Chapter Seventy-Three: The Comma Flyer

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Rose said: "Anyway, since this device can produce energy similar to magic crystals, it is very good, the quality of magic crystals is like batteries, the cost is too high, it would be good if it could be replaced with longer-lasting energy."

I nodded: "Then I am in favor of this plan, and it is worth trying out this energy center alone without considering the role of this spherical cabin." The energy consumption of large cities is very high, and cities like ours that are equipped with a large number of magic machines need to be used sparingly, and this plan can be started when the funds of the Dark Temple arrive, but you can use your own team to build it, and the labor of the Dark Temple can only be used to build the above-ground city part, and we will repair the other things ourselves. ”

Su Mei said: "If you don't say this, I can't let them fix it!" Don't take me, the director of Xingfen, as a layman, okay?"

Rose rubbed Sumei's head funny: "How old are you!" Don't talk like an old man's head.

Eagle said: "Urban construction is not just a design drawing, what about specific projects?" Do we still need to repair some special buildings?"

I thought for a while and said, "This Issinger on the ground needs to build a new transnational teleportation array, and this Issinger in the sky may need to leave China in the future, and it is best to use the teleportation array separately." The research institute or something is going to move to the underground area designed by Su Mei in the future.,It's almost enough to symbolically leave a big building on the ground to hang a sign.,Don't install the internal equipment.,The magic equipment is also expensive.,Save it.,This part of the Dark Temple won't help us pay for it.,So we can't waste it.。 ”

Rose said: "I think the advanced technology dock should be built in the Isenger ground station, and I think the dock in Sky Isenger should be changed to a battlefield support base, and I think it is better to replace the high-rise dock with something else." It's a bit of a waste to put a battleship in such a big empty place. ”

When Rose said that, I suddenly remembered. "Walmart, didn't you say last time that you could design a mobile fighter? What happened to the results? ”

Walmart was embarrassed and said: "The result is a little bit. But it's a bit different from what I expected, and I think it's better for us to go to the scene after the meeting. ”

"Okay. Now everyone decides how to arrange the defense facilities of the Esinger ground station. ”

We had a meeting for more than two hours, and the blueprints were so complicated that so many of us were there to give opinions, and Su Mei simply stood on the table and took a pen to talk about where to change. By the time we came up with the final plan, everyone was a little confused, and the plan was too complicated. ”

I rubbed my temples back in my seat and said, "Okay, the plan has come out, let's go and get busy according to the plan."

"Then we'll do it first." Eagle and Red Moon all left the conference hall to assign work. Walmart, Sumi, and Rose stayed behind and decided to take me to see the prototype of the Flying Legion that had been planned for a long time.

Along the way, I kept asking Walmart, but she said that I couldn't understand if she didn't see things, so she didn't tell me, and she had to take me to see it.

The research base for aircraft models is not in the Steel City, but in the new Issinger. New Issinger is divided into three main sections, of which the top ground command area is much smaller than the middle area on the second level.

We're still on the way, and Walmart has already told the people here to drag the samples out, so by the time we arrived, the samples were already on the platform. Even I was dumbfounded when I saw this row of large and small real products. "This ...... Isn't this a piston plane?"

There are all kinds of flying machines on the platform, and the one closest to us is the one I am most familiar with. Because you can see something like that in almost any aviation museum. The one in front of us is clearly an old plane, and it is not ordinary old, this guy is actually a three-winged ground.

"You've been tinkering with it for a long time to come up with something like this?" To be honest, I'm disappointed, if this thing was really advanced in ancient times, but this game has flying monsters and magic technology, this kind of thing is too backward.

Walmart explained: "No, this is actually a trainer plane."

"Huh? Trainers?"

Walmart said: "Everyone in our guild has a spear, and airplanes don't mean much to us, what we need is flying battleships, but warships can't be protected by airplanes." However, we have a limited number of players, and we can't have a large number of players on each ship, so I went to ask someone to help, and finally Sumi came up with a solution. ”

I looked at Sumi and asked in surprise, "Did you come up with that?"

Su Mei nodded and said, "Before I say this idea of mine, I first want to let you know two things."

"What's the matter?"

Su Mei said: "Brother Ziri and Sister Rose have been busy outside, so I don't know. Recently, notices have been posted in various system cities, saying that some strategic settings should be adjusted for the game. Because it's still in the adjustment period, there is no direct announcement.,And go in the form of a notice to remind me first.,And then the official upgrade will be the whole game announcement.。 ”

"What the hell is the change?"

"It's about the adjustment of the city defense NPC. In the future, there will no longer be restrictions on the actions of the City Guard, and the City Guardian Guild can command the City Guard to attack other cities, and will no longer be restricted by the city area. ”

"What? Isn't it possible for our guilds to attack other guilds? It's amazing!" I couldn't get any more excited. The biggest strength of this guild is that there are a lot of NPC guards, and the combat effectiveness is very strong, and it was forced to go out of the city to attack the enemy vividly, so it can only be used as a guard, and now it can be justified to be sent out to participate in the war.

Su Mei said: "Don't be busy and excited. The main system won't be so stupid to risk you such a big loophole!"

"Is there a limit?"

Su Mei nodded: "Not only are there restrictions, but there are also several restrictions. On the one hand, it is economically restricted, and on the other hand, it is limited by social relations. ”

"What kind of restriction is this? The more you talk about me, the more confused I become!"

Sumi explained: "It's easy to understand. The first is economic constraints. In the future, the NPC Guard will no longer be a lossless legion, and each NPC will consume some special resources according to its own situation, which means that if you want to maintain a large standing army, you must spend a lot of money, and it is not a one-time expenditure but a constant cost. ”

"Dizzy! So what are we going to do with so many people in our guild?" I anxiously asked, "What will it cost?"

"The reason for spending money is not necessarily, it is differentiated according to the class of troops. The main one is the consumption of food, and each NPC is paid a monthly salary. And they're going to eat. ”

"Isn't it?"

Su Mei said: "Don't worry about this, I have consulted directly with the paid Q&A system." Our guild can be said to have taken a big advantage. ”

"How?"

"Number one, our troops are completely in our isolated corps, they don't have families or anything like that, so they don't have to pay salaries. I heard that the most troublesome army will go to the Paladin Legion, and those sick soldiers are scared to death. The second bargain is food. Most of our guards are undead, and there aren't many classes that need to eat, which saves a lot of money. I heard that several guilds have begun to plan a major disarmament. ”

"Disarmament?"

"What should I do if I can't afford to pay for it?"

I heard this and glanced at the roses. She smiled at me. It seems that my guess is right, this modification is probably derived from the economic bomb plan of the rose, and if it continues like this, players will invest more and more money in the game, which is really dark enough! But anyway, the money is so black that our dragon edge is here, and I'm happy to see this.

I then asked, "What does that social restriction mean, apart from economic restrictions?"

Su Mei said: "If you want to send troops, you have to walk over, right?" If there are other player forces or NPC forces sandwiched between the other party and your city, will you just drive over there? In reality, isn't it necessary to borrow from neighboring countries first? This is going to test your social skills. Running all the way, it is estimated that many guilds along the way will have to find a way to open up the joints. ”

I asked suspiciously, "Just find a city near * and use it in a teleportation array."

Before Su Mei could answer, Rose said first: "You really want to come out." Don't you want to think about it, such a large legion enters someone else's city, and others are not worried that you will take the opportunity to attack them? It's so troublesome to borrow a way from outside the city, let alone a teleportation array in the interior of the city. And you don't want to think about it either. The teleportation array costs money, and it's nothing if you go there alone, how much does it cost to teleport millions of troops? In addition, the teleportation array now has the problem of error probability. If you pass on an army, some of it will be lost. ”

In this way, the actual attack is much more difficult than imagined!

Su Mei said: "Actually, the economic restrictions just now do not only include the cost of raising soldiers."

"What? That's not enough?"

"The Communist Party of China is only one of the important components, and there are also many settings that need to be paid attention to." Su Mei wrenched her hands and said, "Soldiers can't go into battle naked!" Armor is a must. After upgrading, the NPC's combat power will be divided into three parts, one for its own attack defense and one for weapon attack and armor defense, which must be counted separately. If your guild can produce armor, you can save a little, if you don't have the production capacity, you have to buy it, you can buy it from the system store or other players, and it seems to mean that NPCs can use armor with players.

"Do the soldiers of our guild land already have armor if they don't leave?"

"But they're going to die!" Su Mei said: "After the upgrade, the NPCs of the legion to which the guild belongs will not be automatically resurrected, and after death, they must spend money to summon spirits and then resurrect, and only coarse cloth clothes will be left on the body after resurrection." Armor and weapons have to be repurchased. But our guild is also a bit cheaper.

"How?"

"When an NPC dies on the battlefield, the corpse will not disappear like the player, we can clean the battlefield and remove all the armor from the dead and then equip our own troops, but the damaged armor needs to be repaired, which also costs money, but it is much cheaper than buying it again."

"We can pick up others, too! Why do you say we take advantage?"

"For our soldiers are forgetful. They don't mind wearing the armor that has been stripped off the dead, but like many other classes, they don't like the armor of others. The morale of human soldiers wearing dead man's armor will decrease, and the paladins will not accept it at all. ”

"Speaking of which, it really takes a lot of advantage to go."

Su Mei said: "Actually, the most advantageous is the beast army, they don't even wear clothes. There is no armor cost at all. By the way, it seems that when the troops are resurrected, our local ghost class can be half priced. Profitable, right? ”

Rose said: "After this change, it is said that the control of the NPC legion has been relaxed, but the actual result is that everyone has invested a lot of money, and in the end it cancels each other out, which is equivalent to not letting go, but the battlefield is bigger and consumes faster." ”

This is called invisible spending, and players have to invest in new ones in order to keep what they already have. When they find out that they have invested more than they have gotten the land, they will be reluctant to give up the part they already have, so they will continue to invest money in it, which is a circular way of making money.

I asked, "Although the cost is high, most guilds should be able to maintain a medium-sized NPC army, but what about those guilds that don't have quotas?"

Su Mei said: "This system is also arranged. In the future, there will be a large number of scattered battle NPCs wandering between the cities, and the player guild can recruit these NPCs to become their own guards, and when recruiting, they must negotiate with the NPCs and give a one-time payment to let the NPCs join the guild forces according to the results of the negotiations.

If you feel troublesome, you can also go to the army mission and directly complete the ground legion, of course. The scrolls of the Pickpocketing mission are to be bought, and the process of completing them costs a lot of money. Also, future NPC armies will not follow their liege's guild exactly. NPCs will have their own will, and they will have high morale, low morale, and even run away and defect depending on their treatment.

"Will NPCs change?"

"Of course, didn't Vader and his men rebel and follow us in the Dark Temple?"

"That's it!"

Su Mei said: "In short, as long as you raise it, you can greatly expand the army."

"It is estimated that all guilds are going to be bankrupt now!"

Su Mei said: "One of the reasons I asked Sister Walmart to design the trainer is because of this change. In the future, NPC battles will definitely not be able to go to the teleportation station, and they can only travel long distances, but since our guild has the technology, it is completely possible to airlift the army over to fight. Moreover, a high level of NPCs means high maintenance costs, so in order to find the best combination between military spending and combat power, I envisioned cultivating these low-level NPCs using magic machines. Everyone knows that a pilot is much more important than an infantryman, and they are all the same person. So I plan to train low-level soldiers to become pilots, anyway, the combat power of the air and ground is calculated according to the weapon, and the pilot's attack power is not counted, so that we can use our strengths and avoid weaknesses to bring the maximum combat effectiveness with the least money. ”

"But the aircraft also cost money!"

"Flying machines do cost money, but it's a game." Su Mei explained: "The cost of our guild to produce a flying machine is about the same as the cost of arming five soldiers, but one plane is definitely better than five soldiers. Therefore, the comprehensive consideration is to save money by building airplanes. ”

"Can NPCs fly planes?"

Su Meisha often said to him: "This brings us to my second discovery. According to my survey, since the last NPC intelligent upgrade, many NPCs have the ability to learn, as long as they are not beyond their physical limitations. When Sister Walmart asked me to help, I did it

Examine. First, we had a skeleton soldier with a long knife learn how to shoot a bow and arrow, and it only took us an hour to teach him how to shoot a bow and arrow, but the basics of archery were pretty much the same. This proves that NPCs can actually learn. ”

"But archery is so simple, flying a plane is another thing entirely!"

"That one went to the early days, and after that we tried to train various NPC soldiers to use powder guns, and they all learned."

Rose asked in surprise, "The last time Walmart asked me to allocate funds to make 100,000 powder guns, shouldn't it be to form an NPC musket team?"

Walmart smiled and said, "That's right. After Su Mei and I really yàn, we wanted to equip NPCs with muskets, so that all classes could shoot at the enemy from a long distance, and then put on broadswords and spears when they got closer, wouldn't this improve their combat effectiveness?"

If a group of skeletons charging with rifles appear on the battlefield, it is estimated that the enemy will faint directly.

Sumi continued, "We don't need NPCs to understand how the aircraft flies, they just need to know how to use it." The agility of these white skeletons is very good, it is enough to fly the flying machine, and recently we have actually trained more than a dozen skeletons to pilot the flying machine. The effect is not bad, they are all learning fast.

It's dizzy! Skeleton pilots?

"So, this triplane is a device for training skeletons to fly?"

Walmart said: "This is a junior training aircraft. After that, there are intermediate and advanced training aircraft, and then there are real combat models. ”

"I think there's more than four kinds of flying machines here!"

"There are only three kinds of training aircraft, and there are many types of actual combat aircraft, and because there is no decision on the final finalization, a lot of samples have been made."

I looked at the nearest triplane and said, "Isn't this trainer too old-fashioned?"

Walmart said: "It's just to be a trainer to do this." She explained, "Didn't the three men you brought with you last time turn Atlantis' thrusters into air thrusters? We miniaturized that thing and removed the outer contour and changed it to a paddle connection, and this imitation piston engine was born, which was actually a magic machine, not a real piston engine. ”

"And the magic spar used by this thing?"

"Of course. There's nothing else to use besides it. ”

I looked at the three-tiered wings again and said, "This wing is like this." Lift is enough, isn't there no speed and flexibility?"

Walmart said, "Just go and make it fly slower."

"Huh? You don't want to be fast, but you want to be slow?"

Sumi explains: "The magic thrusters were too powerful, the space on the plane was limited, and we couldn't slow down with a large number of gear sets, so we made this triplane to combat the overpower. These wings provide flight lift while slowing down, and they severely affect agility and allow the aircraft to fly very smoothly. Although these are shortcomings for fighters, this is a primary training aircraft, and it is necessary to fly slowly and steadily in order to train those novices! If it starts like a rocket, how are we going to train?"

"Yes. Reasonable. ”

Walmart pulled me around the triplane and said, "This is a second-class trainer plane, that is, an intermediate-level training aircraft."

This thing is more recognizable, this is a monoplane propeller fighter. The appearance is similar to that of the British Spitfire fighter in World War II.

Walmart said: "This is the same as the primary trainer just now, but it has fewer wings, and the wings are very narrow, the flight speed and flexibility are greatly improved, which is convenient for upgrading training." Behind that is the advanced training aircraft. ”

We went around the middle one, and the one in the back looked super weird. It looked like it had two wings on either side of a large cylinder, and the cockpit above it was almost riding on it.

Seeing my expression, Walmart quickly explained, "This is a jet." The last time you brought the air turbine that the three technicians had remodeled, we made it a little smaller and lengthened the length of the pipe, so it became the cylinder in the middle. In order to save trouble, we welded a pair of wings directly on both sides of this engine, and the cockpit above was completely nailed. So it looks a little ugly. ”

Rose said: "I have long heard that the style of the Germans is only practical and does not care about the shape, but I have seen it today." This thing is like a trash can with a winged neck!"

Su Mei said: "Anyway, it's a training plane, what's the use of building it so beautiful, just fly it."

Rose asked, "What are those things?" Why is it not the same as the previous one?"

"That's a real-face fighter."

We walked to the front of this row of wool machines and looked at them, to be honest, these things have nothing to do with the wool machines in my impression. "This is a plane?"

Walmart said: "It's almost a plane!" But I think it's more appropriate to call it an aircraft. ”

The things in front of me didn't look like airplanes at all, they were not only weird-looking, but they didn't even have wings. I circled around a craft three times and couldn't find a propeller or a jet port, which means that the site wasn't used for any known propulsion.

Rose walked up to one of the flying machines and tapped twice, listening to the echo. "Pure steel, huh? How much does this cost?"

Walmart said: "Because the speed of this aircraft is too strong, and the steering method is very special, the torsion of the fuselage is very huge, and it is really unbearable not to make the fuselage stronger!"

I said to Walmart, "The steel is still too hard." How about switching to the Crustacean crust?"

Walmart explained, "We thought about using materials like monster bones or carapaces, but those things were too expensive. And the production is too small, it's okay to buy a little scattered, if it is mass production, I'm afraid it won't be able to keep up with the consumption rate!"

"Then mix it up. A part of the skeleton is used as a support beam, and the outer bread is covered with steel. By the way, next time I'll contact the Dragons to see if I can use the keel from the Dragon Graveyard, it's big enough that one can change several flying machines. ”

"That's good, of course, but for the time being we'll only find steel."

I walked over to one of the aircraft and took a look. The shape of this thing looks like that comma-shaped whistle. The "whistle's" large belly supports the ground, and several retractable ground wheels underneath support its balance. Behind this big belly is a tail that is not too long, although the tail sticks out there, but walking does not tilt the aircraft, and I think the weight is concentrated in the big belly in front.

On either side of the "whistle" there are small attachments, which may be pylons for external weapons.

Rose also stared at the flying machine for a long time and asked, "Which side is this?"

"This way."

Walmart refers to the big belly side of the comma, and the little tail is the real tail. But it looks like a propeller-like helicopter, except it doesn't have a propeller.

I knocked on the big steel belly and said, "This thing has no windows, how can the pilot sit in it and see the road?"

"That's not the cockpit!"

"Huh?" I was surprised that he stared at the big steel fairway with a diameter of more than three meters: "If you don't go to the cockpit, where will the pilot sit?"

"In this tail in the back. You can see it when you go up. ”

I climbed onto the top of the aircraft at Walmart's suggestion, and saw three holes in the tail sticking out, and they were arranged in a finished zigzag. This thing has completely changed my perception of flying machines. Even if it looks weird, even its actions are so distinctive. Of the three holes, there are two holes side by side near the belly, and a separate hole is a little farther away from the first two, and it is right on the central axis of the aircraft.

Walmart shouted to me below, "*The first two side by side are the seats of the weapons control officers, each of them is responsible for one side, and the one in the back is the driver's seat."

Dizzy! The pilot actually sat in the back seat, and this wool walker was really special enough.

Rose asked, "How is this thing going to fly?" There are no constant propellers and no jet propulsion ports, is it the same gravity defiance device as Issinger?"

"You guessed it right." Walmart said: "This is the gravity resistance device of the earth."

"Isn't it true that gravity-defying devices can't move in activation?"

Walmart said: "Isn't there that special track principle?"

"You're saying there's actually a crawler inside the ball?"

"It's not a track, it's a track."

I jumped down from it and asked, "What's a crawler?"

"The track ball is a connected track like a track, but a normal tank track is open in a trapezoidal shape. We wrapped it around a steel ball and made it round. ”

"And how do you turn it?"

"You've seen a gyroscope, right?"

"Yes."

Walmart explains, "We use the same principle to drive the aircraft. Two pure steel rings of just the size can be nested perpendicular to each other to form a universal track ring, we let this ring close to the outer steel ball and lubricant on the inside, the largest steel ring is just the same as the inner diameter of the outer steel ball, with the help of lubricating oil this large ring can rotate arbitrarily in the steel ball, but because it is a round sphere. So no matter how you turn around, you can't get out. The small rings inside the large ring are welded to the large ring at a vertical angle, and then the inner ring is made into a rotor track, which has a gravity resistance device that can slide arbitrarily due to inertia and gravity. ”

"Huh. I understand. I excitedly said, "Because this gravity defying device can move freely on the track, and the big track itself is also sliding." Therefore, it rolls completely according to * inertia, and when the aircraft turns, it rolls along the inner wall of the ball, which is equivalent to buffering, and automatically slides to the opposite direction of the direction to be advanced because of its own gravity. As long as the ball activates the track-like propulsion function, it can drive the aircraft to move. Really clever design. But there's no computer here, so how do you control which anti-gravity component works and when?"

"We don't have to control zhì." Walmart said proudly: "Although this anti-gravity force can slide, in fact, the contact point between it and the rotating shaft is unchanged, but there are two freely swinging energy brushes on both sides of this ball, this principle is the same as Esinger's driving device, except that Esinger * gravity makes the energy brush point vertically to the anti-gravity device that needs to be activated." In our case, the inertia of the thruster and gravity work together, which just counteracts the inertia while maintaining the flight altitude, which is really convenient. ”

Rose asked: "But this can only control the attitude adjustment of the aircraft after turning, where does the initial power of the steering ground come from, and what should I do with the control of the lifting force?"

"This is very easy to do!" "Because we have three gravity balls on the track, and they are connected by supporting steel pipes, so no matter how you slip, their relative positions are fixed," Woma said. These three balls are equipped with a magic crystal resonance device, which we use to control the power ball to start, and the relative start of the three balls can complete the control. But because the three balls are spinning all the time. Therefore, it is very troublesome to control the gravity ball, and you must judge where the gravity ball has slipped according to your flight attitude at that time, so that you can accurately control the flight. That's why we need to let the pilots sit in the back. Because this position is exactly where the gravity ball is pointing. However, this design also brought a lot of drawbacks, such as the pilot's vision was completely blocked, and he had to fly according to the guidance of the combat controller in front of him, and the pilot himself could not actually see anything except the dashboard. ”

"Terrifying flying machines." I sighed, "This thing is definitely better to drive than to play a uniwheel."

The car is dead!"

Walmart looked depressed and said: "That's why I've been hesitant to know whether to produce this kind of aircraft, its speed and flexibility are nothing to say, but it's too difficult to fly, especially when landing, there is no way to stabilize it, we can only use 1 blocking net to slow it down and fall into the net, the runway is meaningless to it at all, at most it is to take off."

Rose said: "Don't we have jet turbines?" Why don't you just build a jet fighter?"

Walmart said, "I want to." But that high-level trainer you just saw is already the limit of jet flight. It's not exactly the same in this game, the aircraft is not computer-assisted, the jet plane is completely unflyable, and unless you can get three pilots to operate the plane as if it were one person, there is no way to control the high-speed jet. This low speed is so slow that even the griffin can fly faster than it. And the flexibility of the jet fighter is too poor, it doesn't matter if the plane fights in reality, anyway, everyone is about the same, but what you have to deal with in this game is a flexible creature, and that flexible flying machine is simply a live target, as long as people calculate the amount of advance, you can't flash at all. ”

"By the way, let me go up and try it, I want to see how this thing differs from a real plane."

Su Mei immediately asked, "Have you ever flown a fighter before?"

"Hey......!" Oops, that's a leak!" No, no, I've just taken a sightseeing airliner in a tourist spot before, and I think the real plane is probably like that, and if I take this thing again, I should be able to roughly understand the difference in performance. ”

"You'd better not try." Fortunately, Sumei didn't ask.

"Why?"

"Because this thing isn't meant to sit on at all."

"But how do you know if it's good or bad if you don't try?"

Walmart said: "That's it, I'll go up with you, anyway, the functions of the three cabins are interchangeable, if you can't control it, I'll come for you, and now this thing is the best technology."

At my request, we finally decided to take a test flight, and even Rose came up to join us in the fun. However, for the sake of safety, I summoned Lucky and Chili in advance. In case of an accident, Chili's spiritual force field can help stabilize the flying machine, and luckily as long as it catches us. ”

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