Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 399 Computers Promote the Development of Science and Technology
After Wei'er and Perfect worked together to create a computer, many things became simpler.

Although this rather primitive computer could only perform numerical calculations, its computing speed was already amazing for that era. It could complete calculations that would normally take several months in a very short time, which saved a lot of time.

For example, Perfect used this puppet computer to complete some data calculations on the imaginary materials she had, successfully solving the problem that had been holding her back before, completing the development of new materials before winter, and using this opportunity to open the fifth page of the Emerald Record.

The ability on the fifth page is decomposition, a new ability that Perfectcot thinks is somewhat inferior to the previous four abilities.

So far, Jade Record has unlocked five abilities in total, namely identification, analysis, optimization and deduction, as well as the latest unlocked decomposition.

Compared with the previous four abilities, the decomposition ability seems very ordinary at first glance, which is to separate two mixed substances.

It sounds useful, but it doesn't feel that useful.

After all, for an alchemist, decomposing a mixture into different substances is just a basic skill.

Therefore, Perfect didn't delve into this ability, and she didn't even care too much about the new technology of the Emerald Record.

Compared with these, the various problems facing the North are more worthy of Perfectot's attention at the moment.

Although Perfect was already dealing with the various problems exposed in the north during the first snowfall of this year, the interval between the second snowfall and the first snowfall was not very long, which meant that even though Perfect had begun to solve the problems, it still did not achieve much results.

In fact, with the temperature dropping after the snowfall and the gradual arrival of winter, there are many things that Perfecto is unable to do even if he wants to.

After all, the temperature in the north in winter can freeze water into ice. Even if it is not that cold now, some construction projects cannot be completed before the weather turns completely cold.

So far, among the problems exposed by the last snowfall, Perfect has mainly been addressing traffic issues, as well as the black market and smuggling problems that it has investigated once before.

After she ordered a crackdown on the black market and smuggling, they were basically no longer a problem.

Those forces mainly involved in smuggling have basically calmed down after being cleared out. Although there is still smuggling in big cities like Chernobog, and there are small vendors wandering around between various settlements, this is basically under the control of Perfectoct and the Northern Government and does not pose a threat or problem.

Compared to this, it was the traffic problem exposed last time that caused Perfect to waste a lot of effort.

First, she and Wei'er had agreed to compete in developing a large autonomous robot and a tracked vehicle respectively, but this was delayed because the two of them turned their attention to working on computers.

But it was not a big problem. After all, with the advent of computers, the progress of the design work was greatly accelerated. Perfect estimated that it would only take her about a week to come up with a complete tracked vehicle design and put it into production.

As for the production capacity after production starts, that is another matter.

However, this is not a problem for Perfect. Designing an automated production line is not a big problem for her and Wei'er.

Especially now we still have computers. Even if they are very primitive models with low computing power, they can still be used to program automated production lines.

If the design is finalized and we want to mass-produce it, we can do it this winter.

The only issue that may need to be taken into consideration is the difficulty of construction in winter.

This is also the main problem that Perfect is currently worrying about, because the early arrival of snowfall has seriously affected the progress of various construction projects in the north.

After all, this is still equivalent to the steam age in the early 19th century in the original world. The civil engineering technology of this period was still at a very primitive stage and could not be compared with the construction level of the original world at all.

It is impossible to carry out construction in winter in the original world, let alone in this world.

So even though Perfect has planned railways and related construction for those settlements whose transportation was interrupted by snow during the last snowfall, these projects basically cannot be started in the winter, and may even have to be delayed until the thaw next spring.

This was obviously unacceptable to Perfect, and the reason was simple: there was only one year left until the end of the winter, and the temperature would only get lower and lower.

If we cannot solve the construction problems in cold weather, we will have to face more severe situations and construction conditions.

However, this problem is not completely unsolvable. Both the tracked vehicle designed by Perfect and the large robot that Weier is preparing to develop can actually cope with work needs in severe weather.

After all, no matter how bad the weather is, there is always a way to deal with it. Perfect still remembers that she developed a thawing agent directly to rescue a ship frozen in the ice. It was prepared to deal with extremely bad weather.

It was just that the resources that Perfectcot had available at the time were too limited, so she thought of developing this thawing agent to deal with bad weather.

If it were now, Perfect would probably think of solving the problem in a more violent way, such as using engineering steam armor and large-scale engineering machinery.

After all, if the cost of using medicine all the time is too high, the thawing medicine is indeed very useful. After that, Perfectcot also tried to reduce its cost and mass produce it, but it must be said that even if she reduced the cost of this thing to a decent level, it can only meet the needs of small-scale use and temporary emergencies.

If you want to mass-produce it and use it in engineering construction and the like, the cost of this thing is still an unacceptable number.

Under such circumstances, using steam armor and large-scale construction machinery to solve construction problems by using great force and flying bricks seems to be the right way to go.

At least that's what Perfecto thought when she saw Veil testing a large robot she had designed.

"Are you planning to use this big thing as a locomotive and then connect the carriages at the back?" Looking at what Wei'er took out, Perfectcott's expression looked a little strange.

It’s not because the things Wei’er took out were too weird. On the contrary, the things she designed had an exquisite beauty, and both the appearance design and the structural design were very reasonable, demonstrating the skills and accumulation of a legendary alchemist.

However, the shape of this big robot really made Perfecto a little overwhelmed, because it looked too much like the head of a centipede.

Perfect could understand that the flat and round body was designed to carry more cargo, and there was nothing much to say about the four long legs. The engineering robot she designed herself would only look longer and more legged. After all, long legs were necessary for walking on snow, and the multi-legged structure could make it walk more steadily and effectively improve its ability to pass through rough terrain.

But when several of these oblate robots are connected together, it starts to look weird.

"What do you think? Any suggestions for improvement?" Wei'er didn't seem to think this thing was ugly. Instead, she was waiting for Perfecto's evaluation with anticipation.

Perfect suppressed his desire to complain and his aesthetic prejudice against this thing, and instead used his all-seeing eye to make an assessment of it.

"Large-scale multifunctional autonomous robot"

"Materials Made: Excellent"

“Craftsmanship: Excellent”

"Effect: It has an output power of 600 horsepower. Multiple units can be connected to form an efficient transportation platform, and it has multiple uses such as road cleaning, construction and material transportation."

"Evaluation: This is a very good design, but it is limited by the designer's lack of engineering skills. Although it is well designed, it has structural redundancy and a lot of payload waste. It is recommended to optimize and modify it."

Seeing the All-Seeing Eye's evaluation, Perfect immediately understood. It was obvious that the All-Seeing Eye had the same opinion as his. Both felt that some aspects of Wei'er's design did need improvement.

The first thing is undoubtedly the shape. The oblate design can indeed improve the carrying capacity, but in fact it does not need to be designed to be so extreme.

The circular shape is indeed the design that can expand the cargo area to the maximum under the same conditions, but the problem is that in actual use, it is not necessary to use such an extreme design, and it is actually okay to directly use a rectangular cargo hold.

The connection of multiple circular platforms is a good idea. As long as the connection interface can be designed to be active, the flexibility of this combined structure will be excellent.

However, Wei'er did not adopt the design of movable interfaces, so this structure, which could be very eye-catching, appears to be very rigid. It looks like it is just a simple connection of several robots without considering more practical applications.

Of course, with Wei'er's technology, even without movable interfaces, these robots are not directly locked into a straight line after being connected together, but still have a certain range of joint movement space, allowing them to bend or twist.

But for Perfect, this design is too bad.

So after asking Wei'er for the design drawing, she started to make changes directly on it.

First, the main structure is changed into multiple rectangular cargo boxes, which can be adapted to the chassis of the tracked vehicle and are also convenient for stacking on large robots. It is also more convenient to transport bulk goods and protect important items.

Of course, this design is not original to Perfect, but a design originally called freight container in the world.

Four rectangular cargo boxes can be stacked on a large robot, which is driven by a steam core on its head. The four walking legs were increased to six by Perfect, but the length was shortened to make it more stable while also enhancing its mobility.

As for the connecting joints, Perfect made them into movable links between the two hemispheres, which can provide sufficient space for movement between the two robots and greatly improve their flexibility.

But after Perfectcot's modification, the original oblate robot designed by Weier was transformed into a cylindrical shape with two hemispherical ends. When connected together, it looked more like a sausage with long legs.

"This design..." Wei'er obviously didn't like Perfect's design. After thinking about it carefully, she said, "Actually, the ball joint connection is not necessary. The connection hooks like those on the train are also good. These large robots don't need to deal with particularly rugged terrain, right?"

"Then delete the spherical connection?" Perfect didn't care much about it. It was just a matter of changing the connection method and modifying the appearance at the same time.

Weier calculated carefully, nodded and said, "Delete it. It doesn't make much sense. Although the two robots are connected together, when they are traveling on the road, their minimum turning angle will not be less than 120 degrees. There is really no need to use a spherical connection."

"Okay, let's change this." Perficot nodded, and then activated the optimization ability of his All-Seeing Eye, optimizing the design to a state where it can be directly used for production.

After optimization, this large multifunctional robot looks more like a grasshopper with its six long legs and elongated body.

However, this large robot does not need to jump, so it does not have well-developed hind limbs, but only has six moving support legs of the same length.

When multiple robots are connected together, they look more like a long-legged train than anything else.

"Is this your ability? It seems to be quite useful." Wei'er noticed that Perfectcot used the optimization ability, but she mistook it for a kind of alchemical secret method mastered by Perfectcot. She just made adjustments to the drawings and the contents on the drawings.

Yes, Wei'er thought that the design changes on the drawings were made by Perfect himself, which led to a big misunderstanding.

However, Perfect did not explain. She just checked the finished design drawing with the tracked vehicle she designed, adjusted some design parameters, and used the optimization ability again to optimize this drawing.

Although the optimized tracked steam car is still powered by steam and needs to burn coal to drive the boiler, its appearance will make people exclaim that it has a sci-fi feel even if it is brought back to the original world.

But these are all unimportant. What really matters is the tracked vehicle's ability to pass and its carrying capacity.

Especially after Perfect made the modifications, whether the tracked vehicle can withstand a fully loaded freight container being placed on the vehicle, and how the tracked vehicle will perform after being fully loaded.

For Perfect and Weier, in the past they could only build a prototype car for testing to see if it could work properly under extreme conditions.

But now with computers, they can gather all the data together and then use computers to calculate various parameters, which is much easier than directly building a prototype.

Although the prototype still needs to be built, its meaning is completely different. One is trial and error, while the other is to verify whether the design is qualified and to test the extreme working conditions.

(End of this chapter)