Chapter 11: Colin's Test
Colin was a Piltover scientist who designed objects so meticulously crafted that even those of able-bodied health would be fitted with his clockwork power-boosting devices.
Patrons all vowed that his work was incredibly authentic, as if he had incorporated magic into gears and parts.
The unique clockwork power technology made him famous in Leather City, and now, the famous scientist has his back to Jeno, standing in front of his workbench in the bright light, propping his hands on the table, frowning for today's order.
The order that was unearthed in the urgent letter came from a large businessman in Zaun who asked Colin to make an artificial lung organ for his gas-tortured child.
The difficulty of making the clockwork power unit meant that Colin could only receive less than three orders a month, and these orders were all for prosthetic limbs, and he had never challenged the more difficult artificial organs to make.
"Nowadays, people are really sick and rush to the doctor, how can artificial organs be made by the current level of science and technology?"
Colin wrote down his intention to refuse on the stationery and sent it back in an urgent letter, which could be sent to Zaun early tomorrow morning, and the customer would look for another one after reading the envelope.
"Father, is it the production of lung organs?"
Orianna was Colin's apprentice and knew a thing or two about the order, and she was even more sensitive to these special orders when Zuan was killed.
"Hmm."
Colin nodded, shook his head and sighed.
"Couldn't this order be fulfilled? I've seen people who have been so affected by poisoning that every breath they take is torture that I don't know how to describe it. ”
Orianna did more than hand out face shields today, she joined a group of volunteers to help people repair respirators, and she had also been to the source of the poison gas leak, the streets where the explosion occurred were littered with rubble, and the pedestrians on the streets were shrouded in thick toxic smoke, and their faces were covered with a maximum of oil-stained rags, which she had never seen in her life such a painful scene.
If she hadn't met Jeno, she would probably still be in Zaun, and tomorrow, after finishing her daily work, she would be going deep underground at night to help refugees until she was found poisoned and bedridden.
"Aside from the workload, the materials involved in making the artificial lungs need to be tested many times, which can take months and time to understand how the lungs work, to come up with a specific design concept, and then to the extremely cumbersome assembly, which has to be overturned and restarted if it goes wrong...... The time spent on this will seriously delay the progress of other orders, affecting our closeness with several major customers. ”
"It's completely whimsical to know that this field is a blank slate, and that this order is no less difficult than getting a person into a completely unfamiliar field and achieving excellence in a few months."
Colin felt that he would not be able to make artificial organs in his life, so he admitted very shamelessly, although he could be called a genius, but he was still far from evil.
Just because Colin can't build it doesn't mean that there isn't this kind of technology, on the contrary, Jeno knows that this technology has appeared nearly a hundred years ago, and he also knows that there is a person who has undergone this kind of transformation, and she is still alive and well, in a large family in Piltover, acting as the mastermind behind the scenes.
And Colin is not unable to make it, he just lacks that determination, for example, it is not the child of the rich man of Zuan who was poisoned, but Orianna? In that case, Colin would have studied it even if he had to break his head.
"Father, I can take some of the work off for you, and I can leave those prosthetic orders to me, so that you can find time to develop new areas."
"No, you've just learned a little bit that it's like making a prosthetic leg independently, isn't that deceiving customers?"
Oriana's naivety made Colin a little helpless, how could his masterpiece be so easy to copy.
"Mr. Colin, I can assist Orianna with the prosthetic leg."
Jeno, who had not made a sound, said calmly, as soon as he opened his mouth, the eyes of the father and daughter all fell on him, and the mouth that was wide open because of surprise could be stuffed into the egg.
"Really?" Orianna covered her mouth and gulped, almost squirting sweet milk onto Jeno, which was oiled and hard to wash.
"You're also a student worker?"
Colin's surprise quickly noticed from the surface to the inside, he thought that Jano and Oriana were both at the level of a student, and the Zuan people who could work as a science and technology student in Leather City were generally real and powerful rather than relying on relationships.
"According to the rating system of the Leather City Science and Technology Association, I should be a craftsman now......"
Jeno stated the awesome facts in a very cowardly tone.
Personnel engaged in scientific research are divided into three grades according to the rating: student worker, craftsman, and master craftsman, the former is mostly students, and generally works as assistants to craftsmen, handing wrenches and pliers to help complete some simple steps; Artisans can independently complete the production of an authentic Hextech product, at which point they can enter the workshop to receive orders; The Master Craftsman's honor goes to the scientists who have invented significant technological products, such as self-propelled locomotives and screaming elevators, which have changed the way the people of Picheng travel.
Colin is one of the master craftsmen, and one of the top of the bunch, having won an award at the Evolution Day Tech Wonders exhibition, while Orianna is just a senior student.
Jeno's primary Hex technique allows him to complete some Hex finished products independently, and if it is combined with some advanced concepts brought by Earthstar, it is not impossible for the impact master, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice due to the lack of materials.
"Such a young craftsman? Do you have a certificate from the association? ”
"No ......" Colin's question made Jeno blush, he had just obtained the technology for a short time, how could he have time to study it.
"There is no convincing without a certificate, and anyone can say big things." Colin waved his hand, thinking that Jano was trying to show off in front of Oriana, so he said unhappily.
"Father, didn't you ever be an examiner? You give Jeno a question and try his skills. ”
Oriana is curious about whether Jeno has the skills of a craftsman, considering that she finished her studies early and returned home to learn from her father so that she could succeed in the workshop.
It's also funny to say that when Oriana was in school, her father was afraid that she would be bullied if she skipped a grade younger than her classmates, so he went to the Institute of Science and Technology as a nominal professor for a period of time, during which he invigilated Oriana's academic test, and did not quit until his daughter graduated and returned to the workshop to do business.
"Hmm...... In this case, the tools in the workshop can be used by you to make a finished product in three days, well...... Semi-finished products are fine, as long as there are no mistakes in the design concept. Is that acceptable to you? ”
Colin also knew that three days was a bit of a rush, but the kid didn't have time to wait, and the letter said that he could only hold out for a few months.
This is a free play question, but also the first hurdle in the life of a scientific researcher, those outside the student workers want to enter the big family workshop to sign a contract, they have to bring their works to the interview, and show the interviewer the work, after crossing this hurdle to enter the workshop work, enjoy preferential treatment and financial support.
If Jeno really has the quality of craftsmanship, then he must have passed this kind of interview, and he can take out the work that passed the interview and remake it, which will save a lot of time.
"Everything in the workshop can be used casually? Does that include your daughter? Jeno winked at Colin.
Colin:???
Oriana, who was still eating, choked directly, blushed, and poured half of Jeno's sweet milk into her throat to relieve it, patting her chest and complaining, because she had already finished drinking.
"Uh...... I mean, can you get Oriana to assist me? I just asked her to help me find some information and nothing else. Jeno scratched his head, shyly chuckled, and blinked again.
"It's okay to just find information, but Orianna is not allowed to interfere in any way, otherwise the results will be invalid, you realize."
Colin doesn't believe much in the character of a Zaun, most of the people who live in Zaun have bad character, such as the extreme Victor, who actually plagiarized Professor Stanwyck's experiments, and then he watched Jano blink as if to imply something...... So he instructed Orianna to supervise the production of Jeno's work, and he never left it.
When Colin turned his head, Oriana immediately gave Jeno a small punch and lowered her voice angrily:
"I'm not a thing!"
After a while, he slapped his hand back with a black face.
"Wash you, wash you!! You are not allowed to fight back, if you dare to fight back, I won't help you! Hmph╯^╰"
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(In fact, Steinwick plagiarized Victor's experimental results - the experimental report on the birth of artificial intelligence by the steam robot Britz, but because Britz's miracle could not be reproduced, and the witness Jace was unwilling to help him prove that the weak emerging scientist Victor lost the lawsuit, so the entire Picheng academic community believed that Britz was the work of Stanwyck, and Victor was a white-eyed wolf with no ink.) )