Volume 20 Chapter 170 Battlefield Remains

"Is this a battleship?" Xiao Longnu asked, looking at the cannon in front of her. ┃- ┃

I observed the structure in the room and said, "The one with the cannon may not necessarily be a battleship, but the probability that the ship in front of me is a battleship is more than 60%."

"I don't care if it's a battleship or not. Let's go check out the door first." Ling said to Ye Yue next to him: "Send me up."

"It's better to ask professionals for this kind of thing." I said and released Brigitte and Everett directly.

As soon as Brigitte appeared, she directly loaded the weapon onto Ling's body from behind, and then flew up with her. Everett did not load the weapon onto me, but flew up to help. As for me, of course I flew up to see it myself. Yeyue still stayed below to keep watch, and the little dragon girl flew up to provide us with sufficient lighting.

Although the cannon in front of you can be seen as a cannon at a glance, the structure of this thing is still very different from modern artillery. After all, this is in the game, so this cannon is most likely a magic weapon. weapons rather than modern thermal weapons.

Because it is a naval gun, this thing uses a huge rotatable metal platform as its base. The height of this base is more than one meter and its diameter is more than five meters. The main part of the cannon is a barrel about thirteen meters long and divided into two sections. The outer diameter of the front section of the gun barrel, which is about eight meters long, is relatively thin, but its diameter is also over one and a half meters, and its internal diameter is about one and two meters. The outer diameter of the second half of the barrel reaches about 1.7 meters. This part is directly connected to a trapezoidal metal box that is as huge as a small container. There should be magic components and the like inside. There are two arc-shaped rails on both sides of the box, which can rock back and forth just like the grounded thing under the rocking chair. However, this thing is not placed randomly on the base, but passes through a set of gears and several sets of A special pulley is used for auxiliary movement, and the rotation angle of this thing can be controlled through the rotation of the gear. This plays a role in controlling the elevation angle of the cannon. But looking at the length of this thing, I guess the pitch angle of this gun shouldn't be very large.

Ling, wrapped by Brigitte, flew up to the front of the cannon's barrel. Then I looked inside. But Brigitte couldn't get in because she was too big. In the end, I had to let Brigitte undress and put Ling in alone. After studying the gun barrel for a while, Ling came out again. I quickly went over to help her out, and then asked, "How is the situation inside?"

"There is a large amount of magic repulsion array on the barrel. It is initially estimated that it is a magic cannon. There is a very complicated crystal structure at the bottom of the barrel that blocks me from passing through. However, from the outside, I can see that there are several mirror arrays inside, so It should be some kind of beam energy weapon. Of course, it may also be a short energy bomb."

"Want to see the structure behind it?"

"Um."

After Ling finished speaking, he was wrapped by Brigitte again. Then he flew to the box at the back. This box is not a closed whole. There are many holes in it, but they are all sealed with metal plates. The surface is fixed with screws. But because Everett is here. So this is not a problem. After unscrewing all the screws in a few clicks, all these covers were removed. With the help of Brigitte, Ling looked at it from gap to gap, and finally came to the conclusion that this thing is a unique three-dimensional system, which means that it can be used in the same way after being hacked.

With the lessons learned from the mushroom bomb before, we no longer have the courage to try something that is clearly a large weapon at a glance, even though it looks like an energy beam weapon. But who knows what will come out in the end?

After an inspection confirmed that the rotating chassis and pitch angle mechanism of this thing were not as good as those in our guild, we simply didn’t want those things. Simply remove the barrel and the box from the bracket and install them into the Earth Gate, leaving the rest alone. However, no corresponding cannonballs or energy-emitting things were found in this room, which made us a little disappointed.

There is a second room not far away from this room. I went in to check as usual. What I saw was the same gun cabin as the one in front. An extra-large magic cannon stood in the center of the room. It was different. There is a skeleton hanging on the muzzle of this cannon, but it does not look like a human being. Although the structure is very similar to that of a human being, there is an extra pair of wings on the back. Obviously this thing is either an angel or a demon, but There are no traces of horns on the top of his head, so he is probably an angel.

Because the structure in the room was basically the same, we disassembled the cannon as usual, and then focused on observing the skeleton. In addition to discovering that it was an angel, we also determined the origin of this angel. The opponent obviously suffered a heavy blow, because the entire back of his head was shattered into a pile of bone fragments, but there was no damage to other parts of his body.

Although we can roughly see the cause, we can only give up studying the body for the time being because the body has completely decayed and it is impossible to judge the situation with just a skeleton.

After returning to the passage, we searched several more rooms along the way, and found that they were all the same gun rooms. It was not until the tenth room that we finally encountered something a little different. This room is still a gun room, but what is different from the previous room is that a large amount of soil has poured into this room, and a large hole has been opened between the gun room and the passage, and the door is missing. The cannon in the room is still there, but it has been twisted out of shape. There is an obvious big hole at the top where the soil entered, and judging from the way the metal edge rolled up, it is clear that it was hit hard by an irresistible force from the outside. worn.

"Is this... shelling damage?" Xiao Longnu turned to look at me and asked.

I shook my head: "I don't know, but it looks very similar."

Yeyue also nodded and said: "It seems that this place has been hit by a cannonball. Look, there are traces of being burned here. Even the metal surface has melted. The temperature must have been very high at that time."

"Do you still want this cannon?" Everett asked me, pointing at the twisted cannon.

Just as I guessed, after we passed through here and walked a short distance, we found another seriously damaged gun room after an intact gun room. Compared with the previous gun room, this one was much smaller. The damage to the side was obviously more serious. Not only was the gun room above our heads completely penetrated, but the shelling seemed to have penetrated the main passage and entered the room on the other side, which was at our feet. However, now it has been completely filled with soil, so it is not convenient to go there to check. Even if we continue to move forward, we have to rely on the pioneers to drill a hole in the soil to get us to the opposite passage.

"It looks like the damage here is worse than imagined."

Just after passing through the passage covered by mud, we discovered that the damage on the other side was far more serious than that. The blocked passage just now had a large amount of mud flowing into the ship, so it was impossible to see the overall damage. We could only guess that the damage was serious from the large amount of mud flowing in, but the breach here was just covered by a few pieces of mud. The large rocks blocked it so not much mud got inside the hull, so we were able to see the entire cabin.

The passage here can no longer be called a passage. The cabins can no longer be distinguished at all. The main passage collapsed in all directions as if it had been opened. The gun chamber was compressed to only one-third of its normal size. In addition, The entire cabin on one side turned into a pile of metal blocks that melted and then cooled and solidified again. It was impossible to tell what it looked like originally.

Obviously, a shell should have penetrated the hull armor from the gun room before, and then when it entered the main passage and the wall of the cabin on the other side, the high temperature dissolved the metal cabin on the other side, and the main passage blamed The instantaneous pressure generated by the gunzha opened it up and turned it into an open structure. As for the gun chamber in front, it was compressed and became much smaller due to the expansion of the main channel.

Because the damage here was extremely serious, we had to fly over this area, because the originally narrow passage had been transformed into a quite large space, and the opposite passage was still more than thirty meters away from this side. Had to fly over.

After entering the opposite passage, we only walked about thirty meters before we could move on. The passage in front of us was completely squeezed for some unknown reason. The walls on both sides of the passage merged into one in front of us, sealing off the entire passage.

"What should I do now?" Xiao Longnu asked me.

I thought about it and decided to listen to Ling's opinion. As a result, Ling said it was best to go through, because we are not familiar with the environment here and it is easy to get lost if we take a detour, so the simplest way is to follow the direction you entered. Move forward according to your own judgment and ignore road problems, so that you won't lose your way because of the need to take a detour.

Since Ling said so, we can only move forward in the direction of our goal. As for the problem of the blocked passage in front, this can be solved in an eternity, and it is very fast.

As mentioned before, after cutting through the flattened passage, we entered directly into a large piece of dirt, and we had to rely on pioneers to dig holes for the road ahead. Obviously, the cabin on this side of the ship must have suffered a violent impact or some other blow. Anyway, a large area was dented, and it felt like the entire hull seemed to be twisted and deformed. Ling said this This impact may have caused the ship to sink.

In order to confirm Ling's guess, we did not dig straight forward after entering the soil. Instead, we asked the pioneers to dig down for a while, then released peppers and used the mental force field to scan the surrounding situation. The results were unexpected.

"Is there another ship here?" I asked in surprise.

Chili nodded and said: "Yes. What we entered before was half of the stern. There were long strips of metal scraping vertically in the mud in front. They should be another ship. As for whether the front half of the stern of the ship we were just on was In front of that ship, I don't know. It's too far away for me to sense."