Cultivation is Just That Scientific

“Si Qin, stay at the door!” Li Shiming said to Si Qin, who stood beside him, her face full of curiosity.

These parts could be considered his hobby, but once assembled into a generator, there was really no way to explain it.

So even though Si Qin showed curiosity, he could not allow her to watch.

Si Qin, although curious, obeyed his command and left the study.

Li Shiming proceeded to assemble the generator according to his design.

An hour later, a strange box sat on the desk. It looked like a box with a crank, with three copper wires coming out from one side, and nothing particularly special about the rest of it.

The main body of the generator was encased in a wooden box. Even if someone were to see this object, they wouldn’t pay much attention to it.

Li Shiming tried to turn the crank. He realized he had overestimated the strength of this body.

To increase the voltage, the rotor of the generator needed to spin faster. He had designed it so that a large gear would drive a small gear. This method would indeed make the rotor spin faster, but it also required more force to turn the crank.

He was about to ask Mo Yan for help, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.

He exerted force to turn the crank. Though the force was too small to increase the speed significantly, when he saw sparks flashing at the copper wires, he knew he had succeeded.

He had successfully made a simple generator, and after getting the right parts, he knew failure was not an option.

This thing wasn’t complex at all. Once he understood the principles, it was easy to replicate, especially since he was a semi-professional.

However, the biggest problem Li Shiming faced now was how to maintain a steady rotation of the rotor and how to input the generated current into the uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

He looked at the rudimentary generator and thought about moving it into the server room.

With a flash, the generator disappeared from the desk and appeared inside the server room.

He tried to move the rotor with his consciousness. This idea came from the fact that after placing objects in the server room, he could control them at will.

He felt like he had an extraordinary level of control over the interior of the server room.

This was not in line with science, but after transmigration, the very existence of a server room couldn’t be explained by science.

Under his mental control, the rotor of the generator began spinning, and its speed gradually increased.

Due to the technological limitations, the bearings of the generator’s rotor were made by wrapping two pieces of cowhide and adding grease between them.

This technique would generate heat if the rotation speed was too high.

When designing the generator, he hadn’t considered the possibility of such high speeds, as achieving them was impossible in this era.

However, when the generator was placed in the server room, the speed quickly reached its design limits as soon as he used his consciousness to turn the rotor.

Fortunately, since the generator was inside the server room, and his consciousness was focused on it, he could monitor any changes.

Li Shiming controlled the speed, keeping it within the design limits.

He measured the output power with tools. Since the rotor was turned by his consciousness, the generator output reached 230 volts.

This amount of electricity was negligible for a large server.

But at this stage, he didn’t intend to use the generator to start the large server directly. Instead, he wanted to input the power into the UPS.

He connected the three copper wires to the input terminal of the UPS, maintaining control over the generator with his consciousness, ensuring it continuously fed current into the UPS.

When he saw the UPS indicator light turn green, he knew the first step had succeeded.

The UPS began operating. Although the input current was low, as long as the current was within the UPS’s limits, it would be converted by the current conversion unit and stored in the UPS’s battery according to the rated standard.

As the UPS began to work, he realized he could fully control it with his consciousness, even without opening the UPS’s display panel.

Li Shiming continued to control the generator’s rotor for half an hour. When he began to feel a headache.

He quickly stopped controlling the generator. It seemed that controlling the generator inside the server room with his consciousness wasn’t without its cost.

Earlier, during his brief operations in the server room, he hadn’t realized these actions drained his energy.

He couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was being drained, but it seemed to be something related to mental energy.

“I can’t generate power during the day anymore!” he thought, trying to push through the throbbing in his head.

“Young Master, what happened to you?” As Li Shiming pushed open the study door, Si Qin noticed his staggering form and pale face. With a voice tinged with worry, she exclaimed, “Young Master, are you alright?”

“Si Qin, don’t alarm anyone. Help me rest for a bit,” Li Shiming forced a reassuring smile as he instructed.

“Young Master, let me call the doctor to take a look. Your health is important!” Si Qin stepped forward to support him, urging him as she led him to the bedroom.

“It’s nothing. I just overexerted myself a little,” Li Shiming explained, aware of his own condition.

Though he had consumed a lot of mental energy, the UPS had stored some electricity, which kept his mind in an excited state.

Lying on the bed, his consciousness entered the server room. At this moment, his mind was not at peace.

He didn’t know if the large IBMz15 server would power on. He didn’t know if he could access the massive data stored within. Everything was uncertain.

The IBMz15 server was a gift from several prominent alumni to the university in his past life, worth over a hundred million yuan(roughly 15 million USD).

A large server wasn’t just for library use. Some research projects could apply to use it for calculations, though it was stored in the library’s server room.

The IBMz15 was a top-tier model, equipped with 190 CPUs, 40TB of memory, and 12.2 billion transistors, a pinnacle of the previous era’s technology.

He knew the server contained over ten million e-books, covering subjects such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, and military studies. It also held 92 university majors and 506 specific university programs.

Apart from these, it contained domestic and international research results, as well as information on the university’s ongoing projects.

With such a large server, he could raise the technological level of the world he was in to the standard of his past life.

Whether or not the server could power on would determine his two drastically different survival paths in this world. If he couldn’t start the large server, there was only one way forward.

That would be following his father, Li Wenyuan’s prescribed career path, taking the imperial examinations, and entering the government to become an official like Li Wenyuan.

With the storage space in the server room and his ability to observe the items inside at will, taking the imperial examination path would be quite easy for Li Shiming.