Chapter 1200 The Value of Prehistoric Civilization

The mining robot that was killed by Egwin fell to the ground, completely transformed into an experiment by Jindi and the others.

Tang En and Egwen stood nearby and watched the goblins and dwarfs of the archaeological team working on the mining robot, and suddenly felt that the style of the painting was particularly funny.

It's more like scientific research than archeology - because the technological content of mining robots is obviously several levels higher than the current technological level of Purandar.

A group of dwarfs and goblins with only medieval skills are trying to dismantle an autonomous intelligent mining robot that has entered the space age, and are also trying to find out the secrets inside. To be honest, the technological gap is so big that it is impossible to do it. That's good!

It's like Earth's civilization suddenly gives you an alien mining spacecraft that can travel across galaxies and asks you to dismantle it. You probably won't be able to figure out what the structure is inside even if you dismantle it.

Because the gap in technological level is really too big.

Kindidinger and the others were very interested and didn't think much about it at all.

Then again, the two races have now excavated a lot of useful things from various ruins, and even learned some things from those fragmentary documents, and restored a lot of strange equipment - such as Talk about gnome shrinking rays, gravity wells, etc…

Therefore, it cannot be said that their archaeological activities are useless, but compared with scientific research, the expected benefits of digging ancestral graves are relatively small, and more of them are unexpected benefits.

After confirming that she would stay with Tang En here for a few days, Aegwin has been very quiet. Most of the time, Tang En said that she was listening, but Tang En didn't take it seriously. She just listened with a smile on her face. Tang En was already very satisfied.

"There are many technologies in these mining robots that we can use, such as gyroscopes, navigation systems, power sources, furnaces, etc..."

Tang En pointed at the mining robot and said with a smile: "The premise is that we can understand the technical principles involved - Jindi, have you discovered anything?"

Jin Di shouted very happily: "Of course! We have discovered what is suspected to be an energy pathway and are tracing it in retrograde. We may be able to find the energy core of this construct! After finding the energy core, we can try to dismantle it. Recycle it and use it somewhere else.”

Tang En sighed. Until now, the dwarf's thinking has not changed. He just thought about disassembling the useful parts and assembling them elsewhere for use, but he never considered studying the principles inside.

Now the dwarves have a lot of pieced-together equipment. The energy used by these equipment is still the energy left over from prehistoric civilization 10,000 years ago. They only know how to dig it out and use it. They have no ability to produce this kind of energy at all, and even among them The principle is unclear.

Now it is not that easy to figure out the technical principles of this mining robot.

But if they had paid attention to the accumulation of technical knowledge in this area from the beginning, they would have returned to the era of the Industrial Revolution no matter what.

It is a pity that they are still stuck in the weird medieval period. While using unimaginable dwarf shrinking rays, dwarf gravity wells and other advanced equipment that require extremely huge energy requirements, they are still using backward energy sources such as steam engines.

Energy is the foundation of everything.

Jin Di and his group of archaeologists, or engineers, were busy for a long time with various tools. After tracing back along the energy transmission path, they actually discovered the energy core of the mining robot.

It is indeed just a core, not a power furnace - because the energy module that powers the entire mining robot is only as big as an adult's head. It has a circular structure and is composed of silver-gray metal. The outer shell has extremely precise lines. There is something unknown inside. Even though the central control system has been destroyed by Egwin, the silver-gray metal ball is still suspended in mid-air.

The periphery of the metal ball is a layer of transparent special glass, which is isolated from the surrounding area. Through the glass, you can see that there are two bases above and below the metal ball. The energy path that maintains the operation of the entire mining robot extends from here.

Tang En, who was following behind, began to think about it. He originally considered that the dwarfs and goblins already had the ability to easily land on the moon, and even had the technical level to transform satellites. In other words, the energy they used was likely to be controllable nuclear energy. Fusion, and it’s stable and efficient.

but……

This mining robot has been sleeping for 10,000 years. When encountering an emergency, it can actually wake up and conduct self-tests. It can even continue to restore energy. This is really not like nuclear fusion - Tang En has never heard of it. What kind of nuclear fuel can continue to react for ten thousand years if added once?

This means that the energy technology used by the dwarfs and goblins is probably not the nuclear technology route at all - this is also easy to understand. After all, they are different civilizations and different universes. It would be strange if they all followed the nuclear physics route. .

So the question arises - what kind of energy system can allow a robot to sleep for so long, still have 12% of the energy after ten thousand years of decay, and even drive the robot's activities, and will continue to function after it is started? What about automatic charging?

Tang En didn't know that this kind of thing was beyond his level of knowledge. Even if the experts on the earth were to come, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to explain it.

perhaps……

Tang En suddenly thought of the mysterious star world. Could it be that the energy used by the prehistoric civilization of dwarfs and goblins was also drawn from the star world?

I don't know, I don't know. Maybe only by finding a way to dismantle an energy core can we get a glimpse of the secrets inside - but whether we can understand it and whether it will explode after being dismantled is another matter.

Tang En leaned over and asked, "Jindi, have you ever dismantled the energy core?"

"dismantle?"

Jin Di was stunned for a moment: "Why do you want to dismantle it? How precious this thing is!"

"It is very precious, but if you don't dismantle it, it will always be so scarce. If after dismantling it you understand its principle and can produce it yourself, wouldn't it be much better?"

"It's not like we haven't thought about this!"

While directing the disassembly work, Jin Di said to Tang En: "But I heard that the great craftsman tried to dismantle the energy core before, but he found that we have no ability to dismantle the shell of this thing, no matter what means we use."

oh?

Clotho ever tried?

"We couldn't even use destructive dismantling to break this thing, it's just too strong."

Jin Di pointed at the energy core and said: "Later on, everyone gave up. As long as we can find a way to extract the energy from this thing, it will be enough."

"I see... Are there any similarities between the small energy module used by your dwarfs to shrink the ray and this large energy module?"

"Of course. Rather than saying they are similar, it is better to say that one is a large size and the other is a small one. They work exactly the same."

Jin Di sighed: "Sometimes I really admire our ancestors. How they developed such sophisticated instruments is really incredible."

Are you impressed?

If you knew that a CPU with a size of a few square centimeters had hundreds of millions or billions of transistors integrated into it, wouldn't you still explode on the spot?

"anyway……"

Jin Di suddenly looked at Tang En with some confusion: "You actually know about the dwarf shrinking ray? Not many people even know about the dwarfs. Where did you hear about it?"

Tang En smiled calmly and said: "I heard it from the elves a long time ago. They said that the dwarf shrinking ray played an important role in the previous Chaos invasion war."

"That's not the case!"

The innocent Jin Di was immediately diverted by Tang En and said proudly: "Although the dwarf shrinking ray was not used on the battlefield, it played a great role in the transportation of material logistics. Space equipment is scarce. At that time, the materials were miniaturized through dwarf shrinking rays and then transported, which saved a lot of time and improved a lot of transportation efficiency."

Tang En just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect to actually hear interesting news.

"Since we knew that the dwarf shrinking ray was so useful, why didn't we specifically develop it later?"

Tang En still couldn't figure out why the dwarf didn't concentrate on breaking through a key technology, but instead dug ruins all over the world, leaving technology trees in a mess.

"It's still the same reason from the beginning."

Jin Di sighed: "Our current knowledge and skill levels are simply not enough for us to see the true secrets of ancestral technology. We can only learn bit by bit, work hard to accumulate more knowledge, and improve our overall level. .”

Tang En nodded and fell into deep thought. The reserve of knowledge was indeed important, but if it was just a reserve but could not be transformed into actual productivity, it would be a bit troublesome for him.

After all, there isn't much time left for him.

Perhaps, it's time for Clotto to find a way to study these relic technologies in depth. Being able to convert some of them into usable technologies can greatly improve their current overall military strength.

Among other things, after the gyroscope technology is developed, the huge problem of the inertial navigation system has been solved. It can be equipped with a simple inertial navigation system for the magic car airship and so on, which greatly facilitates travel and can effectively prevent the deviation of the route. shift.

If the Dongfeng series missiles are equipped with inertial navigation, the shooting accuracy can be further improved...

Just as Tang En was deep in thought, the shouts of members of the dwarf archaeological team suddenly came from the distant entrance to the ruins. The archaeological team seemed to be alarmed. They immediately put down their work and ran over.

"There's a discovery down there!"

The archaeological team who went to explore the path below shouted very excitedly: "It seems that there is an ore refining center down there!"