Such a huge tire brings about a problem, that is, the size of the manufacturing machine must be large enough, at least the existing manufacturing machine cannot do it, and even the segments of the tire cannot be manufactured.
The solution is ready-made. The agent's design includes a large-scale manufacturing machine. Of course, the alien version needs to be developed again.
Lin Xi divided the research task into more than ten sub-parts and distributed them to Chu Jungui, Hathaway and even related researchers. The research and development progress greatly increased. Ten hours later, the design drawings of the alien version of the large-scale joint manufacturing machine were It's done.
The size of the large-scale manufacturing machine is twice that of the original version, with a width of 2 meters, a length of 4 meters, and a height of 4 meters, which allows it to make one-third of the giant tires at one time and then splice them together. It is naturally better to mold tires in one go, but that would place too high demands on the manufacturing machine.
The manufacturing speed of large-scale manufacturing machines has also increased, and Lin Xi planned it to be a mobile base.
The design of the power system and driving mechanism has been completed, and the mobile base already has a basic framework. As the initial version, Lin Xi planned a ten-wheel structure with 4 in the front and 6 in the rear, 60 meters long and 30 meters wide, about the size of half a football field.
With the height of the tires and the shock absorber structure, this big guy can easily pass obstacles of more than 3 meters. In most known areas, there is no obstruction.
In the next two home star days, next to Base 2, a new mobile base frame has appeared. 10 huge tires have been manufactured and placed at designated locations. Dozens of soldiers are welding structural parts made of heavy alloy together, gradually forming a skeleton that connects the tires.
From a distance, the mobile base at this moment looks like tires connected with steel bars.
After completing the basic frame, the soldiers laid the pre-fabricated alloy plates on the frame. This is the floor of the mobile base. The floor is only 3 centimeters thick, so the defense is naturally insufficient, but it is sufficient as an internal structural part. External defense will be solved with specialized armor plates.
Chu Jungui placed and fixed the last piece of floorboard, then stood up straight and looked around. Looking at the huge platform that had just begun to take shape, he suddenly felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction. Such a big thing was actually created?
At this moment, the test subject felt that he finally understood the ancient Egyptians' sense of accomplishment in building the pyramids.
It's just that the size of the thing in front of me is still far from the pyramid. And looking at the platform area, I feel that the wheels are still a bit small. Fortunately, the platform is built on the upper level of the dragon skeleton, and is a full 8 meters away from the ground. If you stand on it, you can barely feel a bit high and far away.
At this time, several soldiers jumped onto the platform each carrying a box of boards. These are the boards that separate the functional areas inside the base. Chu Jungui took a box and installed the standard one-square-meter boards at designated locations according to the design drawings. The prototype of the functional areas of the mobile base slowly emerged.
The outside of the base is wrapped in heavy alloy armor, and the inside is divided into living areas, ammunition depots and production areas, which can take away all the people in the entire No. 2 base.
Powering the mobile base are five grain power furnaces with a total power of 1 million kW. This is enough power to supply a small city. It stands to reason that it is more than enough to drive a mobile base. The area used to store fuel is not large. Most of what is stored in it are consumables to replace the energy replacement part. There are not many real crystal grains.
The production area of the mobile base has limited space. After equipping two large manufacturing machines, the remaining space is only enough for necessary raw material handling and deep processing equipment. The two manufacturing machines are basically enough for the base to maintain itself, but it would be difficult to meet more requirements.
The living area is the area that takes up the most space. In an emergency, the mobile base needs to be able to load everyone onto the base and then transfer. The living needs of nearly two hundred people are not a small amount. Lin Xi specially designed a three-shift sleep and rest system, which also requires nearly 70 beds.
The first and second floors of the mobile base are both rectangular in design, while the upper floor is the armed area. In order to take into account the shooting range in all directions, Lin Xi designed the base into an elliptical shape, stacked layer by layer like terraces, until the top rooftop of the fourth floor.
Weapons stations will be placed on each floor of the oval shape, and the top rooftops are all air defense towers.
In order to install the weapon stations to the maximum extent, Lin Xi designed the intervals between the weapon stations to be very tight, so close that they would affect the shooting range between each other.
The final mobile base was a product of the multi-turret cult, but Lin Xi still had some unfinished ideas. After all, the number of turrets had not exceeded 200, and it was impossible to display Chu Jungui's strength.
In this way, several days passed, and I don't know whether they were licking their wounds or preparing for a more violent attack, but the beast wave never appeared.
Before the beast tide could attack, the initially completed mobile base slowly drove out of Base 2 and headed towards the War Beast Valley.
In the cab, Hathaway looked at the slowly receding land and forest, and said helplessly: "Lin Xi, can't you design the base to look better? This thing is really ugly, it looks a bit like that. It’s still pricked.”
Lin Xi didn't care and said: "It's easy to use. However, it is indeed a bit slow."
"For such a big guy, it's pretty good if it can reach a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour. It's at least faster than the Spinyback and the Rhinoceros. However, the passability is not enough. Just setting up a slope on the front of the car will have limited effect."
"so what should I do now?"
"How about adding a row of wheels on that slope? Then climbing steep slopes won't be a problem."
Lin Xi's eyes lit up and she said, "It makes sense!"
At this time, the car body suddenly shook, several air defense towers on the top opened fire at the same time, and a small black dot exploded in the distance.
"what happened?"
"Messenger." Chu Jungui, who had been silent, replied.
"A courier also needs to use an air defense tower?"
"The rose is on top."
The test subject answered the question incorrectly.
The mobile base roared all the way to the War Beast Valley. All the small beast tides encountered along the way were wiped out and turned into raw materials and ammunition in the internal space of the base.
After a whole day and night, the mobile base slowly stopped. Dozens of pillars stretched out from the chassis and were inserted into the ground, turning the base into a fixed mode. At the same time, the entire base slowly lowered its height and stopped.
Lin Xi looked at the forest to the left, the open space ahead and to the right, and then at the route that had been thoroughly explored, and nodded with satisfaction: "It's right here."
Chu Jungui nodded, clicked a few times on his personal terminal, and several reconnaissance missiles rose into the sky and flew towards the War Beast Valley.
