Chapter 118: Rush Job (1 of 2) (2/2)
Producing the leaves……
Was just too easy. It was so easy that no matter how Ye Qing thought, he still couldn’t find any technical difficulties.
Have the smelting center make the mold for the leaves. Then have them pour liquid metals into the mold with a couple of peons, and harvest them once they cool in a couple of seconds.
Wanting to speed up the creation process, the molds could be fitted out with 50 leaf slots. A tree can each have ten of these molds. When all the leaves are connected to the trunk and branches, a blow from the air conditioner will cause many them to sway, and the scene will be just unimaginable.
That rare metal engraver was also put to use by Ye Qing. There were a couple of fruit trees in the 3D camera, so Ye Qing wanted to carve out some peaches, pears and the likes to hang.
The leaves and fruits would all be made out of aluminum alloy, while the trunks and branches needed a little bit of titanium to increase their structural strength and toughness.
Aluminum Titanium alloy was an already widely used type of titanium alloy. Its recipes weren’t anything secretive either, as there were tons of them available in the market with all kinds of strengths and toughness.
As there were a bunch of publicly traded recipes available on market, Ye Qing had already bought a bunch.
As for those that couldn’t be bought, those were ones that just couldn’t be bought no matter the price, because those were people’s rice bowls. Take Ye Qing’s nickel-titanium memory alloy recipe for example, under no circumstances would he ever share this unique recipe and its associated market with anyone.
Molds for 30 some different species of trees were first created by the smelting center, then the peons immediately brought them over to the massive furnace, which had already begun the melting processes of aluminum alloy for leaf manufacturing.
5 PM, the first fully bloomed aluminum titanium Buddhist pine, leaves, branches, and all, was created from the smelting center.
10 minutes later, a breadfruit tree with a massive treetop and branch structure appeared.
20 minutes later, it was a dracaena that looked just like an umbrella.
6 hours later, a ginkgo appeared as the 35th.
The lines on the bark of these steel trees were all unique and special. When they were all placed standing up in front of Ye Qing, he felt like he had been transferred into a world of steel.
The entire gallery was originally planned to have 300 steel pillars, but now they could be replaced by 36 steel trees.
This was the result of careful calculations in accordance to the gallery’s blueprints from five master artisans. Furthermore, every single tree’s branches were all specially altered such that there existed the most reasonable biomechanical structure between them and the trunk.
Ye Qing held off completing the last tree, as he commanded the peons to move all the completed trees into the courtyard. Right now on the road to the factory, there were 37 flatbed trailer trucks ready and waiting.
For the last tree, Ye Qing wanted to make it this exhibition’s super star. When it was placed in the center of the gallery, it had to and would shock out everyone’s eyes.
The center of the gallery was originally planned to be the location of the exhibition’s activity center. A majority of the activity area was suppose to be filled with large screen 3D displays from Changwei, but it had become the ground zero of the destruction. However, now Ye Qing could fill in that place with just one single massive tree.
The activity center was based in the dome, so the tree had to be really really wide, and it had to flourish as well.
There were many really large trees out there. California redwood could grow up to hundreds of meters. Don’t mention propping up the sky, it was more like piercing the sky at that point.
Contrary to popular belief, Ye Qing ditched the idea of picking a large and expansive tree. Rather he picked one that was both representative and philosophical.
The Yingke Pine!
An enlarged, truly extreme Yingke Pine.
Moreover, the entire tree would be made from nickel-titanium memory alloy. Just like the new hulls for the Anti-Smuggling unit’s chase boats, a watered down version of the alloy. Only this way could it be strong and tough enough to become the central support for the center and bear the weight of the majority of the pipings above.