Chapter 170: Do You Know What Friction Is?
“What exactly is the old man researching?” Qin Feng asked aloud.
Huo Yuan rubbed his chin and replied casually, “The old man mentioned it when he was drunk. He wants to build a moving city.”
Qin Feng widened his eyes. A moving castle like Howl’s Moving Castle?
Unexpectedly, the old man’s idea was so avant-garde!
No wonder he could forge the unparalleled Twelve Supreme Weapons and build the Flying Court Sky Garden of the Star Seizing Pavilion.
“But if he wants to build a moving city, why does the old man fiddle with something resembling a cart? And why push various shapes and different materials on the ground?” Qin Feng raised another question.
“The old man’s initial idea was to build the city on the cart, like pulling goods with a horse-drawn carriage. By the power of magical artifacts, he wanted to move the entire city.
The weight of the city will be extraordinary, so when the old man experimented, he would place goods on the cart far exceeding its load-bearing capacity. However, the result was often that the cart would easily slip and overturn.
If it encountered soft soil, the wheels would sink, making it unable to move. The old man suspected it was a problem with the shape of the wheels, so he wanted to improve them.” explained Huo Yuan.