In Cecil's first-level government office, in Hetty's office, the aunt and nephew were staring wide-eyed, and Carmel was floating quietly next to them, quiet as a light bulb.

"Auntie...... That's all the budget requirements......" Rebecca felt that Hetty's mood might not be very good, but she still relied on her head to hand her aunt the plan and budget application form that she had tossed all night, "Theoretically...... As long as the lab doesn't blow up for two months, you don't need to add money in the first quarter......"

The corners of Hetty's eyes twitched slightly: "Do you know that you blew up four times in six days, blowing up a total of eight amplifiers and two engine testing machines?" ”

Rebecca shrunk her neck, "But didn't you say that...... Failure is the cornerstone of success, and the path of a magician's research is always accompanied by the price of failure......"

Hetty clutched her head: "I still have the second half of the sentence - sane mages will find a way to minimize failure, and mages who are too upright will basically die poor." ”

Rebecca craned her neck: "I didn't say it." ”

"......" Hetty looked at the Marquis Cecil in front of her speechlessly, then sighed under the girl's simple and persistent gaze, and sat back behind her desk, "Bring the plan first, and then let me see it." ”

"Oh oh, good!" Rebecca hurriedly handed over the plan in her hand, and at the same time, a smile already bloomed on her face, "I knew that you were the best, aunt!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry to rejoice, I'm going to take a closer look at your plan," Hetty said without looking up, "Don't forget, I was also a mage before I became Chief Administrative Officer—"

She carefully looked at Rebecca's follow-up test plan, and quickly noticed that there were completely different ideas and verification processes in parallel in this plan, which made her can't help but raise her head: "Verify the two schemes of centralized power and distributed power at the same time, and also test the effect of weight reduction on the balance of the two car bodies at the same time?" ”

"yes—don't worry, I've already arranged the staff."

"It's not a manpower problem...... Hetty frowned, "Are you a little too urgent?" ”

Rebecca herself is a girl with super action, and she has been a little bit of a brainless since she was a child, looking at the plan that this girl came up with, Herty couldn't help but be a little worried that she would rush forward, but when she saw Carmel who came with Rebecca, she was a little unsure - Rebecca is easy to get hot, but Master Carmel's cranial nerves are gone, shouldn't she be feverish with this child, right?

“…… I'm a little anxious, but I can't help it," Rebecca listened to Hetty's question, but she didn't hide anything, she said her thoughts generously, "The ancestor has signed a mining agreement with the East, and it is not easy to transport the ore from the Baisha Mine back. Although the ore can be transported to Gülen first, and then loaded from Gülen on a ship along the Baishui River to the inner industrial zone, there is still a long land route to be taken, and it is not enough to follow the mining method planned by the ancestors, even if there is a magic guide car to transport it......"

Speaking of this, she paused, revealing a look of persistence: "So I want to solve the problem of the train before the ore backlog in the Baisha mine is serious...... Even if you can't build the best, at least you have to build one that can run. ”

Hetty couldn't help but have a trace of surprise in her eyes as she listened to Rebecca.

It turns out that this kid thinks so much......

No wonder the ancestor always reminded himself not to always look at Rebecca as a child, and said that this girl was just a lively personality, but in fact she was thinking about it...... Not superficial at all.

"Your idea is good," Hetty sighed softly, "the Ancestor should be pleased." Well, I'll give you the funds first, but I'll ...... too."

"Wow!"

"Don't be busy just yet, I have a few more words to remind you," Hetty glared at the iron-headed baby who was about to jump up, "You are right in what you just said, even if you can't build the best, at least you have to build one that can run—in my opinion, your expectations for the magic train may be a bit high, we just built the magic car, and you want to build the front of the train that is equivalent to a hundred times the traction of the magic car...... The steps are too big. You must know that such a powerful magic device produces more than just quantitative changes. I'd suggest you aim a little smaller for the Magic Train—with such a thing as a 'track', even a single Wizard Car pulling four or five carriages is far beyond the current fleet of carriages, isn't it? ”

Hearing Hetty's words, Rebecca couldn't help but show a trace of unwillingness on her face.

But she must admit that there is some truth in what her aunt said - it has been proven that when a magic device reaches a certain scale, its mechanical pressure, magic load, and environmental requirements are really not as simple as quantitative changes.

Seeing the change in the expression on Rebecca's face, Hetty shook her head helplessly, then picked up the pen that signed it, ready to write her name.

Advances received from the royal family...... Before it could be heated, it was about to turn into an explosive object that was fiddled with by Rebecca.

Cecil's butler sighed in his heart, and his hand in approving the funds trembled slightly.

At this moment, the magic network terminal placed next to the desk suddenly buzzed, accompanied by the flickering of lights, and this sudden communication interrupted everyone's movements.

Rebecca watched as her aunt put the pen next to her, watched the latter open the communication, and then watched the figure of the old ancestor appear above the communicator.

The three people in the room immediately stepped forward: "Ancestor." "Ancestors." "Your Lord."

"Hetty—ah, Rebecca and Kamel are on your side too," Gawain in the communicator quickly noticed the people in the office, "just right, no need to look for them again." ”

Curious, Herty asked, "What happened?" ”

"Come to the Magic Technique Research Institute, Pittman and Jenny and I are waiting for you here," Gawain smiled, "I have something good to show you." ”

The three people in the room looked at each other, and after a brief pause, Kamel suddenly reacted: "I may have guessed what it is......"

After arriving at the Magic Technology Research Institute, Carmel's conjecture was confirmed-

In a large, unusually vacated laboratory, several silver-white cockpit-like magic devices are neatly arranged on hexagonal platforms, compared to the prototype, their structure is significantly more complete and compact, and a shell that can be closed from both sides has been added, and below the cockpit, the floor around the platform is inlaid with flickering rune substrates, and the rear of the cockpit extends the nerve cable pipe connecting the platform to the base - in addition, the laboratory only has some monitoring rune terminals against the wall, There are no superfluous decorations and furnishings, which makes the room seem rather empty, and at the same time, the silver-white cockpit in the center of the room seems more mysterious and eye-catching.

As Carmel guessed: after the first "Immersion Neural Cockpit" was successfully tested, more cockpits were built.

Gawain was already waiting next to one of the cockpits, the technicians in short white robes were busy near the surveillance device against the wall, and Pitman and Jenny were checking the work of the nerve cords and rune arrays around the cockpits, and after Carmel and the others entered the lab, Pitman immediately turned around and said, "Ah, you're here - come and see these things!" ”

"These ......," Carmel looked at the scene with some surprise, "it's done?" ”

"While you're busy figuring out how to blow the engine crew out, I've tweaked the nerves in these cockpits," Pittman said triumphantly, "and, of course, Miss Jenny—she's tweaked the rune array. ”

Rebecca had already circled around one of the cockpits several times with excitement on her face at this time, and she didn't stop until Hetty couldn't help coughing softly to remind her, and the girl looked at Gawain, her eyes widened: "Ancestor, you adjusted the shape of these devices?" ”

Gawain smiled and pressed Rebecca's head: "Actually, it didn't make much adjustments - it just added shielding on both sides of the seat and added a shell to it that could be folded." ”

Compared with the prototype of the day, the "shell that can be folded" is the biggest change in the cockpit of the official shape in front of us. Because the "immersion" effect of non-implantable neural cords on the brain is not as good as that of implantable neural cords, users are easily "awakened" by external interference during the networking process, which is the biggest problem of immersion devices.

With the addition of this "peripheral", these things, which were originally somewhat like seats, are really more like a cockpit.

"It's a simple but effective solution......" Hetty looked at the wonderfully ill magical devices with great interest and admiration, wondering how the Ancestors had come up with such a simple solution, but soon she noticed the appearance of these cockpits—long containers in which a person could lie and a lid on them......

emmmmm……

The grand butler of Cecil had a very reasonable association.

Of course, the mature and steady Hettie only thought about it, and she didn't dare to say it.

But there is a head iron on the scene.

Rebecca jumped in front of Gawain on the spot: "Ancestor, you got inspiration from the coffin you lay down in back then...... Wow! ”

Rebecca was knocked back by Gawain, but everyone in the scene smiled tacitly after the stupid roe deer yelled.

"Ahem," Gawain had to cough lightly to bring the atmosphere back on track, "Don't talk about that, let's get down to business." ”

Hetty looked at him curiously, "You called us here...... Are you going to test these devices together? ”

"In fact, the tests have been completed," Gawain said, "the offline test, the connection to the magic web, the connection to the Eternal Sleeper Mind Network, all have been tested, and today we will make the official connection." ”

Then he paused, and then said, "I'll go online with you." ”

Gawain's idea was simple: now that the first immersion neural cockpits had been built, a plan he had hatched a long time ago could be implemented: integrate his experimenters into the network and conduct research in that ready-made "virtual laboratory".

It has been a while since the virtual experimental environment was built, but because he is always the only one who can access the network, the role that the experimental space can produce is quite limited, although he did use the virtual environment there to toss some blueprints, but after contacting the world's native technicians and seeing the "wisdom of the otherworld" from the locals, he has already recognized one thing: his traveler is not the center of the world at all, at most it can be regarded as a regional center of gravity, He is impossible to compare with a professional in many ways, especially in the field of technology. With such a large virtual space, if you can't access the professional and technical personnel in the territory, it will definitely be a waste to let him occupy it alone.

Fortunately, this waste is finally coming to an end.

But he still had to be cautious - technicians are precious, especially the most trustworthy and accessible technicians, and they are the treasure of the entire Duchy of Cecil, and the best way for him to prevent these people from having accidents and from being killed by the Eternal Sleepers is to connect to the network with them.

When the time comes, if you really encounter any Eternal Sleeper who doesn't open their eyes or is too open-eyed to discover these invaders, it's a big deal to directly smash them over for millions of years, at least it can ensure everyone's safe retreat.