Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1346 Blueprint Burning
After the construction started, a long strip extending far out of the space station immediately took shape.

Shangluo personally took charge of the project. He wore a space suit and personally expanded the plank road at the dock.

The part close to the main body of the space station is still built with frames. After extending 20 grids, it is completely made of mirage.

The oxygen tank on the back is surprisingly durable. Each pigeon is a medium-sized block of 2 meters x 2 meters, and 20 grids are a 40-meter-long structure. After building so many, less than half of the tank has been used. If all of it is used up, roughly 50 grids can be built. If it is a slope or other parts, the amount used will be even smaller.

"Wow" Wen Yuan and Han Xingzhi followed behind, also wearing space suits and holding two other sets of spray guns. Unlike Shangluo, they had never played similar [sandbox games], and these block constructions were the first time for them.

This thing, although it was just a dustpan, was damn interesting. Although Shangluo asked them to watch him demonstrate for a while, the two were already eager to try it.

"Okay, let's do this for now." Shangluo waved at the two of them, motioning them to come closer.

The two moved to Shangluo's side: "I want to test the effect of the collision, you help me watch."

After starting to build with these blocks, Shangluo planned to first test the structural strength of these blocks.

Although Otohime did say that these things are set to be "rigid", meaning they will not bend no matter how long they are stretched.

However, it should be a relatively rigid body, not an absolutely rigid body. Because according to the definition of an absolutely rigid body, this thing that will never deform is like a spherical chicken in a vacuum, and will show many counterintuitive characteristics. For example, because it has no elasticity, all its internal structures are locked in their original positions, and you may pass through it directly if you hit it with your hand.

If such a thing exists, it is a miracle in itself. So it is unlikely that what Ryugu created is an absolutely rigid body, but should only be relatively extremely rigid.

But even though they are very rigid, these blocks themselves have structural strength - that is, temperature.

As mentioned before, the blocks made of these mirages will begin to collapse at the temperature of bath water, which is about 40 degrees Celsius. And to reach this temperature, it is not only through heating, but also through direct collision.

Shangluo wanted to know what would happen if two blocks collided with each other. If they would collapse, how much force would be needed to make them collapse, and would there be any residue left after the collapse?

It's a bit troublesome for Yi Yiji to talk about these, so why not just bump into one and try it. Anyway, there are still plenty of mirages.

Simple experiments only require simple steps. After the 20-square-long block was formed, Shangluo came to the third block on the outside.

He asked Wen Yuan to spray out an ordinary 2x2 block in the void, and then he grabbed the block and "knocked" it against the pier.

There was a bang from a distance - strangely, there was no sound. Even the part that was in contact with the pier did not transmit any sound to Shangluo's ears through bone conduction.

[Interesting, although this block is not an absolutely rigid body, its rigidity is quite high. There is no sound when it collides - because sound is transmitted through vibration. With such high rigidity, it seems that there is no way to produce perceptible vibration. ]

"If we use instruments to detect it, we should be able to find it out." Shangluo said in a deep voice, "But we can treat it as a relatively rigid body for the time being."

In other words, this thing is very strong and will not break no matter what it hits. The only thing that limits its existence is the nature of the mirage itself.

He called Wen Yuan and Han Xingzhi to help him "catch up" because the next step was a collision test, and he was afraid that the blocks would fly everywhere and hit any structural parts.

10 meters away, Shangluo summoned another cube, and then slammed it down hard -

This time, even though it was a rigid body, Shangluo's punch produced a sharp buzzing sound. This buzzing sound was transmitted to Shangluo's ears through bone conduction. The entire block did not fly forward - the energy injected by the punch had already heated up the block. The entire block collapsed in a breath, and scattered like the embers of burning paper.

Shangluo tried to recover it with a spray gun, but it was already gone.

[I see. The collapsed mirage cannot be taken back.]

"After all, it's just a mirror. A broken mirror can't be put back together, and once it's broken it's completely useless."

He sprayed out another one, this time in the form of investment. At a slightly faster speed of 40 kilometers per hour, Shangluo threw the cube from the outside to the inside, the third cube.

The two cubes buzzed together and then disappeared together - this collapse was over as soon as it started, with no in-between state.

After the third block was broken, the two outer blocks flew outwards. Shangluo used a spray gun to recover them separately - although it is difficult to restore them after they have flown out, which also reflects the characteristic of a broken mirror that is difficult to mend, but they can still be dismantled and rebuilt.

[This thing is quite interesting.] Apollonia agreed. At least, this seems to be very interesting.

"After all, it is a block constructed using an imaginary 'rigid body'. Its physical properties are quite good."

He looked at Wen Yuan and Han Xingzhi: "Okay, then the rest is up to you two to do. I mean, I'll leave the work to you."

"Okay!" Both of them raised their hands. "Then can we use our creativity to make a small sculpture or something?"

"I will make it after the work is finished. Also, don't make it too big or too strange, and the shape should not violate relevant laws and regulations and platform requirements."

“What are the platform requirements?”

"That's my request!" Shangluo pointed to the ground, "Aren't you building this on the platform of the space station? My request is that you can play around, but I don't want to wake up to see a sky full of messy blocks flying everywhere."

"Understood!" The two raised their hands again, "We promise not to mess around."

With that, they began their creative mode.

Floating back into the cabin, Shangluo took off his helmet.

Otohime, who was waiting nearby, asked, "How is it?"

"Very good, quite fun! By the way!" Shangluo quickly grabbed the intercom and said to the two people outside: "Use the spray paint mode to change the structural parts I just built into mirror paint, quickly! And you don't use colors other than mirror."

"Huh? Why?" Han Xingzhi asked.

"Because the sun is out, it will heat up! Idiot. Only the mirror surface won't heat up. Otherwise, no matter what you build, when the space station is turned to the sun side, it will all melt when it hits the sun."

(End of this chapter)