Chapter 30 30We fixed the BUG that there was no player interface and
Chapter 30 30. We fixed the BUG of no player interface and optimized a more realistic physics engine
When Murphy traveled to this world and saw the broken Steam 800 refrigerator in Tris's courtyard, he knew that there were some "unique technologies" in this world that were difficult to explain in ordinary terms.
Later, he saw a steam-powered repeating crossbow in the village of Moreland. He once thought that using steam power for war was probably the most ruthless job that steam mechanics could do, but it turned out that he used it to persuade the children.
If players understand the new world with a little more humility, they can actually apply it to themselves.
"Psychic power. Calculation orb?"
Murphy looked at Miriam with a fan-shaped expression that was mixed with confusion, curiosity, and confusion.
He could understand these six words when taken apart, but he had no idea what they meant when combined.
Maxim next to him also looked confused.
Miriam just told him that the matter was serious, but the loyal vampire worshipers' understanding of "steam engineering" was limited to these five words.
Like his master, he is a true husband-wife in this respect.
"Oh, let me explain it from the beginning."
Miriam looked at the blank expressions of the master and servant in front of her and knew that they did not understand her worries at all.
She took out another orb array from the box under her buttocks and put it in her hand, raised it at a special angle and placed it above her eyes, and said to Murphy:
"Look at the orb from this angle and tell me what you see?"
Murphy followed Miriam's instructions and raised the gem array in his hand.
The vampire's vision at night is quite good. When the gem in his hand was turned to a specific angle, he immediately saw some unique structures reflected inside the translucent gem.
It is very much like a super complex system formed by the combination of tiny gears and mechanical structures. It is densely packed but assembled together in a very regular and industrially beautiful way, and among the transparent gemstones that are larger than a fingernail
There are three systems like this, and they are connected to each other by a set of lever systems to form a larger whole.
"This is impossible!"
Murphy immediately retorted:
"If it's not my eyesight. No, it must be my eyesight! No matter how high the industrial level of the halflings is, it is impossible to make ultra-micro components with such precision!
There are at least tens of thousands of parts assembled together.
Is this some kind of illusion?"
"To be precise, it is a triple-packed simple psychic difference engine composed of 44,327 parts, iterated to the third generation.
It is said that the calculation speed is super fast!”
Miriam shrugged and smoothly said a rather complicated phrase in Transian, which made Maxim's mind spin a little.
But Murphy understood.
He continued to look at Miriam questioningly, who explained:
"Don't look at me like that. I don't understand its specific operating mode. I'm just an administration student. I learned these terms from the works of Professor Bach Gaslamp, just to pass "A Brief History of Machinery"
I got credits for elective courses, but I didn’t expect it to come in handy in this situation.
In short, the miniature difference engine in the calculation orb is certainly not real!
The prototype of this thing occupies an entire exhibition hall in the underground museum of the Shardau Craftsman University, but the halfling mechanical craftsmen got inspiration from the phenomenon of 'psionic erosion' that occurs everywhere in the world.
They and their dwarf brothers used special techniques to manipulate psychic energy. With the help of the psionic masters of the Ring Tower, they used psionic formulas to mobilize the psionic factors widely found in nature to form some kind of peculiar spell. Finally, at the microscopic level,
The level implementation simulates the operation of the difference engine.
Since then, micro-computing orbs have emerged, and halfling steam engineering has successfully entered an era."
Miriam shook the orb in her hand and said:
"This thing is found in various automatons in Port Chardeau. The one we have is a pure computing type and does not come with any control accessories. It only needs to be filled with psychic energy, and it can help the user do many things.
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"for example?"
Maxim asked stupidly.
His brain, which had been too confused with metaphysics since childhood, really couldn't understand what Miriam just said, but his question was just right.
The red-haired lady rolled her eyes and explained patiently:
"For example, it can help you translate a poem written in Elvish in one minute, or it can help you plan in a few seconds how to spend next month's salary and how much you have spent this year.
If necessary, it can even help you make a detailed account of your income and expenses. You only need to activate the psychic projector, and you can even see its calculation results with your eyes.
When I enrolled in Craftsman University, I was also given a fist-sized second-generation computing orb as part of the student benefits.
Nowadays, many campuses of Shardo University are undergoing "storage reform". The professors plan to use psychic orbs and supporting databases to replace ancient paper documents.
That's really convenient!
Only an area the size of a castle is needed to store all the information in an old-fashioned library the size of Cadman City. If you need the book, just tell your calculation orb, and it can retrieve and copy it for you.
If you're lazy enough, you can even ask it to read it for you.
Of course, an external psionic microphone requires extra money. Only those aristocratic young men who are not short of money will use this service. I heard that they will use computing orbs to read some very obscene things to cheer up on certain occasions."
"That's not the point!"
Murphy probably understood what this computing orb is. Although it is not necessarily exactly the same, it can basically be regarded as the "computer and operating system" of this world. However, at present, this thing should only be used in Chardo's half body.
Human territory sprouted and was put into use, but it had not yet spread to other parts of the continent.
So he asked:
"The point is, why did the Plantagenet Kingdom make great efforts to smuggle the orbs of calculation back from the Shardor halflings? And why did they label them as military supplies?"
"Because it sure can be used to fight a war, Murphy."
Miriam sighed and said:
"That was when I first entered school, and I heard about this from my counselor, an old halfling lady. It was said that the Tower of Rings sided with the Plantagenet Kingdom in the Ten Years' War.
When the situation was unfavorable at the beginning of the war, the psionicists proposed to put the Orb of Calculation into military use. They also participated in the development of the Orb of Calculation, and their understanding of this thing was second only to the halfling mechanics.
They transformed the internal logic and simulation algorithm of the computing orb, and spent three months to establish a communication and command system covering the entire Greene Army, using each computing orb and their users as communication nodes and even computing artillery.
The shooting direction achieves a rapid improvement in command effectiveness.
Two years before the Ten Years' War, the Old Faith rebels and their companions spent sixteen months to capture the two border provinces of the Kingdom of Plantagenet. After the Orb of Operation was put into the war, the Greene Army and the Old Army who had completed the change of gear
It took the Praetorian Guard only three months to drive the rebels out of the country.
I can't imagine how they could use these things to fight, but after that incident, the Steam Lords immediately ordered a ban on the export of the Calculation Orbs.
Apparently, the Plantagenet Kingdom's behavior of devoting their efforts to war made the mechanics very angry. It is said that they also completely severed the cooperative research and development with Ring Tower because of this incident.
The 3,000 orb arrays we have snatched back now were ordered by the Pioneer Legion. Perhaps the legendary General Loren also wanted to imitate the Greene Legion's reforms and complete the improvements to his legions.
But if I had to guess, there is a high probability that these orbs may not come from the Chardor halflings."
The red-haired lady looked over the array of orbs in her hand twice and said to Murphy:
"There is no serial number on it, and the style is a little different from the genuine ones I have seen. These things may have been made by others.
But to be honest, apart from halfling craftsmen, I can’t think of any other force on the mainland that can make such sophisticated things?”
Murphy nodded.
Miriam has told all the information she knows. As she said, this shipment is of great significance to the Plantagenet Kingdom and is indeed a hot potato.
There is a high probability that General Loren will not give up.
However, Murphy was still a little confused. He held the computing orb array in his hand and used the item identification. A second later, an information label popped up in front of his eyes:
Name: The Third Generation of Psychic Calculation Orb·Cracked Version
Efficacy: By completing psychic resonance with upper-level nodes, a regional psychic encrypted communication network can be established, with a preset standard permission tree to achieve simple information exchange between parallel nodes and upper and lower nodes, multiple communication modes and relative orientation calculations, and customized coordinates
Mark and share, simple psychic projection, multi-language simple translation, etc.
hint!
The computing orb encryption lock has been completely cracked, so it supports user-defined editing of additional functions.
However, this operation requires a certain understanding of the field of steam engineering micromachines, psychic erosion phenomena, binary information storage theory, third-generation psychic differential machine construction, and cybernetics.
hint!
Please find the superior node to activate and initialize the same batch of computing orbs.
Producer: Su Ke·Flywheel
Item description:
[After I left Port Chardeau, the steam engineers' research on the wonderful machinery stopped. Especially when I saw the so-called third-generation computing orb, I was already convinced of the depravity of my idiot colleagues.
After all, cracking the seven-fold encryption they are proud of is no more difficult than deceiving the trolls from the last piece of meat in their pot.
The fact is that I not only completed the cracking, but also upgraded it!
They want to monopolize this wonderful technology, but I want to give it to everyone who needs it or not, and earn some pocket money for myself.
Well, thank you for being born in this world where smart people establish rules and wipe out the fools! - Suluke Flywheel]
Murphy narrowed his eyes.
He immediately thought of the best use scenario for this psychic calculation orb, and began to thank fate in his heart for the gift.
"try to find!"
He looked up and said to Miriam and Maxim:
"Look for it in the goods! If General Loren plans to use this thing to establish his own legion command system, then there should be a higher-level node for him to use the commanding orb. Find it!"
"Yeah, how could I forget this!"
Miriam jumped up immediately.
Murphy is right, there is a strict permission tree design between the psychic computing orbs, and there is no way to activate the entire system without activating the superior nodes.
She directed Maxim to step forward and lift the overturned carriage, but it was too heavy and the blood servant was injured again. Murphy shook his head and stepped forward to grab the edge of the carriage with both hands.
Relying on the 10.5 power given by the character template upgraded to rare and exerting force in the strengthening of the night, the entire carriage can be easily lifted on one side.
The two assistants immediately climbed in, first pushed out the crushed soldier, and then took out all the large and small boxes inside.
In the deepest part of the carriage, Miriam found an exquisite brass box.
She carefully took the thing out and placed it in front of Murphy. There was a metal plate on the lock of the thing, but there were only two buttons 0 and 1 on it.
"It's a binary encryption lock. I've seen this kind of safe in books! It's quite a traditional purely mechanical structure, but very useful. It contains inert materials so it's not affected by psychic spells. It usually has an acid bottle or fine workmanship burning gold inside.
The power of the bomb can destroy everything within ten meters."
The red-haired girl rubbed her head and said:
"This is troublesome. Entering it without a password may destroy the things inside."
Murphy didn't say anything, just put his hand on the brass box.
Item identification starts! Information label pops up:
Name: Leak Flywheel’s self-destructible safe type 400
Utility: Store valuables.
Item description:
[Sulk Flywheel is a talented halfling mechanic who comes from a noble family but is a deviant. He has many bad habits! For example, all lockboxes will use a unified password. This is the countless examples of the mad genius who now lives in the Dark Mountains.
One of the little secrets.
People still don’t know the life and background of the black merchant of mechanical weapons, Suik Feilun, but there are rumors that his favorite girl’s birthday is April 14th.]
"Papa pa pa"
As a former professional software tester, Murphy raised his hand without hesitation and entered the string of binary characters 110011110. Miriam looked at him with horror on her face.
She felt that Murphy must be pressing randomly, so she quickly took a few steps back and crouched down with her head in her arms to prevent herself from being hurt if the safe exploded.
But then a miracle happens!
When Murphy raised his finger, the small brass box popped open with a click, revealing the round calculation orb inside.
It is larger and more delicate than other psychic calculation orbs, about the size of a baby's fist, and the silver-gray base plate used for decoration and protection on the outside also has the factory number left by the halfling mechanics.
Is this actually a genuine product?
However, why is its appearance so different from ordinary calculation orbs?
With such doubts, Murphy reached out and took out the core computing orb as the superior node from the box. But the moment he touched it, the translucent character card in front of Murphy's eyes suddenly blurred, like a TV.
The snowflake-like shadow that appears after the picture is disturbed.
It returned to normal after a second.
Then under Murphy's surprised gaze, a line of prompts jumped out in front of him:
A special technological item [Fourth Generation Psionic Calculation Orb Trial Type·Codename 003] was detected. The level of psychic technology possessed by this item is sufficient to complete the simplified reproduction of some functions of the test administrator system!
Ask Alpha to specify the features that need to be simplified from the list of currently unlocked features.
hint!
Since the manufacturing process of this item is backward and the principle is complicated, it is still in the early stage of the technology tree, resulting in a small data memory. Therefore, please do not specify complex functions to reproduce.
"I'm so lucky today!"
Murphy whistled, with a smile of double happiness on his face.
Although he still doesn't understand how this thing works, and he doesn't quite understand to what extent the weird steam engineering in this world has developed, it doesn't matter!
Because, isn’t there the player interface that he has been thinking about for a long time?
