All the affairs in the territory seemed to have entered an orderly stage, and Gao Wen finally got a brief leisure.

In the study of the Lord's Mansion, he handled the official duties he had accumulated a few days ago, and then leaned against his wide seat, relaxing while listening to the daily affairs reported by Heti.

“…In summary, all the autumn grain storage and statistics work have been completed, and winter rations in remote areas have been allocated. This winter, there should be no large-scale famine outbreaks in major areas of the southern border…

"The Magic Net Project is still expanding along the cross axis and has now covered the Peilin area...

"The commercial messenger sent to the East has set out..."

Gao Wen exhaled slightly: "It's a good day without bad news."

"We can't have bad news every day. We finally settled down," Hetty smiled, but his expression became a little subtle when he smiled. "But although there is no bad news, there is something that makes people care about Rebecca's child seems to be tinkering with something recently..."

Gao Wen's relaxed expression suddenly stopped: "Rebecca? What has she done recently?"

"She built a large pool in the Magic Technology Institute..." Herty's expression was almost confused when she said this, " Raise a soft mud monster inside."

Gao Wen: "...what does she do with slime monsters?!"

"The report submitted said it was to study the industrial value of the slime monster, but because it was a group project within the Institute of Magic Technology, she only knew the details of the project herself."

Gao Wen heard the question marks all over his head, but just as he wanted to continue asking, the magic net terminal installed next to the desk suddenly lit up and made a loud buzzing sound.

Gao Wen activates the terminal casually, but he didn't expect that Rebecca's figure appeared in the holographic projection above the machine.

"Rebecca? I'm just about to..."

However, Gao Wen was interrupted by the other party halfway through his words. The girl was wearing the researcher's white robe outside her dress, her face and hands were covered with oil, and she jumped up and down excitedly in the picture: "Ancestors!! Cars! Cars! Cars! There is a car!"

Gao Wen was stunned by these stupid words: "What did you say?"

Heti couldn't help frowning at Rebecca's behavior without any aristocratic temperament: "Rebecca, have you forgotten the etiquette again?"

"Ah! Aunt!" Rebecca then noticed that Hetty was also opposite the communicator, and his expression and movements became stiff in an instant, "You are also..."

"Are you in the machinery manufacturing institute?" Gao Wen noticed the scene behind the girl after Rebecca stopped jumping. After seeing the lathes and wide assembly platforms, his heart moved, "Is it a magic car?!"

"Yes! Dandan and I finally managed to solve the last few problems! We built a useful chassis!!" Rebecca excitedly rushed to the communicator. Eighty percent of the holographic projection in front of Gao Wen was occupied by the girl's oily face. "Come and take a look! Come and take a look!"

The voice of General Nicholas Egg came from the background sound of the communicator: "Why did this become a Dandan again? Didn't you call Mr. Egg last time?"

After that, Rebecca seemed to say something again, but Gao Wen had no intention of continuing to listen. He stood up suddenly, turned off the communicator casually, and walked towards the door and said to Hetty: "Come with me!"

At this time, Hetty was still thinking about the question of "Why did Rebecca raise the slime monster?", but from Gao Wen's reaction, she realized that Rebecca might have made some amazing achievements, which was enough for the ancestors to throw all the slime monsters behind their heads.

She quickly agreed and quickly followed Gao Wen's pace.

Next to the "mechanical platform" in the first workshop, hundreds of technicians wearing work clothes or researcher uniforms gathered together, looking at the hard-won results on the platform with eagerness and pride. Rebecca and several of his assistants also stood among the crowd, discussing the possible future uses of this epoch-making creation with excitement. The silver-white Nicholas Egg with a happy smile on his face quietly floated closest to the mechanical platform. He felt every exquisite detail inside the complex machine, every tightly stitched gear and lever, every repulsive mechanism and pump device ready to go, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled his body, a 1.3 meters diameter weight of one and a half tons.

A heavy and rapid footsteps came from the gate of the workshop. Rebecca immediately raised her head. After seeing the person clearly, she waved her hand excitedly and greeted: "Sir Ancestor! Aunt! You are here!!"

Gao Wen walked through a group of researchers who paid tribute to him and looked at the mechanical creation on the circular platform with eager eyes: "It's it?"

"As you can see..." Rebecca raised his hand and pointed at the creation as the butler or senior servant introduced the guest. "Is it very beautiful?"

To be honest, in the aesthetics of many people in this era, that thing is probably not beautiful, but in the eyes of those who have accepted the mechanical style of Cecil's magic, it can indeed be associated with "aesthetics".

It is a complex machine made of black steel. Its shape is slightly similar to the chassis in Gao Wen's impression, but there is a huge difference. Since it is a test item, it does not have a shell, and almost all the mechanical structures are directly exposed to the outside. The assembled gears, levers and axles are like monsters with flesh and blood removed, which makes it look quite scary but has a strange beauty.

Since there is no shell, Gao Wen can clearly see many structures of the chassis: four steel-made wheels are installed on both sides of the same steel-made skeleton, while a miniaturized second-generation magic engine specially designed for mobile vehicles is installed at its tail to provide power. A large number of runes are spread throughout the chassis structure, forming a complete magic net structure. In the center of the chassis, a very conspicuous "beam" can be seen not only a beam that provides structural strength, but also a part of the magic mechanism. Gao Wen saw a large number of runes concentrated on this beam, and the magic net of the chassis is also connected to the beam, and there are many connecting rods that control the rune trigger, and the steel wire mechanism is also integrated in the front part of the beam. This structure makes him feel a little déjà.

Rebecca quickly answered the source of his sense of déjà vu: "Did you think of the 'power ridge' on the magic warship?"

Gao Wen suddenly realized: "The same idea?"

"Yes, the power ridge of the magic warship has given us a lot of inspiration," Rebecca nodded. "Integrating various control mechanisms and energy transmission structures into a module, reducing the intermediate structure as much as possible and reducing the number of trivial parts can minimize the failure rate, and the reliability of the machine will also improve. It is also convenient for repairing the fault if the fault is too large. If the fault is too large, you can even replace the entire power ridge so that the entire set of machinery can be re-operated in the shortest time. I think in the future, as long as it is large magic machinery, such as vehicles and ships, you can use the power ridge structure."

Gao Wen really thought that there would be nothing to replace this structure at the moment, so he nodded slightly: "Very good."

The power ridge architecture can be said to be the most typical technical achievement created by local technicians since the establishment of the Magic Technology Institute and the Mechanical Manufacturing Institute. Not only did Gao Wen not intervene at all, but even Rebecca was not the main inventor of the power ridge architecture.

The architecture came up with a group of mage apprentices from the Leslie area. After they changed their jobs and became magic technicians, they were sent to magic transformation of old ships. In order to stuff a large-scale magic device into a large warship and integrate all complex systems into a stable and reliable control-energy structure, they referred to the control technology of the mage tower and proposed the initial concept of power ridges.

After that, nearly a hundred rune masters, mechanics, magicians and craftsmen from all over the southern border worked together to create the first truly practical "power ridge" and were used on the Aurora and Morning Stars.

Now, this technical achievement, which has been proven to be stable and reliable on the magic warship, has been successfully miniaturized and installed on the chassis of the first generation of magic vehicles after being transformed by the technicians of the Mechanical Manufacturing Institute.

If Rebecca's solution is reliable, then the "power ridge" architecture will continue to develop and become the central structure of various magic vehicles and various large-scale magic facilities in the future. It will continue to be improved and popularized until one day in the future, a more epoch-making, more stable and reliable architecture can replace it.

Gao Wen didn't know how to describe this feeling. Although he started this era, the flashes that kept popping up in this era were always beyond his expectations.

He raised his head and looked at the control part of the "prototype magic car" with a chair welded in the front and middle of the chassis. Many control devices were set in front of the seats. Like the mechanical structure exposed in other positions of the chassis, it was also a completely unobstructed "driver's seat".

At least the steering wheel is still what he knows.

But the several pull rods and pedals outside the steering wheel are not much the same as his memories in his previous life.

Obviously, the designers did not fully follow the "concept plan" originally proposed by Gao Wen to design the operating system of the machine. They planned the functions and positions of the pull rods according to their habits, and may have made these changes based on the special operation method of the "rune trigger". It is more likely that they asked the most experienced coachman in the city and planned the entire control seat based on the coachman's driving experience.

Gao Wen will not express his opinion on this. Although he has a mature design in another world and two lifetimes of experience in his mind, he knows that his experiences are not always applicable, and the experts here are not him. Whether these things are useful depends on the results of the actual test.

As for now, looking at the prototype magic car that had not been sealed yet, with exposed mechanical structures everywhere, like some kind of punk product, he was only happy in his heart. Due to the burden of his ancestors, he could only look seriously in front of others and circled around the mechanical platform. When he turned to the third round, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the wheel curiously: "...what tires do you use to make?"

Due to the deviation of the material list and the technology tree, Cecil has no rubber so far, whether it is natural or artificial, there is no rubber. There is naturally no talk of various rubber products, including tires. At the beginning of designing magic vehicles, one of the difficulties that Gao Wen expected was here.

Tires have a huge role. They can reduce vibration, make the driver more comfortable while extending the life of the mechanical structure. They can provide reliable grip and friction, prevent slippage, and prevent steel-made wheels from being worn directly. Excellent tires can also save more effort and energy...

However, without rubber, everything is fantasy.

Gao Wen even considered using suspension structure + track to barely get around this problem, but now it seems that Rebecca and Nicholas Egg's team have solved the materials science problem. Although they don't know what material they are using, the layer of material outside the wheel is obviously not rubber.

It is grayish-white, rough in the touch and has a certain elasticity. If you smell it carefully, there seems to be a very slight smell of earth.

Rebecca seemed very happy to see the omnipotent ancestor also asked herself curiously. She crossed her waist and showed a smug smile on her face: "Master Ancestor, what did we use?"
Chapter completed!