The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

I saw that the weapons spread out in this box all seemed to be magnified several times, such as the flintlock gun closest to Leo with a gear mechanism to build the barrel.

The length of an ordinary flintlock pistol is at most about the same as an adult's forearm, but this one has doubled and is almost equivalent to an adult's arm, and the barrel is also thickened and enlarged. It looks like a small gun as a whole. Like a cannon.

What is even more speechless is that the barrel of the gun has grown and thickened so much, but the body and handle of the gun are no different from ordinary flintlock pistols, regardless of whether anyone can afford this flintlock pistol. Cannon, the weird shape of this gun alone makes no one have the slightest desire to pick it up.

Other firearms are similar in shape to this one, and a more important problem is that all firearms are based on the excitation principle of the flintlock, rather than the breech-loading guns and breech-loading repeating guns that have become popular now.

It's no wonder that when Martin saw this batch of weapons, he would get angry, and without hesitation decided that these weapons were unqualified. After all, Martin had worked in the famous Murphy Arsenal, even if he couldn't get access to important weapons such as blueprints. However, they are also very clear about the importance of details such as the structure and weight of any firearms. The firearms in the box are unreasonable at first glance and cannot be used normally.

However, compared to Leo and Martin looking at the weapons in the box in silence, Jason seemed very excited, screaming again and again, squatting down and picking up a repeating gun that was somewhat similar to the steam crossbow, I wanted to hold it with one hand, but found that I couldn't hold it, so I could only hold it with both hands, imitating the appearance of shooting, and there was a thumping sound from my mouth.

However, before he was excited for too long, he felt the weight of the weapon in his hand, and his hand felt a little sore, so he had to put it back on the ground.

"Leo, this thing is really exciting!" Even so, he was still very excited and shouted at Leo.

Leo smiled, squatted down, picked up the flintlock in front of him, and carefully looked at the structure of this thing.

Compared with the flintlock repeater Jason picked up with five barrels cast together, the flintlock hand cannon in his hand is much lighter. With its power three times higher than ordinary people, He can easily pick up this hand cannon, and his physique is more than five times higher than that of ordinary people, which makes him have extraordinary endurance, and he can hold this hand cannon for a long time like an ordinary pistol.

Seeing that Leo was able to pick up the heavy flintlock so easily, both Martin and Jean Valjean showed expressions of surprise. It's just that the surprised expressions of the two are also different. Martin's surprised expression is more mixed with worry, surprise and gloom, while Jean Valjean is completely happy and excited. Obviously, he is very happy that someone can pick up his Works, used in the way normal people do, very happy.

Although Leo focused on the weapon in his hand, he did not let go of his vigilance to the surroundings. Although Martin concealed his true emotions quickly, he did not escape his eyesight, which also made him feel very sorry for Martin. Behavioral suspicions were confirmed.

After understanding the surrounding situation, Leo began to pay attention to the gun in his hand again.

Although the barrel of the hand cannon is very large, the hole of the gun is much smaller than the barrel, about the size of a rabbit's eyeball, and the rest is the wall of the barrel. And burst, especially thickened barrel.

Afterwards, Leo's sight fell on the gun body again. The gun body was a bit deformed. The part where the front half connected to the barrel was particularly large, while the part where the back part connected to the handle shrunk rapidly.

There is a ball-like socket on the half of the gun body. The socket is usually covered, but as long as the cover is pushed forward a little, the small track inside the socket can be seen.

"Is this the place to put ammunition?" Leo quickly understood the function of this jack through the secondary brain system analysis, but he still turned his head to Jean Valjean to confirm.

"Yes, this is the place where the ammunition is stuffed." Jean Valjean saw that Leo found the place where the ammunition was stuffed so easily, and once again believed that Leo had an extraordinary understanding of machinery. As he spoke, he walked into the cabinet beside him, took out a box, opened it, and revealed the spherical ammunition inside, took out a few of them, handed them to Leo, and said, "This ammunition is made of It’s very simple, just mix some crushed charcoal and two special bullet gunpowder with ordinary gunpowder, wet it with water, stuff it with a steel ball, knead it into a suitable ammunition, and finish the production after it dries.”

Leo took the ammunition, pointed it at the socket and pushed it up. After the cover was pushed open, ammunition of a suitable size was inserted into the gun body, and then he moved the socket again under Jean Valjean's guidance. The gear next to it, the device inside the vacancy pushes the ammunition to the end of the magazine, which happens to be where the firing device of the flintlock gun is located, and the position where the hammer falls can touch the device and fire the gunpowder.

"How much ammunition can be filled?" Leo asked, looking at the magazine that still had a lot of space.

Jean Valjean replied: "It can fill five."

Leo asked again: "After the first gunpowder is triggered, the other ammunition will not..."

Jean Valjean said: "No, after each ammunition is in place, there will be a special retaining wall inside to separate it from the ammunition behind it." Then he pointed to a gear mechanism under the hammer, and said : "Although this gun looks like a single-shot gun, it is actually not much different from a repeating gun. After each shot, the thrust of the gunpowder will push the lower gear to rotate, and the hammer will be brought back by the gear. When it is ready to fire, the loading device of the ammunition compartment will also operate to push the next ammunition to the firing state."

"Can I try it?" Leo asked.

"sure."

Jean Valjean nodded, then took out a wooden figure from a cabinet in the corner, placed it in front of the wall opposite the door, and then found four very effective sound-insulating leather helmets, indicating that they should put them on.

Jason has long been excited by these weird-looking guns, and can't wait to see the power of this gun. Martin is also curious about the power of this gun. After all, these weapons are made of 130,000 gold flanges. of. Back then, he determined that these firearms were unqualified based on his experience, but now Jean Valjean's performance made him suspect that his original judgment might be wrong, which made him even more curious.

Putting on a leather helmet, Leo filled the magazine with five rounds of ammunition and walked right in front of the wooden man. When the three people around him thought that he still needed to stand still and raise his hand to aim for a while before shooting, he unexpectedly shot. Raise your hand, pull the trigger instantly, and when the ram bounces back to its original place, continue shooting immediately until all five ammunition in the magazine are exhausted.

The few people standing behind Leo only heard muffled sounds passing through the leather helmets and reaching their ears. Every time the sound sounded, it was accompanied by a burst of gunpowder flames spraying from the barrel. It came out, just like the dragon flame in the myths and legends, extremely shocking.

What shocked them even more was the power of the bullets. The first steel ball bullet directly shattered the wooden man used as a target, and the next four shots all hit the buffer on the wall, not only hitting the buffer It was scattered, and the steel plate wall behind was dented, and cracks appeared.

On the other hand, Leo, who had his back to them, seemed dissatisfied with the cannon, frowned, and moved his paralyzed arms and shoulders indistinctly.

Naturally, he had nothing to say about the power of the hand cannon, but the weight of the hand cannon itself and the anti-shock force of the gunpowder made it unbearable for his physique, which was considered to be beyond ordinary people.

Of the five shots fired just now, except for the first shot that was within the control range, the other four shots were just pulled the trigger. As for where the fired bullets flew, they didn't know anything at all.

"It's very powerful." Leo turned around and praised Jean Valjean, but before Jean Valjean showed a happy expression, he poured cold water on him and said, "But I agree with Mr. Martin's judgment, This, or this type of weapon is not qualified."

If someone else said these words, maybe Jean Valjean would not pay attention to them at all, but Leo, who has been regarded as a mechanical expert by him, said these words, but he had to think deeply about whether he really made a mistake in his design. up.

"Could you tell me the reason for my disqualification?" Jean Valjean humbly asked for advice.

Leo asked back: "Tell me first, what did you think when you designed this firearm? What kind of firearm do you want to design?"

Jean Valjean said suspiciously: "What kind of firearm can it be? It is what Martin requested. It is powerful, cheap and can be mass-produced."

Leo said in a deep voice: "Haven't you realized your problem yet? The gun request was made by Mr. Martin, not what you want."

Hearing Leo's words, Jean Valjean frowned, looking thoughtful.

Leo continued: "You actually designed this firearm completely according to other people's ideas and directions."

As he said that, he took out the ammunition the size of a rabbit's eyeball, and said: "For the sake of power, you made the ammunition so big that it directly increased the power several times, but the explosive power of the gunpowder made it impossible for ordinary gun barrels to withstand it." , must use some extremely hard and rare materials to be able to withstand this explosive force, but it would not be cheap to do so.”

He pointed to the gun barrel again, and said: "So you changed the method, thickening and lengthening the barrel. But you found that not only the barrel has to bear the explosive force of gunpowder, but also the magazine The explosive force to withstand will be greater."

His finger pointed to the front half of the gun body again, and said: "So you made an improvement again, using your mechanical knowledge to create a device to buffer the explosive force, and it was very cleverly connected to the reloading device, It’s a genius design. It’s just that you don’t realize that all you’re doing is fixing a hole, making a hole, making a hole, fixing another hole, and you end up with this weird gun.”

"Yes, you are right, you are right." Jean Valjean nodded and admitted his problem frankly.

And Jean Valjean's attitude made Martin, who was watching the situation, very displeased, because for the same conclusion, Leo was able to get Jean Valjean's approval, but he had a complete falling out with Jean Valjean, who had a bad relationship with him. , This gave him a sense of frustration that he had never experienced before, and he didn't like this feeling at all.

"I can give you two suggestions for improvement." Leo said like a real master of antique weapons: "One suggestion is to simply change these weapons into portable personal melee artillery, and replace all the steel balls in the ammunition. into cheaper metal scraps, increasing the coverage area and hit rate of shrapnel. Another suggestion is to use your mechanical knowledge to add a few shock absorbers to it to minimize the recoil of gunpowder, so that those who can carry these People with weapons can also shoot directly."

Jean Valjean pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes! It's very valuable for reference."

After hearing Leo's suggestion, Martin also showed a thoughtful expression, and a little joy appeared on his face.

After Leo finished speaking, he squatted down, searched among the weapons on the ground, and then took out an improved mechanical crossbow from inside.

This strong crossbow looks very similar to an ancient siege crossbow in terms of shape, and its manufacturing material should also be a very regular metal material. Because of Jean Valjean's exquisite mechanical design, it is easy and relaxed to wind this crossbow.

In addition, in the matching magazine belt of this crossbow, there are five different types of ammunition, which are marked as explosive, strong acid, poisonous gas, hypnosis and armor-piercing, which should be able to be used in different environments. The one with the highest value in the mist is also the one that can be used by ordinary people the most.

"Jason, you can use this crossbow." Leo handed the crossbow to Jason.

The power of the flintlock hand cannon that Leo showed just now has already attracted Jason. He feels that a man wants to use such a weapon, so he naturally looks down on gadgets like hand crossbows, even if the strength of this hand crossbow is not weaker than firearms. There is still some resistance.

However, even though Jason was somewhat reluctant, he did not refuse. Instead, he obeyed Leo's order and took the crossbow, put the ammunition belt on his body, and still looked at the hand cannons with some reluctance.

Seeing this situation, Leo took out the flintlock gun he had used before, and motioned to Jean Valjean to bring some more boxes of ammunition, and handed these things together with Jean Valjean's special back-mounted holster. He walked over to Jason and said, "Hold the thing, when you can hold the gun with one hand for 30 minutes without putting it down, when can you use it, otherwise, you can carry it on your back all the time!" , He said to Martin: "Don't I have two powers to choose items? This is one of them."

Jason, who didn't hear what Leo said at all, happily took over this set of equipment, took off the crossbow suit he had just put on, put this set of equipment on his body, and put the flintlock hand cannon into the special gun on his back After feeling the weight, he felt that he could still bear it, so he put the crossbow on the equipment again.

"Won't you choose a weapon?" asked Jean Valjean in a deep voice.

Leo shook his head and said, "There is nothing I need."

Jean Valjean thought for a while, and said: "You have given me some good advice, and I should give you a gift in return."