"May the gods bless you. Faced with the extremely incongruous picture, the red-clothed priest did not show an inappropriate expression on his face, and the surrounding guards also chose to ignore it at this time.

"Whatever you want me to prepare, I've got ready. Cardin II clapped his hands flatteringly.

The sound of chains clashing sounded outside the door, and the guards dragged in with a dozen children dressed in sackcloth, with more or less slight abrasions and bruises on their faces and bodies, and a look of horror in their eyes.

"I asked the guards to search the whole country, but as you know, there are many areas that don't follow my orders," Cardin II said with an embarrassed smile on his face, "especially the two old fellows Rob and Winton, who don't even let my guards into the city they rule, so there are a few of them. ”

The red-clothed priest was well aware of the turmoil in the distribution of power within the Tieliu Kingdom, and the situation in which it was in turmoil gave the three archbishops a headache, and with Cardin II's ability alone, it was already very good to be able to do this.

"Come closer!" said Cardin II with a wave of his hand to the soldiers, "Bring these things up!"

"Your Majesty," the red-clothed priest suddenly narrowed his eyes and reminded, "Pay attention to your wording, they will serve the Holy Maiden and the Holy Son of the gods in the future. ”

"My fault, my fault!" said Cardin II with a pause, apologizing again and again.

With the sound of chains mopping the floor, more than a dozen children were brought to the red-clothed priest, although they were in tattered clothes, they were very delicate and beautiful, including several boys, all of whom were fair-skinned.

The red-clad priest walked past the children, looked at the girls' bodies with scrutinizing eyes, and finally stopped in front of one of them.

"What's your name?"

"Card ...... Corrina. The girl glanced at the red-clad priest in fear.

"Age?"

"13 years old. ”

"Hmm. The red-clothed priest nodded, took two steps forward, but as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and asked again.

"Virgin?"

"Yes......" Karina replied in an inaudible voice, she didn't understand what serving the gods had to do with being a virgin, but the red-clad priest didn't explain much to her, but walked over to Cardin II and whispered a few words.

Thinking about what happened in the past few days, Karina felt like she had a nightmare, originally she and her parents lived in a small town near the sea, although life was hard, but the family was quite happy together, just a few days ago, the king's guards suddenly broke into her home, injured her elderly parents and brother, and took herself and some girls of the same age to prison.

Karina had no idea what she had committed, and after a brief conversation with her companions, she found that they had been caught here for no apparent reason, and after a period of panic and uneasiness, the king sent someone to tell them that they had been chosen by the Holy See and would leave the Iron Stream Kingdom to serve the gods in the Holy See.

But I don't want to serve the gods......

Karina cried out on the bars begging the king to let her go home, only to receive a whip, and from then on, she was utterly despairing.

"You are born sinful, and you will have the opportunity to be cleansed from sin. The red-clothed priest spoke, looking at these young girls with an expressionless face, and an indescribable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "This kind of opportunity is rare. ”

The girls were silent, and suddenly someone in the team stretched out his hand and whispered, "Priest, I'm sorry, I'm ...... I'm not a virgin. ”

Cardin II's face changed, and the red-clothed priest turned his head stiffly and asked, "Your Majesty, what's going on?"

"Probably...... It may be because the captain of the guard in charge of screening this matter has been negligent, and you can rest assured, I will definitely punish him severely!" Cardin II gritted his teeth and assured.

"If you are so careless about choosing a servant for the gods, how can such a person be qualified to enjoy the blessings of the gods?" said the red-clothed priest in a flat tone, "Just punish it as blasphemy." ”

Blasphemy!

In the Ironstream Kingdom, this is the most serious crime, even more serious than treason!

"Priest, will I be able to go home?" asked the girl who had spoken up earlier.

"Go home?" the red-clothed priest sneered, he spread his hands and said helplessly, "In that case, of course you can't serve the gods with me anymore. ”

"Drag it out!" Cardin II waved his hand grimaceously.

Two guards unshackled the girl and pushed her out, one left and one right.

If you are not a virgin, you can leave?

Karina's heart moved, for a thirteen-year-old girl, the Holy See and the gods are far less important than family and loved ones.

There are not a few girls who have the same method as her, and Karina was just about to say that she remembered wrong, when she heard the girl on the left take the lead and say, "Lord Priest, I'm not a virgin either......"

"Ah......h

Suddenly there was a terrible cry coming out of the door, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, which sounded like a leather drum.

But, more like a skull.

It was the screams of the girl who had just been dragged out, and Karina could hear it clearly, and for a moment she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her whole body was shivering.

If you don't qualify, you die?

If you are not a virgin, you will die?

Gods, are they so harsh?

The red-clothed priest raised his eyebrows, looked at the frightened boys and girls, and asked, "Who just spoke?"

No one responded, and there was a dead silence in the palace, save for the sound of teeth clashing.

......

Three days later, Rand placed the polished cylinder next to the calipers and filled it with gunpowder through the unsealed filling, making the fire cannon much more difficult than the flintlock gun.

The flintlock pistol only needs to engrave the rifling of the barrel, and the other steps are almost untechnical, but the fire, arrow, and cannon are not, and the first thing is a big problem from the point of view of tightness.

It produces gas through the ignition in the combustion chamber, and then sprays out through the curvature hole drilled on the thruster to generate power, and this must ensure that the gas produced by combustion cannot leak from other parts, otherwise it will cause insufficient power, or deviation before reaching the destination, or worse, the spark leaks into the fighting compartment and explodes directly before it is launched.

The strong air pressure generated by ignition expansion alone is enough to break away the parts with low bonding strength, and this has been proved by countless experiments in these days, and after Rand reluctantly recognized the fact that the bond was insufficient, he finally came up with a solution.

Punch through holes between the joint points of the parts, and embed them with a cone or steel ball of the same volume, and clamp the outer groove and the inner groove at the same time to play a role in stabilizing the nail.

This is the best solution that has been possible with the technology so far.