Zhou Yi asked Red Kestrel to inform the relevant technical staff to have a meeting at 3101.

Initially, Tuo Zhu was somewhat unwilling.

It grumbled a bit: "Chairman, this is a secret that I don't share. If it's announced now, won't everyone find out."

Zhou Yi asked: "What do you think is more important, completing the experiment as soon as possible to prove the importance of the electric cat, or keeping it a secret?"

"This... of course, the electric cat is more important."

"Then that's settled."

"But, we could still do it quietly, right? For instance, you could allocate more funds to me, I could buy more batteries to try it out, and we can talk if it doesn't work."

The Panda Man still wanted to accomplish this task on his own.

Zhou Yi could only patiently enlighten him: "How does the electric cat compare to the Floating Heart?"

"That definitely can't compare... the Floating Heart is a technology that can change the entire mechanical life community, and it's our company's trump card."

"Since you know this, you have to understand, even though the Floating Heart was invented by Mr. Liu and Mr. Chen of our company, its rapid application and production couldn't have been achieved without the production, optimization, and extensive trial and error feedback from Yin Shang, Shenwei, and the Railway Company."

Zhou Yi said, "It's hard for one person to cover everything. Mobilizing more people's intelligence and experience can open up new ideas and find better directions."

"Moreover, the electric cat essentially involves technological replication, not our own invention. The creators at Curved House have already mastered it."

Only after a deep conversation with Tuo Zhu did Zhou Yi find out.

There were reasons why the Panda Man wanted to do it himself.

"When my father was well, everyone treated me nicely. Anyone who saw me greeted me with a smile, no Department of Citizens would bother me over not wanting to reproduce."

The Panda Man said with a nostalgic face: "Back then, if I was short on money, I would just ask my father. If I liked to design and build, my father sent me to the Imperial Design Institute in the Heavenly Kingdom."

"I worked there as a designer at the Innovation Research Center. We had a lot of money there, and everyone had a lot of connections. No matter what you designed, it could always be made. Some people even tried to make Aliens, but it was just burning money without any real results."

"That place was very comfortable, where dining was unlimited every day, and you could eat whatever you wanted, as long as it was available in the Heavenly Kingdom."

"Every day, we had nothing to do but drink tea, play mahjong, play billiards, play cards, and smoke a few..."

Zhou Yi was stunned to hear: "Wait a minute, you played mahjong?"

He made a gesture of shuffling mahjong tiles.

"Yeah. The entertainment from the age of gods was very popular among the upper echelons of the Heavenly Kingdom: billiards, mahjong, card games, chess, and table tennis, basketball, football, all had many enthusiasts."

The Panda Man sat cross-legged on the ground, speaking casually.

Zhou Yi remembered that Qin Xie also said that the higher-ups of the Dead Sea Knights were fond of playing ping pong, so he took to it to please them.

"That was a very comfortable time."

"My father went on a pioneering mission and came back demented. He was sent to the sanatorium, and my treatment was completely different."

Tuo Zhu took a sip of tea, with eyes full of melancholy: "Everyone's attitude towards me visibly worsened, picking on me and causing me trouble. I was quickly transferred out of the Imperial Design Institute to the Imperial Construction Department, running around construction sites... I couldn't stand it, so I quit and returned to my home in the autonomous region."

"After that, it was about applying for funding to succeed with the electric cat experiment, but that failed too. The Department of Citizens began to frequently demand that I participate in obligatory mating..."

Zhou Yi expressed understanding: "That's what it's like to lose your backing."

"Chairman, I just want to show everyone what I'm capable of, to prove that I, Tuo Zhu, haven't disgraced my father and that I'm not useless!"

The Panda Man said indignantly.

Zhou Yi smoothly suggested: "Then, shouldn't we make sure to produce the item? Your name will be left as the inventor afterward, which would be the best outcome."

"Okay!"

The Panda Man immediately nodded.

Then the Electric Ball meeting began.

Sigma, a representative from Recursive City, was the first to speak: "Our city has generators, with 12 in stock, all of which are small to medium-sized."

"In fact, many mechanical cities have wanted to try using electric energy to alleviate the problem of energy shortages. After all, the cost of energy packs is still high, and both mechanical life and Light Imprint Devices consume them quickly."

"Electricity is a clean, storable, and transferrable form of energy, frequently used by Old Humans. It can be used for everything."

"However, after practical testing, we encountered many problems."

The go-kart said: "The energy density of electricity is insufficient, inferior to that of energy packs, unable to provide enough power. It's inadequate to support enhanced ships, excavation equipment, refining devices, and other Light Imprint equipment."

"Besides, the requirements for electric energy support are high, needing power stations, generators, transformers, transmission lines, distribution networks, substations, energy storage facilities... and a series of other relevant infrastructure to form a complete electrical system."

"Constructing these requires strong manufacturing capabilities, and converting electric energy is another significant issue."

"Basically, electricity is only limited to experimental use, serving as a reference for comparison, without consideration for large-scale deployment and application."

Zhou Yi was not surprised by this.

The technology tree of the Wasteland era was the Light Imprint Skill, fundamentally the utilization of Dead Sea energy. All devices, technologies, and tools were built based on this.

It's a completely different technological system from the Old Humans era.

Zhou Yi said: "What I need to confirm now is whether we can get a generator and convert other external energies into electric energy."

"Although I don't specialize in this area, I have read many Dead Sea Documents. They describe how hydropower, wind power, fossil fuels all can drive generators to produce electricity. Can we do that?"

This was a basic common sense for past humans.

"Yes."

Sigma gave an affirmative response: "Mr. Zhou, please rest assured, if it's just for experimentation, there's absolutely no problem. The company has now developed the Floating Heart, right? Through the transmission device of the Floating Heart, it can drive the rotor to generate electricity."

Zhou Yi looked towards Chen Ruixiang, who was engaged in energy and power research.

This technical advisor pushed his thick glasses up and said: "If it's about transmission, it's technically feasible. As long as the generator remains intact, the Floating Heart can drive it to generate electricity."

With the basic direction set, everyone started discussing the issues of electrical wire transmission and electric energy storage.

Recursive City is a city that provides external services and output, stocked with various kinds of equipment to cope with unexpected needs.

It was now the time to make use of them.

Four generators, a large amount of cables and conductors, protective devices, and batteries and other equipment were quickly delivered to Yalong Bay.

Two Floating Hearts served as the energy conversion core, driving the transmission device at high speed, generating electricity through the motor, and then transmitting it into the Curved House.

Inside the glass room, the brightness and intensity of the electric light visibly increased by a large margin.

Zhou Yi saw that inside the Curved House, large amounts of electric arcs formed bubbling entities; their quantity increased a lot, wandering and flickering everywhere.

The Panda Man said about this: "Chairman, these are the Electric Balls. Their birth and disappearance all happen in an instant; the Electric Balls you see each second are different from those in the previous second."

"These guys are even more short-lived than the Light Absorption Monster."

"Zema has said that it takes a vast number of Electric Balls to hatch an electric cat."

However, seven days passed, and aside from burning out two cables and a small generator, no results were obtained.

The Electric Balls are still being born and dying in an endless cycle.

Zhou Yi remained quite calm about this experiment.

Failure is the norm, after all.

In the early days, he tried to use Jade City to implement a retirement strategy, which failed, then he tried to re-employ retired enhancers, which again failed, and later cultivated quality Silver Needle Fish, which to this day is still a failure.

Success is something that comes from correcting and accumulating through numerous failures.

Before long, Zhou Yi made another trip to Shuanghe City.

Because Duke Destructive proposed building a large apron to extend the air routes to the outside world further.

It said: "I'm preparing to open a route from Shuanghe to Mechanical City and then go north to reach Hundred Schools Plateau, Lord Dominator has already agreed. In this way, cities along the route can take flights to these two places and can reach any region within the Alliance directly."

"This is good."

Zhou Yi expressed support.

There, he saw the armed glider modified by Duke Destructive.

Based on the manned glider, the manned cockpit was modified into a launch cockpit. The aircraft is equipped with one cannon operator, one reconnoitre, and armed with E or D class Light Imprint Cannons, capable of deterring most flying Guangna Species.

Zhou Yi sighed: "In terms of air force, you really know how to play the game. With such a military transformation completed, the strength of the aerial troops has surged instantly."

The youthful automaton showed a rare hint of modesty: "That's nothing. The Floating Heart, now that's a truly destructive weapon."

"We have been testing, installing Floating Hearts on gliders. But there are various problems, like balance that is hard to maintain, a significant decrease in shooting precision after accelerating, and stability issues…"

"I wonder if it's possible to go to Sand Port for a technical exchange and visit? The final redesigned fighter type, when sold externally, we could split the profit fifty-fifty, how about that?"

"No problem."

Zhou Yi nodded: "You're welcome at any time."

"Why wait for another day? I'll go with you right now. Lin Qin, call over those core members, take our full set of materials and prototypes, we're off to learn the technology at the company."

Duke Destructive took this matter very seriously.

On the way back, it revealed an important piece of news: "Heavenly Kingdom is arbitrating the Mechanical and Electrical City Group's external military actions, and their attitude is still very tough, refusing to recognize the Mechanical Knights and the 'key' and other technologies. With the new 'Laozi' and 'Zhuang Zi' being born..."

Zhou Yi replied: "They won't be willing to give up their power."

"But we have to be careful now. Reliable information indicates that they have found City 404. It's still unknown what measures that city will take."

Zhou Yi's gaze sharpened.

Behind City 404... are the Heavenly People.

"Are the Heavenly People getting involved?"

Duke Destructive shook its head: "They wouldn't bother with these matters; as long as this world still maintains a large amount of usable life, they wouldn't care. Would you care about the squabbles of cats and dogs in your own yard?"

"What's that?" Zhou Yi frowned.

"Some extremely dangerous mechanical lives are sleeping in City 404; this time, to cope with the Mechanical Knights' challenge, they might activate some of them."

"How dangerous?"

"Let me put it this way."

Duke Destructive's jaws opened and closed: "The most dangerous among them, the X class, has even killed a Light Core Body before."

Zhou Yi felt a chill in his heart.

He regained his composure: "Are you in such a hurry to launch the new fighter type? Is it also because of this consideration?"

The automaton nodded: "Glider's greatest advantage is that they're not Light Imprint Skill devices, not subject to technical constraints or control. Some targeted weapons can directly disable the Light Imprint."

"That's why I'm planning to gradually implement partial de-light-imprinting in the Shuanghe Region, and to substitute it with new technologies. This will avoid future risks and weaknesses in this area."

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

Duke Destructive's posture, as if facing a formidable enemy, indicated that the Mechanical City Group's counterattack would soon begin.

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