Chapter 261: A New Invention
Liu Hui chose his surname on the LCD TV in the room to watch the racial war between the human race and the elf race filmed by the magic plane, and after watching this war, Liu Hui's heart was full of emotion.
As can be seen from the video, the elven army is very powerful, they are not only strong individually, but also well-trained and unfazed. However, the elven army suffered from the lack of understanding of these high-tech weapons of the Terrans, so that they were hit hard one after another as soon as they came up, and they could not find a way to deal with these high-tech weapons, so in the end, Alexander's Terran army succeeded in defeating the strong with the weak, and annihilated all the 300,000 elite troops of the opponent with an army of 60,000 people, creating a legend.
The reason why the Terrans won this war in the end, excluding their sudden surname of using scientific and technological weapons, also reflects Alexander's outstanding military and command skills, and is also related to the brave battles of the warriors of the Cult of Light who are not afraid of life and death. It is conceivable that after the great victory of this war, Alexander's position in the entire Cult of the Illuminati will be even more unbreakable. At the same time, the devotion of the entire human race to the god of light will also reach a new height.
In this way, the Cult of Light that Liu Hui and Alexander jointly concocted could be regarded as truly gaining a firm foothold in the magical plane and could continue to develop. Maybe in the end, this Cult of the Illuminati will really become the most powerful religion in the Otherworld, as described in many Atlas novels.
Liu Hui watched the video of this war, and while he was happy, he also felt a little uneasy in his heart. He had discovered that the most powerful electromagnetic cannon cannonball on Earth was not as lethal as he thought it would be in the magical plane. This kind of cannonball can blow up a building on Earth alone, but in the magic plane, it can only blow up those seventh-level elven warriors to serious injuries, and it can't cause fatal damage to them. So with the gradual expansion of the scale of the war between the two sides in the future, and with the gradual understanding of technological weapons by the elves, will Alexander still be able to defeat the almost endless elven soldiers with these technological weapons?
However, in any case, the Cult of Light is still victorious, and the looming crisis has been resolved. After this fiasco, the Xiling Kingdom wants to gather an army again to take revenge on the human race, at least half a year later. Moreover, the Xiling Kingdom is not only an enemy of the Terrans, but the elven countries next to them are also eyeing them, so the Xiling Kingdom may not have the energy to deal with the Terrans again when it is seriously injured.
After solving the crisis in front of him, Liu Hui's mood finally became happy, at least for half a year, Alexander's side was safe. And with Alexander's own help, the strength of the entire Cult of Light will become stronger and stronger, and the Terran army may not be afraid of the army of the Xiling Kingdom coming to attack. Now Alexander, like Liu Hui, lacks time the most, as long as there is enough time for development, they will develop to a terrifying height that their enemies will not dare to act rashly.
When Liu Hui's mood became better, Chen Changsheng of the Star Science Research Institute brought him two more good news. The first good news is that the satellite plan of the Star Group is mature, and the satellites belonging to the Star Group can be launched soon; And the other good news is that the sea train technology has been successfully studied!
When Liu Hui rushed to the Star Science Research Institute with great interest, he saw a large square box with a height of ten meters in the laboratory, which exuded a sci-fi metal light. Next to it stood An Qi and Chen Changsheng, and some other researchers were doing some debugging work on it.
"This ...... Is this our satellite? Liu Hui looked at the square steel box in surprise. In his impression from the TV, the satellite could never be square, right? And it's still so big.
An Qi smiled: "Liu Hui, this is not a satellite, it is just a vehicle carrying satellites." The real satellite was installed inside this launch vehicle. ”
Liu Hui was sweating profusely and embarrassed, he said: "It turns out that this thing is just a carrier!" I thought it was a satellite. Aren't the launch vehicles of other countries all elongated and slender rocket shapes, how can this launch vehicle of ours be made into a square? ”
Angel explained: "Because of the gravitational pull of the earth, the launch speed of satellites from other countries must reach the first cosmic velocity, so rockets are used for launch. But have you forgotten? Our Star Group has a levitation formation, and we have developed an anti-gravity levitation platform very early. Therefore, the way we launch our satellites is different from the way we launch satellites from other countries, we use anti-gravity levitation platforms to launch satellites, because there is no influence of the earth's gravity, so we make this launch vehicle into a square. ”
Liu Hui nodded and said: "It turns out that the anti-gravity levitation device has been able to be used in satellite launches, no wonder our launch vehicle is so strange!" So what does the satellite inside this launch vehicle look like? ”
Angel made a gesture, and the researchers next to her immediately made a fuss on the computer, and the vehicle was opened from the top, revealing the three artificial satellites installed inside.
When Liu Hui saw the three artificial satellites, he immediately said in confusion: "Our artificial satellites look no different from the satellites of other countries, but why are they so huge?" I remember seeing on TV that the satellites of other countries were very small, and they launched three at a time. ”
Chen Changsheng said beside him: "Boss, this time we are going to launch three artificial satellites into space. According to our calculations, as long as there are three satellites in the earth's orbit, it can basically cover the entire earth and meet our current needs. As for their size, they are indeed larger, and each of them weighs more than two hundred and fifty tons. The reason why we have made these satellites so big is not only because of the integration of many functions in these satellites, but also because of the backward level of our production technology. ”
Liu Hui said strangely: "The weight of each of our satellites has reached more than two hundred and fifty tons? I remember that the total weight of the International Space Station, which has many countries, is only 423 tons, right? And the volume of this satellite is so large, what does it have to do with the backwardness of our production process? ”
An Qi said: "Liu Hui, we still have some problems in the processing of precision instruments, so we can only make those small parts that should be precision very large, which will cause the volume of our entire satellite to become larger." But because we don't need to think about the weight of the carrying, we simply make the satellite bigger and heavier to diversify the functions of our satellite. As long as these three satellites of ours enter the earth's orbit, then the technology of our Star Group in communications, meteorology, resources, reconnaissance, and navigation will leap to the world's advanced level, and no one will be able to choke the neck of our Star Group in these aspects. ”
As soon as Liu Hui heard An Qi's explanation, his heart suddenly became settled. During the Persian Gulf War that occurred some time ago, the desalination ships of the Star Group tasted the pain of being subjected to electromagnetic interference by the US military, and now that they have their own satellites, they are no longer afraid of the US military's electromagnetic interference technology.
However, Liu Hui immediately thought of another question, he asked: "If we launch such a large satellite into space, if it is discovered by the Americans, and they attack our satellite at that time, what should we do?" ”
An Qi smiled: "Liu Hui, you can rest assured about this!" Our satellite launch is carried out through anti-gravity levitation technology, which does not generate a lot of heat energy like a rocket launch, and the satellite launch time we chose is late at night, so our satellite launch will not be detected by the US military satellite at all. When our satellites are in the sky, we will be contacted by aura fluctuations, not the electromagnetic waves used by other satellites, so it will be impossible for people to notice their existence. And we also use dynamic environment simulation on satellites, which can make them perfectly integrated into the night sky, even if someone uses optical instruments to observe them, it is easy to find them. Therefore, our satellite system, from launch to operation, will be in a very secret state, basically from other countries and forces to discover. ”
Liu Hui asked: "Our satellites use aura fluctuations to communicate, so is it true that all of our future communication equipment will also be made with aura fluctuations?" ”
Angel nodded, "Yes, we will rebuild a new communication system that is different from the current use of electromagnetic waves. Except for our Star Group, no one in this world can discover the existence of aura fluctuations. Therefore, the Aura Fluctuation Communication System we will build in the future will be the safest and most reliable communication system ever built by human beings, it does not have to worry about being eavesdropped, and it will hardly be disturbed by external interference. ”
Liu Hui was relieved that with this aura fluctuation communication system, the Star Group could be regarded as truly taking the first step towards reading independence.
Liu Hui was in a relaxed mood, and then thought of a technical question, he asked: "Our launch vehicle is square, so how can it rise into space?" ”
Chen Changsheng said with a smile: "Boss, since we have an anti-gravity levitation device, it will be very easy to go into space." Because our anti-gravity device has counteracted the Earth's gravitational attraction to it, the vehicle does not need to reach the first cosmic velocity to fly into space. If you want to go slower, you can also break away from Earth and into outer space at a speed of ten meters per second. Even if it moves inch by inch, as long as there is enough time, it can enter outer space without difficulty. And all this, just start this engine on the launch vehicle. However, in the actual operation process, in order to ensure the safety of the satellite, we will adopt the method of quickly entering the earth's orbit, which can reduce the possibility of being discovered. ”
With Chen Changsheng's reminder, Liu Hui's mind immediately vividly simulated the operation mode of the launch vehicle in outer space, and he was also happy that the Star Science Research Institute was able to use the levitation formation to such an amazing extent. Because in this way, it will be very easy and cheap to transport something into space in the future, and your "Mars plan" will no longer be in the air, but more and more likely to be realized.
Seeing that Liu Hui understood the situation of the artificial satellite and the launch vehicle, An Qi made a gesture, and the researcher next to him immediately controlled the computer to close the satellite launch vehicle from the top.
An Qi said: "Liu Hui, if you have no doubt, our satellite launch plan will be carried out at twelve o'clock this evening. ”
Liu Hui nodded and said, "I don't have any problems, you and Dean Chen can make the decision on the launch." ”
Chen Changsheng said again: "Boss, I called you here today, in fact, there is another good news to tell you." ”
Liu Hui said: "Is it the sea train technology you talked about on the phone before?" ”
Chen Changsheng said: "Yes, it is this sea train technology that I want to talk about. Under our research during this time, this sea train technology has finally matured. ”
Liu Hui said curiously: "But I read the report that it is basically impossible to realize the sea train, do we really already have this technology?" ”
Chen Changsheng smiled and said, "Boss, don't doubt it. Under the personal auspices of Miss Angel, this sea train technology has become a reality. ”
Liu Hui immediately asked, "Anqi, how did you do all this?" ”
Angel said: "After I learned about the "Starry Sky City" plan before, I found that you ignored a very serious problem when formulating this plan. That is the problem of maritime transportation, which will be a bottleneck in the "Star City" plan. It was unrealistic to transport all kinds of materials from all over the world, measured in 100 million tons, to the "Starry Sky City" with the current level of ocean transportation alone, so I started planning such a sea train project at that time. ”
Liu Hui exclaimed from his heart: "It's still our Anqi who is thoughtful. ”
An Qi glanced at Liu Hui, there was a look of grievance in her eyes, Liu Hui was startled, and immediately turned his head.
Angel continued: "What I call the sea train technology, it is not the traditional technology of laying rails on the sea and then driving trains on the rails, because such technology is very unrealistic at the moment. So I thought of another sea train technology, which is to use high-power locomotive tugs to haul dozens of train cars and ships to make them move quickly on the sea. The difference between this sea train and the land train is that the sea train does not have a fixed track, but its freight volume will far exceed that of the land train. ”
Liu Hui was stunned for a moment and asked, "If there is no track, how can this sea train run?" ”
Angel said: "Although it is said that this sea train has no tracks, on the other hand, it can also be said that there are tracks everywhere. In fact, this sea train plan is very simple, you can think of it as a high-power tugboat, dragging a long string of ships on the sea. In this way, there is naturally no need for any tracks. ”
Liu Hui asked: "But in this case, wouldn't it require that the function of this tugboat be strong enough, otherwise it would not be able to tow so many ships!" ”
Angel said: "Yes, the difficulties of our sea train plan are all on this locomotive tugboat. Fortunately, we have solved this problem, and we have now built a locomotive tugboat, which is very powerful, enough to tow 400,000 tons of cargo ships on the sea at a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour. ”
Liu Hui was taken aback and said: "If it runs like this, then one such sea train can transport four million tons of goods at a time." And its top speed has reached 100 kilometers, so isn't it far more than the capacity of the land train? ”
Angel smiled: "That's true, if this sea train didn't have such a powerful capacity, we wouldn't need to study it." On this locomotive tugboat, we used high-grade composite materials strengthened by various strengthening formations, and used a level 8 energy stone as its energy core, which is why this sea train has such a powerful freight capacity. And an eighth-level energy stone can allow such a sea train to pull four million tons of goods on the sea surface for 20 million kilometers. ”
Liu Hui was excited when he heard this, and he said: "In this way, the most scarce maritime transportation capacity of our Star Group has finally been solved. With this kind of sea train transportation, maybe our "Star City" project can be completed many years ahead of schedule! By the way, I wonder how quickly such a locomotive tug is manufactured? ”
Angel said: "For the manufacture of such a locomotive tugboat, with our current technology and materials, it is not a big problem. If the construction starts normally, the construction work on our "Starry Sky City" could make two locomotive tugboats in a month. However, the production of carriages for the transportation of goods is seriously insufficient, and with the production capacity of our construction factory located on the "Starry Sky City", we can only produce enough carriages and ships to assemble a sea train in a month. ”
Liu Hui frowned and said, "Is it difficult to manufacture this kind of carriage ship for sea trains?" ”
Angel said: "These ships that we designed as 100,000 tons of train carriages are actually very simple in structure. In addition to enough cargo space, there is basically no other power equipment installed, so they will be very convenient and fast to manufacture. It's just that the production capacity of the manufacturing plant on our "Starry Sky City" can only meet half of the manufacturing needs, that is to say, 40 carriage ships are manufactured a month, so that the other locomotive ship produced will become redundant. ”
Liu Hui thought for a moment and asked, "Does this kind of carriage ship involve any secret technology?" ”
Angel said: "These are just ordinary ships, and their production process is very simple, and there is no secret technology involved. ”
Liu Hui immediately said: "In this case, then we will produce one sea train by ourselves every month, and then the carriage ships of another sea train will be ordered from outside!" ”
An Qi nodded: "That's okay, so that in a year, we will be able to have twenty-four sea trains, which can transport 96 million tons of goods at a time, which can barely meet the needs of our "Star City" plan. ”
Liu Hui said with some emotion: "Anqi, you have helped me a lot now, you must know that this transportation problem has always been a thorn in my heart!" ”
Angel smiled: "It's nothing, the locomotive tugboat I just mentioned is actually divided into two types, one is used for sea trains as I just said, and the other is an underwater locomotive specially used to transport the products of the submarine factory group." ”
"Locomotive under the sea?" Liu Hui was stunned.
An Qi nodded and said, "Yes, it's the locomotive under the sea." In the future, our seabed factories will produce a large number of steel products, and in the future, our seabed mineral deposits will also need to have a strong underwater transportation capacity to transport these products and minerals. The thing we designed specifically for this underwater transportation plan is the locomotive. This underwater locomotive also transports goods under the sea by hauling freight wagons and ships, but they are located under the sea, and the carrying capacity of these freight wagons is not as exaggerated as that of sea trains, and their maximum carrying capacity does not exceed 10,000 tons. In other words, the volume of cargo transported by sea train will not exceed 400,000 tons at a time, because such a transportation capacity can already ensure the timely transportation of our seabed products and mineral deposits. ”
Liu Hui laughed and said, "It's still Anqi who is thoughtful, so I don't have to worry about transportation at all." ”
Angel said: "We can order the carriage ship of the sea train from outside, but the carriage ship of the sea train can only be built by ourselves. Because the ship under the sea also involves the top-secret technology of how to eliminate the pressure of the deep sea, this cannot be leaked. It's just that in this case, there will be another gap in the production capacity of the construction factories on our Star City. ”
Liu Hui sighed: "I didn't expect that our current construction capacity will be in short supply so soon, but don't worry, I will continue to increase my construction efforts and build more construction factories on the Starry Sky City to meet your construction needs." ”
Chen Changsheng said with some concern: "Boss, we only spent 150 billion US dollars some time ago to expand the construction capacity of Starry Sky City, and now we want to expand the construction capacity, will there be any difficulties in the company's financial resources?" ”
(To be continued)