Richard followed the person in charge of the test site and rode to another area, and on the way, Richard also talked to him and learned about the progress of some research.

In fact, what Richard most wanted to equip the griffin knights with was not a hand axe or a short crossbow, but a bag of explosives that could be thrown from the air, which was a truly epoch-making product, and on the Blue Star, the appearance of mature firearms was a sign of the end of the knightly class.

"Mr. Bellucci, the gunpowder I mentioned still hasn't been studied?"

As a college student from Lanxing, science and technology are the primary productive forces, Richard is quite clear in his heart, after the Hunter family's financial resources are relaxed, Richard has invested a lot of money in research, for the study of some strange technologies, but unfortunately Richard himself is not an engineering student, he really knows little about technical things, and some simple technologies like water conservancy and irrigation, and without Richard's guidance, the Golden Dragon Kingdom itself is already very developed.

A bunch of research directions that seem strange to technicians are proposed, but most of them are not very reliable, that is, the mixed wheel set plays a big role, some technologies need to be accumulated for a long time, and it is actually quite difficult to reproduce them by relying on the common sense of an ordinary person, that is, Richard is both the ruler of the Northland and an important investor, and these technicians and researchers can be patient to try little by little.

Among the many innovative technologies proposed by Richard, gunpowder happens to be the most unreliable one in the eyes of researchers, but it is also the one that Richard is most concerned about, because in the researchers' opinion, the only thing that can directly cause an explosion is the magic cast by magicians, how can they make substances that can directly cause explosions with some strange materials, of course, under Richard's care, the experiment has been going on, but it has not gone well.

"Still hasn't made much progress, the charcoal and sulfur you mentioned are easy to find, but there's still one substance left, we've tried a lot of substances, and there's still nothing that can cause an explosion."

"Well, keep trying, don't be perfunctory about the gunpowder thing I said, the cost is so much for you to try and consume."

"Yes, Lord Richard, we haven't let up for a moment."

Richard doesn't mean to blame, if he wants to blame this thing, he can only blame himself for not memorizing the crossing guide, and the necessary knowledge of the traverser is not in place, otherwise he won't be able to remember this kind of thing that is clear on Baidu on the Internet after he crosses over.

"But there's something else that Master Richard said, and we have some clue."

"Oh?"

"It's in the No. 2 test site now, and it's already set up."

…

After many rounds of inspection, Richard was able to enter the testing ground, which was a confidentiality rule set by Richard himself, and of course he would take the lead in complying with it, even if it was for show, so as to set an example for others.

"Lord Richard!"

After entering the test site, the surrounding technicians and operators all greeted Richard respectfully, and Richard also agreed with them, in this era of ignoring technology, only Richard understood how amazing the impact of their research results would be, and they deserved a certain amount of respect from Richard.

"This is a steam war crossbow that we made according to your wishes."

"Steam crossbow?"

Richard followed Bellucci's gesture and looked over, and sure enough, he saw a square block object three or four meters square, made of black metal, which could be seen from the side that it should be a machine, and there were a lot of ropes and parts that could be twisted, and there was a row of chimney-like designs at the top of the machine, which looked quite cyberpunk.

"Yes, according to your genius and creative design of the crossbow, this crossbow can fire twelve giant crossbows at once without the help of a warrior, and the power is quite good."

Bellucci looked quite proud when he introduced this punk-style crossbow, and it was clear that this steam warbow was his pride compared to the gunpowder that had never been found in the doorway.

"But I should have asked you to study the steam engine, why did this become a war crossbow..."

"Lord Richard, you step back away, the fire burned in advance, and now the machine is still a little unstable, we have to continue to add fire."

As he spoke, Bellucci began to add coal from the rear of the steam crossbow, and hot gas began to rise from the chimney above, and the whole crossbow roared.

Looking at some familiar and unfamiliar pictures in front of him, Richard inexplicably thought of the word boiler explosion, and immediately pulled Bellucci back more than ten meters away, this kind of experimental stage of things, nothing is too much, not to mention that the style of this group of research institutes is obviously still a little rough, it really exploded, with Richard's strength, there is no danger, but people like Bellucci are not necessarily.

Fortunately, the so-called steam crossbow started relatively smoothly, and in the midst of the coaxing trill, the power seemed to accumulate to an extreme, and then the power cup was completely released as the operator pulled a lever.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

Several giant crossbows more than two meters long erupted from the arrow holes, about half of which hit the large wooden target standing five hundred meters away, directly bursting the wooden target, and half of the wooden targets that did not hit the wooden target could not see where to fly for the time being, this thing obviously has a range of more than a kilometer, and the power is far above the bear hunting crossbow, but there seems to be a little problem, because Richard remembered that the machine should have twelve arrow holes, but I am afraid that there were no more than ten giant arrows that flew out just now.

"Report! The machine is stuck again! ”

"Hurry up and turn off the fire! Tune the machine! ”

Bellucci was in a hurry, ignoring Richard beside him, and hurriedly ran to check his steam crossbow.

"Damn, it's going to have to be overhauled again, it's stuck inside."

Seeing that the fire had gone out and that the chimney was no longer smoking, Richard took a few steps closer.

"What's going on?"

"I'm sorry, Lord Richard, there was a little accident, I'll fix it as soon as I can."

"It's okay, don't worry, I'm satisfied, but the crossbow can be improved."

"It should be added with two wheels, otherwise it will be too cumbersome to move, and it is too bulky to move around the battlefield, so try to make it smaller if you can."

"If you can, try replacing some of the hydraulic forging machines with it."

"That's going to have to be redesigned."

"It's just an accident today, Lord Richard, crossbow..."

"It's okay, the funding will continue to increase next month, and you can continue to research."

"Yes, Lord Richard."

Seeing Richard's attitude, Bellucci breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately Richard did not lose interest because of the mistake just now.

In fact, how could Richard lose interest, although he looked calm on the surface, in fact, he was already a big grass in his heart, Bellucci gave more results than he imagined, and he made a punk painting style with the principle of steam, and weaponized him directly, if this thing can be improved, it can become a big weapon for the Hunter family, and the Hunter family's Three Arrows Banner is really going to be a stone hammer, and all the special weapons related to arrows are produced.

Richard then habitually encouraged the technicians present and promised a certain reward, which drew a burst of cheers of "Hooray" and then walked to the next area under the guidance of Bellucci...