128: Chapter 128 Test

After settling things at the company and visiting Zheng Jun at the Hospital, Wang Shuo felt much more at ease seeing the color gradually returning to Zheng Jun's face, nourished by love over the past two days.

Seeing that it was almost time for the thrice-daily display of affection, Wang Shuo consciously took his leave and headed to the branch located in the storage center.

This place was temporarily being used by Wang Shuo as his own Machining Center.

Basically, everything of value belonging to Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. was here.

"Welcome back, Sir."

"Mm."

Wang Shuo responded softly, looking at the bustling CNC Machining Center and then at the robotic arms scurrying happily across the floor.

To facilitate movement, Wang Shuo had equipped these robotic arms with tracked chassis.

At this moment, the robotic arms were taking finished parts out of the various CNC Machining Centers, placing them onto a large, makeshift platform further inside, and then retrieving new blanks from the raw material storage area to place into the vacated CNC Machining Centers.

Further away, a larger robotic arm was diligently guarding the high-frequency furnace, occasionally pouring molten steel into the molds nearby.

The entire process was controlled by Zero; as long as there were materials, it could operate continuously twenty-four hours a day.

Of course, even if there were no materials, Zero would promptly notify Liu Yemei and the others to restock.

These were the fruits of Wang Shuo's labor over the past two days.

Although, apart from the first robotic hand, the others had been replicated and modified by Zero according to blueprints, this insignificant flaw clearly did not dampen Wang Shuo's sense of accomplishment.

The warehouse was huge; even with numerous pieces of equipment placed inside, a large portion remained empty, and that was where the makeshift platform had been set up.

Walking straight through the busy equipment to the platform where materials were stacked, Wang Shuo took the tea offered by an attentive robotic arm and nodded with satisfaction.

The detail of pouring tea meant that Zero had begun to try providing autonomous services, which was a very good start.

"Zero, how is the production progress?"

He sat comfortably in his chair, fiddling with the processed materials laid out before him, and asked.

"According to your requirements, Sir, the zero egg components are completed: 22 pieces; new material smelting production, completed; new material processing, completed; new components, completed."

Not bad.

Wang Shuo was very satisfied.

As for the fact that only 22 zero egg components had been completed, Zero could not be blamed.

Wang Shuo calculated that even if four Machining Centers were running simultaneously, the production of zero egg components averaged two hours each; even if Zero did nothing else, it could only produce 24 pieces in these two days.

Moreover, Zero had not just been producing zero egg components over the past two days.

"Have you analyzed the material properties?"

"Lacking analysis conditions, unable to analyze."

Wang Shuo nodded; without tools, even Zero was powerless.

Since it couldn't be analyzed, he wouldn't analyze it.

Wang Shuo picked up the steel pipe that had just been produced on the table and carefully observed it through the inner hole.

The coils of rifling appeared light and dark under the light, looking flawless.

The outer wall of the steel pipe had also been machined with fine grooves, extending from end to end around the outer wall, like mysterious patterns.

After finishing his careful observation and confirming there were no visible flaws, Wang Shuo picked up the coil on the table.

This was 0.2 mm fine silver wire, wrapped in a thin layer of insulating coating.

Just this one roll of wire cost Wang Shuo nearly 100,000 yuan.

And even then, the manufacturer wasn't willing to provide it for a free trial; how stingy.

Even a 12-layer PCB can be prototyped for free, why can't you guys do it for free?

If it weren't to minimize resistance, reduce consumption, and improve performance, who would be willing to spend over 100,000 on this stuff?

Grimacing in pain, Wang Shuo pulled out the end of the silver wire, straightened it, and examined it carefully under the light.

Tsk tsk, I have to say, the quality is actually quite good, and the insulating coating is very uniform; it really lives up to being a major manufacturer's product.

But what came next was the real test of skill.

"Zero, start winding, record the data."

"Recording has started, Sir."

Wang Shuo left a section of the wire end and slowly wound it along the grooves that had been machined onto the steel pipe, his expression focused and serious.

His hands moved back and forth, as if he were crafting a silver work of art.

He had to ensure that every millimeter of the silver wire was perfectly locked into the grooves, while also ensuring the winding path of the wire was correct.

This method was completely different from existing wire-winding routes.

This winding route came from the Humanoid Race.

This was the crystallization of the Humanoid Race's research on electromagnetic force, and the best way to avoid consumption caused by electromagnetic interference before the existence of a Room-temperature superconductor.

This method could allow the projectile to avoid magnetic deceleration as much as possible before leaving the barrel, reaching the ultimate speed and squeezing the value out of every electron.

After winding one, Wang Shuo left a section of wire and began winding the next.

Back and forth, it took half an hour, but Wang Shuo finally finished winding all eight silver wires.

He spent some more time connecting the sixteen wire ends to the power source one by one, leaving it all to be controlled by Zero.

He fixed the steel pipe onto the mounting stand, aiming it at a large metal plate that had already been placed not far away.

This was a titanium metal plate, five Centimeter thick and sixty Centimeter in length and width, which also cost a huge sum of money; Wang Shuo didn't know exactly how much, but it was definitely expensive.

"Zero, begin testing the K-001 Gauss electromagnetic sniper rifle prototype, record the test data."

"Test ammunition."

Wang Shuo picked up the projectile at hand and looked at it: "5.62 mm homogeneous steel metal projectile, weighing 3.15 g."

After loading the bullet, Wang Shuo said solemnly: "First test, 1000W power, start charging."

As Wang Shuo's voice fell, the capacitor behind the barrel began to charge, and within a few seconds, it already showed green.

"Fire!"

At the order, only a slight sound was heard, immediately followed by a loud noise.

This was the sound of the projectile hitting the target.

"Sir, unable to detect the projectile trajectory, unable to measure the speed."

This was caused by the insufficient hardware of Zero, specifically the camera performance.

"Conduct damage assessment."

The robotic arm scurried over to the target and took a look with its camera.

"Evaluation complete, damage effect: 1mm deep crater, projectile deformed."

Not bad.

Wang Shuo nodded and reloaded another projectile.

"Second test, 5.62 mm alloy steel projectile, weighing 4.65 g, 2000W power, start charging."

Another slight sound.

Zero began to report.

"Evaluation complete, damage effect: 2.5 mm deep crater, projectile completely deformed."

This titanium alloy was truly hard.

Wang Shuo wanted to test it further, but the venue no longer allowed it.

During the second shot, the impact between the projectile and the titanium plate had caused a huge flash of light and noise; a few more times, and the police would have come knocking.

Moreover, continuing the test was useless; the truly meaningful muzzle kinetic energy and muzzle velocity could not be obtained due to equipment limitations, so they could not serve as a reference.

Another more important issue was that the temporary supercapacitors he had bought to fill the gap could not handle higher power currents.

However, judging by the degree of damage to the titanium plate, the propulsion force of the coil wound using the method recorded by the Humanoid Race was unquestionable, which further proved the applicability of the Humanoid Race's theory in the current universe.

It seems that no matter which universe, the physical laws are basically the same.

What urgently needed to be solved now was the power supply issue.

This would require Wang Shuo to re-manufacture a new type of supercapacitor and adapt it to corresponding high-capacity, high-energy batteries.

This was also what he had to do next.

"Zero, save the damage data from the test, and start normal assembly."

Wang Shuo sat down, took a sip of water, and instructed: "After assembly is complete, save it and record it as the test prototype."

"Very well, Sir."

"Additionally, how is the trial production of the CW-001 material coming along?"

"The sample trial production is complete, Sir."

Zero's neutral male voice was very pleasant to Wang Shuo's ears: "Shall I prepare it for your test?"

"Begin the test."

Wang Shuo stood up and said calmly.