Chapter 74 Experiment in the Bathtub
Although it's called a model, it's actually not small.
It is over a meter long.
The outer shell was made from leftover scraps of Kobe Steel, and inside was a miniature battery pack and a set of superconducting coils that were hand-wound according to the blueprints drawn by Zhao Di.
As for the electrode material, Zhao Di found a few special alloy plates in the waste pile. She didn't know what they were made of, but the system said it was fine, so it was fine.
Three days later.
Commander Zhao Tiezhu's large bathtub suffered damage.
This bathtub is a large wooden tub, where Commander Zhao usually enjoys taking a hot bath while humming a little tune.
Now, the bathtub has been moved to the middle of the yard.
It was filled with seawater.
A group of generals with Venus stars on their shoulders, and academicians with gray hair.
Like watching a peep show, they crowded around the big wooden barrel, three layers deep.
The scene was quite comical at one point.
"I said, will this work?"
Zhao Tiezhu stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the dark, stick-like thing floating on the water.
This thing doesn't even have a propeller, it's all bare, which makes me lose confidence just looking at it.
"Don't rush, Uncle Zhao."
Zhao Di stood on a stool, holding a simple remote control (which was actually just a switch box), looking very excited.
"I'm going to start!"
"Big blackfish, charge!"
Zhao Di shouted and pressed the red switch.
"Sizzle—"
There was no roaring sound from the motor as expected.
There wasn't even the slightest vibration.
The instant the switch was pressed.
The model ship, which had been floating quietly, suddenly seemed to be pushed violently by an invisible ghostly hand!
"Whoosh—!!!"
Everyone only felt a blur before their eyes.
A black afterimage flashed across the water's surface.
Immediately afterwards.
"Splash—!!!"
The water in the bathtub suddenly burst open as if it had been boiled!
A huge column of water shot into the sky, more than a meter high!
Commander Zhao Tiezhu, who was standing directly opposite, had no time to dodge.
The salty seawater splashed all over him.
From his military cap to his shoes, everything was soaked.
He also swallowed a mouthful of salty water, which made him cough.
"Cough cough cough...Ptooey ptooey ptooey!"
Zhao Tiezhu wiped the water off his face, looking utterly disheveled.
But no one around laughed.
Everyone stared blankly at the large wooden barrel, as if frozen in place.
The black model ship had crashed hard into the other side of the wooden barrel.
Because of its incredible speed, it actually managed to smash through the thick oak barrel wall!
Half of the ship's hull was exposed and was still trembling slightly.
The water in the wooden bucket was gushing out through the hole.
quiet.
A deathly silence.
Only the sound of flowing water echoed in the courtyard.
Professor Liang's glasses were fogged up. He took them off with trembling hands, wiped them, and put them back on.
I stared at the hole in disbelief.
"This...this initial velocity..."
"There are at least 50 sections!"
"And...and there really was no sound!"
"Apart from the sound of water, there is no mechanical noise at all!"
"This is a ghost! A real deep-sea ghost!"
Chen Zhiyuan was so excited that he danced around like a child.
"We did it! We did it!"
"Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion! This is magnetohydrodynamic propulsion!"
"From now on, the deep ocean will be our own backyard!"
Lin Jianguo quickly lifted Zhao Di off the bench, afraid that she would fall.
He was shocked, but he was more concerned about whether his daughter had been splashed with water.
"Girl, you're amazing!"
Lin Jianguo gave a thumbs up.
At this moment, Zhao Tiezhu, who had been drenched in water, finally came to his senses.
Instead of getting angry, he grinned and burst into wild laughter.
Hahahaha!
"That's awesome! That's fucking awesome!"
Zhao Tiezhu didn't care whether he was wet or not, he rushed over and pulled the model boat out of the wooden barrel.
Hold it in your hands like a rare treasure.
"What a wonderful treasure! It's such a wonderful treasure!"
"With this, I can strip the US military naked!"
"That 'Seawolf' ship is blind and deaf in front of our 'Little Black Fish'!"
"Then, we can play with it however we want!"
Zhao Tiezhu became more and more excited, wishing he could build a real weapon right now and go to the sea to fight the United States.
He turned around and looked at Zhao Di with eyes that practically worshipped this little princess.
"Zhao Di! You are like a second mother to our navy!"
"No need for braised pork knuckle tonight!"
"Seafood! Lobster! All you can eat!"
Upon hearing about the lobster, Zhao Di's eyes immediately crinkled into crescent moons with laughter.
"Yay! I want to eat the one with the biggest claw!"
Watching the old man and the child cheering, Professor Liang and Chen Zhiyuan exchanged a glance, both seeing the fire in each other's eyes.
That is the spark of hope, burning brightly.
"Since the verification was successful..."
Professor Liang took a deep breath, his tone becoming incredibly firm.
"Then let's not dawdle."
"Enlarge the blueprint!"
"Mobilize everyone!"
"We're going to build a really big one!"
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