Village chief, your township enterprise sells laser cannons?

Chapter 108 "New Feature"! (Third Update!)

Hearing the requirement to increase the attack range without much change in size and weight, Lin Man frowned.

To increase the attack range of laser weapons, the only solution is to increase the laser power.

The simplest way to increase laser power is to strengthen the laser head, and the simplest way to strengthen the laser head is to increase its size.

However, the prerequisite is that the size and weight do not change significantly.

The laser equipment sold to Amar, apart from the battery, had all its other parts sourced or custom-made by Wang Ju through connections from various special channels.

The performance of these parts has almost reached the limits of materials and processes.

To increase attack range without significant changes in size and weight, it is necessary to break through the limits of material and manufacturing processes for the parts.

If he had connections, Lin Man wouldn't mind giving it a try, but he didn't—

This is a bit tricky.

After a brief hesitation, he opened the system panel, found the process documents for the laser defense system in the system repository, and then found the blueprints for the laser head in the corresponding files. As he looked at them, he thought about how to make adjustments if necessary.

If a suitable adjustment strategy can be found and implemented effectively, it means that the laser defense system can be sold at a higher price.

Who doesn't want to earn more money?

With this in mind, Lin Man focused all his attention on the blueprints. In Amar's eyes, it appeared that after Rajad asked the relevant questions, Lin Man entered a state of deep thought, seemingly considering the feasibility.

The two didn't disturb him, and just sat quietly to the side, waiting for Lin Man to come out of his thinking state before replying to them.

A distance of 5 kilometers is still too short. If it could be extended to 10 kilometers or even 20 kilometers, that would be truly invincible.

While Lin Man was deep in thought, he repeatedly read the process documents and looked at the blueprints, constructing one idea after another in his mind.

But he quickly overturned these ideas.

Because all of these ideas require significant adjustments to the size and weight of the laser defense system.

It's practically turning the current laser defense system, which imitates the shape of a tank, into a real tank.

If we want to make adjustments, we need to find another way and solve the problem from the perspective of materials.

Thinking of the materials, he remembered that piece of metallic hydrogen.

When the system rewarded me with metallic hydrogen, it also gave me the manufacturing process documents for metallic hydrogen. After receiving them, I haven't really looked at them much.

Now that I have some free time, I can take it out and study it properly. Even last-minute sparring can be effective.

So Lin Man opened the metallic hydrogen process file in the system panel. He was working on both the laser defense system process file on the left and the metallic hydrogen process file on the right, multitasking and studying them simultaneously.

Soon, an idea popped into his head.

The working principle of a laser is that the pump source, that is, the power source or the flash lamp, provides energy to excite the gain medium, which is a semiconductor material such as ruby, helium, neon, etc., so that the particles in these materials achieve population inversion.

Then, a few spontaneously radiated photons trigger stimulated emission, and these photons are repeatedly amplified in the resonant cavity. Finally, when the gain of the light in the resonant cavity is greater than or equal to the various losses, a laser beam can be output.

With the energy source providing external power secured, the next step is to adjust the resonant cavity composed of the gain medium and two mirrors.

If this gain medium is manufactured using the same method as that used to produce metallic hydrogen, and two reflectors are made, it might be possible to increase the output intensity without adjusting the size and weight.

The moment the thought crossed Lin Man's mind, two progress bars suddenly appeared directly below the two drawings on the system panel.

And the two progress bars went from 0% to 100% in the instant they appeared.

The moment the progress bar finished, a light blue 3D laser head floated up on the blueprint of the laser defense system on the left. As it floated up, the laser head was disassembled into small parts.

On the right, dozens of three-dimensional crystals slowly floated up and hovered above the drawing.

Looking at this bizarre scene, Lin Man thoughtfully looked at the dozens of three-dimensional crystals.

After hesitating for a moment, he reached out his right hand and gently moved the crystal to the right.

As he fiddled with it, the crystal drifted to the left, as if it had an automatic pathfinding function, and went straight into the component on the left.

In no time, dozens of crystals had all drilled into the component on the left.

Meanwhile, the name of the part on the left has also changed.

The ruby, originally intended to act as a gain medium, has been renamed "Reinforced Alumina Ion Crystal," a rather long name.

The two mirrors of the resonant cavity have also been transformed into reinforced single-crystal silicon atomic crystal mirrors.

Seeing these changes, Lin Man couldn't help but scratch his head. The main component of rubies is aluminum oxide, and they turn red because they contain chromium ions.

As for the two mirrors inside the resonant cavity, their reflection efficiencies differ due to the different materials used, with the mirror made of single-crystal silicon having the highest reflection efficiency.

The name change is roughly equivalent to calling 304 stainless steel austenitic stainless steel.

However, the name has changed and now includes the word "enhanced," indicating that the performance has changed.

What Lin Man cared about even more was the progress bar that suddenly appeared below the two drawings, and the part model and crystal model that suddenly appeared after the progress bar reached 100%.

There's one last interaction!

It felt like a fusion upgrade triggered after certain prerequisites are met in anime, transforming two ordinary things into something more advanced under specific conditions.

Thinking of this, Lin Man turned his attention back to the two documents.

As soon as he focused his attention on them, he found himself completely familiar with the two technical documents, as if he had mastered them entirely.

Noticing this, Lin Man had a wry smile on his face, then raised his hand and slapped himself on the forehead.

This is truly—a case of sitting on a mountain of treasure and not even realizing it!

I originally thought that I could only get technology rewards through the system's weekly settlements and occasional tasks.

Now it seems that I can also learn and master the relevant processes and knowledge to carry out integration and upgrading!

Damn it, what a clever trick of that damn system.

If Amar hadn't asked me today, and if I hadn't inexplicably gathered the technical data together to read and study, I might never have discovered this function in my entire life.

You bastard!

After cursing in his heart, Lin Man raised his hands and began to assemble the parts floating in front of him.

Fortunately, these parts are 3D projections, not real parts, and they also have an automatic repositioning function. With his manipulation, these parts were easily assembled together, turning into a completely new laser head.

The laser head was assembled, dangled in front of Lin Man for a while, and then landed back on the blueprint on the left, becoming a new process document.

Looking at the brand-new process documents, Lin Man smiled happily.

He was happy, but Amar and Rajad, sitting opposite him, were not.

After all, anyone would be scared if they suddenly saw someone catching insects in the air in front of them, with changing facial expressions, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning, and occasionally moving their mouth and making incomprehensible sounds.

God knows if it's epilepsy or rabies.

The two moved their chairs back slightly and spaced themselves out to the sides, so that they could escape the moment Lin Man had an epileptic seizure or rabies.

After waiting a while, they didn't see Lin Man fall ill. Instead, they saw Lin Man laughing loudly. But Lin Man didn't look at them while laughing. Instead, he stared into the void.

At this moment, Amar panicked a little.

He cautiously turned to Rajad and asked, "Do you know what happened?"

"I don't know!" Rajad shook his head and silently moved his chair back a little further.

Seeing him move his chair, Amal also started moving back.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky. There was a small pit in the terrazzo floor behind his chair. When he moved the chair back, the chair leg got stuck in the pit.

Since he couldn't move the chair, he had to increase his force.

With increased force, the person, chair and all, fell to the ground.

With a whoosh, the pause button was pressed on Lin Man, who was laughing heartily, finally bringing him back to his senses.

Just as he came to his senses, he saw Amal getting up from the ground. Seeing the God of Wealth fall, Lin Man quickly got up, helped Amal up, and picked up the chair, asking, "Are you alright?"

Supported by someone, Amal rattled off a string of words, and Rajad quickly translated, "Mr. Lin, is Mr. Amal asking if there are answers to the questions he just asked?"

"I have the answer!" Lin Man nodded, pressed Amal back into his chair, and then sat down in his own chair, raising two fingers on his right hand: "You just said that you want to increase the attack range as much as possible without adjusting the size and weight."

"My idea is to solve both problems separately, and then merge them!"

"These are increasing the output power and adjusting some materials."

"But doing this will significantly increase energy consumption. I just did a mental calculation, and with the current battery capacity, it can probably run at full power for about forty minutes!"

"If we upgrade according to your requirements, the time may be halved."

"However, I think it's possible to improve the security rate by halving the time."

Upon hearing Lin Man's words, Rajad turned around and began gesturing wildly as he translated for Amar. As he translated, Amar's face blossomed like a chrysanthemum, beaming with joy.

Having dealt with Chinese people for many years, they also know the Chinese people's research habits.

The ones sold to customers are of a lower grade, the ones used by ourselves are of a higher grade, the ones we are researching are of a better grade, and the ones we envision are of an even better grade.

Now, even if they mention it occasionally, they don't have much hope.

But to everyone's surprise, Lin Man actually had something good in his hands.

He then gestured wildly as he spoke to Rajad, who in turn turned around and gestured wildly as he spoke to Lin Man: "We—we—Mr. Lin, we want this—"

"If possible, we would like to upgrade our previous order to this one."

"If that's not enough, we'll go drill for some more oil."

Rajad grew increasingly excited as he spoke. Seeing his ecstatic face, Lin Man slowly raised her hand: "Don't get too excited yet, this might not be available for delivery!"

In short, Rajad stopped, his smile vanished, and only desolation remained.

After a few seconds of silence, he translated Lin Man's words to Amar.

The smile on Amar's face also disappeared.

Finally, Amar sighed and spoke to Rajad in a low voice. Rajad then said, "Mr. Amar said it's alright, the five-kilometer version is enough."

"He also said that we would like to stay here for two days, and wondered if Mr. Lin had any recommendations."

Upon learning that the two were going to stay there, Lin Man rubbed his temples and pointed to the village committee gate: "After you leave the village committee gate, turn left and keep walking straight. You will see a Red Star Hotel."

"Just give me my name at the hotel reception and check in directly."

"I have some work to do in the afternoon and evening, and it's too hot in the afternoon and evening to stroll around outside."

"We'll arrange to meet tomorrow morning. I'll bring the contract over tomorrow morning so both of us can take a look. If there are no objections, we'll sign the contract as we just discussed."

Rajad looked at Amar, who nodded. Rajad turned around and nodded as well. "Okay!"

"Then we'll take a rest first and won't disturb you any longer."

"Thank you!" Lin Man stood up and escorted the person all the way to the entrance of the village committee. He glanced at the blazing sun overhead, then turned back to the service window.

He took his phone out of the drawer, found Wang Ju's WeChat account, and quickly typed and sent a message:

The Iranians have completed testing of their laser defense system, and they've also ordered electrode materials for another two million barrels of crude oil.

The message had barely been sent when the other end replied with a question mark, followed by a string of ellipses.

A few seconds later, Wang Ju sent over several resumes, followed by text messages.

"These are the resumes I've shortlisted. See if they're suitable. If so, I'll schedule an interview. If they pass, I'll bring them over to you. If not, then that's fine."

Lin Man ran his finger across the resume images, picking and choosing, and finally selected a few that looked good.

As soon as the name was sent, Wang Ju replied with a middle finger emoji.

Lin Man also returned the middle finger.

After sending the message and tossing his phone aside, he opened the system panel again and continued fiddling with the integration and upgrade he had just worked on.

Not long after he started fiddling around, a series of hurried footsteps came from outside the door. The transparent curtain was lifted, and Sheng Kaiming walked into the service hall, his forehead covered in sweat.

He stood in front of the air conditioner for a while, then poured himself a glass of cold water, gulped it down, and then went to the service counter. He dragged over a chair and sat down opposite Lin Man: "Village Chief, I've already contacted the sand and cement quarry, excavator, and truck."

"Just give the order, and the excavators, trucks, sand hoppers, and cement will all be ready to enter the site."

"But we're all from the same village, do we really have to be this cruel?"