Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"Hey, can someone bring me some food? Although I am a prisoner, I have human rights."

In the large courtyard of the temporary residence in Camp Kenings, the lame mechanical dwarf Trixie seemed to deliberately stir up trouble, and screamed in a noisy tone like a grumpy little devil:

"Stop studying my calves! Isn't it just an ordinary mechanical gear coupling plus a hydraulic transmission structure? At most, add a high-energy spring inside!

If you can't even understand this, don't call yourself a dwarf. It's such a shame!

Get me some energy batteries quickly!

By the way, some No. 7 engine oil. By the way, do you have any mechanical snacks? Or waste oil distilled sugar or something. "

"You mecha gnomes eat quite wildly."

Little Star came over and circled around Trixie. She got a handful of bolts of different sizes from somewhere, handed them to the yelling mechanical gnome, and said:

"Do you want to eat this? I stole this from Overback's toolbox. Come on, show me. I really want to see how you eat."

She put the bolt into the mechanical dwarf's hand, then squatted aside, looking at her curiously and with interest, as if she really wanted to see how the mechanical dwarf took the bolt into his stomach.

"Well"

Trixie thought there might be something wrong with the blue dragon's brain.

But she also felt that rejecting the blue dragon would be a dangerous move. Maybe this guy would tear himself apart if he went crazy.

She could only frown and look at a handful of bolts in her hand, thinking hard about how to explain to an ignorant blue dragon that what she called "eating" might not be the same as what little Xingxing understood as eating.

Even if it really is a mechanical body, even if it really has a steel stomach, if it just eats bolts with such a big mouth, it will definitely cause stomach upset.

Even robots in the fantasy world must abide by the principles of physics.

"Okay, don't make it difficult for her. These mechanical gnomes only need electricity to survive. They don't need food in the conventional sense to maintain their existence."

Blake came out of the house holding a roll of blueprints and said to Little Star, who looked curious as if he had found a new toy:

"It's time for Jaina and Fenna to go back. You can either go back with them, or go to Drustvar to set up a front station for me. I will set off there tomorrow.

We need a reliable spy, and I think my cute, brave and powerful school girl is just right for this job. "

"I am indeed lovely, brave and strong, but I am going back to Boralus."

Lan Long stretched and said:

"I don't want to work for you in vain. Dai Lin even said that she wanted to treat me to a meal. I remember this. I won't miss any banquet."

"Okay, then when you go back, if you meet Pope Alonsos Fao, remember to say hello to him for me. By the way, tell His Majesty the Pope that I will be at Aro in the Drustvar Mountains. The platform of Mu is waiting for him.

I have something important to talk to him about. "

Blake told Little Star:

"You can follow the Pope into Drustvar by then, but it is best to stagger it with Dailin's schedule."

"Okay, Captain."

Little Xingxing nodded. She thought for a while and asked again:

"Then when are you going to find the home of these mechanical gnomes? I have changed my mind now. I want to go there and have a look. I think it will definitely be interesting.

There's definitely a lot of stuff that I simply wouldn't see outside.

Can you ask them to build a mechanical dragon just for me? Just copy my appearance, it will definitely be very impressive when it is finished!

Longmian Temple said they would erect a sculpture for me, but I don’t want a stone statue. "

"Yes, it is the greatest honor for the mechanical gnomes to serve the great His Highness Little Xingxing. I believe they will do their best to meet all the needs of His Highness Xingxing.

If you ask, the Mechagnomes will never say no. "

Blake pushed Little Star out of the yard and said nonsense:

"As for going to Mechagon, after we attend the wedding in Drustvar, we will set off directly from the desolate coast of those mountains. Mechagon Island is not far from Kul Tiras. As long as we lock the location, it can take one day and one night at most. It can be reached by sailing.

I will definitely take you with me then.

You are the most important fighting force under my command. "

"Really, you finally discovered my greatness?"

Little Xingxing was so coaxed by the captain's kind words that her tail almost curled up. After receiving Blake's assurance, she raised her head with satisfaction and walked forward arrogantly like a princess.

Under the escort of his loyal attendants, he left Blake's temporary residence.

The pirate watched the blue dragon leave, turned the magic eyeball on his shoulder, looked at his feet, and found that the lame mechanical dwarf was looking at him.

The latter's eyes, which were transformed into detectors, were shining with strange arcs of light, which seemed to represent her mood at the moment.

"What are you looking at?"

Blake asked angrily:

"Do you have anything to say?"

"Did you implant a chip into the blue dragon's brain and erase her intelligence? I heard that blue dragons are the wisest members of the dragons, but that guy just now didn't see any intelligence. .”

Trixie complained:

"You must have used your magic to turn her into a fool, right? It seems that His Majesty the King is right, the outside world has been polluted by evil forces.

You really need to be cleansed. "

"Is it the kind of purification that turns into a mechanical life?"

Blake asked rhetorically:

"It looks like you've been 'purified' too?"

"certainly not!"

Trixie snorted, puffed up her chest proudly, and said in the sharp dwarf voice:

"I had completed the mechanized transformation of my body before His Majesty went crazy. You outsiders don't understand anything. In our city, mechanical transformation is a status symbol!

Only truly noble people are qualified to transform more organs in their bodies.

The more parts and gears you have on your body, the more proof you are a dwarf with status and knowledge. However, there is only one dwarf whose whole body has been mechanized, and that is King Mechagon.

But counting down from him, I am also one of the "nobles" in the city. I was once the technology executive of His Majesty the King. He always praised me for my high efficiency and cold fairness. "

"Yo, the good old days."

Blake grinned and said in a sarcastic tone:

"But you also said that those were the good days before your king went crazy. Now you are not the king's executive officer. You are just the aide-de-camp of the gang boss and the leader of the cyborg dwarf thugs.

You need to fight for a few broken parts, a little clean water and savage cavemen in the ruins of Mechagon.

Miss Trixie, the truth about Mechagon cannot be hidden from me.

I know better than you what your hometown is like and why it is what it is now. While you wantonly ridicule my friend for his low intelligence, I want to remind you of one thing.

Your life is now in my hands. "

The smelly pirate sneered and said:

"Of course you can show off your temper as much as you want. I'm always very tolerant towards dying people."

The expression on the mechanical dwarf's face stiffened, and she tasted a hint of ominousness in Black's words. The guy in front of her should be the kind of guy who could talk and do what he said.

It's better to restrain yourself a little.

"But don't put any pressure on me. I always respect people with knowledge and ability, so let's take a look at this."

Blake's smile changed again and he greeted Trixie.

He unfolded the drawings in his arms before her eyes. There was a concept drawing of a new type of aircraft drawn in a very professional way, and the combat use of this aircraft was also written in dwarf language next to it.

Trixie glanced at the drawings and said in a strange tone:

"Dive and drop bombs, if you can imagine it, do you know how low the probability of a bomb from an aircraft hitting a ship is when the ship and the plane are moving at high speed at the same time?

I saw the Kul Tiran fleet in Port Boralus. They used salvo tactics, exchanging quantity for kills. Perhaps that backward model is more suitable for you. "

"First of all, Kul Tiras' artillery bombardment is assisted by the Tide Sages. Their artillery hit rate in mid-range and close-range battles and boarding battles is not as bad as you think."

Blake corrected him professionally:

"Secondly, I have already tried the meaningless bombing mode you mentioned once. The rotorcraft formation I used destroyed several Gilnean ships and forced them to retreat.

You don't need to know where Gilneas is, you just need to know that this isn't just my imagination.

Finally, I let you look at this picture so that you can use the professional eyes of your mechanical gnomes to analyze whether such an aircraft can be produced on a large scale on your Mechagon Island?

I didn’t mean for you to mock me! "

"Yes! Its structure is very simple. Just modify the engine of that backward thing to meet your requirements."

Trixie moved her mechanical fingers, pointed at the goblin gyroplane flying in the sky in the distance and said:

“As for its frame, there is equipment in Bondo’s compound, and we can knock it out with a wrench and a hammer.

But if you want to manufacture on a large scale, you need to use the large-scale manufacturing assembly lines in Mechagon City. It's just that the mad king has blocked the city and we can't go back at all.

And why would you need such a backward thing? "

The mechanical gnome said suspiciously:

"You clearly know that we have the latest aircraft such as the HK-8 air suppression unit, and its combat effectiveness is much more powerful than a crappy aircraft like yours.

Fully armed and fully powered, one HK-8 can easily destroy several formations of your broken aircraft. "

"Good question."

Black sat down next to the lame mechanical dwarf. He held a dwarf pipe in his mouth and looked at the dwarf engineers in the yard in front of him, knocking together.

He said:

"Let me ask you, how long will it take you to build an HK-8 aerial unit using the professional equipment in Mechagon City?"

"Well, from the finalization of the prototype to the actual manufacturing, the first air suppression unit took nine months, but the second one was very fast, and was completed in three months.

If the king hadn't suddenly gone crazy and wanted to mechanize everyone on the island, leading to a terrible rebellion in the city, we should have at least a flying formation of seven air suppression units by now. "

Trixie said to Blake in a proud and glorious tone:

"That is the crystallization of the most advanced technology of our mechanical gnomes. I am honored to have participated in part of the design."

"Okay, even if you take one offline every month."

Blake snapped his fingers and said to Trixie:

"Then how long will it take for your assembly line to make a crappy airplane like mine?"

"Is your crappy plane worthy of being compared with our air suppression unit?"

The mechanical gnome curled his lips and said:

"As long as the materials keep up, we can complete the production and arming of at least a hundred aircraft in a month. I seem to understand what you mean."

She waved two different mechanical arms and screamed:

"You mean, even if our formation can destroy most of your planes, the remaining planes carrying a bomb each are enough to blow the entire Mechagon into rubble.

You are threatening me!

Why are you people outside so barbaric? Always intimidating others. "

"No, that's not what I meant."

Blake corrected again:

“What I really mean is that when you become the exclusive weapons supplier of the Immortal Fleet, my bomber fleet will be able to destroy every fleet and every capital in the world.

Even facing the Kul Tiran fleet, I am not afraid at all.

Dai Lin thought he could copy my tactics

Haha, he can indeed.

But when he established the fifth fleet of Kul Tiras and proudly claimed that he had two hundred dwarf aircraft, I might have two thousand or more aircraft in my hands. "

The pirate blew out a smoke ring and showed a happy and happy expression.

He said:

"What's the use of optical tactics? How can he fight a war of attrition with me when the manufacturing level is so different? And he obviously doesn't understand air superiority well enough."

Blake glanced at Trixie and said:

"You just said that your original plan was to use HK-8 air suppression units to form an air formation? Very good, your plan is great and perfect.

It's mine.

Let me ask you, has King Mechagon’s only son Erazmin escaped from the city? "

“Well, the prince escaped from the city during the night of the riot and established a resistance organization with his followers on the coastline, and also tried to form an alliance with the Bondo boss.

But he is too weak.

The boss feels that it is not worth offending the already crazy king just for him, but he is also afraid that if the crazy king wins, he will turn us all into brainless robots.

So he helped the prince secretly, supported him with some parts and batteries, and occasionally helped him inform him. "

Trixie answered truthfully:

"The Prince's Rustbolt Resistance is now being bombarded by aircraft sent by the King all day long, and ground forces of Mechanical Hounds and Clockwork Titans are also laying siege to their town under the cover of Spider Tanks.

They were holding on very hard. If those nasty cavemen weren't right in the middle of the king and the prince's forces, the prince's town would have been blown up by the king. "

"Well, you shut yourself up on your own island, destroying each other with high technology that is unimaginable to the creatures of Azeroth, but you completely ignore the turbulent world outside the island.

The layout is still not open. "

Blake blew out a smoke ring and said to Trixie:

"The technological power you have is enough to give you a place in the vast world of Azeroth. Your biggest problem is that the crazy old king has taken up all your energy, making it impossible for you to expand outwards.

So, let's make a deal. "

The smelly pirate coughed, pointed at himself, and said:

"You entrust me, a master assassin, to help you assassinate King Mechagon. After that, we will form an alliance. The undead fleet will provide men, you will provide technology, and together we will fight for hegemony in the sea and lay down a large territory.

Do you think it’s okay? "

"impossible."

Trixie shook her head and said:

"King Mechagon died, and Prince Erazmin succeeded him. That prince was an out-and-out pacifist. He was upright and a little pedantic, and he was the opposite extreme of his crazy father.

He will not use our technology for war and plunder. "

"Hey, I'm talking about forming an alliance with you!"

Blake reminds:

"Not with your mad king, nor with your weak prince, nor with your ambitious, snake-rattled boss.

It's with you!

Don't tell me that you are willing to work for that lunatic Bondo Big Block for the rest of your life.

You used to be a person of high status, but as the king's technology executive, don't you want to take back your status? I have said that I have great respect for all people with knowledge and ability.

I am happy to give you a treatment that matches your status in my fleet. If you think it is too troublesome to seize power by yourself, then give me another commission and pay more.

Isn't it just Bondo Bulk, that crazy dwarf? It's just a matter of one more chop.

As for the reward, I think an air suppression unit is suitable.

What do you think? "