After discovering that boiling water cannot generate enough steam power, Gao Wen gave up his plan to create the classic steam engine on Earth.

But this does not mean that he has given up on the goal of building a universal, reliable, and simple powered machine.

He still remembers how industrial mass production in his hometown has destroyed and leveled all inefficient production modes, including handicraft workshops, and how the roaring machines have led the entire human civilization to rise from the land and enter the space age. In factories, raw materials are injected into the workshop like flowing water, and tons of products will spew out from the end of the machine cluster, and tens of thousands of products. The power of machines can completely change the way a society operates. They can break mountains and crack rocks and fill the seas. They can be stronger, precise, efficient, and exhausted than any individual human being, but these qualities that are superior to natural humans reflect the true power of human beings.

That is the power of thinking and creation.

Of course, Gao Wen is also very aware of the side effects of industrial production, such as pollution, and the pressure on natural resources caused by excessive production efficiency, but the problem can be solved, but survival cannot be negotiated. Just like human diseases can be cured, but it is unreasonable to refuse reincarnation to prevent illness...

So whether it is to survive the natural disasters including the demon tide, to make yourself more comfortable in this backward world, or to understand the truth of this world, Gao Wen must set up technology, and in order to light up technology, the most basic thing is to solve the motivation problem.

Steam propulsion is a road that cannot be done, but many rules in this world can still be used in the macro field. Gears can be used, levers can be used, and waterwheels can also be used. Moreover, thanks to the power of magic, many technological developments that cannot be skipped on the earth and require slow accumulation to achieve can be directly jumped here, such as high-quality steel smelted based on magic technology, such as alloys and crystals that are different from the earth but have extremely outstanding properties, but these things have not been fully discovered in this world.

In other words, people in this world have indeed discovered the uses of these things on their own technical routes. After all, people from other worlds are not stupid, but due to the limitations of the worldview, they have never thought of using other methods to use these things.

Gao Wen looked at the cylinder structure on the drawings. He had already drawn the structure on the fork. Now he wanted to think of a replacement to replace steam to power the entire device.

What he could think of was still expansion and work, or high-pressure airflow, but where did these "sources of power" of high temperature and high pressure come from?

He once thought that the explosion of Rebecca crystal is also a kind of expansion. As long as it is used properly, the power of the explosion is also a kind of power. The essence of the internal combustion engine on the earth is actually a continuous "safe explosion" (detonation) in the cylinder. So can the explosion caused by Rebecca crystal be controlled and guided, thus becoming a driving force?

But after learning about the principles of those crystal explosions, he had to give up this idea.

The Rebecca crystal that uses magic to produce explosions is not the same thing as gunpowder on earth, and the two "explosion" processes are completely different.

The explosion produced by Rebecca crystal is essentially a "sprite". The power of the magic circle activates the energy in the crystal and forms an independent casting process. The spell effect is "explosion". Therefore, before impact and expansion, the first thing Rebecca crystal produces is actually a magic effect. So what will happen if such a crystal is stuffed into the cylinder and trigger the detonation of the magic circle?

The cylinder will be detonated as an alchemy product...

Of course, Gao Wen can make this cylinder extremely strong, extremely thick, even so strong that it cannot explode if it is stuffed with crystals. So can the explosion magic inside it be pushed at this time?

No, it will blow up things like fragile connecting rods, pistons, etc. as spell casting materials. As long as these things are within the casting range of the magic array, they will not be spared.

If everything such as the connecting rod piston is extremely strong and will not be blown up, only crystal will participate in the magic reaction?

Well, this device may be able to do work at this time, but its size will be extremely huge because the outer diameter of its absolutely explosion-proof outer wall must exceed the casting range of the detonating array. Depending on the equivalent size of its core, the outer wall is very likely to be a ball with a radius of several meters to dozens of meters, and there cannot be any shrinkage at all. Once it shrinks, part of the outside of the device is within the range of the burst spell effect. If the operator stands next to it, the operator will be detonated... Humans are one of the best magic materials.

Even if there is no operator next to it, the device itself will be shrouded in a constant explosion and detonate everything close to it.

This is useless at all!

Because the "explosion" in this world is so special, Gao Wen gave up the idea of ​​using Rebecca crystals to create guns and cannons, at least he gave up the idea of ​​using this crystal to fire: he could not stuff these crystals into the gun chamber as a launching medicine, because these launching medicines will directly create an explosion in the spell effect area during the casting process. When the gun is fine, the person who fired the gun must have exploded, and the person next to the station should have exploded...

So what should he use to do his work?

Steam doesn't work, explosions don't work, fuel... He hasn't heard of anything like oil in this world yet.

And we have to consider the processing accuracy in the world today. Even if he designs a usable prototype, it is a problem for the blacksmiths to not knock out suitable parts.

But to be honest, he was not the most worried about this: he still remembered the mitsilver safe he dug out in the old house of the capital. The complex magic lock in the safe was actually a very sophisticated mechanism, and the one who created such mechanisms was not an ordinary blacksmith, but a rune craftsman who specialized in processing magical objects and had a higher status than a blacksmith.

Rune craftsmen are equivalent to advanced training blacksmiths and carpenters. Although they do not have the ability to cast spells, they have some knowledge in the field of magic. They are usually "workers" trained by magicians to make magic props for themselves.

Their skill is exquisite, they can create more sophisticated and complex things than ordinary iron tools, and they know how to safely process various magical materials.

Although the rune craftsmen are small and they are expensive to build things (mainly the cost of magical materials), it is worth it if they can help themselves build a prototype.

Among the 100 technicians from the capital were rune craftsmen...

While Gao Wen was thinking, two familiar auras appeared in his perception, and the curtain of the tent was lifted open, and Rebecca and Hetty walked in together.

"Ancestor (Sir), are you looking for us?" The two of them almost spoke in unison.

"Yes," Gao Wen didn't say anything nonsense, and pushed the drawing forward, "Car to sit here by yourself, and you can see these things."

Rebecca ran to move a big chair, while Hetty made a random move, and his hand grabbed a chair in the corner of the tent and flew towards him to see Rebecca was stunned.

But soon, Miss Tietou's little disappointment was attracted by the drawings displayed by Gao Wen.

"What is this?" Rebecca's eyes shining. "There are many wheels and connecting rods... are they also water trucks?"

"No, it is a...a machine that can generate power," Gao Wen explained casually, "My thoughts are limited. I want to hear your ideas. If you imagine, a machine that is driven by the most basic magic unit can generate stable and reliable power, such as making the wheel rotate continuously, such as driving the hammer up and down. Look at these connecting rods and wheels, and this structure is called a crankshaft, which can convert the reciprocating movement of a straight line and the rotating movement of the wheel..."

Gao Wen patiently explained her thoughts, and Hetty became thoughtful as he listened, while Rebecca's eyes shone: she became very interested in these wild designs!

The concept of mechanical devices that rely on magic power to operate is actually not new. This world with extraordinary power has natural advantages in many aspects. Naturally, there are many things that are "super era" in Gao Wen's view, such as the puppets created by magicians, the automatic gate activated with keys in the treasure house of the mountain, and the magic locks that can identify the user's identity as seen in the capital of the king. These are all applications of magic mechanisms, many of which can even be described as "black technology".

But Rebecca instinctively felt that the "magical power mechanism" proposed by Gowen was not the same thing as those things.

Most of its structures are intuitive and direct mechanical structures, and do not require magic to participate.

Its function and purpose are particularly simple, to provide power, and this power is prepared for the next level of machinery.

It standardizes, is clear, and abandons all parts that allow craftsmen to "play freely" and replaces them with digital indicators as precise as magic rules, striving to achieve their goals in the most reasonable and concise way, unlike traditional rune craftsmen or mages who will put a lot of patterns on the magic items they create, and they will also have to try their best to keep those truly useful runes hidden in the complex encrypted patterns, for fear of being seen and understood.

Rebecca thought hard for a long time and often said a word to himself in his mind: universality.

Just like Magic Net No. 1, this device is also "universal".

It is not designed as a treasure or work of art, but like the Rebecca crystals fired in the furnace area, it requires a large quantity and fullness, solidity and reliability.

Gao Wen finished explaining his thoughts and finally pointed to the structure of the cylinder that had been forked: "It's just this step away from now: it needs an initial source of power so that this 'piston' can move. I had thought of letting the expanded gas complete the process, so I designed this sealed 'cylinder', but you don't have to be limited by my thoughts. From a magical perspective, which spell do you think can create a continuous and cyclical propulsion force that can be used as long as there is energy supply?"

Rebecca grabbed the chair and swayed: "Carn a super small hurricane array inside? Blow the wind hard?"

Hurty also frowned and thought seriously: "It's not realistic, the hurricane array is too complicated, and the airflow it can trigger in a closed environment is limited..."

While saying that, she gathered a translucent hand of shaping power next to her, but then dispersed the magic: "It would be simple to push it with shaping power. Unfortunately, this is a very special spell, without a corresponding magic array, and... it feels so weird to push it around in the machine."

"The hand of shaping..." Rebecca rolled his eyes and thought for a while, suddenly it seemed to open up a little thought, "Yes, you don't have to use airflow... You can even use something called 'cylinder'?"

Looking at Rebecca's eyes getting brighter and brighter, Gao Wen couldn't help but feel happy: The silly roe deer is going to make a contribution again!?

Hetty was also curious: "What did you think of?"

Rebecca happily gestured: "Aunt, do you remember that I never learned a spell..."

Hetty: "Which spell did you learn it except Fireball?"

"No, it's just that magic level. You thought that no matter how stupid I was, I would definitely learn it," Rebecca waved his hand vigorously. "Later, I secretly drew the runes in my gloves and pretended that I could cast spells, but I was hung up and beaten by you and my dad..."

Gao Wen: "…"

Is it necessary for this girl to be happy to do this when she says this?!
Chapter completed!