novel bin Chapter 280 Is building a CPU difficult? Qian Lao: Anyone with hands can do it!
Chapter 280 Is building a CPU difficult? Qian Lao: Anyone with hands can do it!
Lin Mo became more and more excited as he thought about it.
"Alright! I'll go find the dwarves and ask them right now!"
"Wait!" Liu Chengen stopped him, saying urgently.
"Let's get a test done first, it won't take long!"
"It worked! It worked! I knew it!"
Liu Chengen waved a stack of printed reports in his hand, his face flushed with excitement.
"Commander Lin! Your mental power has indeed mutated!"
He shoved the report in front of Lin Mo's eyes, pointing to the wildly fluctuating waveform.
"See that?"
"This activity level! It's many times higher than the average person's!"
A chilling light flashed in Liu Chengen's eyes. He rubbed his hands together, looking at Lin Mo and chuckling.
"Don't go yet, I'll make you another one later..."
Lin Mo, wearing a helmet covered in sensors, was startled when he heard that he was going to do an experiment.
He quickly took off his helmet, took a half step back, and waved his hands repeatedly.
"Alright, alright, that's enough for now, I'm very busy!"
"Ahem!"
Qian Zhenhua coughed loudly and shoved Liu Chengen aside.
"Alright, you have his physical data too, and it's not representative of everyone, so let's stop here."
He glared at his old friend with disdain, then turned to Lin Mo, his expression turning serious.
"Commander Lin, there's something I need to remind you of. You need to take your studies in magic more seriously."
"Now the Holy Humans regard us as allies and you as their holy son; this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Qian Zhenhua lowered his voice, his expression solemn.
"If you can learn their magic, then you can definitely learn their teleportation technology too!"
"Think about it, if we master this technology ourselves, it's equivalent to having absolute control over strategic airlift!"
"I no longer have to act according to the whims of the Holy Humans, nor will I be controlled by them!"
"I know the relationship is good now, but having something on your own and relying on someone else are two different things."
Upon hearing this, Lin Mo gave a wry smile.
"Mr. Qian, I've actually thought about this before."
"Archbishop Kyle is very generous; he explained the magical principles of the portal to me."
"But the difficulty of that thing..."
"To put it another way, it's no less than asking an ordinary person to build a CPU by hand."
He currently possesses a total magical power of the sixth rank, but his understanding and application of magic are still at the second rank level.
It can only release holy light purification and some simple basic magic.
Trying to understand the mysterious spatial magic of portals is simply a pipe dream.
You have to understand, that involves spatial knowledge, and anything involving space is difficult.
To everyone's surprise, Qian Zhenhua's eyes widened upon hearing this.
"Build a CPU?"
"What's so difficult about that thing?"
Lin Mo: "???"
Seeing Lin Mo's expression, which seemed to say, "Why are you so dense?", Qian Zhenhua said speechlessly:
"It's not like I'm asking you to make transistors that are only a few nanometers in size. Those require a lithography machine, which can't be done by human hands."
"I'm talking about the most primitive vacuum tube CPU!"
"That thing is basically just a combination of logic gate switches, except it's bigger and consumes more power!"
"If you want to learn, I'll draw up the blueprints tomorrow and have the factory help you build one as big as a room!"
"It really is something anyone can do!"
Lin Mo: "..."
He silently recalled a famous quote.
Even the dumbest person can't learn calculus, right?
Honestly... he really couldn't learn anything when he was in school!
Now, there's another sentence added.
Isn't it easy for ordinary people to manufacture CPUs?
Got it!
Mr. Qian, you're awesome!
The country has protected you national treasures too well; you've never even come into contact with trash like me.
To maintain his glorious image as "Commander Lin," Lin Mo could only touch his nose and mumble:
"I...I will try my best to learn."
"Yes, now that we control the portal ourselves, colonizing the Milky Way will be nothing!" Qian Zhenhua nodded calmly.
Lin Mo chuckled awkwardly and fled in disarray.
Indeed, you shouldn't force yourself to stay in a circle you can't fit into.
Leaving the noisy experimental area, Lin Mo headed straight for the temporary helipad in the distance.
He needs to find the dwarves to confirm that grand idea.
On the tarmac, Thorin was looking up, gazing intently at the Kunpeng transport plane that resembled a mountain.
He was muttering to himself.
"Such a huge structure, my goodness, it seems to be molded from a single piece?"
"How big of a furnace would that require?"
"And these wheels, they don't look like they're made of metal, they feel a bit soft to the touch, so how do they support such a huge weight?"
"Daxia Technology is truly amazing; their talent in alchemy is simply unparalleled!"
"If only I could learn Daxia Technology..."
His face was now filled with the thirst for knowledge of a master blacksmith, as well as the fervor one feels when seeing a divine weapon.
"Elder Thorin," Lin Mo called out as he stepped forward.
"Oh! Lord Linmer!" Thorin snapped out of his daze and excitedly patted Linmer on the shoulder.
"You humans are truly incredible!"
"This creation is simply... simply a flying steel fortress!"
Lin Mo smiled and got straight to the point.
"Elder Thorin, I have a question I would like to ask you."
"Could your dwarven rune technology be inscribed on... such a large object?"
Lin Mo pointed to the Kunpeng transport plane with a wingspan of nearly fifty meters.
Thorin looked in the direction he was pointing, his excitement slowly fading and turning into seriousness as he stroked his chin in deep thought.
"Wow, it's so big..."
Lin Mo felt his heart pounding in his ears like a drum.
This concerns the space carrier, and whether Great Xia can leapfrog into the interstellar age!
Just as Lin Mo was about to hold his breath, Thorin finally spoke.
"It is possible."
boom!
It felt like a thunderclap exploded in Lin Mo's mind!
you can!
He said yes!
Thorin, however, failed to notice Lin Mo's lapse in composure. He remained frowning, absorbed in the technical challenges.
"However, it is extremely difficult."
"Such a massive runic array, to activate and complete it all at once..."
"This must be accomplished by a rune master of rank five or above from our clan, who must expend all their magic power to successfully infuse it in one go."
"If that's not enough, we'll need multiple Tier 5 rune masters to work together to infuse it."
"There can be no mistakes during the process, otherwise the entire material will be ruined due to energy conflict."
Lin Mo's eyes lit up instantly.
Difficulty?
cost?
These are not problems!
That's good enough!
Even if the cost is high, is it better than developing an anti-gravity engine and an interstellar spacecraft engine from scratch?
The time required is measured in decades or even centuries!
The resources consumed in this process amount to trillions!
Now, a road to heaven is laid out before the Great Xia!
"Oh, sir, what's wrong?"
Thorin's voice pulled Lin Mo back to reality from his ecstasy.
"It's nothing, it's nothing."
Lin Mo took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his surging emotions, and tried his best to make his voice sound calm.
"Elder Thorin, how many rune masters of rank five or above do your dwarves have who can accomplish this task?"
Thorin pondered for a moment and then said:
"While rune masters of the fifth rank or higher are rare, we dwarves still have enough of them."
They did not specify the exact number, as this concerned the strength of their dwarf race.
Lin Mo knew his question was somewhat presumptuous, so he stopped beating around the bush and spoke frankly:
"Here's the thing, we want to inscribe giant runes on a ship that's more than ten times the size of this Kunpeng!"
"We'd like to invite one of your rune masters of rank 5 or higher. The price is negotiable."
Thorin was taken aback, then followed Lin Mo's finger to the Kunpeng transport plane parked to the side, looking at him with a "Are you kidding me?" expression.
"More than ten times bigger than this?"