Chapter 120 Ball Bearings

Candy thought for a moment and said to MΓΌller: "In view of your poor level of knowledge and poor cognitive ability, I have decided to start with the first history of metallurgy. That was about 2,300 years ago, in the days of Ancient Greece......"

Lu Jingzhi didn't want to listen to it, so he turned around and left. Seeing that Lu Jingzhi was gone, Kandi hurriedly quickened his tone and said, "...... The great statue of the sun god was built on Rhodes Island, and the metallurgical process has advanced to this day, and we have been able to make strong and light steel plates, and this machine is used for this. Wait for me, sir. The last five words were shouted at Lu Jingzhi and the others who were drifting away, and after speaking, he turned around and ran and chased after him.

When MΓΌller heard the last sentence, he finally understood that the rolling machine was used to produce homogeneous steel plates. With steel plates, it should be possible to build armored vehicles. If there is an armored car that can run, just crushing it can crush this group of undead who stayed in the era of cold weapons into slag. It seems that he really didn't follow the wrong person. While thinking, he quickened his pace and followed Lu Jingyi's pedestrians.

"Candi, what else do you have in mind?" asked Lu Jingyi as he walked.

"Sir, I want to build an industrial base, but I can't do it in a few years. You know we don't have computers, we can't do digital control, we have to do it by hand, but we don't have enough skilled technicians, so it's hard to make something delicate. ”

Lu Jingzhi stopped, looked back at Candi, and said, "Kandi, do we need something refined?"

Candy asked, "Why not?"

Lu Jingzhi smiled: "What do we need most now?"

Kandi said, "Isn't it an industrialized system?" Oh, I see!" He looked at Lu Jingzhi with an almost adoring look and said, "Great Lord, are you going to give this boy the power to transform the undead? Tell me, sir, you are going to transform this undead society and make them more civilized and away from killing." ”

"Idiot!" Lu Jingzhi shook his head and ignored him.

"Sir, what do we need most now?" Candy clearly felt that his IQ was not enough, could it be that there was a more important mission on this boy's body?

"What we need most is to get out of here. Stupid!" "Bart can't wait to give this student a slap in the face, is it stupid to read too much?Transform the undead, don't you know that you are a captive of the undead."

Candy suddenly realized, stopped and pointed to his nose and scolded, "yes, I'm really stupid." After scolding, he looked up and said, "And then, sir, what do we need?"

Lu Jingzhi said to a man with glasses beside him: "You go and discuss the development plan with Kandi, and remember to report to Company Commander Mule." After saying that, he went back and didn't pay attention to the matter here.

The man in glasses saluted, said loudly, and then said to Candy, "Professor Candy, I want to congratulate you first, just now, I learned that you have been appointed as the 'Chief Scientific Officer' of the Technology Company. ”

Candy smiled overjoyedly and said to the others, "Look, look." He did approve of me. He knows what I'm capable of. After speaking, he shouted to Lu Jingzhi: "Thank you, sir." ”

The man with glasses stretched out his hand, shook it with Candy, and said, "I'm Corporal Roque of the 501st Battalion, majoring in project management, so this time I'm your project manager." ”

It's not that Candy doesn't know what a project manager is, he worked on a project with Edward at the University of California, and the project manager was responsible for controlling the resources and progress of the entire project, but the project manager was Edward himself. And now, a guy who doesn't know science comes and teaches scientists how to use science? It's ridiculous.

Seeing that Candy didn't speak, Roque thought he didn't understand, so he continued: "In this project, I will ......"

Candy rolled his eyes and said, "You're going to lead the work of the insider, I know what a project manager does, but you," he made a mocking expression, "have no ability to coach." ”

Roque was not angry and said, "I won't instruct you how to do it, but I will tell you what I want." All you have to do is finish my puzzle. ”

The word puzzle stimulated Candy's competitive neurons, and he immediately jumped up and replied, "Absolutely, I will use my genius wisdom to show you that your problem is just a pediatric like 1+1=2." ”

Roque smiled: "That's great, I need to finish the ball bearing in a week, that's fine, right?"

Seeing Roque laugh, Candy laughed tooβ€”not that he thought it was funny, but that his opponent was laughing, how could he make a solemn appearance with a straight face? That would be too weak. "Ball bearings, stuff from 1895, can that thing take a week? As long as the material problem is solved, it can be made in three days. ”

Roque applauded, "It couldn't be better, then I need you to spend another four days solving the material problem." ”

Kandi snorted lightly and said disdainfully, "It's not a big deal, as long as there are enough minerals, any material can be made." ”

Roque said: "No problem, then you can solve the mineral problem." ”

Kandi's face was a little unnatural, and he said, "Minerals need to be mined, and it is impossible to conjure them." But as long as there are veins and enough manpower, no amount of minerals can be mined. ”

Roque said, "Really, how do you find the vein?"

Candy was upset and shouted, "This is not a problem that scientists should solve, you have to go to the workers of the geological team." ”

Roque spread his hands and said, "You see, you can't solve all problems, everyone has to do their part around our ultimate goal." However, you have surprised me that you can solve so many problems. ”

Candy looked at Roque thoughtfully, and said, "You mean, your intention was to give me a problem that I can't solve?"

Roque nodded, "I thought you would soon realize your shortcomings. ”

Candy asked, "At what stage do you think I'm going to lose?" or ......?"

Before Candy could say anything, Roque interrupted him, "I didn't think you were going to lose at any stage, I thought you were going to make me solve the problem of 'creating more humans'." A few of the men around him who listened let out a knowing lewd laugh, and only Candy was still wondering what genosequences to write for the creation of humanity.

If you ask Roque what is the greatest invention of the 20th century, Roque will definitely say ball bearing. With ball bearings, there will be efficient electrical machinery and developed automated production lines. So the first thing Roque asked Candy for was ball bearings.

Candy's idea was simple, build a ball steel grinder first, and repeat the same path as his predecessors. This kind of uncreative behavior made him feel very uncomfortable. However, it is difficult to replicate the wisdom of their predecessors, who do not even have precision gears that can be used to make high-precision control systems. However, it seems that Candy is very motivated to solve these problems, and Roque is very relieved, he knows that as long as Candy can be stimulated by his potential, he will definitely solve the problem.

There are two kinds of things to be used for precision gears, one is high-quality alloy, which is used to make cutting tools, with high-quality alloy cutters, you can turn out a sufficiently accurate shape on the lathe, and then use it on the grinding machine to make small enough steel balls. However, in order to ensure the hardness and wear resistance of the steel balls, heat treatment is also required, which is not a big problem.

What Candy wants, Roque can give. Or, in other words, Candy limited his resource needs to what Roque could do. Even so, a week was too stressful for Candy. First, the geological team found the ore vein, and then the mining capacity was insufficient, until Lu Jingzhi took out his elemental grenade, which was enough explosives to mine the ore, and then the furnace temperature of the steelmaking furnace was not high enough to make alloys, and it was Lu Jingzhi who modified the spell pattern to raise the temperature high enough. In short, these continuous episodes have made the entire science and technology company more and more dependent on Lu Jingzhi.

"That's not good. Lu Jingzhi said to Roque with some distress, "They rely on me too much. ”

"Why not? The more they rely on you, doesn't it seem that you are more important?" Roque didn't understand why Lu Jingzhi would say that.

"If you rely too much on someone, you will feel psychologically vulnerable, and then you will desperately want to get rid of this dependence in order to prove yourself, and maybe they will do something. Lu Jingzhi analyzed, "On the other hand, I also hope that I will not become a bottleneck for this army, because one person's ability is too limited, and I need everyone to work together." And they ...... Now I'm completely relying on my ability to do things. ”

Roque understood that the ambition of the boy in front of him was far beyond the command of this army, and he also understood that the relationship in front of him was too fragile. These people only cooperated with this boy in order to survive, and listened to his arrangements and orders, and when they were able to control their own fate, they would not have any friendship with this little boy - at least most of them.

"So, what's your idea?" Roque asked.

"You've grown into a powerful army, and I, as your logistical and employer, build a stronger partnership. Lu Jingzhi said what he had been thinking about for many days.

"Good choice. Roque complimented, "So, did you tell Major Byrne?"

Lu Jingzhi sighed and said, "You know him, he hates to leave everything to me here, even if I really put forward this idea, he will refuse." ”

Luo Ke nodded, he knew that Lu Jingzhi was right, although Byrne had no ability, but he had been in the army for a long time, and he was very contaminated with some military official-oriented thinking, and he always liked to play with some tricks and means. "Then what are you going to do?" He knew that Lu Jingzhi would definitely have his own plans, although this boy was young, he was by no means a role to be at the mercy of others.

"Fight a battle, build morale, and build confidence, and you will naturally have the confidence to talk to me about cooperation. Lu Jingzhi said, "If I talk to you about cooperation now, you will think that I am going to play some tricks and even throw you away." ”

Who is Lu Jingzhi going to fight against? Will Major Byrne be able to win? I want to know what will happen next, and let's see the next breakdown.