Overturned Tower

Chapter 368 Monopoly of Materials Science

Although this sky-high hotel has only fifty floors, it is the tallest building on Tongshen Island.

Surrounded by drones, the entire building is completely wrapped. In the dark night, it was like a palace of a demon king surrounded by bats.

It can become the tallest building on Tongshen Island because each floor of it has a considerable height.

When you look up, it looks like a magnificent palace. Each floor has an astonishing height of nearly twenty meters.

To stretch the space of each floor so high, but also to maintain stability and firmness, obviously requires special strength building materials.

But the Taltaros high-rise hotel easily solved this problem.

"How did you do it?"

Standing in the sightseeing elevator, Russell looked down layer by layer as people gradually approached him, moved away, became as small as ants, and then completely disappeared from view.

He suddenly asked: "One floor is 20 meters high, and a fifty-story building is a full 1,000 meters in height...Even if other buildings reach half its height, the high-rise buildings will inevitably crumble. If there is a strong wind blowing, the top floor It even shakes.

"Materials and engineering, it's very difficult to keep buildings safe at this height."

Therefore, the buildings on other sky islands still have a standard height of three to four meters per floor. Only Tongshen Island has that kind of extremely high floor... However, although the high-rise buildings in other places are scary high, they are actually a kind of giant buildings-"bridges" erected between different high-rise buildings, connecting these buildings Relying on each other together. It's like connecting stakes in the ground to form a fence.

But...Although the Tartaros high-rise hotel is also connected to other buildings, it is only below the 20th floor, and there is a corridor bridge every two floors. After all, the first floor of other buildings is about four meters, while the first floor of Tartarus is twenty meters.

"To be precise, the standard building height for each floor is 19.8 meters."

No. 44 responded obediently and smoothly: "The Tartaros Hotel was built using the most cutting-edge technology of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

"The building reinforcement uses an emerging material called 'guide steel', and the concrete layer is also doped with special shock-absorbing metal powder. Even if the machine soldiers directly bombard the tall building, it can dissolve 96% of the shock wave.

"Whether it is a hurricane, or a bomb detonated inside, or a direct bombardment from mecha soldiers and high-ranking psykers, all the vibrations and impacts will be evenly distributed to the entire building by the shock-absorbing metal immediately. body. And the lower corridor bridge can further disperse it to the surrounding buildings. Unless we can smash the entire G3 area in an instant, we will always remain safe and sound.

"As long as it is not completely shattered in the first place, the conductive steel in the building structure will convert it into electrical energy with high efficiency and store it in the backup energy center underground of the hotel. Even if it is at a height of more than forty floors, it will never There would be the slightest jolt—even if the mechs hit it straight on, it would just shatter itself, and Tartarus would be unscathed."

"so smart?"

Russell was also a little surprised: "Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

Unexpectedly, No. 44 replied flatly.

"Yes, I have seen it. Not long after Tartarus was built, a rebel force installed a total of forty-six large bombs from the ground floor and tried to blow up the hotel from the ground floor. But the only thing their bombs damaged was It was just the door of the room where the bomb was installed. The walls were undamaged, not even scratched. The room next door only felt a very slight vibration for a moment.

"I was not No. 44, but No. 6. I was in charge of the sixth floor. And one of the bombs was less than five meters away from me in a straight line-I was behind the wall on the other side of the bomb. However, I Still survived.

"This is the technology of our Tongshen Island, Mr. Qunqing. Whether it is the 'Triple Compass' of Sun Island, the 'Water Cycle City' of Yongquan Island, or the 'Nine-story Taoyuan' of Taoyuan Island, they are all completed by Shenzhi Heavy Industries. .Because we have done less work on Happy Island, except for the branch office, there is only the giant statue, so it is reasonable for you to be unfamiliar with our technology and hesitate."

I see…

Russell sighed in his heart.

Just as Happy Island sells only "idol trainees" to other empty islands, Chongguang Island will never sell their proud artificial intelligence system, and Holy Blood Island will not sell the best medicine to outer islands People and Sun Island never share their ancient knowledge with outsiders... Russell has only been in Tongshen Island for a day, and he has seen many different kinds of monsters used in various occasions and fields. It is difficult to learn from other sky islands. See high-strength materials. This is the specialty here.

Tongshen Island has obviously made a huge breakthrough in material science, but Shenzhi Heavy Industries is not willing to share the breakthrough technology they hold.

Materials science is the foundation of all things, the forerunner and cornerstone of all scientific and technological progress—

But from another perspective, material science is also a subject full of metaphysics. The research results of materials science are in one of the three states of "not useful", "don't know what is useful", and "very useful". However, if other disciplines want to complete leap-forward progress, they usually need to obtain the "very useful" SSR-level material science research product, which happens to be the one that is right for them, as the star-raising material.

The most important thing is that whether the research results of materials science are useful or not is usually not transferred by individual will and efforts. Those important materials that lead the development of other technologies across the ages usually come from "a sudden inspiration".

In other words, the research process of materials science is like drawing cards. Unfortunately, this card drawing is not a one-tap click to get ten consecutive results, but it takes a very long time, hard work and energy to know what you have drawn—and the drawn card has no attribute introduction , and may not even immediately know what it can be used for. A team led by a sufficiently good researcher can at most reduce the probability of "useless" N-cards and speed up the card-drawing cycle a little. It is still impossible to point to where to hit, and to rub out any material you want.

This means that when the research of other companies is stuck at the level of materials science, it is really stuck. No matter how many people you gather and how to pay money, if you can't research it, then you can't research it.

Because if you can’t smoke something, you can’t smoke it. Difficulties at the level of luck cannot be made up for by "hard work" and "perseverance". Just like drawing cards with a constipated expression, it will not make the things you draw better.

At most, it will become more stinky.

The head office on each empty island is engaged in different monopoly industries. What Shenzhi Heavy Industry monopolizes is one of the most profitable businesses... that is, the monopoly of core materials.

The cutting-edge research of other empty islands must be supported by Tongshen Island. As a result, they can plunder the resources of other sky islands through the exchange of benefits, and obtain "credit points" that can be used by branches on other sky islands. Through these credit points, they can buy outstanding talents from other sky islands and move their systems to their own homes.

Just like "Heavenly Sent", also like "Dust Gap".

The credit points of each sky island cannot be directly exchanged through official channels, and the purchasing power is not completely equal—the so-called "branch" is for this purpose.

By operating locally, earning credits that can be used locally, and then source materials and talent locally. After obtaining the product, it can also be sold locally or transported back to the mainland. If there is any demand in the local area, you can also purchase it through the branch and then ship it back.

Although the employees of the Tongshen Island branch work on the outer islands, their families are in the mainland of Tongshen Island, and they will come back sooner or later; just like the talents they bought from the outer islands of Tongshen Island, they usually don’t need The credit points of Tongshen Island... Since they are in a hurry to ask for money, most of them have family members. For the money their family needs, they only need to ask the branch company in their hometown to pay their family with the credit points used locally.

To put it simply, the operation idea of ​​Tongshen Island is to use materials to jam the necks of other empty islands. Then use their money to buy their own talents and systems, and transport them to the mainland of Tongshen Island to complete the technical duplication.

This is the reason why Tongshen Island does not establish a theoretical research institution—generally speaking, the birth of applied technology must be later than theoretical research in this field. But what they need is not "new technology" at all, but "technology that other sky islands already have."

Technology systems from different fields resonate with each other, and new technologies will be born easily. This has nothing to do with theoretical research, but a mishmash of applied technologies—not inventions, but improvements.

Learn from the strengths of many families, and then integrate them into a comprehensive one-overtake the real product as a "fake".

...From this point of view, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com The core operation idea of ​​Tongshen Island is very similar to Russell's psychic essence.

If Russell hadn't followed his mother's advice and joined the Tianen Group... maybe he would have adapted to the rhythm of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

But under the premise of the IF line of the plot, Russell will not feel the depravity and distortion of Tartarus - but will accept it happily.

After all, Russell was originally an empty, ever-changing thing, easily influenced by others.

At this moment, Russell felt a little lucky... Fortunately, he obeyed his mother's last wish and went to Happy Island.

He used to think that the Happy Island was crazy and depraved, but looking at it now...they may really be the island as its name suggests.

Happy Island is indeed happy.

As for Tongshen Island...

It is true that wealth can pass through the gods.