6. Night of the Long Knife (4)
Shoulder the expectations of others, shoulder the responsibilities that have been given, face dangers, overcome difficulties, and meet challenges.
There is no shortage of dangers, and it is not surprising that lives were lost along the way. In the most extreme cases, you may have to face the situation of trying your best but not being able to save anyone, and endure the disappointment, accusations, scolding, and harsh criticism of your own conscience.
The so-called heroes have to bear these things together.
I have long understood these truths, and I think that I have done a good job of realizing them.
However.
However.
However——!
"What is this?"
The veins in the forehead twitched, and his eyes glanced to the side, and Richelieu's old face, which was claimed to be bulletproof, turned red for the first time.
"This ...... Well...... That is a hobby that one of my subordinates has deposited with me?"
Subordinate?!consignment?!or hobby?!!
Richelieu should really learn the art of lying from scratch, what employee in the world will print a life-size pillow printed with a certain girl, a full-scale spherical joint doll, a figure of various proportions, and three boxes full of uniforms and sex ** to his boss to keep it?
"What about that subordinate?"
"You said him. He was so energetic in service that he not only slept with the military chief's lover, but was also suspected of espionage, and was sentenced to military justice and executed a few days ago. I guess I know too much. ”
Looking at Richelieu's sad face, I am afraid that it is impossible to explore what happened to the subordinate who did not know whether it existed. The guys who were in charge of building this place and moving things in must have really evaporated from the world because they knew too much......
Regardless of the mess, what is presented in front of Roland is a superb work of art.
Sophisticated, refined, graceful but not cumbersome, people with a little appreciation will not hesitate to praise the ...... Female armor.
"It's a little small. ”
"Yes. ”
"Boobs...... It's a bit big. ”
"That's right. ”
Richelieu straightened his back. Nod your head vigorously.
"Three thorough investigations beforehand...... Body data, there are reference objects, you can directly confirm it with your hands, and it is not a problem to create a well-fitting armor at all......"
The cardinal's voice gradually lowered, and finally fell silent under Roland's cold gaze.
Look back at the shiny white armor, and then look down at the plump chest. Roland sighed heavily.
There was indeed a part of the original plan that needed to be applied to the transformation, but it was only a countermeasure prepared by the Gorem maid in front of the main gate, and it would be lifted immediately after the breakthrough. Who would have thought that Richelieu would categorically deny this.
For better or worse, the population is realistic and will only react to the situation in front of them. What they need is an easily acceptable "object" who can save them from their predicament. It is neither out of fear of the individual object, nor reverence for the inner part of the object. To put it bluntly, it is a symbol that is as simple and easy to understand as the "hero" in the story.
In the urgent need to stabilize people's hearts, the embarrassing identity of "the son of the president of the consortium" is obviously difficult to become such a symbol - to put it extremely, it is not a piece that can bring strong stimulation to the public. Qualified billboards that encourage them to cheer up.
What Lüdders needs now is more impactful advertising that gives them more confidence and action.
And that's—
"When the country is in danger, there are traitors inside and strong enemies outside. At this time, a petite foreign girl stepped forward, she was wearing white armor and riding a white unicorn. Under her guidance, Charlemagne was saved from destruction. ”
For a long time. Charlemagne has such legends or prophecies. Li Lin also used this to make fun of Charlemagne: "If the prophecy comes true, then people can understand the defeat of Prince Louis." After all, he was just a short man in high heels, a wig, and perfume, not a foreigner or a woman. It's normal to not be able to do eight Hong Yiyu and the world's martial arts. ”
I don't know where the prophecy comes from, but people believe that as long as a girl riding a white unicorn appears on the street. They will automatically assume that this is the "fulfillment of the prophecy" and will fanatically believe that they have been saved.
"It's really irresponsible and unreliable. ”
Through the curtain, a merciless evaluation came over.
"yes. ”
There is no denial.
Put on the armor and fight the killer maids, chariots, and commandos? Where did this come from? Why don't you just go and slay the dragon? In comparison, Nidhogg's inventions for the suppression of the workers' movement are more reliable - at least those things adhere to the basic principles of physics: the 50-meter-tall, 20,000-ton dangerous species is crushed by his own weight at the moment of birth. A crater was then smashed into the ground; the volunteer prisoners riding on the backs of giant moths were either blown out and burned at the edge of the atmosphere in the process of the moths fluttering up and down, or were killed on the spot by a downward overload of 120 G, and their bones were shattered and laid on the back of the big moth like a flattened mosquito......
"You don't have to do what the old fox says. ”
The spicy words continued.
"In extreme terms, even if the citizens outside ask you for help and entrust you with salvation, you have every right to refuse. We are not God or God's spokesmen, and we are not responsible for things that have nothing to do with us. There is only so much we can do, and just dealing with what is happening around us is exhausting all our energy. ”
“......”
The hand that grabbed the edge of the jacket paused and immediately resumed the movement.
Can't do it;
No way;
There is really nothing that can be done;
It's not hard to say these words, but it's very easy.
Manpower has its limits, and no one can do anything. Therefore, when faced with a cruel situation, people can choose to accept it and let life go on.
Taking a step back, the people out there who died as a result of the unrest had no direct connection to Roland. It makes no difference whether strangers die in the hundreds or thousands, it's just a simple number. If you need to grieve more because there are more of them, it is just pure hypocrisy.
Even if you survive the war in front of you, you will still die. Accidents, crime, sickness, hunger, old age – life is a constant process of death.
Protect people you don't know? In the end, you still can't save everyone, and you are blamed and scolded by those who have lost relatives and friends?
In such a state of affairs, if you don't save yourself, you won't be condemned. Sometimes, in the adult world, 'meanness' can be explained and vague by 'shrewdness'. ”
"But in this way, the people who could have been saved can't be saved. ”
“......”
There was a moment of silence. Outside the curtain asked again unceremoniously.
"Don't you really wear any other armor? Do you really want to rely on this thing to go to war? ”
"No problem, I can wear it alone, it's a masterpiece. ”
Chain mail, plate armor, leather armor - in order to pursue complete protection performance, not only is it full of weight, but also has multiple designs to prevent it from falling off, but also to fully consider comfort and withstand impact. Therefore, under normal circumstances, knights need the assistance of their squires to wear full armor.
Capable of being worn by a single person, the armor is either too thin or indeed cleverly designed. There are special mechanisms beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Or both.
"Imp, that armor...... For us, it is a great irony, and it can also be said to be a cry of despair. The armor was pierced by the Albion's longbow, stopped by the spear of Serres, pierced by muskets, and now crushed by the steel monsters outside—even most nobles treated armor as a thin, brittle uniform. ”
Not to mention, it was clear that this armor was created in order to get out of the shadow of the consortium's technology patents, but in the end, it still applied the consortium's technology to create this work that defies the trend of the times.
"I believe you, the armor blacksmith who has served Charlemagne for five generations, Lorenz Hugo Hemsmidt. I'm sure you're a big irony. I believe in the 'White Rose' you have created!"
Lifting the curtains, the girl in white armor said sincerely. Look up at that majestic figure. The dwarven blacksmith, as if facilitated by solid muscles and scars, felt his eyes moisten for a moment.
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Carrying a huge cannon barrel, the maid in black stood motionless at the door of the High Court.
Compared to the multi-stage accelerated gas cone gun with a full line of wires in her hand, the maid is extremely petite, making people wonder "Doesn't it matter?". But this fear is unwarranted for T801 Terminator Roberta.
The designers have taken into account the relevant parameters, such as the output power, the weight of the gun, the impact of firing, and the countermeasures in the event of a counterattack - nothing is missing. On the other hand. Gorem is endowed with intelligence that is all about completing tasks, and understanding and feeling the care of others is beyond that.
When the target leaves the High Court, use all means to eliminate it - this is the reason for the existence of Terminator Roberta, who exists only for this purpose.
The site is in a state of stalemate. The target did not leave the High Court, and the Maid of Gorem, who was not given permission to attack, was unable to take further action. At the same time, the advantages are certain. In the face of Mach 30 shells and multiple observation methods, brute force and strategy are meaningless, as long as you aim at the target and pull the trigger, the battle is over.
The maid of Gorem was surprised.
In fact, she doesn't have human-like confusion or hesitation. However, if it encounters a situation that contradicts the logical preconditions given to it, its function will temporarily suspend other actions and make every effort to grasp and analyze the current state of affairs.
Someone came out of the High Court.
It's not a big deal.
In the face of super weapons, any struggle is futile. Whether the opponent has a wand or a musket in his hand, a uniform or armor, it is a fate in the face of hypersonic shells.
It's not these trifles that make Terminator Roberta conflicted.
A white beast with horns on its forehead, a single horn.
On the back of the beast, riding a young girl. The girl wears white armor, which is different from the curvaceous and curvaceous armor of the Imirian style that has become mainstream in the past, with the angular geometric lines of ultra-gothic armor, and the structure of the armor is detected to resemble the composition of chain mail. The weapon he carried was a huge sword, with two long-riding sword-like greatsword hilts linked together, and a guard at one end extending a handle to the hilt, which looked similar to a knight's spear from a distance.
The girl did not wear a helmet, and her handsome and beautiful appearance. The long hair flowing in the night breeze is not recorded in the database.
At the time of such a judgment, a synchronous and parallel search found that there were approximate values in the biological data data.
(Regarding Emerging Observations;)
(About Biological Data Comparison;)
(Added chance that the subject and target are feminized as the same person;)
(Calculated to be 80% odds;)
(Determined that this value merited a tactical response to the target;)
The maid's head, which had been hanging slightly, suddenly lifted, and the red light from the crystal eyeballs stained the lenses of her glasses blood-red.
"I really logged in the data after the transformation. ”
Facing the Gorem maid, who was obviously in combat mode, Roland showed a wry smile.
It's hard to imagine that Li Lin would not take countermeasures such as cross-dressing and transformation into account. His consistent style is to not let go of any tiny details, and to do everything to perfection. At the same time, he rarely dragged mud and water, and often used drastic methods such as quick knives to cut through the mess, which can be said to be very utilitarian.
So, when the word "game" was uttered, Roland was sure it was a lame trap.
- If you have the ability, break through and show me.
This is the real purpose of the Maid Gorem guarding the gates of the High Court: to test both Roland and the Maid of Gorem at the same time, and to delay the interference with the coup. Just like those strategies of the past, it was a delicate arrangement that killed several birds with one stone.
"If you don't play a little trick. If I had directly let the Gorem maid attack me, I would have probably already lost. ”
Roland sighed, gently stroking his mount's mane.
"I'm sorry, Links, for interrupting you flirting with Ronnie and taking you into battle. ”
The unicorn snorted slightly, its large, opal-like eyes staring ahead.
"Let's get on. ”
In an instant, some kind of switch was flopped. The unicorn stood up and headed towards the gate with an air comparable to that of a locomotive. Charge at the Grem maid who is wielding a multi-stage accelerated gas cannon.
It was an unparalleled rush of extreme speed, and ordinary people could only see a gust of white wind, and the distance of 30 meters was conquered in only 2 seconds.
But for Terminator Roberta, two seconds is like two hours.
(Target capture.) )
(Auxiliary Technique Unfolds, Gun Shaft Fixed;)
(Cancels the unfolding of the aiming spell and compresses the firing time;)
With the power of a cannon in your hand. It makes no difference whether you aim or not, and there is no way to dodge the target at this distance.
Aiming at the target, which was completely inattentive to herself and rushing at full speed, the Maid Gorem pulled the trigger.
This is when the mutation took place. The posture as steady as Mount Tai collapsed, and the flat muzzle of the cannon was raised high. Straight to the sky.
Land subsidence? No, this is --
As the truth of the mutation is discovered, a bright red flash of light tears through the night sky, and the massive recoil slams the cannon and the user into the bottom of the quagmire.
"I noticed at the first shot that the recoil was being diverted. ”
The first law of mechanics: When a force is applied to an object, it itself will also experience a force of the same magnitude and in the opposite direction. This is the reaction force.
When firing shells, the artillery itself is subjected to the same reaction force, i.e., recoil. In order to reduce the recoil, more measures such as hydraulic cushioning, fixed attachments, and muzzle pushers are used, or they are simply made into recoilless guns, so that the two reaction forces in opposite directions cancel each other.
Even directed energy weapons such as laser cannons and electromagnetic cannons have recoil, and multi-stage accelerated gas cone-chambered guns that use chemical energy to fire cannonballs are unlikely to break the basic theorems of physics. Historically, the V3 gun was designed to be fired fixed on a hillside, in addition to the fact that the barrel itself was too long and the horizontal tube needed to be supported, it was also to a considerable extent to alleviate the recoil generated during firing.
The V3 gun, with a theoretical muzzle velocity of 1.8 kilometers per second, was so cautious, but what about a multi-stage accelerated gas cone-chambered gun with a muzzle velocity of Mach 30? When a 729-gram aluminum shell was accelerated to a speed of 10 kilometers per second, the muzzle kinetic energy of the gun was about 26.5 megajoules (MJ). As a comparison, the muzzle kinetic energy of the SK-C/34 380mm main gun of the German Bismarck-class battleship in World War II is about 269 megajoules, and the muzzle kinetic energy of the 88L71 tank gun of the King Tiger is about 6.4 megajoules, and the Mark16 152mm naval gun, which was widely used on the light cruisers of the US Navy during the same period, uses APMark35 (59kg weight), the muzzle velocity of the new barrel under the full charge is 762m/s, and the muzzle kinetic energy is 17 megajoules...... The recoil equivalent to one-tenth of the main gun of a large battleship was concentrated in an area the size of the butt of an anti-materiel rifle. When it is applied to the human body again, there will be only one result - the bones and internal organs of the whole body will be shattered, the broken bones and internal organs will erupt from the back, and the scattered fragments and cannons will be smashed into the outer wall of a certain building.
Even if the Terminator Roberta is invulnerable, there will never be a thrilling scene, and when firing the cannon in a standing position, he will still fall on his back with his head in the air. A big crater was smashed into the ground, and the shells didn't know where they flew.
In order to fire a stable and accurate multi-stage accelerated gas coneshell, it is necessary to have some kind of solid and strong support.
The support of the Terminator Roberta is the surrounding ground and walls.
"You shoot a large number of thin lines around your perimeter that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and these threads that are far stronger and more stretchable than spider silk radiate around you, connecting to the ground and the facades of the surrounding buildings. Through the tension and radial structure of the silk threads, the recoil is largely dispersed and transferred to the ground and other buildings. ”
Standing on the edge of the caving ground, Roland sighed at the churning mire.
"Because of this design, you can't move it easily. That's the truth of 'guarding the gate, it's not that you don't have to move easily.' It's that you can't move easily. ”
If the mechanism is recognized, it will be very easy to crack. The "Barrier" and "Consecrated Blade" are stacked to form an invisible high-frequency vibrating blade, and the compound technique is spread towards the surrounding buildings by taking advantage of the gap in the program's centralized target recognition, so as to liquefy the support points before the multi-stage accelerated gas cone cannon can be fired. Next, the Maid of Gorem will be smashed into the mire by the recoil of her own weapon.
"It doesn't matter if it's left alone, but I want it, with that guy's bad taste. Definitely—"
Before he could finish speaking, a quagmire with a diameter of 10 meters erupted. In the splash of mud, a figure floated above.
Terminator Roberta.
It was a full circle smaller than before, and all the armament was abandoned, even the legs and the tips of the fingers were missing, and the spout and machine-gun muzzle emerged from under the abandoned limbs.
Final Mode - Roberta Zion. Separate the excess and reduce the weight in one go. Boost the power of the machine with two jet components at the base of the thigh, a wired remote-controlled wrist machine gun for three-dimensional attacks, and a beam cannon at the mouth-
"Legs or something, it's really a decoration. ”
The search program had just started, and the blade was already piercing through the chest.
That blow wasn't enough to stop the killing machine. She lifted her wrists, and the beam cannon in her mouth began to charge. Just a few tenths of a second before the attack, the long sword that pierced his chest released the electricity that Roland poured with all his might.
As the early hours of the morning turned into noon, a loud thunderous roar swept across the ground.
The sound and light of the multi-stage accelerated gas cone gun exploded in mid-air. Thunderbolt compressed to the limit poured along the greatsword, burning the puppet from the inside out, and plasma and thunder spewed out of the joints and eye sockets as they broke through the loop. Without the cover of artificial skin, the metal skeleton like a skeleton shook a few times, and as the red light in the eyeballs gradually died out, it no longer moved.
The light did not disappear, and the girl rode the unicorn to the ground steadily, and galloped towards the National Academy of Magic without looking back.
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There are very few people who can make one of the seven original sins, jealous Gelus, care.
Except for the archon, Jerles, who was almost a bird of birds, rubbed his eyebrows vigorously at the communication terminal at the moment, and his tone was almost pleading.
"I mean, isn't your progress too slow?"
“......”
"It's just a school crackdown. Kill straight in, use your special moves to the east and west, this one also headshots, that one also headshots. It can be all solved in 15 minutes at most, right?!"
“......”
"It's been 2 hours now, it's been 2 hours!Uncle?!Do you want to eat eggs again like last time, and wait until the chicks have hatched?!"
“...... So sleepy, I went back to sleep. ”
In the communication interface, a bald man yawned long, looking at the languishing look, I really wondered if he would die of sleep on the way home.
"You...... You dare to run away in the middle of the mission?!!!!!"
"It's not a big deal, it's easy, so why don't you do it?"
The bald man replied with a bored expression.
"Give me a serious job!!! since I get a salary, work for me, ah!!"
"Don't say what you can't do. ”
Again, after a long, long breath as if to exhale the sigh of his life, Gerus's shoulders collapsed.
"I see, you can make an offer, how can you be willing to go all out to fight. ”
"A bowl of shrimp. ”
"What?!You've eaten me!Are you still human?!Demon!!"
"Is a bowl of shrimp expensive?"
"Of course it's expensive! it's 38 marks!"
"Then find someone who can fight. ”
"It's not that hard. ”
With a sigh of relief, Jerus smiled cruelly.
"Just now, the little master destroyed the puppet, and now he is coming towards you, and there are some obstacles on the way...... For him, it shouldn't be a problem. ”
On the road from the High Court to the National Academy of Magic, there were not only Titans' rebels, but also the Wehrmacht's armored combat vehicles and commandos. Although not all of them were on this route, it is difficult to imagine breaking through the defenses with only one man and one horse to this place where heavy troops are gathered.
If anyone could do that......
"I'm going to have a little fun. ”
The bald man, Sloth, the "lazy" of the Seven Original Sins, stood up from the ground, and the soldiers who had been defending him suddenly became agitated.
The soldiers surrounding Slos numbered about 50 men with new breech-loading guns in their hands, but none of them dared to shoot.
Just raise the gun and aim the muzzle of the gun at the other party, so that the cold sweat on the corners of the forehead and the shaking trouser legs reveal the panic in the heart.
"I'm sorry, you guys, give me a death. ”
Before he could react to the careless words, the target had disappeared from sight. In the next moment, the human head swelled up as quickly as if it were blowing up a balloon, and in the screams that did not resemble human voices, the dull sound of the skull shattering sounded one after another, and the red and white masses sprayed out.
"So, Roland Dalke, what will your brain smell like?"
Immersed in the center of the sea of blood, Sloth licked the marrow fluid stuck to his cheek and cast his gaze into the distance. His expression at the moment was as excited as a child getting a new toy. (To be continued.) )