"Is it really rhenium?" Lin Zhixing rubbed his hands excitedly.

Huang Minglong was not so optimistic, and shook his head, "I can't be sure yet, after all, there are too many alloys in this world, and I have to use other methods." ”

Master seems to be about to show his real skills, and Lin Zhixing is very excited. Huang Minglong turned around and ordered, and all the workers continued to work according to the established procedures.

After looking at the workers in the entire workflow again, Huang Minglong shook his head, after all, these are all newly trained young people, and they are much better than the frequent deaths and disability accidents when they first started working. Gone are the assembly lines of tens of thousands of skilled workers in the huge city of millions of people. At this moment, in the new Chang'an City, only these people are still skilled workers.

I heard that there is also a new city in the north that is basically full of skilled workers, and the rare metals that occasionally flow into New Chang'an from the transport convoy basically come from there. Why don't you just go to the north, is it more suitable for you?

This thought had come to Huang Minglong's mind several times. However, he was held back by the eyes of these eager learners. After all, the uncertain goal is not as good as what can be grasped now. It can be said that Huang Minglong, who participated in the construction of the new Chang'an brick by brick, did not leave.

Distraction during working hours should not belong to an engineer. Huang Minglong's footsteps only paused for a moment, "You watch here, be careful." ”

Yes, with an order, Lin Zhixing knew that he might not be able to see the treasures hidden by the master and the housekeeping skills. However, to let him look at this is to make him pay attention to whether the workflow of these workers and engineers meets the requirements, which is a matter of human life in every move. For Huang Minglong. That's the number one thing. Whoever delays it will have to walk around without eating.

One corner of the factory is a dedicated laboratory, which can almost be said to be the exclusive location of Huang Minglong. Until now, there is no second person who is qualified to use these special equipment in the laboratory, special high-precision lathes, EDM cutting machines, high-temperature small vacuum furnaces and so on. These things were picked up from the ruins of the university after the war. There are fewer and fewer people with the corresponding level of education. There are fewer and fewer materials worth using these machines. These things are becoming less and less popular.

Maybe one day, after Huang Minglong leaves, no one will be able to use these things again.

After all, there are no schools, and there are no teachers. In the absence of systematic education, everyone has only acquired skills that are urgently needed in life. The cultivation process that has lasted for more than ten years in the past is simply not guaranteed at this time. With the exception of a brief period before and after the war, people were able to enjoy an orderly education. After the complete collapse of the world. Except for the old people before the war, most people have forgotten what the school looked like. Many words have been lost to history.

Just like the piece of metal in his hand, although most people before the war had never touched the metal rhenium, they would not treat it as ordinary stainless steel. The density is not right. The education level of his former master was really poor, at most elementary school students. The kind of summer vacation rampant in major Internet cafes, playing World of Tanks without brains, LOL teammates play four to six. The next dungeon hatred must be OT, magic thunder noob

However, now there is no Yamaguchi Ding, no Yamaguchi Mountain, no more masturbation, no magic thunder, and no Internet café.

Huang Minglong's metal ingots were fed into the wire EDM machine to turn on this machine that had not been used for a long time. He was patient with very difficult alloys.

The wire walking speed of the machine is less than 0.2 m/s, and in the face of a guy with a hardness of 8 on the Mohs scale, the general knife is powerless, and even a trace will not be left. That's why Huang Minglong used this low-speed one-way wire EDM wire cutting machine to deal with this guy. Extremely cautious knife moves and surveillance.

After cutting off a piece, it is placed in a graphite crucible and sent to the furnace. In order to prevent carbon extraction, the vacuum is removed

Seeing that the temperature has been heated to 2000 degrees, this piece of metal is still standing still. Stubbornly maintaining its original form. Huang Minglong's eyebrows curled and stopped heating.

After placing it cold, the cut metal was taken out, and Huang Minglong pasted two pieces of metal of different sizes from the section, and even the surface of the cutting could be combined with the original metal ingot

A whistle, this is the guy. Huang Minglong snapped his fingers. Then he put the metal block in a container and put it away, and walked out of the laboratory briskly.

A long time has passed, and Lin Zhixing, who is looking at the monotonous workflow, is already impatient. Seeing Huang Minglong come out, he immediately stepped forward, and without waiting for him to ask, Huang Minglong simply snapped his fingers, "That's this thing, hurry up, go to Zhang Yunde, I can't wait for this time to be a big deal." ”

The factory is the core of the output of all metal industrial products in the new Chang'an City. Every time he encounters something here, Zhang Yunde treats it as a top priority. Zhang Yunde came here with two guards, and regardless of the sweaty 40-degree heat, he asked on the spot, "What's wrong?" ”

Huang Minglong briefly explained the shape and properties of this piece of metal. "This thing is in this shape, it's definitely not just this piece, I'm afraid there is a warehouse."

Zhang Yunde frowned, it was none of his business how rare and powerful the metal was, all he was concerned about was what kind of benefits it could bring. "What the hell is this thing for?"

"In the past, this was a core element in the production of fighters. In the present. Huang Minglong raised the slice of rhenium alloy, "With this thing, I may be able to rebuild the Type 26 power armor in the factory!" ”

"What? Can you really make 26? No wonder Zhang Yunde was excited. The latest Type 26 was the most terrible land combat equipment before the second collapse, and only large cities that still retained a certain military industry at that time had the ability to produce and equip such terrible weapons. And in today's new Xi'an, only the eldest sister can have one. The rest can only be stored as a spare parts warehouse, and even maintenance is not possible. If only the creation of such terrorist equipment could be restarted. The force against the new Chang'an is simply an immeasurable increase.

"If there's more, I can even melt it out and coat each set of power armor. Greatly weakens the damage to directed energy weapons. This can even make the mobile suit go forward with the new Luoyang's city defense laser weapons! ”

Zhang Yunde's eyes immediately turned red. Like a bull with a red cloth. The long-cherished aspirations of the two cities, as well as the difficulties of conquering them, have emerged. In fact, before the real collapse, major cities relied on almost any cost to design and manufacture black technology products such as power armor and laser weapons. And after the collapse, because of the lack of power and maintenance capacity. These things can barely last in small amounts. It is used as the finale force of large-scale battles, or as a treasure to defend the city. In the field conflict fighters can only use automatic rifles and machine guns, in the face of the defense system of the city with artillery, tanks, combat robots, laser weapons is almost slaughtered.

And the old grudges between the rulers of the two sides of the new Chang'an and the new Luoyang City can be said to have been around for a long time. The distance of more than 300 kilometers between the two sides makes it almost impossible for either side to attack on a large scale, and even with a small number of troops with mobile armor, it is impossible to break through the city defenses guarded by a large number of soldiers and weapons. Although what Huang Minglong said was only a possibility, this also made Zhang Yunde excited. Weakening the role of the opposing side's directed energy weapons, which is almost a strategic change.

Zhang Yunde rubbed his hands and spun in circles, "No, no, I have to calm down, I have to calm down." The swift movement of his steps and the hands that had been peeled off had betrayed him, and he could not calm down at all. turned around and walked in front of Huang Minglong again, "It can really be done." ”

Huang Minglong nodded, "I can give you a coating demonstration of this piece." And I suspect that there is more to this rare metal than that. ”

Hearing that there might be greater benefits, Zhang Yunde became less nervous and took a deep breath, "You make it clear." ”

"Before the war, China basically did not produce rhenium, and this thing was basically imported from the United States. This has basically become a huge restriction for China's aviation industry. And if someone wants to store this batch of things, whether it is before the war or during the war, it is a major strategic military material. And the place where strategic military materiel is stored will probably not be just one thing, and it is likely that there will be other things of equal importance. ”

After a pause, Huang Minglong said again, "Because of the important role of this thing in the aviation industry, I am afraid that there are still machinery and equipment that can be used to handle it and things that can be used to use it." ”

"You mean?"

"Fighters, and necessarily advanced fighters. Anything that is behind the times, there is no need to hide it. ”

"The fighter is too far away to think about him." At this time, Zhang Yunde was not smashed by the pie that fell from the sky, but was woken up, "Now even if there is only a batch of rhenium metal, it is enough for Lao Tzu to kill people and set fires, who knows about this?" How did this thing come about? Where exactly is it? ”

Lin Zhixing immediately came over. "I got this thing. But by chance, someone brought this thing to the door today. ”

Waiting for Lin Zhixing to explain the source, Zhang Yunde clapped his hands, "Immediately find a way to find someone and figure out how this thing came from." You go back and squat there and wait for this guy to come back to him. I'll go and ask the eldest sister first, and then mobilize the city defense personnel of the entire New Xi'an, and wait for your information. It's your credit to figure it out, and you don't know if you know it. ”

pushed and shoved Lin Zhixing out of the factory. Zhang Yunde turned around and held Huang Minglong's hand, "Lao Huang, I'll give you a packing ticket, and I'll bring you this batch of things back from heaven to earth, just take a look!" ”