After entering the research institute, we found that there are actually only four halls around a courtyard, and most of the staff, including NPCs, are concentrated in the hall on the side of the street! There are halls around the courtyard, and this is the real research part, and under normal circumstances, ordinary people are not allowed to enter here!

After entering the courtyard, we first entered the main hall opposite, which is the magic science laboratory, where the floating technology was born. It's a mess and there's hardly anything to understand, and I'm not interested in looking at it. The next target is the main hall on the left side of the courtyard, which specializes in mechanics, and unlike the Magical Science Laboratory, things here are generally unpowered, mainly geared. But there's one thing that's appealing, and that's the cannon!

The technology of rear-loading artillery in Europe is significantly higher than that of Asia, although it has not fought with European warships, but the performance data is known. In the absence of high-power fire, European artillery can still maintain the same power and range as Asian artillery, which is a very high achievement, and what makes me pay more attention is the cost of European artillery! I don't know why the cost of the cannon here is much lower than ours, basically the cost of two ram dragon cannons can buy three Germans of this kind of cannon, if you have your own factory, then the price is cheaper!

"Do you sell this technology?" I said, pointing to the gun I fancied.

Asford seemed a little embarrassed, and I knew that I was asking too much. Combat resources are different from other things, they don't just have money to earn! After sinking for a minute, Ashford spoke: "Can you wait for me for ten minutes?"

I thought he was going to reject me, but now it seems that there is a door!

Asford turned around and ran out, but he didn't come back after half an hour passed, and the person who stayed with me apologized to me and said that he would be there in a while! Fortunately, there are a lot of good things here, and if he doesn't come back, I'll turn slowly, anyway, this guy next to him is the person in charge here, and he knows everything he asks, and he explains it in detail!

Forty minutes later, Asford finally returned. "I'm really sorry! We didn't agree internally, so we lost some time!"

"And what about the result?"

"It's okay to sell, but we don't want money!"

"Don't want money, what do you want? I don't have anything to trade with you!"

"How could it not be?" Ashford shook his head and said, "My subordinates have just informed me that the warships of your fleet are equipped with very advanced thrusters, and the power is at least five times that of our thrusters, isn't this technology enough?" I was about to say that the technology was not ours, but Ashford interrupted me and said, "You don't need to say it, I understand that that thruster technology is worth more than my artillery technology." Of course I won't let you lose money!System error!-0x000000008,112619180 please follow me!"

Puzzled, I followed him to the corner of the hall, and he pressed on the wall, and a door appeared on the wall, and there was actually a secret room! This secret room was not very large, about the size of an ordinary classroom. Everything in the room was covered with canvas, and Ashford walked over and pulled the canvas off, and two shining silver objects appeared in front of my eyes!

"What is this?"

Ashford introduced them one by one: "This big one is a cannon!"

"You see!

"This is not an ordinary cannon, this is the treasure of our guild, a super heavy gun with a range of up to 100 kilometers! This time I bought Huoyao technology with you for it, with your Huoyao, its range should be up to 120 kilometers. This range is basically 4 to 6 times that of other countries' artillery, and we can completely rely on the power of ultra-long-range artillery to get rid of the enemy's range! With this thing, the British and the French are easy to deal with!"

"But the line of sight of our lookout and telescopes is just over 90 kilometers? Even if the weather is good, 100 kilometers is the limit! How do we shoot at targets outside the line of sight? What about accuracy? We can't rely on coverage to shoot, right?"

"Of course! Our method is to use the outpost to observe the fleet! This outpost is not a new invention, just a small warship. We designed this ship to have a large number of thrusters on it, and nothing but two small-caliber self-defense guns, so that its speed would be quite terrifying. When shooting, let the outpost ship reach between us and the target, observe the enemy's position and notify the team with the flag, and then we can shoot accurately. Anyway, the sentinel ship only observes the shooting effect, and it doesn't need to enter the enemy's range, plus its small size and fast speed, even if it enters the enemy's range, it is not easy to be hit, it is definitely a very good design!"

After talking for a long time, it turned out that the Germans' plan was like the laser-guided artillery shells being used by the first teams, sending an outpost reconnaissance vehicle to the vicinity of the enemy to illuminate the target with a laser, and then as long as the long-range cannon fired the shell in the general direction, the shell itself would fly after the laser reflected by the target! This technology of Asford is simply a variant of the laser-guided technology, but I have to admit that the accuracy of this method is first-class!

"What's that next to that?"

"This?" Ashford said, pointing to the smaller thing, "This thing is a repeating ballista, and we designed it mainly for air defense!"

"Repeating ballista?" Isn't that the same as a rapid-fire machine gun?" "What about the rate of fire of this thing?"

"The fastest speed is two rounds in three seconds, but it often jams! This thing is still in the research stage, and it has not been finalized!"

"These two technologies together, I'll change!" "The giant wolf parachuted by the flying monster in the last monster siege almost broke through the defense and entered the Gathering Spirit Tower, if we have rapid-fire ballistas, we can basically prevent the invasion of air power, this is a good thing! Although Atlantis said not to transfer it easily when he sold it to us, he didn't say not to transfer it! I can exchange this technology for two technologies, it shouldn't be easy, right?

"Deal!" Ashford replied simply this time, presumably when he brought me in, he thought that I would ask for both of them together.

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Asked Rose to go back to the ship to get the tech scroll, and Ashford and I shook hands again. The two are very good at business, although it is exchanged for technology, but it feels different from spending money to buy, and I always feel very happy, so I am in a good mood. "What's the use of going to my place in the future, just ask, our Frost Rose Alliance is willing to be an ally of the Iron Cross!"

I thought that Ashuford would be polite with me, but he suddenly said, "Really, I really need your help!"

Forget the cultural differences between the East and the West! What the Chinese say next time to help is generally a kind of polite words, which belong to the language on the scene, and can be understood as diplomatic rhetoric without any effect. But there is a big difference between the culture of the West and the East, and Asford thinks that I really want to help, and he really needs help!

"What's the matter? As long as I can do it, I will definitely help!" "It's better to get vaccinated first, and if you can't do it, you can explain it!"

Ashuford may not be very sure: "Actually, as long as you try it, it doesn't matter if you can finish it or not!"

"What the hell is going on?" it looked tricky, and Ashford's words meant that he didn't even think I could do the job!

"We received a very important guild task, the task asked us to collect 30 purple leaf grass! whether we pick it ourselves, or grab it from others, or buy it, or simply plant it ourselves, in short, no matter the method, as long as we can get 30 plants, we can complete the task!" System error!-0x000000008, 112619180

"This grass can't be so scarce that there are not enough 30 plants in total, right?"

"It's a lot!"

"It's very scattered and not easy to collect?"

"All the purple leaves of the country grow in one place!"

"Oh! I see, it's a strange place and you can't get in!"

"That place is a flat mirror-like plateau, with two wide avenues to go up, not to mention people, even horse-drawn carriages can drive in!"

"Why can't you get it if the environment is so good?" I suddenly remembered: "It can't be that there are troublesome monsters nearby, right?"

"You're right!" Ashford nodded helplessly, and then sighed, "First we posted the acquisition notice, but no one was able to get it! At first, a team of 7 people was sent in, but ......!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's all back!"

"Then send someone again!"

"Later, a team of ten people was sent, and the result was ......!"

"It's over again?" I asked tentatively.

He nodded!"In the end, we decided to make a desperate bet and mobilize the players above the average level of the entire guild to go together! More than 7,000 people went up together, and in 3 minutes, they walked 200 meters! and ......"

"Killed again?" Seeing Ashford nodding again, I was skeptical, "You're not kidding, are you? Seven thousand people were wiped out in 3 minutes, and no one rushed out more than 200 meters? What kind of monster is so powerful? It can't be a dragon gathering place above, right?"

I don't think there are any monsters that can be so powerful, if there is a dragon, it will be a dragon! But a dragon can't kill 7,000 people in the blink of an eye! Unless it is a dragon gathering place like Dragon Island, if it is that kind of place, let alone 7,000 people, even 70,000 people can't last three minutes!

Watching Ashuford wait for his answer. "It's a gathering place, but it's not a dragon's! It's something else, something we don't know how to describe it! It's quite a lot, we've seen about tens of thousands!"

"No wonder! You are only 7,000 people, and there are tens of thousands of them, and if there is not much difference in level, 3 minutes is already good! But it's still not right! They have a numerical advantage, and they can indeed get you in 3 minutes, but how do you attack so many people together? It's unlikely that they can attack 7,000 people at the same time, right?"

"That's the key! These things fly, and they're so fast, we're done before we even have time to react!"

"Don't you have a burst of ballistas, can't you push that thing up?"

"The limits for repeating ballistas and artillery are the same!"

"Understood!" The restriction of artillery is that it is only limited to the use of cities and warships, although the cannon can be dismantled and transported away, but there is no way to use the cannon when it leaves the battleship or city, and there is only one possibility to use the cannon in the field, that is, siege warfare, but there is still a limit, that is, it cannot be too far away from the target city! Since the restrictions of the continuous fire ballista are the same as those of other artillery, that is, they cannot be transported away!

"Since you want my help, tell me as much as you can, I need to know the data on these things, the more detailed the better! By the way, do you know what their weaknesses are? and how do they attack? physical attacks or magic?"

"Follow me, I'll tell you slowly!" Ashford led me to the main hall on the right side of the courtyard, at first I was still curious about what this last hall was for, but when I came in, I was startled! This is a herbarium! There are a lot of biological specimens in the main hall, it is simply strange! Ashford led me through the front of these specimens to the back part, which is strange, and there are some equipment! He led me to a suit of full-body armor, which was put together and stood like a person. "Take a closer look!"

I took a closer look at the armor and studied it for a while. The armor is very ordinary, it has no features, and I walked around it a few times, the only strange thing is that there are 4 holes in the armor! There is a triangular hole in the belly of the armor that is thick with an arm, and the corresponding place in the back also has a similar hole. At the top of this cave is a much smaller circular hole, located in the heart of the human body. There is also a small hole about the same size behind the helmet of the armor!

In any case, these four holes must have killed the owner of the armor at that time, and Ashford left the armor as a convenient feature to tell others about this kind of injury. "That's what this stuff does?"

Asford nodded, "Do you see anything?"

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"The two holes in the belly of the armor were large, and there were no obvious signs of curl. If you didn't guess wrong, the system was wrong!-0x000000008,112619180These two holes were caused by something very sharp passing through the user's body from the front, and this thing was very fast at the time!As for the small holes in the heart and back of the head, it seems that there is a special reason, it is estimated that this monster was left when it sucked blood and sucked brains!"

There was applause from behind him. Ashuford said, "Your analytical skills are very strong!"

"It's nothing!" I've only seen trauma dissection many times in the Dragon Edge base, so I know more about the causes of trauma!

Asford pointed to the hole in the belly of the armor and said: "This armor is actually a set of reserve equipment of mine, which was originally intended to be sold after completing that mission, but because I wanted to stay for others to study, I never repaired it, but saved it for research! The monster's name is 'Spear', and there is a triangular pyramid more than two meters long on its head. When the monster flies, this triangular pyramid is right in front of the monster!"

"Isn't that a knight's bayonet?"

"Yes!System error!-0x000000008,112619180That's why it's called a spear!That day it swooped down from my front, and with the power of the dive, its speed was quite amazing, almost in a flash, it was in front of me! I didn't even have time to react and was pierced through the abdomen!"

"It's not going to be a one-hit kill, is it?"

"No! I wasn't dead at the time, but I heard the system say I had been hit hard and my body was incapacitated! It was actually a paralyzing effect, but I don't know how long it was! I was pierced by it, and it started to climb and take me up into the air. Although I had only lost a third of my life at the time, two transparent tentacles protruded from the monster's head. The first tentacle was inserted into my heart, and then I saw red blood flowing from the transparent tube towards the monster, and the other tube remained unmoved until I had the last bit of life left, and the other tube suddenly went around the back of my head, and I only felt a pain in the back of my head and hung up, presumably it started to suck the brain!"

"It seems that the attack method is quite average, it is nothing more than relying on speed! as long as you can dodge that attack, you will be fine!"

"It's not as simple as you think! I suggest you don't mumble about them!"

"I see!"

"By the way, the data obtained from the people who were killed, and the results were sorted out to get the detailed data of the spear. The spear is a level 800 creature, and its defense is normal for a creature of this level, but it has low health. I don't know much about speed, but one thing is for sure, its speed is faster than any creature I've ever seen! In terms of attack power, it should be said that it is relatively weak, it stands to reason that level 800 creatures can easily kill us in seconds, but the spear can't do this, of course, it is also possible that it deliberately does not kill us in order to suck blood and brains, this is not necessarily, in short, there is nothing wrong with being careful! Finally, it should be noted that this thing is active in groups, dozens of groups patrolling, once it finds enemies or food, it will immediately attract a large group! ”

"It feels like a bee! It's a bit tricky, but luckily you're on a mission with purple leaves instead of spears, so you should be able to sneak in!"

"Don't even think about it!" Ashford interrupted me, "The spear doesn't have any organs that look like eyes, at least we've never seen them. In other words, it is completely blind, and the stealth skills of assassins and thieves are meaningless to it, anyway, it can't see! The spear must have another way to find its target, most likely a bat-like ultrasound, or a rattlesnake-like thermal imaging technology! In short, stealth is useless to it, otherwise we would have gotten our hands on the purple leaf grass a long time ago!"

"What a troublesome creature!"

Ashford looked at the sky outside. "I suggest you wait until it's completely dawn before going! these things don't need light at all, and the night is more favorable to them!"

I pointed to my eyes. "I'm a night visioner!"

"But my people aren't!" said Asford, "How many people do you need?"

"There's a guy who leads the way and sends me to the side of the plateau! Also, do you have any pictures of purple leaf grass? At least let me know what it looks like! I have the art of identification, but I can't identify them one by one, right?"

"We don't have any of them here, so we can't help it! It only has three leaves, and it's purple, and it doesn't grow anything but the leaves! Also, don't think of it as a normal plant, it doesn't look like a plant, it looks like a crystal! You don't have to worry, it's very special, you can see it when you look at it!"

"If it's really as special as you say, then no problem! You can ask someone to take me there now! I also have a mission to come to Germany this time, so I can't delay too much time!"

"Okay! If you can complete the mission, I'll buy those purple leaves from you according to the conditions announced at the beginning!"

Asford took me back to the House of Councils, where the Roses were trading two Tech Scrolls with the Iron Crossers. Seeing me come back, Rose came over. "The deal is done, can we now go to the Death Mountains to pick up the Mist Legion?"

"No, wait, I'm going to do a mission!"

"How long will it take? We're running out of time!"

"One day at most! I must come back before dark at night!" "The spear doesn't care about the night, but I can't! Although it's night vision, but after all, it's restricted, my night vision is at a distance, it's too far and I can't see clearly! If I can't complete the task at night, I'll come out by myself, or simply hang back, anyway, I can't lose the equipment when I die, and the magic dragon suit will be automatically repaired, and there is a teleportation point on the Biling, and when I die, I will return to the Biling, just drop two levels without much loss!