Chapter 68: A Fishy Fish

Getting the magic crystal is the biggest thing. The only thing left is to deal with the Japanese fleet in front of us. I directly ordered through the communicator: "Concentrate firepower to eliminate the targets one by one."

"clear."

Our fleet began to concentrate its firepower to knock out those nasty warships one by one, while the Japanese counterattack became weaker and weaker. They were completely confused about the situation of the ghost ships, but simply found that they could not effectively kill these warships. We will not give them time to study, and the Japanese warships will be in full swing with thousands of guns blasting.

The high-speed shooting that lasted for nearly an hour not only knocked the Japanese to death, but even we ourselves were almost unable to withstand it. The first is the firing position of the magic light cannon above our heads, and a responsible mm ran down. "The president is not good."

"What happened?"

"The magic light cannon was overheated, and the bracket next to the light crystal melted off!"

Just as the mm finished speaking, another voice came from the communication crystal over there. The Eternal reported that their magic light cannon was no longer working. It seems that the actual combat performance of this magic light cannon needs to be improved, so how can it melt down the support frame just like this?

"You guys need to cool down the barrel first, and don't fire again for the time being." This was said to the communication crystal, and also to the mm on our side.

The only three magic light cannons in the fleet malfunctioned one after another, and the firepower here dropped significantly. After another ten minutes, communication came from the No. 1 former main battery. "President. The barrel of the Shenwu cannon has overheated and deformed, and the gun door cannot be closed!" Before it was over, No. 2 Fort reported that their gun barrel was bent, the ballistic trajectory deviated from the axis, and it was impossible to aim. The No. 5 turret immediately behind said that the rifling was severely worn, the shell could not reach the rotation speed, and there was severe tumbling and vibration. After this, various forts began to complain constantly. 70% of the artillery in the entire fleet malfunctioned, and almost no warships could still fire normally at full power.

When I put down the communication crystal, Hongyue said: "It seems that we are still not used to close combat! All the reported failures seem to be caused by overheating."

King Chuang continued: "The distance is so close, the comparison is the speed of artillery fire. Our artillery's high firing speed makes it easier to overheat, and there is no way around it!"

Lin Yue didn't know much about the situation. She asked strangely: "Is there something wrong with the barrel? Why is it so easy to break?"

I explained: "Our artillery has a large caliber and a high firing speed. It is easy to heat up. After a long period of continuous firing, the barrel heats up, and the material softens and loses its previous strength. You also know that molten steel definitely does not have the hardness of steel. . The melted gun barrel will bend due to gravity, the extension tube cannot maintain a perfect circle and deform, and the rifling is easily worn by the cannonball. Then there are a series of problems, all caused by overheating. The artillery in this game is said to 'shoot' Speed ​​actually refers to the safe speed without overheating, not the ultimate speed of the gun. Our warships have automatic loading machines, and the 'firing' speed is very fast. In the situation just now, all the guns were overloaded, and the 'firing' speed was very fast. 'As the speed went up, so did the temperature. A large amount of heat energy could not be dissipated, so the barrel melted and caused failure."

"Just cool down? There is plenty of water around. Can we find someone to use water to cool down?"

Hongyue shook her head and said: "The overheated metal needs to be accurately controlled when passing water, otherwise it will cause a strong impact at least, or it will explode directly. If the steel embryo is okay, this is a gun barrel with a fixed structure and cannot be directly cooled by water. . It would be almost the same if there were diversion cooling ducts. Water cooling is a specialized technology and cannot be used casually."

"Is it so complicated?"

I nodded and said: "Such a complicated battleship cannot be built casually. It requires specialized skills. Sometimes local methods are very useful, but this does not work." I looked up and looked outside, where Japan was still floating on the water. There were not many battleships left. He picked up the communication crystal and said: "Every ship, please pay attention. The overheated artillery will stop firing immediately. Send a special attack team to carry out a special attack."

"clear."

The battlefield suddenly became quiet. The artillery fire on our side has almost stopped. There has been no artillery that has not overheated for such a long time. The Japanese's artillery fire was not hot, but the fort was no longer there. The fort is the main target in the first round of strikes. Precise shooting at such a close distance is very accurate, and not many turrets can still work.

A large number of steel claws appeared on the warships on our side. These steel claws carried their masters and jumped into the water from the side of the ship and then moved towards the Japanese warship at an extremely fast speed. When they arrived at the battleship, the players immediately took out the explosives they had prepared and put them on the ship. Then their steel claws used the tentacles on their backs to wrap them around and run away.

The Japanese were still wondering why the bombardment had stopped, but suddenly found that the surrounding warships exploded one after another and began to sink. What our players posted was a new type of adhesive bomb developed by Comrade Crystal Chocolate, an expert in blasting in our industry. It is specially designed to deal with high-level defense facilities such as battleships and city walls, and its power is naturally not small. But the only drawback is that there are some problems with the delay device and the timing is inaccurate. To put it bluntly, I can't figure out how long it takes to explode after starting. Some bombs explode twenty seconds after being activated, while others take more than ten minutes. That's why our players put it down and run away, for fear that the bomb they put down is a quick bomb.

The blasting removed the last few Japanese warships, and the remaining work was to salvage equipment. After the battleship sank, the sea surface was full of debris, and these debris would drag some equipment in twos and threes. This is the situation where equipment is exploded in naval battles. Everything is on the driftwood.

The ghost ship was the first to withdraw from the battlefield. Although the evil spirits could consciously control themselves to materialize and take things, the ghost ship had no way to store things, so they were just taking up space if they stayed. It was better to make way for the open space.

King Chuang said to the communication crystal: "The battle is over, make way for the passage and drive up the scavenger."

The fleet automatically gave way to the passage, and the two special ships behind them drove out. These two big guys with strange shapes are the professional salvage boats of our guild, specializing in salvaging equipment at sea. In fact, this thing has no technical content, it is just a catamaran with a few filters. As long as you drive over the water and leave the equipment inside, the water will naturally leak through, which is much faster than launching a small boat into the water to salvage. The most important thing is that sometimes on the battlefield, the two sides start to grab equipment from each other before the war is over. With this thing, no one can rob us.

In less than ten minutes, a large area of ​​the battlefield had been cleaned up, leaving no trace except for a small amount of oil. However, there is still secondary processing in the salvage boat, and things are not separated. In addition to equipment, what is often fished out also includes a large number of wood pieces, dead bodies, and sometimes a lot of fish. There was no way, some equipment like rings were too small, so we could only make the eyes very small, but in the end we even caught the fish! Anyway, we only need to pick out the useful ones, and throw the rest back into the sea. This is a game, and we don’t have to worry about pollution.

The battlefield was cleared, and several white lines in the distance quickly approached. The observation mirror on the Tyrant immediately turned around, and it was clearly visible in the observation room that it was our assault ship, with the Sakura towed behind it. The Sakura was towed next to the Tyrant, and I took Hongyue and the others onto the Sakura. There was blood everywhere on this Japanese fast battleship. After all, it was a battleship captured in a landing battle. It was not like an artillery battle. It only injured people, so it was bloody.

After opening the cabin and going down to the bottom, we followed the commandos to the outside of the cargo hold. After the team member pushed open the door, we all took a deep breath.

"So many magic crystals!" Lin Yue and Sun Yan looked at the sparkling magic crystals and stupidly walked forward into the room. We followed suit.

"There must be hundreds of millions of these, right?" King Chuang asked after swallowing his saliva.

"What a pity!" I picked up a piece of magic crystal and looked at it. “The quality is so good, I really don’t want to blow it up.”

"What...what...what? Explode?" Sun Yan and Lin Yue's eyes almost popped out.

Hongyue said indifferently: "Didn't you hear what Rose said to him?"

"They didn't say blasting!"

"But they mentioned crystal chocolate."

"What happened?"

King Chuang said: "Crystal Chocolate is the blasting expert of our guild and is responsible for blasting work. She was specially transferred here from Steel City just for blasting."

"But why?"

I took it and said, "For the greater good."

At this time, a player from outside ran in and said: "President, the Lightning has arrived."

"right away."

When we returned to the deck of the Tyrant, Crystal Chocolate was lying on the deck foaming at the mouth. Next to her stood a German girl who was rubbing her temples. Seeing me coming, she slowly raised her head and said, "President."

I took a look at the crystal chocolate. "Thank you for your hard work. Park the Lightning to the cabin berth. Can you guys take a rest first?"

"Okay, I'm still dizzy now!"

"How long will it take for her to recover?" I pointed to the crystal chocolate lying on the ground foaming.

"If there is no external interference, it will take almost two hours."

"We don't have that much time to give her!" He raised his head and said to the crew: "Take her to the magic light cannon and use the cooling system to refresh her."

Poor Crystal Chocolate was carried to the turret of the magic light cannon without waking up, and the cooling water here immediately poured cold water on her. Leng Shui shocked her and she immediately regained her consciousness. A few minutes later, with the help of two people, she staggered back to the deck.

I said to her: "I know this is very uncomfortable for you, but there is no time now. Please hurry up." I took out a white egg and handed it to her. "This is a level 800 angel egg, made for you as a magic pet. It can be regarded as a reward."

Crystal Chocolate reluctantly said: "Thank you... thank you. I'll try my best, but you have to help. My hands and feet are all weak. Now I feel like polio, and my limbs are so weak that they feel like they are about to fall apart."

"Then come over."

We even dragged the crystal chocolate, which was soft like noodles, to the magic crystal warehouse. Crystal Chocolate said: "That's all?"

"Yeah. Isn't it a pity?"

Crystal Chocolate nodded and said: "This is probably the most valuable bomb I have ever made in my life. Isn't there hundreds of millions of crystal coins?"

"Almost a billion crystal coins."

"What a luxury!"

Hongyue said: "Can't you add some water? How about replacing part of it and bringing some back?"

I said: "Three to five yuan is about the same, but more than that won't work. As for cheating, I'm afraid it won't work. Atlantis has a magic crystal monitoring system, and the fake ones will be found out as soon as they are checked."

King Chuang also said: "But there are so many...!"

Everyone nodded and said it would be a pity to blow it up. I said, "Don't I feel bad? The problem is that the technology of the White Sharks is definitely worth more than these magic crystals. The Japanese are very smart and will not do business at a loss. We will not replace it." It’s even more of a disadvantage. But if we replace these things, they won’t be ours anymore, so it’s better to blow them up than to make them cheaper.”

"That's right!" Hongyue nodded in agreement.

Crystal Chocolate said: "Although I know, I still feel it's a pity! I really wish I could give them some garbage and paint it to look like magic crystals! Then we would make a lot of money. It's such a pity that there are so many magic crystals!"

"Wait. What did you say?" Crystal Chocolate's words attracted my attention.

"I said it's a pity!"

"front."

"The one in front?" Crystal Chocolate thought for a moment and said, "I really wish I could give them some garbage and paint it to look like magic crystal."

"Yeah. Just use trash."

"What? Trash?" Everyone looked at me.

I said: "The space here is too small, let's get on the Tyrant."

When we returned to the front deck of the Tyrant, I opened the space door and called out Scott and the others, and asked the sub-dragon cavalry to get all the magic crystals on the deck. While the sub-dragon cavalry was carrying magic crystals, I led another part of the sub-dragon cavalry into the space door and moved out some other things. Soon there were two piles of similar things on the deck, and everyone looked at me in confusion, not knowing what I was going to do.

I took an object from each of the two piles and said: "Everyone, pay attention. This is the energy magic crystal in my right hand, which is a magic battery specially designed to provide power. And the thing in my hand is from Atlantis. Sri's magic crystal waste is scrapped magic crystal that has exhausted its internal energy. This kind of scrapped magic crystal also has certain uses and can be used to make light-transmitting equipment, but it is not very important. I learned from Atlantis and Turtles Both the Black Octopus Clan and the Black Octopus Clan have acquired a lot of these things, but they don’t need them anyway, so I bought them all back for almost nothing.”

"Aren't you going to use this thing to pretend to be a magic crystal? They are very different!" Hongyue asked.

I nodded. "I know there is a big difference between the two. The magic crystal is not completely transparent before the energy is exhausted, and it will emit fluorescence, but the magic crystal will become completely transparent and will not emit light after the energy is exhausted. But their The other attributes are exactly the same. After all, it is the same thing. So this thing can fool the magic crystal detector and make that thing falsely report. The only problem is that this thing can be identified with the eyes."

"Isn't that in vain? Don't tell me that the White Sharks don't have vision."

"Of course they have vision, but sometimes what they see may not be what they believe."

"Then how can we make them believe what they see?"

"I've already thought about this." I summoned the tank again and gave him a magic crystal. Tank put the magic crystal into his mouth and spit it out after a while. It's just that the magic crystal stone has now become magic crystal sand. "This is magic crystal powder. Its properties are exactly the same as those of magic crystal. We can stick it to the surface of the scrapped magic crystal, and then the scrapped magic crystal will lose its transparency because the light is blocked from the outside. The light powder is scattered. And these powders will glow, so the scrapped magic crystal will also have the ability to shine."

Crystal Chocolate sitting on the ground said: "But you forgot one of the most important issues. What should we use to glue it? And after gluing, the surface is not smooth, and you will find something wrong as soon as you touch it."

"Of course I have a way." I turned around and asked the NPC sailor to get a big iron plate and put it on the deck. Tank immediately got a lot of transparent mucus from his abdomen and smeared it on the steel plate. I picked up a scrapped magic crystal and put the magic crystal powder on it and rolled it in the slime. After picking it up, the magic crystal had turned into a big dumpling. I turned my hand over to my new heart, and my palm immediately burst into flames. Put the slime ball on it and heat it a little. The slime will immediately condense into something like amber when it encounters high temperature. I shaved off the surface of the thing with eternity and handed it to the crystal chocolate. Then he took a real magic crystal, rolled it in sticky liquid, baked it until hard, and handed it to her. "How about it?"

He held the crystal chocolate in his hand and looked at it: "It's very similar. It's hard to tell the real thing from the fake one. And it doesn't feel rough to the touch. But the problem is that you can tell at a glance that there is something wrapped around the magic crystal. , what should I do about this?”

"Just tell them that it is a new technology, specially designed to prevent the energy of magic crystal from dissipating naturally, so that it can be stored for a long time. Let them know that they only need to crack open the transparent hard shell outside when they need to use it."

"What if they want to look inside?"

"We don't use all fake ones. We just need to show them the real ones with the shells removed. I don't believe they will open it one by one with such a big pile. They have detectors, and they can detect it even if they are wrapped in shells. Give them a few more samples so they can get through easily."

"This is a solution." Everyone nodded in agreement.

Hongyue asked: "What about the proportion? How to determine the proportion of true and false? If there are too many false ones, it will be easy to reveal the truth. If there are too many true ones, we will suffer a loss."

"60% fake, 40% genuine. This should be about the same. Does anyone have a more reasonable distribution plan?" After waiting for a long time, no one said anything, I continued: "Then it's decided. I will arrange the production of fake monsters. Crystal, Hongyue will take a few people to add a shell to the real magic crystal. For the tank, you are responsible for making the powder and slime. For the chocolate, you are responsible for loading the bomb."

"My life is miserable and I have a cruel boss who works while sick!" Crystal Chocolate weakly climbed to the side of the magic crystal hill and took out a few large pieces of magic crystal and said, "This can be used as bomb material for me."

"OK."

Next we started to divide the work and cooperate. The magic crystal is very fast. Anyway, it is like rolling dough. After rolling, bake it and then polish it. Crystal chocolate is a little more complicated. She first carefully dug a pair of holes in the magic crystal, then put a piece of light yellow crystal in, and then she filled one end of the hole with some magic crystal powder. The next process is more troublesome. A small red crystal is put in from the reverse side, and then some silver powder is padded and a sticky liquid is added. Finally, it was sealed with magic crystal powder, rolled in sticky liquid, baked and polished like other things.

Soon everyone was finished. We made a lot of fake magic crystals and some real packed magic crystals. After mixing, even we can't tell the difference. It's really difficult to distinguish without looking carefully. But we made a distinction beforehand. There will be a less obvious depression on the outer shell of any real magic crystal, which is a distinguishing mark.

The crystal chocolate bomb is also finished. There were eight of them in total, and we put them into a large pile of mixed real and fake magic crystals. He quickly packed up the extra things, and then carried the real and fake magic crystals with shells into the Sakura battleship. I ordered the fleet to wait for us at the security island, and I myself, along with the selected Japanese girls, drove the Sakura battleship toward the scheduled delivery location.

All the blood stains on the Sakura were cleaned, and we also faked a few blue marks caused by cannonballs on the deck, making it look as if the battleship had just escaped from the battlefield. Now, except for me, there are only Japanese girls on the ship, and there is no NPC sailor with me. In order to act as an interpreter, I summoned Amynis. Xiaochun is not suitable for this job, Ling needs to rest, and Adi Na is from Atlantis, so it would be terrible to meet him. I told Phantom that when we got there later, he would translate everything I said into Japanese at the same time. Although these White Shark clan members don't speak Japanese, there's no guarantee they won't be able to tell the difference. The Japanese girls on board were also notified and all spoke in Japanese.

When we arrived at the designated sea area, we saw a bunch of strange things parked on the sea far away. To be honest, these things looked more like monsters than ships. When the other party saw us, he flashed his light signal at us. It seemed to be a secret signal that had been agreed upon long ago. Of course I didn't know the code, so I could only speed up the battleship and order the signal lights on the ship to be smashed.

The rash approach without a signal made the other party very alert. Strange things were exposed on some battleships, and they were suspected to be weapons. But they didn't fire, probably because of their strong desire for the magic crystal. You must know that if this business fails, they will suffer the most. Atlantis has received our magic crystal support, but the White Sharks don't have the magic crystal yet. It's strange that they are not in a hurry.

There was a particularly large ship in the local fleet, and we immediately moved towards it. As soon as we stopped, a large group of people jumped up and pushed all our people to the ground. A guy on the other side wanted to push me down too. I struggled a little and let him push me down to the ground. The struggle just now was just to test the power of the White Shark clan. It turned out that this race is quite powerful. Although it is not as strong as me, most players can't compete with them. These members of the white shark tribe look much like humans, and even have two legs. The only difference is that they have gills on the back of their necks.

After we were controlled, a very powerful-looking white shark man and two very beautiful women walked up together surrounded by many guards. One of them was older and the other seemed to be very young. , full of energy, jumping around me and looking at me like a monkey.

"Hey! Stop being so rude, okay? You don't want to do business?" I yelled at the guy controlling me. This guy twisted my hands behind my back and knelt on me on one knee, pressing down on my hands, which caused me great pain.

After hearing what I said, the guy actually said: "Be honest." He actually said it in Japanese. Why is the information wrong? Didn’t they say they don’t speak Japanese? Fortunately, I made two preparations today.

I continued to shout: "I'm here to discuss business, not to hand over offerings. Why do you treat me like this? If you don't let us go, I will cancel the transaction."

"Can't you hear me, please be honest?" The guy holding me down applied so much force that he almost broke my arm. The man and two women next to me didn't say anything to stop them, obviously they didn't take my words seriously. This is not good. According to the intelligence, the transaction between the Japanese and the White Sharks was only roughly determined, not in detail. Whether I can get more benefits depends on how I negotiate now. So it is very bad to be despised like this, although they are actually despising the Japanese. After all, in their hearts they think that we are Japanese.

I gritted my teeth and said, "I told you to let me go. I'm here to negotiate, not to be bullied by you. I'll count to 5. If you don't let me go, don't blame me for being rude."

"You kid, do you want to die?" The guy pressed me harder, put one hand on the back of my neck and pressed my face to the deck. This action is too insulting.

"Five...four...three..."

"You just need to count. I won't let you go until the number is negative."

"Two... one. You are asking for trouble yourself. Don't blame me for your misfortune. Ah!"

I suddenly lifted my upper body from the ground with all my strength. The guy didn't expect that I was so strong, and he was lifted up by me in one fell swoop. He jumped down quickly and wanted to hit me. The guards outside also protected the man and two women behind him. The guy behind me just jumped off and my hands were free. He jumped up suddenly, and with lightning speed, he grabbed his neck with his left hand and lifted his feet off the ground. The guy struggled desperately, but I held him motionless and refused to let him go. The guy's struggles are getting lighter and lighter. The lack of oxygen has caused him to lose strength, but I am still slowly strengthening the strength in my hands.

"How dare you touch him!" A guy who looked like the leader of the guards threatened me.

I smiled and pressed my hands hard, and the guy's head immediately tilted to one side abnormally, and the hands holding my arms weakly beat them down, leaving him hanging there like a puppet with its strings cut off. Throwing forward with one hand, he threw the guy's body at the feet of the captain. "I'm so sorry. My hand was too strong and it broke accidentally!"

The captain waved, and the three guards rushed forward. They still had tridents in their hands, and they pierced me. I turned aside to get out of the way of the attack, held the handle of the trident forward with one hand, raised my right hand high and turned into a hand knife and slammed it down. With a clang, the trident broke into two pieces at the waist. When the guy was in a daze, I had already inserted half of the piece into his body. The other two guys rushed forward more ferociously. I ducked between the two of them. In fact, this was the teleportation of a phantom, and of course they couldn't keep up. Both hands reached out and grabbed the two guys' necks at the same time. With a flick of his left hand, a guy flew out of the battleship and hit one of their own battleships. He was knocked to the ground and blood spurted out. He was probably hopeless. I raised my right hand high to the sky and then pressed it down hard toward the ground. With a bang, the deck emitted a metallic resonance sound like a bell. The pure steel deck was smashed into a human-shaped dent, and the guy died in a miserable state with blood spurting from his orifices. Clap your hands and stand up straight. "Rubbish!"

The guards immediately rushed forward impulsively, but I took out a magic crystal at the right time and placed it on the side, playing with it casually, ignoring them at all. Now that you have enough status, it’s time to get down to business.

When the male leader saw the magic crystal I took out, he immediately stretched out a hand to stop the guards who were about to rush up. I tilted my head and looked at them. "Hey, why aren't you moving? You seemed to feel murderous intent just now!"

"Hahahaha! How could that happen!" The leader laughed and walked over, and the guards immediately protected him as he approached. "Don't be offended. They just didn't see you replying to the connector signal and thought they were enemies!"

This lie is quite accurate. "Oh! So that's it! It's our fault, but it's not entirely our fault." I pointed to the signal light that I smashed. "Look. We just encountered an obstruction from the hateful mermaid tribe. They don't want you to get these important supplies. We originally had many warships coming, but when we encountered an obstruction, the president asked us to bring the things over first, and they stayed behind to hold them back. Enemy. But we were hit several times when we escaped. Look at this light and this mark."

"I wonder why there's only one ship here! They're all those damn mermaids. Sooner or later, they'll be made into braised mermaids. By the way, I heard that you like to eat raw, so let's make sashimi." ! This race eats mermaids! How disgusting! No wonder Atlantis is so afraid of them!

"Of course." I smiled falsely. "But having said that, we suffered heavy losses in order to transport these things this time. I don't know how many warships are left to intercept. Do you want to give us more benefits? We will have opportunities for long-term cooperation in the future. You can’t be too stingy.”

"Don't worry, we won't be stingy. As long as you have enough magic crystals, we have plenty of advanced technology."

"Haha! I feel relieved now."