Drawing Design Schematics

"Lee Stein, you're late!"

Carrying his newly purchased laptop, Lee Stein hurried into the classroom and immediately locked eyes with a stern-faced Pierce.

"Sorry, Mr. Pierce. I was studying too late last night. I promise it won't happen again!"

Lee Stein decisively chose to play the coward; as a dyed-in-the-wool slacker from the Celestial Empire, he had a wealth of experience in dealing with such situations.

After receiving a couple of painless warnings, the classroom returned to its previous calm.

However, Lee Stein had to temporarily shelve his plans to continue designing the Transformers during class. After all, Pierce was still fuming, and walking into the line of fire right now wouldn't be a wise choice.

Barely managing to endure until the end of the period, Lee Stein couldn't wait to open his laptop and use the installed drafting software to begin sketching out the structural model he had conceived the night before.

The second period social studies class and the third period science class were both ignored by him, truly living up to the saying of turning a deaf ear to everything outside the window.

Thanks to his performance on the last monthly exam, none of the teachers bothered to trouble him, the class's top academic genius.

In fact, the school curriculum was of no help to him anymore. With his current reservoir of knowledge, even a university couldn't teach him anything. If it weren't for the daily task experience, he wouldn't be sitting here at all.

Time always flies when one is focused on a task. With distractions eliminated, Lee Stein's inspiration flowed like a tide, and he quickly constructed a rough model, preparing to begin the refinement process.

However, at this very moment, he was interrupted by someone with no sense of timing.

"Hey, Lee, what are you doing?"

Peter Parker, bored out of his mind in class, twirled his ballpoint pen with vacant eyes.

He inadvertently glanced at Lee Stein, who had been busy for a long time, and was immediately captivated by the image on the laptop screen, curiously leaning his head over.

"Wow, that's so cool! Are you designing a robot?"

Watching the bright yellow robot model rotating in full view on the screen, Peter Parker whispered in amazement.

Lee Stein glared at him helplessly before sighing and adding, "To be precise, it's a car that can turn into a robot."

"Oh, that's so cool! It's a genius idea. If you actually design it, it'll definitely be popular!"

Peter Parker's eyes lit up, and he couldn't take his gaze off the robot on the screen. "Are you planning to give it to a toy manufacturer or produce it yourself? Buddy, you have to sell the first sample to me!"

"..."

Should I say it's typical of a chatterbox with a sharp tongue? Even in his 'closet pervert' phase without the Spider-Suit, he's still unconsciously sharp-tongued...

Lee Stein glanced at Peter Parker speechlessly, only to be met with a confused expression from the latter.

"Alright, this is actually my private toy. Not for sale."

Sighing, Lee Stein ultimately chose not to argue with the little spider.

After all, he was one of the three great chatterboxes and sharp-tongued characters of Marvel. Even if he hadn't yet transformed into a spandex-clad freak and let himself go, his inherent, repressed, sharp-tongued nature wouldn't change. Arguing with him was definitely not a wise choice.

"Oh no! Buddy, you can't be so selfish. You have to learn to share."

Peter Parker grabbed Lee Stein's right arm with hopeful eyes. "One, just one!"

"If you were a beautiful woman with a generous figure, I might consider it. Unfortunately, you're not."

Lee Stein blocked the clowning Peter Parker with a blank expression, reached out a hand, pressed it against his head, and pushed him back to his original seat.

However, after pushing Peter Parker away, he turned his head only to meet another pair of crystalline eyes.

"Is this the robot you designed?"

Gwen asked in surprise, clearly having overheard the whispers between Lee Stein and Peter Parker.

"As you can see, it's still just a toy model for now."

Lee Stein shrugged and said, "I'm working hard to make it move."

Gwen smiled sweetly. "I believe it won't take long. Remember to bring it for us to see when it's finished, you big genius."

"It would be my honor!"

Lee Stein also smiled, making a slightly exaggerated gesture of pressing his hand to his chest.

"Perhaps I should consider calling you a great gentleman in the future?" Gwen smiled brightly.

"No, 'gentleman' has ambiguous connotations in my country; it's not a very good term. Compared to that, I prefer the term 'academic genius'."

Lee Stein said softly.

"Alright, big genius, don't forget your promise."

"Of course. I never forget a promise made to a beautiful woman. You will see it."

Ending the conversation with a slight smile, Peter Parker's head stretched over from behind Lee Stein once again.

"Lee, sometimes I really envy you!"

Peter Parker said enviously.

"Envy? Envy me for what?"

Lee Stein chuckled and said, "Envy that I'm better looking than you?"

"No, seriously, I envy how you can talk and laugh with girls so easily."

Peter Parker wore an expression of envy, jealousy, and hatred, which soon faded into a dejected look as he said, "I could never do that."

"Peter, you could do it too if you just had a little more confidence."

Li Si didn't know how to respond to that, so he could only offer some comfort:

"Maybe you could try asking Mary Jane out? Aren't you two neighbors who grew up together? In our country, we call that childhood sweethearts."

"Forget it, we've barely spoken two words to each other since we were kids."

Peter Parker glanced longingly at Mary Jane's back in the upper-left corner, then slumped down in defeat.

"Don't be like that, buddy. You need to learn to be confident!"

Li Si said, "Aren't you good at photography? That's a great excuse to strike up a conversation. I heard Mary Jane really wants to be a model."

"NO, Li, can we please not talk about this?"

Peter Parker buried his head between his arms on his desk.

"You were the one who started this conversation."

Li Si shrugged and muttered to himself.

With Peter Parker no longer a distraction, he turned his attention back to the computer, studying the base model while simulating the movement of each part in his mind to design the transformation structure.

He tried making a few simple transformation models, but they ultimately compromised flexibility. After tinkering for a long time, he decided to scrap them and start over with a more complex, yet more flexible, approach.

However, this made things much more complicated; the position of every single outer shell and component had to be carefully calculated and simulated.

The final bell of the day rang, signaling that school was over.

Li Si was at a critical moment in his thinking, so to avoid breaking his train of thought, he grabbed his bag and laptop and headed to the library. He also needed to look up some information, and besides the computer lab, the library was the only place in school with an ethernet connection.

Students were rushing to pack up and leave, and the elderly librarian was, as usual, lost in his own world of music, making the library a rare sanctuary of silence.

After searching for information for a long time, Li Si began to reconstruct his model.

He truly missed Earth before his transmigration; there, he had access to endless realistic model toys for reference. If he had bought a few to play with back then, he wouldn't be going through so much trouble now.

Regrettably, there was no cure for regret. Having only seen the movies, he could now only deduce and simulate based on the fragmented images in his mind.

The sky began to darken.

"Finally finished. Next is to check the available parts data to determine the specific structure of each section... forget it, I'll leave that for tomorrow."

After spending nearly two hours repeatedly recalling scenes from the movie, Li Si finally finalized the dynamic model for the basic transformation structure.

The entire dynamic model was primarily referenced from the Transformers movies. The mechanical arms of the limbs folded inward in vehicle mode, resting on both sides of the torso's load-bearing axis to form the chassis, while the chest plate flipped up ninety degrees to cover the head and joined with the back plate to form the body of the car.

Once the car body was roughly formed, the rest was simple. The doors and rear wheels were placed on the back; the tires could serve as shoulder buffers, and the doors, arranged like wings on the back, could serve as stabilizers for high-speed movement.

The front wheels were placed on the soles of the lower mechanical arms, just like in the movie. This not only increased the surface area of the feet to improve stability but also provided higher mobility on flat ground, acting like roller skates.

With these refinements, the basic structural design was nearly complete.

Of course, this was only a rough framework. It would be fine for making plastic toys, but if he were to actually turn it into a robot, the internal component layout and the specific construction of the mechanical arms would all need to be designed.

Still, at least the general framework was finished. As long as he completed the most important mechanical arm design next, the rest would be minor issues—he would only need to consider the placement of the power source and weapons.