Chapter 116: Mortars
Sherlock had already woken up, and it was because of Renault's presence that he had to close his eyes and pretend to be dead, and after Anna found clothes for her to dress, she let Renault in. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Uh......" Renault was a little embarrassed, although Charlotte was just a little Lori, but after all, she was a girl, and he was really ...... just now That's it. "How does it feel?"
"Thank you for your concern, Lord Renault, I'm fine now," Charlotte lowered her head and said seriously, "I'm sorry, I didn't have your permission beforehand, but if I hadn't experienced the transformation myself, I wouldn't have been able to feel every detail so truly, I remember the whole process clearly, especially in the last two days, when I was wrapped in a black shell, I found something very useful." If I feel right, the success rate of the Green 5 will increase even more!"
Hearing her say this, Renaud's heart couldn't help but move.
If you can really achieve a 100% success rate, then you can transform a group of super soldiers with super physical strength and defense.
To achieve the ultimate goal, the Awakened cannot be relied upon alone.
Just like in modern warfare, no matter how powerful fighters and missiles are, they can only be used as a means of attack. In order to achieve the goal of occupation, the army will eventually have to intervene.
According to Charlotte, the most critical part of the transformation is the two days of being enclosed in a black shell.
The boundless silence, cold, and darkness can give rise to the horror of being isolated from the world and never returning to the original world.
People with weak psychological endurance can easily be destroyed and die, or have a mental breakdown and fall into a violent end.
Renault never imagined that what affected the success rate of the transformation was the mental state.
With this conclusion in mind, Renault felt that human trials could be carried out.
So he recruited volunteers from the Guard, and almost instantly more than a hundred people signed up.
These people were all old miners from Renault's past, who had experienced several life-and-death battles, and were all slightly injured, and with the medical level of this era, it was impossible to return to the peak state, and were arranged by Sherlock to do some light work in the mines.
Renault chose five people, two of whom were older, close to forty, and the other three were in their twenties.
Their desire for reform is very strong, and their will is strong enough.
If they can all succeed in the transformation, then the time will come to expand the transformation.
After the five men were brought into the lab, Charlotte explained the precautions and then locked them in small rooms, their hands and feet tightly fixed to the bed.
"For three days from now you will not hear anything, there will be no light, no water, no food, and you will not be able to move. If you can persevere, you will begin to be transformed. ”
The five of them nodded again and again, Master Renault had already said before, only those who can survive this level can be successfully transformed, isn't it just three days of confinement, and it will be over after a sleep.
Of course, once you are really in that kind of environment where there is nothing but darkness and cold, it is definitely not as simple as imagined.
Reynolds remembers reading on the Internet that a Canadian psychologist conducted a "sensory deprivation" experiment, and the college students who stayed in the isolation room only lasted for two days before they had hallucinations and confusion, and even their IQ dropped significantly.
However, Renault still underestimated the endurance of these guards, and it was not until the end of the second day that the three young guards began to show slight agitation and restlessness, and the two older ones remained calm.
It has to do with their experience. In the past, when they were in the mines, they worked almost non-stop from dawn to dark, day after day, year after year, and they had long been accustomed to monotony.
Later, after Renault's physical strengthening training, they developed super endurance.
So in the end, all five of them persevered.
"Now, then, you are going to be transformed," Renault gathered them together after resting them for two days, "The last thing I want to say to you is that, no matter what happens, remember one thing, you must live." Only those who are extremely confident that they will survive will succeed. ”
The guards nodded solemnly, and they were all a little excited at the thought of being able to have a super body soon.
As the main person in charge of the experiment, Charlotte stayed in the laboratory twenty-four hours a day, regularly checking the bodies of the guards, asking them how they felt, and recording all the data.
Leaving the matter to her, Renault stopped going to the lab and spent the rest of his time researching new weapons.
The last time I faced the two Awakened, the firepower of the musket was obviously not strong enough, and weapons were indispensable for the Guardian to be truly strong.
In addition, if the experiment goes well, these modified escorts will be more powerful, and muskets and crossbows are no longer suitable for them, so some more powerful thermal weapons will need to be developed.
After searching for a thousand degrees for a long time, Renault finally decided to try to make a mortar first.
The mortar is light in size and has a curved trajectory, which is definitely a big killer weapon for the army to attack the city.
Its prototype can be traced back to 1342 AD, but the first mortar in the true sense was born in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, when a Russian artillery captain modified the battle and blew up the Japanese hiding in the trenches.
With the help of the thousand-degree search, Renault quickly understood how the mortar worked, and also found pictures of the barrel and shells, and drew a sketch of it.
In fact, the prototype of this thing, Ferre and Lauren have already made it, and Lauren has already used it to set off fireworks on the New Year.
"Lord Renault, what are you looking for from us?"
At Renault's command, Ferret brought over the pipe for setting off the fireworks, and Renault was a little dumbfounded when he saw it - there was no base, no bracket, and a steel pipe sealed one end.
"That's what Lauren used to set off fireworks?"
Hearing about fireworks, Ferret was actually quite proud, it was something he and Lauren made up: "Yes, Lord Renault, Lauren said that when he held this thing and shot fireworks in the sky, it felt great!"
Renault only felt the corners of his mouth twitch, and he held the barrel in his arms and fired, which is no longer something that can be described as strong.
He asked Fei Lie to take the steel pipe away, and spread out the simple drawings he had just redrawn, "That's why I came to you for this matter, let's take this door...... This piece of steel pipe is improved, and it will be a very powerful weapon. ”
Speaking of weapons, get serious, last time Black Iron Town was attacked by two Awakened Ones, causing huge losses. Even the machine shop he was in charge of had not been spared, so he knew the importance of a powerful weapon.
He looked at the drawings for a long time, suddenly slapped the table, stood up and didn't say a complete sentence for a long time, and his veins were beating in the corners of his forehead with excitement: "Lord Renault, this is ...... It's amazing, you...... You're such a genius!"