Putting down the report in his hand, Luo Ji couldn't help but rub his eyebrows vigorously.

His eyes swept over the left and right sides beside him, and the people who were on duty today happened to be Wang Kai and Serella.

"Serella."

After hearing her name being called, Cerelia, who was standing on the side and was wearing a black military uniform, suddenly asked respectfully......

"What does Your Majesty command?"

"Look at this."

As he spoke, Luo Ji directly handed over the document.

Serella's loyalty to him has reached more than ninety points, and he is obviously trustworthy, so Luo Ji doesn't have too many worries about this kind of thing.

Cerelia, who had taken the report, looked at it carefully.

Halfway through the look, a slight fold appeared between her eyebrows.

"Cerella, as an elf, what do you think about this matter? I'd like to hear your thoughts. ”

Out of loyalty to Luo Ji, Cerelia couldn't lie at this time, and after a little silence for two seconds, she finally said everything in her heart......

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the question mentioned by Mr. Wei Lun, an elven naturalist in this report, if the smoke gushing out of the steam train when it is running will indeed obviously affect the air quality of the elf forest and the entire natural environment, then the elves will probably not accept it."

"Is that really the case?"

Luo Ji, who got this answer, obviously felt a headache.

This matter was really negligent on his part, and he didn't expect the elves to react so violently.

As mentioned before, the way of survival of the elves is to coexist with nature, and without indiscriminate logging, they allow the proper cutting of trees for timber, and at the same time accept the act of hunting.

However, the impact of the steam train, a large vehicle, on the natural environment was clearly beyond their acceptable range, which led to this wave of rebound.

It is completely conceivable that in the future, if Luo Ji wants to forcibly carry out the railway project, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the elven people, and may even lead to a decline in the livability of an entire elven province.

But this project is so important that it is clearly impossible to just put it on hold.

At the same time, it is not only this project, but also the subsequent industrial age, which will have a similar impact.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the entire industrial age, the large amount of exhaust gases emitted and the industrial pollution caused by it is enormous, and this is avoided unless it enters the electric age.

But that's easy to say, but how can it be so easy to do?

In any case, time is precious, and the current project must be continued, so Luo Ji ordered again quite simply......

"Don't worry about the Elf Province for now, and give priority to laying railways on the other sides."

With the issuance of this order, the project of the Elven Province was officially suspended, and the elven people who protested had nothing to make trouble about, and their lives were temporarily stable.

But this problem really still made Luo Ji worried.

Of course, from a good point of view, on the elven side, even if there is no steam train, they also have giant eagle knights, and even elven dragons are there, and the support efficiency of these flying units is faster than that of steam trains, and in a short time, there is really no need to worry.

But you can't go on like this forever, you always have to come up with a solution.

This thing is really a headache......

Compared with Luo Ji, who had a headache because of the things in the Elf Province during this time, Gao Wen's life was very comfortable.

No, he sent Luo Ji a new gadget he tossed out, the pendulum clock.

The clock is a delicate thing, and it couldn't be made when the technology was not enough before.

However, in the past few years, the development of his Ten Thousand Realms civilization has advanced by leaps and bounds, coupled with the technical strength of Goblin Technology, it is not a difficult task.

Compared with the cameras that were not sold well before, the sales of pendulum clocks are not bad, after all, this is also a practical object, and the price range is from high to low, and it is also loved by many people.

At the same time, on the other side, on the side of the Ordnance Research Department, due to the breakthrough in technology, this year, they also came up with new achievements quite neatly.

Holding the new rifle in his hand, Luo Ji's depressed mood during this time suddenly eased a lot.

The biggest breakthrough of this new rifle lies in two points.

The first point is that the loading method of bullets has been improved to 'rear-loading', which can be said to greatly improve the loading efficiency and increase the frequency of riflemen's attacks in disguise.

The second point lies in the increase in firing range, after thousands of firing tests, the firing range of this new rifle has basically stabilized between 280 and 300 meters.

Leaving aside the cost issue that Luo Ji has been very worried about, as long as the army of the Ten Thousand Realms Civilization is equipped with this kind of breech-loading rifle on a large scale, then the archer troops of the Terran race can basically be eliminated.

Of course, the elven archers still have a clear advantage.

After all, they have the powerful weapon of the 'magic arrow'.

With ultra-long range and penetration, it is like a sniper rifle-like wind-chasing arrow.

It has area-wide lethality, and when an arrow is fired, it can directly show explosive destructive power at the moment it hits the target.

and lightning arrows with special effects, according to Luo Ji's expectations, lightning arrows may have a heavenly effect on large weapons of the science and technology department......

As the level of the class items increases, and the branch items are gradually unlocked, the combat effectiveness of the Elven Archer class continues to increase.

Coupled with magic arrows with different effects and attributes, they can cope with different situations.

It can only be said that it is worthy of a civilization with magical colors, even if it is backward in technology, the blessing brought by the power of magic alone is enough for them to match those technological civilizations.

Now to get back to the point, in the shooting range of the Ordnance Research Department, the gunshots of the new rifles continue to echo, and during this period, Luo Ji naturally can't help but go up and have a good time.

Hu Che, who was accompanying him as a guard this time, lightly bumped into Cerelia who was standing aside, and then winked at Cerelia for a while.

In this regard, Cerelia naturally knew what this reckless man meant, and then, she only listened to her say nonchalantly......

"If anyone dares to fight me with that thing, I'll be able to sieve him before he shoves the bullet into the barrel."

The words came out of Serella's mouth with an inexplicable convincing.

And Luo Ji, who also heard this, also smiled and didn't say anything, after all, his own archery skills were also good, so he knew that what Serelia said was the truth.

Even if it is improved to a breech-loading rifle, the attack efficiency is still slightly inferior.

However, the advantage of firearms has always been easy to use, but bows and arrows require technology, and the weapon of bows and arrows is undoubtedly strong in the hands of people such as Burigud and Serileia, but the strength of ordinary human soldiers often does not reach that level.

Therefore, as the equipment of the army, 'easy to use' is a very important point, and firearms are obviously more than bows and arrows in 'easy to use'.

At the same time, I would like to thank the book friends "Mo Yao Evil", "Whose Soul Is Involved in Dreams" and the book friends "Yang Zhen", "Ode to the Wind", "Zero", "The Unhealed Wound", "The Back at Dusk", "Ten Thousand Oils", and "Waiting for the End" for the monthly passes!

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