Chapter 198: Forced to Show Off, Why Not Feast on Meat Porridge [5400 words, thanks to the Alliance Hierarch of Crocodileof!]
Without a doubt, after integrating this peculiar material of the Ruined Beast, the technology tree of Source Star grew differently compared to Earth's technology tree.
On Earth, metallurgy mainly consists of three major processes: Fire Method Metallurgy, Wet Metallurgy, and Electric Metallurgy.
The first two are primary, while the last one is auxiliary.
On Source Star, since the first industrial revolution revolved around electrical energy, the energy industry of Source Star deviated significantly towards electricity.
Now, the electricity on Source Star is extremely cheap and plays a significant role in human production and life.
For instance, the reactor battery in Ren Zhong's armor has a name that resembles a nuclear reaction system, but it's essentially a high-energy battery integrated with Ruined Beast materials.
On Source Star, there are almost no applications for internal combustion engines.
Metallurgical processes are also primarily based on electric metallurgy.
As for the various reaction processes in the production flow, they superficially resemble the chemistry and metallurgy on Earth to about seventy or eighty percent, with various reaction equations and parameters for reaction conditions, but the differences are actually significant.
In many simulation process steps Ren Zhong observed, the shadow of Ruined Beast products always appears in aspects like reactants, catalysts, and reaction conditions.
Previously, Ren Zhong somewhat looked down on the so-called "knowledge" of this world.
Even after obtaining citizen privileges and seeing the citizen version of the science knowledge teaching system, he still thought its difficulty and amount of information at most equaled the high school textbooks on Earth.
However, after entering the school, his views slightly changed.
At least in this advanced training class, even though they still teach technicians, it somewhat demands thinking and intelligence.
In terms of difficulty, Ren Zhong thinks this course roughly compares to the 21st-century undergraduate textbook "Principles of Modern Chemical Engineering," just with an additional knowledge system related to Ruined Beasts.
Once students complete their studies, if they enter businesses as Fourth Level mining engineers, their job is to maintain the stable operation of the entire production system, troubleshoot problems, and prevent issues when there are none.
In the various production lines of different sectors of the metallurgy and mining industry, the relatively complex and tedious math calculations are often left to the intellect mind.
Humans, on the other hand, are responsible for observing the site conditions, inputting raw data, and flexibly programming.
Simply put, the intellect mind handles computations, while humans provide thought.
In Ren Zhong's view, what they teach in this training class can barely be considered knowledge, but unfortunately, it's too simple and remains rather dogmatic and dull.
His morning passed rather uneventfully.
After completing the experiment ahead of time, he did not waste time but obediently followed the instructions of the old lecturer to make up the 43 days of lectures he had missed, starting from the first lesson.
The experimental part couldn't be made up, but as long as he solidly grasps the theoretical lessons, it's not a big problem.
Ren Zhong had self-studied many things in the previous timeline, but the feeling of scattered self-study is drastically different from systematically learning through the refined versions of textbooks compiled by Liao Yuan Science College.
Without realizing it, an hour had passed, and the morning class concluded. The old lecturer, smiling broadly, approached Ren Zhong and asked with concern, "Ren, which lesson have you reached? Do you have any questions?"
Ren Zhong closed his tablet and replied, "Lesson ten, no doubts, it's quite simple."
The old lecturer was stunned, "Lesson ten? Are you serious?"
According to the advanced training class's progress, the average day consists of three major theory classes and two experimental classes.
The tenth lesson Ren Zhong mentioned is what normal students should learn on the morning of the fourth day.
This means Ren Zhong learned in over an hour what ordinary students might not fully grasp in three days.
It's quite outrageous.
By this time, other students had already quietly gathered around.
When Ren Zhong completed the simulated experiment earlier, their minds were already abuzz with questions, but since the class wasn't over yet, it wasn't appropriate to cause a stir. Now it's convenient.
Ren Zhong looked particularly puzzled.
He hasn't understood previously.
Most students here are adults, with mature thinking patterns; learning this undergraduate-level course should be very easy if focused.
This stuff isn't hard, and if his former classmates from the juvenile class came, they should progress similarly to him.
He had just completed a very ordinary operation, yet these people looked as if they'd seen a ghost.
Ren Zhong couldn't help but ponder, could the existence of the Regular icosahedron have influenced people's intelligence?
But he didn't feel the intelligence of people in this world was particularly low before, which is very contradictory.
When the old lecturer kept asking, he replied with some helplessness, "Yes, it's indeed the tenth lesson."