Chapter 1162: Flying Claw! (Damn, Bang!)

"By the way, don't leave yet. You just happened to come here, and I want to ask you for help."

The leader of the second phase group asked Isana to accept the box containing the materials, and stopped the hunters who were about to leave.

Gordon was a little surprised. From what the leader of the second phase group said, it didn't seem like a formal commission, otherwise he should have provided a task document instead of verbally asking for help like now.

"You say."

Not to say that he took on too much, but everyone was a member of the investigation team, and the other party was an old senior, so he would definitely help if he could.

"Well, before talking about that, I want to ask you upper-level hunters what you think, what do you think of things like projectors?"

The hunters who didn't understand the purpose of the other party's question looked at each other and talked one after another.

"It's very useful when operating in the wild, better than ropes."

"It's still not as convenient as a Kinsect?"

"I rarely use it in battle, occasionally when traveling, oh, mainly to hang pterosaurs."

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"Is that really the case?" The leader of the second-term group grabbed his steel-needle-like beard, "The original design purpose of this thing was actually more of a combat tool, but now it's more popular with editors, and hunters don't use it much."

Gordon nodded, this is true.

Editors generally have a high opinion of the catapult. For example, Alva uses the catapult to launch capture nets all day long to catch small animals everywhere. Master Yuanye even modified it into a multi-purpose walking stick for self-defense.

But for hunters, this thing is too weak.

The projectiles and hooks launched are not as powerful as their weapons, and even a punch with a little force is more damaging than that.

No hunter would regard this thing as a "weapon".

As for hunting props such as launching flash bombs, it is indeed quick and convenient, but there is also an unavoidable problem - not flexible enough.

After all, the projector is a mechanical structure, and the force of the launching object is fixed. For example, the range of the projectile flash bomb is 30 to 40 meters.

The delay of the projectile flash bomb fuse is two seconds, and it is activated at the moment of launch, which is almost when the flash bomb flies 30 meters away and is about to fall.

This is the most commonly used distance for flash bombs, but there are so many accidents in battle. What if the distance between the hunter and the monster is only 20 meters?

The flash bomb will fly to the monster's head and then flash, thus losing its effect.

Although the traditional throwing flash bomb is more troublesome to use, you need to take it out of the prop bag, pull the fuse, wait for the fuse to burn, and then throw it at the right time.

People who are not good at this may throw it crookedly, or throw it too early or too late.

But it is flexible enough, you can throw it as far as you want, throw it high or low, throw it early or late, all by yourself.

Zhuchop is a master among them. As long as the monster is dodged, he has never missed with a flash bomb, which is much more reliable than the catapult.

Of course, there are hunters who can use the catapult in various ways, such as Evelynn, a top-level one-handed sword user, but they are a minority after all. Most hunters do not rely on this thing in battle.

"So! As one of the inventors of the catapult, I have been thinking about how to make it go further! Let it really become a good helper for hunters in battle!

Over the years, I have been studying with Campbell. Oh, by the way, Gordon, you are Campbell's disciple, right? Well, what a coincidence.

In fact, many years ago, we had an idea, whether it is possible to strengthen the hook of the catapult to make it more powerful and more reliable.

Unlike the original hook, which can only be fixed on protruding objects and has the risk of falling off, it should be like the claws of a bird of prey, firmly buckled into the monster's body, and then drive the hunters to "fly" to the monster!"

Hayata's eyes lit up when she heard it, "If it can be done like that, the riding attack that originally had to rely on special terrain will become very convenient!"

She likes riding the most!

"So, you have developed this enhanced version of the hook? You want us to help test it?" Ansel immediately guessed the purpose of the old craftsman.

"That's right!" The leader of the second group grinned, revealing a mouthful of brick-like teeth, "Actually, it's not accurate to say that it was researched. A new type of spring steel was invented in the Old World.

The grip of the claw has doubled, and at the same time, the speed of rope reeling has been greatly increased, which has truly reached the level of being practical for combat!"

As he spoke, the old craftsman took out a pair of mechanical steel claws with a cold glow from under the counter, "That's it, we call it - flying claws!"

Hayata, who was very interested in this, took it first and looked at it.

Compared to the original claw similar to the anchor hook, the claw blade of this flying claw is very long, more than 30 centimeters, and very sharp.

Just like a knife for peeling, it can be easily inserted into the gap between the monster's scales and shells.

"I will modify your catapults as soon as possible. I hope you can provide some practical experience feedback as a reference before the flight claw is finalized.

When the improvement is perfect and can be popularized, you may have to teach other hunters how to use the flight claw.

These things are estimated to take up a lot of your time, so we have also prepared some interesting rewards."

"Money?!" Feng Ying asked without thinking.

"Of course not such a boring thing as money!" The old craftsman folded his sturdy arms, "You upper-level hunters are not short of money, I know this!"

Lack! Feng Ying screamed in her heart.

Before she could raise any objections, Anxier pushed her head aside and said, "Things that can make you feel interesting will not be ordinary."

"Hahaha! Of course!"

The leader of the second phase team confidently took out another mechanical creation. It looked like a small box with a metal shell, about the size of a grapefruit.

"This is... well, I haven't given this thing a name yet. Anyway, this was originally an investigation tool designed for Mr. Monroe (an experienced orc scholar). It was quite interesting, so we made a few more."

The leader of the second phase team said, unfolding the small box and demonstrating how to use it.

"Isn't this just a camera?" Feng Ying muttered.

In the Old World, cameras were invented many years ago, but portable cameras were rare and expensive, out of reach of ordinary people.

But the third princess had it. She snatched it and played with it, so naturally she didn’t think it was strange.

Anhir fiddled with it with great interest, "It's a portable camera, yes, but it's much smaller than the models I've seen in the old continent, and the image is clearer. Well, it also has the function of adjusting the focus?"

"That's right!" The leader of the second phase team gave a thumbs up, "We used the luminous film of Dazzling Bird as the luminous component and successfully miniaturized it.

What's more important is that it's sturdy enough to be used in the wild. You can use it to take photos of monsters and so on.

Mr. Monroe is old and has suffered from rheumatism in the past two years. He is no longer suitable for field surveys, so he asked us to make this.

In this way, he could commission hunters to go to the wild to photograph the ecology and murals of the orcs for research. "

"I see, it's really interesting."

The corner of Ancier's mouth rose, obviously he was very satisfied with the reward. Compared with money, which was just a number to him, he liked this novel and practical machine.

Gordon took the camera from Ancil, briefly understood how to use it, then suddenly turned around and pressed the shutter towards Hayata.

"Crack!"

A bright light flashed, and Hayata turned her head subconsciously.

Left a very scary photo

Ps.

MH's early works give people the feeling of primitive society, but judging from MHW's performance, the technology in this world is probably at the level of the Industrial Revolution.

However, due to the existence of alchemy technology and monster materials, there will be a lot of black technology, such as large airships, dragon-killing cannons and the like.

So it’s normal for optical cameras to appear in games? At least I haven't found a SLR. As for the specific type, I guess it's similar to a polaroid?