Starting from Zero

Volume 20 Chapter 127 Air Magic Stone

"Slow down, I didn't hear you clearly!" The old man was anxiously asked by me. //. 小说 网 //

When I heard the other party's words, I remembered that I might have asked too quickly, but although I understood that, I didn't give up the research on the wheelchair. Don't look at this is just a small wheelchair, but the value is quite scary. You know that this thing can fly, and it's not ordinary flying. Where this thing can hover vertically, and even more amazing is that this thing has no sound at all.

Although the gravity resistance device we bought from the Iron Crusade of Asheford can also suspend suspension in place against gravity, the gadget not only works very noisily, more importantly, it cannot work once it is flying. If it were not for moving around in a disguised way by relying on the crawler transmission mechanism later, the gravity resistance device could only be used as a suspension elevator. But the old man's thing is obviously free of those problems. When the old man came in, the wheelchair was clearly able to move in suspension, and it was no problem to turn anything. I just do n’t know if this thing consumes a lot of energy and whether it can be enlarged. The most important point is that this thing How high does it fly?

"I'm sorry, I was too excited just now. May I ask what kind of power this thing is suspended by?"

"Oh, you say this." The other side acted indifferently to a helper who came with him to help him lift a lid behind the wheelchair, and I quickly checked it. It's quite amazing that underneath the lid is not the complex mechanical system I expected, but ... empty. It's really empty. The wheelchair, which looks like a toilet with armrests and side baffles, is very bulky, so I thought that when I opened it, I would see a bunch of complicated precision instruments, but it was empty inside. And looking at this shape, it seems to be made exactly according to the design goals of the storage box.

"What about this ... this thing's power system?"

"Here it is." The old man directly raised a ball in his hand. This is a very standard ball with a bright blue appearance, which looks like a plexiglass. Of course, there is definitely no material in the game, so this material should be of other materials. The blue ball is about seven or eight centimeters in diameter. It is just right in the hand. It is very comfortable to grasp. It doesn't feel too big or small, just ...

"This is the powertrain?" I never thought that the wheelchair's powertrain would be external, and even more outrageous that it would upend all my common sense. Not to mention the principle by which the ball is suspended, the transmission problem alone is puzzling, because the ball was not attached to the wheelchair at all, but was caught by the old man. According to this situation, if the ball has buoyancy, how does it transfer power to the chair? Is it through the old man's body? But if the chair was hung on the ball by the arm of the old man, what else would he do? Wouldn't it be easier to sew the ball directly on the clothes? Besides, even if the clothes can't bear the tension, it's OK to put the ball in the storage box behind the chair? What's going on in your hands?

The old man did n’t know if he was too old or unresponsive or did n’t know how to look at it, anyway, he did n’t respond until the particularly burly guy next to him discovered the problem, but the burly guy explained to me: Did you get it wrong? "

"misunderstanding?"

Seeing me gazing at him, the muscular man immediately explained: "The doctor means that the thing in his hand can provide power to move the suspension chair, and the buoyancy of the chair itself is not provided by that ball!"

"That's the case!" I finally understood it after hearing this explanation. Fortunately, there were only me and the old man at the scene from time to time, otherwise I must be tangled by this problem! The speed of a floating wheelchair is not fast, and there is no friction at all after being suspended, so if it only provides the power to move forward and back, it can really be done with the arms of the elderly. After all, this power It is not bigger than pushing a wheelchair in reality. On the contrary, because this is a suspended wheelchair, the resistance will definitely be much smaller. \\\\. First \\\\ "Well, if this thing only provides horizontal power, then what is the suspension of this thing?"

"The suspension is of course dependent on the air magic stone."

"Air magic stone?" Because the steel empire has little contact with the outside world, and the direction of social development is completely different, many things of the steel empire are uniquely named. For example, this air magic stone, I have never been outside. I ’ve heard that I do n’t know if it ’s a specialty of the Iron Empire or a known ore, but it ’s just called Iron Empire differently. "Where is the air stone you said? Can you show it to me?"

"The one in the chair is already fixed. To see it, you need to remove the cover. It is very troublesome. If you want to see we can go to the arsenal, there is a ready-made air magic stone."

As soon as I heard what the other person said, I immediately asked the other person to take me, and the order that the other person received before me was to take me to visit as much as possible, so I heard that I agreed with him without hesitation.

To get to that so-called equipment library, you have to enter the dungeon. As mentioned before, the main body of the steel empire is actually on the ground, and there are only some military facilities on the ground. Although the equipment depot is also a military facility, it is located underground because it belongs to the logistics support department.

The city's access to the ground lies in the mountain in the middle of the island. Although this mountain looks like a very ordinary mountain on the outside, it has actually been hollowed out. Almost a third of the interior of the entire mountain has been changed into a functional area, and only two thirds of the vegetation covered on the surface of the mountain is real, and the rest are disguised, as long as the operator presses a switch Those plants will automatically separate with the camouflage board to expose the defensive gun below, so it is more appropriate to say that this mountain is not a mountain but a fortress.

The access to the mountain is at the foot of the mountain, and the entrance is also equipped with a camouflage door, but I think this design is completely superfluous. After all, camouflaging the door is a wide road paved with gravel. Even if you hide the door, the road is still there. At that time, people suddenly disappeared as soon as they saw a road extending directly to the mountain, and the fool knew that there was a camouflage door.

After following the guides through the huge camouflage door, what appeared before us was not a downward tunnel, but a slight upward slope. After rising more than one meter, the road became horizontal again, but what appeared in front of us The landscape reminds me of the underground base of Longyuan. The huge hall is supported by several huge stone pillars. The empty space is full of busy people and machinery, and the walls and floor of the entire hall are covered with metal, and it looks quite thick. It is estimated that this place Even if other Americans hit a ground-bomb, they may not be damaged.

My side is still observing the situation in the hall. The muscular man over there has found a car. Although this thing is different from the car in reality, it is also very different from the carriage in the game. In fact, I think this thing is more suitable than a mobile platform, because it is a large flat plate with a bunch of wheels. Those wheels are not large, at most only fifty centimeters in diameter. The metal plate on the wheel is two inches thick, about five meters long, and more than two meters wide. There is no cab or steering wheel on the metal plate. The control device is a stick that is erected at the corner. This thing is there like the fighter's joystick. You can move in any direction by holding the rod. Just push it in that direction, and the more the joystick is tilted, the faster the speed.

Such a simple operation is quite amazing, but it also just made me find a chance to ask to get off the car. Because there is no such thing as a seat on the tablet, so don't expect anything about comfort. Fortunately, the metal floor is flat enough, so it's not at all. I took a test drive myself after obtaining consent, and found that this thing responded very sensitively to the operation, almost no response time, which means that this thing may be a mechanical direct connection structure operation direction and driving like a bicycle Because there will be a response delay regardless of the magic circuit or the electronic circuit, which may not be felt by ordinary people, but it can definitely be found by my reflex nerve.

In addition to being agile, this car also has a lot of power. I do n’t know whether it is the result of gear adjustment or the power of the power unit itself. Anyway, this thing is absolutely powerful, and it feels very fierce at the start, even if I As soon as the joystick is pushed to the end, the car will immediately raise the speed. However, although the horsepower is strong and the speed is fast, the machine selection speed of this thing is very slow. Even if it reaches the limit speed, which is about thirty kilometers, it is faster than normal people, but it is limited.

According to the muscular man's explanation, this thing is not fast, mainly because it is specifically responsible for transporting materials back and forth on the ground and underground. It belongs to the commuter car in the base and functions like a forklift in a factory, so it needs power instead of speed.

After playing around for a while to experiment with the performance of this thing, I returned the car to the muscular man to drive. He steered the car to a gate, and the inside of the gate was a closed space. I knew it was an elevator at first glance, but it was very large. If it was crowded, it would be no problem to park in a dozen tanks.

After we entered the elevator room, many cars came in one after another, but these cars were empty. There were three people standing on each of them, and they seemed to be transportation personnel. After those people saw me, they all showed their curious eyes, and it felt like we saw aliens on the road, but fortunately, the guides around me seemed to have identity, so the people there Although I have been staring at me, I haven't turned around to see the excitement.

After the stuff that was suspected of being lifted was put down, the gate was lowered and started to move downwards. I calculated it based on the falling speed. The underground city was actually located more than 180 meters deep below the surface. It took more than thirty seconds to reach the end.

When the elevator door opens, we first see a wide passage area. This passage is like a subway platform, except that the position of the rails is replaced by a row of elevators, and the space in front of it is much larger than the waiting area of ​​the subway station.

Due to different identities, we were the first to get off the elevator. The muscular man steered the car into the aisle and immediately turned into the left fork. After running a short distance, he saw the road on the left. The gate is five or six meters high and nearly ten meters wide. Unlike ordinary warehouses, not only is there a guard outside the door, but there are also bunkers. We first received the inspection of the outpost at a distance of ten meters outside the door, and then we were put in. After passing through the bunker, we reached the door, then the muscular man motioned us to get out of the car, and then led us into a small door at the edge of the door.

"This is our equipment library, how about it? It looks pretty good, right?" The muscular man is obviously a member of the military representative, because he was quite proud when introducing the equipment library, and the fat man next to him The half-demented old man was unresponsive.

I looked around the entire equipment library under the introduction of the muscular man, and I have to say that the muscular man does have proud capital. The area here is huge, and I don't think Longyuan's experimental weapon reserve is as large as this one. The wide storage area looks at least tens of thousands of square meters. The rows of shelves inside it slide like a supermarket, and each shelf is equipped with equipment. Of course, the variety cannot be as diverse as the goods in the supermarket. After all, it is a reserve. Library, not a supermarket. Most of the shelves are the rifles of the gorgeous shape I saw before. I just glanced at them and saw thousands of them. It is estimated that this thing belongs to the labeled equipment here. If you go all out, it is estimated that the Iron Empire can be divided into one.

After seeing the surprised expression on my face, the muscular man guided me with satisfaction: "Please come here, the air stone you want to see is here."

In fact, the so-called air magic stone of the muscular man is not a pure ore. This is an equipment storehouse instead of a simple warehouse. It is impossible to put such a thing directly here. The muscular man showed me a piece of equipment that has been processed, but because this equipment itself is just a polished ore, it can also be regarded as the original ore.

"This is the air monster?" I asked in surprise, looking at the air monster in my hand. This air magic stone grows in a strip shape, about 15 cm long, about 5 cm wide, and about 1 cm thick. It looks a bit like the paperweight stone used in the study, but the color is strange. The color of this thing is a very dazzling orange-red, which looks similar to the reflective clothing on a cleaning worker's body. I have never seen natural minerals in this color before.

The muscular man took an explanation after I picked up an air magic stone: "This is the air magic stone, but the original mine is not long, but it has strange shapes and everything. What you see now is us A finished product that is pulverized and rebonded after separating raw ore from impurities. "

"Is it re-adhesive with powder?"

"Yes, the separated air magic stone itself is irregular in shape and usually does not have such a large piece. It can be shaped freely after re-adhesion after crushing, and it must be crushed in the process of separating impurities. It's not easy to block, but fortunately, there is no change in the performance of the air magic stone that is rebonded after crushing. "

I nodded and asked, "Do you have a lot of this ore on your island?"

The muscular man shook his head and said, "In fact, the reserves of air magic stones are not high. Almost one third of the island's reserves are in this warehouse. Half of the remaining two thirds are in use. One-third are proven reserves and have not yet been processed. "

"Did you just find this mine?"

"Yes, we have only found this mine at present, and the area is very small. However, we estimate that this ore should not be the only one. It should be found elsewhere, but it has not been found, or the person who found it does not know its value. . "

I nodded and asked, "What is this thing glued to?"

"Just add water."

"what?"

"Air magic stone is a very strange ore. It has a characteristic different from ordinary ore that it will slowly dissolve in water. We crush it and dissolve it in water, then pour it into a mold to dry it. It has become this finished product in your hand. "

"It actually dissolves in water? Why does it sound like salt?"

"It's a bit like salt," said the muscular man. "This air magic stone will become relatively strong once it is formed. Big."

"What do you all do with this thing?"

"Of course it is used to reduce weight ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Muscle men first showed their muscles and then explained:" You should also notice that most of the residents of our steel empire are very thin, like me There are few such strong people. Although the weapon made by our inventors has considered weight as much as possible, sometimes it still feels too heavy, so we use this air magic stone to reduce weight. We encounter equipment that needs to be lightweight and has no way to reduce weight. Just install a few air magic stones, so that the original heavy equipment will become very light. And you also know that this air magic stone is soluble, so we can make any shape as needed, so even a close-fitting armor can easily add a layer of air magic stone inside to reduce the load. "

I heard that even armor can add air magic stones, I was immediately excited, not because I intend to reduce the weight of our guild player armor, after all, the armor in the game itself ignores some weight, and the game system does not allow it Players change their equipment at will, so I have no intention of changing their equipment. What I really think of is actually a mobile angel. These guys are artificial artifacts. If they are added with air magic stones that can reduce the load, wouldn't it be possible to increase the power of the machine without changing the power system?

Just thinking about the bright prospect of adding air magic stones to the mobile angel, I suddenly realized a problem. Weighed at least half a catty of air magic stone in my hand, I was surprised to ask the muscular man: "Don't you say that this thing can lose weight? Why am I so heavy in my hand?"