Chapter 43: Kinetic Energy Recovery
The accumulated rotten stench mixed with the smell of blood in the carriage dissipated from overhead.
Su Huan raised his hand to shield his eyes from the glaring sunlight, “How does the evolution feel?”
Liang Kuan instinctively touched his left shoulder, “There’s a bit more stuff in my brain, I’m a ‘Defender’, current skills are lv1 ‘Combat Factor’ and lv1 ‘Shield Specialization'”
Su Huan was just about to nod when he reacted and raised his eyebrows in surprise, “Two skills? Have you used a shield like a cold weapon before?”
“My uncle taught me a little technique when I was young, but I’ve mostly forgotten it.”
“No wonder…”
Su Huan narrowed his eyes, but in that case, Liang Kuan’s career direction needed to be replanned.
Originally, he really planned to arrange for Liang Kuan to be a ‘Firepower Specialist’ or ‘Guns and Cannons Master’ type of profession.
Now he didn’t expect it to be an uncommon shield warrior.
Cold weapons have higher growth potential in the later stages.
But these were still early, Su Huan walked towards the front carriage, and Liang Kuan picked up his somewhat deformed sword shield and followed behind.
“By the way, does the train have something like a handbrake?” Su Huan melted the lock core to the next carriage with high temperature, pushed open the door and casually asked.
Liang Kuan was stunned for a moment, “Of course, such a big train must have braking devices, like our old one, generally next to the wheels, each carriage bottom has them, need to operate one by one, I’m afraid something might happen and it would be too late, so I never lock them.”
This carriage was very clean, but looking at the scattered suitcases on top, it seemed people had run out when the incident happened.
Su Huan examined the internal structure of the train, “What about this hydrogen-powered train?”
“It should be air spring parking brake, probably called that, I don’t know the specific principle, but most high-speed trains are like this, after depressurizing it locks dead.”
Liang Kuan answered uncertainly.
Su Huan tried to inject energy directly into the train’s engine under his feet, but as expected it didn’t work, the train was like nailed firmly to the ground.
This meant that in the future, whenever encountering such blocking trains, they would have to get off and drive it away, or derail it.
Cannot directly drive it with energy.
Very troublesome.
The two walked forward while checking the damage to the hydrogen-powered train, and Liang Kuan explained some basic train knowledge to him.
By the time they reached the cockpit, Su Huan basically had a basic understanding of the train under his feet.
Hydrogen energy carriage total length 34.8m, width 2.7m, total height 4.28, internal height 2.1, longer and narrower than the green-skinned carriage, and shorter in height than old carriages loaded with air conditioners.
As for the two points he was most concerned about.
One, whether it can be energy driven, ok.
Two, whether it has kinetic energy carriage, not ok.
But—
This train’s power system uses a distributed design, each carriage roof and chassis has fuel cells and lithium batteries, two carriages share one power system.
In other words, every two carriages can be seen as an independent train.
And the number of carriages under their feet totals twelve, removing four that are too severely damaged, Su Huan can get eight carriages in total.
Equivalent to four independent running train heads.
Dismantle them all and stuff them into the existing armored train, and the power shortage problem would be solved.
Although he couldn’t get hydrogen energy, the hydrogen-powered train has kinetic energy recovery function, which can convert kinetic energy into electrical energy stored in the battery, just hang it on the train and run normally.
With these eight carriages, the train’s electricity and fuel consumption could be further reduced.
Su Huan only saw himself as the train’s core energy source in the later stage.
But he wasn’t really turning himself into a power bank.
If the train runs out of power when leaving his train, that wouldn’t do.
As for how to arrange them.
The train tail definitely needs a set, so reversing wouldn’t be slow, and they could run faster when encountering trouble.
Can add one to the dining car position and before the sightseeing carriage, but this type must be added in pairs, cannot be split, and the dining car currently serves as the team’s meeting room, usually gathering a lot of people, so naturally cannot be too far back.
If adding, add behind the sightseeing carriage.
That would require moving carriage No. 3, his private space, to the front.
After thinking it through, Su Huan said, “Now go drive the train, dismantle both the hydrogen-powered train and the armored train, in the order of front of the train, carriage No. 3, dining car, sightseeing carriage, two hydrogen energy carriages, food storage carriage, one luggage carriage, and push all previous armored carriages back.”
“The remaining six, four at the end, two you arrange as you see fit.”
Luggage carriage and passenger carriage are similar in size, but no windows, only some vents, with an extra double door about 2.5 meters wide × 2.2 meters high.
Placed behind the food storage carriage, one to separate passengers, two to give Yu Jing a workshop.
There will be more and more places needing mechanical modifications in the future.
It’s not a solution to always tinker in his own room.
Liang Kuan rubbed his stubble, “There are plenty of railway tracks, can manage the turnover, but just me alone will take a lot of time.”
“You just need to arrange the carriages for me in one day today!”
“Understood.”
……
Judged their location, about three kilometers from South Station, the two drove the hydrogen-powered train back in reverse.
Qi Xiao Ba forged a large steel plate about ten meters behind the armored train, cutting off the railway track to avoid sudden zombie tides and such.
Some workers behind were also released, Yu Jing was directing them to clean the front of the train and unload that 2.6-meter butcher from the ramming horn.
Seeing the reversing train, everyone stopped their work and vigilantly crouched by the car door.
Su Huan crawled out from the rear carriage and jumped to the ground.
He glanced at the Skull Crusher held in that butcher’s hand.
‘General Energy Perception’ fluctuated, only sensing faint general energy residue from that zombie’s body.
Probably dead too long, severe general energy loss, couldn’t extract the crystal.
Otherwise could earn one more.
Looking up, he saw Yu Jing holding the sniper crossbow walking over, and asked, “How is the water tank designed?”
“I plan modular design, even if swapping carriages, can ensure the water purifier connects to every water tank, and each carriage has its own high-pressure water cannon.”
Su Huan’s eyes lit up slightly, “Modular, independent high-pressure water cannon, that’s a good idea, how long to implement?”
Yu Jing took the notebook in her hand and scribbled, frowning, “Design isn’t complex, mainly the high-pressure sprinkler head is troublesome, Xiao Ba takes a long time to make one.”
“Don’t worry about the sprinkler head for now, Liang Kuan will reschedule the carriages later, you preset the internal water pipes in the front few carriages.”
Su Huan thought and said.
Other places might not have suitable water cannons, but the fire truck definitely has, and definitely powerful.
Yu Jing looked up at the highly technological hydrogen-powered train, “Carriages to be rearranged?”
“Yes, and arranged a workshop for you alone, you all move to…” Su Huan counted on his fingers, “Still carriage No. 4, your original armored carriage to the back, from now on the front ten carriages are all our reserved land.”
“The new carriages’ material doesn’t seem crash-resistant.”
Su Huan rubbed his brow, said solemnly, “Lightweight aluminum alloy, so today you and Xiao Ba’s most important task is to re-plate these two carriages with steel plates.”
“And without affecting its airtight and moisture-proof properties.”
