Chapter 57 Xue Bei: Our technology tree is definitely wrong
"The death was miserable."
Xue Bei saw the evil soul master who was blasted by a soul-guided cannonball on the fifth floor. If he had to describe it, he was probably blown into a puddle of flesh.
"Fortunately, the walls here are made of rare metals that are strong and can absorb energy, otherwise the room would probably be blown apart."
Wu Di opened the door, and the smell of gunpowder smoke wafted inside, so he turned sideways and did not go in.
The scientific researchers behind Wu Di rushed in one by one like wolves and tigers, and studied the flesh and blood tissue of the evil soul master.
"We'd better not go in."
"I think so too."
Xue Bei and Wu Di turned around and left. They walked around Laboratory No. 5 again, and finally arrived at the third underground floor.
Wu Di introduced new weapons to Xue Bei, "You said that we will have a war with the Sun and Moon Empire in the future, so you asked me to research weapons. Weapons that ordinary people can use."
In addition to the Zhuge Liannu made by Tang Dynasty 30,000 years ago, ordinary people can also
All Xue Bei could think of was muskets.
Both crossbows and muskets can be used without soul power.
However, the cost of the Tang Sect's hidden weapons was too high. It was more of a sophisticated instrument than a hidden weapon.
The cost of materials is high and the skill of the craftsman is also very important.
And only people from the Tang Sect know how to make such sophisticated hidden weapons.
So Wu Di focuses on muskets and artillery.
“Mr. , which is the principle of air-guided automatic.”
Wu Di took Xue Bei into a collection room-like place and picked up a musket.
"The Wu Hao type musket No. 1 we built has a simple structure. It is a tubular launch tube with a fire hole on the tail. When launching, a hot wire must be inserted into the fire hole to ignite the gunpowder and launch."
"." Xue Bei.
It sounds unreliable. Does this launch method have a high ignition success rate?
"and then?"
Xue Bei didn't believe that Wu Di's group of people in the fiefdom only made this gun.
Wu Di nodded, "The first version of the musket was very restricted by geography and weather, and sometimes even couldn't be ignited, so we made the second version."
Xue Bei suddenly became interested.
"The No. 2 musket is more complicated. You see, since gunpowder is used to ignite the gas during the explosion and then push the bullet, we made a device. The device is filled with unstable gunpowder. When shooting, the trigger strikes the device. The gunpowder inside explodes and ignites the propellant, and the bullet is pushed out by the explosion of the propellant.
Wu Di picked up the No. 2 musket and handed it to Xue Bei. Xue Bei took it and couldn't put it down.
Xue Bei had already imagined that a million-strong army would be equipped with such muskets, which shocked Douluo Continent a little bit.
"But the cost was very high, and it took a lot of effort for us to make that device." Wu Di poured cold water on Xue Bei, "So we gave up and chose the soul guide gun instead."
Xue Bei put down the firearm in his hand and told Wu Di:
"first,
Thank you for your continuous attempts. The musket you created is definitely an epoch-making work in the military history of the mainland.
But I remember saying,
As long as we develop weapon-type soul guides, we will definitely fall behind the Sun and Moon Empire.
The Sun and Moon Empire's soul guide technology is too powerful.
If we don’t open up new tracks, such as developing weapons that can kill soul masters even for ordinary people, we will definitely lose in the future. "
"Yes, but the soul guidance arrays of the Sun and Moon Empire are all ready-made, and our own muskets are not powerful enough."
Wu Di took out a new firearm:
"Because the thrust of gunpowder is not particularly strong, when we launch physical projectiles at high speed, the range becomes very short, and the lethality at a distance is limited. Many types of gunpowder cannot instantly produce the high-temperature and high-pressure gas that meets the needs."
Xue Bei looked at the gun in Wu Di's hand. It smelled like a soul guide produced by the Sun and Moon Empire.
"What are our needs? Cheap, mass production, fast firing, continuous firing." Wu Di handed Xue Bei the gun, "It is difficult to integrate so many requirements into one gun."
Xue Bei is holding this black fire stick. Well, it has a long classic gun shape. The handle is easy to hold, and the long barrel is easy to point and aim.
Wu Di introduced:
"Musket No. 3. It should be said to be a soul guide gun.
We thought, since the principle of a musket is to push the bullet at high speed, it would be better to use a soul guide to push the bullet at high speed.
Anyway, the explosion of gunpowder also propels the bullet, and the soul guide can also do this. "
Xue Bei was silent. He was restricted by the original thinking on earth.
Does a musket require gunpowder?
Can’t my soul power shoot bullets at high speed?
you can,
It just consumes a lot of money.
"Does it consume a lot of soul power?" Xue Bei asked.
For example, Xue Bei's rifle in his previous life usually had a bullet exit speed of about 700-800 meters/second.
Xue Bei could not imagine how much soul power the soul master would have to expend and how complex the magic circle would be to create a soul guide gun to accelerate the bullet to this level.
"Actually, the Sun and Moon Empire already has technology. Through Zhao Yang, the Brilliant Grand Duke, we all obtained the core magic circle, the repulsion magic circle."
Wu Di couldn't help but smile when he thought of Zhao Yang.
It's great. How much technology can a noble who wants to rebel against the Sun and Moon Empire earn by cooperating with us?
"Repulsion magic circle?"
Xue Bei had never heard of it, but still asked: "Is it possible?"
"Okay, the instantaneous thrust of a single repulsion array is indeed not enough to give the bullet enough lethality, so we used a composite repulsion array."
Wu Di also had a certain foundation as a soul mentor and quickly drew a sketch for Xue Bei.
"It is indeed difficult to create a composite repulsion array. In order to overcome this difficulty, we brainstormed and chose to engrave the core array on the entire inside of the barrel."
Xue Bei quickly understood the principle.
This soul guidance device called the No. 3 Musket actually has nothing to do with the Musket.
Its shell is very simple and can be made by a blacksmith, including the magazine, trigger, barrel and soul recharger (energy).
The composite repulsion core array of the soul guide is only at the third level. It is so difficult to describe the level. The key is that it is not easy to think of it when thinking about it at the time.
Ideas are harder than production.
Just like the three-dimensional geometry problem in Xue Bei's previous life, if you don't have an idea and don't know how to draw auxiliary lines, all twelve points will probably be lost.
But when the teacher draws an auxiliary line for you to provide an idea, it is not difficult to solve the proof.
The key is why didn't you think of that auxiliary line at that time?
This composite repulsion array is the auxiliary line. It is not difficult to make, but it still takes some brains to figure it out.
The only function of the composite repulsion core array in the barrel is to repel metal bullets at high speed, complete the 'launch', and shoot the bullet out of the barrel.
An 'accelerating' core array can be engraved on the bullet to maintain high penetration. Of course, the lower cost is to add nothing.
"You only need to pull the trigger. Ordinary people can use it. The penetrating power can probably penetrate an unsuspecting Soul King. At least it won't be a problem to open a hole."
"You need soul power to trigger this core magic circle. How to solve it?" Xue Bei thought this
"The soul power replenisher can also be called a milk bottle." Wu Di touched his head, "All it takes is a soul master to inject soul power into it. It can be fired two hundred times when fully charged."
"Battery."
Xue Bei suddenly remembered his more familiar name.
"Wait, you said it can kill the Soul King?"
Xue Bei was shocked by the magic transformation of Douluo Continent just now. Now that he realized it, he didn't expect that such an ordinary soul guide, which could be used by ordinary people even at level 3, could actually kill souls. King of the strong.
"sure."
Wu Di obviously tried it with people, "If you fight within this range of 500 meters, the Soul Lord will die. If you fight within 50 meters, the Soul Lord will die. The Soul King's soul defense can already block the bullets."
This is already pretty good.
After saying that, seeing Xue Bei's shocked eyes, Wu Di said happily: "Of course, defense soul masters don't count. Their defense is too strong. Others may be fine."
Xue Bei looked at the gun and said silently: "Tell me, for such a simple principle, we are still using the Sun and Moon Empire's magic circle. Why can't we make it with the Sun and Moon Empire's technology?"
"Yes? Why?"
When Wu Di heard Xue Bei's words, he also thought about this problem, and the complacency he felt just now was gone.
Why can't the Sun and Moon Empire implement such a simple principle?
Thanks to Tianji Sail for the 100 reward~