Chapter 871: Strange World
Facing the mysterious leader of the esoteric sect, listening to his speculation about the universe, Li Qi just watched calmly.
There are actually quite a number of secret churches that adhere to the principle of "looking up to the sky".
It's also normal.
For example, in daily work, no one would go for failure from the beginning, right?
Then, in the process of civilization development, it is also natural to want to continue to develop towards the sky.
Li Qi listened to the other party's impassioned speech and nodded from time to time.
Now Li Qi already knows that everything that has happened is real, and these creatures are not false, even if they have no reality.
Therefore, Li Qi will not turn a deaf ear to their excited emotions as he did before the fourth grade.
Although, he can also understand that the truth may be a little too cruel for these creatures.
After listening for a while, Li Qi quietly integrated into the esoteric sect.
As for the esoteric leader Carolingian, he was just doing daily sermons, preaching, and spreading their research results.
Although he himself knew that his research results needed to be verified, it was too difficult to observe the sky, so he could only stay at the deduction for the time being.
Until the end of the sermon, all the believers left with satisfaction. He sent them off one by one, and gave them notes full of mathematical formulas and rigorous logical deductions, and then he closed the door.
However, after closing the door, he found that there was still a believer who had not left.
"Sir, why don't you leave yet? Do you have any questions?" Carolingian asked kindly when he saw the believer with his face covered.
He did not doubt the believer who stayed, because those who could come here, although masked, were all people who had been strictly screened, and... this person exuded a "kind" breath.
He didn't know how to describe it, but he could feel that the other party showed a strong curiosity, which was not something that those insects in the orthodox religion could do.
"Professor." Li Qi called the other party's position in the "secret religion".
Yes, although it is called the secret religion, it is actually an academic organization in the name of religion, and they use this title to honor the leader.
According to their language, this word actually means "elder", "mentor" and "wise man", so Li Qi directly understood it as professor.
Although he has completely mastered the language of this world, he is still used to understanding it in the language of the world.
"Apprentice, stay here, is there anything else to say?" Caroline walked to the side of Li Qi and asked.
"Professor, you just talked about the machine that flies to the sky. You said that you can use a cannon to launch people up. I want to hear the specific technical details. Maybe... I can try it." Li Qi said.
"Try, are you going to experiment!?" Caroline was surprised.
This is a considerable expense. If some members can conduct experiments, it would be great!
"Yes, if possible, I want to try it and want to know some technical details." Li Qi said.
"Good, the church will support you. What do you want to know? Or start from the most basic?" Caroline asked.
Although it was an inquiry, in fact, he immediately couldn't wait to start his own presentation.
He pulled back some curtains that had not been pulled back before. Below were some blackboards, illuminated by infrared lights, which was "bright" for the natives here.
"After my research, I found the laws of artillery firing with solid bullets, hollow bullets and other shells, as well as the firing rules determined through experiments, the known relationship between the flight distance of the shells, the firing angle and the amount of powder, and the influence of the gap between the shells and the wall of the chamber and the influence of other causes of projectile deviation."
"Although we have calculated that in a vacuum, throwing any heavy object in a non-vertical direction will form a parabola, and this fact is already the basic principle of artillery, but the increasing air resistance as the speed of the moving object increases force, but it has greatly changed the practical application of parabola theory in artillery. "
As he spoke, he wrote and drew on the blackboard: "For example, according to my calculations on the battlefield and the shooting range, the trajectory of artillery with an initial velocity of 1400-1700 feet per second is very different from the theoretical parabola, so that as long as the shooting angle is about 20 degrees, the maximum flight distance can be achieved, while according to the parabola theory, this shooting angle should be 45 degrees. "
The leader of the sect easily said some terrible things, such as battlefields and shooting ranges.
However, Li Qi actually knew that Carolingian's secret identity was the leader of a secret sect, presiding over the task of exploring the sky, but his public identity was actually a great scholar, a specially appointed scholar of the national army, and an expert in artillery.
"My experiments and calculations have resulted in a fairly accurate determination of this deviation, and accordingly the angle of fire that each type of gun should have when firing at a certain distance with a certain charge. However, there are many other factors that affect the flight of the shell. First of all, there is the existence of a gap, that is, the difference between the diameter of the shell and the diameter of the bore, because in order to facilitate loading, the diameter of the shell should be smaller than the diameter of the bore. This gap first allows the gas that expands when the charge explodes to escape, in other words, it weakens the explosion force."
He kept talking about his professional knowledge, as if he really wanted the apprentice in front of him to learn how to judge the shooting angle, and then use this knowledge to launch himself.
"There is another point, which can prevent the shell from flying correctly in the given direction, resulting in directional deviation or height deviation. Secondly, the weight of the charge and its condition at the time of launch must be different. The shell will also cause eccentricity due to the inconsistency between its center of gravity and the center of the circle, which will also cause various deviations. The size of the deviation depends on the relative position of the center of gravity and the center of the circle at the time of launch. I will write the formula here. In addition, there are many other factors that make the shells seem to be flying under the same conditions, but the results are different."
"If you want to send people into the sky by launching, you need strict measurement and calculation. I have a data here The corresponding table may help you. "
"As long as the charge is one-third of the weight of the shell, and the length of the barrel is between 16 and 18 times the caliber, if it is fired directly and the gun body is in a horizontal state, the shell will land at a distance of about 300 yards. If the firing angle is increased, the range can be increased to 3,000 or 4,000 yards, but at such a long distance, the shell loses any possibility of hitting the target, so it is still necessary to make a choice."
His words are quite trivial, and his speed is very fast. His hands are constantly writing formulas on the blackboard, drawing parabolic graphs, describing the performance of various charges, the impact force that the shells have to withstand, etc.
Obviously, he has been planning for a long time to "put a person in an iron ball and launch it into the sky through a cannon". Now that Li Qi proposed to conduct an experiment, he caught him at once.
Li Qi listened carefully to the other party's lecture.
After he was satisfied with what he said, Li Qi suddenly said: "Then... Professor, what do you think of the obstruction of the Orthodox Church?"
"Orthodox Church? You mean those idiots who are self-contained, completely ignore the development of the times, only want to cling to the past, and do not allow anyone to set foot in the sky? We will defeat him sooner or later." Caroline said viciously.
"But... will it really be good to defeat them?" Li Qi asked: "I heard... there are 'gods' in the sky. If you offend the gods..."
"Ridiculous, if there really is a god, and it is really that powerful, and he doesn't want us to spy on the sky, then why doesn't he create a wall and block the sky completely?" Caroline asked back.
"But, professor, look, there is really a wall." Li Qi pointed out the window.
Outside the window, there is a thick 'cloud'.
In the sky, a magnificent 'wall' broke into the field of vision with a grim majesty. It is a huge monster, a thick black shadow suddenly printed on the sky scenery.
The gray towers in the city emit blazing "infrared rays". The huge industrial wasteland is stinking and the shrill whistles are ringing non-stop. Even at this time, the thick chimneys are still spewing smoke and dust.
This terrible cloud of fog covers the rough walls of the building like a bump, scratching the paint and concrete on the wall, and the dust is splashing and scattering.
The smoke is steaming, the rolling and changing clouds, and the stench of decay has been floating for years.
The thick black fog in the sky, the smoke and dust, constitute this "fog city", making the sky completely submerged in haze.
These fogs caused by industrial civilization are like a thick wall, blocking the sight of mortals peeping at the sky.
If this is the obstruction set by the gods, it seems that there is nothing wrong, right?
"Before the industrial age, I heard that there was no such wall, but in the industrial age, we have the ability to observe the sky, and this wall suddenly appeared..." Li Qi said this, and then looked at Carolingian in front of him.
However, Caroline suddenly became furious and roared: "Are you saying this to give up the experiment? Are you afraid of the revenge of the Orthodox Church?!"
"There is no God in this world. These mists are discharged from the factory. As long as the factory is shut down, the mists will disappear. This is not a miracle at all, but our power."
"If this wall is caused by divine power, then this god is not the god in the sky, but the god of civilization itself! In this case, shouldn't we make use of this divine power even more!"
Caroline roared and scolded Li Qi, knocking on the blackboard.
Li Qi listened to this and nodded: "I understand, professor."
"It's good that you understand." Caroline exhaled and barely calmed down.
"Then, professor, I'll take my leave first. The experiment still needs to be prepared."
Li Qi said so.
"Go slowly." Caroline said.
Li Qi nodded slightly and left here.
Then, the next destination is to find the Orthodox people.
After chatting, then... we can use this world to confirm the nature of the remains of the dead demon, right?
Li Qi thought so and walked on the dark street.
However, at this moment, on the street, Li Qi suddenly felt an attack.
In the dark corner, a monster was gnawing at the corpse, and Li Qi's arrival made the monster find new prey, so he rushed towards Li Qi.
This is a baby-like monster. It looks like a baby with white and transparent skin. Its big black eyes flashed a very clever look, and its huge mouth was completely rotten and damaged.
A terrible and distorted life change.
This is a typical manifestation of the ‘Desire Realm’. The emotions of a large number of intelligent creatures can distort the Desire Realm. Even ordinary people living in the Desire Realm have such ability. This monster is a typical example.
Li Qi stood in place.
The monster stopped two or three meters away from Li Qi.
He felt an... indescribable power.
"A product born of pure evil thoughts? Take me to where you were born, thank you." Li Qi said, and then picked up the baby.
The baby then squeaked like a real baby, and really used his tender fingers to help Li Qi point the way.
But Li Qi did not leave, but walked to the side of the corpse.
It was a man, even the corpse could smell a strong smell of alcohol, with tattoos and wounds on his body. He should be a local gangster, drunk, came to this alley, encountered a monster brought by mental distortion, and became a dead person.
Well, let the local sheriffs deal with it.
Li Qi followed the baby's guidance and soon walked to the side of a river.
It's better to say it's a stinky ditch than a river.
The stench of feces was floating around, and even some places were filled with strange steam. Because of too much dirt, the water flow was quite viscous, and the river as a whole became sluggish and slow. From time to time, a piece of water would smoke, which was the result of the river water mixed with unknown chemicals.
Chemical sewage, factory wastewater, domestic sewage, corpses, waste from failed experiments, coal slag, all kinds of things flowing out from factories, laboratories and sewers, randomly mixed into the current black water.
No one even knew what the river water was like at this moment.
"Is this where you were born?" Li Qi looked at the river and put the baby in front of him into the water.
The monster dissipated instantly, turning into countless baby fragments that merged into the river.
"Women who lost their jobs due to the cotton famine became abandoned by society, and it is still the case now... The number of young prostitutes is unexpectedly large." Li Qi has figured out the reason.
So, this river that runs across the city is the place where abandoned babies are destroyed in the entire city.
While countless babies died, twisted desires gave birth to the baby monster just now.
Everyone says that life is priceless, but is it really priceless? When this question appears in the minds of the "beings in the desire world", the birth of this kind of monster is inevitable.
This is a world where legends will come true if they are spread widely enough.
At the moment when Li Qi "saved" the monster, several people surrounded Li Qi.
"Transcendent, where is your license?" One of them said so.