Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 552 - 270: Power Furnace, Artificial Agents

Chapter 552: Chapter 270: Power Furnace, Artificial Agents

The metal sphere was a full four meters wide, with a radius of two and a half meters, and the temperature inside was extremely high, necessitating continuous cooling with clay, fine sand, and cold water.

Meanwhile, over a dozen thick pipelines were continuously supplying it with energy.

This scene far exceeded Lin Feng’s understanding.

He couldn’t comprehend why such a hazardous and irrational object existed inside the battleship.

Dozens of workers nearby continuously cooled it with sand and fresh water; ordinary sand particles were heated to a high temperature of two thousand degrees within just a few minutes.

The primary component of sand particles is silicon dioxide, also known as quartz sand.

When quartz sand is heated to one thousand seven hundred degrees, it melts into a liquid, glass-like substance and then cools to form softened glass.

This is also the main shaping stage in the glass industry.

In the past, some professions involved glassblowing workers; however, in the Oasis’s tram industry, the glass casing required for photovoltaic panels only needed a single attribute requirement for light transmission, which could be purified and processed using molds.

Currently, another group of workers was extracting the melted liquid glass from under the scorching sphere with tools and placing it aside for purification.

Mainly because the sand was also mixed with various metal elements, such as iron, zinc, and copper, adding these impurities would cause the cooled glass to change color.

Many of the vehicle windows in Oasis used the bottom part of the liquid glass, which contained numerous impurities.

The tea-colored or dark green windows produced could effectively reflect sunlight, reducing the temperature inside the vehicle.

After removing the impurity layer of surface scum and the metal layer precipitated at the bottom, the remaining middle section of liquid glass was of decent quality.

These were taken to another production workshop ahead, where they were molded and formed into uniform-sized photovoltaic cover plates.

Once forged, they would also be graded based on light transmittance, just like the different packages Lin Feng saw the store manager offering in the Dawn Store of the Hunting Wilderness Guild.

The lower the grade, the more bubbles and impurities there were, leading to lower power generation efficiency, and vice versa. For example, the Oasis Battleship used the top-grade ones.

The glass panels were the most critical component in the electric vehicle industry in Oasis Town, and they were being showcased right in front of Lin Feng’s eyes. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

But what puzzled Lin Feng was what exactly was the energy source of this searing metal sphere before him.

After all, the photovoltaic circuit boards on either side of the Oasis Battleship’s wings channeled all their electricity to the three giant power engines at the back.

Just as Lin Feng was about to voice his doubts, Father Su An, holding materials in hand, arrived at the workbench next to the metal sphere.

This was where the liquid metal was handled.

The sand and clay used to cool the metal sphere contained over half quartz sand and a large amount of metallic elements.

The most abundant was iron, as the desert’s surface environment was a dull, rusty red.

The smelted molten iron, due to its weight, slowly gathered and flowed into a clay container beside the workbench, cooling slowly.

From orange-red to dark red, it gradually revealed a silvery iron color.

This was just the initial smelting of molten iron, and once cooled, it could only produce pig iron, which was relatively soft.

To forge it into steel, it required multiple rounds of smelting and the addition of some carbon elements to enhance its strength and hardness.

However, this crude pig iron was already an excellent industrial raw material, and it would typically be sent directly to Mechanical Village, where it would undergo secondary melting and forming, turning into the chassis and bodywork of vehicles in Mechanical Village.

Now Father Su An had rushed in again to utilize these convenient conditions to forge the Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear.

He placed the giant Fine Steel Wolf Fang on the workbench and noticed the confusion in Lin Feng’s eyes. He then stared at the scorching metal sphere beside him and explained:

"Can you guess what it is?"

Lin Feng furrowed his brows slightly:

"Could it be that this is the true power source of this town-level battleship—the Power Furnace?"

Father Su An seemed a bit surprised:

"I didn’t expect you to know so much, already aware of the Power Furnace apparatus..."

"You’ve already been to the Command Control Room and probably used the Oasis Key to unlock the highest authority. It’s not wrong to know some related content."

As he spoke, Father Su An pointed to the sphere, his voice tinged with a bit of emotion:

"Indeed, it is the true power source of the Oasis Battleship, known as the Power Furnace. Despite its small size, it can release power strength dozens of times that of a giant power engine."

"A giant power engine can release up to 140,000 horsepower, propelling the Oasis Battleship forward at a speed of ten kilometers per hour."

"But this unimpressive-looking metal sphere is ten times stronger! It can release over a million horsepower, allowing the Oasis Battleship to crush everything on the wasteland desert at speeds exceeding a hundred kilometers per hour!"

Listening to Father Su An’s sighs, Lin Feng felt excited but noticed a problem. Despite the metal sphere’s thousands of degrees of heat, its energy intensity wasn’t sufficient to power the Oasis Battleship, driving this tens-of-thousands-of-tons steel giant across the wasteland desert.

So Lin Feng continued speaking:

"Then is it currently broken, or can’t work normally?"

The system, after scanning the Oasis Battleship, indicated that the attribute data suggested needing to find a matching Power Furnace to unleash its full potential.