Walking into the secret dock built deep underground, Todd looked at the behemoth in front of him, and stood there in surprise, not moving for a while.

A half-built black battleship sits quietly in the middle of the underground dock, lying on a wooden frame that is three stories high, taking up almost the entire space of the underground cavern.

Compared to the xenomorphic warship that had participated in the Battle of Lone Rock in the past, which was completely experimental, this huge battleship was nearly ten times larger than the former in terms of length and displacement. If you really want to compare, the comparison of two ships is like putting an apple and a cherry together.

The new warship was black with a faint metallic reflection, a spindle-like hull structure, completely abandoning sails and cables, and the usual twin-shaft propellers for propulsion, with rudder and ailerons with steering functions at the bottom of the boat. In terms of appearance, it is obviously similar to the modern warships of the previous life, and is more in line with the design style of hydrodynamics.

Around the battleship, thousands of workers, scholars and crew members were in full swing around the battleship to carry out a series of construction and testing.

The sound of banging and conversation reverberated throughout the cave, and even though it was late at night, everyone's face was full of enthusiasm for their work, and there was not the slightest sign of tiredness or boredom.

"The Holy King has arrived!"

With a loud shout, everyone who had been busy with work looked at the visitors at the gate in surprise, and after a short period of distraction, people quickly dropped their work at hand, knelt on the ground, and walked in the direction of Todd, and the praise came one after another.

"The total length is 107.5 meters, the full load displacement is 2,130 tons, the total width is 9.68 meters, and the draft is 3.81 meters. Facing his own brainchild, the excited Wayne walked to the front of the battleship, looked up at the wriggling parasite limbs on the bow, and said proudly: "The maximum speed is 4.1 kilometers per hour, and the standard crew size is 201 people, including 167 Holy Cult Army and 34 humans. ”

Walking past the staff members who were kneeling on the ground, Todd slowly walked to the base of the battleship, and as he got closer, he felt the enormity of the battleship and the insignificance of human beings.

Todd looked at the junction between the ship armor and the intertwined keel tentacles, and asked, "This is the module you are talking about?"

Wayne nodded to the assistant behind him, who blew the whistle around his neck.

After a while, the originally tightly knit battleship armor began to gradually deform, and one after another parasite decks loosened the limbs connected to each other, transforming into independent insect units.

Watching an orc jump off the hull with a detached keel parasite that looked like a giant iron plate, Wayne spoke, "Your Majesty, as I mentioned earlier, each host controls a hull module, and the modules are connected by the keel's nervous system to ensure that commands from the bridge can be transmitted unimpeded. ”

Todd asked, "How many modules are there in the entire ship?"

"The entire battleship is divided into six areas, namely the command area, the power area, the armored area, the cabin area, the weapons area and the reconnaissance area. ”

"Among them, the command area has three modules, that is, three pairs of keel parasites, including a main command module and two deputy command modules. ”

"The power area consists of 16 modules, including 6 propeller modules, 6 bearing modules, and 4 linkage modules. ”

"The armored area refers to the outer and inner armor of the hull, of which the outer armor has 65 modules and the inner armor has 35 modules. ”

"The cabin area includes the hull frame and the internal nervous system wiring, which together have 32 modules. ”

"The modules of the weapon area and the reconnaissance area are still being manufactured, and the number cannot be determined for the time being. ”

After listening to Wayne's introduction, Todd asked, "How is the control of the module, and the host of the parasite arranged?"

Wayne waved to Todd and motioned for him to follow the stairs to the top of the hull to take a look.

Todd walked up the stairs to the construction of the hull, and looked through the unfinished section, where a dense mass of parasite limbs linked together countless keels. Among them, some keels have been changed into cabins, some have been changed into floors, and some have been changed to lines.

Many of the keel modules are immersed in a viscous liquid, and in the center of them, a sitting or lying host can be seen inside.

Wayne pointed to the internal structure of the hull and explained: "Most of the module's keel limbs are soaked in a special nutrient solution, during the non-war period, the keel parasite enters a dormant state, and its daily consumption of nutrients can be provided with a nutrient solution, and the host can temporarily break away from the parasite module at this time and carry out free activities such as eating, sleeping, and entertaining in the hull." ”

"Once at war, the host must immediately return to the body of the parasite module, and in response to a command from the command module, put the module belonging to it into activation mode. The keel parasite will begin to extract nutrients from the host for consumption during the war. ”

Todd thought for a moment and asked again, "If this battleship is put into a state of war, how long can the nutrients in the host's body last?" ”

Wayne touched his chin and said in contemplation: "This time is not fixed, it will constantly change according to the situation on the battlefield. ”

"I'll give you an example, for example, if we need to engage in close combat with enemy warships, then the armor will inevitably withstand a lot of artillery fire, although all armor modules can be continuously repaired by regeneration, but this repair needs to consume a lot of nutrients in the host's body. Intuitively, if you use numbers to put it simply, assuming that the control of the ship module is an orc with a standard constitution, then the host of the ship armor module will die in about two hours after the continuous artillery fire is hit. ”

"But if it's attacking the enemy from a distance, the most stressful will be the module host that controls the weapon system. If the Xenomorph destroyer's cannon were to be shelled at maximum power, it would endanger the life of the weapon module's host if it were fired nine times in a row, without taking into account rest. ”

"Weapon system, cannon?" Todd looked around, then suddenly turned back to Wayne and asked, "Why didn't I see the weapons of this ship?"

Wayne nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed to the cave behind the dock: "The weapon of this battleship is the most absolute secret in the entire xenoweapon research, and its experiments and manufacturing are placed in a safer place. Moreover, its power is also destined to not be placed in this narrow place. ”

Todd looked at the cave at the end of the dock, a curious look on his face.

He jumped down from the wooden frame and said to Wayne, "Go, take me to see what you call the battleship cannon." ”

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