Of all the teams, the one with the most complicated work was, of course, the team that repaired the airship. Even though this level of repair was no different from a new one in the eyes of others.
The first to be completed was the main structure of the airship, which was the shuttle-shaped hull. The reason why this part was rushed was because there was no dock or workers' dormitory on site. The hull could be completed as soon as possible, and it could also be used as a place to rest and work.
Basically, as long as it did not occupy a large area or require ventilation, it would be done in the interior of the airship. After all, it was too cold outside. Even if they were wrapped in a layer of snow wolf fur, the bone-chilling wind would still sneak in through the gaps in their clothes, making them shiver from the cold.
Although the original pod of the crashed airship had been repaired and modified, some of the cabin walls were still damaged. They had to wait for Riley to make a suitable plank before they could be completely closed. However, it was not a big problem to use extra wolf fur as a temporary cover.
Lin even took out a magical metal, water copper, from the materials he brought with him and covered the interior of the airship with a layer of film. Using this layer of metal film, he had Fen carve a magic array all over the airship.
In addition to blocking the wind and snow, it also had the function of heating the cabin. In fact, this layer of magical metal film played a big role in Lin's design, even though it was very experimental. However, it had to wait for the follow-up work to be completed before it could be arranged.
The part that needed more attention was one of the original pod's hulls. Due to the crash, part of the keel was damaged. According to the other people's suggestion, the damaged but not broken keel should be used as the upper half of the shuttle-shaped hull. The reason was that the weight was borne by the lower half of the hull.
However, this suggestion was not accepted by Lin. Because in his design, the entire shuttle-shaped hull would bear the wind pressure brought about by the high speed. There was no part that could not meet the standards and was about to break. In addition, Lin's design required an anti-gravity device that was different from the common sense of the land of mystery. Therefore, the keel that was about to break was reinforced with a certain someone's precious Mithril.
The processing characteristics of Mithril were very similar to that of water copper. Water copper could be made into very thin sheets with magic shaping spells and wrapped around any object to form an outer film.
It was very difficult for ordinary craftsmen to use water copper's characteristics to make good weapons and equipment. Most of them were made by magicians who were interested in art and used to carve floating boards. Therefore, in the mage market, the price of water copper was not high, but it was also a very rare material. Because there was no market for it, no one would mine it in large quantities.
However, with such a characteristic, one could wrap a layer of film on ordinary materials and then carve a magic array to form a magic circuit. In fact, this use had been discovered a long time ago. It was just that all the weapons and equipment before this were melee types, and the film of water copper did not have much defensive power. The thinner it was, the easier it was to destroy it.
But someone used it for things that weren't directly used against the enemy, like the Magic Tower in the past and the airship now.
The characteristics of Secret Iron were very similar. They both required a basic material and were then attached to it. Mystical Iron could be transformed into a liquid state by Shaping and seeped into the pores of other materials. Even high-level sorcerers could turn the Secret Iron into water and "soak" other materials.
However, this was different from the so-called alloys on Earth. One was one, and two was two. The same object had two characteristics and could be used for two purposes. Therefore, Secret Iron was a material that was very difficult to use for most of the sorcerers in the land of mystery.
However, right now, Secret Iron was just right to be used as a material to strengthen the dragon bones and allow the dragon bones to be enchanted with magic and carve magic arrays. Ordinary materials could not be messed around like this. Ordinary materials that could not bear the power of magic would be eroded and decayed by the power of magic.
The joint between the upper and lower halves of the shuttle-shaped hull was embedded with magic materials at the edge of the original hull and then buckled together. The reason why they were so cautious was because the connecting points for the wings, rudder, and external engines were prepared to be arranged along the horizontal central axis of the shuttle-shaped hull. Normal materials could not achieve the strength required for the complex structure designed by Lin.
The main structure was completed. Next, Lin did a second small division of labor. The two female silver-bearded dwarves, Marit and Freya, were responsible for the construction of the wings and rudder. Using the 3D image of the solid scale explosion that 'even idiots could understand,' this part was not difficult to speak of. They just had to follow the instructions.
As for the source of the materials, the wings were the remaining fabric of the original airbags of the original airship. The skeleton was made of the original airship's magical materials, the harder magical metal, Light Thunder Steel.
Light Thunder Steel, which had a similar name to it, was hard and heavy. Light Thunder Steel was hard, light, and tough. Of course, it was also more valuable. That was why only the few goblin cannons on the original airship used this magical material in the key parts. Therefore, the amount of Light Thunder Steel that could be used in the repair process was relatively small. And before dismantling the cannons, Totokani had to do his best to stop it.
In the end, Lin used it on the skeleton of the 'wings.' As long as Marit and Freya did not waste it during the construction process, it would be just enough for the wings and rudder that Lin designed.
Lin, Jermaine, and the goblin father and daughter began the construction of the engine.
Even though someone had touched Earth's engine, knowing how to repair it, or watching someone else repair it, and building one himself were two very different things. In particular, the motorcycle engine that Lin had touched was a single-cylinder engine, and the car engine he had only touched was a V-type six-cylinder engine. But for the star-shaped engine, he had only seen the schematics and had never touched the real thing.
For this reason, Lin used a lot of calculations and simulations, and actually built it, and tested the effects of the real machine. Only then did he manage to finalize the design of the engine. During the process, Marit, who had been excited to get involved, impatiently returned to work on the wings after disconnecting two engines.
Actually, this was also within Lin's expectations. Compared to the other male silver-bearded dwarves, Marit had craftsmanship and strength. The only thing she lacked was patience and the courage to face setbacks. The construction of the wings could be seen at the end, and it required meticulous work. But an engine that had not been made before had to find a way forward in the midst of continuous failure. Jermaine could do this, and so could Totokani the goblin.
Fortunately, there were races like the dwarves present who were very familiar with metal, and magic materials could be shaped and changed at will by magic. This was why they could recycle materials and make it again in the midst of continuous failure.
And making an engine in the maze was not like making one on Earth, where there was a big problem to overcome: materials. Earth's material science had no meaning in the maze.
This was because there were very few craftsmen in the maze, and it could even be said that they did not have the habit of using "alloys." After all, the types of magic materials were too complicated, and if one material did not pass the test, there was always another that met the standard and could pass the test.
Secondly, the alloys on Earth, no matter what kind of smelting process was used, were different metals. In terms of molecular structure, there was a clear distinction between different metals.
But magic materials were different. After Lin obtained the microscopic observation method, he also analyzed magic materials. The so-called magic materials, on the molecular level, combined a variety of heavy metal atoms that were impossible to combine with geochemical knowledge to form a stable molecular structure, and it must be a complex polyhedron type.
As for how these heavy metal atoms broke through the limit of valence electrons, reacted with each other, and combined together, Lin Yi had some guesses. And it seemed that the answer was also very obvious: it was magic authority. The authority filled the molecular chain, connecting these atoms that could not be synthesized, and this should also be why they were called magic materials and had special properties.
Lin once thought that since he could observe the molecular formula of magic materials and know that the reaction was catalyzed by the authority. Then, was it possible for him to mass-produce some expensive and rare materials?
But this idea was just a thought, and he let it go. Not to mention that on Earth, the pursuit of alchemy to turn stone into gold was still a joke in modern times when people drank and had fun. In the maze, even if it was really done, it would probably not be a means of making money, but a road to death that would make people jealous. And it was conceivable that this time, he would be faced with a greedy behemoth on the level of a country, and endless pursuit.
Plus, in the maze, the biggest use of magic materials was in the creation of weapons. To put it simply, if it was really possible to mass-produce magic materials with certain characteristics at will, it would only expand the war and conflict in the maze. It would neither benefit the people nor oneself, so spending the effort on this research was not to be sad. So, Lin Yi simply gave up on this idea.
He also once thought about using the method of alloy magic materials for fun, and he would start the material science of the maze. But the conclusion was that when different magic materials were fused together, most of the time, the advantages of each other were offset or weakened, and if unlucky, unimaginable reaction changes would occur, causing damage.
This also explained why the forging method of humans, elves, and dwarves in the maze was only based on the forging, molding, and other processing of raw materials, and then enchantment, and other deep processing methods to change the properties of the objects were not considered.
It was also because of this environment that there were quite a lot of methods for the use of magic materials in the maze, and it could easily solve the problems that had been plaguing people on Earth for a long time. Among them, in the original Lin Yi's concerns, the two biggest difficulties in the production process were welding and sealing.
On Earth, the joint between the same or different metals was not like the joint between wood, which could use a mortise and tenon structure. In addition to a large number of rivets, welding was the only way.
For machines like engines, the airtightness was especially important. Whether it was the cylinder that operated by pressure changes, or the crankcase that maintained the volume of lubricant and prevented leakage, if the sealing was not up to standard, the power and lifespan of the engine would be greatly reduced.
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