People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

The driver's seat, brake and accelerator pedals, and steering wheel quickly and automatically adjusted to a position suitable for Kelly to operate.

"It's amazing! Klee seems to have grown taller!"

In order to accommodate Kelly's height, the driver's seat was raised a lot so that she could have a normal driving vision. So she felt as if she had suddenly grown a lot taller.

Just like a person who is 1.6 meters tall and a person who is 1.9 meters tall, the scenery they see is very different - one can only look up to see other people's hairlines, while the other can see the tops of most people's heads.

"Okay, don't just be happy. You have to study hard what I teach you next."

"Uh-huh!"

Sandang taught Kelly how to drive in every detail just like Shen Qin had taught her before.

When Klee controlled the Mingguan forward under the guidance of Sucrose, her face immediately became cheerful and her mouth was smiling almost to her ears, but her eyes were still staring intently at the road ahead, and the movements of her hands and feet were not vague at all.

"Brother Shen Qin, Sister Shatang! I can drive now! Driving is really--Thai Pants Hot!!"

Accompanied by happy cheers, her operation became more and more skillful. After Mingguan had circled the field three times, she was able to smoothly control the vehicle to drive in a straight line and turn at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour.

Shen Qin couldn't help but marvel at her amazing talent.

But he only allowed her to drive at this speed, no faster, after all, he was still sitting in the car! The dog's life was more important.

Keli played in the exhibition area for more than an hour and ran tomorrow's exhibition items several times under Shen Qin's command. After all, running on various off-road terrains is more interesting than on flat ground.

When getting off the bus, Keli waved to the Mingguan reluctantly: "Bye, big guy!"

Sandang said to Shen Qin helplessly, "If Captain Qin finds out that you and Keli are fooling around like this, you'll be in trouble."

"Of course I won't let her know, Keli, right?" Shen Qin winked at Keli.

"Yes! This is a secret between us!" Keli blinked and opened her arms to Shen Qin.

Shen Qin turned her over and carried her on his shoulders.

"Brother Shen Qin, charge!" Keli pointed forward.

"Charge!" Shen Qin carried her on his back and ran in the direction she pointed, running around in the open space.

Looking at them, Shatang couldn't help but smile, but she still felt a little helpless. Shen Qin is so old, why does he still like to play tricks like Klee?

The next day arrived quickly. At eight o'clock in the morning, both sides of the road in the canyon at the entrance of the Wind Dragon Ruins were filled with onlookers.

Today is the day of Academy City's press conference, when the early achievements of Academy City (several large-scale engineering machinery) will be fully unveiled.

Shen Qin got inspiration from the Knights' departure ceremony and decided to adopt a military parade approach, allowing large machinery to drive all the way from the canyon entrance into the Wind Dragon Ruins.

Isn’t the oncoming torrent of steel more exciting than any speech?

"Ying, hurry up, if you're any later we won't be able to get a good seat!"

The white floating spirit grabbed the blonde girl's sleeve and pulled her into the crowd.

Ying squeezed forward while saying sorry to the people around her.

Fortunately, many Mond people present knew this blond honorary knight. They all smiled at her kindly and ignored her.

When he reached the front of the crowd, Ying glared fiercely at the grinning Paimon.

"I'm doing this for your own good. If I hide like that back, I can fly up to the sky and see, but your view will be completely blocked!" Paimon explained himself seriously.

"Do you mean I'm short?" Ying's narrowed eyes revealed a dangerous look.

Paimon smiled awkwardly and didn't dare to look her in the eye.

"Huh? You must be Honor Knight Ying and Pokémon Paimon!" the man next to them suddenly spoke to them.

"Paimon is Paimon, why add the adjective 'Pokémon' in front of it?!" Paimon stomped his feet angrily.

He scratched his head, "Excuse me, that's what they all call you - the Honorary Knight of a Foreign Land and her Pokemon."

Ying glanced at the angry Paimon with a smile and greeted him: "Hello, I'm Ying."

"Hello, my name is Brady, I'm a worker in Academy City, nice to meet you."

Only then did they notice the special work clothes he was wearing, which were customized for Academy City. The clothes were of a particularly novel design and style. There was a silhouette of a tall tower on the left chest, and outside the silhouette were two circles of rings that crossed at forty-five degrees. There was a star on each ring - this was the logo of Academy City.

Chapter 128: Drinking, Fishing, and Fighting the Seven Saints Summons

"So it's an insider!" Paimon immediately asked Brady excitedly, "Then do you know what amazing things will appear at today's press conference?"

"Of course I know!" He puffed out his chest proudly, and then said righteously, "But I won't reveal any information. Anyway, the press conference is about to start, and you will know it soon!"

"What? There's nothing to hide about this!" Paimon folded his arms and said dissatisfiedly, "You don't know what you are going to show today!"

Unexpectedly, his face suddenly turned red, and then he whispered to himself to defend himself, "Uh... How, how is it possible! Although I was not selected to be the driver today because my test results were not that good, I still know roughly what kind of construction machinery there are... The teacher taught me..."

Ying and Paimon put their hands on their hips and looked at him with contempt.

"You really don't know either!"

Just as they were talking, bursts of exclamations suddenly came from afar. They turned their heads to look in that direction, only to see a torrent of steel galloping towards them.

At the front of the row were ten small Fruit Wine Lake transport vehicles lined up in a long snake formation. With a length of twelve meters, a width of four meters, and a height of five meters, it was much smaller than the Mingguan. However, in the eyes of the Teyvat people, it was already an unimaginable behemoth.

Such a huge steel behemoth drove past them at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and the sand and dust it brought up blew on their faces. Instead of feeling embarrassed, they shouted loudly to vent their inner excitement.

When the Fruit Wine Lake convoy passed by, there was a broadcast on the car introducing the relevant data of the vehicle.

"The Fruit Wine Lake transport truck can carry 45 tons of cargo, and its maximum speed is 100 kilometers per hour. It only takes more than ten hours to reach Liyue Harbor from Mondstadt..."

Following the Fruit Wine Lake convoy were five larger Dawn medium-sized transport vehicles, three of which were equipped with cargo compartments and two were equipped with passenger compartments.

As the Dawn appeared, the audience cheered even louder.

But the shock that Academy City brought to them was far more than that.

After that, huge excavators, cranes, road rollers, bulldozers and other construction machinery appeared one by one, and the broadcast in the convoy also introduced the functions and performance of different machines to the people of Teyvat who saw them for the first time.

"Marx & Engels I excavator, arm length 20 meters, maximum bucket capacity 7 cubic meters... At the same time, Academy City will soon build a larger Marx & Engels II bucket wheel excavator, arm length up to 100 meters..."

"Long-arm Giant Type I Crane..."

"Dior Type I Roller..."

"Bone Crusher I Bulldozer..."

……

In addition to conventional wheeled and tracked bases, Shen Qin also designed spider bases with eight mechanical legs for some construction machinery. A total of three different types of replaceable bases can ensure that they can work normally in almost all terrains and environments.

The convoy of construction vehicles drove towards Academy City as the audience was still waiting for more, and they only looked away reluctantly when they disappeared from their sight.

But just as they were about to leave for Academy City to continue their tour, the ground beneath their feet suddenly shook, and more and more people cheered behind them.

They looked back and saw the three Mingguan transport trucks, the last ones, coming from the end of the road with a strong sense of oppression, so they also became part of the cheering and applauding crowd.

"The Mingguan transport vehicle can carry up to 2,600 tons of cargo, with a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour. It can travel normally in any direction on a 30-degree slope without being affected, and can travel freely in "shallow water areas" less than six meters deep without being affected. Thanks to the design of the independent hydraulic suspension system and wheel-side motors, its off-road performance is very strong, enough to cope with most terrains in Teyvat..."

The audience doesn’t understand what’s being said on the radio, but they just need to know that it’s awesome!

Sugar drove the lead vehicle through the canyon and entered the basin along the previously dug road. Next, she would demonstrate the performance of the Mingguan to all shareholders and important potential users.

The same goes for other engineering machinery. Academy City has temporarily arranged a large area to display various machines. In each display area, there are alchemists who participated in the research and development to explain to everyone.

Whether ordinary people or businessmen with cooperation intentions, they can freely visit and learn about all the construction machinery in this designated area in the next three days. After three days, the Sky Shield System and the Sentinel System will cover the entire Wind Dragon Ruins, and the construction of the Academy City will officially start. By then, the same strict management system as Mondstadt will be implemented.

After driving to the exhibition area, Sutang got out of the car and met with Shen Qin and Albedo, and explained the projects he was responsible for to shareholders and important customers.

The major shareholders are very satisfied with the engineering machinery that Academy City has developed during this period, and those disadvantaged customers are also shocked by today's grand ceremony. They said that if their performance can really live up to the publicity, they will definitely place a large number of orders and arrange for workers to come to Academy City for training as soon as possible.

"I'm going to open a Mingguan account." Shatang said to Shen Qin in a low voice and went to make preparations in advance.

Shen Qin smiled and said to everyone: "Everyone, please follow me and let's appreciate the true performance of the Mingguan large transport vehicle."

The bosses walked towards the display area of ​​the Mingguanhao, chatting and laughing. Since Diluk was the person in charge of the financial system of Academy City, most of the customers gathered around him and talked to him about business cooperation.

Although Shen Qin is the actual controller of Academy City, he is only in charge of research and development and the general planning of Academy City. Now it is obvious that the engineering machinery interests them more.

He was happy with this and didn't have to waste time on these trivial matters.

Qin came to his side and said with emotion: "It's been less than half a month, and you have already made Academy City look quite good. At least the future you showed us before, I am confident that I can see it one day."

"Actually, this is all thanks to you and the Knights."

"Ok?"

"At first I just wanted to build a research base and a factory, but you gave me the entire Wind Dragon Ruins. In order not to waste its resources, I had no choice but to make a crazy plan. I didn't expect it to actually succeed." Shen Qin smiled helplessly.

He did not lie. Although he had mastered the industrial technology of the Earth at the end of the 21st century, he was only prepared to proceed step by step and slowly change Teyvat like he had launched the previous alchemical products.

After all, he didn't have any deep hatred to avenge in Teyvat, and he wasn't like other time travelers with deep hatred who were always attacked by villains. They pretended to be pigs and ate tigers, and then the old ones came. They fought and killed all their lives, or if they didn't practice hard, they would become a witch's cauldron or something. He lived a good life in Mond.

Drinking, fishing, and playing the Seven Saints Summons, hehe!

As long as there was no other Demon War that swept across the entire Teyvat, he estimated that he would live peacefully in Mondstadt until his death. By then, he would probably have squeezed the technology for the immortality of consciousness out of the system, and replaced himself with a mechanical body so that he could continue to live wildly.

Chapter 129: The Attack of the Sun

"Then is it my fault?!" Qin said jokingly when she heard the helplessness in Shen Qin's tone.

Shen Qin shrugged.

"By the way, I want you to help me with some advice on whether Academy City's urban governance method is applicable to the governance of Mondstadt as a whole. I have repeatedly studied your plan and think that the governance concepts you put forward in it have many excellent points. I would like to optimize the Knights' governance of Mondstadt."

Qin said to Shen Qin seriously.

Every excellent manager can find some highlights in Shen Qin’s management philosophy when seeing it, and Qin is certainly also an excellent manager.

"In fact, you have already had this idea in your mind." Shen Qin looked into her eyes and said with a smile.

Qin nodded: "Yes, but... I don't know whether I should make changes, and I can't predict whether the results of the changes will be good or bad."

"Well... maybe you can wait and see the governance results of Academy City. You may not have noticed that at the end of the demo I played at that time, there were three words before the words 'Academy City', 'experimental'. Its establishment is both an experiment in technology and an experiment in governance methods, but I don't know whether the experiment will succeed."

"Ok!"

On the other side, Sucrose rode her flying skateboard to the place where she had just parked the Mingguan, but saw Klee climbing on the tall car body, with her face pressed against the cockpit glass, looking inside furtively.

"Kelly? Why are you here?" She quickly flew over and carried the little girl back to the ground.

"Sister Sugar, Klee wants to drive!" Klee hugged her arm, looked up and blinked her big eyes to act cute to her.

"No! Later on, we will have an important vehicle demonstration. We can't make any mistakes." Sandang held her face and said to her seriously, "Besides, didn't I let you drive for a while after the practice yesterday?"

"Okay..." She pouted, but still nodded obediently, "Then I'll sit in the passenger seat like yesterday!"

"Well, if that's all, I can agree to it."

Sucrose carried Klee to the cockpit, helped her fasten the co-pilot's seat belt, then went to the driver's seat and started the Mingguan, waiting for Shen Qin on the other side of the exhibition area to give the order to depart.

But then she suddenly remembered that she had just attracted Keli's attention and did not follow the regulations to "walk around the car to check before getting in", so she hurriedly got out of the car to check.

When Ke Li saw her get off the car, she didn't care. She hummed a song that Sister Barbara had sung, swaying her body happily, waiting for her to come back.

But Kelly's eyes were involuntarily attracted to the steering wheel again.

"No, no! Sister Sugar said that the presentation later is very important. I have to wait until she finishes the presentation before I can drive." She used her little hands to twist her head in the opposite direction.

At this time, Shen Qin's voice rang out in the cockpit: "Sugar, let's go when you are ready. The first item is the extreme speed test."

Keli blinked and replied, "Brother Shen Qin, Sister Shatang is not here."

But she didn't know that this communication system required pressing the communication button next to the steering wheel to turn on the microphone, so her voice did not reach Shen Qin's ears on the other side of the exhibition area.

After Shen Qin issued instructions to Mingguanhao, he explained to everyone the next project to be demonstrated.

"We will first show you the maximum speed of the Mingguan, which can reach 300 kilometers per hour. Next, our driver will drive at the maximum speed through the speed measurement area ahead."

However, he and everyone else stared for a long time but did not see the Mingguan in the distance move.

"Sorry, everyone. It seems that they didn't receive the message." He apologized to them and sent a message to the Mingguan through the bracelet, "Sugar? Can you hear me? We can set off now."

At this time, Klee in the cockpit also started to get anxious because Sucrose had not come back yet, and she didn't say where she was going when she got out of the car.

"What should I do? What should I do? Today's presentation is very important..." Klee really took to heart what Shatang and Shen Qin said.

But then she had a crooked idea.

"Since this is a very important presentation, it would be bad to be late. Since Sucrose is missing, let Klee come and help! Hehe!"