Chapter 173: Awakening a Strange Hobby

"Alice, come up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Loria, who opened the hatch, beckoned her friend and said, "I'll pilot, you will be my gunner." ”

Alice pursed her lips and reluctantly climbed onto what Loria called the 'Hammer of the Alliance' - she had no interest in a machine that had no effect on cuteness.

Nomi looked up at Loria with expectant eyes, couldn't wait to point to herself, and asked, "What about me?" What about me? ”

"Well......," Loria replied after a moment's thought, "Nomi should be a dirty coal burner." ”

"Dirty...... Dirty coal burner...... Good...... That's amazing! ”

Nomi's eyes sparkled and she jumped up the ladder excitedly, following Alice into the hatch......

"This is the lookout scope, this ramrod controls the muzzle angle, and the button is to fire."

In the small and crowded space, Loria explained in a very fast voice: "It's a cannonball on the ground, like this...... And then in this way, the reload is complete. ”

"Oh......" Alice, who was not interested, nodded and said, "Understood." ”

"As for Nomi...... Loria was a little worried about whether Nomi would be able to do what might be a difficult job for her: "Use the little shovel over there to add coal to the boiler." ”

Placing Caesar in a safe corner, Nomi, who was holding the small shovel, nodded her head vigorously.

……

The wall in front of him was not thick, but it was surprisingly strong. With great difficulty, the soldiers of the Stormcloak smashed open the hole that only one person could barely pass through.

They rushed in, only to see something strange that they had never seen before—a metal creature more than two people tall and larger than a normal house.

After a few moments, it made a loud noise and began to vibrate violently in place, and the air became hot and humid with a continuous spray of water from several pipes.

"Alice, they're coming...... Nengmei, more fuel, more more. ”

The loud mechanical noise was mixed with indistinct sounds coming from the massive metal machine.

The general of the storm cloak pushed away the stunned soldiers in front of him, and he was also slightly distracted when he saw this scene...... Above the huge machinery that was more than two people tall, a thick iron pipe with a black hole moved downward, aiming at where they were.

A moment later, a loud roar rang out, and the machine, which seemed to be unbelievably heavy, suddenly retreated as if it had been struck, and the wall in front of it had become a pile of broken waste.

With the exception of a few unlucky ones who were knocked down by the flying stones, the rest, including the general, had been dodged by some kind of bad premonition before the explosion - but they were not in great shape...... Ringing in the ears, dizziness, loss of balance.

Loria watched out through a small hidden window, her narrow line of sight making it difficult for her to fully grasp the situation.

"It's not a weapon against people after all, Alice, you've done a great job...... Alice? ”

Loria nudged Alice, who was stunned in the seat next to her, and it took her a long time to come to her senses.

It's not that boring either...... Alice, who picked up a cannonball, reloaded as Loria had taught, and as she reminisced about the explosion and recoil, she felt a strange emotion - perhaps that was why Loria turned into a mad engineer as soon as she got close to it?

……

Loria pushed the bar, and after a shrill grinding sound, the beautiful music of many mechanical parts finally sounded in her ears.

The storm cloaks, scattered to avoid the explosion, seemed to have finally recovered, and their general roared and ordered them to attack at the sight of the behemoth that had knocked down and swept all the obstacles under them slowly out of the building.

The soldiers swung their weapons after them, but they didn't know where to start—except for the hammer, which left a small pit in the metal monster, the rest of the weapons were nothing more than innocuous scratches.

Loria, who was rampaging through the streets, completely ignored the rebels who were jumping up and down like monkeys after her, but Alice asked with some reluctance, "Why can't the muzzle of the gun move left and right?" ”

Loria replied, "It's the old one...... Although I don't know if the new model meets your requirements. ”

Soon after, they began to pass through a street that was not wide enough, and Loria kept honking her horn...... Disturbed by the loud shaking and noise of the ground, the people ran out of their dilapidated homes and watched as massive metal monsters knocked down their wooden houses and crushed them along the way.

The residents of the west of the city looked at all this with numb eyes, but they didn't want a black and dirty girl covered in cinders to suddenly emerge from the top of the metal monster, and she repeated loudly: "Master asked me to tell you, please go to the Holy Light Church to receive compensation afterwards." ”

……

More and more rebels were alarmed, most of them chasing in vain behind the giant machines, and some of them who were fast runners jumped on the machines, slashing around with their swords and prying, trying to find the entrance but failed; Some of the rebels made a detour to the front of the machine, carrying various furniture from nearby homes and blocking the road, trying to stop the mechanical monsters in their way - but all the obstacles they created were crushed.

Ordinary weapons could not hurt it for half a point, and the rebels finally dragged out their heavy crossbows and arranged them at various intersections, ready to meet them.

"Leave them alone." Loria stopped Alice, who was trying to fire at the heavy ballest, saying, "We have a limited number of shells, so leave them for the real target." ”

"What should I do if I get shot?" Alice was a little dissatisfied, and she wanted to fire a few more shots to have fun.

"How could that ancient machine accurately hit a moving target."

Loria said disapprerovingly.

A siege bolt grazed the shell and flew past.

"Ahem...... The accuracy is good. Loria turned her head away from Alice's faint gaze, and she continued, "Even if you get hit, it's okay, you have to know the craftsmanship of Ironforge......"

Balabala……

Thankfully, there wasn't a single bolt to verify the authenticity of Loria's words.

In this way, the three loli drove the huge machine that Loria called the 'Alliance Hammer', and approached the goal of the trip unscathed, the snow-filled access passage, with a strong city gate and a towering wall, while luring out half of the city's army.

"When I was besieged by the rebels, I was always thinking...... It's me, but there are countless ways to bring down the walls. Loria said slowly, "Alice, shoot as you like." ”

……

The Scarlet Crusaders, who were waiting for reinforcements outside the city, were alarmed by a series of loud explosions, and they ran out of their tents and looked outside the camp in the direction from which the sound was coming from.

In their eyes—the sturdy defense that held them back—it fell slowly, with a roar.

When the dust settled, a massive machine made of steel appeared in the gap.

Some veterans who had served in the Lordaeron Kingdom Army rubbed their eyes, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Why? Steam tanks will appear here?

……

Also wiping her eyes, she couldn't believe the scene in front of her.

"Now, Loria, there's no more shells." Alice, who was always cold and uninterested in the outside world, shook Loria's arm and said coquettishly, "But I still want to shoot." ”