"Well, let her run."

On the edge of the city of Port Chardo, little Sharon stood in frustration beyond the wreckage of the burning café in front of him.

Beside her stood a stern-looking Professor Malcolm.

All the hussars in the entire embassy lined up on the perimeter to prevent the lively guys from approaching.

Behind them were the burning wreckage, where thirty military walkers were rummaging for anything that could be examined, the Council of the Steam Lords had sent a group of halflings to take charge of it, and there was even an armed airship in the sky blocking the airspace.

From this, it can be seen that this action was by no means a temporary initiative of Xiao Sharon.

But though she had a powerful uncle in Port Chardo, her relationship was not strong enough to directly connect with the Steam Lords, so it was another powerful person who played a leading role in this attack.

"Bang"

There was a boom beneath the ruins, and then the scarlet light exploded there, causing the halflings to retreat in amazement.

The ground soon cracked apart, and Lord Pa Ying was slowly emerging from the collapsed and burning ruins, holding a scarlet spear in his hand, and each step left a blinding blood mark, indicating that the cultists in the café had been executed.

Except for the one that is the first.

And when he saw the holy spear in the hand of the Millennium Venerable Lord, Xiao Sharon took a step back with some fear.

She's already a vampire.

No vampire dares to face the majesty of the eternal silence of the Holy Lance.

"Your Excellency, have you caught someone?"

Professor Malcolm stepped forward to ask, and Lord Pa Ying nodded, then shook his head, frowned, and said:

"It was just a 'stand-in' for consumption, they made it so vivid, I destroyed it and put a mark of sin on it, it would have made the source miserable for a while, but it wasn't easy to track down her exact location.

In my experience, what these guys are best at is hiding, they have been hiding in the shadows of the world for a hundred years, but now that they are active, it means that we can finally pull out the poison that has penetrated into the world little by little.

However, there is good news.

With twenty barrels of dangerous psionic plague in the basement of the café, the halflings of the Steamlords will take care of the next harmless treatment, and this is over. ”

"I still think you're a little too aggressive."

Little Sharon whispered:

"If Lord Murphy were here, he wouldn't have scared the snake but would have put a long line to catch a big fish."

"A lot of people thought the same way you did, guess what happened to those who wanted to fish?"

Lord Pa Ying took off his battle helmet embellished with the insignia of the Blood Alliance, he looked down at Xiao Sharon, and said softly but seriously:

"You're from Translasia, and you've probably heard the story of old Finock, and when you think you're fishing at dusk, you're often the one they catch.

Not everyone has Murfina's strange powers that can easily withstand subspace corrosion, kid.

When facing them, a cold surprise attack is always the first choice, don't try to play with them, don't listen to anything that comes out of their mouths, and it's best not to even make eye contact!

The corrosion of the subspace is pervasive, and their temptations are hidden in every handwriting of every 'perfect plan' you come up with. ”

"But the source still ran away."

Little Sharon looked at the corpses that had been cleaned out of the café by the rattling steam walker, and she whispered:

"Just killed some minions, and did no harm to Dusk."

"No, even for Dusk, the Golden Rank of the dead is a rarity, Grand Duke Triss destroyed one before, and now I have purified another, leaving her with fewer and fewer options, she is being forced into a corner.

And I extracted this. ”

Pa Yingzun opened his left hand, and a sealed cloud of filthy power curled up in the scarlet light.

The Grand Duke of the Blood Alliance whispered:

"This is the characteristic of the source's strength, for the best trackers and assassins, having this thing is enough for them to locate one stronghold after another on the continent left by the source, and it just so happens that Grand Duke Shani seems to be very idle lately.

It's time to find something for her.

I'll be in Port Chardo for a few days, and I'll clean up everything related to subspace.

It's time for you to go back and continue your work here. ”

"Oh, okay."

Xiao Sharon was very resistant to staying with Lord Pa Ying, just like children would not like the majestic and old-fashioned head teacher, and when she heard it, she immediately flapped her wings and ran away.

After a few deft air turns, she quickly disappeared into the "forest" of towering but smog-shrouded buildings of the Port of Chardo.

After she had left, Lord Pa Ying looked back at Professor Malcolm and said:

"That self-exploding squirrel that kid used just now has a strange power in it! It was that power that interfered with the source's ability to open the teleportation and escape, giving me the chance to kill the stand-in with a single blow.

I guess it has something to do with divinity.

What has the kid been exposed to lately? ”

"Well, she's been tinkering with machinery in the embassy that I don't quite understand."

Professor Malcolm was astonished, and immediately replied:

"Little Sharon doesn't run around the city except for her uncle, she's a very patient and persistent child, which may be why Murphy chose her, and she's a vampire, lord.

I don't mean to disrespect vampires, but as we all know, in the eyes of the gods, the image of vampires is a little bit unbearable. ”

"You can say that the gods hate us, that's true."

Lord Pa Ying shook his head and said:

"But the kind of power that little Sharon just used is different from the divinity I've seen before, it is not attached to Sharon, but it is focused on the explosives she created, which reminds me of the legend of the 'mechanical god' in this city.

Perhaps, she was targeted by some supernatural entity that was higher than reality. ”

"I'll send her back to Transncia at once!"

The professor said in a deep voice:

"Sharon has a special status, and she can't continue her adventures in Port Chardo."

"No!"

Lord Pa Ying waved his hand and said:

"That power is harmless! I've confirmed this a long time ago, except that as far as I can remember, it doesn't often appear next to a mechanic, but Sharon seems to have a good relationship with it.

You can even ask it to help.

It's magical.

Let Sharon continue her path as an engineer, and maybe one day, this little man will surprise all of me. Also, tell Murphy about the Port of Chardo as soon as possible.

Yuan had clearly set his sights on him.

I don't want the good leader of the vampires to roll over on this kind of thing. ”

Professor Malcolm nodded, took one last look at the scene of the tragic explosion, and turned to leave, while Lord Pa Ying stayed where he was, allowing the halflings to continue cleaning up the "lair of the gods" in peace.

The Witch Cafe has been in Port Chardo for more than thirty years, and the Steam Lords have not been able to realize the hidden dangers of this small place, but this wave of Lord Pa Ying personally made them realize that those terrible things are not far from them, and the hand of subspace has reached into Port Chardo.

This brutal truth may make the stubborn lords realize that the outside world is closely related to them.

Holding his battle helmet, the Venerable Lord glanced at this "mechanical city" that he had been to many times, but could not talk about at all.

Under the foggy and gloomy sky caused by the large amount of exhaust gases emitted by the operation of the factory, the Venerable Lord maintained the cold persona of the "Cold Face Artist" and the "Millennium Venerable", but he whispered in his heart:

"Are you still protecting this place? Just like it did to protect us before. My forgotten but real old friend. ”

——

Murphy didn't know what was going on in Port Chardo yet, but if he knew, he would definitely applaud the Lord for beating him up.

But he did watch a halfling-related thing being tested right now.

On the edge of the Valley of Shadows, a small airship from Perfect Shipping is landing, and the old flywheel himself is on the way, driving a steam walker into the ground from its open cabin below.

That thing was one of the five walking machines sent by Xiao Sharon, and it was the first one that was "transformed" by the old flywheel and the group of "big skill masters" of the loyal brother, to be precise, this can't be regarded as a transformation.

Because the internal structure of the walker was not modified, the Transancians simply attached it with a weapon device that had been removed earlier.

Even the modification of the weapon is very crude.

After all, Transencia did not have the industrial capacity of Port Chardo, and a twin-mounted automatic hunting crossbow was set up in the position of the secondary gun, and two "improvised flamethrowers" were also installed in the front and rear of the walker, which was the idea of Brother Loyalty.

As for the main guns of the Walker

Well, this thing is a halfling rapid-fire cannon removed from Captain Paula's airship.

It's too heavy to fit on a normal vehicle, but it has mechanical ports reserved inside to connect to other halflings war machines, so it's barely usable to be mounted on a walker.

The only problem is that when this thing is installed, the red-painted walking machine has a "top-heavy" feel.

It makes Murphy feel strange no matter how you look at it.

The walker's six mechanical legs slowly move against a heavy rapid-fire cannon, the old flywheel adjusts its gyroscope in the modified crew compartment to make its pace more steady, and the thing is still spewing white smoke from the rear exhaust pipe, giving the scene a "steampunk" flavor.

"! What did they do when they came to us? ”

A few new people who were called over together stood in front of the walker and discussed the various irrational structures of this thing, but the light in their eyes became brighter and brighter with the movement of the steam walker.

Obviously, although this thing is not the same thing as the "tank" in most people's cognition, for the old silver coins of war thunder, the thing that has a main gun, armor, and can also aim and shoot is a "tank"!

Although it runs on six legs instead of tracks, this is not a big issue that must be noted.

"Ah, our 'Ace Car Group' guild is going to be awesome this time."

The guy with the ID "Helltiger" rubbed his hands together, his eyes full of longing, and he seemed to have seen himself and his crew driving this strange thing through the army of gnolls.

But the guy next to him, named "Big Fat Rat", was a little hesitant.

He whispered:

"This thing looks top-heavy, if we drive too fast, will it turn itself over on its own? And the crew compartment of this thing is so weird! It was designed for halflings, and we had to show half of our bodies when we sat in them.

If someone else takes the time to do it."

"What do you think, the gnolls don't have tanks!"

The third guy, the Iron Leopard, crossed his arms and retorted:

"As for safety, why not just add some steel plates around? We also have to add some blast strips to the outside of the steel plates, so that when the gnolls get close, we can give them the whole life. ”

"Alas, child, listen to your uncle's advice, anything will only hurt you."

As the "commander", the hell tiger immediately retorted earnestly:

"There's so much space behind the car, all the steel plates? Do you drive a tank, or do you build Arjun? If you want me to say, I should put another minelayer in the back of this thing's ass! In this way, it makes up for its lack of destructive power.

Brother Zhong said that the flamethrower still needs to be adjusted, and it can be further transformed at the current level of the arsenal.

As for personal protection?

Hey, why don't we just wear plate armor when we drive? ”

"! Plate Knights drive spider tanks, you're a real talent! But it sounds very emotional, that's it! ”

The three guys immediately celebrated with a bullet, only to be immediately smashed in the leg by the old flywheel who crawled out of the walker with a wrench.

The grumpy halfling shouted:

"What are you three rookies doing there? Come here, I'll teach you how to drive this thing! Hell, I still have so many experiments to finish! Don't waste my time! ”

"Wow, it's coming!"

The three selected "tankmen" immediately ran to the walker that was staying in place, then clumsily climbed up, and sat in the crew compartment reserved for halflings in a very bad posture under the guidance of the flywheel.

"Remember, the lever on the left is for acceleration, the pedal on the right is for braking, the direction control is the propulsion lever in front of you, don't speed while driving, the steam furnace of this walker is very old, it can't withstand too many momentary acceleration forces.

However, the gyroscope is intact and has a classic design, which will ensure that you don't lose your balance at normal speeds. ”

The old flywheel stood on top of the walker, casually explained a few sentences, and threw a copy of the "Walker Operation Manual" to the fresh-looking Helltiger and his two crew members.

"I don't have time to stay here, so you hurry up and use how to start and drive it, and I'll teach you how to use the rapid-fire cannon when you get started, this thing needs to be operated by a special gunner, and the auxiliary aiming of the orb has always been a big problem, so if you want to hit it accurately, you have to practice."

The old flywheel shouted a few words, and then went down the ladder to the ground.

He watched the walker staggering to the new hands under the control of three new men, and heard the joyful shouts of the three guys, like the excitement of an old man when he got a new toy.

But they were stupid and didn't know much about engineering, so Old Flywheel had to make up for them.

It's so annoying.

"I'm curious why you designed this walker with a six-legged design instead of a more secure track-type drive?"

Murphy's voice rang out beside the old flywheel, and the master engineer scoffed at the question, saying:

"Legs or something are just decorations, and the big guys on it won't understand!

You see it has six legs, right?

But that's really just a trick, it only needs four legs to function nimly, and the remaining two legs have special capacitors to drive away approaching enemies.

Even three legs can run when necessary.

After all, we didn't design a walker, but a fast-moving turret, which was an order from the Brass Dwarves during the Third Black Plague, when they were beaten badly by the gnolls, and the artillery positions were always destroyed.

They needed a cannon that could move quickly, and it is not known which genius came up with the idea of attaching legs to the turret

Well, I can understand your doubts.

After all, I've seen the 'tank' drawings of the Gentile kind, and I must admit that there are many benefits to this wheeled design, but the problem is that the walker doesn't need long-distance fast propulsion and off-road ability, and it's mostly used for defensive warfare.

Therefore, flexibility is its greatest feature, for which the halfling has designed a set of exquisite transmission system and a new gyroscope. ”

Old Flywheel glanced at Murphy and said:

"Do you need me to go on? Do you want me to explain to you how the gyroscope works? By the way, stuff your psychic brain with some real mechanical intelligence. ”

"Forget it, I'm happy to see this thing running."

Murphy waved his hand and said:

"When will the renovation of the remaining four walkers be completed?"

"It doesn't need to be transformed, Murphy!"

The old flywheel waved his hands and said:

"All of its construction is complete, just put the main cannon on it!

Of course, the design of the crew compartment does have to be changed, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable for your big man to sit in it, and the problem now is that the main guns, the rapid-fire guns on Paula's airship have been removed, there are only two, and the remaining three walkers can only be equipped with automatic hunting crossbows.

Hey, there's no deterrent at all. ”

"What if you use psionic energy?"

Murphy squinted his eyes and said:

"Make an enchantment for the car, reserve a few attack spells, and then have the psyker sit in it as a 'gunner', what kind of fire spell and what kind of freezing ray, these are all easy to solve. You don't have to use a mechanical cannon, and your old baby has great powers, maybe you can walk away from her relationship? ”

"Then you'll have to pay more."

The old flywheel shook his head and said:

"Ilsa is a very greedy halfling, and you may not be able to satisfy her big appetite."

"Well, that's what I need to worry about, my dear flywheel."

Murphy looked at the rattling walking machine that was being manipulated by three budding newcomers, and he whispered:

"Is there a problem with transforming the rest in ten days?"

"Huh? Why is it so urgent? ”

The old flywheel was surprised and said:

"Do you have a hunch of something?"

"I can't say."

Murphy rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"But it always feels like the big one is coming, about the redesign of the chainsaw sword, can you make that one-handed sword style thing?"

"That's easy, but you can't make a good miniature steam furnace."

"I can add money."

"Oh, that's no problem, my old baby's black market is dedicated to serving rich guys like you."

(End of chapter)