Walking out of the cave of the underground dock, Todd followed Wayne and walked along the huge artificially dug passage toward the depths of the cave.
Feeling the temperature drop around him, Todd asked: "Where does this road lead?"
Wayne said without looking back: "Through the northern part of Duixi City, directly to the bay near the Falling Star Mountains."
"Why put the battleship's artillery there for testing?"
"Firstly, it is for confidentiality, and secondly, because the research and development and manufacturing of this weapon have relatively high requirements on the surrounding environment."
Todd nodded and asked no more questions.
A long underground tunnel, with a total length of about three hundred meters.
There are multiple checkpoints and sentries set up in the tunnel. Every few dozen meters, you can see the alien warriors of the Crusaders, loyally protecting everything at the end of this passage.
The second half of the tunnel is a gentle uphill slope. The further Todd walks forward, the more he can feel something strange in the air.
The hair all over the body slowly stood up, and a faint crackling sound could be heard.
After walking the last section of the slope, Wayne passed through the crusaders kneeling on the ground and came straight to a closed stone door. He turned around and said: "Your Majesty, before entering, I need you and your attendants to take off all your clothes."
of metal products.”
Todd nodded to the attendants around him, and soon the weapons and armor were taken off and handed over to the Crusaders for temporary control.
Two orcs, naked to the waist, came to both sides of the stone door, one on the left and the other on the right.
Accompanied by a dull roar, the huge stone door was slowly opened.
A burst of air, filled with powerful electric charges, burst out from the gap in the door.
Todd slowly walked into the weapons laboratory built in the mountains, and was extremely shocked by the scene in front of him.
A huge railgun made of keels, tens of meters long and as tall as a person, was installed in the middle of the laboratory.
Two huge straight keel columns were laid down and placed in parallel, and spliced into a U-shaped track at the end. The blue light, which was strong and weak, flowed quickly on the surface of the railgun like water, making it
The thing in front of me looks like an alien weapon from the future.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of laboratory workers, Todd walked step by step to the side of the railgun and stretched out his fingers towards the gun body. A powerful current penetrated from the surface and hit his fingertips.
Above, a wisp of green smoke rises.
"Your Majesty, be careful!" Wayne took two steps closer and said, "The energy pool is being charged, and the shell of the gun barrel has not been fully installed. It is very dangerous to touch it at this time!"
Todd smiled and wiped the dust from his fingers, using perspective and eagle eyes to look inside the railgun.
One after another, Tesla parasites emitting dazzling blue light were fixed inside the cannon body, forming an electromagnetic circuit in a special U-shaped keel track filled with culture fluid.
"The design principles and internal structure of this giant railgun were based on some pictures and introductions in the Library of Heaven, combined with the characteristics of alien creatures. After nearly two years of research by scholars, the design was finally finalized.
and start building.”
Wayne put on his insulating suit, stood about five or six meters away from the railgun, and explained and analyzed: "This weapon can be roughly divided into four parts, namely the energy storage tank, the accelerator, and the gun body structure.
and firing switch.”
"The energy storage tank is installed directly below the gun body, with a total weight of nearly 29.65 tons. It is the heaviest component on the entire battleship. Such a heavy component not only provides energy for the entire railgun, but also has stability.
The function of the gun barrel."
"The interior of the energy storage pool is composed of 36 electricity storage modules connected in series. Each electricity storage module stores more than 900 Tesla parasites stacked inside. These Tesla parasites, which look like worms, can convert biological energy into
It generates electrical energy and stores it in the body. The keel parasite is the best container to wrap these Tesla parasites due to its innate fire-proof and anti-electricity properties."
Todd did some math while listening: "There are 36 storage keel modules, each module stores 900 Tesla parasites, so the total number of Tesla parasites is 32,400?"
Wayne confirmed: "Yes, there are probably so many Tesla parasites in the power storage module. All parasites have been strictly screened and cultured, and are spirally fixed in the container to ensure the safety of the circuit.
Unblocked and stored energy for stability.”
Todd asked: "With so many Tesla parasites using magnetic rails to discharge electricity, how powerful are the projectiles launched?"
"Your Majesty, what I want to explain next is the accelerator."
"The accelerator is the most important and most complex component of this railgun. Using the good conductivity and high-power capacitance of the Tesla parasite, we wound and spiraled the parasite body and formed a U-shaped circuit return.
"
Wayne connected his two thumbs and raised the other eight fingers upward: "When the insect body in the U-shaped orbit is stimulated to the nervous system, it will begin to activate the electric field in the body, causing the charge to flow from one end of the U-shaped orbit.
Move to the other end, thereby generating a super strong electromagnetic field between the two rail planes, thereby shooting out the cannonballs placed on the track."
Wayne got a piece of experimental data from the assistant behind him: "Currently, through repeated modifications and improvements, this railgun can launch objects of about 11.5 kilograms outward at a muzzle speed of 2800 meters per second.
.”
Todd walked directly in front of the railgun, squatted down, looked at the track, and asked, "What's the range?"
"About 40 kilometers. If the pressure damping of the artillery shell is not considered, this range can be extended again."
Todd stood up and looked around: "What do cannonballs look like?"
Wayne clapped his hands, and later two elf staff carefully pushed a wooden cart and slowly walked towards Todd.
A metal cannonball about half a meter long and shaped like a rugby ball was placed on the shelf in the car.
Todd used his clairvoyance power to look inside and said in surprise: "What's in here is... a spore parasite?"
"Yes. The last battleship used black powder as a means of propulsion to launch spore parasites. Both the range and the hit rate were unbearably poor. This time I sealed three spore parasites into sealed metal shells.
Among them. The launch method through the magnetic rail can not only greatly increase the range, but also because the electromagnetic thrust is continuous and uniform, unlike the unstable impact force when gunpowder explodes, the hit rate is extremely high."
Wayne pointed at the railgun and said happily: "And, did you know, the keel parasite is a natural railgun material! The keel parasite can absorb heat and conduct nerve messages, and the exoskeleton is an insulator, so even if
No matter how high the current power is and how great the instantaneous heat is, the keel can cool the barrel in the shortest time so that it can be fired as soon as possible next time. Not to mention..."
Todd interrupted Wayne's words, pointed to the dark cracks on the laboratory mountain wall formed by the violent explosion, and asked a question he had noticed long ago: "What's going on?"
Wayne followed the direction of Todd's finger and looked at the traces on the rock wall, trembling all over.
Todd saw this and his tone increased: "What is going on?"
"Regarding the experiment and development of railguns, a small accident once occurred."
"Little accident?!"
"When we first conducted kinetic energy experiments on artillery shells, we deliberately increased the electrical power to the maximum in order to test the maximum range. But at that time, we forgot one thing. High-power electromagnetic thrust can certainly maximize the muzzle velocity and range of artillery shells.
change, but the air resistance will also reach an extremely large peak value on the unit pressure of the cannonball."
Wayne sighed: "If the cannonballs were solid, it wouldn't matter. But at that time, the cannonballs we used were loaded with spore parasites..."
Todd understood everything: "So, because the spore parasite could not withstand the instantaneous acceleration pressure, it exploded before flying out of the muzzle?"
Wayne lowered his head and whispered: "After that, we began to reduce the electrical power in a controlled manner and suppress the muzzle velocity of the shell to ensure that it would not cause a fatal explosion pressure to the spore parasites."
Todd closed his eyes and shook his head sadly.
Todd knew that on the road to scientific experiments and technological progress, there would inevitably be casualties among researchers, but when he actually heard about such accidents, it still made him heartbroken.
Todd's voice was a little hoarse: "Make a copy of the list of victims and send it to the palace..."
Wayne nodded in agreement, paused for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to see the power of this giant cannon with your own eyes?"
Todd looked around at the experimenters around him. Among them were white-haired scholars and scarred crusaders, but all of them had expressions of expectation on their faces.
From their eyes, Todd could see that these people were eager for their own recognition and for the whole world to witness their achievements.
Todd nodded towards Wayne: "Load this cannon! Let me see what you can do!"