Chapter 203 Scientific Research and Floating Rays

While the adventurers were worried about their future and thinking about how they could struggle to save their lives.

Ji Lin was thinking about another problem. They had already established a firm foothold and were going to expand towards the other two mineral veins. The preliminary reconnaissance reports of the teams had been placed on his table. The remaining two mineral veins on this small sky island were all controlled by elemental creatures.

There were a large number of forest spiders hidden in the forest, and perhaps there were tree demons.

Before these threats were eliminated, the rare plant resources on the sky island were obviously not easy to use, and the army could only collect plants.

These rare plants were also a considerable fortune. They could be used as research materials for spells and runes.

One unit of floating stone was sold for as high as 40 gold in the market of the fourth era, and there was no market for it.

This micro floating stone vein was equivalent to a gold mine that produced 40 gold a day and never dried up, and could produce 1,200 gold a month... No matter from which angle, this was quite a huge profit.

It was already a quarter of the capital output of his territory.

When the initial investment is completed and the mines start to operate, the lords who control the strategic resources will make a lot of money even if they simply sell the strategic resources to other lords.

As long as they can keep the premise, no one wants to give up this lucrative industry.

As for scientific research, Ji Lin did not think about it when he was developing technology before, but now that he has upgraded to the fourth era, the problem of high technology research and development costs has been forced to be placed in front of him.

Researching rune technology requires spell materials, and researching spell technology also requires spell materials-all of which are consumable. Most of the spell materials on the market are like floating stones, which are in short supply. Technological civilization has its unique advantages in this regard. Its technology is really cheap, and its materials are also materials that can be purchased in large quantities on the market, but the price is a slightly longer research and development cycle.

Buying it hurts him. High-sensitivity spell materials are either in short supply or are as high as 400 gold per unit. The territory cannot support the completion of the third-level rune research by buying it alone.

Similarly, the application research of floating stones also requires a large amount of floating stones... Technology is built with money, and Ji Lin is deeply and accurately aware of this.

Money! Resources! If you want the engine to run fast, you need good fuel.

One unit of floating stone a day is definitely not enough for the dean to burn. Even so, it is estimated that 1,200 gold will be used for scientific research project investment in a month.

Ji Lin thought about these questions and felt that his hair was about to fall off.

And the local creatures were a little too curious about them.

The slow-moving airship he controlled had not flown far from the ground before it was spotted by a slowly flying manta ray in the air. The gray manta ray, the size of a person, curiously hit the iron-clad wooden can.

Although he would not die here as a lord, at most he would be recalled to the territory to be resurrected, but it was still not a good feeling to be inexplicably gone.

The system will not help you eliminate the pain.

Ji Lin took out a crossbow used on the airship and shot down the thing that looked very much like a manta ray from the air, letting it fall to the ground and struggle.

Then he controlled the airship to land slowly.

He learned quickly.

Or it is hard to say how difficult it is to control a machine with an extremely stable center of gravity. All Ji Lin can do is control it to fly slowly in the front, back, left and right directions. The speed is too slow and the engine output is too small, so he can't do anything fancy.

The airship will maintain a state of hovering when there is no operator, and will stay in place when there is no wind.

The ability to fly is its advantage, but the large amount of wood and iron materials used to maintain its structural strength, as well as the airship shape that completely ignores air resistance, make the speed of this airship only an outrageously slow 3km/h.

You know, the basic movement speed of infantry is 5km/h.

The 3km/h movement speed made Ji Lin directly give up the plan to use this airship to go to other islands, and it is better to send it back to the academy in the territory for technical research.

This thing is too slow, Ji Lin can't drive it.

He believes that mobility is life, and this kind of thing that can be called a living target... forget it.

And it should also be modified to add special shooting holes for musketeers.

Stepping down from the airship, Ji Lin looked at the stingray that was still jumping upside down on the ground to show its activity. Its white belly was shaking, which was a bit cute.

[Floating stingray (small)]

[Fourth era]

[Melee defense/block]: 50

[Moving speed]: 30km/h

[Armor strength]: 30

[Weapon power (fangs and claws)]: 50

[Features]:

Wind barrier: Projectiles will be more difficult to hit the floating stingray because of the wind barrier surrounding the floating stingray, and the projectiles will be subject to a maximum of 50% hit penalty.

Ride the wind: The floating stingray does not have a strong flying ability. With the help of the wind, it can spread its soft wings and increase its moving speed by 400%

Hunting group: The floating stingrays will never swim alone, they always hunt in groups. When the number of floating rays exceeds the number of their attack targets, they gain up to 30% bonus to all attributes, 40% bonus to hit rate, and 15% bonus to dodge.

[Small floating rays active in the Sky Island area, the most numerous predator in the Sky Island world. They have evolved special organs that can store floating stones and resonate with them, allowing them to fly freely in the air with the help of air currents. ]

Ji Lin browsed the introduction of the floating ray. The weapon power of 50 points is worthy of the magical creatures of the fourth era, and it has exceeded the weapon power of most non-rune cold weapons.

The weapon power of the crossbowman is only 22 points, and his musketeer weapon power is only 45 points. The standard third-era infantry weapon power fluctuates only around 30 points.

In the low era, the weapon power of melee weapons is generally stronger than that of ranged weapons. The weapon power is calculated based on the unit output value per minute... The firing rate of muskets and crossbows per minute... is simply terrible.

And melee weapons can continuously output damage to the target as long as they are pulled close to the hand-to-hand combat range.

The time for the crossbow to reload is enough for the sword-wielding infantry to chop you to death dozens of times.

Even in modern times, firearms are only constantly compressing the use space of hand-to-hand combat cold weapons, and cannot completely replace its existence.

Ji Lin browsed the introduction of the floating ray, felt that he had forgotten something, and then read it again.

‘Hunting group: Floating rays never swim alone, they always hunt in groups. ’

In groups...

Ji Lin’s sight fell on a group of floating rays that kept approaching him in the distance. They were riding the wind and were rushing towards this small island at a high speed. The hissing sound was transmitted to Ji Lin’s ears with the sound of the wind.

Ji Lin turned and ran away.

Finished.

Floating stones are necessary minerals for their survival. These floating rays need to absorb trace amounts of floating stones every once in a while to make themselves grow and replenish their consumption. Today is the day they come here to replenish food.

And this is also the reason why the expedition team was able to successfully capture the micro-mine. The local biota here has evacuated and rested in the small forest on the island. In the long struggle, the creatures in this world have evolved a tacit understanding between the populations to a certain extent.

Everyone takes what they need. The floating stones produced by these veins are enough for this small island and the nearby biota.

The adventurer team was lucky. They were able to capture a micro-mine at a very low cost.

That group of adventurers was also unfortunate. If Ji Lin hadn't been there, they would have been torn apart by the group of floating rays that arrived.

With a weapon power of 50 points and a hunting group feature, floating rays don't look like vegetarians at all.

Then Ji Lin came and built his outpost on their feeding path.

Now Ji Lin has to make sure he is not torn apart by these angry floating rays.

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