Douluo starts with the Pea Shooter

The communication between Lanno and Howard was very harmonious. The scientist's understanding of the world is still very simple, and he believes that there are various elements in the world, just like on the earth, the phlogiston theory has been extremely popular for a long time.

This is not ridiculous, nor is it worthy of ridicule, because those people are really trying very hard to explain the world. They even try to explain that metals also contain phlogiston, because when metals react with acids, flammable gases are released.

And it is believed that the process of metal rusting is a process of discarding phlogiston. In fact, it is only one step away from the chemistry of later generations. It does not mean that unexplainable phenomena are pushed onto phlogiston without thinking.

Lan Nuo did not directly refute Howard, but guided his thinking and allowed him to discover the problems in his system bit by bit through the connections between experiments.

The main reason is that Lan Nuo felt a little psychologically affected when he saw the Headshot God. He was afraid that if he threw out a theory that was beyond the times, the simple scientist in front of him would find it difficult to accept it and shoot his head on the spot.

In a world where extraordinary power exists, it is much more difficult to summarize the laws of nature that are not interfered by extraordinary power. The ubiquitous soul power interferes with the results of every experiment, making it difficult to summarize the laws.

But after Lan Nuo's series of experiments, Howard also began to have some doubts about his elemental world theory. In return, Howard taught Lan Nuo step by step how to build a soul guide.

The production process of soul guides in this era is like engraving a large circuit board. Even if the workpiece is clamped with a vise, the engraving process also has high requirements on the stability of the wrist, because the smaller the runes are carved, the smaller the runes will be. The more functions a soul guide can accommodate and the more accurately the runes are carved, the more stable the soul guide will be.

"So, without years of practice, it's difficult to make it skillfully. Even my carving skills are very average. If there is a chance, I should recruit a few carving masters who are good at micro carving." Howard handed a metal pipe To Lan Nuo, it was densely engraved with runes the size of rice grains. Neat lines connected the runes together, showing a different kind of beauty.

"Well...actually there are other carving methods. I'll study them first!" Lan Nuo held the iron pipe and considered how to divide the runes carved on an iron pipe into different modules and integrate them into more regular modules. .

Lan Nuo believes that the development direction of modularization of soul guides is correct. Modularization is convenient for replacement and production.

The structure of a round tube is not easy to control and its specifications are difficult to be consistent. It is not suitable as a base material for engraving. Lanno prepares square metal sheets as the basic unit, just like a circuit board.

Although the two-dimensional structure may limit the effectiveness of the soul guide, it is easy to produce, and it is easy to establish a coordinate system and describe the production process.

Don’t think about CNC machine tools in this era, but the most basic machine tools, which control the movement of the workpiece by shaking the handle, can still be made.

But there are still a lot of front-end technologies. First of all, you have to be able to carve out a screw and gear that are long enough and uniform enough. This is even more troublesome than carving an entire soul guide. It is completely hand-made, polished by hand, and pulled out bit by bit. of.

Fortunately, Lan Nuo was physically strong and strong enough that his hands didn't shake at all when holding the carving knife and file, so he managed to complete the production of the first machine tool.

During this time, Howard's studio had been moved out of the safe zone and moved outside the city. Every time Mina came out of the prison camp, she could see Lan Nuo, covered in oil and metal debris, tinkering with Howard. It was completely unlike the powerful young soul master on the day he landed.

"Your talent is so good and you are so young, why do you need to take care of the lowly business yourself?" Mina couldn't help but admonish Lan Nuo: "Soul masters still have to focus on cultivation."

Although alchemists are respected in Sin City, that is because soul skills cannot be used here. The only difference between soul masters and ordinary people is that they are stronger and more responsive. But outside, alchemists are just doing chores for soul masters. It exists when you call it and goes away when you wave it.

Lan Nuo pondered for a moment and replied: "I don't practice because I'm afraid you will be too desperate. Tsk tsk! Have you heard of the ten-year-old Soul Sect? No, you haven't heard of it."

Mina: "..."

She seriously doubted that Lan Nuo was keen on doing lowly things because he was too lowly!

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After a busy few days, apart from the strange looks from others, there were naturally other gains. Lan Nuo obtained a relatively accurate ruler, gears, screws, and an electric motor removed from an electric car...

Combining these together, you get the most primitive machine tool. The drill bit of the machine tool is driven by an electric motor and the rotation is relatively stable. The manually polished drill bit is like a needle tip and can achieve the same effect as a carving knife.

The square workpiece is clamped on the machine tool. By turning the handle, the workpiece can be controlled to move up, down, left, and right. This eliminates the possibility of hand shaking during the engraving process. According to the scale of the ruler on the handle, each step can be controlled more accurately. The location of a rune.

This not only makes carving easier, but also uses mathematical models to describe the relationship between different runes in a more digital way.

In just a few days, the two's understanding of soul guides improved by leaps and bounds, and their progress was comparable to the great discovery period when the eight basic runes were discovered.

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"Be gentle! Don't touch the rune chip! The blue-grained gold is very soft, and the rune will disappear if you squeeze it with force!" Howard looked anxiously and pale as he watched Lan Nuo use tweezers to hold a piece that was only one millimeter thick. Thin slice, embedded in the metal card slot reserved in the soul guide.

After fastening the dust cover, Lan Nuo finally found time to kick Howard into the toolbox. He was like a turtle that had turned over its shell and couldn't get up for a long time.

"It was because you kept shaking your hands and crushed more than a dozen chips that I did it myself! How dare you blame me! Turn it on! It should work this time!" Lan Nuo embedded the remaining rune chips into the shell one by one. Although it was not a perfect fit, it was much better than pure manual polishing.

After fastening the shell, a brand new soul guide cannon was completed. Compared with the soul guide cannon, Lan Nuo wanted to make a soul guide generator or soul guide engine, but the soul guide weapon was still the most valued by people in this era. If you want to obtain resources, you must let people recognize your value first.

Lan Nuo raised the soul guide cannon and fixed it on his arm with a belt. Compared with the previous wasteland style, like a metal pipe turned out from a garbage dump, the soul guide cannon in front of him was a bit steampunk.

The iron-gray shell was riveted together with bolts. Through the heat dissipation grille on the side, you can see the high-speed rotating gears and fans inside.

As Lan Nuo pulled the trigger, the fan made a buzzing high-speed rotating sound, which sounded very much like the sound of accumulating energy. After a second of preheating, the red ray shot out from the muzzle. The ray as thick as an arm hit the wooden target more than ten meters away. Like a flamethrower constrained into a ray, it instantly ignited the target. Lan Nuo held the soul guide cannon and swept horizontally. The surrounding weeds and targets were also quickly ignited. The places where the fiery red ray swept were all charred black. Even the metal armor on the target was burned red after being focused for a few seconds.

"The effect is good!" Lan Nuo swept for fifteen seconds. With a clang, the safety was spread out, and a fiery red metal strip popped out from the right side of the soul guide cannon, followed by a large amount of white steam.

Lan Nuo took out a new heat dissipation strip, inserted it from the side, and pulled the trigger again. The fiery red rays were fired again. This time, Lan Nuo began to test the range, and shot forward close to the ground. The weeds in the wasteland dried up and burned. As the position of the ray irradiation became farther and farther, the fiery red light spot became larger and larger. At a distance of about 50 meters, the light column had become as thick as a water tank, and the dry grass was difficult to ignite. This means that beyond 50 meters, the lethality of this soul guide is very limited.

Although the range is only 50 meters, it is still quite practical for soul masters who are generally short-handed.

Howard snatched the soul guide cannon from Lan Nuo, and touched and checked the shell and internal structure that he was already familiar with during the production process with satisfaction. He sighed: "Let's see if those people outside dare to say that my magic equipment is useless garbage this time!

Hehehe! With this power, this consumption, and this range, even if the soul master uses it, it can enrich the combat methods, and the auxiliary soul master can show the attack power comparable to the strong attack soul master."

Lan Nuo rolled his eyes. Although Howard can be regarded as a scientist of this era, his thinking is still limited by the inherent thinking of soul masters, and he evaluates the role of a new invention by combat power.

Compared to this weapon, Lan Nuo still wants self-charging soul guide arrays, super-large storage soul guides, soul guide engines, soul guide CNC machine tools, and other more functional items.

It's a pity that Lan Nuo's thinking is difficult for people in this world to understand.

"By the way, how long do you think it will take for an ordinary person to learn how to make this thing with our machine tools?" Lan Nuo asked Howard, who was dancing and looking for things to roast like a child with a magnifying glass.

"Ordinary people? How can ordinary people learn to make this thing? Those soul masters are as stupid as pigs, and ordinary people can't learn it even more." Howard seemed to recall some bad memories.

"You can't unilaterally think that ordinary people can't learn it! You haven't tried to teach it. Soul masters can't learn it because they are too lazy to learn. We just need to consider whether we can split each step and give it to ordinary people to do it?

If it can be done, theoretically someone will definitely be able to learn it. The IQ gap between people is not that big. Among tens of millions of ordinary people, there must be someone with a better brain than the two of us."

Howard bit his finger, but he had to admit that the world is so big, there are always people who are more talented than them, but he just happened to be lucky enough to get the opportunity to use his talents.

"You don't want to advertise the technology we have worked hard to research, do you?" Howard was a little unwilling.

"What else? Do we have to rely on the two of us to stay in the workshop, make steel, forge iron, carve, and carve out machine tools? Even if we work hard for a lifetime, we probably won't be able to make many useful things.

I'm telling you, you have to think more open-mindedly! What good does it do you to monopolize technology? Apart from anything else, you are almost thirty years old, and you are only at the Soul Sect level, and you have a white soul ring. Do you think it's reliable to rely on soul guides to improve your own strength?

It's better to establish a soul guide industrial system and become the controller behind the scenes."

Howard: "..."

Lan Nuo's truth is so fucking infuriating. Of course, he knows that he will be lucky if he can break through to the Soul King in this life, but he doesn't want to throw cumin on the gun like this!

"You have to understand that we need to mass-produce this thing. Only mass production can reduce the cost, and only by reducing the cost can we sell it for a lot of money. Look at it yourself, how much money have we spent on materials in the past few days? Almost all the things you have accumulated in the past few years have been used up.

If you still want to continue this research, you need money. Not only money, but also people to accompany you to figure this thing out. If you guard your own little piece of land, you will be busy until you die, and soul guides will not develop much. Only when more people use it and more people participate in the production and consumption of soul guides can the progress of an industrial system be promoted. "

Lan Nuo kept trying to persuade Howard to accept a large number of apprentices, but it was not easy to convince people of this era. Not to mention the Douluo people, even modern people still have a lot of feudal remnants in their minds.

They believe that the leakage of technology means that they have lost most of their interests and dominance. This statement is only partially correct. Taking it as a criterion is purely the work of small peasant thinking. They believe that the modern industrial system is still the same as the feudal era. Three or five people can learn a set of key technologies. They want to block technology, maintain a monopoly in this field, and avoid competition.

In the extremely complex modern industrial system, this idea is naive. First of all, it is impossible to completely prevent users from disassembling and understanding the internal structure by relying on one or two self-destruct devices.

Secondly, the technical accumulation of industrial products depends not only on the tinkering of a group of technicians in the laboratory, but also on A lot of user feedback. Involving more people in the production and use of such products will help developers collect information and improve equipment. The larger the market, the more detailed the feedback, and the faster the technological progress. As long as a high market share is maintained, the gap between the leader and the competitor will only become more and more obvious.

Therefore, if you really want to dominate a complex industrial field, you must not simply look at the lowest level of setting up a self-destruct device to block the technology, but you must continuously collect data feedback, improve product performance, ensure market share, and ensure that you have a group of skilled workers and technical workers.

It is enough to achieve this level. As for consuming a lot of resources, trying to keep it absolutely confidential, and cutting off the emergence of competitors from the source, this idea can only be said to be feudal remnants. If everyone holds this idea, then technology will not progress.

[To be continued]

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