Chapter 37: Tier 1 Light Armor
At seven o’clock, Xiao Ba arrived at the dining car on time.
His schedule habits were very good; no matter whether there was a night watch task or not, he would come to the dining car at seven in the morning to wait for Su Huan to assign tasks.
By seven-thirty, everyone had arrived one after another.
When he saw Yu Jing, Su Huan’s eyes lit up slightly—not because she had changed into a new set of clothes, but because of the general energy fluctuation on her.
Perhaps due to having just evolved, the general energy unconsciously pulsed into his perception range.
“Evolved?”
“lv1 ‘General Energy Erosion'”, Yu Jing said, then placed a palm-sized piece of metal on the table from her hand.
Su Huan picked up the metal and weighed it in his hand; the feel was unexpectedly light, probably only about half the weight of normal steel. This sensation was similar to the armored vehicles of some big companies in his previous life, but there were slight differences in feel. His eyes showed some novelty, “You changed its weight?”
Yu Jing pinched her earlobe; her temperament carried the clear rationality unique to researchers. “I fused the Night Demon’s claws into this piece of steel. Now this steel plate not only has 52% less weight, but its strength and toughness have also greatly improved. Without measuring instruments, I can’t give you accurate data.”
High temperature rose in Su Huan’s hand, and the steel plate quickly turned red like a branding iron.
“Don’t worry, I’ve done the high temperature test. Its melting point is slightly higher than that of steel, and it hasn’t calcified.” Yu Jing said calmly and confidently.
“Moreover, I feel this isn’t the limit, but time was short, so I brought it to you for verification in advance.”
Su Huan didn’t speak and continued to fiddle with the steel plate in his hand. The red-hot iron block’s temperature dropped rapidly, making sizzling sounds. Soon it returned to its original appearance, just a bit grayer than ordinary steel, with no other differences.
A pair of eyes showed delight.
Although the color and feel were slightly different, the steel plate researched by Yu Jing had data close to the Tier 1 “Light Armor” level in all aspects.
In his previous life, Su Huan was a lone wolf and didn’t need such things, but those big companies had invested massive resources into these new materials.
Using the manufacturer’s characteristics combined with apocalypse materials, they researched many new things.
“Light Armor” was one of them.
Its strength was comparable to excellent carbon steel, but its toughness far exceeded steel, it wasn’t prone to fatigue, and its weight was only 40% of steel.
If the armored train’s steel plates were replaced with this light armor material, even without increasing power, the armor could easily be stacked to 30mm+ thickness.
It could be said to be of great significance.
“How long does it take you to synthesize a piece of metal like this?” Su Huan raised his eyebrow and asked.
Yu Jing pinched her smooth chin and pondered, “This piece of material hasn’t reached the best effect yet. If the limit is finalized, the speed can be faster. Considering my energy limit, a 1㎡ board should take most of a day.”
Su Huan furrowed his brows.
This speed was still too slow.
No wonder only big forces could play with it; individuals or small teams didn’t have that much time to spend on basic materials.
If Yu Jing didn’t evolve, even if she didn’t eat or drink and worked for a year, she couldn’t cover the entire train.
It seemed he still needed to find a way to mobilize the passengers’ initiative.
Relying on the current method of herding ducks definitely wouldn’t work.
It had to be like the construction team: separately divide out some people to form a dedicated scientific research or production team, give them plenty of radishes, and have them work overtime 24 hours for production.
One manufacturer could do two pieces a day; if sleeping less, three pieces a day wasn’t impossible.
They were all evolvers with good constitution; staying up all night was no big deal.
Then ten manufacturers would be thirty pieces a day.
Looking at it this way, there was great hope.
Thinking of this, Su Huan’s furrowed brows slowly relaxed. Suddenly remembering something, he quickly looked at Liang Kuan and said, “Turn on the air conditioner in the rear carriage too. The weather will get hotter and hotter later, so no need to turn it off.”
He had almost forgotten this; these past two days it had been rainy, with humid and hot weather and high temperatures.
It could easily kill people.
If everyone was really worn out to death, there would be no one to work for him later.
Liang Kuan agreed, got up to get busy, but his steps today carried a bit more heaviness.
Su Huan looked at his broad back with thoughtful eyes. Currently in the train’s small team, only Liang Kuan hadn’t evolved.
‘Perhaps the method was wrong.’
Like Gao Zhe, who hadn’t contacted general energy crystals, nor had long-term contact with zombies or mutated beasts, but still evolved.
It should be due to the defender trait.
lv1 “Combat Factor”
He really hadn’t paid attention to the evolution reasons for defenders before; he only knew this type of evolver was more likely to break through in battle.
Unlike the other four types, which needed to slowly accumulate general energy crystals and only evolved under specific conditions.
Su Huan guessed his own combat style was too steady.
Not conducive to Old Liang’s evolution.
But there was no need to rush; they were entering the city today, and there would be plenty of desperate moments. Then he could arrange more scenes for Old Liang.
Thinking this way, Su Huan cleared his thoughts and continued.
“No need for mass production for now; you just need to make one sample plate, then continue researching others. I hope you’ll explore in two directions next.”
Yu Jing looked up with great interest, her phoenix eyes slightly raised, carrying a spirited energy.
“Which two directions?”
Su Huan raised his finger to point at the car window, “Although steel plates are blocking it, the train has many broken windows with poor airtightness. I hope you continue to focus on materials and make some high-strength transparent material to replace the ordinary tempered glass.”
“Second, I need you to find a way to solve the transport problem.”
“In the future, we’ll often go deep into special terrain to transport supplies and equipment. At our current level, we can’t lift those big things at all.”
Just bringing back one water purifier had already been a huge hassle.
If the terrain was narrow and forklifts couldn’t get in, they’d have to rely on people carrying on their shoulders.
But this was a crisis-ridden apocalypse; while working on one side, they had to guard against zombie sneak attacks on the other. Succeeding two or three times out of ten would be good.
Although Su Huan didn’t know if this was within Yu Jing’s expertise, she was the closest match on the train, so he could only entrust it to her.
Yu Jing frowned slightly, “If you want to improve personal transport ability, the best way is simple exoskeleton, but that requires a lot of calculation and practice. There are only a few notebooks on the train, all offline, and we can’t even download related software…”
Su Huan’s ten fingers moved, subconsciously scanning around, but on such matters, Wan Xing and the others always just listened silently.
Only Yu Jing could discuss it with him.
He sighed inwardly; there were still too few talents.
“No need to rush on the computer issue. We’re entering the city today; we’ll try to get more electronic devices. I happen to plan to set up surveillance cameras for the whole train, so we’ll handle it together.”
