Chapter Eighty-Nine: Lightning Strikes the Tower (Part II)
"Hey, are you sure it works? I don't think I'm doing some very dirty work, and if I don't use it, I'm going to beat you up, so you'd better be prepared. ”
"I think I'd better be mentally prepared to be killed by lightning first, and if I still have a chance to be beaten by you, I really can't ask for it."
Li Ran knelt on the ground, her feet full of swords and spears, and she was pressing two swords with one hand, the tip of one of which was against the end of the other. Immediately after that, Li Ran's other hand leaned up, but one of the fingertips of this hand was shining with fire, and I saw Li Ran use his fingers to draw a circle where the two swords met, and instantly fixed them together.
Is this the natural Emperor Welding? Zhang Yuan held a sword, squatted next to him and watched Li Ran's movements, and at this time, when he saw Li Ran connecting another sword, he hurriedly handed over the sword in his hand.
Is it because the sword is made of alloy, or does Li Ran really have the ability to control the fire of molten metal? Zhang Yuan thought at first that Li Ran would not be able to realize his idea, but he didn't expect that she could really help.
Moreover, Li Ran's movements were a little jerky when she tried the welding that Zhang Yuan said at the beginning, but she soon mastered the technique, and the movements quickly connected the metal parts of the weapons one after another.
Zhang Yuan and Li Ran were busy, Sihai and the soldiers were not idle, and the ordinary soldiers had formed a circle under Sihai's command to protect Sihai and many magic shooting soldiers inside. And Sihai and the magic shooting soldiers with relatively strong magical strength are working together to build a huge spherical elemental shield.
The shield is not made of one element, and its appearance shows four distinct colors, of which the earthy yellow part takes up a large part, the fiery red and dark purple parts are almost the same, and only a small part of the shield is made of blue-purple that represents the thunder element.
This result cannot be blamed on the soldiers who practice the thunder element for not working hard, and the main reason for this phenomenon is that the surrounding thunder and lightning elements are not abundant enough. Needless to say, the earth element is the most important thing here, plus Sihai himself uses earth magic, which naturally makes the earth element on the protective shield account for a large proportion, and the fire element and the dark element are slightly less in this space, so the proportion in the protective shield is not as good as the earth element.
As for the thunder and lightning elements, they were all sucked up by the thunderclouds in the sky at this time, and it directly became a vacuum of thunder and lightning elements, which caused the soldiers to be unable to infuse more thunder and lightning elements into the protective shield with the strength to eat.
Li Ran made a cameo appearance as a welder for a long time, but she was too tired to do it, the staying power of the person who controlled the fire was a short board, plus she had been injured before, and a large amount of magic expenditure instantly made Li Ran pale. But fortunately, Zhang Yuan let Li Ran wear all the cheap demon storage rings made by the cheap mentor before, so that the other party could persevere.
Seeing that Li Ran finally welded the last long sword and connected all the weapons into a long iron bar, Zhang Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally caught up, and the next thing was to pray that this method would work.
At this moment, there was a sudden explosion in the sky, Zhang Yuan was suddenly frightened and turned pale, and when he looked up, he found that the lightning strike he imagined had not fallen, but it was just a false alarm.
But even so, Zhang Yuan couldn't wait any longer, who knew if this loud noise was a precursor to the real attack, and he couldn't relax at all until the simple lightning rod was ready.
Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand to take a shield from the side, put it in front of Li Ran, and said, "Okay, now you just need to burn a paragraph with fire on it." In this way, we have to tell the people below that they will help us connect the end of this iron bar to the earth, and we are done. ”
Li Ran raised a hand, and was about to write according to what Zhang Yuan said, when he suddenly raised his head again and asked, "Why don't you write it yourself?" ”
Zhang Yuan coughed dryly, he couldn't tell Li Ran that he hadn't fully learned the words of this world, he could only say twice: "It's not impossible for me to carve with a sword, but that's too slow, and all the swords are connected by you." ”
Li Ran pursed her lips, and then continued to write, Zhang Yuan watched her finish writing this paragraph, and suddenly said: "Add another sentence below, tell the soldiers who are willing to help us, if you don't have time to escape from the tower, you must remember to put your feet together and stand on the ground and don't run." ”
"Ah, why?" Li Ran looked up and asked suspiciously.
But Zhang Yuan couldn't answer this question, he couldn't tell Li Ran that there was a common sense called stepping voltage. Although this world is very different from Zhang Yuan's hometown, Zhang Yuan still believes that the thunder and lightning here, even as an element that can be manipulated by people, must abide by the principles of electricity that Zhang Yuan has learned.
As for what to do if you don't comply, then you can only have cold dressing, everyone will be hacked to death, and Zhang Yuan can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Zhang Yuan and Li Ran reached out to lift the iron bars on the ground, only to find that the weapons that were completely connected together were too heavy, beyond the reach of the two of them. Fortunately, when Li Ran was welding before, he easily stuffed the part that couldn't fit out of the female wall, and at this time, the two of them only needed to push this temporary lightning rod and let most of it stick out of the watchtower.
Rao is like this, the two of them also used the strength to eat, and Li Ran was already in a weak state because of the use of a lot of magic power, which made this matter even more difficult.
However, Sihai also had little confidence in his protective shield at this time, and seeing that Zhang Yuan and Li Ran had melted all their weapons into a strange-shaped long iron bar, he had some expectations for Zhang Yuan's method. He saw that Zhang Yuan and the others were in trouble, and hurriedly instructed a few ordinary soldiers to help Zhang Yuan.
With the help of a few big men, Zhang Yuan's work was finally much easier, and several people worked together to push the temporary lightning rod out of the watchtower. The lightning rod also slid down against the edge of the watchtower due to gravity, and when the bottom end of the lightning rod hit the ground, the top end exceeded the height of the two people in the watchtower.
Zhang Yuan looked at the gun head welded to the top of the simple lightning rod, and then looked at the army below that had been evacuated, took a deep breath, and next, he was going to hand over his fate to the people below.
The soldiers below had noticed the anomaly on the watchtower before, because their direct commander Sihai was still on the watchtower, so they had been keeping an eye on the situation on the watchtower. Therefore, when a long section of the iron bar welded by Li Ran stretched out of the watchtower, some sharp-eyed soldiers noticed it, and when Zhang Yuan on it put down the simple lightning rod, the soldiers immediately started talking.
"What are they going to do, it's not going to slide down this, are they?" A soldier asked, standing on tiptoe, looking at the long iron bar made of weapons.
As soon as his whimsical idea came up, a soldier on the side immediately retorted: "You stupid, this is obviously made with those swords together, if a person slides down this, he must not be covered in injuries." And this one still looks reflective, it must be slippery, and I can't grasp it at all. ”
"So what to do, we don't know if we need our help from above, or we can find someone to go over and see what is going on. I think there's a shield hanging down there, and I might be able to spot something if I get closer. A soldier suggested.
However, as soon as his suggestion was made, another soldier next to him shouted: "What are you talking about, let's evacuate the area around the watchtower, but the military order issued by the chief commander himself, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”
"But we can't just watch our comrades in trouble and not lend a hand, not to mention that Lord Si is still on top, I think we should go over and take a look, maybe we can help something, and besides, the magic in the sky may not be smashed down at this moment."
"It's just that we don't all go over, so just send a few people over."
"Whatever you say, I won't go over anyway, if you want to die yourself, just go."
The soldiers argued for a long time, and finally several soldiers stood up and ran under the watchtower. Soon, the soldiers walked up to the shield and saw the words on it.
"Look, I'll just say, the people up there just need our help. Which of you knows how to do earth-based magic, take a hand, and we're going to bury this thing in the ground. The soldier who saw the words on the shield first immediately relayed it aloud to his companions behind him.
"I will, I will, I'm a sapper." A soldier stepped forward, and as he spoke, he stretched out his hands and pressed them to the ground, and his face suddenly turned red, as if he were straining. But soon his efforts paid off, and the dirt began to crack on both sides, revealing a thin crack about two or three fingers wide.
"Quick, let's get this shield out of the way and get this thing in the crack." Someone shouted, and the soldiers who had come to help reached out and moved the bottom end of the improvised lightning rod so that it could be aimed at the gap in the ground and inserted into it.
The soldiers were also busy for a while, and then they successfully buried the bottom end of the simple lightning rod in the ground according to Zhang Yuan's method, and one soldier sweated and said: "Alas, we have also done what we should do, I don't know if they can play a role in this thing, I hope they can survive this catastrophe safely." ”
Another soldier took a deep breath and said, "Let's pray for them together before leaving." ”
"Okay." The other soldiers nodded in agreement and stood in place praying. At that moment, there was another explosion in the sky. The soldiers subconsciously raised their heads, but just in time to see that in the mighty thundercloud, four lightning bolts swept across the sky with an unrivaled momentum and slashed towards the four watchtowers.
"Oh no, run!" A soldier shouted.
"No, you can't run, everyone listen to me, all feet together!" Another soldier remembered the words left on the shield and immediately shouted. The other soldiers who heard his shout were still thinking about running away, but when they suddenly heard this, although they didn't know why they were stopping, they still subconsciously stopped.
I saw a bolt of lightning fall from the sky and hit the protective shield on the watchtower directly, making a deafening cracking sound, and the protective shield shook violently. But just when Sihai's face turned a little pale, the lightning suddenly snapped on the surface of the protective shield, and strangely rushed towards the improvised lightning rod exposed from the watchtower.
Seeing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and they looked excitedly at the lightning rod standing in the air.
Zhang Yuan was also very excited at this time, it seemed that his method had really worked.