After the salesperson showed off the various powerful features of the vehicle he was selling, he also offered an irresistible price.
"Not ninety-nine, not nine thousand, just ninety-eight! Take the steam locomotive home! What are you still hesitating about? It's better to act than to move your heart."
Although the salesperson's rhetoric was a bit like those selling insurance in a small county, the price really shocked many people.
Although this price is definitely not low, for ordinary people, even if they don't eat or drink for a year, they can only accumulate five or six hundred gold coins at most, but a vehicle like this is impossible no matter how you look at it.
It can be bought with a year's savings. If it is a family, if it can be bought in a year or two frugally, it is already quite exciting for most people.
This price is already countless times better than the price of a car that cost tens of thousands or even more gold coins before. Although Karl was tempted, he did not buy it immediately. The savings over the years allowed him to buy it, but the performance of the car in all aspects has yet to be improved.
Observation, whether it is really as described by the salesperson remains to be verified.
But he soon regretted his decision, because the first batch of steam locomotives on sale were sold out on the spot, and almost the next day, they could be seen on some roads outside the city.
Now, most of them are training me on how to drive and how to obey the traffic rules.
Karl watched other buyers driving vehicles that spewed out thick white smoke at high speed, and the performance of the vehicles did not fluctuate at all during the driving process. He felt regretful and wanted to slap himself in the face.
After questioning, he had a deeper understanding of what an excellent vehicle this was.
"Hey! Old Carl, your precious monster needs a lot of feed every day, right? I heard that it is wholesaled directly from the company, and the price is not cheap, right? Do you know how much fuel my new car needs to run for a whole day?
One hundred grams! Less than a tea cup. Do you know how far I have traveled? I ran a full 500 kilometers in one day. It is a pity that the compartment of this car is still a bit small. It can only pull more than 2,000 kilograms at a time.
It only has a little more cargo than my previous carriage."
Facing the car owner who bought the car, Carl had the urge to let his monster hit him to death, but his reason told him that if he crashed into it, the one he drove would be the first to turn into a puddle of flesh when faced with the steel monster.
Warcraft.
Unsurprisingly, steam-powered vehicles have been widely praised and gradually become popular in thousands of households. The application of steam power is also entering thousands of households in various forms.
When many people are asked why water is flowing in the heating pipes in the north and why they need to be heated, they will not be able to give an answer for a while. The real reason is that what used to flow in the heating pipes was indeed steam, and
At that time, the pipes were also used in industry, but they were later transformed into heating pipes for central heating.
This means that it is theoretically feasible to transport high-pressure steam to the entire city through a central boiler. It only requires a large amount of special metals to create an underground pipeline network that is thick enough and strong enough to meet this demand.
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And such pipeline networks are emerging in cities one after another. Steam seems to have become the blood flowing in the blood vessels of cities. It is continuously pressurized by boilers and transported to thousands of households, just like modern society.
The electricity in the machine generally drives the equipment in thousands of households.
The first thing to be driven by steam was the water heater in each home. Then it became a special steam oven in the kitchen. Then the steam drove the elevator in the high-rise building. To be precise, this should not be done anymore.
It's called an elevator instead of a steam elevator.
The rotation of chains and gears drives the tall clock tower in the center of the city. The power of steam drives the rotation of the huge hour and minute hands, bringing people precise time that is meaningful only in the industrial age, and also allowing people who originally lived in confusion to start their lives.
Become regular.
Steam valves can be seen everywhere inside the city, and devices using steam power have become ubiquitous. Driven by steam, water plants have been built in the city, and power plants are also in the process of construction. However, because of steam
Power is too convenient, and the characteristics of electricity in this world are slightly different from other worlds. Even if technology continues to advance in the future, it will be difficult to completely replace steam power.
In the process of construction, the city has become more and more three-dimensional as time goes by, because for the people of Dou Qi Continent, flying into the sky is no longer a difficult thing. The flames that consume Dou Qi can
By heating the air, the air expands to obtain thrust. This is actually the principle of aeroengines. However, aeroengines often require fuel and its full combustion, and only after mixing with air can it generate sufficient thrust.
The technical difficulty is quite high in theory, and it is almost impossible to put it into civilian use. But now there is a way to make it fly, that is, without considering whether the fuel is fully burned, as long as the temperature is high enough and the degree of air expansion is
It's naturally big enough.
So there are small jet engines that can be carried around. The size is only about the thickness of an adult's calf and the length is about the same as an arm. Two of them can be carried on the back. The mass is not too big, only 6.5 kilograms. Although the price
Not high, but there are certain requirements for the material, which must be sufficiently high-temperature resistant and insulated, otherwise it will burn the user after it is made into a backpack.
This type of small aviation engine uses special fuel as fuel and consumes very little fuel. A one-liter fuel tank is enough to support its flight for two hours, and it is a continuous flight.
The thrust of a single engine is 45 kilograms, which means that a person who weighs no more than 180 kilograms can fly with a thrust-to-weight ratio of over one, and can take off and land vertically. There are auxiliary wings at the back that can pop up.
Part of it is used to save energy on medium and long-distance flights.
And such portable devices are increasingly appearing in people's lives, which is why cities are becoming more and more three-dimensional. Shops can open their doors on the second floor, third floor or even the top floor, with just a little effort.
Jumping, even ordinary people without any fighting spirit can rise into the air and land smoothly at a height of tens of meters.
Such an ability was originally only possible by the Douwang-level experts. In addition to relying on the jet engines in these flight packs to fly, there are also many people who pursue coolness and speed and buy mass-produced versions of Tiantian.
Yan Jiu Xing Yi, a large number of flying fighting skills actually attracted some attention from the Tian Yan Sect and others. They are a force with strong men at the level of Dou Zong, and Tian Yan Jiu Xing Yi is their unique skill.
Originally, the sect disciples suspected that the large number of flying fighting skills was caused by the leakage of their secret skills. However, later some sect disciples secretly visited and investigated, and found that these flying fighting skills were quite inferior, and they all used the wings of first- and second-level magic beasts.
, no matter how you look at it, there is a huge difference between it and the gorgeous wings inherited by their family, so they went back to deal with the errands. The other party only used a very inferior flying fighting skill. After learning it, they couldn't even fly directly. They had to rely on something called flying.
Only with the backpack device can it take off.
However, the disciples of the sect have also described that if the flying fighting skills are combined with a flying backpack, the speed and height of flight will be greatly improved. Even the high-level wings made within their sect will be greatly improved when paired with a flying backpack.
There are considerable bonuses after the jetpack, so that this kind of transportation, which is similar to a small electric donkey in the Tagore Desert, quickly became a hot-selling export product, and with it, the Lianjiama Empire
The foreign exchange income has greatly increased, which also made Ya Fei, who had been trembling under the power of the heaven, relieved. No matter what, this year's fiscal revenue is definitely enough to cope with the heaven.
In the rapidly industrializing desert, a brand-new profession is verifying their functions. Lanno solicited suggestions from workers, and after eliminating some obviously unpalatable and sensational suggestions, he finally named this profession Simple
The unpretentious blacksmith.
Compared with ordinary workers, the technical learning threshold of these blacksmiths is quite high, which is enough to be called professionals. At the same time, the value that this technology can exert in society is also extremely high. In the future, perhaps
There is a chance to become a being that can rival an alchemist.
Different from ordinary people's impression, they who are called blacksmiths are not the image of strong men wielding forging hammers and forging weapons on the iron furnace. In the production workshop, every blacksmith wears close-fitting clothing.
The uniform is like a tights, with only the head and hands exposed. Even so, a layer of skin care products worth almost as much as a second-grade elixir is applied to the surface of the head and hands to ensure protection in the hot environment.
, their skin will not burn.
And after they arrived at their workstations, what appeared in front of them was not a forging table, but a chip-like structure. The materials in their hands often required extremely high temperatures to melt into liquid.
, and even if it melts into a liquid, without precise control, it will just melt randomly into a pile of meaningless twisted metal.
What they have to do is to use flames to etch standard structures like circuit diagrams on these hard and high-temperature resistant metal sheets.
In front of them were lampstands that looked like candles. The green flames burning on them were the Qinglian Earth Core Fire. According to the safety regulations in the factory, they had to check whether the flames were stable and clean the flames before each start of work.
All combustible objects around them can only be started after arranging the tools. As they enter a state of concentration, fighting spirit will form a circular sheet in front of their pupils. There are a large number of scales on the circular sheet, which is
Their hyperspectral vision can see infrared and ultraviolet rays, and can judge temperature through the color of special visual effects.
At the same time, you can also switch to micro-vision surgery, dynamic visual enhancement surgery, and regional subjective time-relaxation surgery, or nerve reflex enhancement surgery.
These are all brand-new fighting skills systems that need to be used in conjunction with specially constructed meridians in the body. Otherwise, it would be even more difficult to use them directly than the heaven-level fighting skills. Although these spells are practical, they are more
It can play a role in daily life and industrial production. On the frontal battlefield, even the most suitable nerve reflex enhancement techniques and dynamic vision enhancement techniques for combat can only play a certain auxiliary effect. The power of one's own speed
If it is not enough, if the fighting spirit is not strong enough, people will still be able to defeat skill with force.
Really powerful people with cultivation talents disdain to cultivate this kind of ability. Only those who have difficulty becoming Dou Masters in their lifetime and who rely on meridian transplantation to gain cultivation abilities will embark on this path.
After activating these spells, you can see faint lines of light emerging on the body surfaces of the blacksmiths. It is the meridians in their bodies that glow slightly as energy flows through them, and those that appear on their bodies like half
The special effect like a transparent window is the special effect of light under the distortion of fighting spirit, helping humans to see various fluctuations other than visible light.
After taking the metal sheet, the blacksmith must first use ultrasonic flaw detection to ensure that the internal structure of the metal sheet is uniform, and then release the fighting spirit thread. The cyan flame will flow along the thread like a liquid. As long as the thread is maintained
Stable, you can guide the flame to where you need it, and then you can see strips of cyan filaments, with the help of the auxiliary window in the field of vision, falling on the metal sheet, the auxiliary window in the field of view
A diagram of the chip that needs to be engraved next will be projected on the window. As long as you follow the diagram, you can complete their task.
The great thing about these blacksmiths is that the least among them need to control four thin lines of Dou Qi at the same time to guide the flames to carve at the same time, and the speed is very fast, much faster than writing with a pen, and the carved lines are
It is accurate and stable, and can quickly leave even and regular traces on the metal surface under the marks of its own auxiliary window.
As the ultra-high temperature cyan flame sweeps across, tiny traces of evaporation will appear on the surface of the metal. After completing their processing, the blacksmiths need to control the cyan flame again to melt another metal.
, and then wrapped the molten metal with Dou Qi, allowing them to fill into the subtle evaporation traces. In the end, it was just such sheets one after another that were stacked together, and this was how the blacksmiths spliced together this brand new work.
Industrial equipment and combat weapons forged in the era.
Compared with traditional weapons, which almost only have one feature: sturdiness, the weapons of the new era already have various magical special abilities.
