Alien Knights

Walking out of the cave in the underground dock, Todd followed Wayne and walked down the huge artificially dug passage to the depths of the cave.

Feeling the drop in temperature around him, Todd asked, "Where does this road lead to?"

Wayne said without turning his head, "Pass through the northern part of Muxi City and reach the bay near the Falling Star Mountains."

"Why put the artillery of the battleship there for experimentation?"

"One is for the sake of secrecy, and the other is because the development and manufacture of this weapon has relatively high requirements on the surrounding environment."

Todd nodded and stopped asking questions.

A lengthy underground tunnel with a length of about 300 meters.

There are multiple checkpoints and sentry posts in the tunnel. Every tens of meters, you can see the foreign warriors of the Crusaders, dedicated to protecting everything at the end of this passage.

The second half of the tunnel is a gentle uphill slope. The further Todd walked, the more he could feel a strangeness in the air.

The hair all over the body stood up slowly, and a subtle crackling sound could be faintly heard.

After walking the last section of the slope, Wayne walked through the crusaders kneeling on the ground, came straight to a closed stone door, turned around and said, "Your Majesty, you and your attendants are required to take off all your clothes before going in." metal products."

Todd nodded to the attendants around him, and soon, the weapons and armor were taken off and handed over to the crusader soldiers for temporary custody.

Two orcs came to the two sides of the stone gate, one left and one right, with their upper bodies bare.

Accompanied by a muffled growl, the huge stone door was slowly pulled open.

A burst of air filled with a strong electric charge came out majesticly from the gap in the gate.

Todd slowly walked into the weapons laboratory built in the mountains, and was beyond shocked by the scene in front of him.

A huge railgun constructed of keels, tens of meters long, taller than a person, was installed in the middle of the laboratory.

Two huge straight keel columns are laid down and placed in parallel, and spliced ​​at the end to form a U-shaped track. The blue light, which is strong and weak from time to time, flows quickly on the surface of the railgun like water, making the thing in front of you look like an alien weapon from the future.

Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of laboratory workers, Todd walked to the side of the railgun step by step, and stretched out his fingers towards the gun body. A powerful current penetrated from the surface and hit his fingertips On, a trace of blue smoke rises.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Wayne took two steps closer and said, "The energy pool is charging, and the shell of the gun barrel is not fully installed. It is very dangerous to touch it at this time!"

Todd smiled and wiped the dust off his fingers, using clairvoyance and eagle eyes to look inside the railgun.

Tesla parasites emitting dazzling blue light one after another were fixed inside the cannon body, forming an electromagnetic circuit in the special U-shaped keel track filled with culture fluid.

"This giant railgun, in terms of design principles and internal structure, referred to some pictures and introductions in the Library of Heaven, combined with the characteristics of xenobiotics, after nearly two years of research by scholars, the design drawing was finally finalized and start building."

Wayne put on an insulating suit, stood about five or six meters away from the railgun, explained and analyzed: "This weapon can be roughly divided into four parts, namely the accumulator, the accelerator, and the gun body structure. and firing switch."

"The accumulator is installed directly under the gun body, with a total weight of nearly 29.65 tons. It is the heaviest part of the entire battleship. Such a heavy part provides energy for the entire railgun, and it also has stability. The function of the barrel."

"The interior of the energy storage pool is composed of 36 power storage modules connected in series, and each power storage module is stacked with more than 900 Tesla parasites. These Tesla parasites, which look like worms, can convert bioenergy into For electric energy, and store it in the body. And the keel parasite is the best container to enclose these Tesla parasites because of its innate fireproof and anti-electricity properties."

Todd calculated an account while listening: "There are 36 power storage keel modules, and each module stores 900 Tesla parasites, so the total number of Tesla parasites is 32,400?"

Wayne confirmed: "That's right, there are probably so many Tesla parasites in the power storage module. All the parasites have been strictly screened and cultivated, and they are hovered and fixed in the container to ensure the integrity of the circuit. Unimpeded flow and stability of energy storage.”

Todd asked: "So many Tesla parasites use magnetic tracks to discharge, how powerful are the shells fired?"

"Your Majesty, the next thing I want to explain is the accelerator."

"The accelerator is the most important part of the railgun and the most complex part of the process. Using the good conductivity and high-power capacitance of the Tesla parasite, we wound and spiraled the parasite body and formed a U-shaped circuit backflow. "

Wayne connected his two thumbs together, and erected the other eight fingers upwards: "When the insect body in this U-shaped track is stimulated to the nervous system, it will start to activate the electric field in the body, allowing the charge to flow from one end of the U-shaped track move to the other end, thereby creating a super-strong electromagnetic field between the two rail planes, which fires the shells placed on the rails."

Wayne brought a piece of experimental data from his assistant behind him: "At present, through repeated modifications and improvements, this railgun can already launch an object of about 11.5 kilograms at a muzzle velocity of 2,800 meters per second. .”

Todd walked to the front of the railgun, squatted down and looked at the track, and asked, "What's the range?"

"About 40 kilometers. If the pressure damping of the shell is not considered, this range can be extended again."

Todd stood up and looked around: "What does the shell look like?"

Wayne clapped his hands, and after a while, two elf staff members carefully pushed a wooden trolley and walked slowly towards Todd.

A football-shaped metal cannonball about half a meter long was placed on the rack in the car.

Todd looked in with his perspective ability, and said in surprise, "There are... spore parasites inside?"

"Yes. The last battleship used black powder as a means of propulsion to launch spore parasites. Both the range and hit rate were unbearably low. This time I sealed three spore parasites into a closed metal shell Among them. The way of launching through magnetic rails can not only greatly increase the range, but also because the electromagnetic thrust is continuous and uniform, unlike the unstable impact of gunpowder explosion, the hit rate is extremely high."

Wayne pointed at the railgun and said happily: "And, did you know that the keel parasite is a natural railgun material! The keel parasite can absorb heat and conduct nerve information, and the exoskeleton is an insulator, so even if No matter how high the current power is, no matter how high the instantaneous heat is, the keel can also cool the gun barrel in the shortest time, so that it can be fired as soon as possible next time. Not to mention..."

Todd interrupted Wayne, pointing to the dark cracks formed by the violent explosion on the mountain wall of the laboratory, and asked the question he noticed a long time ago: "What's going on?"

Wayne followed the direction of Todd's finger and looked at the traces on the rock wall, trembling all over.

Seeing this, Todd emphasized his tone: "What's going on?"

"Regarding the experiment and development of the railgun, there was a small accident."

"Little accident?!"

"When we first conducted the kinetic energy experiment of the cannonball, we deliberately increased the electric power to the maximum in order to test the maximum range. But at that time, we forgot one thing. The high-power electromagnetic thrust can of course maximize the muzzle velocity and range of the cannonball. However, the air resistance will also reach an extremely large peak value on the unit pressure of the shell.”

Wayne sighed: "It wouldn't matter if the shells were solid. But at that time, the shells we used were loaded with spore parasites..."

Todd understood everything: "So, because the spore parasite couldn't withstand the instantaneous acceleration pressure, it exploded before flying out of the muzzle?"

Wayne lowered his head and said in a low voice: "After that, we began to reduce the power of the electric energy in a controlled manner, and suppressed the muzzle velocity of the projectile, so as to ensure that it would not cause fatal burst pressure to the spore parasite."

Todd closed his eyes and shook his head sadly.

Todd knew that on the road of scientific experiments and technological progress, there must be casualties of researchers, but when he really heard about such accidents, it still made him heartbroken.

Todd's voice was a little hoarse: "Make a copy of the list of victims and send it to the palace..."

Wayne nodded in agreement, paused for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to witness the power of this giant cannon with your own eyes?"

Todd looked around at the experimenters. Among them were gray-haired scholars and scarred crusaders, but all of them showed expectations on their faces.

From the look in their eyes, Todd could see that these people were eager to be recognized by themselves, eager to have the world witness their achievements.

Todd nodded to Wayne: "Load this cannon! Let me see your capabilities!"