Chapter 93 Transaction

After entering the institute, I discovered that there are actually only four main halls surrounding a courtyard. Most of the staff, including NPCs, are concentrated in the main hall on the street! The first thing we entered was the main hall located on the street. Most of the people here were office workers. Behind the hall was the courtyard, where there were a lot of messy materials. The courtyard is surrounded by main halls. This is the real research part. Normal people are not allowed to enter here under normal circumstances!

After entering the courtyard, we first entered the main hall opposite. This is the magic science laboratory, where levitation technology was born. It was a mess and there was almost nothing intelligible, and I lost interest even after looking at it. The next target is the main hall on the left side of the courtyard, which specializes in the study of mechanical principles. Unlike the magic science laboratory, the things here are generally unpowered, mainly transmission devices. But there's something very attractive here, and that's the cannon!

European breech-loading artillery technology is obviously a level higher than that of Asia. Although they have not fought with European warships, they know the performance data. In the absence of high-power gunpowder, European artillery can still maintain the same power and range as Asian artillery. This is a very high achievement, and what makes me pay more attention to it is the cost of European artillery! I don’t know why the cost of the cannons here is much lower than ours. Basically, the cost of two stamped dragon cannons can buy three German cannons. If you have a factory to make them, the price will be cheaper!

"Do you sell this technology?" I pointed to the artillery I was interested in.

Ashford seemed a little embarrassed, and I knew my request was a little too much. Combat readiness resources are different from other things. They don’t just have to be earned! After sinking for a minute, Ashford said, "Can you wait for me for ten minutes?"

I thought he was going to reject me, but now it seems there is a way! Nod quickly! "certainly!"

Ashford turned around and ran out, but he didn't come back for half an hour. The person who stayed with me kept apologizing and said that the president would be there in a minute! Fortunately, there are a lot of good things here. If he doesn't come back, I will slowly move around. Anyway, the guy next to me is the person in charge here. He knows everything you ask and explains it in detail!

Forty minutes later Ashford finally came back. "I'm really sorry! We didn't have the same opinions internally, so it took some time!"

"Then what's the result?"

"It's okay to sell, but we don't want the money!"

"No money? Then what do you want? I have nothing to exchange with you!"

"Why not?" Ashford shook his head and said: "My subordinates just informed me that the warships in your fleet are equipped with very advanced propellers. The power is at least five times that of our propellers. This technology Isn't that enough?" I was about to say that the technology was not ours, but Ashford interrupted me and said, "You don't have to say it, I understand that the thruster technology is more valuable than my artillery technology. Of course I won't Make you lose money! Please follow me!"

I followed him to the corner of the hall in confusion. He pressed on the wall, and a door appeared on the wall. There was actually a secret room! This secret room is not too big, only about the size of an ordinary classroom. Everything in the room was covered with canvas. Ashford walked over and pulled off the canvas. Two shining silver objects appeared in front of my eyes!

"What's this?"

Ashford introduced them one by one: "This big one is a cannon!"

"I can see it! It's obvious!"

"This is not an ordinary cannon. This is the treasure of our guild, a super-heavy cannon with a range of up to 100 kilometers! This time I bought gunpowder technology from you just for it. With your gunpowder , its firing range should be up to 1 kilometer. This firing range is basically 4 to 6 times that of other countries' artillery. We can completely rely on the power of ultra-long-range artillery to defeat the enemy outside their firing range! With this thing, both the British and the French will be easy to deal with!"

"But the sight range of our lookout and telescope is just over 90 kilometers? Even if the weather is good, 100 kilometers is the limit! How to shoot at targets outside the sight? What about the accuracy? It can't be done Just rely on coverage to shoot, right?"

"Of course! Our method is to use the outpost ship to observe the fleet! This outpost ship is not a new invention, it is just a small warship. What we designed is to install a large number of propellers on this ship, except for the two It is equipped with nothing but small-caliber self-defense artillery, so its speed will be quite terrifying. When shooting, let the outpost ship arrive between us and the target, observe the enemy's position and notify the team with a flag, and then we can accurately It fired. Anyway, the outpost ship only observes the firing effect, and does not need to enter the enemy's firing range. In addition, it is small in size and fast, so it is not easy to be hit even if it enters the enemy's firing range. Definitely a very good design!”

After talking for a long time, it turns out that the German plan is like the laser-guided artillery shells being used by various ** units. They send an outpost reconnaissance vehicle to the enemy's vicinity to illuminate the target with laser, and then the long-range artillery only needs to fire in the general direction. The cannonball, the cannonball itself will fly after the laser reflected by the target! Ashford's technology is basically a variant of the laser guidance technology, but I have to admit that the accuracy of this method is first-rate!

"What's that next to you?"

"This?" Ashford pointed to the smaller thing and said, "This thing is a repeating ballista. We designed it mainly for air defense!"

"Repeating ballista?" Doesn't that mean a rapid-fire machine cannon? "What's the rate of fire of this thing?"

"The fastest speed is two rounds in three seconds, but bullets often jam! This thing is still in the research stage and has not been finalized!"

"Add these two skills together, I will change!" In the last monster siege, the giant wolf airborne by the flying monster almost broke through the defense and entered the Spirit Gathering Tower. If we have a rapid-fire crossbow, we can basically Preventing the invasion of air power is a good thing! Although Atlantis said that the thruster technology should not be transferred easily when it was sold to us, it did not say not to transfer it! I can use this technology in exchange for two technologies. It shouldn't be easy, right?

"Deal!" Ashford answered simply this time. He probably considered that I would want both of them when he brought me in.

Let Rose go back to the ship to get the technical scroll, and Ashford and I shook hands again. Both businesses are very cost-effective. Although I use technology in exchange for it, it still feels different from buying it with money. I always feel very happy, so I am in a good mood. "If you have any use in the future, come to my place and ask. Our Frost Rose Alliance is willing to become an ally of the Iron Crusaders!"

I originally thought that Ashford would be polite to me, but he suddenly said: "Really? I really need your help with something!"

My gosh! Forget about the cultural differences between East and West! What Chinese people say to help them next time is usually a polite way of speaking, which belongs to the language of the scene and can be understood as diplomatic rhetoric without any effect. But the cultural differences between the West and the East are very big. Ashford thought I really wanted to help, and he actually really needed help! There is no other way, I have already said my words, it is better not to regret it right away!

"What is it? As long as I can do it, I will definitely help!" You still need to get vaccinated first, so that you can explain it easily if you can't do it!

Ashford may not be very sure: "Actually, as long as you try it, it doesn't matter whether you can complete it or not!"

"What on earth is going on?" It looked very difficult. What Ashford said meant that he didn't even think that I could complete this job!

"We received a very important guild task, which requires us to collect 30 purple-leaf grasses! Whether we pick it ourselves, grab it from others, buy it, or simply grow it ourselves, no matter the method, as long as we can Once you get 30 plants, you can complete the mission!”

"Isn't this grass so rare that there aren't even 30 plants in total?"

"The number is huge!"

"So they are spread out and difficult to collect?"

“Purple grass grows in the same place all over the country!”

"Oh! I understand, the terrain of that place is so strange that you can't get in!"

"That place is a flat, mirror-like plateau. There are two wide avenues you can go up to. Not to mention people, even carriages can drive in!"

"Why can't I get it if the environment is so good?" I suddenly remembered: "Isn't there a very troublesome monster guarding the area?"

"You're right!" Ashford nodded helplessly, and then sighed: "First we posted a notice of acquisition, but no one could do it! Later we decided to go do it ourselves. At first we sent 7 The team went in, but...!"

"What's wrong?"

"Everyone is back!"

"Then send more people!"

"Later, a ten-man team was sent, and the result...!"

"It's over again?" I asked tentatively.

He nodded! "In the end, we decided to make a desperate move and mobilize players above the average level of the entire guild to go together! More than 7,000 people went up together, and within 3 minutes, they walked 0 meters! Then..."

"Are they all killed again?" Seeing Ashford nodding again, I asked suspiciously: "Are you kidding me? Seven thousand people were wiped out in 3 minutes, and no one rushed more than 0 meters? What kind of monster is so powerful? Isn’t it the place where dragons gather up there?”

In my impression, there seems to be no monster that is so powerful, except for dragons! But a dragon can't kill seven thousand people in the blink of an eye! Unless it is a dragon gathering place like Dragon Island, in that kind of place, let alone 7,000 people, even 70,000 people will not be able to survive for three minutes!

Looking at Ashford waiting for his answer. "It's indeed a gathering place, but it's not a dragon's! It's something else, something we don't know how to describe! The number is quite large, we saw probably tens of thousands!"

"No wonder! There are only 7,000 of you, and there are tens of thousands of them. If the levels are not much different, 3 minutes is already good! But it's still wrong! They have a numerical advantage and can indeed defeat you in 3 minutes, but you With so many people gathered together, how did they attack? It is unlikely that they would attack seven thousand people at the same time, right?"

"That's the key! These things can fly, and they're so fast, we're dead before we even have time to react!"

"Don't you have a battery of 'shooting' ballistas? Can't you just push that thing up?"

"The limits for firing ballistae and artillery are the same!"

"Got it!" The restriction of artillery is that it can only be used in cities and battleships. Although the cannon can be dismantled and transported away, there is no way to use the cannon outside the battleship or city. There is only one possibility to use the cannon in the wild. Then It's a siege, but there are still restrictions, that is, you can't leave the target city too far! Since the continuous fire ballistae has the same restrictions as other cannons, it cannot be transported away!

"Since you want my help, tell me as much as possible. I need to know the data about these things. The more detailed the better! By the way, do you know what their weaknesses are? And how they attack? Physical attacks Or use magic?"

"Follow me, and I'll tell you slowly!" Ashford took me to the main hall on the right side of the yard. At first, I was still curious about what the last main hall was for, but I was shocked when I entered! This is a herbarium! There are a large number of biological specimens in the main hall, which are simply bizarre! Ashford took me through the specimens in the front to the back part. It was strange here. There were some equipment! He led me to a suit of full-body armor, which had been assembled to stand like a human being. "look carefully!"

I looked carefully at the armor and studied it for a while. The armor is very ordinary and has no special features. After walking around it for a few times, the only strange thing is that there are 4 holes in the armor! There is a triangular hole as thick as an arm on the belly of the armor, and a similar hole is also pierced in the corresponding place on the back. There is a much smaller circular hole above this hole, located at the heart of the human body. There is a small hole about the same size behind the helmet of the armor!

In any case, these four holes must have killed the owner of the armor at that time. Ashford may have left the armor behind to tell others about this harmful characteristic. "Is that what this is made of?"

Ashford nodded: "Did you see anything?"

"The two holes in the belly of the armor are large, and there is no obvious sign of curling. If you guessed correctly, these two holes were caused by something very sharp passing through the user's body from the front, and the speed of such things at the time Soon! As for the small holes in the heart and back of the head, they seem to have a special reason. They were probably left when the monster sucked blood and brain plasma!"

Bang bang bang bang! Applause actually came from behind. Ashford said: "Your analytical skills are very strong!"

"It's nothing!" I've just seen many trauma autopsies in Longyuan Base, so I know the causes of trauma relatively well! You must know that ballistic traumatology is also Long Yuan’s strength!

Ashford pointed to the hole in the belly of the armor and said: "This armor is actually a set of backup equipment of mine. I originally planned to sell it after completing the mission. Because I wanted to keep it for others to study, I kept it. It was not repaired, but was saved for research! The monster's name is 'Lance', and there is a two-meter-long triangular pyramid on its head. When the monster flies, this triangular pyramid happens to be directly in front of the monster. !”

"Wouldn't that become the knight's stabbing spear?"

"That's right! That's why it's called a spear! That day it swooped down from in front of me. With the power of the swooping, its speed was quite amazing. It almost arrived in front of me in a flash! I didn't even have time to react before my abdomen was penetrated! "

"It won't be a one-hit kill, right?"

"No! I wasn't dead at the time, but I heard the system prompt saying that I had been severely injured and my body had lost the ability to move! It was actually a paralysis effect, but I don't know how long it lasted! It started after I was penetrated by it The climb brought me high into the sky. Although I only lost a third of my life at that time, two transparent tentacles stretched out from the monster's head. The first tentacle 'inserted' into my heart, and then I I saw the red blood flowing from the transparent tube to the monster, while the other tube remained untouched. Until the last moment of my life, the other tube suddenly went around the back of my head. , I only felt a pain in the back of my head and then died, probably because it started sucking the brain plasma!"

"It seems that the attack method is quite ordinary, just relying on speed! As long as you can dodge that attack, you will be fine!"

"It's not as simple as you think! I suggest you don't whisper about them!"

"I see!"

"By the way, the data obtained from the people who were killed were integrated and the result was the detailed data of the spear. The spear is an 800-level creature. Its defense is relatively normal for a creature of this level, but its health value is off. Low. I’m not sure about the speed, but one thing is for sure. Its speed is faster than any creature I have ever seen! In terms of attack power, it should be said to be relatively weak. It stands to reason that a level 800 creature can easily kill us in seconds, but a spear If it cannot do this, of course it is also possible that it deliberately does not kill us in order to suck blood and brain plasma. This is not necessarily true. In short, there is nothing wrong with being careful! The last thing to note is that these things move in groups. Patrolling in a group of ten, once an enemy or food is discovered, a large group will immediately be attracted!”

"I feel like my habits are like bees! It's indeed a bit tricky! But fortunately, your mission is to get purple leaf grass instead of spears. If you infiltrate secretly, you should be able to do it!"

"Don't even think about it!" Ashford interrupted me: "The spear does not have any organs that look like eyes, at least we have never seen them. In other words, it is simply the invisible skill of blind men, assassins and thieves. It's meaningless to it, since it can't see anything anyway! The spear must have other ways to find the target, most likely using ultrasonic waves like bats, or using thermal imaging technology like rattlesnakes! In short, invisibility is useless to it. Otherwise, we would have obtained the purple leaf grass long ago!"

"It's quite a troublesome creature!"

Ashford looked at the sky outside. "I suggest you wait until it's completely bright before going! These things don't need light at all, and the dark night is more beneficial to them!"

I pointed to my eyes. "I'm a night visioner!"

"But my people are not!" Ashford said: "How many people do you need? I'm going to gather now!"

"Just have a guide take me to the plateau! Also, do you have any pictures of purple leaf grass? At least let me know what it looks like! Although I also have identification skills, I can't see them one by one. Appraisal?"

"We don't have one here, so we have no choice! However, it's easy to recognize. It only has three leaves, and it's purple. It doesn't grow anything except leaves! Also, don't think of it as an ordinary thing. Plant, that thing doesn’t look like a plant, but looks like a crystal stone! Don’t worry, that thing looks very special, you’ll know it at a glance!”

"If it's as special as you say, then it's no problem! Just ask someone to take me there now! I have a mission to come to Germany this time, so I can't waste too much time!"

"Okay! If you can complete the task, I will buy those purple leaves from you according to the conditions announced at the beginning!"

Ashford took me back to the Government Hall, where Rose and the others were trading two technical scrolls with the Iron Crusaders. Rose came over when she saw me coming back. "The deal has been completed. Shall we go to Death Mountain to pick up the Mist Legion now?"

"No, wait a minute, I have to go on a mission!"

"How long will it take? We don't have much time!"

"One day at most! I will definitely be back before dark at night!" The spear doesn't care about the night, but I can't! Although it is night vision, it is limited after all. My night vision has a distance. If it is too far away, I still can’t see clearly! If I still can't complete the task at night, I will go out by myself, or simply hang back. Anyway, I won't lose my equipment when I die, and the magic dragon suit will be repaired automatically. There is a teleportation point on the Biling, and if I die, I will return to the Biling. Just dropping two levels is not a big loss!