From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 153 Mechanical Research Institute

As track engineering continues, various tool requirements have emerged on frontline construction sites.

Among them, the application of new machinery is undoubtedly one of the areas that Nesta and the other witch doctors focus on the most.

Immediately after the success of the logging truck, Nesta ordered the participants in the research to take the lead in establishing a 'Mechanical Research Institute', hoping to obtain more useful information by bringing interested minds together.

Spiritual ideas and results.

Later, the Mechanical Research Institute lived up to his expectations and successively developed a series of various machines suitable for trolls.

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Jiuya, who has just grown up, is already one of the most popular witch doctor apprentices in the tribe.

If you want to say why, it’s because the original logging truck design of construction machinery was his work.

Therefore, Jiu Ya took on the important task of 'director of the Mechanical Research Institute' at a young age, and felt deeply honored and responsible because of the respect of the Dictator and the Rune Council.

Since then, Mechanical Ya has been deeply involved in and presided over the design work of many subsequent industrial machines and agricultural machine series products, and has achieved outstanding results.

But this young troll, who should have been filled with confidence and pride, now looked sad.

Ji Ya, who had just come out of the information gathering center, was on his way back to the research institute, holding a thick stack of papers filled with negative feedback.

"It's been six times. What's wrong?"

Looking through the paper in his hand and the new design ideas for the stone grinding machine, Nesta showed a pleased smile.

The reasons for failure are balance, flexibility, weight, etc.

The research institute's solution idea is the same as when it originally designed the logging truck. It still uses the 'old school' Troll power model and is preparing to build a special machine that can go to the front line and is easy to use.

His straight, focused eyes startled Ji Ya, thinking that this guy had become stupid because he had not withstood the blow of failure.

The other end is slightly tilted, with only one corner supporting the ground.

As workers, the front-line production team complained more, such as, 'It's not as fast as swinging a hammer', 'Why is this game more difficult', 'It takes five or six team members to use it.

Don’t you need to do other tasks?’. To name a few.

"Come, take a look too. This is a good article."

The first thing to be built was a large stone grinding factory. Due to the huge demand for stone powder, this work was personally handled by the witch doctors in each base.

Now, once the idea of ​​​​hydraulic application is put into practice, it can liberate almost half or even more trolls from the factory, allowing them to do more interesting and challenging things.

The visitor bowed and left, leaving only the two witch doctors Coarse Tooth and Nesta under the giant tree.

Nesta watched the visitor off, then shifted his gaze and stared at the giant tree again.

He subconsciously pulled out the huge paper specially designed for design, then picked up the quill that was always dipped in the ink bottle, and started drawing on the paper following the ideas in his mind.

‘Boom boom boom’.

The idling machine roared, and then the giant hammer in front was driven and struck on the empty workbench, making a dull sound unique to steel and wood colliding with each other.

"You're back? What was the feedback earlier?"

"Well, then you go ahead."

He could not rudely shirk responsibility to the factories responsible for manufacturing on the front line, or the workers responsible for actual verification. Out of simple trust, and out of repeated consideration of feedback, he understood that this time it was really him and the institute.

There is something wrong with the design itself.

Coarse Tooth held the paper in front of him and read it silently while maintaining his half-tree troll form.

Some of these trivial thoughts would be picked up again after a while, and some would be completely forgotten.

Just like now, the research is not going well, the frontline factories are complaining, the workers are complaining, and self-doubts such as "Will the dictator be disappointed with me?" All of these are like a heavy burden.

It was on his shoulder, making Ji Ya a little breathless.

Of course, Nesta, who was actually very busy, had no idea about the matters related to grindstone research at this time, and the Rune Council never actually blamed him.

All in all, young Zhu Ya was already a little panicked.

The abnormality in his previous state had been noticed by the other apprentices in the institute. Out of concern for their comrades, all seven apprentices, including Ji Ya, actually followed him all the way and witnessed everything that happened at this time.

As he finished speaking, a vine appeared in front of him and swept away several pages of paper that Nesta handed over.

Due to the indispensability of water resources, the bases were set up near rivers when the site was initially selected.

An old man held a skirt in his hand and looked embarrassed as he was being pushed;

Everything before had been too smooth, and Zhu Ya had never experienced too many twists and turns in his life, so his heart was actually not as strong as those of his predecessors who had experienced the baptism of hard times.

It was as if he was called in an emergency in the middle of going to the toilet and had to cut off the toilet, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

But also because of the shift of attention, Zhu Ya was able to escape from the 'sense of failure' from now on, even if it was only temporarily.

At this moment, a small stream of water flowing out of the corner suddenly attracted some of his attention.

"I think it's OK. It's quite unique."

This material is called "wood-stone concrete" and has very good durability, solidity, and fixing capabilities. Whether it is the latest city wall construction or the laying of foundations in track projects, a large amount of this material is needed.

So, the witch doctors each went out of the city and used the power of magic to build several huge paddle wheels by the river;

As a result, the first draft, which was full of confidence and had undergone preliminary attempts, was sent to the frontline factory, but was rejected due to negative opinions such as "impractical" and "processing measuring cups is a waste of time";

The second draft, the third draft, and the sixth draft today are still the same. Either 'the processing volume is too small, which is more of a waste of labor', or 'unprecedentedly bulky and unable to run for a long time', or 'the work

Some of them were too heavy to drive, so they were always rejected.

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The Mechanical Research Institute is located outside the central area of ​​​​the tribe. The main building is a rare two-story structure connected by steps. There is also a quite spacious courtyard outside the main building, which contains many testing machines.

After a while, he nodded and said slowly,

"That's right. Why bother with the 'giant power'? Isn't it that greater and more continuous power exists around us from beginning to end?"

Testing machines that focus on flexibility simply cannot take into account the efficiency of the functional end; while testing machines that focus on the functional end and enlarge the working components cannot achieve a balance of driving force.

"Damn old guy! You actually climbed into bed while you were confused! Get out of here!!"

He didn't know what he was expecting, but there was always a feeling in his heart that told Zhu Ya, 'I have definitely discovered something important!!', but he couldn't figure it out.

"Research and verification results on replacing troll power with water power on large machinery"

This troll is called Ji Ya, and he is also a witch doctor apprentice. He was one of the trolls who received the mechanical enlightenment of Nesta on the banks of the White River. At this time, he is serving as the deputy director of the research institute.

The institute has always been paying attention to the cutting-edge needs of rail engineering. When it was learned that 'stone powder production' has become the most arduous and labor-consuming work nowadays, it immediately started related research work, hoping to continue to use

Mechanical power is used to solve this problem.

While taking into account both track construction and factory operations, many workers who could have been used to do more technical things were assigned to "power posts" due to lack of labor. Although the original intention was to bring them closer to technology, it failed

They are also wasting away their possibilities in repetitive labor.

The source of the water flow is unknown, maybe it is the sediment after the rain in the morning? It flows out slowly from the alley, and its head has almost reached the feet of the tooth.

However, scenes such as "flowing water moves wood", "wind moves leaves", "door is knocked open", etc. were actually recorded by eyes and ears one by one.

Moreover, there are only so many trolls in Manchuria, and the total number of trolls that can serve as workers is even more limited;

Behind him was a female troll who looked very young. She was chasing him naked and pushing the old man out of the door step by step.

If the steel-wood grinding disc wants to achieve the desired effect, whether it is weight or volume, it will far exceed the limit that an engineering vehicle can bear; and in terms of labor durability, production efficiency, mechanical composition, etc.,

It is always impossible to find a satisfactory balance point.

He is as young as Zhu Ya, but his mentality seems to be better, and there is no trace of frustration caused by failure on his face.

Ji Ya asked, and came to sit down in front of the operating table of a machine, and then stepped on the pedal.

The mating of trolls is already extremely chaotic, and Zhu Ya has no intention of paying attention to these messy things at this time;

Therefore, his steps did not stop at all, and he kept walking with his head covered.

Therefore, the six designs before and after were determined to have no practical application value.

Even during the repeated setbacks, the factories responsible for manufacturing on the front line became resentful. The assemblers complained that they always had to learn some failed things, and the 'engineers' complained that the normal production line was delayed.

‘Since the establishment of the new system, this is the first time that a witch doctor has used non-magical research as his ‘opening’ thesis.’ Nesta thought so.

Behind them, a total of nine vines hung down from the huge cage tree;

The vines are a variant of the branches. Their tail ends are directly connected to the tree trunk, and each end is connected to an egg-shaped object, which looks like a giant tree laying eggs.

The side of the factory facing the river is not a traditional wall, but large hollow steel-wood cubes next to each other. The outside of the cubes is connected to a long shaft extending from the paddle wheel;

There is an extremely complex gear set structure inside the cube. The power of the river water is adjusted here in terms of direction, stability, etc., and then 'flows out' from the inside, driving the large grinding machines and other mechanical work further inside the factory.

His companions are still waiting for news about him.

Along the way, Mechanical Ya passed through residential areas where there were few traces of trolls due to the special period, and hurried on.

"Well, then pass it on so that all apprentices and witch doctors can read this paper and enlighten their minds. Researchers must be good at utilizing all the materials that nature has given us."

"I hope there will be a good result." Nesta said while looking at the nine eggs of different sizes and colors.

Since a large number of trolls have been sent out, the streets of the headquarters seem a bit empty at this time, and Ji Ya is walking alone on the streets;

He tried hard to maintain a normal mind and kept repeating "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter" in his heart.

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Following Nesta's order, the paper was later sent to almost all witch doctors and witch doctor apprentices. The ideas and practices in the use of hydraulic power profoundly affected the focus of work in the following period.

He shook his head and temporarily shook the messy thoughts out of his mind. After taking two deep breaths, he started walking again and walked in the direction of the research institute.

The huge rotatable disc changes from the surface to the outer edge of the recess to become an independent partition

Bearing gear set transmission. Mechanical body

The more he drew, the more excited he became. Ideas emerged from his mind like a fountain. Even the design of a complex gear set was achieved in just a moment of thinking.

Mechanical Ya has never felt that research has been so easy as it is today. Groups of gears and the overall design ideas of the mechanical structure seem to be carved by a pair of invisible hands in his mind. They are constantly being presented as if they exist in reality.

Reorganization, approaching the design goal at an extremely fast speed.

What appears on paper is so incredible. This kind of precise and complex mechanical structure is obviously not something that an apprentice can deduce from scratch in a short time. It has always been the brain speed of a witch doctor.

field.

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Ten days after Ji Ya was struck by inspiration and advanced to become a witch doctor due to his own accumulation, the headquarters used twenty apprentices to send a paper and the news of the birth of a new witch doctor all the way to a distant place.

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Therefore, these factories are either successful or unsuccessful. Limited by the amount of labor and efficiency, they are always unable to increase production unscrupulously.

'Hydrodynamics' To be honest, Nesta himself has not thought about it, but he has to think about and make too many decisions every day, and many inspirations and ideas are always delayed for one reason or another.

His words were automatically filtered by the listener's consciousness. The various scenes and sounds on the road before, as well as Ji Ya's previous 'pranks', now converged into something called 'inspiration', which flashed through like a thunder.

Ji Ya's mind.

Among the four bases at the forefront, many trolls have been filled into factories due to mechanical power. These factories are busy producing a steady stream of parts and finished products every day.

Although they are not completely adjacent, you can always find water with acceptable runoff within two or three kilometers outside the city.

One end of it seems to be cushioned by a small stone, so it is slightly tilted;

"Even if I have all kinds of thoughts and ideas, I will always be unable to take care of them all because I am alone. Okay, okay, I can finally see the little ones growing up again."

The water flow gradually approached, and as it passed by, it hit the inclined surface of the wood chips little by little, causing the wood chips to move, and finally fell from the stones, gradually 'moving away' along with the water flow.

With an awkward laugh, Ji Ya stopped what he was doing with a guilty conscience, and said cautiously,

"Comrade, don't be like this, it's just a scrapped machine. Why don't you scold me twice?"

Therefore, there is only one possibility left

"He has advanced!!!" A suppressed and excited voice came from the mouth of the machine behind him.

The end of the power shaft will extend into the factory building standing on the river bank.

At this time, there was a troll in the courtyard who was playing with the machine. When he saw Ji Ya coming back from a distance, he started to wave.

Therefore, the grinding and mixing of stone powder has become one of the most time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks on the front line.

The paddle wheel rotates continuously under the impact of the river water, and then drives the long axis at the center of the back to twist;

If it were in the past, Zhu Ya, who always felt sorry for the machine, would have immediately stopped his comrades from doing this. But when he saw this scene today, he didn't care about anything. He was just waiting for his comrades to say, "Come and have a fight."

He stood frozen in his eyes.

The breeze blew by, causing the shadows of the trees on both sides of the road to sway constantly, and the leaves made a rustling sound under the caress of the wind;

The door next to the room was suddenly pushed open and hit the wall with a "duang" sound. When it rebounded, it made a "rattling" sound because of the lack of lubricating oil in the bearing;

On the only path in front of the water, there was a solitary small piece of wood lying;

"Understood, we will do it this way." The director of the cave base intelligence center said.

Jiuya's expression was a little dull, but the thoughts in his mind kept coming and going, and all kinds of thoughts were floating in a complicated way, but they always disappeared at the moment when he could be caught immediately.

But no matter how powerful the troll is in terms of strength and endurance, it is still a flesh-and-blood life. It will feel tired due to the intensity of the work, and it will also feel boring and boring due to the constant repetitive tasks;

He murmured like this, and walked past the machine teeth as if there were no other trolls around, and went straight into the experimental building.

One by one, his comrades greeted him, but Zhu Ya seemed to hear nothing and went directly to his desk and sat down.

Three days later, after four transfers, the paper finally arrived at the cave base, where it was translated into text by the intelligence center and sent to Nesta.

The paddle structure is negated, the door shaft structure is negated,

But unlike previous successful experiences, this time their design failed countless times.

Stone powder, as the name suggests, is a powder ground from hard stone;

The tribe has discovered through years of practice that the product obtained by mixing a large amount of stone powder with a certain proportion of steel sawdust, grease, and tree thickening agents will become an excellent building after adding water, stirring, and baking.

Material.

The stones collected from the river will be crushed here (large hydraulic impact hammer), ground into powder (large hydraulic grinder), mixed with primary auxiliary materials (large hydraulic mixer), and then packed into standard-shaped seals

Delivered in a wooden box on a large trailer.

The trailer carries the goods and transports them through simple roads to the train station on the other side of the city, where they are then uniformly sent to the advance base by train.

These boxes of semi-finished 'stone-wood-concrete' materials greatly accelerated the construction speed of the roadbed, shortening the day when the tracks between the various bases would be connected.

Today I was dragged by my instructor to listen to a report, and then forced to have a dinner together

This chapter was written in a hurry. I was still dizzy after drinking some wine~~ I barely managed to catch up.

(End of chapter)