"Anze, what are you doing in a daze, go polish two parts of the stone powder, and bring it for later use. ”

"And you, Xia Yu! Go to the hot melter, you must finish smelting three kilograms of high-purity titanium-manganese alloy in forty-five minutes!"

"Liang Feng, Zilan, you go to Group 2 to help!"

More than ten days have passed.

Xia Yu and the five small middle-level apprentices, after a short run-in, have initially adapted to the work rhythm of this laboratory led by Master Qu, and also understand that they are participating in a new mechanism development project codenamed "LS".

The birth of each new mechanism is inevitably accompanied by countless failed explorations, so the work is more tedious and repetitive, but this is the only way to do research and development.

Xia Yu is used to this kind of life.

Aside from the fact that their research subjects have become source arrays, source boxes, and traps, their current state is almost the same as when they were in the Earth Laboratory.

Although he came to the doctoral stage later, he vaguely made a little achievement, but in the research of large projects, he is still just an "experimental dog" and can only be regarded as a middle and low-level labor.

Even An Ze and Zilan, who are like the pride of the sky, are not a little reserved after a few days of tempering, and they have already been properly cleaned up by Lu Dongyuan's short-tempered and loud voice.

There is no way, each new source array idea needs to make a corresponding mechanical structure to verify the effect, and they have a lot of work.

There were more than 20 people in the group, but they still worked more than 12 hours a day to barely slow down.

Lu Dongyuan is a native of Luotong, he has already advanced to a three-star mechanic in his early thirties, and he is also a promising genius in the eyes of outsiders.

After he broke through last year, he immediately received the pull of many families and forces, and many families came up with the heads of independent organs and laboratories, and the conditions were quite good.

It's just that he knows in his heart that although his talent is good, it is Qu Bailing's mentor and friend that has made him stand out among the more than a dozen high-level apprentices beside him in the past few years, and he has truly stepped into the threshold of mechanical arts.

Yes, in the orthodox concept of mechanism, 3 stars is the real entry threshold, officially entering the realm of exploring the nature of this world's energy, and at the same time, its understanding of the source array and mechanism has also begun to produce various magical effects.

So he chose to stay by Qu Bailing's side all the time.

Even if Qu Bailing doesn't admit that he is his teacher, he has always been a teacher to him.

You've chosen the right path!

The more he went into the fields and projects that Qu Bailing really studied, the more Lu Dongyuan really understood the power and profundity of Qu Shi.

He hadn't had in-depth contact with a 4-star mechanic master, but after he entered the 3-star circle, he also got acquainted with several 3-star senior mechanics who were also famous in Luo Tong. However, after a comparison, he realized that although those mechanics had also reached a very high level in one or two fields, they were more accustomed to improving than creating.

In the study and exploration of the true core of the mechanism, the source array theory, they only understand it.

Qu Bailing's research is to go deep into its essence.

This is also why, in this large-scale bidding for the Yanzhou Army, only Qu Bailing, a laboratory in the entire Luo Tong, really participated, and the other people who also received the invitation also shirked it for various reasons.

In the final analysis, they have no confidence in participating in this competition of powerful organs covering nearly 100 cities across the state.

"Boss Lu, this mechanism is assembled, can you try it?" a red-faced man called Lu Dongyuan.

He is a team leader, and he has also followed Qu Bailing for many years, and he is only a trace away from breaking through to 3 stars.

"Okay, good job!" Lu Dongyuan took over a strange mechanism component.

It was a trap-protected armor, but it looked shabby.

In addition to being an experimental specimen without careful polishing, its main body has only a few small protective parts, which can be described as rudimentary - it is composed of armor covering the wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees, ankles and chest, each of which is not large, and the parts are connected by a special silk thread, which hardly affects the movement when worn on the body.

Of course, Lu Dongyuan would not try the armor in person, he said hello, and a big man covered in fine flesh came over, and said in a sullen voice: "It's my turn!"

"Let's go and see!"

The new test came out, and everyone went to the drill ground to see the effect.

After the big man put it on, he stood in the distance, and after a little urging, a glimmer of brilliance flashed on the simple armor, "Let's start!"

The attacker was another young man in his twenties, who looked like he was from a rough mechanic group.

He stood 50 meters away, picked up a source shooting crossbow, and it was violently activated the moment the big man shouted "start", and suddenly an arrow flew out like a streamer, shooting straight at the big man's chest!

"Bell!"

The arrow landed, and there was a slight depression in the big man's breastplate, which was not obvious if he didn't look closely.

"Hey, the strength is still a little weak!" Lu Dongyuan sighed regretfully, and said, "Lei Dong, continue!"

When the young man heard this, he quickly switched to another rubber arrow, this time aiming at the gap between the six alloy armors of the armor.

It's time to attack the weak spots!

The onlookers were nervous.

Those places that can't be covered by armor can be said to be all over the body, but in the jungle to fight monsters, those monsters that can spray flying thorns and venom will not attack at your armor cover, so the protection of these gaps is also very important.

But without armor coverage, how do you maintain your defense against those few threads?

Qu Bailing's design idea is to transform the Xuan arc structure to give full play to the functions of the energy compression and storage structure similar to Xia Yu's "Yaori" protective mechanism, so as to realize another energy protection system that cooperates with the entity armor.

This is also the originality of this protective mechanism, which is tentatively called "Six-Lock Armor".

Therefore, this new set of armor will be composed of two parts: the alloy body of the armor will protect the key parts of the human body, and the other parts will be protected by an energy shield.

Even if this energy shield is a little weaker, it only needs to block the ranged attacks of those fierce beasts that can also spray venom, water arrows, etc. from a distance.

There's no way around it.

After all, it's rare to see a 2-star mechanism like "Yao Ri" that actually involves a 3-star realm, because each of them requires a 3-star mechanic to make it carefully.

The power and effect are sufficient, but the cost is too high to be mass-assembled in the army.

Only by reducing the difficulty of source box production, trying to make only the core part of the three-star mechanic, and allowing 2-star high-level apprentices to be involved in a certain process of source box production - the number of 3-star mechanics is small, but there are too many apprentices stuck in the 3-star threshold - can we truly achieve large-scale manufacturing, so as to have the opportunity to really be installed in the army on a large scale.

The project has actually been in progress for nearly two months, and the deadline is still a little over a month away.

I have to say that Qu Bailing's design direction is quite practical, and they have achieved phased results.

Several of the available Arc structures have been designed, and the excited energy arcs provide sufficient protection while maintaining a relatively simple crafting difficulty.

But there are still several hurdles that have not been completely overcome.

"Bang!"

The streamer-like arrow slammed into the abdomen of the big man in the distance, and suddenly a white light flashed like a fan, and the rubber arrow was forcibly stopped!

It's just that this blow still made Dahan's face a little ugly.

"Boss Lu, the energy loss is almost complete, it's a bit unbearable!" shouted the big man.

Lu Dongyuan also frowned.