In fact, to be honest, Gawain occasionally reflects on whether there is something wrong with the way he recruits people and builds his territory, so that the people gathered around him (balls/fish/light bulbs, etc.) are so distinctive, these distinctive guys are of course undoubted in ability, but their distinctive characteristics can sometimes make a good thing embarrassing - Nicholas? Egg is undoubtedly an expert at this.

This ball will even change sides, how can this be reasonable.

After the new printing press came out, it is not easy to write a credit book - other project leaders, you say that people are conscientious and do their best, what can you say that they have become sick from hard work, tired to vomiting blood, and have minor injuries that cannot get out of the line of fire, and when you go back to the Institute of Machinery, you will write that the director has grown twelve edges due to excessive exhaustion - if you don't attach seven or eight illustrations and two pages of explanatory text, you will have to suspect that the brain that wrote this article was caught in the door......

"You...... It's hard work......" Gawain looked at the iron ball star from the corner of his eyes, "After this project is over, you can rest for two days......

"Hey, don't worry, it's a little problem, it's going to be back soon," Nicholas Egg didn't seem to realize how many people were scared by his current shape, "Let's see how this device works first—you'll be satisfied." ”

Gawain struggled to turn his attention away from the twelve edges of Nicholas's newly grown eggs and began to focus on what was really important here.

The "Arcane Press", which was different from the printing press he knew in terms of working principle, structure, and shape, was ready.

"Let's get started," Gawain nodded, "starting with the initial edits." Rebecca, you do it yourself. ”

Rebecca, who had come with Gawain to inspect the results, had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and she immediately answered happily, and then walked briskly to the small cabinet next to the arcane printing press.

She flipped a lever on the side of the small cabinet, and a very faint humming sound came from inside the device, and a faint glow appeared on the surface of the projection crystal embedded in the top of the cabinet, and then a pale blue halo appeared on the top of the entire device.

It resembles a holographic image of a Magic Network communicator on standby without a signal, except that there is a bright square line around the edge of the image, which is supposed to be the restricted area of the layout.

At the same time as this small "cabinet" was activated, at the junction between the cabinet and the main body of the printing press, a piece of crystal inlaid above a metal platform also lit up - Gawain realized that this structure used to connect the two devices was actually the "scanning device" of the arcane printing press.

An assistant on standby stepped forward and placed a piece of white paper on which the text had already been written on the metal platform.

In the holographic projection above the "small cabinet", the image of the blank paper immediately appeared—up to this point, every step was a scene and phenomenon that the magicians of this world were all too familiar with, and this was only the most common technique in illusion magic and crystal crafting.

But as Rebecca clicked the first button on the "keyboard" at the top of the small cabinet, Gawain saw something that didn't appear in conventional illusion magic

In the holographic projection at the top of the cabinet, the characters entered by Rebecca appear below the image of the white paper.

A series of characters was quickly typed out by Rebecca to form a sentence "The above is the physical scanning function, and this sentence is the text editing function." ”

Rebecca then tugged on one of the handles next to the keyboard, and a slight mechanical sound came from the small cabinet as she continued typing, new characters emerging below the previous sentence.

"Speaking of which, how did you type words into a magic projection?" Gawain asked this question that he had ignored before, this question made him extremely puzzled with the current progress of Cecil's rune logic, computer technology is still far away, and the technicians have not been able to create a magic circle with data processing capabilities, and Jenny has no clue about it, so how did Rebecca implement word processing on such a device?

Is this a purely mechanical process? So how does a purely mechanical process translate into a symbol on a holographic projection?

"Oh, this, in fact, the principle is not complicated, but the structure is complex. There are only 28 letters in total, plus more than 30 commonly used punctuation marks, we directly made 37 pieces of pre-engraved white crystals in this cabinet, these 37 pieces of white crystals are very small, arranged into a fan-shaped disc with connecting rods, there is a small window at the front end of the fan-shaped disk, and the other end of the window is a thin cardboard that moves, and behind the cardboard is another piece of crystal that moves with the cardboard, which is used for scanning. When a rune trigger is pressed on this 'keyboard', the corresponding white crystal will pop into the window at the front of the plate and activate, ablating a black character on the cardboard - and then the crystal on the back of the cardboard will shine the pattern down. In addition, by adjusting the distance between the white crystal and the cardboard, the size of the characters can also be adjusted......"

Rebecca said as she opened the lid on the side of the small cabinet, and Gawain saw the intricate and amazing mechanical structure inside, which vaguely resembled the mechanical typewriter he remembered.

Rebecca continued, "But its shortcomings are also quite obvious, first of all, you have to consume a piece of cardboard every time, of course, this consumption is not large, and it is acceptable, and secondly, you should be careful when typing, after typing, there will be traces on the cardboard, and if you make a mistake, you can return the cardboard and cover it with a black block key, and if you make more mistakes, you will ...... in vain if you read it."

"Incredible......" Gawain looked at the complex mechanical structure in almost amazement, those cleverly designed connecting rods, springs, gears and slides seemed to have a strange charm, they were the crystallization of human ingenuity in the stage before digital technology appeared, and it was the embodiment of the pinnacle of mechanical craftsmanship, he stared at Rebecca with wide eyes, "You came up with it?" ”

"I did it with my assistants," Rebecca scratched her hair, "I was technically just coming up with an idea, and the design was entirely done by the assistants - two of the new magicians were watchmakers from the royal capital, and they were very good at designing such elaborate mechanical mechanisms—but they didn't have the opportunity to design such a strange thing when they were in the royal capital. ”

Nicholas Egg next to him then let out a muffled voice, "I was going to get those two watchmakers here at the Institute of Mechanics - they turned out to be more interested in magic technology." ”

Watchmaker......

Gawain looked at the intricate mechanical structure in the small cabinet, and nodded slightly with admiration, "Very good, very good - the two of them are talents, the same talents as Cohen, and they should be focused on cultivating." Now you go ahead. ”

"Hey," Rebecca nodded happily, "all that's left is to pass the edited stuff to the Arcane Cylinder and get it printed!" ”

As she spoke, she pulled another lever next to the cabinet, and with the sound of dense parts turning in the cabinet, Gawain saw a neat blue shimmer appear on the surface of the arcane transfer cylinder, the core device in the middle of the printing press.

That's exactly what Rebecca has edited.

After two seconds of preheating and curing, the pattern on the surface of the cylinder stabilizes, and then the rest of the press is in operation, with the flat white paper being sent to the center of the press, covered with a black "ink plate", and the barrel being pressed against the surface of the paper under the operation of a mechanical support, and quickly brushed from left to right.

The printed paper is quickly rolled away by the roller, followed by the next sheet......

In the sound of the operation of the printing press, Rebecca explained to Gawain its follow-up work process: "Each continuous operation can print 300 sheets, and then rest for about a minute, let the cylinder recharge, heat, cure, and replace the ink plate below, start a new round of printing, in this process, the replaced ink plate is sent to the heating table to fully heat, so that the ink surface can be restored to flat, and then changed back after cooling." ”

Gawain was completely attracted by the running machine at this moment, the paper that finished printing quickly, the constantly repeating, efficient and orderly mechanical structure, and the sound of gears and connecting rods working from the machine, all reminded him of the scene when the first magic engine was started, and a high-spirited mood filled his thoughts, and he couldn't help but admire, "Okay...... It's good, it's better than I can imagine! ”

"Actually, I think there is still room for improvement in this," Rebecca's face was full of proud expressions of "My ancestors praised me", but she still stretched a face of honor and disgrace, and said with her head tilted, "I think the minute of rest in the middle is the most wasteful - if you improve the coating formula on the surface of the transfer cylinder or the projection crystal inside, it should be able to work continuously for a longer time, and the ink plate below will become uneven due to ink consumption, It has to be reheated, leveled and cooled before it can be used, and I think this needs to be changed......"

Gawain heard Rebecca's words, but before he could speak, he heard Hetty next to him break the silence: "I can't say the first direction of improvement, but the second one I have an idea - why don't you make the ink plate into an 'ink ribbon' that can be rotated under the ink pad?" Then set up a device on the side of the machine to heat the ink belt and level the ink surface, such as a hot roller, which should solve the problem. You can try the blue moonshine cloth for the substrate of the ink ribbon, which is now mass-produced in the factory, and the cost is very low and strong and not easy to deform. ”

"Oh yes!" Rebecca slapped her face and looked at Hertie with shining eyes, "Auntie, you're amazing!" Sure enough, all the old people have wisdom......"

Herty "......"

Gawain "......"

"Good day, good day," Gawain quickly reached out to stop his eldest granddaughter before Hetty lifted the staff with the nail head and steel edge, and looked at Rebecca, "In short, improvement must need to be improved, new machinery and equipment must have imperfections, you have limited ideas alone, you can do it with the team, and even listen to the opinions of the workers who use the printing press in the future." Mr. Godwin, what do you think of this machine? ”

Godwin, a scholar from the royal capital and now the head of the press and publication department? Orlando's eyes had been widening since the new printing press was activated, and he had been staring at this intricate and intriguing machine, when he finally came to his senses, and when he heard Gawain's words, the old scholar could not help but exclaim, "What an unbelievable thing...... If only I had been younger, I would have to figure out how it works. But now...... The most important thing I want to do is write an article and do everything I can to introduce this thing to everyone, even if many people don't understand how this machine works, I want them to know that there is a group of brilliant geniuses in the territory who have created such a great machine! ”

"Then go ahead and write," Gawain said with a smile and a nod, "after the news of the war at Rock Fortress is over, it's time to release something that will put people at ease and arouse the curiosity of the people." ”

(There is a book called "I Am the Boss Behind the Scenes", I don't know if anyone has read it, the beginning may seem a bit routine and dry, but the creativity is very good, you can look forward to it later, you can take a look at it during the book shortage period.) ）