After Lan Nuo got a mirror that he was almost satisfied with, he returned to reality. Another day had passed. Counting the time, it had been almost a year since he came to the New World. It was already spring, September of 2643 in the Douluo Calendar.
In the original work, when Tang San joined Shrek Academy, two years later, there would be the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition.
Theoretically, Lan Nuo is qualified to participate, but that is tantamount to ruining the show. If he dares to go, Wuhun Palace will dare to change the winner's reward to a piece of toilet paper, because it doesn't matter where the reward is placed.
Whatever it is, it’s all in Lan Nuo’s pocket.
Now Lan Nuo has seen more clearly that the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition is actually just a draft for the major forces across the continent to select newcomers. There is no glory at all. Even if they win the championship, no one will win it ten years later.
remember you.
So he is not in a hurry to return to the mainland for competitions or anything like that, leaving it to Tang San to show off! Lan Nuo wants to seize the more important wealth in the world, people and means of production!
Only after he truly started to develop his own power, Lan Nuo truly realized that money is nothing more than the country's credibility. No matter how much you earn, if you cannot fundamentally improve the country's strength and voice, it will only dilute the country's credibility.
,Meaningless.
Therefore, what Lan Nuo wants is no longer a simple gold coin, but this requires him to master more industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as a shipping route spanning two continents.
The wealth that ocean trade can bring has been proven countless times in history. The benefits that can be brought by controlling a route connecting two continents are enough to make a port city prosperous to the point of becoming richer than any other country.
Coincidentally, Lan Nuo is now confident that it controls the port cities on the two continents, so now is the time to open a route connecting the two continents.
Soul guidance technology has quickly improved the industrial system that was originally stuck. Especially the metal smelting technology has increased Douluo's original metal production efficiency by more than ten times. Ocean-going ships no longer need to use wooden sail warships.
Already.
Warships made of metal keels can be built larger, and using coal-water slurry internal combustion engines can save space on the deck to accommodate more cargo and weapons.
A large number of soul guides are placed on the ship, most of which are detection equipment and mental power amplification equipment. With these devices, the warship can easily find and locate units several kilometers away by using sonar and radar, and then guide them with one shot.
Bounce over and directly kill the opponent remotely.
The most troublesome thing about sea spirit beasts is that they can run under the ship and cut through the bottom of the ship. This means that in theory, every ship must have a strong person on duty to deal with the approaching spirit beasts.
But after installing a more advanced detection system, no sea soul beast can get close at all, so there is no need to worry about the bottom of the ship being attacked.
Of course, among the sea soul beasts, there are still some guys who are good at diving. Depth bombs cannot 100% eliminate them. Therefore, infrasonic wave generators are placed at the bottom of the ship. Once there is a sneak attack by the sea soul beast, these devices will
It releases an impact like an infrasonic bomb, which is even more powerful than in the air. It directly penetrates the defense of the enemy's body and kills the organs in the body. The effect is extraordinary in actual combat testing. It can basically kill spirit beasts under ten thousand years old.
A fatal blow.
Thousand-year soul beasts cannot survive in such an environment for a long time, and it is difficult to effectively damage ships. In addition, this is a range attack, and it is useless to attack in groups.
Unless there is an organized and premeditated attack by the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, there is no hope of posing a threat to such a ship.
This is basically the basic configuration of the Douming route escort formation. There are also artillery pieces, but the purpose of the equipment is more to defend against hostile ships, and its ability to attack underwater targets is weak.
The escort formation is mainly divided into three types of ships. One is the command ship. There is usually only one ship, which is also the largest. The displacement can generally reach 10,000 tons. The main equipment it carries are sonar, radar, mental translator, and mental force.
The amplifier, as well as the soul guide energy storage array, are responsible for reconnaissance and command, monitoring the sea conditions within a radius of fifteen kilometers centered on it, and providing guidance coordinates for other ships to attack.
The second type is the guided missile destroyer. The duty of this kind of warship is to release missiles and carry out precise bombing of the target area according to the guidance of the command ship.
The third type is small gunboats, which have many specifications. What they have in common is fast speed and strong maneuverability. Their usual task is to strike targets in high-speed moving target areas under the guidance of the command ship.
After all, missiles are very expensive. If you need to launch more than a dozen missiles in one voyage, then the ocean voyage will be a big loss. Facing some thousand-year-old spirit beasts, you can rely on these small gunboats to expel them at close range.
As for aircraft carriers, they don’t exist yet. Lan Nuo has not developed a cheap enough aircraft so far. Today, the industrial level of Xinhuo Camp cannot produce an aircraft that is completely separated from the soul guide. And if the aircraft cannot have
Ordinary people can never reach the scale of ocean voyages when driven by ordinary people.
However, technological breakthroughs are only a recent thing. Compared with aircraft, what is more troublesome is actually submarines, which require an extremely strong and airtight shell and extremely flexible mobility underwater.
Its production is more difficult than on earth because the ocean is full of sea soul beasts. If a submarine wants to be effective, it must be better than these sea soul beasts in terms of performance.
At this time, even if there were submarines that could barely sail in the water, it would be difficult to put them into actual combat. However, torpedoes were already somewhat visible and could maintain high-speed navigation underwater by relying on the cavitation effect.
The mental guidance system has gained an advantage over sea soul beasts in range in the ocean.
However, torpedoes are not necessarily launched by submarines, which makes the progress of submarine research and development still slow as always. Llano still has a long way to go if it wants to explore the deep sea.
Now, the first route inspection is about to begin, and Lan Nuo will also return to Douluo with the fleet. After all, this time is opening up a route, and there is still some danger in the process. In order to avoid encounters with the Sea Princess and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, the fleet
You must pass through a soul beast colony.
Moreover, every fleet coming and going from now on would have to pass through this settlement. Lan Nuo had to go there in person to make the spirit beasts in this gathering place calm down and understand why they should not sneak attack the passing human fleet.
The escort formation surrounded the command ship and the flat-topped super cargo ship and left the port. The aboriginal people in Dongdagang were stunned by this scene. Although the cargo ship was not comparable to the big guys on earth with a displacement of hundreds of thousands of tons, it exceeded 50,000 tons.
It has a large displacement, is supported by rare metal keels, and is piled with containers on the surface. It still makes people cry out.
In fact, when this big guy just drove out of the dock, it once caused panic among the port residents. Some even thought that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was coming to attack the land.
Lan Nuo did not comfort this. As the industrialization process continues, more and more new things have impacted the outlook of Dongdagang residents again and again, which makes them very receptive to new things.
, it only takes a few days for them to accept such an impact, and then start thinking about how to make money from these new things?
After all, now not only the Holy Dragon Empire, but also the entire Sun Moon Continent knows that gold is everywhere in Dongdagang, and you can make a lot of money selling tea eggs here.
The fleet left the port with a roar. As the largest port on the eastern coastline of the Sun and Moon Continent, Dongdagang is a deep-water port with extremely good sea conditions. There were no accidents during the fleet's journey, and it arrived in the deep ocean.
The fleet that has already had one experience can already relatively easily confirm its position in the ocean, and the measurement tools are no longer limited to astrolabe and clock.
Today's Xinhuo Camp does not have the conditions to launch satellites, but if you want to determine the route for the subsequent navigation routes, there are still ways to navigate.
That is to launch the signal generator to the seabed, fix it with strong rivets, and make it into "lighthouses". During the navigation process, as long as the fleet relies on the electromagnetic signals it receives, it can judge the relationship between itself and each lighthouse.
By measuring the distance between each other, you can easily determine your position and ensure that you do not deviate from a safe route.
With such a lighthouse, the technical difficulty of the hardware equipment required by the subsequent fleet can be greatly reduced.
The strait between the two continents is not wide. At the current speed of the fleet, a voyage can be completed in ten days, and a round trip can basically be completed within a month.
So on the fifth day at sea, Lan Nuo saw many powerful sea soul beasts in the detector. Xiaoqing, a hundred thousand year dragon soul beast who seemed extremely honest, also reminded him that he had reached the soul level.
The place where beasts live.
"In my impression, besides me, there are at least three hundred thousand year soul beasts here. You must be careful. They are ignorant and do not understand human etiquette. They are very likely to attack your fleet." Xiao Qing has completely transformed into Licking.
dog.
After all, anyone who sees a dog's head that can blow up a target spirit beast from a distance of 30 kilometers knows that such an opponent cannot be provoked. If he really provokes such a guy, he will be hiding in the sea and sleeping. If he can't protect everything, he will suddenly be
Missiles rained down from the sky and sent him to sleep. Even among the top ten soul beasts, no lunatic would continue to activate the mental power detection for more than 10km, which would cause neurasthenia.
"You don't need to remind me, their position has been marked by the command ship. Look, I think this formation should be with a group of ten thousand year soul beasts preparing to ambush and annihilate our entire army. After all, our
There was too much movement. Some fast-moving sea soul beasts must have informed these guys of our existence.
But it can be seen that they are very confident in their encirclement, and they seem to be completely unaware that they have been discovered!" Lan Nuo released his mental power and projected the picture on the screen of the command ship in front of Xiao Qing.
"Let's do this. I'll give them a little lesson. After they are defeated, you can go over and persuade them to surrender, make those hundred thousand year soul beasts obedient, restrain the other soul beasts, and stop causing trouble on the route.
Otherwise, it would be quite troublesome to use missiles to clean the ground every time we pass by." After Lan Nuo finished speaking, without waiting for Xiao Qing's answer, he had already taken the driving position himself and released his mental power.
Integrated into the spiritual amplifier, the next firework show will be guided by himself.
Explosions caused by ordinary missiles are not very effective against ten thousand year soul beasts. This was reflected when dealing with the Azure Bull Python. Ordinary artillery bombardments caused damage to the solid scales on its body.
The damage is very limited.
Therefore, if you want to cause effective damage to these hundred thousand year soul beasts, the best way is to use armor-piercing weapons to carry out initiation attacks. If you want to release this type of weapons dozens of kilometers away, the guidance accuracy required is very high.
High, if it were another soul master, a hit rate of three would be pretty good. In order to ensure the shocking effect of the first strike, Lan Nuo had to perform a fireworks show himself.
As the target was locked, the guided-missile destroyer raised the big guns on the deck. The straight-standing big guns were launched into the air. Under Lan Nuo's precise control, they drew a graceful arc in mid-air. After reaching the highest point,
They swooped down at high speed towards the 100,000-year-old spirit beasts who were preparing to ambush the fleet. The first ones to arrive were the ones with the largest amount of explosives. They were filled with Destruction Mushrooms. They were powerful weapons for large-scale destruction. Against the 100,000-year-old spirit beasts,
The effect is average, but it has a remarkable effect on other soul beasts, and it explodes into a large area.
Mushroom clouds soared into the sky from the sea. The water columns soaring into the sky could fly hundreds of meters high. The shock waves in the seawater had stronger lethality. Sea spirit beasts less than ten thousand years old died suddenly. Those who win with numbers
, sea soul beasts that can eat whales into bones in an instant like army ants. At this time, all of them are floating on the surface of the water with their belly upwards. Their defense is not enough. In the face of such a large-scale killing impact, no matter how many there are, they are useless.
deliver.
The sudden sneak attack made the 100,000-year-old soul beasts shocked and angry. They didn't even know where the attack came from. Looking for the source, they could only find the missiles that kept swooping down from the sky.
They wanted to intercept, but suddenly felt a huge danger. The shapes of several missiles looked quite weird. Their heads split in mid-air, and at the same time, an explosion occurred inside. Sharp rare metal alloys were ejected from the missiles.
Launched from within, they are like armor-piercing projectiles with discarding fins. After firing, the shell falls off, and the fins are deployed to rotate and maintain stability, falling from the sky at an incredible speed.
The warhead made of rare metal is harder than tungsten steel armor-piercing bullets, and has the same self-sharpening effect as depleted uranium bullets. It fell from the sky at a speed of at least eight times the speed of sound, and instantly hit the torsos of three hundred thousand-year-old soul beasts. There was no impact at all.