Chapter 175: Peng Peng
Speaking of which, there are a lot of floating warships on the mainland now, but this thing can neither be eaten nor worn, consumes a lot of national income and is useless at all, it is simply a big black hole that devours the budget. Zhou Zhongmou understood that this situation had occurred many times in the history of the earth, and everyone had to ride a tiger and had to engage in an arms race - perhaps deliberately preparing to crush the opponent at the beginning, but later on, he couldn't stop and had to run wild on this road to death. This world has not yet fought a world war with hot weapons, and there is no concept of how intense a war between hot weapons can be.
In the past, during the great war between the Belken Empire and the Yuctobania Empire, there were high-level magicians and warriors who joined in, and at that time, these people could also mobilize magic at will, and the power of the battle was greater than that of the current hot weapons. Zhou Zhongmou remembered the past and immediately overturned his original estimate. "But after all, it's declining, and the space magic equipment is getting less and less now. The vast majority of the space equipment has been completely deactivated, and the newly produced space equipment is completely inactivated. It seems that the form of the war will not be much different from that of the early stage of the First World War on Earth. Zhou Zhongmou wrote in his diary, and Misha watched him write. Speaking of which, this woman is also quite powerful, during the period of the two of them, she has actually learned Zhou Zhongmou's Chinese, and at the same time can actually understand it - you must know that Chinese has never appeared in this world, there is no similar language in this world, this world is the world of phonetic writing, basically a limited language composed of more than 20 letters.
Now Zhou Zhongmou no longer lives in the big thatched house that the dragons originally helped him build. The dragons, along with humans and dwarves, completely converted the original large thatched-roof stilt house into a palace made of wood and bamboo. Zhou Zhongmou smiled at the time: "Isn't this a combination of Southeast Asian and African-style palaces?" "But it's a little weird. But the comfort is good. And the royal family of Remilet is also sparsely populated and very arrogant. Although he is a real dictator, he is surprisingly not arrogant and extravagant at all, and there is nothing like the beauties that fill the court. The entire palace was only cleaned and managed by hired elves and human servants.
In the past, Zhou Zhongmou was more interested in women, but now he is more interested in building all kinds of toys - such as magic machines. Speaking of which, the recent improved version of the long-range firearms of the Magic Equipped Mechanic has also been exported to various countries, and the barrel and caliber of the cannon are completely customized according to the caliber and loading volume of the shells provided by the other party's industry.
"Long-range sniper type?artillery type?This should be an artillery type, right?" Zhou Zhongmou said as he looked at the list in front of him, and the above requirements made Zhou Zhongmou feel that he had opened up a new world. So the beetle-type magic armor began to come out of the cage. Originally intended to be humanoid, the "Peng Peng" type magic suit was converted into a four-legged one. The low, beast-like Magician, with a large beetle-like body, has artificial muscles reduced to a lower limit—muscles that, in addition to movement, are used to precisely adjust the cannon on its back. For this reason, the harness of the muscles becomes a lot. The beetle-type Demonic Warrior is also not very large, with a body height of only two meters at about six meters, and the Demonic Knight's driving position is located in the front section that is divided into two limbs of different sizes. The view is extremely good. For defense, there are also rotating repeating pistols on the front carapace and large jaw teeth for fighting and balancing the back of the body. The biggest and strongest weapon of this model of the Magic Suit is a long-barreled gun that can rotate on the back half, due to the use of limb movement, the pitch angle of this gun is also quite exaggerated, and the caliber of about 155 mm guns is also composed of carapace and hardened muscle, and the inner wall has a rifling wire that can be finely adjusted and regenerated by a thin layer of heat-resistant artificial muscle. In the same way, the loading and gun doors are also composed of heat-resistant, high-strength carapace and artificial muscles, and the smooth range of the action can greatly improve the accuracy of shooting. And the cannonballs are not something that this magician can produce on his own. Instead, it's all stored in a compartment inside the body, and the carapace in the butt can be opened for easy reloading.
This model of the Magic Suit is also a masterpiece, the knights can drive this machine alone to complete the work of aiming and shooting, and even follow the command to shoot indirectly without pressure, and this thing also has the magic shield that the Magic Suit is standard with, and the firepower of ordinary soldiers and ordinary land warships really can't take him - the relatively flexible movement is another umbrella. This thing was also very popular, and the Duchy of Belken was the first to buy twelve units, and after changing the name to Thor, they were installed in the army - this time it seems that there were not many big nobles interested enough in this one, and other countries bought a little more or less, and this thing was very popular with ordinary officers and soldiers. As for Zhou Zhongmou himself to play with a few of them, what he did was even more exaggerated - the powerful magic power conversion engine drove a larger body, the modified insect-type flying device was really installed on the body part like the elytra of a beetle, and the artillery was reduced to a 122 mm caliber - otherwise it would not be able to fit the body with the flying device installed. The flying Magic Suit was a real eyeball, but it was expensive to build and a cumbersome adjustment process - yes, the artificial muscles and internal frame had to be checked and readjusted after almost every shot of the thing. And you can't fire in the sky, which makes this thing good, but no one buys it. Of course, Zhou Zhongmou also made a model that did not have the ability to fly, but was equipped with a 203 mm heavy gun -- but unfortunately this thing had a prominent problem, first of all, it was slow, and secondly, after shooting a few times, it had to be adjusted and muscles.
Speaking of which, Zhou Zhongmou still has the idea of building a heavy cannon with more than 240 mm, and several drawings have even reached the design of 380 mm and 600 mm mortars. But these are just drawings, if you really want to make it, it must be a super troublesome thing for logistics maintenance technicians, of course, there is a solution if you want to go without trouble - go hunt those powerful dragons or beast dragons, and then use their body carapace materials as raw materials, the cost and production efficiency will be miserable. But now Zhou Zhongmou has found a new toy, that is, a large number of airship design drawings that the mainland countries regarded as useless and transferred. "This is a good thing! Swap the energy part for a mana conversion engine - it's a pity that this engine has a ceiling, and if you want to make something stronger and break the ceiling, you need to have to kill a guy like a dragon. Zhou Zhongmou came to this conclusion after calculating the airship in his imagination - in terms of driving large floating warships, the magic alchemy fusion furnace has a unique advantage. "However, a simple floating battleship can also be equipped with a mana conversion engine. At the very least, it can provide energy for the magic shield. If you want to generate a magic shield, the mana conversion device is one of the essential things, and the other is a strong-willed knight pilot - but how much magic power is needed to generate a shield for such a huge floating battleship? At least humans can't do it!" (To be continued......