After seeing Walton off, Zhou Jinru looked at the place where he was sitting before and closed his eyes with a headache. Fortunately, Saint Martin was now paralyzed, which gave him a chance to fish in troubled waters.
"I hope Silver Fox can go faster."
After he finished drafting the list, he still hadn't talked to a few operators, especially Jian Lei. He didn't know how familiar she was with Rhode Island's operating style.
"Patrick's spring thunder. The main reason why she was discharged from the army before was because her immediate boss treated soldiers as expendable. She is a former Colombian officer with a strong sense of justice."
Compared with these, his next destination is the equipment department to see how Gray has dismantled the Originium generator.
It was a good thing that Zhou Jinru didn't go. He was shocked when he went to the equipment department area on the lower floor. He could hear the sound of mechanical impact from a distance. It didn't look like these people were doing research on precision equipment, but forging iron.
When he got closer, he saw a large equipment several meters high doing stamping operations. No wonder the sound was so loud.
"Oh, it turns out the doctor is here. Is there any equipment that needs to be made?"
As Xiu San spoke, he threw a scrapped bipolar chip into the recycling point. Zhou Jinru's heart bleeds when he saw it, thinking how long it would take to get this thing out?
The temporary head of the equipment department was wearing a welding mask, but Zhou Jinru looked around and was surprised to find no welding tools. He also saw the doctor's doubts and explained: "I just put it on my face casually and looked like this. It’s more fun to go up there, but it actually has nothing to do with our normal work.”
"..."
Zhou Jinru stared at Xiu San, making him feel scared. He reached out and took off his welding mask, and asked with a dry smile: "Doctor, do you have any ideas?"
"...I want to send you to the front line."
"This...isn't appropriate. I'm not a regular combat operator."
Zhou Jinru waved his hand, turned the wheelchair and moved to the rest area: "I want to ask a few questions, you come with me first."
No matter how unreliable Xiu San is, he is after all a core member of the Equipment Department, and his expertise is beyond question.
Xiu San took off his gloves and put them aside, followed Zhou Jinru and walked over. He nuzzled at the other operators, signaling them to continue their work.
Arriving at the slightly quieter rest area, Zhou Jinru got straight to the point:
"Has Gray told you about the situation?"
"Operator Gray is indeed here, and his idea needs to be put into practice. After all, modifying the Originium generator and imitating it are two different concepts. The former requires a little sense of innovation, while the latter only requires a few skilled lathe workers."
When Xiu San talked about professional topics, he started talking non-stop: "Of course his idea is good. If the Originium generator can be improved, it will be of great benefit to our ship, but this cannot be accomplished overnight. , propose a plan, implement it, perform specific operations, and collect relevant parameters..."
"Stop, stop, stop."
Zhou Jinru interrupted Xiusan's words and frowned: "In other words, even if I can come up with specific data, it will take a lot of time to conduct experiments, right?"
"Doctor, if we can really come up with an improved version of the Source Stone generator in a short time, then there will definitely be a lot of people staring at us. The equipment we are using now has not been improved for many years. Half of the reason is that it is currently It is enough to meet the demand, and the other half of the reason is that its research and development progress has slowed down because developers have discovered its upper limit and touched the ceiling."
What is the ceiling of the Origin Stone engine? It is the Origin Stone. To be precise, it is the utilization rate. But in this world, the Source Stone is the cheapest mineral. As long as you don’t do any purification process, you can have as much as you want.
At present, the research and development of Originium generators has hit the ceiling, and there is no improvement at all. Since we can still sell more equipment, why should we let development enter a bottleneck?
"There may be new energy equipment being developed, but we don't need to spend too much energy on this. If it's just imitation, as long as we don't say anything, and Operator Gray can get some equipment back home, there won't be any big problem."
Xiu San's words made Zhou Jinru deep in thought. He always felt that there was something wrong. For example, the power system in the dream world was based on source stone veins to extract energy. It seemed to be better than the current generators. Why didn't Xiu San mention it? ?
He is not a professional in this area, so what he should ask is: "So is it possible to implement the power system I proposed?"
Xiu San looked at Zhou Jinru strangely and asked cautiously: "Can I ask, why is the doctor so interested in energy?"
"I just stumbled across some information. I'm very interested and want to find out the answer. Isn't this a waste of time?"
Xiu San shook his head. He picked up the ashtray placed on the coffee table, placed his palm flat on the table, and placed the ashtray on the back of his hand.
"First of all, we have to understand one thing. The Origin Stone vein is not static. It is slowly and subtly changing the environment. Most of the time it is calm, but when it enters a violent state, it is like this."
The ashtray on the back of his hand suddenly became dangerous when he made a slight flipping motion with his flat palm, and almost fell to the ground.
"It's very graphic."
Zhou Jinru's face looked a little ugly.
"No, this is just a preliminary violent phenomenon. The source stone veins have been expanding and extending, polluting everything that can be converted into source stones. It should be said that this is the characteristic of source stones, so there are mobile cities to avoid natural disasters. Fortunately we are not at our wits end now.”
Xiu San poured a glass of water for Zhou Jinru, and he took a cup himself, took a sip, and continued: "Building an energy system on the source stone veins is a very genius idea, and at the same time, this genius also has suicidal tendencies. "
"If most of a city's energy comes from the Source Stone vein, then under normal circumstances, it can indeed survive forever, but the Source Stone vein cannot sleep forever. The day it wakes up, the people or things in it will Everything will be doomed, because the Source Stone is not something we can fully grasp yet."
When leaving the equipment department, Zhou Jinru's brows almost turned into frowns. The underground cities in the dream world seemed to place their wealth and life on a dormant volcano. God knows when the volcano will erupt and turn everything into ashes.
"This is an act of drinking poison to quench thirst, but I have no ability to prevent everything from happening."
Zhou Jinru smiled bitterly. The direction of things was beyond his expectation, or it could be said that it was never under his control.
He disliked this instability.
After returning to the room, he found a small cake on the desk, which seemed to be sent by Amiya.
"Doctor, eat something sweet. You will be happy after eating it."
