After upgrading to the seventh stage, the number of workers that could be recruited in the Monster Factory had doubled to 640.
Before this, all 320 monsters had been recruited by Ye Qing and put into production in the factory. The factory's assembly line was also built according to the quota of monster workers. Now, the quota had doubled. However, Ye Qing had only recruited two Titans and 18 monsters for the time being to put them into the trial production of the new product.
In the night, the Dragon Creek Beach Factory was like a bright pearl blooming on the coastline of Zhongyun City.
With the moon-shaped barren hill above the underground base as the center, neatly arranged large factories were located on the land of more than three kilometers on both sides. The lights here were like shining stars in the Milky Way. They were densely scattered around the factories and on both sides of the road. There were many spotlights on the barren hill, sweeping every inch of the factory's land without any blind spots.
In this place, other than the Thunderbolt car production center, the sealed dock by the sea was the most magnificent.
It was close to 15 stories high, and one-third of it was built in the sea. The two steel doors by the sea had broken through the limits of people's understanding of doors.
Of course, those two iron doors weren't for people. Ye Qing walked in through the maintenance tunnel, and just happened to see two mountain-like giants carefully wiping the hull of the ship with a "rag" they pulled out from who knows where. In front of the two of them, the 20,000-ton Humpback Whale was no more than a truck.
But in front of Ye Qing, the Humpback Whale was a steel island, or a steel fortress.
Its overall shape was a rhombus-shaped polyhedron, which was very different from the long and narrow hull of ordinary civilian ships. If one looked down from above, it was more like an armored assault vehicle that had been magnified countless times, or a futuristic tank without a turret.
The smaller the contact area between the hull and the water, the lower the resistance when the ship sailed.
If the super ship in front of him floated on the water like an ordinary ship, most of its power would be used to offset the resistance of the sea.
Unfortunately, this was not an ordinary ship. It was a nuclear-powered "cushion" alloy ship with a maximum speed of 130 knots.
With the application of the world's top nuclear power units, two electromagnetic engines with a total power of 400,000 kilowatts, relying on ultra-supercritical power generators, burst out with power that was close to that of two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
It was also 30 knots faster than the initial 100 knots.
Standing in front of this giant ship that was more than a hundred meters long, Ye Qing felt a sense of technological beauty that broke through the limits of heavy industrial manufacturing.
If someone had seen a large ocean-going ship or a large warship at close range. You will find that the ships you see in the pictures are not as majestic and beautiful as they are in the pictures. The bigger the ship, the more it looked like …
It looked more like "building blocks" covered with iron sheets. The entire hull was bumpy, and the outline of the keel compartment was clearly visible. There was no beauty to speak of.
Insiders often joked that the craftsmen's craftsmanship was not up to par, but laymen could not understand why frigates, destroyers, and even aircraft carriers, which represented the highest level of industrial technology in a country, could not even weld the hull properly.
In fact, this really couldn't be blamed on the shipbuilders for their poor sheet metal craftsmanship.
To give a simple example of something that is very common to us, a ball is a very common thing. However, a good leather ball was made from pieces of leather.
Because a ball is a quadratic surface, a whole piece of flat leather cannot be made into a spherical surface. Only many small planes can be pieced together into an approximate spherical surface. The smaller the plane, the closer the shape of the pieced together.
Similarly, the giant ship we see is also based on this principle.
The outline of a giant ship is far more complicated than a sphere, and it is also the largest product that human industry can create.
The hull of a ship is made of countless pieces of steel. These originally horizontal steel plates need to be processed according to the outline of the giant ship's hull and change their original shape.
Our human eye can identify precision errors up to one-fifth of a millimeter. The number of pixels that can be identified by the human eye is more than 40 million.
But the processing of complex curved steel plates has always been a global industrial problem.
Until now, the CNC large-scale complex curved steel plate forming equipment is a heavy weapon that is not shown to the public. At the same time, the processing accuracy is often less than one millimeter, but in actual processing, most of the errors are more than one millimeter.
In front of this data, it is impossible for modern industrial technology to process countless pieces of steel to the point where the accuracy error is not discernible to the naked eye.
Not to mention the deformation of the complex curved steel plates during transportation and installation after the processing, as well as the thermal deformation during welding.
Therefore, the most intuitive way to judge the technical ability of a shipyard is to see if the ship they built is too bumpy.
If it is too bumpy, no matter how loud the shipyard's slogan is, it will definitely be half a bucket, and the internal workmanship of the ship will not be any better.
Fortunately, the overall strength of a ship is not guaranteed by the steel plates on the outer shell. It depends on the internal keel structure, so the bumpy outer shell does not affect the ship's performance.
However, standing next to the Humpback Whale supership, Ye Qing appreciated a different kind of industrial beauty.
The Humpback Whale was welded with more than 10,000 alloy forging modules. No matter which angle Ye Qing looked at it, it was always "smooth," "smooth," and "standard."
It was like a polyhedral hull made up of mirrors, and it was more like an extremely exquisite handicraft. Any ship engineer would not be able to find a trace of angular error.
The flamboyant lines seemed to be able to break through the ship's bow ram.
At the top of the Humpback Whale's diamond-shaped turtle shell, there was even a diamond-like black mirror polyhedron equipment. 11
It was the Humpback Whale's secret weapon.
Ye Qing walked into the interior of the Humpback Whale through the members' tunnel, which was designed with a telescopic design.
A white industrial world was displayed in front of Ye Qing. The interior of the dark Humpback Whale, whether it was the cabin walls or the floor, was painted white.
It was very easy for ordinary people to lose their sense of space and direction here. Of course, the Humpback Whale did not accommodate ordinary people.
Every ten meters Ye Qing walked, he would pass through a watertight door with an automatic opening and closing function. Each watertight door represented a watertight compartment.
At the same time, there would be a grid net extending out from both sides of the passage. If any watertight compartment was unfortunately flooded, the damaged pipe equipment inside the grid net would quickly discharge the seawater out of the compartment.
At the same time, all the circuits here were treated with waterproof protection, from small switches and lights to large oil pumps, air compressors, and centralized control switchboards.
Ye Qing walked here with ease. After passing through more than 20 watertight doors and going up the escalator that was more than five stories high, Ye Qing came to the cockpit of the Humpback Whale.
The inside of the cockpit was different from that of any ship.
Standing here, one could overlook the entire back of the Humpback Whale. One could also clearly see the four cargo cabin covers above the back of the ship and the two huge steel doors blocking the bow of the ship.
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