mechanical court

Through the battle with No. [-], he has learned a lot of experience in fighting mechanical bodies, so he plans to refer to various mechanical bodies on the Internet to further optimize his fighting form.During this process, Ivan discovered that the power furnace required was far beyond his imagination.And most of the power supply of the power furnace is not consumed to maintain the body's movement, but to maintain the consciousness of the individual mechanic.

As we all know, amino acids and nucleotides, the basic units of life, come from carbon as the skeleton.The main reason why life can evolve gradually is that carbon has a high degree of stability.Carbon chains can be extended one by one to evolve into proteins and nucleic acids, and then evolve into primitive single cells.

In addition to the basis of stability, there is another decisive factor, that is, carbon-based life is very, very energy-efficient.

There are hundreds of billions of neurons in the human brain, and there are 240 trillion synapses on the nerve cells, and only 25 watts of energy are needed to drive the brain to produce various complex emotions.But for machines, even simulating the simplest neuron activity of the human brain consumes hundreds of thousands of times more energy.

Therefore, organic life can use a little energy to drive an extremely complex system, but pure mechanical life will never be able to do so.

Because of this, once a mechanic fully enters a purely mechanized combat mode, the energy consumed for the 'brain activities' to maintain personal consciousness will increase to more than hundreds of thousands of times - most of the expenditure of the power furnace is consumed here .

It is worth noting that if you reduce excess "brain activity" in order to save energy before condensing the soul fire, it is equivalent to actively causing insufficient blood supply to your brain!Even if the 'blood supply' is restored after a period of time, irreversible damage will occur, ranging from memory loss to severe personality defects.

Therefore, the difference in combat performance between a third-level mechanic and a fourth-level mechanic, even with the same mechanical configuration, can be said to be a world of difference.The former needs to consume a huge amount of energy to maintain 'brain activity', while the latter has gradually surpassed the concept of 'biology' and can use full power in combat.

Chapter 158 Maker Ivan

Because of this, a mechanic can slowly adjust everything else, except for a power furnace. Without a power furnace, he is semi-disabled. He cannot do high-paying jobs in many professional fields, and even the government will not recognize him. Mechanic grade.

The combination of scarcity and necessity has led to the extremely expensive price of this product, and the price of mass-produced products is also around [-] million federal currency.

For an ordinary mechanic from a civilian background, this amount of money is almost astronomical, and buying mass-produced products is equivalent to buying after-sales products.Just like the housing prices in the Blue Star Porcelain Country, first a down payment wipes out your current pockets, and then the decades-long mortgages trickle down.

However, the "power furnace slave" is better than the "house slave", that is, the mechanic has the right to choose not to buy it, and build it for himself according to his ability.

But if you want to build it yourself, the specific difficulty is higher than spending 40 million federal coins - because the technology of the power furnace involves more than 100 related majors, more than [-] kinds of supporting parts, and a lot of money needs to be invested in various experiments , no consortium will generously disclose the core information.

In addition to the back-loan mode and the do-it-yourself mode, there is also a technical team mode.However, this model burns money even more. It is equivalent to hiring a technical team to match the technology on the market, and the cost is unimaginable.

Among these three modes, the difficulty is the most by doing it yourself, followed by spending money to raise a technical team, and finally buying mass-produced products.

However, even if it is to spend money to buy mass-produced products, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary family mechanics.Therefore, they either join the federal government and establish personal attachment with the government, or work for some large consortia and form personal attachment with the consortium.Therefore, the number of freelance mechanics in the Federation is very small, and a large part of them are major shareholders or heirs of the consortium.

Yiwen can now be considered to understand that the strength of the mechanic system is completely spent on money.There is no cost at all to practice the two holy scriptures like I used to. I used to think that the scripture system was weak, but now I see that each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

But now that you have embarked on this path, you can't be afraid of burning money. If you want to become stronger, you have to burn money desperately!But burning money also needs to follow the basic law. It’s not enough to just chew on the billions of federal coins. You have to let this huge sum of money flow into capital and create value continuously.

The upgrade of a mechanic is inseparable from money. The more money you have, the smoother your upgrade will be. But how do you make money?

Ivan was really at a loss, and felt that he was a failure as a time traveler - he had neither cross-age technology nor cross-age thinking, and even had to spend a lot of time catching up with other people's technology and thinking.

However, there seems to be some slight differences in my own body.

For example, he can turn on the combat mode of the mechanical body without installing a power furnace, and can use light energy to maintain consumption for a long time-this is fully realized at the moment when Ivan successfully fuses the divine source metal. experience.

According to the theory of high energy consumption of mechanization, this phenomenon in my body is completely unreasonable.

You know, even the most common mass-produced power furnace has an electric power of three gigawatts—basically equivalent to the power of an ordinary nuclear power plant.

The light energy reserve in his body is close to the power generation of a nuclear power plant! ?

This is impossible!

Then there is only one possibility left, that is, the basic structure of one's own body is very special, and it can maintain the energy-saving and high efficiency of carbon-based organisms in a mechanized state.As for what is special about it, in fact, he already has a little idea in his mind, but he just needs to conduct a series of experiments to prove this idea.

one-one-one-one

The basement of the apartment, under the pale light.

Ivan was sitting at an abandoned small brown wooden table. There was a silver dinner plate on the table, and there were a few fine iron filings in the dinner plate.Staring at the metal particles on the dinner plate, he silently pointed his left hand, fingers outstretched, palm down, facing those few iron filings.

呲——!

Accompanied by the subtle sound of the air being burned, strands of molten golden light seeped out of the palm, rotating inwards in a turbine shape, and quickly condensed into a small golden sun.

"After the fusion of Shenyuan metal, the light energy seems to have undergone some subtle changes." Ivan turned his palm over and carefully looked at the slightly dancing golden light ball in his palm. He felt that there was a strange wave in the light, which gave people a kind of Feel alive and alive.

"It was the same feeling at that time... The vibrant light enveloped the entire operating room... All the mechanical instruments seemed to be given life at that moment, and I seemed to be able to hear their cheers..."

He recalled the special experience after successfully fusing the Shenyuan metal, and his dark pupils revealed a trace of confusion—that indescribable feeling, as if the king was accepting the worship of his courtiers.

"At that time, I unconsciously released a large amount of light energy, and after the release was stopped, those sounds disappeared almost at the same time. In other words, could it be my power that gave them vitality to some extent?" Ivan thought Here, flipping the palm close to the dinner plate, pushed the ball of light towards one of the iron filings.

Whoosh-!

The golden ball of light suddenly turned into a beam of light, cutting through the air and penetrating down, like a straight golden thread, directly hitting the iron filings on the dinner plate.This process is as if water droplets seeped into the sea, rain and dew dissolved in the soil, and the golden light energy was completely infused with iron filings without any hindrance.

laugh--!

In Ivan's expectant eyes, the iron filings suddenly ignited like gunpowder.Within a few seconds, there was a unique sound, which burned into a wisp of blue smoke under Ivan's eyes.

"Too much energy input at one time? Try reducing the intensity of the light energy." Ivan stretched out his palm unwillingly, condensed the light energy again, and injected a beam of light that was slightly weaker than before into another grain of iron filings. middle.

laugh--!

After absorbing the light energy, the iron filings burned into blue smoke again.

"The intensity has to be halved!" Ivan was mentally prepared for a long-term war of resistance, and injected light energy again without being discouraged.

This time, the iron filings that absorbed the light energy quickly revealed a distinctive characteristic—after a strange trembling, it seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes, and it turned out to be like a low-level protozoa. It squirmed on the dinner plate at an extremely slow speed.

"It's alive!?"

Ivan was surprised and delighted, and almost screamed, staring at the activated iron filings on the dinner plate, the light in his eyes became brighter and brighter.

one-one-one-one

Next, Ivan forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and scanned the body of the metal protozoa with mental power, and found that this piece of iron filings did have the characteristics of a single-celled organism.Through the eye of insight given by Sherlock, he can see clearly that the molecular structure of the iron element has been completely changed.And on this basis, a biological macromolecule close to dna is further formed, but without gene fragments.

This discovery almost made Ivan explode with joy, and finally suppressed the urge to growl, and scanned the metal protozoan again with mental power.

This time, he discovered something more.

The combination of the Shenyuan metal with the human body will endow the fuser with various characteristics of the metal while retaining the stability of the carbon element.After incorporating its own light energy, the elemental structure of ordinary steel has also become close to Shenyuan metal, which not only is compatible with the stability of the carbon base, but also produces characteristics similar to organic matter.But closeness is closeness after all, it cannot be fused with real organic matter, and there is a huge gap in quality. The advantage is that it is more energy-efficient than the creation of Shenyuan metal!

"No, no, something seems to be missing?"

After his brain cooled down a bit, Ivan observed the slowly wriggling metal protozoa, only to find it cold and numb, not as agile as those mechanical instruments in the operating room.

"What went wrong!?"

He thought hard for a few minutes, then suddenly had an idea, and almost immediately leaned over to the dinner plate.Stretch out your hand to gather a cloud of dark energy, control the intensity of the energy, shrink it into a bundle of pitch-black silk threads, and slowly inject it into the body of the metal protozoa.

呲——呲味——!

After absorbing the dark energy injected by Ivan, the originally cold and numb metal life actually sent out subtle mental fluctuations, like siblings looking for their own brains, and pets calling for their masters.

"I see. At that time, I not only released a large amount of light energy, but also unconsciously released the dark energy of the sacred tome of the underworld." Ivan held out an index finger in a good mood, and let the metal protozoa climb up along the fingernail, and finally Command it to stop on the back of the hand.