In the sacred grove on the shores of Lake Nemi, there is a large tree, and around this large tree, there is always a creepy figure wandering alone, and people can see him at any time, day or night.

"See" Shang Luo held up the binoculars, and the figure of the Forest King clearly appeared under the tree. He wore a gray-black toga robe, the corners of which were torn by dragging on the ground, and draped over him like a cloak; The silver sword had no scabbard and was used by him as a walking staff. With each step, the tip of the sword sank into the ground so that his aging body could borrow strength.

There was no expression on the Forest King's face. Because his entire face was painted red - many techno-barbarians would treat the faded Roman idols as treasures, but the Romans themselves were painted with them. The skin, hair, and clothes of each deity are all colored in a fixed way, with a fixed pigment, and they are painted in a fixed shade. These are written in tourist brochures.

Red face has a special meaning in it, and its meaning is life and vitality. The faces of many gods can be painted red, such as Mars, the god of war. But red faces had a special role in Rome: at the triumphal ceremony, Roman generals could be painted red, and at the triumphal ceremony, they could receive the full salute as gods. Therefore, the red face has the meaning of "divine power plus" here.

The same goes for the king of the forest. This is actually not convenient, people have to remove makeup even if they wear makeup, and they can't always wear oil paint on their faces. And this layer of red pigment as thick as the mask, as if it had grown on the face of the king of the forest, I am afraid that it will never be removed again.

He did everything in his power to swear his divinity, not just on the point of being red-faced. He wore a golden laurel wreath on his head, but it was not a golden branch, but a golden branch. He tried to bring the golden branch closer to him in this way, but it was in vain.

The real golden branch is still on the tree: it is a laurel tree. If the cypress tree is the sacred tree of Diana, then the laurel is the symbol of Diana herself. The laurel branches stretched out in all directions, and they swayed and shook gently in the night breeze, and the throne of the king of the forest was crumbling.

In a circle of enclosures, the figure of the forest king slowly wandered and wandered under the trees, guarding the circular clearing with a radius of 100 meters around the laurel tree. But his vigilance against cold weapons doesn't seem to have helped him understand the range of heavy machine guns.

The Dragontooth Soldiers have begun to build positions. Like unpainted soldiers, they were busy. The radius of 100 meters was still too narrow, and they had to cut down more space to arrange the multi-layer firepower network.

Because there were only about a hundred men, they did not dig trenches, but some foxholes. Weapons groups were deployed in the rear, mainly heavy machine guns and anti-tank rifles, all of which weaved a net of fire from all sides.

A company-level position slowly took shape, and a dense array of light and heavy firearms was aimed at the Forest King in the center. Just wait for the position to be built, and then wait for the order from behind, and the attack can begin.

"Professional, too professional." Shang Luo put down the binoculars. Their group did not rush directly to the front, but prepared to storm under the cover of the dragon's tooth soldiers. However, judging from the "tactical literacy" of the dragon tooth soldiers, they are definitely "qualified".

"It does look professional." Wen Yuan leaned against his gun, "Sure enough, this is the standard level of soldiers in the Roman army."

"Do you think they'll be able to take it themselves?"

"I don't think so. If the legionnaires could solve the problem here, then the Romans would simply send legionnaires to work every time. But even if he is an extraordinary existence, he will have to block it if he is given a few shuttle heavy machine guns. I really can't do it, I'll give you a shot, and I see if he can't stop it. As he spoke, he shook the "big gun" in his hand.

It's really a big gun. Even the gun with the bayonet is 1.75 meters, which is a little higher than Wen Yuan himself. The whole gun is shaped like a bolt-action rifle, and it is not fully manual. The butt was especially huge, as large as a blunt object. This ratio doesn't even look like a modern rifle anymore, but rather like a front-loading gun used more than a hundred years ago. In other words, it's a lot like a rifle used when you're in line to be shot.

"You gun. How come I haven't seen it? ”

[It's not easy to get you to say this.] After all, you've seen a lot of things. You haven't even seen this before? Of course, I haven't seen it either. I could feel the surging phlogiston fluctuating in this gun. 】

"This? This is an experimental torch deflagration gun. ”

"What's that?"

"Torch Flame Gun. Oh you don't know, I almost forgot you just joined the group. This is a torch weapon that has only recently begun to be equipped, and the initial theoretical research began more than ten years ago, and the use of cinnabar was a long, long time ago - the so-called torch and cinnabar are our attempts to use aura before you proposed the bottled qi sea. ”

"Is there any difference between these and the bottled air sea?"

"The most important thing is that you can't eat it, and it's useless to eat it. Neither cinnabar nor torch has changed the 'energy level' of the substance itself. A tank of fuel should run 100 kilometers, and it will not be able to run 200 kilometers after adding aura, and even shorten the distance. ”

"And what's the use of these things?"

"Its usefulness lies in the use of aura to mark objects, so that the spiritual consciousness of the qi practitioner can affect the explosion process, because there is such a reason: no matter how you increase the propellant, increase the chamber pressure, lengthen the barrel, etc., there is a limit to the expansion rate of gunpowder gas, this limit is about 1 to 4 kilometers per second, 4 kilometers is the limit of the limit, it is just a theoretical value. Because the velocity of the relative tube of the fluid in the tube of equal diameter will not exceed the speed of sound of the fluid itself. ”

"Then you have this gun"

"That's right. Starting with Cinnabar, weapons using Cinnabar can exceed this speed. This is where cinnabar comes in, and while it doesn't alter the energy contained in gunpowder itself, it allows us to speed up the process and even push the limits of physics. And this torch gun is an evolved version of the cinnabar gun used in the past - 21 years ago, Yingtian Chemical Manufacturing Institute developed the torch technology, breaking through the bottleneck that cinnabar itself can only be mixed with solid gunpowder. They mixed aura with liquid explosives to make a torch. Torch is much more convenient than cinnabar. ”

He turned the gun upside down:

"The bottom of the butt is where the torch is loaded. Well, it's actually a lot like old-fashioned muskets, and I remember that some of the oldest repeaters used the butt to store bullets, and some used them to store gas cylinders. Now this butt is used to store the torch, but it is actually only a small bottle. Because we can control the speed of deflagration, a little high-energy torch can accelerate the projectile to a terrible level. ”

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