Chapter 173: The Nibelungen

To be honest, Zhou Zhongmou also felt quite hot when he saw that those guys could start the magic machine, but as an earthling without magic power, he couldn't drive the magic power conversion engine to control the magic machine soldier by himself. So he had to find another way, and the way he found it was to make a new drivable toy.

"Well, the induction spine doesn't work. Zhou Zhongmou tried those sensing spines, and found that the slender flesh spines on them could not pierce his skin at all, let alone connect to his nerves. But fortunately, in his current design, he only needs to use electrodes to stick to the surface of the skin, but in order to avoid mistakes, he must stick a row of electrodes like a centipede's feet. Of course, in terms of display, Zhou Zhongmou had to try to see if he could make a panoramic screen in this world - it seemed that he couldn't do it, and he didn't even have a tube at hand. But there is still a way to say that there is no screen, can it be on the naked eye?

The result of this thinking is the iron bucket - the individual exoskeleton known as the iron bucket is indeed a bucket plus hands and feet, Zhou Zhongmou sits in this bucket, his arms are wrapped in a sleeve in front of him, and his legs are in the thighs of this thing. The action is amplified by the artificial muscles of the thing, and the power source is to keep a leprechaun behind his neck to charge a small mana conversion engine. The vision of this thing depends entirely on Zhou Zhongmou's eyes - this thing has no head, but there is a circle of observation holes at the top, and to be honest, Zhou Zhongmou has already laughed at his achievement. "It's been a long time to make an iron bucket, hahahaha! This thing is not even as good as Guangwu!"

Of course, this thing is not even as good as Guangwu, and it is definitely far inferior to the beast form after Zhou Zhongmou's direct transformation. However, the only good thing about this iron bucket is that it is cute. It looks like it can make people laugh to death. Just when Zhou Zhongmou was doing useless work. The situation on the continent has fallen into relative calm. After the armistice of the Belken War. Both sides have stepped up the development of armaments, which has led to other countries on the mainland having to step up their armament investment, and the military expenditures of the countries that are already overwhelmed have risen by a large margin -- according to the public information obtained by Zhou Zhongmou, it is estimated that this peace will not last for 10 years, and after 10 years, these countries will go bankrupt.

But the hottest thing at the moment is that the Duchy of Belken has made a real floating battleship - now because of the war, the actions of the Duchy of Belken are being watched to the death, and spies from various countries are doing everything possible to spy on Belken's secrets. And this type of floating warship belongs to the situation that is almost impossible to keep secret. In order to facilitate maintenance work, sea trials cannot be placed in an uninhabited area. It is essential to have a factory capable of carrying out emergency repairs. As the industrial area of Belken, the principality cannot guarantee that there will be no spies - you must know that these countries were united under the Belken Empire hundreds of years ago, and in a sense they are basically the same race. As a result, the floating battleship named "Nibelungen" has been on trial for less than a week, and the basic dimensional data has been put on the desks of the high-level officials of various major countries.

The Nibelungen floating battleship has a length of about 160 meters, a dead weight of about 9,000 tons, and a maximum displacement of about 20,000 tons. It has three bridges, one in front and one behind, one in the front and one below, one main bridge and two auxiliary bridges. At the same time, it is equipped with six twin-mounted 305 mm full-coverage new gun turrets, and the distribution of turrets is two or three turrets in the front and one in the rear. And below are the same two turrets in the front and one or three in the rear. On the left and right sides, there are a total of four rows of 16 128 mm guns. In addition, in order to deal with the latest appearance of the magic armor, a lot of anti-air repeating small-caliber guns and repeating guns were also installed on the upper and lower decks. The magic armor has a magic shield, which is known to all countries, but the shield formed by the knights' "unwilling to be hit" is not possible to form an "indestructible" shield due to the limited strength of each person's will and the power of the magic conversion engine, but it is a shield that can only block a limited number of direct hits - if the power of the direct hit exceeds the upper limit, then the mental oppression of the driver is quite strong. Belken's all-new model of the Magic Alchemy Furnace is also quite stable, allowing the huge floating battleship to drive in the sky up to twenty-three knots per hour, and at the same time, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, this speed can be maintained for a long time.

Of course, the information received by various countries cannot be so detailed, but these are enough to break the earth, the Nibelungen of the Duchy of Belken has made all the large war weapons in this world obsolete in one fell swoop, and the so-called land battleships are almost like shit in front of this kind of floating battleship, because this battleship is too in line with the aesthetics of this continent, too much in line with the aesthetics of steampunk, and the result is that all countries have expressed relative contempt for the floating battleship that appeared at the same time and was much smaller than the Nibelungen- The mothership "Zeppelin" was ignored by everyone.

The Zeppelin is not as exaggerated as the Nibelungen, it is much smaller than the Nibelungen, only about 100 meters long, its weight is 3,000 tons, and its full load displacement is only 8,000 tons. The ship was small, with only one bridge at the top and bottom, and was equipped with turrets and main guns much smaller than those of the Nibelungen - a twin 170 mm turret on the top and bottom, twelve 128 mm guns on the side guns, and an equally large number of repeating cannons and repeating guns. The turret was located in front of the Zeppelin's bridge, and the entire aft deck, except for the small guns, was made up of hooks and brackets, and of course a relatively empty platform. This is the place where you can take off and land the Magic Rig, the Magic Suit will be released into the air here on the hook and bracket below, and the landing will be on the platform above, and the rear hull also has a complex lifting system, which can send the Magic Suit into the hull for maintenance, and then send it below to stand by for attack. This battleship was ignored by everyone because it did not carry a magic machine at all during the sea trial. But it's no wonder that until now, the Knights of the Demon Suit are still arguing over whether to carry the Demon Armored Warrior Knights and whose troops they are carrying, and there is no conclusion at all.

Although there is no definite news about the floating carrier at the moment, various countries have already begun to convert their land warships into magic armored carriers. After dismantling part of the firepower and carrying part of the soldiers, many old land warships converted the vacated space into hangars for the magic soldiers, and built quite luxurious rest and preparation halls for those magic knights from great nobility, and of course, they also carried the technicians who maintained these magic soldiers. However, there are not many such changes - after all, the current countries cannot produce their own magic machines, and the number of imports from Remiret Island is still limited, and the maximum number of Principality Belken is only seventy-two magic armor at the moment, and as for the private armies of those big nobles, it is the number of eighty. (To be continued......)