Chapter 290: Phalanx
This continent in the sky is not boundless.
The efficiency of the aerial robots is not bad, although it will take a while, a long time to figure out the specific terrain here. But, at least, they've figured out the size and shape of the place.
It's more appropriate to say that it's a floating island than a continent.
The shape of this floating island is an irregular circle, with a diameter of about 120 kilometers and an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. It's huge, but Greenland, the largest island on Earth, is only about twice the size of the island.
It is not difficult to determine the size and shape of this island, two aerial robots, starting from the place where Ye Qianhu and Laura came here, flew along the edge in two different directions, after a long time, they touched each other at the other end of the floating island, and according to their flight trajectory, what they got was the general shape of the floating island.
With such a size, if you want to let these dozens of aerial robots released by Ye Qianhu search the entire island, it will definitely be a big project, fortunately they don't need to do this, they just need to know the location of the giant's lair, as well as the terrain of the area where there is a possibility of a battle between them.
And more importantly, at this stage, the giant side does not have the opportunity to choose the battlefield.
During the day, those giants who were originally chasing Ye Qianhu were naturally angry after discovering that they couldn't find any trace of Ye Qianhu. However, what made them even more angry was that when they returned to the place where they had been hit by the mines, they saw two fresh corpses, and even when they returned there, the two corpses were still warm.
After the two-headed giant fired a fire, they were helpless, they had already lost Ye Qianhu's clues, and it was even more difficult to find after dark, so they had to return to the lair with the remaining giants.
With the addition of the three corpses here, in just one day, they lost five giants.
This is definitely a very heavy loss, the giants have a long life, and until now, there has not been a single giant who has died of old age.
But at the price, the giants are infertile, and they don't know why they were born, but since they appeared, all the giants on this floating island are males. That is, the giants really die one less one.
On this island, they have no natural enemies, the giants are the real overlords, and in addition to their own death, they are really not easy to die.
Even in the history of reaching the surface with the help of magic beans made by monks, it was not until they were driven back to the floating island by Eric using the magic crown that the humans killed two giants, and this was the result of the siege by the human army while they were alone.
And how many giants are there on the entire floating island? The two-headed giants were well aware of this, and before today, there were one hundred and fifty-seven, and that was all of them.
It can be seen that five giants died in one day, what a disaster this is for the giant race.
And these are all caused by two humans, and even one of them has never seen the other appear from beginning to end.
Humans are their food to them, and now their food has caused them such a loss in one day, which is definitely a shame for the two-headed giant, no less than the shame of being expelled by King Eric back then!
However, they should have gone back anyway.
The two-headed giant looked at the three corpses on the ground, and then at the sun, which had begun to set, and knew in his heart that the forest that once belonged only to them was no longer safe.
At night, their hidden enemies will have an even greater advantage, and if they do, he doesn't even know if he will be able to return to his lair.
But, tomorrow, tomorrow he will return, with all his fighters!
With a desolate team, the two-headed giant returns to his lair.
It's just that none of them noticed that high in the sky, a very small aerial robot has been watching them, following them to find their lair!
"You really brought a Phalanx system with you?!"
At night, in a hidden cave, Laura and Ye Qianhu sat in front of the fire, the flames dispelled the cold of the night, and also provided them with delicious cooked food, a sheep that Laura caught.
It's strange that there are sheep on the floating island, and they don't know how to run away after seeing people.
The aroma of mutton had already wafted out, but Laura's attention was all attracted by the set of equipment that Ye Qianhu took out from the system space.
During the day, Ye Qianhu mentioned the phalanx system, and Laura thought he was joking, but he didn't expect that when he talked about it again at night, Ye Qianhu directly took out the real thing.
Although she has not really been in contact with it, Laura still has some understanding of the Phalanx system, which is used for anti-missiles on warships!
And in fact, this is really Ye Qianhu was dismantled from a warship when he was in the Resident Evil world.
"Six-barreled 20 mm caliber M61A1 Gatling, firing shell-piercing shells with a rate of fire of three thousand rounds per minute, a reserve of 1,550 rounds of ammunition, and a range of about 1,500 meters."
When Ye Qianhu talked about this system, he was also a little excited.
Although compared with weapons such as plasma cannons, Gatling's technological content does not seem to be so high, but Ye Qianhu still likes this kind of weapon that can definitely be called domineering, especially the 20 mm caliber Gatling next to him, the shocking scene when it is fired definitely makes everyone who likes firearms fall in love.
It is precisely because of this that after having the opportunity, Ye Qianhu decisively stuffed two sets of dense arrays into his system space.
What he took out now was only the weapon system of the phalanx, which had to be used with equipment such as the bomb system, the search and tracking radar, and the control box, otherwise it would not be able to exert its true power.
"Oh, okay. However, if I'm not mistaken, the Phalanx record is 0. Moreover, it seems to be better at killing its own people. Laura immediately poured a basin of cold water on Ye Qianhu.
Although he always felt that the Phalanx was very powerful when it was launched, Ye Qianhu also had to admit that what Laura said was all the truth.
Since the Array was equipped, as the ultimate barrier against missiles for ships, the Phalanx has not been as reliable as it seems.
Moreover, generally speaking, the Phalanx does not have a friend or foe identification system, although this shortens the reaction time of the Phalanx, but it also makes it possible for the Mad Dog mode of six relatives to be disrecognized once the Phalanx begins.
Just like during the Gulf War, the Iraqi side launched a Silkworm anti-ship missile, and the Phalanx of the Juritter automatically engaged the enemy, but instead of killing the anti-ship missile, it regarded the jamming chaff released by the Missouri on its own side as a target, and directly sent a shuttle to the Missouri five kilometers away.
In later periods, the Phalanx was even more "frequent", and on many occasions it killed the target tractor during exercises.
Moreover, with the development of supersonic anti-ship missiles, the Phalanx is even more inadequate.
However, since he knew the glorious history of the Phalanx, how could Ye Qianhu not improve it.
In fact, the improvement is not very complicated, the main problem of the phalanx is that there is no distinction between friend and foe, so it is only necessary to make targeted improvements.
The equipment obtained from Skynet in the Terminator world can come in handy at this time, after a series of modifications, after Ye Qianhu put the phalanx in the system space after the assembly is completed, it is completely a T-800 that has abandoned the human form, so that this phalanx system has become intelligent.
Ye Qianhu's explanation finally put Laura at ease, but she felt a little helpless, "If that's the case, then we basically don't need to make any more moves, just hand over your big toy." ”
Even if it is a giant, in front of the twenty-millimeter caliber Gatling, it can only be sent to death, and it is more likely that it will be difficult to leave even a complete corpse.
"Just let it be the last to come out, and tomorrow the giants will definitely come out in search of us, so we have a lot of prey."
Then you should follow the routine in the story, defeat the monster, and get the monster's treasure. Two hundred years ago, these giants plundered a lot of good things in the human kingdom on the ground. ”
"The only regret is that there is no princess waiting for the warriors to save her, right?"
Ye Qianhu shrugged, put Gatling away, picked up the dagger and cut off a piece of roasted mutton, and handed it to Laura, "It should be okay, try my craft." ”
As a result, the dagger, Laura tasted it, "a little light." ”