Chapter VII: Contradictions

Between the large nets of horizontal and vertical metal strips, the square-shaped shapes with a diameter of five centimeters are made of gum and between the large holes, forming a window that is unique in this world. Through such a window, Ren Di looked out the window at the slowly retreating earth. This topography is the unique landform of Pyrata, in the words of the earth, it is the landform of Zhangjiajie, dominated by tall stone pillar forests with straight edges and corners, as well as the landform landscape represented by the deep cutting valleys, stone walls, Tiansheng bridges, square mountains, platforms and other landforms, and the towering rock peaks rise like isolated islands. There is a fog between each of these islands. The mist covered the area in the middle of the mountain stream, and from time to time the roar of an unknown beast erupted from the gloomy ravine, startling a large number of birds.

The ravine where the sun does not shine is too humid and there are many wild animals, which is obviously not suitable for human habitation. The Pelatas live on these towering peaks, and due to the conscious human activities of the Pelats, most of the peaks have been flattened and turned into larger platforms, and as early as the days when knights and wizards ruled the Van Si, the Pelatas covered them with gums, filled them with hydrogen, and powered them by human beings on rotating wooden flywheels, making small airships to and fro in this strange mountainous terrain.

The environment shapes human beings, and the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River on the earth are crisscrossed, and human beings are indeed non-aquatic creatures, but there is no barrier for human beings to survive here. The slopes of Yunnan are inherently unable to hold water, but humans have opened up terraces. In this world, except for a few magicians who can control large flying dragons to soar in the sky, ordinary people can't fly, but in Perata, the technology of making flying machines is the best in Van Xi.

This is the land of the Heavens, where the dominance of the Fanxi Empire stopped five hundred years ago. The powerful cavalry forces of Fansi could not cross here, and it was precisely because of the terrain of Pyrata that Miana was not disturbed by the Fansi Empire five hundred years ago, and the kingdom of Miyana was able to maintain effective independence. Also now, as long as the Pyratas persist in resisting during the Steam Age, Miana's mechs will stop there.

Heaven has blessed this planet, allowing the speed of industrial development to break through the suppression of magic. More and more huge airships are being built in this world, accumulating more than a hundred years of industrial development advantages, and the productivity advantages of several major industrial powers in Van Xi make it more and more impossible for the Platans to hold the advantage in the sky.

Perhaps because of the uneven distribution of spoils, or the discovery of a strategic inconsistency between distant friends and close attacks, Miana, who had suppressed close to him, found that Venucci was more ambitious, and the Pelatas began to refuse to ally with the governor. It just so happened that the current king of Miyana, Pu Chuzuo, escaped a life from the boulder ambush, but lost the ability to have children in the lower half of his body. His royal brother, Giacomo, is now unmarried, giving the Pelatas hope of marriage. The policies of the Perata family began to adjust.

The conversation between the forces for the purpose of calculating interests is extremely dirty, and the description of this world in Ren Di's plane is simple and full of blood. But some of the sad truths cannot be concealed, and when Giacomo died, Lianlana tried to form the Fanxi Federation. But due to the disobedience of the major city-states, it completely failed. Throughout the game, the soul of the entire continent, Giacomo, who swept through Van Si and fought against the entire continent, disappeared from the node connecting Pyrata and Miana. The Perata represented by Lianlana does not have a strong military force on the ground, as well as a strong industrial productive force to suppress the entire Van Si, and of course words do not count.

Ren Di threw these thoughts out of his mind. The future of this world doesn't care about Ren Di at all. The whole Van Xi region is extremely regional, is a classic feudal society, and has never been truly unified. Ren Di's current identity in this world is just a small nobleman. If Ren Di can stay in this world, his military exploits can only improve the status of his generation. If you want to level up further, you will run into the ceiling. The nobles agreed on the so-called rule that the nouveau riche must not be allowed to enter the aristocratic circle, and only after several generations of hard work, using military exploits again and again, or other achievements to maintain the prosperity of the knighthood family, proving that your blood is noble for a reason, can you continue to become a great noble.

Under this kind of aristocratic convention, the situation of Lao Tzu being a hero and a son being a bastard cannot be seen. Every aristocrat is good for the education of the next generation, afraid of being squeezed out of that circle. But as for the threshold that civilians can climb to see only seven or eight generations, or even more than ten generations, they have basically given up.

Elite education, this world is a real elite education, basic welders, steelworkers and so on, will never come into contact with advanced mathematics and other knowledge systems that are of little use to them. As for the aristocracy, they chose their interests to develop. Puchuzuo is good at military affairs, and Giacomo is a mechanical genius. As for lying in front of the desk and constantly forcing themselves to do meaningless things that seem to be repetitive and only improve proficiency, the aristocrats don't do such boring things.

This kind of boring thing, Ren Di has done. All thanks to the "respectable and lovely" teachers who pursued the promotion rate, were too lazy to explain in detail, and directly taught with homework. and those who come from the countryside to study hard, and use practical actions to invisibly mock the idle people who are too lazy and incorrigible "good classmates".

When he joined the artillery system and picked up his basic geometric mathematics again, Ren Di watched the birds flying in the sky and calculating how the parabola would hit the bird if he fired the cannon at his current position. It's definitely not an interest, it's something you have to do, a feeling that you can't get rid of psychologically - obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's like the feeling of not finishing your homework during the summer vacation, and you can't relax and play at all.

Although Ren Di felt that he had shot a lot of actual combat shots, other artillery commanders felt that Ren Di could quickly improve in such a small number of battles and battle time. It's really excellent.

"You are a natural artilleryman" The day before yesterday, when the troops were marching towards Pelata, General Kalini summoned Ren Di into the army, and specially said this sentence to Ren Di as a sign of encouragement.

Watch as two small wyvern-shaped creatures with brightly colored scales on their wings flying past the window. Ren Di found that he had to close his eyes, otherwise, he would habitually count the parabola when he saw the reference, and he would simply swallow up the only rest time he had. Ren Di, who had witnessed death with his own eyes, understood that there was something wrong with his mentality at this time. But when it comes to letting go and going to the battlefield to relax, Ren Di understands that his character who is afraid of death can't do it.

Ren Di's nervousness was obvious, Inoue Ohno saw Ren Di's unconsciously revealed anxiety, and said comfortingly: "Ren Jun, you are very good, you are very good among the young people I have seen." Sometimes it's here, and sometimes it's not that you're not good enough. Take it easy. ”

After such a long time, although Ren Di's anti-Japanese tendency is still deep-rooted, Ren Di never shows it, and several Japanese people also avoid that sensitive topic when talking to Ren Di, and the Japanese who Ren Di crossed at the same time all understand. On some topics, the two sides have different positions that simply cannot convince the other side.

After avoiding the conflict point, Ren Di got along well with the three Japanese. At this point, Inoue Ohno, as an elder, seems to intend to contact Ren Di on an equal footing.

Andrew is undoubtedly the best in the current crossing team, and his courage and command ability to judge the situation on the battlefield are well deserved. All the traversers had very good contact with the natives of this world under his arrangement. This must be admitted, Ren Di took advantage of him, and when he first entered the artillery unit, Andrew commanded the troops to fight, and once gave Ren Di the opportunity to exert his ability in this area. After many shots, with Andrew's combat mission, in a relatively safe actual combat environment, Ren Di's ability to operate the cannon became stronger and stronger.

Talent, up to now, several traversers are more or less aware of their respective talents in this team, for example, Inoue's talent is in mechanical maintenance, as long as he spits on mechanical parts. Inoue seems to have a feeling of his own on the cold metal parts, and in the process of each part clicking and running, Inoue feels the contact between the entire mechanical moving parts as if his own fingers are stirring his own fingers. Each part is like a part of its own body. This talent is very powerful. If the deformation of these parts is completed in the process of mechanical operation running-in, the friction is worn away, and this problem disappears. But more often than not, the fatigue of the parts is too large in the friction process, and cracks appear directly, and the cracks are getting bigger and bigger, and the parts are collapsing.

Inoue has the talent to find problems with running machinery in advance, and if the parts are unqualified, they can directly feel the unsmoothness, and they can be found out during the run-in period so as not to destroy the life of other parts in the process of wear. Inoue was originally a repairman, and as a middle-aged man, it was difficult for him to have the ambition to fight, but he had more experience than young people and was a little more down-to-earth. Therefore, his talent for mechanical repair made him the number two person among the traversers.

As for Andrew's talent, although he didn't say it, Ren Di could guess that it should be a talent for communicating favorability with others. As for the others, one of the blacks was gifted with athletic muscles, had more strength than ordinary people, and used firearms and armor that was the king-size of the Inoue shot. Another black man has a talent for marksmen, and the bullets he shoots can stay a hundred meters in this world until the kinetic energy of the bullet is completely attenuated to zero, of course, now he can only maintain the existence of the mass of the bullet in a straight line in motion, as for the heavy guy like the cannonball, he doesn't have this ability. As for Li Cuncheng, his talent Ren Di has seen that he can stabilize and concentrate part of the heat around him on an object, and now he is wearing a large cigar, and he is often choked by the cigar and coughs, obviously he is not a smoker, and the heat on the cigarette butt is transferred to the solid bullet by him, and concentrated. You can't feel the heat on the outside, but if you cut the inside of the warhead with a knife, the inside is already red-hot, just like cutting a hard-boiled egg with a yolk inside. When the bullet is fired, the bullet is embedded in the wood, and the heat inside loses its restraint for three shots, and after ten seconds, green smoke will come out. Live off the bullet version of the burning # burn bomb.

In this unknown environment, everyone kept their sanity, avoided conflicts as much as possible, and helped each other, for example, Andrew helped everyone when dealing with the characters of this world, and Inoue made it easy for everyone to make weapons, but there was a conflict of interest. Andrew acts as a leader, which everyone recognizes, he is the most capable. But the other few whites and even the two blacks behaved a little bit inauthentic. The two blacks have nothing to joke about, and when they encounter a fight, they tend to only care about themselves.

As for the remaining four whites, under the current situation, the technical arm of artillery seems to be very safe, Andrew asked Ren Di very sincerely, arranged for a few traversers to come over, Ren Di agreed, and not only that, but the two Japanese also came in. It's just that in the era when there were no calculators, looking at the white people under quality education thinking hard about the parabola calculations, there were three direct calculations that were obviously wrong, but they didn't check it and gave an outrageous answer. Then he looked at Ren Di innocently and said, "Can you give me a calculator?" Ren Di could only run over and say to Andrew: "Let them master the artillery, maybe it's dangerous." "Look at the attitude of these European civilians who fought in the post-war years of peace in Europe to the calculation of war in mental arithmetic. Without saying a word, Andrew withdrew the white men. Perhaps Andrew didn't want to worry about accidental damage to friendly artillery during the battle.

Compared to Andrew's shrewdness and ability, the remaining five whites are mediocre, and some are even terrible. But as you can see, Andrew is still a bit picky about the race aspect. Even if the Japanese are clearly better than a few whites. But this is not reflected in Andrew's arrangement.

Feeling racially differentiated, Inoue didn't say it. But it is obviously close to Ren Di and Li Cuncheng. This performance made Ren Di secretly look in his eyes, and Ren Di understood that it was not that people in that country naturally wanted to be lackeys of another country, but that the situation was stronger than people.

By the way, I forgot to mention that Ren Di's talent skill, several traversers speculated that it was a ballistic curve aim, or a calculation talent. But they were all wrong. So far, Ren Di has not effectively used the talent he has gained after crossing over.