Chapter 320: Rowing the Oars: Aircraft Carrier Output Depends on the Waves
The horsepower measuring machine is a bit like a tilted pole with two metal chains and pull rings made of a special alloy tied to it.
Chen Jue walked forward and took a look at the machine, thinking: "This shape should be derived from the Pillars of Hercules!"
Hercules is the strong god in ancient Greek mythology. He is the son of the god Zeus and Alcmene. He is born with great strength. In mythology, he once killed and subdued the Hydra and the three-headed dog of Cerberus in the underworld.
There is a similar competition called "Pillars of Hercules" in modern strongman competitions, where strongmen stand on a stage and pull a stone pillar weighing several hundred pounds in each hand. Whoever can hold out longest wins.
Although the horsepower machine at the base is not the traditional "Pillars of Hercules", it does have some reference meaning in it.
"Brother Li, how much horsepower do you think he can produce?"
"I don't know. Coach Zhang Feipeng at the base can only pull 10 horses at most. This guy is a stunt candidate! I guess he can pull at least double digits, right?"
Listening to the whispers of several people in white coats behind him, Chen Jue looked thoughtful.
Before coming, he had heard Liu Chengdong mention that Zhang Feipeng had already practiced the Ten Body Tempering Exercises to perfection, which meant that his physical attributes had broken through the upper limit of "1".
According to the calculation formula that one horsepower is approximately equal to moving a 75-kilogram object upward by 1 meter in 1 second, Coach Zhang Feipeng's 10 horsepower is equivalent to being able to lift a 750-kilogram object in one breath.
"The tenth form of body building is equivalent to entering the realm of holding the elixir and sitting on the hips."
"It's reasonable that I can lift an object weighing more than a thousand pounds in one breath." Chen Jue calculated for a moment and reached out to grab the two metal pull rings.
At this time, the data on the display next to the testing machine began to return to zero, and a heavy feeling was transmitted from the metal pull ring.
“Interesting!”
"The upper limit of this machine is set very high. Let me test my pure physical strength first." Chen Jue grinned, took a deep breath, stood steadily in a horse stance, and slowly pulled back with both hands holding the metal pull ring.
The tilted "Pillar of Hercules" in front of him began to tremble violently as he exerted his strength!
Then the horsepower number on the monitor next to it began to scroll up frantically.
10 horsepower, 50 horsepower, 100 horsepower, and soon the number displayed on the screen jumped to more than a thousand horsepower!
“Fuck!”
“It’s already exceeded a thousand so quickly?”
"It seems like it's not over yet, he still has some energy left..." The people in white coats surrounding the horsepower machine were talking.
After looking at Chen Jue's previous test data, they had already had psychological expectations and did not show too much surprise.
Just because those in white coats are not surprised doesn’t mean others aren’t surprised!
Some candidates who were undergoing various physical tests in the area heard the news and gathered around the horsepower machine out of curiosity when they saw that there were many people there.
However, when these young candidates saw the four-digit horsepower machine data, they all felt as if they had been hit on the head with a sledgehammer. Their brains were buzzing and they were completely stunned!
"This, this, this...when did this horsepower machine reach four-digit data?"
"Am I seeing things?"
"That's fake! Even the instructors can only pull out data of 10 horses..."
"Wow! Thousands of horsepower, that's outrageous! Is this a twin-turbocharged V8 with a flashed ECU?"
The candidates watching felt more and more that something was not right.
Because the value on the display showed no signs of stopping. After breaking through 1,000 horsepower, it was still increasing.
One thousand horses, two thousand horses, three thousand horses...
Until the metal pull ring in Chen Jue's hand was twisted from a circle to an ellipse by the huge force, followed by a loud "bang"!
The alloy chain connecting the "Pillars of Hercules" could not withstand such a huge pulling force and broke into several pieces.
One of the broken chains flew hundreds of meters away and pierced through a piece of floor-to-ceiling glass with a clang. Everyone present was so scared that they shrank their necks and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"I haven't even tried hard yet, how come it broke?"
"Why!"
Chen Jue was a little helpless. He threw away the metal ring in his hand, glanced at the horsepower data of "5236" on the display screen, and sighed a few times with some helplessness in his heart.
Just now he was pulling with pure physical strength, and he only exerted 10% of his strength.
If combined with the bonus of martial arts energy, Chen Jue is confident that this data can reach over six figures!
What does six-digit horsepower mean?
The world's largest ship engine is the Wärtsilä RT-FLEX96C heavy oil engine developed by Finland. The engine alone weighs 2,300 tons. It is about the size of a basketball court and nearly five stories high.
Its power output can reach an outrageous 110,000 horsepower!
As for its purpose, it is to provide power output for giant cargo ships that can be fully loaded with 11,000 standard containers.
Of course, 110,000 horsepower is just average for the largest and heaviest ships on Earth.
Like the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the Eagle Country, once the four turbines are turned on, the full power output can even reach 280,000 horsepower.
But Chen Jue, with his flesh and blood body, can rely on his own practice and points, combined with the energy supply of martial arts energy, to burst out horsepower comparable to those large ships.
The reason why he boasted in front of Mr. Zhong that he could go to Eagle Country to steal a few aircraft carriers was not just empty talk.
Because with Chen Juxian's current strength, even if the stolen aircraft carrier has no power output, as long as he is given a strong enough boat rope or a larger oar, he can still row the aircraft carrier back!
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Seeing Chen Jue's helpless expression, Academician Huang, who was staring at the data on the monitor, came over and comforted him: "It's okay, young man! You don't have to accompany me if it's broken. Just ask someone from the technical department to fix it."
"Mr. Huang, that's not what I meant."
"The machine is broken, so it's broken. I was wondering how I can measure the upper limit of my strength." Chen Jue pursed his lips.
"What? Strength limit?"
"You mean... 5236 horses isn't your upper limit?" Academician Huang's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he felt that his brain was not enough.
Because in his opinion, the data that Chen Jue just pulled out was already very terrifying.
The power of more than 5,000 horsepower is equivalent to the total horsepower of more than 50 100,000-level family sedans!
Even if all the current candidates in the base were gathered together, they could only barely engage in a one-on-one tug-of-war with Chen Jue, and the winner might not be the one with more people.
"Mr. Huang, 5236 horsepower is just the upper limit of this machine, not my upper limit."
"Let me tell you the truth. I only used a tiny bit of strength just now." Chen Jue said as he stretched out two fingers and made a virtual pinch in front of Academician Huang.
Although the gap between the two fingers was only a tiny bit, in the eyes of the knowledgeable Academician Huang, it seemed as if the entire universe could be fit into it!
