If it were now, Perfikot might think more of using more forceful methods to solve problems, such as engineering steam armor and large-scale engineering machinery.

After all, if she continued using potions, the cost would be too high. The thawing potion was indeed very useful, and after that, Perfikot also tried to mass-produce it at a lower cost. But she had to admit that even when she reduced its cost to a reasonably acceptable level, it could only meet small-scale use and emergency needs.

If mass production on a large scale is desired, for use in things like construction, this thing's production cost remains an unacceptable figure.

In this situation, building engineering steam armor and large-scale engineering machinery, and tackling construction issues head-on seem to be the right path.

At least, Perfikot thought so when she saw Weir testing the large robot she designed.

"Do you plan to make this big guy act as a locomotive and then connect carriages behind it?" Looking at what Weir had brought out, Perfikot's expression was slightly odd.

It wasn't because what Weir had brought out was too strange. On the contrary, what she designed had a kind of exquisite beauty, and both the appearance and structural designs were very reasonable, showcasing the skills and accumulation of a Legendary Alchemist.

It's just that the shape of this large robot made Perfikot a bit overwhelmed because it looked too much like the head of a centipede.

Perfikot could understand that the flattened and rounded body was designed to better carry cargo. As for the four long legs, there was nothing to criticize; in her design of engineering robots, the legs only appeared longer and more numerous.

After all, long legs are necessary for walking on snow, and a multi-legged structure could make its walk more stable and effectively improve its ability to traverse rugged terrain.

However, when several such flattened and rounded robots were connected together, it just looked strange no matter how you looked at it.

"What do you think? Any suggestions for improvement?" Weir didn't seem to find the thing ugly, instead eagerly awaiting Perfikot's evaluation.

Perfikot suppressed her desire to critique and put aside her aesthetic biases against the thing, opting to use the Eye of Omniscience to evaluate it.

"Large Multifunctional Autonomous Robot"

"Material Quality: Excellent"

"Manufacturing Craft: Outstanding"

"Functionality: Boasting a six hundred horsepower output, can be connected with multiple units to form an efficient transport platform, featuring multiple purposes such as road cleaning, construction, and materials transportation."

"Evaluation: A fairly excellent design, but restricted by the designer's insufficient engineering knowledge. Although it's designed quite well, there is considerable structural redundancy and payload waste. It is recommended to optimize and modify it."

Upon seeing the evaluation from the Eye of Omniscience, Perfikot suddenly understood. Clearly, the Eye of Omniscience and her own opinions were not far off, both feeling that there were certain aspects of Weir's design that indeed needed improvement.

Undoubtedly, the first issue was the shape. The flattened and rounded design could indeed enhance load capacity, but it was unnecessary to pursue such an extreme design.

While circular designs can maximize cargo area under the same conditions, the fact is that in actual use, there's no need for such an extreme design. It would be perfectly fine to use rectangular cargo holds.

The connection of multiple circular platforms is a great idea. As long as the connecting interfaces can be made movable, the flexibility of this composite structure would be extraordinary.

However, Weir did not adopt a moveable interface design, resulting in a structure that could have been brilliant appearing rather rigid, like simply linking some robots together without considering further practical applications.

Of course, Weir's technology ensured that even without moveable interfaces, these robots were not directly locked into a straight line when connected but still had some joint movement space for bending or twisting actions.

But for Perfikot, this design was just too inadequate.

So, after asking Weir for the design drawings, she started to make alterations right on them.

First, the main structure was changed to multiple rectangular cargo boxes to match with tracked vehicle chassis, facilitating stacking on large robots and making it easier to transport scattered goods while also providing protection for important items.

Of course, this design wasn't originally by Perfikot but rather a design known as cargo containers in the original world.

A large robot could stack four rectangular cargo boxes, driven by the steam core in the head. Perfikot added to the robot's walking limbs, increasing them to six, though shortening their length to become more stable and enhance traversal ability.

As for the link joints, Perfikot made them active links between two hemispheres, providing ample movement space between two robots and greatly enhancing flexibility.

However, with Perfikot's alterations, Weir's originally designed flattened robots were transformed into two-headed cylindrical shapes with hemispherical ends, looking more like long-legged sausages when connected.

"This design..." Weir clearly thought that Perfikot's design didn't look good. Thoughtfully, she said, "The spherical joint connection actually isn't necessary. The train-like hook connection works well. These large robots don't need to cope with particularly rugged terrain, do they?"

"Then shall we remove the spherical connection?" Perfikot didn't mind much, as it was just a matter of changing the connection method and altering the appearance a bit.

Weir calculated carefully and finally nodded, saying, "Remove it. It's not practically significant; even though two robots are connected, the minimum turning angle on the road wouldn't be less than 120 degrees. There's no real need for spherical connections."

"Alright, let's change that part then," Perfikot nodded, then activated her Eye of Omniscience's optimization ability, optimizing the design drawing to a state ready for immediate production.

After optimization, these large multifunctional robots from the exterior view, with six long legs and elongated bodies, looked more like the shape of grasshoppers.

However, since these large robots didn't need to jump, they didn't have the developed hind limbs, only six equal-length supporting legs for movement.

When multiple robots were connected, they resembled long-legged trains rather than anything else.

"Is this your ability? It seems quite useful," Weir noticed Perfikot using the optimization ability but mistook it for an alchemy secret technique mastered by Perfikot, merely adjusting the design and its elements on the blueprint.

Indeed, Weir believed that the design modifications on the blueprint were done by Perfikot herself, forming a minor misunderstanding.

However, Perfikot didn't explain. She just aligned the completed design with her designed tracked vehicle, adjusted some parameter designs, and once again used the optimization ability, optimizing this blueprint as well.

After optimization, the tracked steam vehicle, although still powered by steam and requiring coal to drive the boiler, even if taken to the original world would be exclaimed as having a sci-fi feel in terms of design.

However, these aspects are of secondary importance. What truly matters is the tracked vehicle's passage capability and its load-bearing ability.

Especially after Perfikot made modifications, whether the tracked vehicle could bear a fully loaded cargo container placed on it and how its performance would be when fully loaded were crucial aspects.

For Perfikot and Weir, previously, they could only create a prototype for testing to see if it functioned correctly under extreme conditions.

But now, with computers, they could gather various data and use them to calculate various parameters, which was far easier than directly building a prototype.

Although a prototype still needed to be built, its purpose has completely changed. One was trial and error, while the other was to verify whether the design was qualified and to test extreme conditions.

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