When she saw Gastens again, Daisy's eyes changed significantly, and there was more adoration and curiosity in those big brown eyes. She stared at the noon meal and dropped a long package at Gastens' feet.

"What is this?"

Gastens had been acquainted with Daisy for a while, so he just moved his foot casually and gave Daisy a spoonful of beans, "Or, today's meat peas." ”

Daisy reached out and pulled the spoon closer, and said in a low voice, "Well, you didn't even tell me that you were a master of the steam engine!" ”

"The master can't talk about it, but he just occasionally made a small invention, which is far worse than your father."

"Cut, don't pretend, I've got something to look for you", Daisy gently kicked the bag on the ground with her foot, "It's a small thing, a half-finished product, I put the blueprints in it." You take it back and help me see if I can complete it as I want it to do, I want to give it as a gift to someone, okay? ”

"Okay, no problem, I'll take a look—" Gastens said, about to open the package, but Daisy held down the bag with a much faster hand than he did.

"This bag, please go home and look at it again, read it alone, okay?"

Gastens bent over and looked up at Daisy, who was also bent over, pressing one hand on Gastens's hand and the other on the table, and the two faced each other, close enough to feel each other's breathing. Gastens held out for a few seconds and surrendered.

"Okay, I see, I'll go back and help you see it."

"That's good."

Daisy smiled, picked up a spoon and scooped a spoonful of peas into her mouth, sipped it, grimaced and walked away. Gastens smiled helplessly, focusing on the bag. From the feel just now, the bag seems to be very heavy, and I don't know what is inside. Besides, I've never heard that Daisy knows a steam engine before, where did she get the semi-finished products?

However, on second thought, with a father like William, what does Daisy know about steam? Hasn't she always kept her own accomplishments in the steam engine a secret? Thinking of this, Gastens was relieved. He quickened his meal, anticipating the surprise the bag would bring him.

In the evening, he returned to the cubicle where Gablin had stayed and helped Gabling clean up his room and wash his clothes, and then Gastens found time to get into his small room and open the bag. The bag was heavy, and it contained a lot of well-wrapped metal objects. Some of the devices have a thin layer of ash attached to the outside, as if they have been sitting for a while. Gastens wiped off the dust, removed the outer package of the devices, and placed the parts in front of him one by one, and finally saw the clue.

It was a well-designed, sharply shaped steam lance, with only the spear itself, no gas cylinders and no boilers. Daisy also kept a design drawing in the bag, which looked a little old, neatly drawing the final product of the parts in blue ink. Gastens held his breath the moment he opened the blueprint, even if he was from Earth, he had rarely seen such a delicate and detailed design. The lines, numbers, and diagrams are as if a computer is manipulating a pencil to draw them, and then using a blue pen to draw the blue, a delicate mess. Gastens carefully unfolded the picture on the workbench and lit up another pyroxene to really see the spear as it was.

The long barrel, the thick barrel in order to ensure the range and pressure display, the more robust optical sights and auxiliary markings are all clearly indicating the identity of this gun to Gastens.

This turned out to be a steam-powered sniper lance!

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Although there were doubts about where Daisy had come from with the half-finished spear, Gastens didn't take it too seriously. The thermal weapons in this world are still very rudimentary, and the lack of gunpowder greatly limits the power and range of thermal weapons. Crafting a sniper rifle capable of punching a kilometer or two with steam power was a challenge not only for the designers of the drawings, but also for Gastens, who was well versed in steam power and materials science.

Although Gastens also managed to get a lot of design drawings of pneumatic weapons on Earth, those high-precision, high-range pneumatic weapons were built on the basis of modern industry and materials science perfected on Earth. To recreate a high-precision sniper rifle in this world, Gastens had no less challenges than the original designer of the drawings. Although he had never met the original designer of the drawings, but only had an in-depth understanding of the designer's design ideas, Gastens was sure that it was definitely not made by Daisy's girl. When he had the chance, he must ask Daisy face to face who gave her this weapon, she is a girl, what is she going to do with this weapon.

Unlike the weapons on earth that are mainly piston power and cylinder power, this Daisy rifle, as Gastens is tentatively called, relies on a traditional steam backpack, judging from the design drawings, the original designer designed a thickened and reinforced high-pressure cylinder for this gun, and designed the corresponding two-stage conduction and valve mechanism. The mechanism is based on the world's current material level, and basically achieves the maximum pressure output, but perhaps due to the lack of more in-depth hydrodynamic studies, the bullets used in this gun are still small lead bullets of traditional steam rifles, which are limited in lethality and are not conducive to increasing range. As follows from this detail, the designers are not military professionals and do not understand the main drawbacks of current steam rifles.

Combined with several days of analysis, Gastens had already figured out how to perfect this beautiful creation. The overall design of the gun did not need to be overhauled, he used a shingled structure to reduce the thickness of the high-pressure gas chamber, tried to draw the rifling by hand, and customized the pointed bullets used in the five rifled guns. In order to reduce weight and ensure the stability and strength of the bullet in high-speed flight, Gastens used an iron-tin composite body structure, and manually calibrated and positioned the center of gravity.

After doing all this, Gastens also customized a small steam backpack from The Paper and loaded it with two C-grade pyroxenes to strengthen the volumetric strength of the boiler and pipes. At this point, the whole Daisy rifle is officially launched. However, because of weapons control and serfdom, Gastens was not willing to take the risk of losing it, so the gun had not yet been test-fired.

"It's beautiful!"

Daisy, who was called by Garstens, lit up at the first sight of Daisy's rifle. She walked in quickly, about to take the gun off the shelf, but Gastens stopped her before she could get her hands on it.

"Daisy, can you tell me where you got this gun from? What are you going to do with it? This gun is very powerful, and I don't want you to make mistakes. ”

Gastens is rarely serious. Although he must start a revolution in this world in the future, now, he doesn't want Daisy to make any mistakes because of this gun.

"You don't need to know that!"

Daisy's tone was surprisingly stiff, and she pushed Gastens away, forcing her reach for the gun. Gastens wripped her hand, but Daisy continued to struggle and resist, as if the gun on the wall was the only thing she cared about at the moment.

"That's it!"

After some struggle, Gastens pinned Daisy against the wall. The girl's beautiful figure rubbed against Gastens 's chest through the summer thin shirt, and the two of them stiffened a little for the moment of contact, and then Daisy's body softened.

"Let go of me."

Garth did as he was told, and brought a stool, on which Daisy sat and took the blueprint that Gastens had placed on the workbench.

The moment she got the picture, Daisy seemed to lose her impatience and anger just now, she stroked the picture, and began to tell with a gentle look in her eyes.

"This is a blueprint for my brother, who is three years older than me, and my father said that he had an amazing talent for steam, and he lived up to his father's hopes, helping him solve the problem of steam engine design when he was in college. Later, he started to do his graduation project, saying that he wanted to design a weapon that could fight far, far away, and all that was left was this picture and those parts. ”

"Your father is right, your brother is really talented in this area, he designed this gun very well, I barely changed it, I just added a steam backpack for him."

Gastens replied softly, and then asked, "But why have I never heard you say that you have a brother?" ”

Daisy looked up, looked at Gastens, hesitated for a moment, and then lowered her head again.

"My brother is dead, three years ago."

"So...... You say it's a gift to someone, is it to fulfill your brother's wish? ”

"Yes", Daisy nodded, brushing the back of her hand at the corner of her eye, "This is his last work, and his favorite work, I always wanted to finish it, but my dad wouldn't let me move." Now that I finally have you, I want to give it to my brother as a final gift. ”

Gastens stood up and took the gun off the wall. Before, he thought it was for Daisy, and made a lot of lightweight designs, so that girls can use it more easily. Now it seems that those designs may have become useless. He held the gun in his hand, tried it one last time, and solemnly handed the gun to the girl in front of him who was bowing her head and crying.

"No, give it back to you, I'm sorry, I was a little reckless just now."

"It's okay, thank you."

Daisy, who took the gun, burst into tears and smiled, her face was like the sun after the clouds and rain, and Gastens was a little stunned.

"That...... Garth, can you tell me about it? ”

"Okay," Gastens sat down again, the gun also condensed his heart, and he was about to say more.

"It's a two-stage pressurized pneumatic steam rifle, and because of its long range, I call it a sniper rifle......"

The explanation of the performance and use of the gun lasted for more than an hour, and Daisy finally got a rough idea of how to use and how powerful the gun was. She carefully put away her gun and said she would cook for Garth as a token of gratitude. This made Garth a little frightened, he himself often cooked for Gabling, but he was really surprised and apprehensive to let him eat Daisy's cooking.

Just when the two of them were arguing about who would cook and what to eat, there was a loud knock on the door of the tiny apartment. Daisy and Gastens stopped in unison and looked at the door.

"Bang bang bang-"

The person knocking on the door is very hard, and it is more like slamming the door than knocking. With some foreboding, Garth opened the secret compartment that had been prepared in his closet and pushed Daisy inside.

"You wait here, I'll go see who it is, don't make a sound, okay?"

"No, I'm going to be with you—"

"Obedient!"

Gastens had a very serious expression, he put away the bullets and gun bag on the workbench three times and divided them by two, threw them to Daisy, took one last look at her, and dropped a sentence: "If you're okay, there's a box under the dark compartment that can help." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for her to reply, so he closed the door of the dark grid with force, blocked the dark grid with his own clothes, and did a good job of camouflage, before turning around to open the door.

"Who's coming, who's so early-"

However, the person who came had long since lost the heart of waiting for someone to open the door, and with a loud cracking sound, the sound of mixed footsteps rushed into the house. Daisy, who was hiding in the dark compartment, could clearly hear the shouts of the comers.

"We are the Royal Police! Are you Gastens? ”

"It's me, what's wrong, my lord?"

Gastens sounded calm, but Daisy's heart was filled with great fear. She suddenly realized how rebellious the things she had done with Garth during this time.

"Caught me !!!"

The voice of the person who came was loud and angry. More chaotic sounds were heard, as well as the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground. Gastens didn't speak, only faintly heard his gasps and moans, and after a while, the room fell silent.

"My lord, why did you arrest me!"

Daisy breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Gastens' voice sound again, the question Gastens asked was what she wanted to ask, and she was also looking forward to and fearing the answer.

"Did you start a newspaper with a few students called Fluorite?"

"Yes, but it's just a newspaper—"

"Smack-"

"Bang bang—"

Gastens was interrupted by a jumble thump, and he coughed heavily, no longer speaking, only a heavy gasp.

"That's you, conspiring to subvert the country and incite reactionary thoughts, I declare that you have been arrested!"

Daisy, who was hiding in the cupboard, covered her mouth with her hand in surprise. It was really because of the newspaper, and at this moment, she suddenly remembered the conversation between the two that night.

"What will you do if Your Excellency the Archmage does not support our idea?"

"If the Magus is against us, then we will fight against the Magister."

Garth, the archmage hasn't shown up yet, but our actions have clearly annoyed those in power, what will you do?

Gastens did not react to the words of the visitor. The man coughed twice and gave the order.

"Take people away and search for me! See if there's any contraband! ”

Daisy, who was hiding in the dark compartment, bit her lip tightly and hugged the gun bag in her hand. The scent of dark wood and clothing surrounded her, beating violently along with her heart.