Lone Wolf studied it for ages but still couldn't figure out how this machine managed to produce more than 60 horsepower.
It wasn't because the machinery was overly complicated.
Quite the opposite—it was because it was "too simple," so simple that he couldn't help wondering whether the game developers had been cutting corners.
The principle behind a steam donkey engine wasn't particularly difficult. Essentially, it just boiled water; the piston's movement drove the crankshaft, which turned the flywheel and output power.
Using engines as a reference, and disregarding cost-effectiveness, increasing power was actually easy. Increasing cylinder displacement, adding more cylinders, increasing pressure within the cylinders—any of those methods would work.
What left Lone Wolf utterly baffled was that the steam donkey engine in front of him was single-cylinder!
A single-cylinder steam donkey engine with sixty horsepower?
What kind of joke was that?
Lone Wolf suddenly said.
"What was the maximum horsepower of a single-cylinder diesel engine again?"
Hearing the young professor's question, Levin was caught off guard and answered instinctively.
"I've heard of thirty-horsepower ones."
Toilet Search chimed in as well. "I remember there being thirty-five-horsepower ones."
Lone Wolf nodded.
"More or less."
As he recalled, there seemed to be forty- and forty-five-horsepower models, but they weren't common. The more common ones were actually only around forty horsepower.
Agricultural equipment had no need for that much power, while large machines with hundreds or thousands of horsepower couldn't possibly use steam donkey engines.
A single-cylinder steam donkey engine could actually reach sixty horsepower?
And it only weighed five hundred kilograms?
Lone Wolf couldn't help shaking his head.
"I've never seen anything this absurd."
Toilet Search grinned.
"It's my first time seeing one too."
Levin scratched his head.
"I don't get it. I couldn't figure it out when we dismantled the Legion's