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Chapter 240 Appraisal Price, Magic Sniper Rifle Function and Progress
Zhang Mu was slightly delighted when he learned of the director's request.
We will be heading to the capital soon, but considering the purity and loyalty of the First Army, we cannot expand the number of soldiers for the time being.
The only way to improve combat effectiveness at present is to enhance the power of weapons.
Rhenium is an urgently needed material.
Although China itself does not have abundant reserves of this rare metal, with the addition of the Ying Kingdom, it is enough to manufacture magical weapons for the existing number of soldiers.
Zhang Mu nodded calmly, called Kunpeng to open the light gate, and sent the director out to pick up the people.
I went back to Qingfeng Hall and took out the tools to upgrade Brother Zhou's core.
In the past two days, when the old academicians talked with him, they found that Brother Zhou would occasionally be dazed and distracted.
They thought they were being disapproving of their intrusion, but since it concerned the future of the country, they had to do it shamelessly.
In fact, this is not the case, but it is the core of the puppet. Zhang Mu is limited by his low skill level and cannot be made too sophisticated.
But dragging it out is not a solution. If one day the core of the puppet overloads and starts smoking, that would be really funny.
The tricky thing is that Zhang Mu's puppetry technique remains the same during this period, and he still cannot produce a core with better performance.
After thinking about it for a few days, he took a different approach and installed a core inside the puppet's body.
Although this requires improving the energy transmission circuit, it is better than having a flaw.
After opening Brother Zhou's back and fiddling with it for half an hour, Zhang Mu straightened up, closed the back cover, and started the puppet.
Feeling the divine light in his eyes, Zhang Mu put away his tools and quickly came to Joffrey's laboratory to inquire about the research and development progress of the magic sniper rifle and even the magic mortar.
"Lord City Lord." Joffrey, wearing a white coat, moved the glass cover of the display cabinet and walked over with a sniper rifle that looked 80% similar to Barrett's in both hands.
"Believe me, Lord City Lord, all warriors will love it."
"It only took a few days to make the sample? Don't they need to rest?"
"Your generosity inspires them." He smiled, "They eat magic potions as their staple food. Even if they work 24 hours a day, they will not feel tired at all.
And even when it’s not wartime, I never let them work overtime.”
"The magic potion can indeed greatly replenish the body's energy and maintain mental excitement, but it cannot restore the consumption of the soul. Unless you are mobilized in the future, you should eat more food crops on ordinary days."
"As ordered."
After taking care of the workers, Zhang Mu took the sniper rifle and weighed it first: "It's easy for professionals to use, but it's probably a bit heavy for ordinary people to use."
Joffrey was somewhat dissatisfied with his comment and retorted excitedly.
He believes that sniper rifles are not suitable for frontal combat of large troops, regardless of their own functions or strategic significance.
Even if you make the gun barrel smoke and add range magic, can it be as efficient in killing enemies as a fuel-air bomb?
Therefore, in his conception, the magic sniper rifle should not deviate from its original purpose - to snipe high-level professionals and generals of the enemy army, and drown the enemy in an atmosphere of panic where they may be killed by bullets shot from the dark at any time, until they suffer a mental breakdown and their morale collapses.
That is, special operations and decapitation tactics.
If one is simply pursuing efficiency in killing the enemy, Joffrey said, then one should not research magic sniper rifles, but should immediately develop magic fuel-air bombs.
The essence of special operations is that small elite forces act alone with high mobility and concealment.
Under such circumstances, the soldiers who meet the requirements naturally cannot be ordinary people.
Of course, the sniper rifle is not a big deal.
Zhang Mu raised his hand to block the spit that was heading straight for his face, and explained helplessly: "Why are you so excited? I just said it casually.
And there are usually high-level professionals on the front lines of battle, right?
Snipers are still needed to handle it."
In the battle with Lagu, although our side won a great victory - more than 6000 in exchange for , it was a brilliant result no matter how you look at it.
But it also exposed its own shortcomings.
For example, thermal weapons cannot distinguish between friend and foe.
Reality is not a two-dimensional shooting game where bullets and shells cannot hurt teammates.
Anyone who gets hit will suffer the same fate.
This war took advantage of the information gap.
It is undeniable that Commander Lagu's military capabilities and battlefield adaptability were such that he was able to discover one of the flaws of thermal weapons in just one day: thermal weapons can only exert their full power when the enemy is densely packed.
But after all, he knew too little about hot weapons.
When Zhang Mu reviewed the situation with Domit after the war, he said that if the enemy sent out all their professionals as quickly as possible, rushed into our positions regardless of the bombardment, and the soldiers of both sides were entangled, how would you respond?
Mortars to clean the ground? Flying bombs?
It will be a military court, even though there is no such institution in Sol Continent.
If Lagu had used this trick in time, the First Army would have been defeated without a doubt.
Zhang Mu was worried about this at the beginning of the war, but fortunately the other side did not react.
But we cannot ignore the flaws because of this.
I guess Lagu had already thought of this when he was withdrawing his troops.
So when Zhang Mu learned that Joffrey's magic sniper rifle had begun development, he immediately paid attention and gave his full support.
If the magic sniper rifle can break through the defense of high-level professionals and form multiple combat teams based on this, it will be impossible for the enemy to use elite troops to break into the First Army's position and kill in the future.
The muzzle of a gun extending from the bushes, lush branches and leaves, and inconspicuous grass can easily take their lives.
Zhang Mu held the gun in a standard posture, and put his right eye close to the sniper scope: "What are the specific performances? What functions have been added? Has the lethality been tested? Especially in terms of armor penetration."
This armor-piercing non-armor means the magic shield of the magician and the hard skin of the knight.
Joffrey turned around and took out a piece of paper from the desk drawer: "I designed two shooting modes for the magic sniper rifle.
First of all, for the magic part, I equipped two magic cores and one mental power core.
Currently, three sets of magic arrays have been engraved, namely Swamp Magic, Wind Sword Magic, and Thunder Sword Magic, which are initially capable of forming tactical combinations for professional snipers.
Another one, I saved the kinetic energy firing module, which I will use when I encounter ordinary enemy soldiers during the march, which can save mana. "
It is precisely because of the two modes that the magic sniper rifle is a bit overweight.
"There is basically no problem with the framework, so let's develop it in this way."
After saying that, Zhang Mu rubbed his brows with a headache.
There are many magic circles in the puppetry skills, but most of them are low-level magic and cannot pose enough threat to high-level professionals.
Zhang Mu is currently unable to engrave a few high-level magic arrays.
Without the templates he provided, the military factory would not be able to use engraving machines to replicate them and then carry out mass production on an assembly line.
"The puppetry technique is upgrading too slowly..." he muttered.
"My Lord City Lord, what did you say?"
"nothing."
Coming back to his senses, Zhang Mu instructed: "Try to add new functions. As for the low-level defects of the magic circle, I will solve them."
"As you command, Lord City Lord."
"Also, remember the other magicians... Let's leave it at that for now."
Halfway through his words, Zhang Mu received a wave of mental power from Senior Brother Zhou, which meant that the transport plane had arrived at Yuzhang Mountain, and the academicians were bringing supplies to Qingfengtang to appraise the prices.
Activate the shadow technique, move your mind slightly, and the person will disappear on the spot.
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Qingfeng Hall.
Three old academicians walked in front, Ye Ming was one step behind, and behind them were two JRs carrying a metal box.
After crossing the threshold, the old man walked to the long counter and shouted, "Mr. Zhou, the stuff has arrived. Please help me check the price."
Senior Brother Zhou raised his half-closed eyelids, looked at the metal box with the lid opened on the table, and glanced at the formatted objects piled inside.
It's just pricing, so there's no need to bring all the items here. Just one of each type as a sample is enough.
He remained silent, his expression calm and no clues could be seen, and everyone felt a little uneasy.
The two JRs were fine. They only knew that they were responsible for transporting a batch of supplies into the "world". They didn't know the specific situation, so naturally they were worried.
At this moment they stood upright. Although they were very curious about the mountain gate where the immortals lived, they did not look around, but just glanced around.
Ye Ming was relatively calm. He stared at Senior Brother Zhou, waiting for him to finish the appraisal.
The third old man was a little nervous, but after all he had experienced storms, so he didn't show it, but just clenched the Shuangquan in his jacket pocket.
Time passed quietly, and for some reason Senior Brother Zhou remained silent.
They were nervous, but did not dare to rush, so they looked around aimlessly to distract themselves.
After a while, there was really nothing to see. After all, they had been to Qingfeng Hall many times, so his gaze shifted back to Senior Brother Zhou's face.
"Everyone." He looked up and smiled.
Everyone who was almost suffocating in the oppressive atmosphere breathed a sigh of relief.
The tension in his mind relaxed slightly, and the old man asked hurriedly, "How is it?"
"Hmm... these." He tapped a stun gun with his index finger, and poked the high-precision mechanical watch next to it. "You seem to call them, industrial products?"
"Yes." Ye Ming responded.
“Industrial products have the lowest value.”
Hearing this, Ye Ming was stunned for a few seconds, then said: "Brother Zhou, industrial products are good at replicability, but these are cutting-edge technologies at present, and even we cannot mass-produce them ourselves."
Senior Brother Zhou chuckled: "As far as I know, in today's world, as long as a technology is born, unless there are resource constraints, it will be mass-produced sooner or later, right?"
"That... is true, but being first is valuable in itself. Having it now and having it a hundred years later are two completely different concepts."
"Time is not precious to the mountain gate."