Chapter 368 Monopoly of Materials Science

Although this sky-high hotel only has fifty floors, it is the tallest building on Tongshen Island.

The swarm of drones surrounding it completely enveloped the entire building. In the dark night, it looks like the devil's palace shrouded in bats.

It can become the tallest building on Tongshen Island because each of its floors has a considerable height.

When you look up, it looks like a magnificent palace. Each floor has an astonishing height of nearly twenty meters.

To raise the space on each floor so high while maintaining stability and solidity obviously requires special-strength building materials.

But the Tartarus high-rise hotel easily solved this problem.

"How did you do it?"

Standing in the sightseeing elevator, Russell looked down at the layers of people gradually approaching him, moving away, becoming as small as ants, and then completely disappearing from sight.

He suddenly asked: "One floor is twenty meters high, and a fifty-story building is a full thousand meters high... Even if other buildings are half the height, the upper floors will inevitably collapse. If there is a strong wind blowing, The top layer may even shake.

"Materials and engineering aspects make it very difficult to maintain building safety at this height."

Therefore, the standard height of buildings on other sky islands is still three to four meters per floor. Only Tongshen Island has such extremely high floors... However, although the high-rise buildings in other places are frighteningly high, they are actually giant buildings - "covered bridges" erected between different high-rise buildings. The buildings depend on each other and are connected together. It's like connecting wooden stakes in the ground to form a fence.

But... although the Tartarus high-rise hotel is also connected to other buildings, there is only a covered bridge below the twenty floors and every two floors. After all, the first floor of other buildings is about four meters, while the first floor of Tartarus is twenty meters.

"To be precise, the standard building height of each floor is 19.8 meters."

No. 44 responded obediently and smoothly: "The Tartarus Hotel was built using the most cutting-edge technology of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

"The building steel bars use an emerging material called 'guiding steel', and the concrete layer is also mixed with special shock-absorbing metal powder. Even if a fighter jet directly bombards a high-rise building, 96% of the shock wave can be resolved.

"Whether it is a hurricane, a bomb detonated internally, or a direct bombardment from mechas and high-level psychics from the outside, all vibrations and impacts generated will be evenly dispersed throughout the entire building by the shock-absorbing metal. body. The lower corridor bridge can further disperse it to surrounding buildings. Unless the entire G3 area can be shattered in an instant, we will always remain safe and sound.

"As long as it is not completely shattered in the first place, the conductive steel in the building structure will convert it into electrical energy with high efficiency and store it in the backup energy center underground in the hotel. Even at a height of more than 40 floors, it will never There will be no shock at all - even if the mechs collide directly, it will only be shattered into pieces, and Tartarus will be unscathed."

"so smart?"

Russell was also a little surprised: "Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

Somewhat unexpectedly, No. 44 replied calmly.

"Yes, I have seen it. Shortly after Tartarus was built, a rebel force installed a total of forty-six large bombs from the ground floor and tried to blow up the hotel from the ground floor. But the only thing their bombs damaged was It was just the door of the room where the bomb was installed. The wall was undamaged, not even scratched at all. The room next door, which was very close, only felt a very slight vibration.

"I was not No. 44 at that time, but No. 6. I was in charge of the sixth floor. One of the bombs was less than five meters away from me in a straight line - I was behind the wall on the other side of the bomb. However, I'm still surviving.

"This is our technology on Tongshen Island, Mr. Qing Qing. Whether it is Sun Island's 'Triple Compass', Yongquan Island's 'Water Circulation City', or Taoyuan Island's 'Nine-Layer Peach Garden', they were all completed by Shenzhi Heavy Industry . Because we have carried out few projects on Happy Island, except for the branch office, there is only the giant statue, so it is reasonable for you to feel unfamiliar and hesitant about our technology."

I see……

Russell sighed in his heart.

Just as Happy Island only sells "idol trainees" to other islands, Sogo Island will never sell their proud artificial intelligence system, and Holy Blood Island will not sell its best medicine to other islands. People and Sun Island never share their ancient knowledge with outsiders...Russell has only been on Tongshen Island for a day, and he has already seen many different types, used in various occasions and fields, many from other Sky Islands. Rarely seen high-strength material. This is a specialty here.

Tongshen Island has obviously made a huge breakthrough in materials science, but Shenzhi Heavy Industries is not willing to share the breakthrough technology they hold.

Materials science is the foundation of all things, the forerunner and cornerstone of all scientific and technological progress——

But from another perspective, materials science is also a subject full of metaphysics. The research results of materials science are in one of three states: "of no use", "I don't know what the use is", and "very useful". If other disciplines want to make leap-forward progress, they usually need to obtain "very useful" SSR-level materials research products that exactly match them as star-rising materials.

The most important thing is that whether the research results of materials science are useful or useless usually does not depend on the individual's will and efforts. Important materials that lead the cross-generational development of other technologies usually come from "a sudden inspiration."

In other words, the research process of materials science is like drawing cards. Unfortunately, this card drawing does not result in ten consecutive results with just one click. Instead, it requires an extremely long investment of time, effort and energy to know what you have drawn - and the cards drawn have no attributes. Introduction, you may not even know immediately what it can be used for. A team led by a sufficiently good researcher can at most reduce the probability of "useless" N cards and slightly speed up the card drawing cycle. It’s still impossible to just hit where you want and just grind out whatever materials you want.

This means that when the research of other companies is stuck at the level of materials science, it is really stuck. No matter how many people are gathered and how money is given, if it cannot be studied, then it cannot be studied.

Because if you can't get it, you can't get it. Problems related to luck cannot be made up for by "hard work" and "perseverance". Just like pulling hard with a constipated expression when drawing a card, it will not make what you draw better.

At best, it just gets stinkier.

The head office on each empty island is engaged in different monopoly industries. What Sanzhi Heavy Industry monopolizes is one of the most profitable businesses... that is, the monopoly of core materials.

Cutting-edge research on other Sky Islands must be supported by Tongshen Island. From this, they can plunder the resources of other empty islands through interest exchange and obtain "credit points" that can be used by branches on other empty islands. Through these credits, they can bribe outstanding talents from other islands and move their systems to their own homes.

It's like "a gift from heaven" or a "gap in the dust".

The credit points of each island cannot be exchanged directly through official channels, and the purchasing power is not completely equal - the so-called "branch offices" are used for this purpose.

By operating locally, earning credits that can be used locally, and then obtaining materials and talents from the local area. After obtaining the product, it can be sold locally or transported back to the home country. If there is any local demand, you can also purchase it through the branch and then ship it back.

Although the employees of the Tongshen Island branch work in the outer islands, their families are in the mainland of Tongshen Island, and they will come back sooner or later. Just like they bought the talents of Tongshen Island from the outer islands, they usually do not need them. The credit points of the mainland of Tongshen Island... Since they are in a hurry to ask for money, they probably have family members. As for the money their families need, they only need to ask the branch in their hometown to pay their families the credits used locally.

To put it simply, the operation idea of ​​Tongshen Island is to use materials to block the necks of other empty islands. Then they use their money to buy their own talents and systems, and transport them all to the mainland of Tongshen Island to complete the technical replication.

This is the reason why Tongshen Island does not establish a theoretical research institution - generally speaking, the birth of applied technology must be later than theoretical research in this field. But what they need is not "new technology" at all, but "technology that other islands already have."

When technical systems from different fields resonate with each other, new technologies will be easily born. This has nothing to do with theoretical research, but a mixture of applied technologies - not invention, but improvement.

Learn from the strengths of many experts, and then integrate them into a comprehensive one - surpassing the real thing as a "fake".

...From this point of view, the core operating ideas of Tongshen Island are very similar to Russell's psychic essence.

If Russell had not listened to his mother and joined the Tianen Group... maybe he would have adapted to the rhythm of Sanshin Heavy Industry.

But under the premise of that IF line plot, Russell would not feel the depravity and distortion of Tartarus - but would happily accept it.

After all, Russell is inherently empty and ever-changing, and is easily influenced by others.

At this moment, Russell was actually a little lucky... Fortunately, he followed his mother's last wish and went to Happy Island.

He once thought that the Happy Islands were crazy and depraved, but looking at it now... they might actually be islands as their name suggests.

Happy Island is indeed happy.

As for Tongshen Island...

It is true that wealth can influence the gods.