit steam, and have been called steam robots by the people of Zaun over time.

According to the operating principle of these robots, they belong to chemical power, which has nothing to do with electrical energy, so how can it be possible to generate an arc?

This is exactly where Victor was puzzled.

However, Li Lin was not surprised by this at all. Blitz was an accidental product, and the arc was a side effect of using the original crystal.

To be more precise, hex crystals and energy crystals will actually have similar effects, but their energy reserves are limited, unless it is a rechargeable hex device, the effects of other devices are not obvious.

"Doesn't this prove that your research direction is right?" Li Lin smiled.

"..."

Victor continued to stare at the robot on the workbench with a nervous expression and did not answer.

After another minute or two, when the crystal energy completely covered all the circuits inside the robot, with the sound of mechanical gears running, a large amount of white steam was ejected from the metal conduits on the robot.

Immediately afterwards, the two egg-sized eyes on the robot's round head opened, shining with blue light.

It propped its two huge palms on the table, propped up its huge body, and jumped off the workbench.

The pair of mechanical feet, which are completely disproportionate to the body, made contact with the marble floor of the laboratory, producing a crisp sound of metal hitting the smooth floor, and a little steam spewed out from the gaps in the parts of the body.

It turned its head to look at Li Lin and Victor. Victor borrowed the speaker inspired by Hex Audio to emit a standard mechanical voice: "The engine has been started. It is ready to go at any time."

"Success! I finally succeeded!"

Victor was overjoyed to hear the robot speak.

"I didn't input a language code into it, but it can speak! In other words, even without smart chips, we can still make intelligent robots..."

No, its intelligence is not the same as the intelligence brought about by the smart chip I made.

Li Lin responded in his heart.

The robot blinked and scratched its bare bronze head, as if expressing its doubts.

Viktor, who is excited, can't see it, but Li Lin can see its changes through "digital thinking".

The original crystal in its body is still half-dream and half-awake, just the expression of the subconscious level, which makes this machine have a little thinking.

How far can Blitzcrank grow when the original crystal is fully awakened?
"Give it a name." Li Lin patted Victor on the shoulder, "How can a great work be done without a name?"

Victor rubbed his chin and looked the robot up and down.

The uninterrupted beating arc on its body resonated with the electric energy in the workbench and the mechanical arm, forming an electrostatic force field around it, and the "sizzling" current sound continued.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Victor's mind, and a name came to mind, "Let's call it Blitzcrank, from the sound of electric arcs dancing on its body shell."

"Blitzc..."

Li Lin deliberately paused for a few seconds, pretending to be thinking, "It's a very good name, and it will definitely become the focus of everyone's attention at the Evolution Day Conference."

"Don't make fun of me." Victor's tone was helpless, and he glanced at Li Lin, "Jess's Hexfly Gate and your flying armor have crushed all other works this year. What is a robot? What's more..."

Suddenly, as if he realized something, his voice stopped abruptly, "I think... this technology, I think it's better not to announce it."

"Are you worried about the problems of the original crystal and the shell people?"

Victor stared intently at Blitzcrank's blue electronic eyes, and nodded slightly.

Li Lin sighed, "If you don't publish it, how will you explain it to the academy?"

"I assisted Jess in the research of the Hexfly Gate, and its invention bears my name, which is enough..."

"No, you know I didn't mean that."

Victor and Li Lin looked at each other for a few seconds, then looked away, lowered their heads and sighed.

In Piltover, what people pay the most attention to is not the team behind a craftsman, but the craftsman himself.

Even if the same hex device is not completely developed by one person, whoever can give a speech on the occasion of the Evolution Day Conference in the end will be recognized as the inventor of the new device.

Originally, according to Jess' intention, he wanted to invite Victor to the stage together, but unfortunately Victor was not good at dealing with this kind of situation, so he declined him.

Li Lin heard about this from Jess two days ago.

Therefore, in order to make a name for yourself in Piltover, it is very important to have a truly unique and far-reaching invention.

In this way, even if you don't speak on stage, as long as your invention can be on stage and your name is read out by the host, it will be considered a remarkable achievement.

After all, there are countless new inventions in the Twin Cities in a year, but only the inventions with wide-ranging influence or great potential in a year are eligible to be on the booth of the Evolution Day Conference.

Britz has this qualification, as long as Li Lin doesn't take out the fully intelligent mechanical engineer unit he is producing and assembling for the time being.

As for the Batian Alien and Batian Warrior Mecha, with Victor's Blitzcrank, Li Lin is now only going to show off the well-known warrior who can transform into a chariot this evening.

Victor hesitated, "But the original crystal..."

"That's not what we have to worry about now, have you forgotten what I told you in your office just now?
"As long as we have the right to speak, we only need to publish a paper to explore the relationship between the original crystal and the shell people. If an outstanding scientist famous in the two cities, the parliament will definitely pay attention."

Li Lin paused, and continued: "Besides, the original crystal is very precious. With the intelligent chip at this stage, the councilors will not think of mass-producing such precious robots."

"By the way, when it comes to intelligent chips..." Victor frowned, "If I show Britz first, the citizens will definitely think that I invented the intelligent robot first, which is unfair to you. "

Hearing Victor's words, Li Lin couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at? I'm serious." Victor said seriously.

"I don't need any fame anymore, Victor, that's enough."

Li Lin's laughter gradually stopped, and he explained: "It doesn't matter to me who invented the intelligent robot in people's perception. The important thing is that you can use this to gain fame and even be promoted to become a professor."

He turned his head and glanced at Blitzcrank, and the corner of his mouth curled up, "Also, have you ever thought about...creating a real mechanical life form?"

"Huh?!" Victor was startled, "Are you referring to the life forms transformed like the Polpok family?"

"No, they can at most upload their consciousness into the mechanical body, it's different."

Victor's eyes widened, and he seemed to have reacted, "...Then what do you mean?!"

Li Lin was not in a hurry to explain his thoughts, but instead asked him a question, "Can a machine have the ability to think for itself like a human?"

Victor was stunned by Li Lin's idea, he had never thought about it before, "This involves a philosophical issue...your smart chip?"

"Strictly speaking, the intelligent system I developed still operates according to fixed logic and programs. It only simulates certain human thinking processes, and does not really have the ability to think on its own like humans."

"It is possible to make a machine think like a human... How is this possible?"

"So, research on Brits is particularly important."

(End of this chapter)