"I'll go out first and talk about it next time." Mag smiled and put the drawings behind the counter and walked towards the door.
The person who came to pick up Mag was the same one from last time. The two of them nodded slightly and got into the closed carriage.
"Landist... what kind of place is that? I don't know if I can find any relevant information." Mag was still thinking about Jina's previous words in the carriage. He was sure that Jina was not lying, but He still had no idea how to help the fishmen get out of trouble.
"Perhaps you can ask Miss Hill for advice." Mag thought in her mind. The carriage left the city and drove for more than half an hour. Then it stopped. Mag went out and the parking place was still the same as last time. In front of that cliff.
"Mr. Mag, please come in." The assistant said with a smile, and a passage appeared on the cliff.
"Thank you." Mag nodded slightly and walked quickly towards the passage.
After the passage, there is an extremely wide cave.
"Mr. Mag." Blair, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, quickly came forward, held Mag's hand, and said gratefully: "Thank you very much for taking the time to come and provide guidance."
"You're welcome. Miss Hill told me that you have made magical modifications to the steam engine. I am also very interested in it, so I want to come and take a look. Guidance is really out of the question." Mag shook his head quickly.
"Mr. McGonagall, please come here." Blair led Mag into the depths of the cave and said: "We have some immature ideas, but problems have arisen in practical applications, so we specially invited Mr. McGonagall to come and see Look, as a designer of steam locomotives, you may be able to bring us new ideas. First, please take a look at our achievements these days."
The interior of the cave has been cleared, and a dark steam train is parked on the track. The steel behemoth with clear edges and corners looks intimidating under the firelight.
The tall chimney of the steam locomotive is particularly conspicuous, and there are thick metal baffles on both sides of the carriage. There are half-meter-long spikes on the baffles, making it look like a hedgehog.
Compared with the last semi-finished product, this version of the steam locomotive is extremely impactful.
"Considering that enemies and monsters may appear along the way, we added defensive armor to the outside of the steam locomotive to ensure that the steam locomotive will not be easily destroyed," Blair explained.
"This is a good improvement." Mag nodded. Unlike Earth, this world has fierce monsters. Although this increases the weight of the steam locomotive to a certain extent, it also brings safety.
"Mr. McGonagall, please follow me." Blair walked towards the steam locomotive and boarded the inside of the locomotive, followed by McGonagall.
Blair opened the bottom of the carriage from inside, pointed to a formation drawn with complicated lines below and said: "Look, this is an anti-gravity magic formation we added to the bottom of the steam locomotive. This formation is often used by street magicians. It is used to perform levitation techniques, and we want to use this formation to make the steam locomotive achieve a suspended effect, so that the steam locomotive can run faster."
"Anti-gravity magic array? Isn't this an alien version of the maglev train? The magic levitation train?" Mag's eyes lit up. Such a high-end magic array only needed such a small array to complete. Five black stones are embedded at the nodes of the lines, which should provide energy for the magic circle.
From steam locomotives to maglev trains, such a great leap forward that ignored the basic laws of technological development made Mag couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"But we encountered a very difficult problem in actual application. The suspension formation can indeed make the locomotive achieve the effect of levitation, but we cannot let it continue to run smoothly on the track as long as there are slight deviations and curves in the track. , the locomotive will derail and roll over. We have studied this problem for many days and still haven't found a solution." Blair looked up at Mag, scratched his head and said, "Mr. Mag, do you have any suggestions?"
Mag touched his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Can you move the train so I can take a look?"
"Of course." Blair turned around and ordered to start the train.
Mag got out of the car and stood a little further away.
The steam locomotive started much faster than the last time. It should be that some improvements have been made in starting.
White mist sprayed out and the steam locomotive started to start.
At the same time, the anti-gravity magic array was also activated. The second half of the steam locomotive seemed to be grabbed by a giant hand and slowly lifted upwards. Except for the four wheels at the front, the rear wheels were almost suspended in the air. The railway track is connected, and the whole building presents an inclined angle.
"Woo——"
With a long roar, the steam locomotive started and moved forward, like a train being carried by one hand, running forward briskly. The starting speed and traveling speed were obviously much faster than the last test run, and compared with ordinary Steam locomotives are also much faster.
There was a hint of thought in Mag's eyes. Looking at the steam locomotive that was shaking obviously while moving, he already had an idea in his mind.
There was a slight curve in front of the track. The steam locomotive began to slow down before passing the curve and passed the curve at a very low speed. However, the car body still tilted significantly, and the tail showed signs of leaving the track.
However, the test driver should have summed up a lot of experience in rolling over, and by reducing the speed, he still managed to stabilize the train and slow down to a stop.
"Has the track laying progress been completed a lot?" Mag asked looking at Blair.
"Yes, about a third of the way has been completed." Blair nodded, not quite understanding why Mag suddenly asked this.
"In this case, the track cannot be changed, it can only be changed on the train." Mag nodded, walked towards the steam locomotive parked at the end of the track, and said: "Please give me a pen and paper."
"Okay." Blair took the pen and paper from his assistant and quickly followed.
Mag first walked around the steam locomotive, checked the wear and tear of the four wheels in front of the track, and then carefully inquired about the parameters of the steam locomotive. He took the pen and paper from Blair and began to draw on the paper. made sketches and calculations.
"I heard that he is a chef. Does he really know how to design?"
"He designed this steam locomotive. Do you think people understand it?"
"But just looking at it like this, can it really solve the problem of the train not being able to turn? We have been studying it all night for so many days and thought of so many ways, but we can't solve it."
Other engineering staff looked on, and some couldn't help but murmured in a low voice, with a bit of doubt.
When Mag heard the mutterings of the engineering staff, he just raised his eyebrows and did not respond.
"Judging from the current situation, I have drawn the areas where I personally think improvements can be made here. You can take a look at them as a reference."
About ten minutes later, Mag stopped writing and handed the three sketches directly to Blair. Then he glanced at his watch and said with a smile: "I'm going back to cooking."
