Chapter 40: Herald of the Times
The first motorcycle probably took less than 10 days to complete, not because the motorcycle has fewer parts than the bicycle and is easier to make, but because Wang Xijia's manual skills have been greatly improved, and the engine of the motorcycle is also ready-made, so he used the V2 engine that he planned to make a tank last time.
Considering Zack's weight, the motorcycle Wang Xijia made for him was twice as large as the normal size. The mailbox can hold 40 liters of oil, with a range of more than 800 kilometers, it is a very domineering heavy-duty off-road motorcycle, if you ride this motorcycle to Zecheng in one day.
Zach was very happy to see this mount and immediately went up for a test ride, but he never expected that Zack's balance was not so good because he had not been trained to ride a bicycle. Just a few meters after riding, he fell into the ditch and almost broke his leg. Wang Xijia had no choice but to install two training wheels on the motorcycle, and then dismantle them after it took Zack a week to familiarize himself with the driving skills of the motorcycle.
Wang Xijia also reproduced a racing motorcycle for himself, which is exactly the same as the 500cc motorcycle of the famous motorcyclist Valentino Rossi at the beginning of the 21st century. Motorcycles are the fastest means of transportation in this era – because Wang Xika has not yet built cars.
Xiaolan and Lang Naduo also gave up after racing a few times with Wang Xijia on a motorcycle, which made Lang Naduo a little frustrated. Speed has always been the proudest thing for Lang Nado, who once believed that nothing in the world could catch up with him after he transformed into a wolf, not even other werewolves. As a result, Wang Xijia used rubber, steel, and oil to piece together a strange thing called a motorcycle, and there was no scum left in seconds, and this proud werewolf felt the power of the machine for the first time.
Since then, Lang Naduo has rarely become a wolf, pestering Wang Xijia every day to build him a motorcycle, and soon became obsessed with this kind of transportation. Peng Lianhu also likes motorcycles, but his way of thinking is different from ordinary people, he proposed that a few ropes can be tied to the motorcycle to pull the car, so that you can go out in the future without a horse-drawn cart, and use a motorcycle. There is no doubt that his idea was vetoed by Wang Xijia - when he is free, it will be over to build a car, why do you still engage in any inexplicable motorcycles?
Of course, Wang Xijia doesn't want to build a car so quickly, he enjoys this world without cars, only motorcycles. There are no traffic rules in this world at all, you can ride a motorcycle as much as you want, there will be no big trucks that merge with each other, there will be no cars that deliberately stuck your position, and there is no traffic police.
Shanghekou Village soon became a motorized village, and every household owned a motorcycle. Wang Xika leveled a piece of land and then built a running track out of asphalt concrete for motorcycle races. This is the world's first highway, but the purpose of Wang Xijia's construction of this road is not to connect external traffic, but purely for entertainment, in order to ride a motorcycle.
In the beginning, everyone's motorcycles were the same, and the results of the race were naturally good for agile people like Asen and Lang Nado. But later, more and more villagers began to modify motorcycles, and the effect was different, whoever has a larger displacement will be the strongest. Of course, no one can modify more than Wang Xijia, after all, he is a modern person who has seen motorcycles.
Originally, the people in the village admired Wang Xika very much and regarded him as a god. Now that I have a motorcycle as a means of transportation, I worship it even more, and the current worship is less of the simple religious feelings of primitive people, but a little more of the worship of scientists by modern people.
Everyone has no doubt that Wang Xika is the most powerful inventor of this era, and Wang Xijia felt a little embarrassed at first. After all, he is not an inventor, he is just copying what he has seen in this era, isn't it cheating to say that he is an inventor? But then he began to revel in this feeling, and really felt that he was a great inventor - after all, for this world, the world he came to is an ethereal mirror. Maybe the inventor of his own world is also from another world?
No one questioned that Wang Xijia was the smartest person in the world, and that motorcycles were the best means of transportation in the world, until Carpenter Liu appeared in front of everyone's eyes driving his flying saucer. That day, Wang Xika was helping Lang Naduo modify the exhaust pipe by the track, Lang Naduo's request was that the louder the better, Wang Xika was changing, Asen suddenly ran over and said that Carpenter Liu's plane was successfully manufactured, and for a while everyone rode motorcycles to Carpenter Liu's workshop. Then I saw Carpenter Liu sitting in a saucer, floating in the air and hovering 5 or 6 meters above the ground.
This surreal scene shocked Wang Xika so much that he couldn't close his mouth. Carpenter Liu had the idea of building an airplane for a long time, but Wang Xijia felt that this buddy would definitely not be able to build it, in his time, there were more "citizen scientists" who wanted to build airplanes, and basically few could really build them. Although modern folk scientists do not have many advanced knowledge, but people have at least seen real airplanes, Carpenter Liu is a native of the Neolithic Age and the Iron Age between the ancient people, it stands to reason that this guy should build an airplane with two wings on his arms to jump down from the cliff, who would have thought that he would build a flying saucer? This is really awesome.
The flying saucer, also known as "UFO" in Wang Xijia's life, is a legendary vehicle used by aliens, which generally symbolizes super-developed technology. Could it be that this advanced technology was tinkered with by an ancient peasant like Carpenter Liu? It seems that this Carpenter Liu has some characteristics of the great inventor Edison -- although he has not received much education, he has a strong ability to innovate.
When the ancient great inventor Liu Carpenter saw Wang Xika, he beckoned happily, and Wang Xika also waved his hand and asked Carpenter Liu to come down and talk. Carpenter Liu pressed a button, and the flying saucer fell down with a clatter, almost killing Carpenter Liu, it seems that the landing system of this flying saucer has not been done well.
Wang Xijia took a closer look at this flying saucer, and the workmanship was still quite rough. There is no paint, it is completely welded with iron sheets, and it looks a little familiar - "This is what I made with two large iron pots for cooking" Carpenter Liu scratched his head shyly.
Wang Xijia nodded, and looked at the inside of the flying saucer again, the operating system is very simple, there is only one operating stick to control the direction, and there is also a button, which should be the switch. After looking at it for a long time, Wang Xika still couldn't understand how this flying saucer took off, so he had to ask Carpenter Liu for advice.
Carpenter Liu pointed to his feet excitedly and said, "I see that you have built an asphalt road, and I have built a railway, and this plane will be able to fly." ”
It turned out that Carpenter Liu laid a layer of magnets under his feet, put another magnet in the iron pot, and added an engine as power, so that the flying saucer was lifted into the air under the action of magnetic force. This guy has been interested in magnetic levitation since he discovered magnets, and he finally came up with such a thing.
"If we paved the whole world on the railroad, then we could fly everywhere!" Carpenter Liu said excitedly.
Wang Xijia wanted to tell Carpenter Liu that "railway" did not mean this, and also wanted to tell Carpenter Liu that he couldn't find so many magnets now, and even wanted to discuss Maxwell's electromagnetic equations with Carpenter Liu. But he didn't say a word in the end, just patted Carpenter Liu on the shoulder and said, "Congratulations, you should be the first person who can fly in this era, and you are the pioneer of this era." ”