Chapter 17 Introducing New Technologies
"What? Besides Atlantis, are there other underwater cities?" The words of Emperor Atlantis shocked me! "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"We weren't very familiar with each other at that time. If you go to other underwater cities to trade and leave us alone, I'll be at a huge loss. After all, I'm also the leader of Atlantis. I have to think about my people!"
"So what do you mean now? Do you want me to help you attack other underwater cities?"
"That's more or less what I mean." Seeing that the expression on my face wasn't very good, Emperor Atlantis immediately added: "Of course I won't let you fight in vain. You also know that the technological power of our undersea city is greater than that of yours on land. The people on the sea are much more powerful. The technology in Atlantis is only above average in the sea. The other underwater cities each have their own technological fields and are all very advanced. If you help us fight, we can grab the technology. Sharing between the two. In fact, we in Atlantis attack other underwater cities not for the other party's technological civilization, but for our own security and territorial issues. We will each get what we need when the time comes to ensure that you do not suffer."
After listening to the encouragement from Emperor Atlantis, I was really moved. "If Atlantis' technology is only at an average or upper level, then we won't suffer any loss as long as we can get one or two technologies from attacking other cities. Even if we destroy all the cities, I believe one or two technologies will still be enough." It’s available.”
"So you agree to help?" Emperor Atlantis looked very excited.
"Wait, don't get excited yet."
"Ah? Any more questions?"
"The problem is big." I asked slowly: "Even if I agree to help, what role can we play? Most of my people are around level 600 now. Although they have order armor and can dive, even if they all mobilize, it will only be enough." More than 10,000 people will not be of much help to the battle, right? Besides, we are unlikely to go out in full force. At least the necessary personnel must be kept. The number that can go out will not exceed 3,000. This team does not seem to affect the war. The ending, right? Besides, our levels are not suitable for participating in the war, right? You are all level 700 or 800, and we are only over 600, so our combat effectiveness is a notch lower!"
"I know your level is not high, and I'm not asking you to attack the underwater city."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Well! So...! Let me explain the situation to you first!" Emperor Atlantis took me to their chart room and asked me to look at the chart. "This is the Asian continent, which is your China. A little over here is our Atlantis, and continuing eastward is the Japanese Island. Now after crossing the Japanese Island, we reach the Pacific Ocean, and if we continue forward, we will reach the location of our enemies."
"Be good! Do they live in the Mariana Trench?"
"What is the Mariana Trench? This is called the Kamoka Trench!"
It seems the names in the game are a little different! "Okay, no matter what you call it, the enemy lives here anyway, right?"
"Yes, right here. There is a city group under the trench. The opponent is a descendant of the great white shark clan. Not only is it technologically advanced, but most importantly, its combat effectiveness is much stronger than ours. You also know that we, Atlan The people who live in Diss are all mermaids, and we are definitely much prettier than them in appearance, but fighting is not a beauty pageant!"
"I know what you mean. Just tell me exactly what to do."
Emperor Atlantis said: "According to the news sent back by our scouts, the Great White Shark Tribe has recently joined a land force like us. We underwater races are all short of magic crystals, and so are the Great White Shark Tribe. If they want to fight, they need to activate their fighting machines. Those things all need magic crystals. The reason why we submarine races have not attacked each other in these years is that everyone’s magic crystals are almost running out. It is already very tense to survive. There is no energy left to fight.”
"Needless to say, I understand. Now that you have the magic crystal, they also have it, and both sides are starting to prepare for war."
"Yes, that's what it means."
"Then the help you are referring to is to cut off the other party's supply of magic crystals, right?"
"Smart!" Atlantis gave a thumbs up.
"This is no problem, but you have to at least tell me who is transporting the magic crystal to them?"
"Our investigators don't know the situation on land, so there is no way to find out the other party's specific information, but there is a clue. First, the other party is a guild on the Japanese island. Second, the Great White Shark Clan has already put its own The torpedo-related technology and the torpedo-launching ship-related technology were sold in exchange for two batches of magic crystals. Third, they will soon conduct a third transaction. It is said that the technology to be traded this time is sonic cannon technology." Now Know what happened to the Japanese torpedoes!
"Sonic cannon? Is it the principle that dolphins use to concentrate ultrasonic waves into a beam and shoot them out to achieve destructive effects?"
"It's that kind of thing."
"How's the power? Dolphins seem to be able to kill small fish with that thing. Their sonic cannon must not be used for fishing, right?"
"I don't know how powerful the Great White Shark clan's sonic cannon is, but it's very powerful anyway, and it's one of the few weapons that can attack at long distances underwater."
I became excited after hearing what Emperor Atlantis said. The sonic cannon can shoot underwater. Our submarine happens to have no weapons that can shoot underwater. This sonic cannon is simply a weapon designed for submarines! "I wonder if Atlantis doesn't have similar technology?"
"We, the mermaid tribe, have always been in a passive state of being beaten, so most of Atlantis's technologies are mainly focused on thruster technology and auxiliary technology. When we encounter problems, our Atlantis troops run away. Being relatively fast and escaping quickly is also an advantage. However, the technology of the Great White Sharks focuses on attack. They have a large number of combat skills. In addition to sonic cannon and torpedo technology, they also have high-frequency shock wave technology, which are all very powerful. Attack technology. Their auxiliary technologies are also mostly focused on auxiliary aiming and rapid shooting. This is the technical difference."
"Are there any other clans in the sea besides your two clans?"
"There are many, but there are only four clans that we, the mermaid clan, are familiar with."
"Give me a brief introduction."
"In addition to the great white sharks, these four tribes also include the turtles, the black octopus, and the pirate squid. Among them, the black octopus is relatively friendly with our mermaid tribe. Although the turtles also have contacts, their relationship is average. The pirate squid are just a group of people. We rarely come into contact with bandits. In addition to these four races, there are many races in the sea, but they are not familiar to them, and some small races do not even have cities. "
"Does the Black Octopus have advanced technology? Since we are going to fight, we must make full use of the resources we have!"
"Yes, of course there is. The Black Octopus tribe's stealth and silencer technologies are very powerful. Their underwater warships are all invisible and make no sound at all when sailing. However, the people of this tribe are very timid. Apart from us, they They generally don’t have much contact with other races. If you need their technology, you can give us the magic crystal and I will help you trade."
"Can the Turtle Clan's technology be purchased?"
"The technology of the Turtles is mainly defensive technology. To put it bluntly, they have strong resistance to attack. If you want, I can help you introduce them, but you have to discuss the specific matters yourself. After all, we are not very familiar with them!"
"Understood, as long as you take me to see their clan leader, I will take care of the rest by myself. Let's do this. You can ask your technicians to go to Essinger now and ask them to tell them not to build battleships yet. Let's wait until I bring all the technology back. You should immediately send someone to contact the Black Octopus Clan for me to buy the technology. As long as you think it is useful, help me buy the technology. As for the Turtle Clan, please take me there in person. Bar?"
"Okay, let's go right away."
The Emperor of Atlantis sent all the technicians out, and I asked Aina to go back with them. Firstly, to lead the way. Secondly, I was afraid that others in the guild would not believe me. NPCs also learned to lie after they became humanized. , so you can’t believe it all! After the technicians set off, a trade purchasing group also set out. The black octopus clan and the mermaid clan had a good relationship, so they could pay on credit first. Finally, our team headed towards the turtle clan’s city.
According to the introduction of the Emperor of Atlantis, the city of the Turtles is quite far away from here. Fortunately, there is no shortage of magic crystals in Atlantis now, and we can set off by speedboat. With this thing, the speed is much faster. We moved all the way along the submarine mountains in the sea. After a few hours, we entered a valley-like place.
"We are here." Emperor Atlantis reminded.
"Huh?" I looked around, and there was nothing around except rocks! "where?"
"Right ahead of us."
"But I didn't see anything!"
"Of course you can't see it, because their city is in a cave."
I landed in the valley under the leadership of Atlantis the Great. A strange big turtle suddenly appeared out of nowhere and startled me! This guy has a turtle shell on his body, but his hands, feet and head look like humans. This shape reminds me of the turtle prime minister in the Dragon Palace.
Atlantis said politely: "I am the leader of the mermaid tribe, and I have something to come to see your leader this time."
That turtle guy is pretty easy to talk to. "Our clan leader happens to be free, come with me." He followed the big turtle man forward some distance and then turned into a cave. No wonder Emperor Atlantis said that this city is invisible!
After walking awkwardly for a long distance in this super long cave, a huge hole appeared. The big turtle asked us to park the motorboat here first. After putting down the vehicle, we followed the turtle forward through a waterproof door similar to that of Atlantis and entered the city.
I was simply stunned by the sight in front of me. I never expected that there would be such a huge city behind the waterproof door. What was even stranger was that the streets were full of people wearing turtle shells, which was very funny. After we walked forward for a while, the big turtle who brought us in handed us over to another turtle man. Following the turtle man, he entered the building in the center of the city. The place was obviously well-defended. Many turtle men holding strange things were standing in the aisles. It was estimated that they were holding some kind of weapons.
"Please wait here." The big turtle who brought us in went in to inform, but we had to wait outside!
When I'm bored, I just look around. Everything in this turtle city looks very thick, the walls are all extremely thick, and even the door looks like a vault door. It is estimated that the turtles like this stable design, after all, their own turtle shells are just as thick.
After a while the turtle man came out and let us in, but this time he didn't take us in but let us go in by ourselves. After entering the room, a turtle man asked us to enter the inner room. When we walked in, we saw a turtle man who was much larger than the turtles outside.
"Hello, Chief Mermaid!" The turtle man didn't know me, but he knew the mermaid clan, so he politely greeted Emperor Atlantis first.
"Hello."
"Don't you know what's the reason for your visit this time?"
"There's something wrong." Atlantis pushed me forward. "This is our Atlantis supplier. I actually brought him to see you today."
The big turtle looked at me. "You have something to do with me?"
"That's it." I started to launch the seduction plan. "I heard from Emperor Atlantis that all races in the sea rely on magic crystals to live normally, right?"
The big turtle nodded. "We turtles actually don't have gills. Although we can hold our breath underwater for a long time, we still have to breathe after all, so we must have an underwater city filled with air. Considering your relationship with the mermaid tribe, I think you should know about such a city. How much energy is consumed, so it would be difficult for any aquatic race to live without magic crystal."
"Yes, I understand that. And that's what I'm here for. I think you need the magic crystal very much, right?"
The turtle's eyes lit up when he heard this, and the lazy look just now disappeared immediately. "You mean you have magic crystal?"
"Not only are there, there are a lot of them. All the magic crystals currently used in Atlantis are supplied by me. I control several large-scale magic crystal mines on land and can mine hundreds of kilograms of raw magic crystal ore every day. , it is not a problem to produce a few kilograms of pure magic crystal after processing and removing impurities." Although I don't have a mining area yet, but there is a resource distribution map of the Temple of Light, I don't have to worry, I can mine it immediately if needed.
"Then what do you want from me?" After all, the big turtle is the leader of the clan, and he must know that pie in the sky will not fall into his trap.
I don’t talk in circles with him either. "Let me tell you clearly! I want to go to war with the enemy now. I heard that your technical strength is quite strong. I hope to exchange magic crystals for some of the technologies I need to arm my fleet."
The big turtle blinked and thought for a long time before saying: "It's not impossible to sell the technology, but your price...?"
"You show your technology, I'll choose what I need, and you'll set the price. If it doesn't work, we can discuss it slowly."
Atlantis intervened and said: "You want to see the technology, so it's not convenient for me to stay. Atlantis can't live without people, so I'll go back first."
"Goodbye then. I will go to Atlantis to discuss your request with you when I'm done." I gave Atlantis a positive answer, at least letting him know that I would help him fight the war and let him do things. Be positive.
After Emperor Atlantis left, the leader of the Turtles took me to a building on the side of the palace. This is their data and technology storage place, somewhat similar to an archives.
"These are the relevant names and function introductions of various technologies. Take a look at them one by one! Select the technology you want and tell me. We will give you the complete technical information after we negotiate the price."
"Okay, but are these all?"
"Only the one on the cabinet here is, and the one over there is the personnel file and has nothing to do with you. Just take a look."
I stopped talking nonsense and opened the introductions to all the information one by one. Although I don’t know much about pure technology, I can still understand most of the content with a detailed introduction. Good guy, the technological power of the Turtles is indeed extraordinary. Their technologies are basically focused on the processing of special materials and synthetic materials, and there are also many auxiliary technologies. After more than two hours of browsing and selecting, I finally picked out the technology I needed.
This time I have selected four of the most useful technologies, which are absolutely must-haves for battleships. The first is steel purification and processing technology. This technology can be used to process high-strength special steel from ordinary steel. The most important thing is that this technology allows the addition of a variety of materials to create new steel with significantly higher hardness and toughness than the raw materials. Material. In other words, if the fusion of graphite steel and refined steel is used, materials with higher hardness, toughness and better toughness can be processed. The second technology is structural support technology. This technology mainly uses a multi-layer composite structure on the outer shell of the battleship and uses special materials to support it. This can ensure that the hull is strong, especially when the battleship is relatively large, this internal support structure can Reducing the burden caused by waves on the hull ensures that warships can be built very large without breaking. The third piece of technology surprised me, the turtles actually have an active defense system. This is a system consisting of a photosensitive element and a projectile shotgun. The main purpose is to capture high-speed moving targets through optical elements, and then the operator behind the optical elements can easily aim the shotgun launcher in the general direction and fire. The advantage of shotguns is that they have a high hit rate. No matter what, as long as you aim in the general direction, one or two shots of shotguns will definitely hit the target. I really have to admire the research spirit of the turtles! The last technology is the advanced air lock system, which should actually be called a battleship anti-sinking system. It mainly uses the principle of air pressure. After the battleship is damaged, this system can seal the damaged area and keep the water out. As long as the hull is not completely bruised, it can ensure that the battleship does not sink, or at least can support it until it returns. If there had been such a thing, our Victory would not have sunk. At that time, it struggled on the sea for nearly an hour after withdrawing from the battle before sinking!
"That's it." I handed the four techniques to the leader of the turtle clan.
He took it and looked at the technical name on the side. "You are really good at picking. These four are the best technologies. Let's do it! As long as you provide 10 tons of magic crystals, you take away the technical data, but these technologies cannot be transferred and can only be used by you."
"Are you sure it's 10 tons?"
"What's wrong? Is it too expensive?" Big Turtle said nervously: "If you think the price is too expensive, we can discuss it again!"
"No, no, no, I don't think it's expensive! Just 10 tons!" It turns out that this big turtle doesn't understand the market! The value of these three technologies can definitely exceed 23 tons of magic crystals. I originally planned to buy at least 15 tons of magic crystals! I didn't expect that the price he offered was lower than the base price I thought! In fact, I will agree as long as he doesn't shout more than 10 tons, but since he has already said 10 tons, I won't stupidly shout higher!
"Is the transaction going on now? How do you want to pay?" Big Turtle asked me a little excitedly. After all, magic crystals are a pillar of people's livelihood for them, just like food. Of course he was excited to be able to buy so much. But no matter how heavy the magic crystal is, 10 tons of magic crystal is definitely a huge pile. When he saw that I was empty-handed, of course he wanted to ask how to trade.
I said directly: "Just bring the full set of technical information. I've brought the ready stock."
"Isn't it? Do you have 10 tons of magic crystal with you?"
"What are you doing? No?"
"No, no!" the big turtle said immediately, "Then I'll have someone get the things right away."
I was taken to a hall to wait, and several turtle technicians quickly ran over with a large amount of technical information. The information on the four technologies can be piled together to form a square table. What a huge pile! I opened the space door, put away all the information, and asked the sub-dragon cavalry to move out the magic crystal inside. 10 tons of magic crystal is already a big pile. Most of the magic crystal I have left here has gone away. It seems that I will consider starting a mine in the future!
Because magic crystals are valuable items, the big turtles insisted on using precise measurements to weigh them together. As a result, they used a large scale to weigh them all night long, and they didn't finish until almost dawn! The deal was finally completed, and I was sent out of the city almost as a hero. In fact, I really won the lottery! The magic crystal can be mined later, but these technologies cannot be bought with money.
After leaving the city of the Turtles, I returned directly to Atlantis. The Emperor of Atlantis and I have not yet finished discussing our participation in the war!
Emperor Atlantis immediately greeted me when he saw me coming back. "How was it? The transaction was successful?"
I nodded. "Yes, very successful. Have the people you sent to the Black Octopus Tribe come back?"
"I'm back, but there are some problems."
"What's the problem? They won't sell it?"
"That's not true." Emperor Atlantis said: "The main reason is that the price and other things are not easy to discuss without you. Finally, we talked through the leader of the Black Octopus clan, and they agreed to send a ship to pick you up. clan’s urban transactions.”
"I still have to run!" I felt like I was going to faint! "They didn't say what time it was?"
"Not there yet, but the boat is already waiting outside."
"This is too rushed! Please wait for me for a while!" I went offline for a while and then quickly went online again. I asked Emperor Atlantis to prepare some food for my demon pets. Everyone is very hungry and thirsty. If we don't eat, our loyalty will be reduced! The food in Atlantis is nothing but seafood. It’s okay once in a while, but eating it every day will definitely kill you!
After solving the food problem, Emperor Atlantis personally took me to meet the people of the Black Octopus Tribe. When we arrived at the port of Atlantis, I was startled by the Black Octopus. "Is this a member of the black octopus clan?" The man in front of him looks completely human except for his height. It is said that an octopus must have at least 8 tentacles! Will they transform?
Before Emperor Atlantis could answer, the member of the black octopus clan answered first: "Just because our race is called black octopus doesn't mean we look like octopuses! Aren't there other races on land such as the Han Chinese?" Are you all Han?"
"I misunderstood!"
"It doesn't matter, come on board the ship with me."
"Ship?" I gestured around with my fingers. "Which one are you talking about?"
"Oh! Sorry, I forgot that you are not a member of our clan!" The member of the Black Octopus clan who received me in front of me took out a strange thing made of crystal and gave it to me. "Take it with you."
I looked at the crystal in my hand. It seemed like it could be placed on my face. It looked a bit like a night vision device. After I took off the helmet, I put the crystal on and then put the helmet back on. The next time we looked up, we actually saw something like a flying saucer parked in front of us. It was no more than 10 meters away from us! I was stunned by what I saw in front of me. Such a big thing could not be seen at such a close distance!
"Don't be surprised, this is the unique technology of our Black Octopus family. What I just gave you is a polarized light reflector. Because our hull is made of a special structure, it only emits direct light. You can't see anything without using a polarized light reflector."
Such exaggerated technology is really unacceptable to me. How will our fleet fight against this thing if it encounters it? If you can't even see, do you have to shoot blindly? It’s weird if you can win!