“…… His Majesty the King, in order to avoid the soldiers being nervous on the battlefield and the bullet jamming failure caused by the handle shaking too fast, our engineers specially designed this volute system, which is a high-strength clockwork, which can ensure continuous automatic reloading and firing of 500 rounds at one full wind. ”

On the plane to the test site, several people who were in charge of explaining the project introduced the progress of the project to Luo Zhengdao, who listened attentively and did not make any clear statement.

Qiongzhou Island has been developed by humans for thousands of years, and the inland areas of this island are still covered with large areas of virgin rainforest, and it is not easy to set up research institutes in such a place, and it is not easy for oneself to travel back and forth with spies. The single-digit research project is classified as a higher level of secrecy, and there is no path to enter it casually, so you can only fly directly into it from the sky in a large biplane transport plane. If an alien spy wants to infiltrate, he must either learn to fly through the sky at the risk of being beaten into a sieve, or he can only cross the rainforest on the ground at a distance of more than 200 miles in a straight line, and the probability of being killed by a gun during this journey is really not high, and as for whether he will be eaten by the monsters in the forest, then he has to fight for character.

"Woo woo woo ......"

When it stopped at the end of the runway paved with volcanic ash concrete, the cadres who came to greet him stepped forward to salute and said:

"Your Majesty, you have worked hard."

Seeing this, Luo Zhengdao smiled and beckoned and said:

"Everyone's worked hard, let's go indoors!"

Surrounded by humid and sweltering pristine rainforests, this secret research base is surrounded by a terrifying number of mosquitoes that gather in the evening and are as black as smoke. Although these small insect bites can't pierce the strong skin of Luo Zhengdao's incarnate body, you have to be careful to eat something by the way when you speak, this taste is not very comfortable!

These top-secret projects were originally set up and studied at Wake Reef, and after the prototype and a certain amount of technical reserves were made, they were sent to Qiongzhou to try to improve the design and mass production, after all, Wake Reef could not feed too many people, which was a hard injury that was difficult to change. Unless the development of industry no longer requires workers and is entirely the responsibility of non-human beings such as golems and robots, population is the foundation for building a large industrial system, and universal education is the cornerstone of a solid industrial system.

In a word, it is an idiotic move to talk about industrialization and the dream of a strong country without a large number of well-educated people, and can only drink the water of the Ganges River like the old world, and become the laughing stock of others like the third brother who does not brag.

The single-digit R&D project is much better than the double-digit ones, Luo Zhengdao was busy inspecting the day and tossed down, and when he was about to return home, he suddenly sighed and said:

"Isn't there anything to praise me about a two-digit code-named project?"

Hearing this, several attendants exchanged glances and cautiously said:

"Yes, His Majesty the King. Project 30 has entered the prototype production stage. ”

Unexpectedly, he could hear an unexpected good news, and he was surprised for a moment, and Luo Zhengdao immediately asked rhetorically:

"The development of floating warships is progressing so fast?"

"Yes, much more than we expected, His Majesty the King."

"Well, we'll stop by when we go back."

"Of course, Your Majesty."

Regardless of the potential threat of the Mana storm, any standard battleship with a sea driftwood structure would be able to throw off its ballast and soar into the sky, but this underconsideration is not the same as that of those who play Russian ships. The gamblers, like the gamblers, are purely irrational in their own lives to gamble with the sky. The wheel gun has a very high risk factor of five bullets. If such a frantic battleship hadn't fallen from the sky in half an hour as countless torn and twisted sawdust, all the passengers should have gone to the temple of Lady Luck to pray and thank the gods for their mercy.

An area with a high concentration of aether particles such as the main continent can effectively weaken the power of Mana Storm, so in this area, artificial aircraft and goblin air cavalry can move freely, and once they enter the far sea area, they will have to ask for a lot of blessings.

In the open sea, where Mana particles are extremely active, the Goblin Sky Cavalry must rely on the keen perception of the mounts under their crotch to lower to a safe height in time to ensure the lives of their riders and mounts before Mana particles begin to run wild. Pirate warplanes and warships that belong to man-made objects do not have such natural detection ability, it is not absolutely necessary, no one wants to gamble with their lives against the blue sky, and the floating battleship that can withstand the attack of Mana Storm sounds more like an ancient, difficult to realize beautiful myth.

Of course, the all-metal shelled aircraft is strong and solid enough, but its own weight is too exaggerated, and I am afraid that the cabin will have to be filled with sea driftwood to barely make this almost solid object float, which is indeed intoxicating when you think about it.

It is also a feasible strategy not to reinforce the shell with metal materials, but this idea is also very problematic, and the core crux lies in the cost. A free-flying battleship would require dozens of times more magic arrays than ordinary Yaling first-class battleships, and the cost of materials was astronomical, not to mention, considering the cost of labor consumed, it was simply desperate. Don't forget that setting up a circle is not an ordinary job that ordinary workers can do, and it must be done by arcanists and alchemists for a long time, and these two huge expenses add up to a lot of money that even the wealthy at the level of the Ministry of Finance can afford.

Looking up at the prototype of the whale-like hull in the factory, Luo Zhengdao pointed to a piece of outer armor that had been laid and said:

"You used bone armor? Or Carapace armor? ”

The person in charge with small eyes and not a tall head has short hair, and looks very shrewd and capable, at this time he gushed and said:

"Your Majesty, neither of these statements is true, we have developed a bionic exoskeleton armor that is lightweight and particularly strong, and not expensive to manufacture. One can be made in a petri dish in three months, but to fuse them together, a special alchemical mixture is indispensable, and this amount of money is not a small amount. ”

In contrast to other double-digit projects, where progress has been slow, or simply standing still, the development of the Floating Battleship has been as fast as flying, and there are basically no technical hurdles to overcome, except for the icing on the cake of improving production processes and reducing construction costs.

"Well, can you put it into real combat next month?"

As soon as he heard the unwritten request of His Majesty the King, the person in charge was so frightened that his tongue was knotted, and he snorted twice in a row, he only hated that he had just spoken too much for the sake of merit, so he had to say in a loud voice:

"What, next month? Your Majesty, you won't see it put into actual combat if you wait another year, the supporting facilities are too bad, and the stability of the integrated system is also a big problem, you don't want to see it fall from the sky without engaging the enemy army, right? ”

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao smiled dumbly, nodded and said:

"Ahh I know, you have to speed up the progress as much as possible, we urgently need this weapon with strategic deterrence capability to appear on the battlefield to deter the enemy. It is not expected that it will completely defeat the enemy, but that the enemy will understand that our technology and military strength cannot be contained, and force the opponent to abandon illusions and face reality and make a more rational choice. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. However, as you know, there will inevitably be a gap between subjective wishes and objective facts, and we will try our best to speed up the progress, and it is not up to us to decide when we can succeed, I hope you can understand. ”

Building a floating battleship is a huge system project, and a craft over three hundred yards long can't be powered by sails, so you can't make the magic cloth as strong as the exoskeleton armor plates, right? I guess if I really had to do that, the hard sails would be useless.

The power source of the floating battleship is mainly from the large rocket engine at the tail of the hull, which is different from the one-time rocket engine commonly used by the previous pirate fighters and pirate ironclads, in order to ensure a strong and long-lasting thrust, the rocket engine specially designed for the floating battleship can only be replaced by the flame nozzle in turn to maintain the normal operation of the system. Referring to the practice of the Goblin Navy, adding metal powder to the ceramic spout of the rocket engine and volatilizing it to cool down the temperature is a complex and expensive method, but it is also the only solution that can ensure that the floating warship soars in the sky.

Luo Zhengdao naturally knows that such an epoch-making new weapon as a floating warship has gone from the initial sample to practical application, and there are many technical difficulties that need to be overcome. Even so, when he looked up at the majestic figure of the floating battleship that had begun to take shape suspended in mid-air, his heart still surged with irrepressible joy, this is the biggest weapon to push back the goblins!

If the simultaneously developed air defense laser is installed on the floating battleship, the goblin air cavalry, which once made Luo Zhengdao deeply feared, become a bunch of active targets, and the air supremacy of the main continent will change hands. No matter how strong the army of millions of goblins on the ground is, it can't kill the sky, and it can't stop the human army from infiltrating the inland areas and rescuing the human slaves. Still, it's not a good thing to rejoice too soon, and any plan that seems wonderful at the beginning usually ends in a very sad way, and any seemingly superfluous prudence is a necessary precaution.

Luo Zhengdao really doesn't want to learn the brutal style of those three-beat leaders in the old world, and no one in the new world can pay his tuition intimately, no matter if things are done or not, he has to go around by himself, and he can't find a temporary worker to shirk responsibility.

In view of this, Luo Zhengdao had to make meticulous preparations to ensure that the floating battleship could strike at the time of the blockbuster, and before that, low-key hibernation and forbearance were painful ordeals that had to be experienced.