Chapter 2093 Anti-Tank Gun

The expensive gun body and cheap ammunition belt may seem like a move for the sake of consumers, but in fact it contains a strong profiteer mentality.

We all know that weapons are subject to wear and tear. Except for some special weapons, most weapons require maintenance, repair and replacement.

Thermal weapons are no exception.

A multi-shot revolver wears out more quickly than a single-shot blunderbuss.

As for the current Gatling gun, its wear rate is probably dozens or hundreds of times that of the revolver.

The main cause of wear and tear is determined by the usage rate of the firearm.

Although the material of Gatling guns is much tougher than that of revolvers and muskets, due to the low price of bullets, shooters who have money to buy Gatling guns will prepare a large number of bullet chains as backup.

The more the bullet chain is consumed, the more frequently the Gatling gun is used. When it reaches a certain critical value, the barrel of the Gatling gun will melt or explode, and the user will have to find someone to repair it.

It would be fine if the after-sales service was free, but judging from the greedy look in Master Dewey's eyes, the cost of after-sales service must be prohibitively expensive.

Since repairing is not cost-effective, the only option is to buy a new gun.

After eliminating those buyers who cannot afford the high price of the Gatling Gun, the remaining ones will basically be die-hard Gatling Guns.

Regarding die-hards, Master Dewey has never worried about it. High-frequency firing rate, hot bullet shells splashing, area strikes as dense as raindrops, and strong noises that can arouse the desire to fight, these are completely in line with the Zephyr Continent. folk customs.

He asserted that once the Gatling gun comes out, it will be loved by the majority of shooter adventurers.

In addition to the Gatling gun, Master Dewey also took me to a secret laboratory to show me the next new product that had just entered the early stages of design-an anti-tank gun.

Master Dewey introduced excitedly: "Preliminary calculations show that when it is completed, its length will reach about two meters, and the speed of the bullet fired will reach more than 800 meters per second!"

As he spoke, he picked up a large shell that was almost half the length of his hand and three fingers thick from the table beside him, handed it to me and said, "It will be the first bullet for this anti-tank gun."

I weighed it in my hand and felt the weight of the shell. I was a little confused.

The volume of this bullet is about three times that of a Gatling gun bullet. How much blasting and penetration power does it produce?

While I was in a daze, Master Dewey continued to explain excitedly: "Theoretically, the power of this anti-tank gun can severely damage adventurers above level 8 and injure adventurers above level 10 within a hundred meters."

"What about national power?" I asked.

"If it is shot at close range, it may cause damage. If it is shot at a distance of more than 100 meters, it will not hit the target. Even if it can hit, it will only cause a sense of impact to the target."

"Sure enough" I nodded.

"There is nothing we can do about this," Master Dewey said with a wry smile: "Technological power is limited after all. Facing the national power that is like a god possessing us, helplessness is inevitable."

"Actually, technological power was quite powerful in ancient times. The mecha puppets at that time could even severely injure the King of Dragons."

"Do you know all this from Sky City?"

"Yes, not only did I encounter strong opponents in the Sky City, but I also made some like-minded friends. These experiences were all told to me by those friends."

"It seems that the ancestors of your friends did not keep the precious historical documents rotten in their stomachs, but told them to their descendants."

"No, foster father" I shook my head: "You are wrong."

"Wrong?" Master Dewey chuckled, "What's wrong?"

"It's not the ancestors, it's me," I said, "These are all derived from their own personal experiences."

"What!" Master Dewey blurted out in surprise: "You mean those ancient residents are still alive!"

"Yes," I said, "but they are not residents of the Zephyr Continent, but residents of the Dragon Clan. Since the Sky City sank to the bottom of the sea, they have been waiting in the city, waiting for their king to give them the next order."

"If this is true." Master Dewey's lips kept trembling, and after a while, he murmured: "Then they are at least a hundred thousand years old, right?"

"They are hundreds of millions of years old, foster father," I said, "They have lived for hundreds of millions of years."

"Hundreds of millions of years." Master Dewey suddenly looked at me and said hesitantly, "Could it be that there really is immortality in this world?"

"I don't know" I shook my head: "I only know that they live a very hard life. Hundreds of millions of years of immortality and hundreds of millions of years of waiting have destroyed their hearts and made most of them crazy. Only a few of them went crazy. Several of them still maintain a normal way of thinking, but the more sober they are, the lonelier they become.”

"I only stayed in the City in the Sky for more than half a month, and I was tortured by loneliness. But they have to bear hundreds of millions of years of loneliness. I think I can understand their pain."

After hearing this, Master Dewey's confused eyes became clear again, and he smiled a little sheepishly: "You are right, life is not about length, but height. I am obsessed with it."

Then, Master Dewey introduced to me one by one his future scientific research plans, including cannons, focused flamethrowers, grenade launchers, spike cannons, and various grenades.

Master Dewey told me that he plans to add magical elements to the grenade so that it can have various properties of magical damage.

I am very optimistic about Master Dewey's idea, but I don't know how to inject magic into it.

Master Dewey chuckled: "This depends on the power of ancient writing."

After showing off the weapons, Master Dewey took me to the deeper underground testing site, where a newer generation of submarines is being developed.

He pointed to the submarine model hanging high in the middle of the test site and explained: "Not only does it have all the advantages of the previous generation of underwater submarines, it will also be equipped with two Gatling guns as weapons. Once it is attacked by a monster, at least it will have more With the power of a battle, in the future, when anti-tank guns are successfully developed and two of them are installed, they will be able to fight against ordinary large underwater monsters."

After introducing the submarine, we returned to the palace and prepared lunch. On the way, Master Dewey asked me about the approximate location of Sky City. I thought about it and said, "I only know that the old site of Sky City is near Airui City." , its sinking location is probably also in the sea near Airui City, but the specific coordinates are not clear."

"Well, Airui City." Master Dewey pinched his chin and hesitated: "It's a bit difficult. Now Airui City is in preparation for war, and the domestic situation is relatively sensitive. It will be quite difficult to enter the sea from near it."