Chapter 230: Super Parts of the Secret Weapon

The Gunslinger is not just talking nonsense. What he calls a solution actually really has a solution. Just after the Frozen Banshee finished speaking to the Gunslinger, the Gunslinger immediately issued orders to his men, and then those guys who were originally standing on the battleship deck carrying special weapons began to turn around and command the people around them. Got busy.

In fact, it's not too complicated to say that it's busy work, it's just more physically demanding.

Under the command of the player in front, those players and NPCs moved something like a flying saucer from a temporarily installed room at the rear of the battleship. The shape of this thing is very similar to the flying saucer mentioned in popular flying saucer legends in the past. The middle part of the disc-shaped body is slightly protruding, and the surface is silvery white. It looks like it is some kind of alloy and has a high hardness. The diameter of the thing is about three meters, which is not as big as expected. The thickest part in the center is only 60 centimeters thick, which can be said to be relatively thin.

Although the size is not very big, the weight of this thing seems to be quite heavy. After a lot of effort, several people got it to the front of the deck and handed it to the player, and the player directly stretched out his hand and clicked on the flying saucer. The protruding part in the center suddenly spreads out, like a blooming daisy. A circle of grooves can be seen inside this open part, and around the grooves are protruding black coils. This groove is obviously some kind of track device, with something like a pointer connected at both ends. There are two identical coils stuck in the groove, and looking at the bearing structure, this thing should be able to rotate in the groove. After seeing this thing, the player stretched out his hand and pressed on the bearing in the center of the pointer, and then the bearing bounced up a little. Although it looked like it could rotate before, the bearing that had been stuck suddenly suddenly became very slippery. After just being touched, it rotated several times on the bearing without stopping.

After confirming that the thing could rotate, the player stood up and stepped aside. Then the people around him came forward and turned the flying saucer over so that the open side was facing down. Then the player operated the reverse device in the same way. After the devices on both sides were in the same rotatable state, the player stepped back again, and the people around him began to get under the thing and lift it up.

The player responsible for operating the weapon picked up his personal missile launcher-like thing again. Then some switch was activated on the sight, and then I saw a bright spot suddenly appear on the edge of the circle around the flying saucer held by those in front. Then this bright spot began to rotate along the edge of the flying saucer, and the speed increased. It comes faster and faster, and because the rotation speed of the bright spot gradually exceeds the visual range of the human eye, the bright spot then becomes an aperture in everyone's sight. And the flying saucer started to take off unsteadily. Seeing the flying saucer flying slowly, the others released their hands and stepped aside. The flying saucer looked very bulky at first, but after taking a few seconds to stabilize after flying, it suddenly became extremely flexible. The thing first circled the sky above the battleship a few times, and then suddenly flew forward at a very fast speed. And it seems that the maneuverability such as turning is quite exaggerated.

After these flying saucers took off, they went straight towards my fleet. Of course, we noticed these things immediately. After all, this thing has its own light and is not too small.

After watching those things flying near us, of course we immediately let all the flying units take off and prepare to attack. After all, although the number of these things is not too many, they are still considered flying units, and due to the flexibility of this thing It's quite high, so we have to pay close attention to this thing.

Although we are already prepared for a big air battle. But what surprised us was that these things did not fly over our fleet, but stopped there when they flew about five or six kilometers away from our fleet. This situation surprises us, but now we can only take a look before talking. After all, we don’t know what these things do or what their capabilities are. These need to be observed to draw conclusions.

In fact, the Americans didn't let us wait too long. The Gunslinger guy obviously didn't have much patience. After those things arrived not far in front of our fleet, the players on the Holy Spear League started to move. The players carrying the launchers suddenly collectively pressed something on their own launchers, and then we found that the silver shells on the surfaces of the flying saucers suddenly unfolded. Then the extremely complex internal structure underneath was revealed. But that's not all. After these internal structures appear. A layer of polyhedrons composed of a large number of regular hexagons suddenly appeared around these things. This polyhedron is quite regular, with a diameter of about four meters. It roughly looks like a circle, because there are quite a lot of hexagonal structures on its surface, so the overall structure is close to a circle, but strictly speaking it is a polyhedron rather than a sphere.

This thing is entirely composed of light film and looks like a protective shield, but we can roughly determine that it is not a protective shield, because the magic wave shows that this thing has the characteristics of space magic rather than an energy force field.

After these light films are formed, these flying saucers are almost invisible. The light film surrounding them is not very transparent, so it looks like the flying saucer has turned into polyhedral crystal blocks. However, these things have just completed the preparation work at this time, and their real ability is not as simple as transformation.

After seeing the preparations for the flying saucers here, the Paladin players who launched the flying saucers began to move. They put their eyes on the sights and carefully moved the devices on their shoulders, and then after aiming, One of the players fired first. As his finger pressed the trigger, the thing on his shoulder suddenly shot out a long white beam of light. The beam of light flew straight forward, and then traveled a distance of nearly sixty kilometers and directly hit a missile suspended in the air. A flying saucer less than five kilometers away in front of our fleet, or in other words, hit the polyhedral light film unfolded by the flying saucer.

The light beam accurately hit one face of the polyhedron, and then another of its n faces suddenly lit up, and then. A beam of light that was exactly the same as the one that hit it shot out from that surface, and because of the pointing problem of this surface, the light beam flew directly towards one of our battleships.

Buzz... With a sharp and sharp sound, a golden protective shield suddenly unfolded outside the hit battleship. Then the straight impact of the light beam stirred up a golden light on the protective shield, but this attack was obviously unable to penetrate the protective shield. Soon when the light beam was extinguished, the protective shield returned to its transparent state.

Now we don’t need to guess anymore. The flying saucer should be a reflecting prism, but it is not a physical prism but a magic prism. This thing can function as a transfer station, and its effect is similar to the space prism system used by our guild's Tower of Babel.

At this time, the distance between our fleet and the US-Russian combined fleet is as high as 65 kilometers. Everyone knows that the earth is round, so when the distance between us is large enough, the sea surface between the two is no longer flat, but arched. This arched sea surface is like a mountain blocking us from the US-Russian combined fleet. However, the attack method we use is a super long-range cannon. The cannonball actually does not fly in a straight line. Because of the dual effects of gravity and air resistance, the flight trajectory of the cannonball will be a parabola. In other words, the cannonball can cross the bulging sea level in the middle to achieve cross-shooting. In fact, in the theoretical model, as long as the muzzle velocity of your cannon is large enough, you can even let it circle the earth and hit the enemy behind you. However, the secret weapon of the Holy Spear Alliance cannot do this.

Whether it was the beam the opponent just showed or the previous light bomb. They all have one thing in common - flying in a straight line.

Although we haven't figured out how this weapon works yet, for now it seems like it's an energy weapon. Although energy itself can actually be affected by gravitational fields. But because this effect is too small, unless it is a cosmic-level astronomical calculation, we can basically think that the energy weapon flies in a straight line. It won't turn at all.

Precisely because of the direct firing method of this energy weapon, if it wants to hit us sixty-five kilometers away from its current location, it must first penetrate a large area of ​​sea water before it can hit us. but. Once the energy weapon hits the sea water, it will be refracted and scattered or even directly detonated. Anyway, it cannot hit the traditional Chinese medicine target.

Although direct-fire weapons perform excellently in air defense. But it suffered a lot in the ground battle. The effective range of that kind of beam is obviously very high, but it cannot hit targets that are too far away due to the obstruction of the terrain. Our guild's Tower of Babel has a similar problem. The ultra-high energy output allows the Tower of Babel to even directly bombard targets on the lunar surface from the ground. But without the assistance of a space prism, it couldn't even hit a target more than ten kilometers away. The solution to this trouble is to use a space prism.

The Tower of Babel emits energy rays to the geostationary space prism located directly above the Tower of Babel in space. Then this space prism will send the beam to the space prism closest to the target after two or three reflections, and then Through refraction, the beam returns to the ground and hits the target.

Although the flying saucer of the Paladin League is incomparable to our space prism, the principle is basically the same. The flying saucer is suspended in the sky, so there is no need to worry about the influence of terrain. As long as the range is sufficient, the flying saucer can be targeted even if it is far away. The flying saucer can refract the beam when it is illuminated and attack a large area below it.

This idea is very simple. To put it bluntly, it is just to use refraction to turn the light beam, but the technology required to achieve it is very complex and sophisticated. Not to mention that the flying saucer requires certain remote control capabilities to fly over the enemy target, but the light film that replaces the reflective prism is not generally man-made. Finally, hitting something with a diameter of four meters from dozens of kilometers away is not a simple matter in itself. After that, the flying saucer must accurately ensure that the reflected beam hits the target. All of this is not that easy. So the idea of ​​this kind of thing is very simple, but the design principle is really complicated.

No matter how complicated this thing is, the Paladin League has built it anyway, and it seems to be effective. All the first round of attacks hit, which is higher than the hit rate of our artillery shells. Of course, we didn't suffer any loss in this attack. Although their attack hit rate is much higher than ours, the power of this weapon does not seem to be much higher than our cannonballs. All of our large warships are equipped with small city-level protective shields, so this first round of attacks did not cause any substantial losses to our fleet. Of course, if it continues to be attacked like this, the final result will be like the flying destroyer that was damaged by them before, and there will definitely be real damage. so. In order to avoid this kind of damage, we need to solve these troubles in advance. Our current advantage is not great. If we enter a war of attrition too early, we will suffer even more losses.

"Attention fleet, give priority to destroying those flying saucers." King Chuang began to issue orders directly without my instructions. After all, he is the naval commander of our Frost Rose Alliance, and he is still very good at tactical issues.

After receiving the order, our warships temporarily gave up their attack on the US-Russian combined fleet. Instead, they began to raise their guns and aim at the flying saucers in the sky.

These things are not actually directly above us, but are located five kilometers in front of our fleet, and their location is not particularly high. Because there is a distance of five kilometers and the opponent's position is not very high, all kinds of artillery including the main guns of our warships can directly target these flying saucers. but. Just after we all aimed at those flying saucers and started attacking...an accident happened.

The five-kilometer distance was too close for our warships, so the hit rate was astonishingly high. However, although a large number of shells that flew past accurately hit the target, the imagined explosion did not occur. Those shells seemed to have passed through a space door and penetrated directly through the light film outside the flying saucer. However, they did not enter the space behind the light film. Instead, they passed through the light film after a delay of a few tenths of a second. It flew out, then returned the same way and flew towards our own battleship.

"Holy shit!" He saw a large number of densely packed artillery shells flying down. The warships on our side opened their protective covers in an emergency, and then a large number of continuous explosions shook the protective covers of our warships to the point of collapse. This is the first time that the personnel on our warship have experienced the power of their own cannonballs.

"What happened just now?" King Chuang rubbed his eyes in disbelief, hoping that he had seen it wrong. But the fact is the fact. Although it did not cause any actual damage to our fleet, the shells flying back this time surprised us even more than before. Because we thought of a possibility. What would happen if the opponent's flying saucers were not used as refracting prisms here, but as full-time shields? Unlike the protective shield, this thing only teleports the shells away. It does not need to resist the opponent's attack energy, so I can foresee that this thing will definitely consume less energy than the protective shield. The significance of low energy consumption is that they can be started for a long time, and they can even be turned on all the time without turning off. In this way, the opponent will have an invincible protective shield. How are we going to fight the rest of the battle?

These flying saucers deploy special shields facing each other. We all frowned, but the US-Russian combined fleet was quite happy. Of course, not many people were excited this time because most people couldn't see the effect of the attack. Even if the people who can see it tell the people around him, other people will not be too excited if they don't see it themselves.

However, although the players on the US-Russia Combined Fleet are not very excited, the level of depression on our side is not low at all. Originally, we had been bullying the U.S.-Russian combined fleet, but now the sudden appearance of these things means that we will go from bullying the U.S.-Russian combined fleet unilaterally to needing to shoot at each other. Moreover, if the opponent has more of these things that can form a defensive array, the situation will be completely reversed, and we will be unilaterally abused by the US-Russian combined fleet.

Fortunately, our luck is not really that bad. According to the intelligence from our reconnaissance unit, there are only a few of these small flying saucers from the other side, and they do not appear in large numbers.

In fact, our worries are somewhat unnecessary. Regarding the plan of using this special teleportation ability for defense, the Holy Spear Alliance has already explored it before, but their conclusion is that it cannot be realized under the current conditions.

First of all, because this thing will increase its energy consumption in a geometric progression as its defense area increases, therefore, it cannot be enlarged at all. Even if a higher-output energy system is used, the ultimate volume of this protective barrier is approximately the diameter of the previous polyhedron increased to about five meters. If it needs to be larger, the energy consumption will definitely cause collapse. Therefore, it is basically hopeless to expand the size of this thing.

Cannot increase in size. This kind of device cannot be directly installed on a battleship, and if multiple small devices are arranged to form a large protective surface, this is also not feasible, because this kind of thing has spatial attributes, and if the two devices are too close, it will Interference will occur. Finally, the space barrier was torn open and they were sucked in themselves. Therefore, there is no way to rely on multiple such devices to splice large shields together.

Of course, if you can't form a large shield, you can let the shield block the shells by itself. Unfortunately, for this kind of thing to actively block cannonballs, it needs to have basic intelligence. It is a pity that the Holy Spear Alliance does not have this technology, so naturally it cannot build a shield that can actively block cannonballs on its own. Besides, even if it can really be built, it can still be used for normal attacks. Once a large-scale naval battle enters, the fleets of both sides will often concentrate their firepower to attack each other's targets in sequence. Therefore, warships that are targeted are often hit by multiple shells at the same time. No matter how fast this protective shield is, it cannot block so many targets at the same time. If multiple protective shields are used, it returns to the interference problem. .

In addition, even if there is high enough intelligence, such as an artificial soul equipped with the level of a mobile angel to operate this thing, it still has no way to block cannonballs. And the reason is that it's too slow. Although the speed and flexibility shown by this thing when it flew from the US-Russia Combined Fleet to our side are quite good, the problem is that this speed is far behind the speed of artillery shells. To be able to block the forward path of the artillery shell in time when it is discovered, the speed requirement is very high. Judging from the current speed of this thing alone. Even if it can detect flying artillery shells in advance, it will not have time to intercept them.

In fact, in addition to the above restrictions, another thing that makes the Holy Spear Alliance very depressed is that the cost of this small flying saucer-like space shield generator is a bit too high.

If it were our Frost Rose Alliance, we should be able to build thousands of these things, but the Holy Spear Alliance is only one of the guilds in the United States, and its financial resources cannot be compared with our Frost Rose Alliance, which occupies most of China. Advantageous resources, and there are also a large number of overseas colonies and super guilds in high-yield mining areas. It would be a huge expense for us to build thousands of these things. But we can still afford it, and the Paladin currently has close to a thousand of these devices. But one kilogram made the Holy Spear Alliance almost bankrupt. This huge capital consumption is an important factor limiting the mass production of this thing.

Generally speaking, this device is only suitable for being used as a refractor for the secret weapon of the Holy Lancers instead of a prism. Because when acting as a refractor, this thing only needs to remain motionless, and the player responsible for operating the weapon will aim at it and fire without it having to actively pick up the shells.

Of course, we don’t know any of the above. This is just the result of the Holy Spear League’s own research, so we are still quite worried. We are afraid that the Holy Spear League will suddenly come up with a large group of these things. Then we will have to Tough luck.

"President, that thing can reflect attacks. What should we do if you can't hit us?" After realizing that the bombardment was ineffective, King Chuang turned around and asked me for help.

In fact, I was thinking about this question before King Chuang asked. Speaking of which, there are no solutions, but they are too cumbersome and inefficient.

The most direct way I think of is to deal with these things myself. Although the cannonballs will be teleported, if I use the eternal attack, with the power of eternal laws, I can cut through the space together. Naturally That barrier means nothing to eternity. And as long as there is no teleportation barrier, this thing will become extremely fragile and can be destroyed with just a few hits. But this method requires me to cut them one by one by myself. Those things are not one or two, but as many as a hundred. Although it is less than a thousand, it is almost there. When should I cut off such a large amount? Besides, those things won't be fixed there waiting for me to cut them. If I attack them, they will definitely run away. The chasing process will definitely take a lot of time, which will make the efficiency even worse. So, if I did it myself, the effect would definitely be quite bad.

King Chuang saw that I didn't respond for a long time and asked again: "Boss? Do you have any idea? Our weapons can't reach that thing!"

"It's not that there's no way, it's just that it's not very efficient." I thought about it for a while before speaking out my thoughts.

After hearing this, King Chuang had the same idea as me. It would be too slow and meaningless for me to go alone. And even if we find a few players from the Frost Rose Alliance who have similar abilities to me to deal with these things, the result will still be the same, because there will definitely not be many people, so the elimination speed will not be fast enough, and we will still suffer in the end.

We were really thinking here that the US-Russian combined fleet really started firing again, and this time they used the tactic they used to deal with our flying warships before, which was a concentrated fire attack. The advantage of this tactic is very obvious, that is, it can output a huge amount of damage in a short period of time, so that the protective shield has no time to recharge and is penetrated.

In fact, what the US-Russian players in the US-Russian Combined Fleet don't know is that our guild's surface ships don't actually have the perverted protective shields of air battleships. Because the solar furnace inside the air battleship is very expensive, the protective cover is abnormal grade. And because the energy output of the solar furnace itself is relatively large and the energy cost is low, we are naturally willing to use large protective covers. However, these warships on the sea are all about to be retired. They still use magic crystal power, so the output power consumption is very low and the energy cost is also quite high. In this case, even if a large protective shield is installed, it will not be activated at all. Therefore, sea surface battleships use shields with lower energy intensity, which are not as resistant to beating as air battleships.

After a round of concentrated fire from the US-Russian combined fleet, the protective cover on the light cruiser that was the big target disappeared instantly, and the hull was actually hit by a beam. The armor plate in front of the island was instantly destroyed. A big hole appeared, and there was thick smoke billowing from it. Fortunately, it did not cause much impact. It just penetrated the armor. The battleship's combat effectiveness was basically sound.

In the first round of kilograms, the U.S.-Russian joint fleet just hoped that the strength of the protective shield could be worn away. Unexpectedly, the protective shield was knocked off directly. This was really an unexpected surprise for them. With this excitement, the players of the Holy Spear Alliance started the second round of bombardment, and the target was still the cruiser.

"Dolphin 2, slow down, use right rudder, and get out of the bombardment array. Manta Ray, speed up and go up, help Dolphin 2 block it." Standing on the Eternal, King Chuang could take charge of the overall situation and saw the protective cover of Dolphin 2. When it was gone, he immediately ordered the fleet to adjust its formation and use the huge hull of the battleship Manta Ray to stand in front of Dolphin 2 to temporarily block the shells and buy time for the protective shield to be repaired.

Unfortunately, the rate of fire of the weapons from the Paladin League was too high. As soon as the Manta Ray had time to speed up and cover one-third of the hull of the Dolphin 2, the Dolphin 2 suffered a second round of hits, and it was in It was washed without a protective cover.

Although this secret weapon of the Holy Spear Alliance is launched by a single soldier, it can be seen from the pipeline that it is a heavy weapon and requires external energy, so its power is real. The entire bow of the Dolphin 2, which was washed away by intensive firepower, was blown away. It bubbled up in a thick smoke and began to sink at a high speed. In the blink of an eye, only half of the mast was left.

"Your sister!" King Chuang got angry when he saw a battleship sinking on our side. He shouted directly into the communicator: "Forget about defense, just give me all-out bombardment. Do your best to gain the upper hand."