Chapter 324 We Are Back

However, after crossing the turbulent river for more than ten kilometers, Zhang Hao suddenly saw a clear and clean lake. There are delicate islands here, and there are blooming flowers on the islands.

The clear and transparent lake, the dots of green and beautiful islands, everything is so beautiful. A world like a fairy tale.

After experiencing the magnificent and dangerous green sea of ​​death, seeing such a beautiful scenery suddenly, many people ran to the side of the ship and exclaimed.

Only Hua Baixiang smiled faintly, stretched out her hand and shot a small fireball, flying towards a 'small island'.

As soon as the fireball flew out of the ship's side, it quickly grew in size, and when it reached the top of a 'small island' directly in front of it, it had already turned into a raging fire hundreds of meters away.

But seeing the 'flowers' on the island suddenly come to life, turning into snakes and dancing - those flowers turned out to be all kinds of snake mouths!

And the small island also moved, and it turned out to be a 'snapping turtle' about 30 meters long——in a turtle-like shell, it wrapped a crocodile-like body.

At this moment, the beautiful lake boiled. The beauty fades in an instant, revealing the ferocity of the natural world!

Those bewitching 'flowers' turned into countless long snakes, with different sizes, lengths, lengths, thicknesses, and colors.

Some snakes spit out black water arrows, some attack like water patterns, some send out ice picks to stir up lake water, and some directly attack with their tails.

The snapping turtle also moved, and the snapping turtle that bore the brunt let out a roar, full of anger and murderous intent. The mouth full of fangs opened, revealing teeth like blades.

The snapping turtle's ferocious eyes stared at the giant steel ship that was quickly rolling over, and roared again, but saw that the entire lake boiled, and all the 'islands' began to change, hundreds of snapping turtles rushed towards the battleship .

Numerous monster snakes screamed and rushed to the sky, forming a dark cloud and covering it, covering the sky and the sun.

The lake was filled with the neighing of poisonous snakes and the roar of snapping turtles. Suddenly, black clouds appeared between the sky and the earth, and the turbid waves surged into the sky. The calm lake instantly turned into a boundless forest.

The sky became gloomy, the gloomy water vapor rolled around, and the gloomy wind began to circle, making a chilling howl.

Zhang Hao nodded to Dugu Junjie, and Dugu Junjie shouted: "Free attack!"

In the next moment, the artillery exploded and roared—every moment, there are shells in the barrel, and there are many kinds of shells in order to respond to changes at any time.

Under the dim sky, the cannon's light was extraordinarily bright. The flames sprayed out more than ten meters away, illuminating the nearby water surface and sky. In an instant, the hills erupted, turning into water columns and splashes all over the sky, and some unlucky snapping turtles were overturned by shells on the spot.

Part of the water column even rushed tens of meters into the air, scattering the monster snakes gathered in the sky.

Many air-explosive bombs exploded in mid-air, and the demon snakes in the sky were instantly emptied into dozens of holes, and streaks of skylight fell down.

But that's just the beginning. The three 460mm artillery guns on the bow of the Iron Duke finally lifted up and fired salvo at the maximum elevation angle. The ballistic trajectory was very steep; The waves exceeded the height of the deck, but were blocked by the barrier.

The shells flew five or six kilometers before they began to turn around and accelerate their descent. It took about half a minute before the shell finally fell and plunged into the bottom of the lake.

Then, half of the lake surface in the field of vision began to bulge, and then was broken open crazily. At that moment, it was like a volcanic eruption, and the water waves rushed to a height of hundreds of meters. , Many died on the spot.

The water waves trembled fiercely, and the waves rushed to the shore behind him thirty to forty meters away, and the entire Skeleton River was muddied.

The remaining monster snakes and snapping turtles struggled in the waves, screaming in terror. Under such a violent explosion, he was too frightened to use any magical powers.

"Continue!" Zhang Hao stood at the bow of the ship and continued to give orders coldly. After all, I turned my head and glanced at Baixiang Hua, the meaning is self-evident-show you the power of the steel battleship, let you know why we crossed the green sea of ​​death!

The battleship began to speed up, and the artillery kept overturning the water surface in the distance. This wide lake was completely muddied, and the once clear lake water began to turn yellow.

But at close range, the ballista with ropes was continuously fired, and the sharp arrows pierced through the turtle's carapace, and then... was dragged onto the battleship!

The snapping turtles struggled frantically, but to no avail. The crossbow arrows were shot down one by one, and the struggle stopped after a while.

There were explosions everywhere in the sky and the water surface, and all kinds of monster snakes in the sky were shattered and broken in the explosion. The core of the explosion was even filled with blood mist. Perhaps many monster snakes can be equivalent to the golden core stage, but under such a large-scale explosion, they are still powerless.

There are also many monster snakes and snapping turtles attached to the bottom of the battleship; but the battleship opened the barrier and kept moving forward; sword lights began to flash on the surface of the barrier of the battleship. The sword light cut through the surrounding water, at least enough to eliminate underwater attacks.

On the side of the ship, a ballista exploded, eliminating the underwater threat. The two battleships switched left and right to clean each other's underwater parts.

Looking at the battle in front of him, Zhang Hao took out a notebook and wrote it down: depth charges, torpedoes, etc. should be developed in the next step. With the current technology accumulation, it may be enough to develop these things. If it doesn't work, just use spells and make do with it.

However, Zhang Hao has always firmly believed that: the technology is simply not up to the mark, and the use of spells and formations to assist it is just to encourage growth, and it can only solve temporary needs and cannot last for a long time.

In Zhang Hao's view, physical technology and formations are somewhat similar to computer hardware and software, and neither of them will work if they are weak, but physical technology is the fundamental.

Even in traditional magic weapon manufacturing, good embryos are needed to add advanced formations, and then excellent magic weapons can be refined. If you use ordinary low-purity black iron, you may not be able to withstand the energy of the formation at all, and you will collapse.

Zhang Hao is imagining here, but Dugu Junjie has already commanded the battleship to start massacring. These snapping turtles are almost equivalent to those in the Nascent Soul stage, but their main defenses cannot stop artillery and ballistas, and their attack power is not enough to destroy steel battleships, so they are now being hunted.

A group of soldiers whose average cultivation was barely above the Foundation Establishment stage manipulated powerful weapons and started a wave of frenzied hunting. A large number of monsters equivalent to the Golden Core Stage and Nascent Soul Stage died tragically.

The large net was cast down, and the floating snakes on the water surface were dragged up. In order to prevent problems, they should be sealed once when they come up, and then the nets will be opened, and then the sealed things will be piled up in the warehouse, and then sealed again for insurance and freshness - and then processed after returning to the country of Qixia. With so many snakes, there must be something good. And the crocodile, too.

After more than an hour, the warship circled the lake with a radius of more than 20 kilometers several times before continuing to swim upstream. At this time, there are almost no snapping turtles in this lake.

It wasn't until this time that Hua Baixiang finally sighed leisurely: "It's a very powerful battle. But it always feels a bit clumsy."

"Flower Guardian, this is inland. If you go to the sea, you will understand. The warship here can't accelerate, and the fastest speed is only 30 kilometers. But in the sea, it can run at a speed of 110 kilometers. Almost four times what it is now."

"That's still very slow! This number can be easily reached in one foundation building period!" Hua Baixiang already understood the concept of kilometers and hours. It's easy to learn during the stage of transforming into gods.

Zhang Hao smiled and didn't explain, the flower Baixiang was obviously making a fuss. That's typical dissatisfaction with the mouth and sourness in the heart.

Sure enough, Hua Baixiang sighed again after a while, "It's a pity that I can only sail on the water, not fly to the sky."

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes, you really dare to think - but this is the so-called nitpicking. But judging from the current situation, it is simply unrealistic to send this behemoth to the sky.

Hey... Huge monster? A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Zhang Hao's head—I'm going, why did I forget about the airship! That's right, I've been busy with sea traffic for a while, and almost ignored the airship. Well, after going back this time, we must study the airship!

To study the airship, we must also study the high-altitude atmosphere and aura. Young Master Zhang's thoughts went off topic again...

After the two warships continued to move forward for about 300 kilometers, they moved with difficulty until evening, and finally could no longer move forward; even because of the narrow river channel, they had to retreat cautiously for more than one kilometer before finding a place to turn around. The battleship broke down here, and Hua Baixiang simply flew away, saying that she would come back tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, Hua Baixiang really came back, followed by thousands of masters, Nascent Soul Stage, Golden Core Stage, roughly estimated at least five thousand, in short, there was an overwhelming feeling, like a Dark clouds came.

Zhang Hao saw it, but his heart was still a little trembling; if so many people made trouble, his two warships would not be able to escape at all! But luckily nothing went wrong.

After these people came to the shore, under the command of Hua Baixiang, they used magic to level a piece of flat land that was almost one kilometer long. Fine gold, mithril and other relatively excellent spiritual materials began to set up stalls.

And Zhang Hao commanded the battleship to remove a large amount of black iron, elixir, steel, etc. An unprecedented grand transaction began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the transaction went smoothly, Zhang Hao smiled. What I was most worried about never happened. In fact, as Zhang Hao expected, the Red Lotus Sect also needs a lifeline.

Hua Baixiang flew to the bow of the ship alone and found Zhang Hao to negotiate the artillery.

"Zhang Hao, the Red Lotus Sect has sorted out about 90% of our existing exercises, secret techniques, formations, etc. at the Jindan stage and below. Except for the core exercises of our sect, almost all of them are here .”

As he said that, he took out three boxes of jade slips, and Zhang Hao took a rough look. In the largest box, there were almost three thousand jade slips, which were exercises. There are also formations, spells, etc., as well as some knowledge of alchemy and equipment.

Sure enough, it is worthy of the power of a Holy Land... Well, it is the power of half a Holy Land. Although these things are relatively common, they are too many. The Nine Suns Sect didn't have one-tenth of these things when they ransacked their homes!

But after Hua Baixiang opened the box, she looked at Zhang Hao with a half-smile, "Although these things are ordinary, they are too many. If it's just artillery... I'm afraid it's not enough!"

Zhang Hao simply took out a jade slip and said, "Look at the guardian flower, everything is here. But how much you can exchange depends on the value of your jade slip. Of course, the jade slip There is only a brief introduction."

Hua Baixiang took Yujian and looked at it for a while, her eyes lit up immediately. In it, there is 60% black iron mass production technology - this has been released for free in Qixia Kingdom, but this technology is still precious.

As for the technology of the artillery, it includes complete drawings, gunpowder technology, and a large number of detailed parameters of the artillery.

In addition, there are crossbows and blueprints of many magical weapons of war—yes, Zhang Hao also took out the blueprints of magical weapons of war from the Qixia Kingdom, since he doesn’t need them any more, so of course he needs to recycle them. .

Finally, there are information on battle formations and strategies in large-scale wars. It was Zhang Hao who sorted it out after seeing the war here.

In the war that Zhang Hao observed last time, although there were spells, there were no large-scale war machines, and there was no military discipline or strategy. The two sides were more like a melee.

Not many things, but all the key. Hua Baixiang hesitated for a long time, and had to start a conversation with the profiteer Zhang Hao.

The two of them were at each other's throats and refused to give in to each other. They actually discussed for more than three days. But overall, Zhang Hao's profiteers have the upper hand, because what Zhang Hao brings out is what the Red Lotus Sect needs, but what the Red Lotus Sect brings out is not what Zhang Hao "must"——Anyway, that's what Zhang Hao said!

During the negotiation, Zhang Hao pressed hard at every step; in the end, Zhang Hao got two precious volumes of "Secret Techniques" from Hua Baixiang - Earth Fire Washing the Body Art, Burning Immortal Strength, Nascent Soul stage level!

"Earth Fire Washing the Body" is a precious secret method in the Red Lotus Sect. It can further strengthen the body and temper the body. With some powerful elixirs (such as Shengshenghuadan, etc.), it can also supplement the fundamental problems— — This is very precious.

After the body is strong, the realm becomes easier.

There is also "Fen Xian Jin", which is a powerful combat technique and attack method; Hua Baixiang demonstrated it once, turning a flame knife in her hand, almost splitting a mountain with one palm, and the rock at the attack position melted, and she was so frightened. Hao's heart was beating wildly.

Fenxianjin can convert the true energy in the body into a powerful high-temperature attack, and the attack power can reach 200% of its own maximum combat power! It can be called a life-saving means.

However, every attack will cause a burden on the body, and it must cooperate with "Earth Fire Cleansing the Body" to withstand its powerful impact.

The most important thing is that these two secret methods cooperate with each other, and even a master in the transformation stage can have a significant effect-Hua Baixiang herself is an example!

Although these two secret techniques are not exercises, they are even more precious than ordinary peak exercises in the Nascent Soul stage.

And Hua Baixiang got all the technologies Zhang Hao brought out, and visited the steel warship, and learned about its structure. Both parties were very happy.

However, there is one point that needs to be pointed out: many key components of the artillery need to be purchased from Dayang Group. In a short period of time, the Red Lotus Sect does not have the ability to "completely independently produce artillery".

In the past three days, the transactions on the shore have also ended, and the inventories of the two warships have been emptied, in exchange for a mountain of medicinal materials and a lot of precious spiritual materials.

In the past few days, Zhang Hao also got another statement from Hua Baixiang from the "Tiandu School": Zhang Tiandu sent the head teacher to find that the eldest disciple was no match for the second disciple, so he wanted to pass the position of head teacher to the second disciple; The first disciple acted first, and the second disciple only had time to inherit the Nine Lands Red Lotus from the teacher in charge before leaving, and created the Red Lotus Sect.

Zhang Hao is skeptical of both parties' statements; but having said that, these things have little impact on Zhang Hao for the time being. What Zhang Hao cares about is what's going on in Qixia Country. It's almost 20 days already, time flies so fast.

In the past few days, there is another person who is relatively busy——Zhao Dahe is very busy. He was measuring the length of the stick's shadow at noon and repeated the measurement.

The battleship stayed here for three days, and finally weighed anchor at noon on the fourth day. The sailors began to cheer, to go home.

Hua Baixiang watched the battleship move slowly, but couldn't help shouting: "Zhang Hao, don't forget to bring a lot of artillery parts, steam turbines, and folded and forged steel swords next time."

"Remember!" Zhang Hao yelled, waving to Hua Baixiang and everyone on the bank as farewell.

In the past few days, Zhang Hao had a general understanding of the environment here. The Taotu Continent seemed to be inconsistent with the legends—there was no sunlight, and it was difficult to survive. Perhaps it was not the southernmost point, and perhaps it was because it was not summer. Check back in the summer.

In addition, although it is called the Devil's Cult here in Tao Tu Continent, except for the war we saw at the beginning, we have never seen any other conflicts. Of course, Zhang Hao did not go out for a turn.

For the first transaction, focus on safety, and try not to cause extra complications. In fact, in this transaction, both parties are relatively restrained, and both want to create a perfect transaction to lay the foundation for future development.

More exchanges, and even understanding, wait for the next time.

The battleship slowly accelerated and returned to the sea that evening. But the battleship did not immediately go north, but continued to sail deep into the sea, this is to prevent the furious sneak attack of the Holy Fire Cult in the north.

Zhang Hao believed that after so many days, the Sacred Fire Sect in the north must have learned the information here, and now it is unknown whether it is too late for regret, or a state of embarrassment, but Zhang Hao is still cautious.

The battleship rushed into the sea for more than a hundred kilometers in one breath, before turning around and heading north.

Sprinting at full speed along the way, because we have to take care of the speed of the battleship Zhiyuan, the forward speed is kept at 110 kilometers.

As we go north, the temperature begins to drop.

Traveling all the way through starry night, unexpectedly encountered an unwilling mirage on the way back. But Zhang Hao was very domineering this time. Seeing that the sea was foggy, he immediately ordered the warship to attack. Then, the fog dissipated quickly, and the battleship Nian crushed the crushed ice on the sea that hadn't had time to subside, and rushed over directly.

It wasn't until the battleship rushed past that the sea surface rolled again. The two mirage dragons poked their heads out cautiously to look at it, and finally dived back into the sea helplessly.

The battleship did not slow down, and encountered many compass confusions on the road, but under the guidance of Zhao Dahe, the battleship hardly changed its direction.

Battleships are like the thoughts of everyone returning home.

On the morning of the sixth day of galloping, light snow began to fall in the sky, and the icy sea wind howled and blew to everyone's collars, but everyone was very excited, and their eyes were full of expectations. It's getting cold, does that mean you're going home?

I remember that when I set off, it was also at this temperature.

But Dugu Junjie stood at the bow of the ship, frowning slightly. He is afraid, afraid that the boat will run too far!

Here is the sea, there is no reference. And the range of the lighthouse is also limited, especially now that it is daytime, the light of the lighthouse is even more unreal.

Zhang Hao suggested: "Dugu, why don't we sail to the northeast for a while, and wait until tonight to see if we can see the light of the lighthouse.

Calculated by time and distance, we should be approaching the west of the Fertile Continent. "

Dugu Junjie looked at the sea water, the sea water was still pitch black, and there were no seabirds in the distance. After thinking about it, he could only command the warship to sail northeast.

In the evening, the sailors on the observation deck shouted: "Seabirds! There are seabirds!"

Many people immediately rushed to the bow of the ship, looking forward to it. Even Zhang Hao couldn't help rushing to the bow of the ship to watch excitedly.

Where there are seabirds, there must be land nearby!

The color of the sea water began to lighten, Dugu Junjie slowed down the battleship, and slowly headed north, waited until night fell, and began to search for the light of the lighthouse.

At midnight, dots of colorful brilliance appeared in the night sky in the northeast. It was very faint, but it attracted everyone's attention in an instant.

"It's the lighthouse! It's the lighthouse! Go home! Go home!" shouted the sailors, and everyone hugged excitedly on the deck.

Dugu Junjie showed a smile on his face: "All the artillery is ready, and the high-explosive shells are fired. Tell the bank that we are back!"

(Sorry, it's late. This chapter has been revised a lot. After thinking about it, I still cut off a lot of plots, so I just returned. The matter of Taotuzhou will be put in the future.)