In the sacred forest by Lake Nemi, there is a big tree. Around this big tree, there is always a creepy figure wandering alone. No matter it is day or night, people can see him at any time.
"I saw it." Shangluo held up the telescope, and the figure of the forest king clearly appeared under the tree. He wore a gray-black toga, the corners of which were torn from dragging on the ground, draped over him like a cloak; his silver sword had no scabbard and he used it as a cane. With every step he took, the tip of the sword sank into the ground once so that his old body could gain strength.
There was no expression on the forest king's face. Because his entire face was painted red - many technological barbarians would regard faded Roman statues as treasures, but the Romans' own statues of gods were all painted. The skin, hair, and clothes of each god are all colored in a fixed way, with fixed pigments, and in a fixed color. These are all written in travel brochures.
Red face has a special meaning in it. Its meaning is life and vitality. Many gods could have their faces painted red, such as Mars, the god of war. But red face had a special role in Rome: during the triumphal ceremony, Roman generals could get the honor of wearing red faces and receive full tributes as gods during the triumphal ceremony. Therefore, red face has the meaning of "divine power" here.
The same goes for the Jungle King. This is actually inconvenient. Even if you put on makeup, you have to remove it, and you can't keep oil paint on your face. And this layer of red paint, as thick as a mask, seems to have grown on the face of the Forest King, and I am afraid it will never be removed.
He went to great lengths to claim his divinity, and not just in terms of his red face. On his head was a golden laurel wreath, but it was not a branch of gold, but a branch made of gold. He wanted to use this method to bring Jin Zhi closer to him, but it was in vain.
The real golden bough was still on the tree: it was a laurel tree. If the cypress is Diana's sacred tree, then the laurel is the symbol of Diana herself. The laurel branches stretched out in all directions, swaying gently in the night breeze, and the throne of the Forest King was also shaky.
In circles, the figure of the Forest King slowly wandered and lingered under the trees, guarding the perfect circular open space with a radius of a hundred meters around the laurel tree. But his caution against cold weapons seemed to have not helped him understand the range of the heavy machine gun.
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers have already begun to build their positions. Like unpainted soldiers, they were very busy. A radius of 100 meters is still too narrow. They have to cut out a larger space to lay out a multi-layer fire network.
Since there were only about a hundred men, they did not dig trenches but dug foxholes. The weapons team was deployed in the rear, mainly heavy machine guns and anti-tank rifles, and weaved a fire net from all directions.
A company-level position slowly took shape, with densely packed light and heavy firearms aimed at the Forest King in the center. Just wait for the position to be constructed, and then wait for the next order to start the attack.
"Professional, so professional." Shangluo put down the telescope. The group of them did not charge directly in front, but prepared to attack under the cover of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers. However, judging from the "tactical qualities" of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, they are definitely "qualified".
"It does look very professional." Wen Yuan leaned against his gun, "Sure enough, this is the standard level of Roman army soldiers."
"Do you think they can take it by themselves?"
"I don't think it's possible. If legionnaires can solve the problem here, then the Romans might as well just send legionnaires to do the work every time. But even if it is an extraordinary existence, if you give him a few heavy machine guns, he will still have to block them. Block it. If it doesn't work, I'll shoot him and see if he can block it." As he said that, he shook the "big gun" in his hand.
This is a really big gun. He was 1.75 meters tall with gun and bayonet attached, which was a little taller than Wen Yuan himself. The shape of the entire gun is very much like a bolt-action rifle, and it is not fully manual. The butt of the gun was especially huge, as big as a blunt instrument. This ratio no longer even resembles a modern rifle, but rather resembles a muzzleloader used more than a hundred years ago. In other words, it looks a lot like the rifles used when queuing up to kill someone.
"How come I haven't seen this gun of yours before?"
[It’s not easy to get you to say this. After all, you have seen 'a lot' of things. But you haven't seen this yet? Of course I haven't seen it either. I can feel the surging phlogiston inside this gun. 】
"This? This is an experimental Jusu deflagration gun."
"WTF?"
"The Jusu explosive gun. Oh, you don't know, I almost forgot that you just joined the group. This is a Jusu weapon that has only been equipped recently. The initial theoretical research began more than ten years ago, and the use of cinnabar is even more A long, long time ago - the so-called Jusu and Cinsha were our attempts to use spiritual energy before you came up with the bottled air sea."
"Is there any difference between these and bottled Qihai?"
"The most important thing is that you can't eat it, and it's useless if you eat it. Neither cinnabar nor cinnabar changes the 'energy level' of the substance itself. A tank of oil should run 100 kilometers, and it won't be able to run 100 kilometers just because of the addition of spiritual energy." I even shortened the distance by running 200 kilometers.”
"Then what's the use of these things?"
"Its purpose is to use spiritual energy to mark objects, so that the spirit practitioner's consciousness can affect the explosion process, because there is this reason: no matter how you increase the propellant, increase the chamber pressure, lengthen the barrel, etc., There is a limit to the expansion speed of gunpowder gas. This limit is about 1 to 4 kilometers per second. 4 kilometers is the limit among the limits. It is just a theoretical value. Because the relative speed of the fluid in the equal-diameter tube will not exceed the fluid itself. The speed of sound.”
"Then your gun"
"That's right. Starting from cinnabar, weapons using cinnabar can exceed this speed. This is the role of cinnabar. Although it does not change the energy contained in the gunpowder itself, it allows us to accelerate the process and even break through the physical limits. And This cinnabar gun is an evolved version of the cinnabar gunpowder used in the past. 21 years ago, Yingtian Chemical Manufacturing Institute developed the cinnabar technology, which broke through the bottleneck of cinnabar itself can only be mixed with solid gunpowder. They combined spiritual energy and liquid Explosives are mixed together to make Jusu. Jusu is much more convenient than cinnabar."
He turned the gun upside down:
"The bottom of the butt is where the torch is loaded. Well, it actually looks like an old-fashioned musket. I remember that some of the oldest repeating guns used the butt to store bullets, and some used it to store gas bottles. Now use this butt. To store the torch, there is actually only a small bottle. Because we can control the speed of deflagration, a little high-energy torch can accelerate the projectile to a terrifying level."
(End of chapter)
