Gwen's expression froze when he heard Heti's words. Ooze?!
Rebecca was still nodding excitedly. "Yes, yes. We have a big pool in the backyard of the Magitech Research Institute! I was the one who caught one of the Sludge Monsters myself … "
Gwen finally knew what Heti meant when she said that Rebecca was raising Ooze.
"You really came up with that!" Heti's expression was as weird as it could get. "I'm curious how you connected the two together …"
Gwen could not help but facepalm. "Why do I feel a little disgusted?"
"It's not disgusting," Rebecca immediately said. "Although it's the excrement of a sludge monster, the sludge monster is more or less an elemental creature. Their excrement is more like a mixture of molten slag produced in an alchemical reaction. It's very clean. Auntie, didn't you tell me that the mages of the Violet Kingdom would even apply sludge monster excrement to their faces to improve their skin?"
Heti could not help but facepalm. "… But that's an insult …"
Rebecca scratched her head. "Eh? Is that so? "
Listening to the conversation between Rebecca and Heti, Gwen quickly accepted the source of the 'tire'.
He knew about the Ooze. It was a magical creature with weak strength but strong vitality. It usually lived near the focus of magic and was the product of the combination of the earth element and biomass. Wild Ooze were not aggressive, but because their habitat was near the focus of magic, there were often stronger magical beasts nearby. It was not easy to catch them. But they were not very useful, so apart from a few mages who looked for Ooze to collect specific materials, most people were not interested in these low-level elemental creatures.
As elemental creatures, Sludge Monsters would leave behind all kinds of gels after they ate the soil and decayed plants. That was their 'excrement', but as Rebecca said, as long as they were psychologically adjusted, it was nothing more than a byproduct of magical reactions.
But anyway, to find inspiration from the Ooze's excrement and even think of using it to make a tire … this was a refreshing idea.
With a strange expression, Heti continued to poke the grayish-white 'tire' with her finger and asked curiously, "You should have dealt with it, right? Normal Ooze's excrement should be softer and have a stronger smell than this … "
"We mixed very fine quartz sand into it. As for the smell, we used the gum of the giant tree to remove it. The effect is not bad, but I think there should be room for improvement," Rebecca said as she nodded. "In order to make the Ooze's excrement better meet the requirements, we also tested a lot of different 'feeds'. The current feeding formula is definitely not the most suitable …"
The Sludge Monster was a very strange elemental creature. They ate anything and everything. Then, they would carry out a complex magic reaction and absorb energy in the process. Their physiological process was like a continuous alchemy reaction. Therefore, if they ate different things, they would excrete different things. Of course, they would excrete different things — of course, they were basically gels of various viscosity and hardness.
Looking at the grayish-white 'tire', Gwen nodded slightly.
There was probably no natural rubber in this world, and humans would never be able to produce artificial rubber based on the oil industry. But there was still an alternative.
A low-level and primitive magical creature had solved a big problem in the magic engineering industry. Regardless of how Rebecca came up with this idea, this fact alone was enough to give Gwen enough confidence for the future.
"Can it start now?" Gwen pointed at the prototype magic car on the mechanical platform and asked expectantly.
"Of course," Rebecca said cheerfully. "Before you came, we had already started it in a suspended state and fixed a lot of small problems. Now it can completely start. Although I have not tried it, I think it can even be driven out of the workshop. "
Gwen did not waste time. "Demonstrate it."
"Okay …" Rebecca had been waiting for the ancestor to say that. She immediately agreed as she walked towards the mechanical platform. Obviously, she could not wait to demonstrate the miracle of the magic engineering industry to everyone.
Gwen watched as Rebecca went up the platform and climbed onto the pile of steel mechanical monster. He watched as she sat on the crude seat that was welded directly to the frame of the car and started to pull the lever and wrench in front of the console. On the chassis of the prototype magic car, runes gradually lit up as a low humming sound rang from the connection between the power spine and the magic engine. Countless gears and levers began to vibrate slightly as a surge of power brewed.
Heti listened to the movement from the pile of machines and looked at Rebecca who was fiddling with the lever excitedly. She could not help but worry. "Ancestor, is this thing really okay?"
"You have to believe in her," Gwen said softly. "And believe in the hard work of so many technicians."
Heti opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but she swallowed all her words when she saw the scene before her.
The heavy industrial beast made of black steel with numerous exposed mechanical structures let out a low roar as the rotor-type magic engine started to move all the mechanical mechanisms. Along with vibrations and noises, its four wheels slowly began to turn.
"Ancestor, look! It's moving! "
Rebecca shouted joyfully as she pulled another lever on the left side of her body. Along with a series of clicking sounds of gears changing positions, the wheels spun faster. Amidst a series of noises and vibrations, the massive machine walked down the platform. Like a human baby crying for the first time in the world, the sound it made was loud and noisy.
The mechanical scholars and arcanologists around the platform cheered and clapped their hands.
Gwen knew that the precision of the Egg of Nicholas could be very high, but that was only under the condition that the blueprint was perfect. During the manufacturing of the prototype, to verify the blueprint and increase the success rate, to leave enough safety margin for all the mechanical structures, to facilitate the mechanics to confirm the wear rate of all the structures, and to facilitate disassembly and modification, these initial machines would leave an acceptable margin between the parts. These margins led to the noise and vibrations of the prototype arcanotech vehicle. It sounded noisy and chaotic, but the mechanical scholars felt that the sound was familiar and warm.
It meant that a new mechanical creation was born. The sound of gears and levers clashing and grinding was the loud announcement of the birth of a new mechanical spirit in this world.
Rebecca drove the crude prototype arcanotech down the platform and drove it in circles on the vast open space of the workshop. The girl who should be wearing a gorgeous aristocratic dress and sitting on a balcony decorated with flowers and gold, drinking tea and admiring flowers was now wearing a dirty researcher's robe. She sat among a pile of metal frames and parts, yelling louder than the machine beneath her.
"Ancestor, look! Auntie, look! It's really moving! It can even run!! "
She laughed like a child.
Amidst Rebecca's cheerful laughter, the arcanotech vehicle's lever was pushed to a higher gear. As far as the workshop space allowed, the complex machine sped up again. It let out a loud roar as the arcanotech engine drove the gears, and the vehicle sped towards the exit of the workshop. Clearly, Rebecca intended to drive the vehicle outside.
There was a worried look on Heti's face, but Gwen gently pressed her shoulder.
Heidi heaved a sigh of relief and finally put her unnecessary worries aside. With a legendary expert watching over the place, Rebecca and her 'robot friend' shouldn't be able to cause any major trouble.
But just as she breathed a sigh of relief, the mechanical vehicle that had run to the front of the workshop suddenly let out a strange creaking sound. Accompanied by a continuous noise like metal colliding, the vehicle slowly came to a stop in a series of huge tremors, and the magic runes on the engine spine were extinguished one by one.
Gawain and Heidi looked at each other, and then a large group of people hurried to the place where the motorcycle was resting.
Rebecca pulled the lever beside the seat and stepped hard on the pedals. When she found that it could not be restarted, she got up from the seat and jumped to the ground with a dejected look.
"It's broken."
She said to Gwen with a sad face.
But just as Gwen was about to comfort the girl, Rebecca had already turned her head. She took out a wrench and screwdriver from her pocket and began to remove the cover between the magic engine and the mechanical compartment.
A group of technicians immediately surrounded her, and Nicholas floated to the top of the vehicle and began to help Rebecca remove the stuck and deformed gears from the gearbox and differential.
In front of Gwen and Heti, the mechanical scholars and magicians began to discuss.
"The gearbox seems to be stuck …"
"The differential seems to be fine … It's just that the gearbox suddenly got stuck because of inertia."
"How could it get stuck … It didn't have any problems when we tested it alone."
"Is it because the lubricating grease is less effective after it gets heated up?"
"Definitely not. The magic puppet also uses this kind of alchemical grease, and the temperature of the core of the magic puppet is much higher than the friction between the gears …"
"Hey, look at this connecting rod. It seems to be stuck! It fell off during the vibration! There's something wrong with the connection here! "
While Gwen was still hesitating whether to go in and see what was going on, the technicians' discussion seemed to have come to a conclusion.
Rebecca came out from the crowd. The girl's face and hands were smeared with grease, but her gloomy eyes were now shining again. "Ancestor, the problem is solved! There's a problem with the connection of one of the connecting rods … "
"This is our mistake." A mechanical scholar in blue overalls stood up. Gwen recognized him as one of Hamel's apprentices. "We did not estimate the impact of the vibration."
"It's okay. It's normal for the prototype to have problems." Gawain had no intention of blaming anyone. On the contrary, his joyful mood did not diminish at all because of this small mechanical failure.
Although there was a mechanical failure, this was just an unavoidable episode in the development process. Rebecca drove the prototype magic car off the platform, and this was the real meaning of today's test.
This meant that, at least overall, the design of the magic car was a success.
He raised his head and looked in the direction of the mechanical platform in the center of the workshop, and then looked back at the prototype car quietly parked at the entrance of the workshop.
From the moment she got off the mechanical platform, to the test drive in the workshop, and then to the exit of the workshop, the first magic car should have only driven four to five hundred meters.
That's good, four to five hundred meters.
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