Chapter 666: Prototype Car
A formal invitation to a midi usually clearly states the purpose to avoid catching the invitee off guard, as it is quite rude. In addition, if a magician receives a surprise or fright, whether it will be a fireball in the next moment, no one can say for sure. Of course, there are also those who use the excuse to throw fireballs and find a chance to take revenge.
Usually the invitation is not accepted, in addition to the purpose, but also to see the face of the inviter. A formal invitation from a Dharma saint through a powerful person is not so easy to refuse. Moreover, after inserting the opponent's sword before, the Fa Sheng will not pursue it again to a great extent, and regardless of whether he wins or not, there is always less trouble. This favor also made Lin not very easy to refuse the invitation.
And the real reason why Lin decided to put aside the business at hand and go to this dinner party this time was that he was also interested in the purpose of this Dharma Saint. Fa Sin Babak Abu Nahan invited someone in a private and not official capacity in order to introduce a friend, Nguyen Van Viet of the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce.
This new friend is not completely new to Lin either. In the past, on the golden waterway of the Vida military state, the aristocratic couple introduced by the white sword saint William Greco, the wife of Baron Engels, Nguyen Thi Huy, was from the family behind the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce.
Although he got a document similar to a letter of introduction from the other party, he could rely on trading with the Ruan family in various places, that is, the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce. But Lin never had the opportunity to use the letter of introduction.
Even after coming to the Holy City, he was a good friend of the Kabanbai Academy in the Chamber of Commerce, and did not go to the Jialong Chamber of Commerce by himself. The biggest reason is not that they dare not ask for or owe this favor, because the main business items of the Jialong Chamber of Commerce are bulk grain, and the commodities are mainly crops. Therefore, the objects they serve are also noble lords or kings in various places.
Magicians usually buy things with many items and miscellaneous items, but the quantity is not large, which is not the same as the transaction pattern of noble lords who mainly buy things. A chamber of commerce that can do business with the nobility of various places and countries is not worthy of the petty fights of magicians.
So someone who doesn't know the weight of that letter of introduction doesn't plan to test the other party's attitude with his own face. Anyway, it's good to buy the things you need, and the Chamber of Commerce introduced by the head of Kabanbay Academy, in terms of strength, can be regarded as one of the best in the Holy City.
Now that the people of this family have taken the initiative to come to the door, Lin will of course be interested in the other party's purpose. Not to mention anything else, just because the other party has a crop like 'rice' in their hands, it has the value of seeing the above. The staple food of the lost land is still wheat and potatoes. Except for the last time rice was served at a banquet on the golden waterways of the military kingdom, it is completely extinct in other places.
Because no one in the family likes this kind of occasion, and they only go to be a foil, or they are busy with other things, so someone has to go to the meeting alone. Anyway, who did this group of people learn from this dead man's personality!
From his brand-new robe, find the one that looks the most appropriate and put it on. Although this is a good material for ordinary clothes, it is quite shabby compared to ordinary magicians. The only thing to be thankful for is that at least it doesn't feel ragged.
In the past, when I was traveling, the people I met on the road anyway were all dusty people, so I didn't pay attention to it. But now that they have settled down, they are all big people, or veteran magicians. I'm a deputy who can't even be dressed up by a fledgling magic apprentice, and sometimes I blush when I think about it.
Fortunately, the method of making clothes with magic silk has been settled, the materials are all ready, and the preliminary arrangements have been ordered, just waiting for him to go back to the town. The first time I turned on the machine, I wasn't staring at it from the side, and I really didn't feel at ease.
The venue for the dinner was the residence of a minor nobleman of the Gwana Empire in the holy city of Estali. But that nobleman or a member of his family rarely lived here, because their family domain was near the Holy City. Still, it was a place full of servants and cooks, because the little nobleman would lend it to his friends for banquets or to stay in the Holy City for a short time.
Sometimes friends of friends will come to borrow it, and there are some big names among them. Of course, the little aristocrat is happy to do such a favor, and at the same time expand his personal connections. Therefore, this aristocratic mansion is quite famous in the holy city. In particular, the chef's skill is highly praised by those who have eaten it.
Because the mansion was some distance from the home of the Holy City, and he didn't want to destroy this clothing with flashing. In the past, I would have had to borrow a carriage from the academy to travel. With the coat of arms of the academy, although it is not enough to rampage in the holy city, it can still scare many people. At least it's more useful than my own shabby outfit for a magician.
But Lin thought about it for a moment and walked into the silverbeard dwarf's workshop.
The exterior wall of the workshop is equipped with a magic circle of sound insulation and other multiple effects, so when the door is closed, it is difficult to see what is going on inside. But as soon as you enter the door, you will find a different world. A bright, and different from the earth, a magical modern workplace, presented in front of someone's eyes.
On the side, iron chains and pulleys hang the disassembled peace armament, and a miniaturized hybrid engine is transmitting power diagonally. Countless sensing pipelines are connected to various parts, so that this power armor does not need to be tested in the actual world, and can obtain a large amount of detailed data from the simulation.
This achievement was almost always done by the silverbearded dwarves independently. Lin and Fen, at most, just give some advice when they ask questions, or give directions when they don't have a goal. All verbal help, no involvement in the editing of the program.
On the other side, it was the car that had been mentioned to the dwarves not long ago. Using magic materials at any cost, hand-building a car is much faster than someone could imagine. Just like the car in front of you, the main structure has been completely completed, and only some skin has not yet been covered.
You must know that the silverbearded dwarves have been researching the structure of power armor since the imperial era. A lot of machine structures, they have a lot of technology accumulation. Coupled with the experience of cooperating with someone to urgently build an airship on a snowy mountain at the end of last year, they are familiar with perfecting a set of standardized car design drawings and actually building a car.
However, the suspension and chassis are two major structures, and they have no experience to refer to, so they will be blind. Fortunately, although someone has not built a real car, he has also assembled a remote control car, and the relevant design structure and principle can still be said to be four, five or six.
Even so, the structure on top of the chassis was not handled well by the silverbearded dwarves. The most important thing is that the configuration of the space is not well arranged, and there are too many parts in some places, or the structure is higher; In some places, it's reversed. As a result, the engine compartment in front of the car is high and low, and it is difficult to even wear skin.
When the skin is attached to the machine, it will look strange. If it's boxy, there's a lot of empty space in it. For this virtue, someone is also convinced. Fortunately, they at least remembered the balance of the counterweights, which did not make the first car sink and light at the same time.
The seat cushions, doors, headlights, and mirrors are all in place. What remains to be done is the skin of the engine compartment, the closure of the rear compartment, and the overall consistency of the paint design.
Because somebody would come in from time to time, keep an eye on the progress, and discuss it with the dwarves. So Jermaine and the others didn't seem to be guarding against the two little ghosts and a few naughty cats, and drove people or cats out as soon as they saw them. It's really because there are a lot of dangerous places and items in the workshop. Those little ghosts who don't know the importance of it, when they come in, they will only cause trouble, and nothing good will happen.
However, Jermaine still took a rag, wiped his hands, and came over and said, "Big brother, as long as it takes two more days, you can complete the first prototype car." Do you plan to do the road test somewhere? ”
"How about going on now?"
"What?" The silverbearded dwarves at work all looked up and looked at someone in amazement.
Not caring about the expressions of the dwarves, Lin asked, "This prototype No. 1 can be run." ”
"Yes, but ......"
Lin asked again: "In your simulation, did there any problems?" ”
"Not really. Just the final touches? ”
"Since it's okay, wouldn't it be fine. It just so happened that I had something to go out on now, and I didn't go to re-build the carriage in order to wait for it. Now that you have the opportunity, it would be in vain not to put it to use. With that, Lin sat in the driver's seat.
The layout of this prototype car is mostly directly based on the configuration of the left-hand drive sedan on Earth. This includes steering wheel, gear lever, accelerator, brakes, hand brakes, clutch and more. In this regard, one is not going to use the brains of the silverbearded dwarves to play some unknown ideas.
The part of the dashboard, because it is a small place, and there is no mechanical instrument to choose from, can only be directly programmed to control the digital type, so this part of the forest does not specifically require how to design. Suffice it to say that the accuracy needs to be reliable enough.
The Silverbeard Dwarves actually took someone's configuration on an airship and used it on a vehicle. So when Lin looked at a car with a level and an altimeter, his first thought was to find out if there was a red button. When pressed, the car will deform, the one that can fly.
I can't find the red button, and I can't say how disappointed I am, but I just feel a little nostalgic for that good movie in the past. Lin asked again, "Is there enough gasoline in the tank?" ”
"The engine I installed was a four-cylinder hybrid engine that could be fueled with petrol or powered by the power of a magic stone. Do you want to put gasoline in? ”
"Fill up the tank and get a new one. On the way out, I use the petrol mode and the power mode on the return trip, and I have to test the actual loss in both modes. ”
"Okay." Jermaine, who answered, beckoned Reilly to join him, and took the pump to pump the gasoline from one of the small oil tanks into the car fuel tank.
When everything was ready, the dwarves pulled up the iron roller door of the workshop, and Lin pressed the ignition switch and stepped on the accelerator slightly. When that familiar sound came into my ears, I couldn't help but hold the steering wheel with both hands, and I was a little nervous. It's not some sense of mission to start an era in another world, it's just the excitement of a big boy when he gets a new toy.