Doomsday Code

Chapter 584: Penbes's Conjecture

After coming out of the dormitory, Chen Cheng let out a long breath, and then went towards Dean Adolf's secret room.

When the door of the secret room was opened, Adolf and Penbes, who were still immersed in their research, thought that Melinda and the others had arrived.

"Here you are. Please help me organize the results of this part. Thank you."

Adolf pointed at the scattered manuscripts on the ground without turning his head.

Chen Cheng bent down and picked up the manuscripts one by one, and then continued reading.

Most of the content above is about the research on the reproduction of the magic patterns in the magic glasses that Chen Cheng gave them when he left.

Judging from the above content, the two have already achieved some results.

Adolf didn't hear Melinda's voice. He looked back while busy with the experiment, and then saw Chen Cheng holding a manuscript with a smile on his face.

After seeing Chen Cheng, Adolf's hands trembled with excitement, and immediately the experimental materials in front of him overloaded and exploded.

Fortunately, Adolf was doing a delicate experiment, and the explosion caused by the error was not very powerful.

Adolf blew away the dust raised by the explosion, then put down his work and stepped forward and said:

"You're finally back. Peng Beisi and I have been studying the contents of the paper you gave us quite a bit lately."

"Although we haven't fully understood it yet, we can already do preliminary reverse engineering of some of the technologies."

As he spoke, Adolf pulled Chen Cheng to his laboratory table, on which were placed mithril plates of various sizes, each with the same magical patterns engraved on it from large to small.

"Look, this is just the beginning. We haven't been able to compress the lines yet, so only a piece this big can replicate its full effect.

This is the result of Penbes and I's endless experiments. Now we can achieve the same power as before with a palm-sized object."

Adolf took the mithril plate and introduced it to him.

Chen Cheng nodded, and then asked:

"Does the dean see how this works?"

When Adolf heard this, he smiled excitedly and said:

"It's a stacking method. Peng Beisi and I found that even if the things on the drawings you gave us were carved in great detail, they couldn't be made into a space the size of a fingernail, so we thought of stacking them."

Then Adolf took a stack of manuscript paper and explained to Chen Cheng:

"Just like this piece of manuscript paper, laying them flat one by one would require a lot of space, but if we stack them up and then bind them together, then only one piece of paper would be enough."

"So later I worked with Penbes on how to stack them, and we couldn't do it at all in the beginning.

Because the magic knowledge we learned doesn't include folding of lines. Once folded, dry seams will appear between the lines, making the entire circuit a mess."

“But we found a way to do it later.”

Adolf said excitedly.

"That's using the paper clip method. We treated the entire magic pattern as a steel wire, and then folded it back like a paper clip. This way, the pattern wouldn't bend or interfere, so we succeeded in one go.

Then, if you stand the folded lines upright, it will become a stacked magic pattern."

As he spoke, Adolf picked up a few experimental boards that were originally made using the paper clip stacking method.

Perhaps it was because the technique at the beginning was too rough, Chen Cheng could tell at a glance that the arrangement of these magic patterns was different from ordinary magic patterns.

And you can see clear layers when looking from the side.

As Chen Cheng looked at these, he thought of one of the most high-tech products of his previous life - the chip.

The construction of that thing seems to be like building a house, layer by layer.

A tiny chip, if you unfold the circuits in proportion, would be larger than a city.

And it is such a thing that humans have made on a tiny wafer using light as a knife.

And the technology on these magic glasses is nothing but an alternative magic chip, which also integrates many magic modules and then stacks them into something the size of a fingernail.

Thinking of this, Chen Cheng suddenly had another brilliant idea.

He looked at Adolf and said:

"I wonder if the dean has ever considered not using mithril powder for manual engraving, but instead using stable magical energy to micro-etch the engraving directly onto an extremely smooth and flat mithril plate."

This is an idea that Chen Cheng came up with regarding chip manufacturing, and it is just a suggestion. After all, he doesn't understand anything about lithography machines and only knows a general idea.

Even if this is not possible, it doesn’t matter. But if it is possible, it will be a technological breakthrough revolution.

Just as Adolf was thinking, Penbes, who had finished the experiment, came over and said with a smile:

"How come you're really old, old man? Can't you even think of something so simple?"

Chen Cheng's heart skipped a beat when he heard what Peng Beisi said. Could it be that he really had some way to do it?

Adolf was immediately furious when he was mocked by Penbes.

Chen Cheng persuaded Adolf to stop, then looked at Peng Beisi and said:

"I wonder if the professor has any good ideas?"

Peng Beisi chuckled and said:

"You are usually as smart as a ghost, but how come you become as rigid as Adolf after going to the capital?"

"Don't talk nonsense here, say what you want to say quickly and fart quickly."

Penbes ignored Adolf's words and said with a smile:

"Brown, have you forgotten your variable magic? I have studied it and found that your variable magic has no size limit.

The difficulty now is the integration of the fine lines. Even if it is as you said, this is still a hassle, and your variable magic can help with the integration.

So we just need to use magic power to accurately etch out the tiny lines as you said, and then rely on your variable magic to move and fit them together."

After Peng Beisi's reminder, Chen Cheng slapped his head.

He still forgot the magic of this world. In his previous life, the smallest tool that could be used to make chips was light particles.

And this light particle is not a physical tangible tool, so a photolithography machine is needed.

But now the world is different. There is magic here, and magic can serve as an extension of human senses. Its precision is higher than all the tools in the previous life.

So it is entirely possible to use magic to realize the lithography machine of this era.

When Adolf heard this, he blew his beard and glared:

"You are so good, Pombes. You didn't tell me when I was here, but you told me when Brown came. Do you look down on me?"

And Penbes spread his hands and said:

"That's just an idea. Brown's variable magic can only achieve single-layer mosaics now. We still need Brown's latest research on variable magic.

In addition to this, there is also the dry seam effect of magic energy, which is an issue that cannot be avoided.

There are a lot of other issues that need to be addressed, so this is just speculation on my part.”