I! Pretending to Be Reborn, Director of Doomsday Hoax

What Sakura State prepared to erase was a very official official document of the State K. Sakura State had never used it a few times. It can be said to be the highest level of courtesy in a country.

And what Long Guo replied... was just a text message!

Does this kind of thing like returning a message from the hand mean that the Dragon Kingdom didn't pay attention to the credentials of the Sakura Kingdom at all!

On this side, the commander of the Sakura Kingdom changed his expression when he heard it was a text message.

He didn't believe it, and asked the intelligence personnel to send the text message over quickly.

Expand, this is a reply in Xu Qiu's tone.

Saito just watched the commander's face change from anticipation to astonishment, and then showed anger, and he had already guessed the content of this reply letter.

He is desperate now,

That peaceful Dragon Kingdom that compromised many things in order to take care of the overall interests of mankind.

That giant dragon, like a dormant dragon, has been crawling in the deep sea in the east, woke up today...

This is devastating news for Sakura Country.

The reason is that in any country, there is no country that has more crimes against the people of the Dragon Country than the Cherry Blossom Country. evil.

The leader still felt unbelievable, took a few breaths, and said: "Longguo...how could it change from normal?"

Saito just corrected: "It's not a change of normality, but the Dragon Kingdom has been irritated by us...Our national letter, which keeps saying that human beings are righteous, is actually only for the safety of Sakura Kingdom itself."

He sighed and said, "We are no longer the country of cherry blossoms that dared to compete with the country of berries. Now, the country of cherry blossoms is just a country that relies on the country of berries..."

The leader scolded: "Could it be that the Dragon Kingdom really doesn't care about our lives or the survival of human beings?!"

Extremely cold computers may not only be needed by Sakura Country.

The huge ship on which the sun never sets in the Eagle Country, and other countries that have no forts in the Berry Country and no dungeons, may also need a type of computer that can operate at minus hundreds of degrees.

In the venue, everyone looked bleak and desperate.

"Your Excellency, buy it, the Horse-Ridge cryogenic control chip from Berry Country!"

Someone echoed: "We have no other choice. If there is no computer that operates in the extreme cold, then...the train around the country will become a bloated, heavy iron box. It lacks intelligent and technological trains, whether it is Resisting disasters, early warning and emergency response, or supporting the survival needs of the people on the train will be greatly reduced! ”

An authoritative figure in the mechanical field of Sakura Country said: "In the history of mankind, there have been several branches of computers. Back then, it was not the power computer that is now the only one. In human civilization, there have also been

There are several other computers, and the most superior of them is the Difference Engine! "

There was longing in the eyes of the mechanical master, who was obviously fascinated by such things for a long time, and said: "The Difference Engine was made by Babbage of the Eagle Country. A genius who is too advanced is destined to become a tragedy... this It is a race independent of electrical computers, mechanical computers! I just don’t know if this kind of thing can really come in handy.”

Everyone didn't know the position and significance of the difference engine in the history of machinery, so they didn't have much thought.

Even Takeshi Saito only heard a little bit about it. His attention has always been on making the current powerful electric computer more cold-resistant, and he never thought about changing the type of computer.

However, a group of scientists and scholars with a background in mechanics heard the narration of that authoritative figure, and their hearts were beating excitedly...

The difference engine, which represents the highest achievement of steampunk, is so crazy for those who love machinery, gears and steam culture!

The difference engine may not only represent the highest achievement of machinery.

If this kind of thing appears in contemporary times, what happens at the same time is the collision of old and new cultures, and the whirlpool of idealism and materialism dominating alternately.

Black technology, utopianism, and development of different technology trees.

Big ships, giant ships, multi-pass steamships, plus the mechanically designed decoration style of the difference machine, the Victorian retro aesthetics with a sense of the times, and the contradictory combination of advanced and backward coexistence...

There will be wonderful chemical reactions.

only.

Can the difference engine really take on the heavy responsibility?

At this moment, the communicator of the leader of the Sakura Kingdom rang.

"This voice means that the Dangerous Bureau of the Dragon Kingdom has issued another message?!"

In fact, the publication of the Longguo Strategic Crisis Bureau is too important. Every publication may cause turmoil in the global situation.

Therefore, many countries, including the country of Berry, have set up special alarm bells for the crisis situation in the Dragon Kingdom, so that the leaders of all countries can adjust their domestic policies according to the news and strategies of the crisis situation at any time.

The commander quickly checked.

[Dragon Kingdom Strategic Crisis Bureau Order]: The Dragon Kingdom deeply feels the suffering of the world, and does not want to see human beings struggling in water and fire. However, the country is too busy to take care of itself and cannot provide help to other countries.Here, after many discussions in our country, for the safety of all mankind, we will not hesitate to announce a secret device inside the Dragon Kingdom-a difference machine.

[Dragon Kingdom Strategic Crisis Bureau Order]: The difference machine will be the giant root of the technological tree in the extremely cold era, and the origin of the mechanical technology tree. In the extremely cold era, the difference machine will stand on the bone In the cold wind, the only computer.

Everyone has seen the news.

The authoritative task in the field of mechanics stood up with a bang, widened his eyes, and said excitedly: "It's a difference engine! It really is a difference engine!" "The greatest mechanical product! The pinnacle of the industrial revolution !!!”

Scientists in other mechanical fields are also full of excitement, and seem to be witnessing the rebirth of a great masterpiece.

Saito was just silent, not understanding why the group of mechanical masters were excited.

"Everyone."

Saito just knocked on the table, drew everyone's attention, and asked, "Can anyone explain the difference engine to me? I know it's also a computer, and I've heard of mechanical computers, but why can it stand in the extremely cold era?" ?"

The authoritative eyes of the mechanical field could not restrain the excitement, and said: "Your Excellency Saito, let me give you an explanation!"

His breathing was short, and he said quickly: "Let me give you an analogy. The relationship between the difference engine and modern computers is no less than the world's first repeating crossbow and electromagnetic rifle!"

This explanation has long been in his mind, and he never thought it would come in handy one day. He continued: "An electromagnetic rifle is a rifle that fires bullets powered by electromagnetism. However, when the power is lost, the electromagnetism will no longer be useful. And at this time, the Liannu, that is, the difference engine... will usher in a rebirth!"

"With the help of precise mechanical gear transmission, the steam engine is the power, and the arrangement of the gears is used to store data... This is the difference engine!"

As soon as Saito understood it, he raised his own doubts and asked, "How is the computing power of the difference engine?"

The authority on mechanics shook his head and said, "Your Excellency Saito, you can't use a 200-year-old differential engine to compare with the current computing power!"

He said excitedly, "If Babbage travels to the present and sees that smartphones and personal computers use semiconductors to realize his difference engine, and the computing power is quadrillion times that of the difference engine, he will only be so excited. My brain trembles and I can't speak, but I don't feel that the difference engine is behind."

"Because the beauty and status of the difference machine is based on his idea beyond the era, and on the basis that this machine far exceeds the industrial level of that era. Its complexity is difficult to manufacture even with modern technology!"

"However, Your Excellency Saito, no matter how much the difference machine lags behind the difference machine, it still far surpasses our human calculations!"

"With the help of modern technology, if we can create a difference engine, we can increase its computing power..."

"We may be able to increase the computing power of the difference engine by hundreds of thousands of times!"

Saito's eyes lit up.

After Dragon Kingdom rejected Sakura Kingdom's request for help, it immediately gave the secret of the difference machine,

It doesn't take a second to know that this is going to be the computer for the central system of the Ring-National Train!

"Develop it! How long will it take you to develop it, and how much money will it cost?" Saito said excitedly.

The extremely cold computer, which had been stagnant for a long time, finally took shape today. No one is more excited than Saito Go!

Faced with this sentence, the authority of mechanics looked slightly embarrassed, and said helplessly: "Your Excellency Saito, the bad news is that the design drawings of the difference engine have been lost for 200 years..."

"Although in many steampunk works, the difference engine is almost a universal computer, but in the Victorian era more than 200 years ago, no one in Eagle Country paid attention to the difference engine, which eventually led to the loss of the blueprint of this product."

: Later, the Yingguo Lun Dun Science Museum built a complete imitation of the difference engine according to the only remaining drawings. This huge hand-cranked intelligent mechanical computer is 3.35 meters long and 2.13 meters high, with more than 4000 pieces. Parts, weighing 2.5 tons... However, after a few runs, the gears and transmission just blew out, completely useless! "

At this moment, the leader of Sakura Kingdom, who was originally excited, looked dull.

He originally thought that the Dragon Kingdom finally compromised, but he didn't expect that the Dragon Kingdom actually dug a bigger hole...

He told everyone clearly that the difference engine is the key to solving the central computer of nuclear-powered trains, and it is the greatest computer in the era of extreme cold.

But who can develop the difference engine?

This kind of pain is equivalent to letting a person see a perfect, rich world, but throwing him into a slum to live on garbage the next moment...

Show the beauty, and give the bloody reality!

At this moment, the commander finally realized how ridiculous he was.

The country that was once bullied by the Sakura country is now unbelievably strong. The Sakura country...has long since lost the qualifications and strength to match...

Inside the council chamber, the atmosphere was dead silent, filled with despair.

This group of people with a background in mechanics has conflicting emotions. They are fanatical for the difference machine, but they are facing the pain of not being able to build the difference machine.

After a long silence, Saito said in a desolate voice:

"Everyone, whether it is a mechanical computer or an extremely cold electric computer, it is not an (ajdf) simple path."

"However, the round-the-country train inevitably needs a brain that can perform huge calculations and has superhuman computing power."

"It's time for us to think about it. In the next time, whether we will try our best to regenerate this ancient technology in the modern age, or... push our already developed electric computer to the level of extreme cold!

Saito just turned around and wrote a few big characters on the blackboard behind him.

[In the era of extreme cold, the difference engine, or the extreme cold of contemporary computers? 】

A brand-new issue begins, and this issue will determine the direction of the train around the country in Sakura Country, and also determine the direction of attacking the country in the next countless days and nights...

The moment the crisis bureau released the news, all parts of the world were shaken by the news.

Berry Country Capitol Building, because Dragon Country and Cherry Blossom Country rejected the Ho"se-Ridge low-temperature control chip one after another, the faces of Yoder, Stefan and others were so gloomy that they were about to drip. At this time, Yoder's communicator also A voice sounded, which was a warning issued by the Emergency Bureau.

"Difference Engine?"

When Yoder read the news and showed it to everyone, many people in the venue had puzzled expressions.

Although the historical achievements of the difference engine in mechanics are very high, for non-professional people, the difference engine, as a product that has long been eliminated by the power computer, has never left a name in the Internet age.However, at this time, the president of the Berry Country Association of Mechanical Engineers stood up.

The National Institute of Mechanical Engineers is a global authoritative organization engaged in the development of science and technology in mechanical engineering and related fields, and it is also an accredited association that all mechanics are eager to enter.

The president is called Joseph, the father of robots and the most famous robotics expert in the world. He has obtained a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Glenbury. Standing at the pinnacle of the mechanical field.

Joseph is an old white man. He was wearing black-rimmed reading glasses. With the help of his assistant, he stood up, his lips trembling greatly, and said:

"My lord, fellows, the difference engine... is the product of thousands of sets of mechanical systems. It is flexible, orderly, precise, and powerful. It can be said that the difference engine is the distant ancestor of modern computers. When it operates, With the carefully cut brass parts, it is precise and stable. The way it works, you can imagine the rotation of the gears in the inner structure of the clock, but the deviation is much larger than the clock!"

"This is the romance of boiling gears, the perfect combination of precision calculation structure and mechanical aesthetics, and the perfect design that can make anyone who is obsessed with machinery climax in place! Because it uses the most physical and intuitive The way to show us the calculation process!!"

"Everyone, this is a purely mechanically driven computer, relying on the difference engine, Dragon Kingdom doesn't need our Horse-Ridge cryogenic control chip at all, no wonder they would reject it, no wonder they would reject it..."

Joseph lowered his head, still not recovering from the shock brought to him by the difference engine.

he is thinking,

Is it possible for the Difference Engine to be reborn?

After being lost for 200 years, how can this perfect mechanical product return to human civilization?

Just as Xu Fu was moved by the structure of the difference engine, he wanted to exchange his life for the appearance of the difference engine,