The affairs of the territory seemed to have entered a stage of order, and Gawain finally got a brief period of leisure.

In the study of the Lord's Palace, he finished the official business he had accumulated a few days ago, and then leaned back in his large chair, relaxing while listening to Hetty's daily affairs.

“…… To sum up, all the autumn grain storage and statistics have been completed, and the winter rations in the remote areas have been distributed, and there should be no more large-scale famine outbreaks in the main southern areas this winter......

"The Magic Net project is still being expanded along the cross axis and has now covered the Bearing area......

"The Commercial Courier to the East has departed......"

Gawain exhaled slightly: "It's good to have a day without bad news." ”

"You can't have bad news every day, but we managed to settle down with a little difficulty," Hetty smiled, but her expression became a little subtle halfway through the laugh, "but while there's no bad news, there's one thing that is quite concerning - Rebecca's kid seems to have been tinkering with something lately......"

Gawain's relaxed expression was immediately contained: "Rebecca? What's she doing lately? ”

"She's built a big pond in the Wizard Technology Research Institute......" Hetty said with a dazed expression, "Raise soft mud monsters in it." ”

Gawain: "...... What is she doing with ooze monsters?! ”

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

Gawain listened to the question mark in his head, but just as he wanted to continue asking, the magic net terminal installed next to his desk suddenly lit up and made a loud buzzing sound.

Gao Wen activated the terminal casually, but he didn't expect that it was Rebecca who appeared in the holographic projection above the machine.

"Rebecca? Just as I was about to ......"

However, Gao Wen's words were interrupted by the other party in the middle of his sentence, the girl was wearing a researcher's white robe over her dress, her face and hands were covered with oil, and she jumped up and down excitedly in the picture: "Ancestor, Ancestor, Ancestor!! Cart! Cart! There's a car!! ”

Gawain was stunned by this brainless words: "What did you say? ”

Hetty couldn't help frowning when she looked at Rebecca's unnoble behavior: "Rebecca - have you forgotten etiquette again?" ”

"Ahh Aunt! Only then did Rebecca notice that Hetty was also on the other side of the communicator, and her expression and movements instantly stiffened, "You're also ...... Ha"

"You're in the machine shop?" Gawain noticed the scene behind the girl after Rebecca stopped jumping, and after seeing the lathes and the wide assembly platform, his heart moved, "Is it a magic car?!" ”

"Yes! Dandan and I finally managed to solve the last few problems! We built a chassis that worked!! Rebecca excitedly pounced in front of the communicator, and 80% of the holographic projection in front of Gawain's eyes was occupied by the girl's oily face, "Come and see!" Check it out! ”

In the background of the communicator, the voice of Nicholas Egg was heard: "Why is this a Dan Dan - didn't you call Mr. Dan last time?" ”

After that, Rebecca seemed to say something again, but Gawain didn't have the heart to continue listening, he got up, turned off the communicator casually, and said to Hetty as he walked to the door: "You come with me!" ”

At this time, Hetty was still thinking about the question "Why did Rebecca raise soft mud monsters", but from Gawain's reaction, she realized that Rebecca might have made some amazing results, which was enough for the old ancestor to throw all the soft mud monsters behind.

She hurriedly agreed, and quickly kept up with Gawain's pace.

Mechanical Research Institute, next to the "mechanical platform" in the first workshop, hundreds of technicians wearing overalls or researcher's uniforms gathered together, looking at the hard-won results on the platform with eager and proud expressions, Rebecca and several of her assistants also stood in the middle of the crowd, excitedly discussing the possible future uses of this epoch-making creation, while the silver-white Nicholas Egg, with a happy smile on his face, floated quietly in the closest place to the mechanical platform, He felt every intricate detail of the complex machine, every cogwheel and lever, every repulsive mechanism and pump device ready to be fired, and an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled his body, which was one and three meters in diameter and weighed one and a half tons.

There was a sound of heavy and hurried footsteps at the door of the workshop, and Rebecca immediately raised her head, and after seeing the person who came, she waved her hand excitedly and greeted: "Ancestor! Aunt! You're coming!! ”

Gawain walked past a group of researchers who saluted him, looking eagerly at the mechanical creation on the circular platform: "Is that it?" ”

"As you can see...... Rebecca raised her hand, pointing at the creature in the same posture as a butler or a high-ranking attendant to introduce a guest, "isn't it beautiful?" ”

Frankly speaking, in the aesthetics of many people in this era, that thing may not be pretty, but in the eyes of those who have accepted Cecil's magic mechanical painting style, it can indeed be associated with "aesthetics".

It was a complex machine made of black steel, slightly similar in shape to the chassis of a car in Gawain's impression, but with a huge difference. As it was a test subject, it had no outer shell, almost all of the mechanical structure was directly exposed, and the gears, levers, and axles assembled together resembled a fleshless monster, which made it look rather intimidating – but also had a certain strange beauty.

With no outer shell, Gawain could clearly see many of the chassis' structures: four steel wheels were mounted on either side of the same steel frame, and a miniaturized, second-generation magic engine specially designed for moving vehicles was mounted at the tail to provide power, and a large number of runes were spread throughout the chassis structure, forming a complete magic web structure, and in the center of the chassis you could see a very conspicuous "beam" - it was not just a girder that provided structural strength. It is also a part of the magic mechanism, Gawain saw that there were a large number of runes concentrated on this beam, the magic net of the chassis was also connected to the beam, and many connecting rods and wire mechanisms that controlled the rune trigger were also integrated in the front section of this beam, this structure made him feel a sense of déjà vu.

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

Gawain suddenly realized: "The same idea? ”

"Yes, the power spine of the magic warship has given us a lot of inspiration," Rebecca nodded, "Integrating various control mechanisms and energy transmission structures into a single module, reducing the intermediate structure as much as possible, and reducing the number of trivial parts, can minimize the failure rate, improve the reliability of the machine, and once it encounters a failure, it is also easy to repair - if the fault is too big, you can even directly replace the entire power spine, so that the whole set of machinery can be restarted in the shortest time." I think that in the future, as long as it is a large magic machine, such as a vehicle or a ship, it can use the structure of the power ridge. ”

Gao Wen really couldn't think of anything to replace this structure at this stage for a while, so he nodded slightly: "Very good." ”

The power spine architecture can be said to be the most typical technical achievement created by local technicians since the establishment of the Magic Technology Research Institute and the Machinery Manufacturing Institute - and not only did Gawain not interfere at all, even Rebecca is not the main inventor of the power spine architecture.

The idea came up with this architecture from a group of mage apprentices from the Leslie region, who were sent to transform old ships into magicalization after becoming magicians, in order to cram a large array of magicians into a large warship, and to integrate all the complex systems into a stable and reliable control-power supply structure, they referred to the control technology of the mage tower, and came up with the original power ridge concept.

After that, nearly 100 runemasters, mechanics, magicians, and craftsmen from all over the South worked together to create the first truly functional "Power Spine" and use it on the Aurora and Morningstar.

Now, this technical achievement, which has proven to be stable and reliable on the Magic Navigation Battleship, has been successfully miniaturized and installed on the chassis of the first generation of the Magic Navigation Vehicle after the tireless efforts of the engineers of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute.

If Rebecca's solution is reliable, the "Power Ridge" architecture will continue to evolve and become the backbone of all future magic vehicles and large magical facilities—it will continue to evolve and become ubiquitous until one day a more epoch-making and reliable architecture can replace it.

Gawain didn't know how to describe the feeling – even though he started the era, the flashes of light that kept coming from it were always unexpected for him.

He looked up at the controls of the "prototype car" - a chair was welded to the front of the chassis, and many of the controls were set up in front of the seat, and like the mechanical structure exposed in the rest of the chassis, it was also a completely unobstructed "driver's seat".

At least the steering wheel is still what he knows.

But several levers and pedals outside the steering wheel are not quite the same as his memories of his previous life.

Obviously, the designers did not fully follow Gawain's original "concept scheme" to design the machine's operating system, they planned the function and position of those levers according to their own habits, or they may have made these changes according to the special operation of the "rune trigger", and more likely - they asked the most experienced coachman in the city, and planned the entire control seat based on the coachman's driving experience.

Gawain will not express an opinion on this, although he has the mature design of another world in his mind, and has the experience of being a human in two lives, he knows that his experience is not always applicable, and the experts here are not him, and whether these things are good or not depends on the results of actual tests.

As for now, looking at the unsealed shell in front of him, the exposed mechanical structure everywhere, as if some kind of punk product of the prototype magic car, he only had joy in his heart - but due to the burden of his ancestors, he could only make a serious appearance in front of people, and circled around the mechanical platform, and when he turned to the third circle, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the wheel curiously: "...... What do you make of tires? ”

Due to the discrepancy of the substance list and the tech tree, Cecil has no rubber - neither natural nor artificial - no rubber, and all kinds of rubber products, including tires, are naturally impossible to talk about, and one of the difficulties that Gawain foresaw when designing the magic car was here.

Tires play a huge role in reducing vibration, making the driver more comfortable and extending the life of the mechanical structure, it can provide reliable grip friction, prevent skidding, and also prevent the steel wheels from being worn directly, and well-designed tires can also make the vehicle drive more effortless and save energy......

But without rubber, everything is utopian.

Gawain even considered using a suspension structure + tracks to get around the problem, but now it seems that Rebecca and Nicholas Egg's team has solved the materialological problem - although it is not known what material they use, the layer of material on the outside of the wheel is obviously not rubber.

It's grayish-white, rough to the touch and somewhat elastic, and if you smell it closely, it seems to have a very slight earthy smell.

Rebecca seemed pleased to see the omnipotent Ancestor also curiously asking herself questions, she crossed her waist with a smug smile on her face: "Ancestor, guess what we used?" ”

Gawain was stunned for a moment, and then began to search his memory bank, but before he could think of an answer, Hetty, who came with him, rubbed the surface of the wheel with his hand, and then showed a look of uncertainty: "Is this thing...... No way...... You make it out of ooze monster excrement...... Do tires?! ”