Volume 20 Chapter 121 The Terrible Technological Empire

Full text, no ads, Volume 20, Chapter 121: The Terrible Technological Empire

Under my insistence, those technical geeks finally agreed to let me go and meet Poseidon first. 【　】 (Free download of full-text e-book) But the price I paid for this was to give them another piece of technical information, which of course was not very important. I'm not the one who was taken advantage of, so how could I be so easy to bully?

Although they have been pestering me for endless discussions, these guys from the Iron Empire are still very efficient in doing things. After agreeing to take me to see Poseidon, someone immediately took us to the detention or custody of Poseidon. The place.

"This is where Poseidon is imprisoned?" Looking at the small villa standing next to a lake in front of me, it is difficult for me to equate it with a prison. In my opinion, this place is clearly a vacation and leisure that the rich dream of. villa.

The guards probably knew why I was so surprised, so they directly explained Poseidon's special status here. Since he was neither a prisoner nor a guest, he didn't know how to get out. In the end, he had no choice but to use this place as a temporary custody. The reason why we chose such a good place instead of just any house was mainly because of the special status of the other party. The top brass of the Iron Empire did not want Poseidon to have too much contact with the residents of the country, and this happened to be a relatively open area, so for the time being. Detained here.

Although they were not treated as prisoners, there were still guards outside Poseidon's villa, but the guards themselves did not attract my attention. The thing next to them shocked me.

There are only four guards guarding the villa or Poseidon. They are ordinary-looking and wear similar military uniforms to the ones I saw before, but the badges they wear are slightly different. However, there was a steel beetle parked next to these four guys.

This thing is about six meters long, about two meters wide, and more than two meters high. The bright white metal shell and the obvious rivet structure on it indicate that this thing is definitely not a living thing, at least not a carbon-based living thing.

Apart from the size and the color of the shell, the huge metal object looks like a unicorn. It is very similar to a tank, but the tank is much larger than this thing. Although it is not as big as a tank, this thing makes me feel like I am in a dream now, because this thing is undergoing maintenance at this time.

At this time, there was actually a door open on the side of the steel beetle's head. The shape looked very similar to the door of a car, and since the beetle was facing us from the side, I could still see the driver inside through the open door. The shape and structure of the cabin look like the cab of a heavy truck. (Free download of full text e-book) In addition, behind this thing, the elytra above the huge belly also turned forward at this time. Two of the four guards were standing under the open elytra. With the help of the two people below, they were pulling up something that looked like a missile. Under the beetle's elytra, the place where the two stood was like a honeycomb. General pore structure. As a descendant of an arms dealer, I recognized immediately that it was a rocket nest.

"This, this, this... is this thing a self-propelled rocket launcher?"

The person who led me the way did not expect such a big reaction from me, but he was similar to the leaders of the Iron Empire and had no sense of confidentiality at all, so he explained to me directly. "What are you talking about? This thing is the military beetle of our Iron Empire. It is a large magical machine. It usually requires two people to operate it, one person is responsible for controlling its actions, and the other is responsible for weapon control."

"Does this thing walk on legs?"

The guy who was leading me was stunned for a moment by my question, and thought to himself, "Are you blind? If we don't use legs to walk, wouldn't it look good if we put six legs on it?" Of course, this was what he was thinking. You can't say that. After being stunned for a moment, he recovered and nodded: "Yes, the Beetle uses six mechanical legs to move, and can also perform short-distance jumps when necessary. However, the machine is very heavy, so it is generally not used except when avoiding attacks. ."

"So, what's the speed of this thing?"

"Faster than a human running."

"Faster than a person running? How fast is that?" If someone told me that something moves faster than a person running in real life, I would know how fast it is, but the problem is that this is in a game. Due to usage habits, the 'people' that some people refer to are not necessarily people, and there are obviously many more races in the game than in reality, so people's running speed cannot simply be used as a standard. Otherwise, the range would be too large!

Although the person didn't know why I asked in such detail, but he had no sense of confidentiality and was ordered to receive it seriously, he still answered: "About forty kilometers per hour. The specific speed depends on the road conditions and load, and the specific model. The speed is not exactly the same. For example, there are two extreme models in the artillery force. One is the assault reconnaissance type that provides artillery guidance for bombardment. The speed can reach about 70 kilometers per hour, but the heavy self-propelled artillery model in the artillery. The speed is only less than 30 kilometers per hour. The one you see now is the standard model, the speed is 40 kilometers per hour, but in fact it can reach 45 kilometers per hour, and some good drivers can even drive up to 50 kilometers per hour. "

The speed of forty kilometers is not too slow. Although even electric motorcycles in the real world are faster than this speed, the movement of forty kilometers is actually quite high, especially in terms of long-range maneuvers. Although military weapons also focus on speed, they are not road racing after all. Compared with speed, off-road performance is the key. But looking at the six mechanical legs of this thing, I know that this thing can compare with the off-road capabilities of real tracked tanks. Simply weak burst. Of course, I am referring to pure hard ground speed. If it encounters super soft ground such as quicksand terrain and mud ground, the mechanical legs are sometimes not as good as the wheels. After all, the grounding surface is too small and the unit pressure is too high. If the ground is slightly softer, it will be completely ruined. No matter how good the off-road performance of the mechanical leg is, it can only lie down if there is no hard ground for one leg.

After asking about the speed of this thing, I originally planned to go over and continue to observe this thing. After all, this thing can basically be regarded as a practical tank. You must know that the current mechanical vehicles in the game can only run slightly at sea. Going forward, the ground and sky are almost blank. Our guild is relatively advanced. In the sky, only the big guy like Essinger and those flying insect fortresses are more reliable. The aircraft we build basically have one problem or another. Anyway, we occasionally use them to scare people. It's scary, but if it's popularized, you don't even have to think about it. It doesn't have that strength and it doesn't have that value.

The ground is worse than the sky. In addition to horse-drawn carriages, the only mechanized means of transportation that can currently run on the ground is our guild's magic levitating train. However, this thing is just a model project so far. It was originally planned to build a national railway, but now it has only built a line from Essinger to Yunxiao City, and it has been in a state of loss from the day it was completed until now. , the reason is not that the train itself is bad, but that the world in the game is not as harmonious as the real world. In reality, on the railway, you can only encounter rats stealing some things, but in the game, large areas of no-man's land are full of monsters. You can restrain people not to destroy the magic suspended railway. The monsters will not do that to you. If someone looks at them, they will be unable to do anything. They will immediately destroy the people as soon as they leave, so we have to constantly arrange guards on both sides of the road, and the train itself Also hang up an armed carriage to deal with monsters along the way. However, such a monster cannot destroy the train, but the operating cost is really... Anyway, after all the repairs have been repaired, we can only hold on with gritted teeth and treat it as a face-saving project. Fortunately, the transportation itself can also make money. Although it is not enough after the maintenance costs are included, it is not much worse, so we have never given up on this railway. However, apart from this railway, ground transportation around the world is still the primitive method of Warcraft + carriages or n Warcraft + a string of carriages.

It's because the transportation problems in various places are so backward that I value this thing so much. This thing is for military use. After adding armor and weapon systems, it can still reach a speed of forty or fifty kilometers. If it is all replaced by freight vehicles, without armor and weapons, how high can it go at this speed? Players who practice alone or in a team may not care about ground transportation. After all, players can use teleportation arrays, but as a guild, it is impossible to use teleportation arrays for all supplies, right? Who can afford the price? Therefore, the appeal to me of a means of transportation that is reasonably priced, has a large transport capacity, is safe and fast is absolutely huge.

However, just when I was about to continue to pounce on this thing to study it clearly, the person who led me reminded me: "Why don't you go meet your friend first and talk about this later? Besides, we are just soldiers, and we don’t know the technology of these things very well. If you want to know more, it’s best to ask the higher-ups to approve you to talk to the experts from the Academy of Sciences, they know a lot more than I do.”

I thought the same thing, what can Xiao Bing know? If you just ask the users of weapons or cars like military enthusiasts or car enthusiasts, you can only learn a little bit. It may be useful to brag about, but you can rely on this knowledge to make a weapon yourself. Or a car, that’s just a dream. If we want to obtain real technology to ensure that our guild can imitate or even improve this kind of thing, we must find professionals to find out the specific research data. Otherwise, we cannot copy a complex machine just by using reports.

"Okay, take me to see my friends first."

Seeing that I finally turned my attention back, the guy who led the way quickly ran over to talk to the guard and showed the approval document. Then he opened the door of the villa under the guidance of the four people. However, according to regulations, they were No one was allowed in, so I had to go in by myself to get Poseidon out.

Since they couldn't enter, I had to go in by myself. Fortunately, the villa was not big. I quickly found what they called the captive who was not a prisoner, which was Poseidon's body. However, when I saw Poseidon At that time, he was completely stupid.

"You...you are Poseidon?"

!x-on:#

(Free download of full text e-book)