Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Goblin Family
After this, all the part-time summer job students were assigned to different positions, and Carl was secretly taken to the goblin base camp as a regular employee.
The Goblin Hills was originally an uninhabited barren land. Shen Lian spent a huge amount of money to buy the right to use this land from the Empire, and then spent a lot of money to carefully transform this land.
At that time, everyone scolded him for being a fool, but since the discovery of a large number of mineral veins in this area, everyone admired Shen Lian's foresight.
Now this area has long since disappeared from the desolate scene of the past, and its prosperity is almost the same as that of the Radiant King City, or even surpassing.
The well-planned commercial district covers a wide area of land where everyone can trade freely.
Anywhere in the commercial district, if you look up to the south, you'll find a massive tower that is home to the Goblin Castle, which has been hailed as the first architectural marvel of all time. Although its architectural structure and sophistication are not as good as those of the Radiant King, the intricacies of its interior are unprecedented.
The use of light-gathering wall technology allows each room to get plenty of sunlight day and night, a temperature control system hidden in the ceiling makes each room warm in winter and cool in summer, and an automatic lifting system is used in the beam structure to automatically raise the ceiling of all rooms in a specific time, so as to displace the indoor and outdoor air and allow the night breeze to blow into the room.
In addition to the above, there are many black technologies in the Goblin Castle, but the most powerful is the automatic defense counterattack system. In order to deal with the surprise attack in time of war, the automatic attack system was specially set up, and those mysteries were hidden in the outermost city wall structure.
Of course, not everyone can enter the Goblin Castle casually, except for the Goblin Clan, others who want to enter the Castle must be personally approved by Shen Lian.
At the same time, the Goblin Castle is not the whole of the Goblin Base Camp, it is at best a portal.
The Goblin Base Camp can only be accessed through the Goblin Castle, which covers an area of thousands of acres. These include: goblin weapon factory, goblin laboratory, goblin weapon test base, goblin chemical factory and a series of other projects.
So it can be seen that Shen Lian, the current leader of the goblin family, is a very ambitious guy.
Carl was taken to the goblin weapon test base by Shen Lian, and was told that he could not enter anywhere except the test base. If you violate the rules, you will be immediately put to death.
For Shen Lian, killing Carl was a very simple matter. Especially after Carl saw the weapons and equipment that were being tested, he really understood how terrifying the strength of the goblin family really was.
Laser guns, missile launchers, cannons, shrapnons, ......
He couldn't have imagined that there was such a powerful firearm in the world.
He was the first outsider to see these high-tech weapons, and all the equipment here was not for sale, not even taken out of the base.
It's incredible, the people here are crazy, and Carl can't think of any other adjective.
And what Shen Lian wanted him to do was to study how to enchant these high-tech weapons. Because although these weapons are powerful, they all have some drawbacks to a greater or lesser extent, and Shen Lian hopes that Karl can solve these problems through the power of magic.
For example, laser guns have a long range, high accuracy, and strong penetration, but their energy storage is very limited, that is, each gun can only fire one laser. To launch a second laser, energy storage is required for more than two hours. Therefore, if you want to apply this weapon to actual combat, you must solve its energy storage problem.
Other weapons also have different flaws, such as the missile launcher is not good enough, the energy cannon is not accurate enough, and the gun is not penetrating enough.
It would take decades to solve these problems by relying solely on technology, but combining technology and magic can lead to unexpected results.
This is why Shen Lian was overjoyed when he saw Carl's flyer.
However, Shen Lian did not come to Carl to let him complete these tasks alone, but to teach him the theory of weapon enchantment to his engineers.
There are currently five of the top engineers in the goblin family.
Shen Tingke is proficient in laser and missile research. His younger brother Shen Erdan, who is proficient in gunpowder, is known as a blasting genius. These two are cousins of Shen Lian's second uncle's family.
Shen Tiao, the field of production is mechanical gears, and he also has a certain amount of involvement in missiles, and he is the cousin of Shen Lian's third uncle.
Aurel, a hybrid of Terran and goblins, specializes in firearms and flying devices. is Shen Lian's cousin.
The last one is Shen Mu, who is good at cutting and welding skills, and is Shen Lian's younger brother.
The six of them are, in chronological order: Orel, Shen Lian, Shen Tingke, Shen Tiao, Shen Erdan, and Shen Mu.
After introducing each other, Shen Lian left on his own, leaving Carl and the five goblin engineers in the conference room, but these people didn't seem to be interested in magic at all.
"Really, how did the eldest brother think of recruiting this layman. Shen Erdan did not hide his dissatisfaction at all: "Does he understand weapons and equipment, he doesn't understand at all, I still have something to do, so I won't waste my time here." ”
With that, he glanced at Karl and walked away.
Shen Tingke glanced at Carl, he didn't have much interest in this kid, but after all, he was older, so he knew some etiquette: "My brother has this temper, don't take it to heart, I also have some things to do, so I won't accompany him first." ”
The others also left one by one, and in the end, only Orel and Carl remained.
Despite his small stature, Orel does not belong to the goblin race, so his appearance is very different from that of goblins. Despite resembling a child, he has a mature middle-aged face, wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and has a large thick black beard.
Goblins and human hybrids are collectively referred to as dwarves, so Aurel is the standard dwarf, and because of his status, he is also quite ostracized within the goblin clan.
"Young man, the people of their goblin clan are arrogant by nature and never look at outsiders in their eyes, you just get used to it. ”
"Thank you. The current situation really makes Carl a little out of power.
"You don't have to thank me, we both have similar status here, and I have something to say. ”
Aurel's easy-going attitude made Carl feel good about him.
"Since they don't want to talk to you, let's talk to each other individually. Aurel smiled and said, "But I don't know anything about magic, so don't be surprised." ”
"Why, you're too modest, and I don't know anything about your weapons. "But I think if technology and magic can really be combined, maybe something great can be made." ”
"Haha, I think so too!"