Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 858: 3 years and weak compensation
“Everyone has it, ready!
Open the gas valve and charge the steam, all units pay attention to the pressure gauge…”
哧——!
On the outskirts of Bekele, the capital of Pharitis, in the grassy shooting range, a group of soldiers with metal cans on their backs and some strange firearms lined up facing the target.
The commander swung down the command knife vigorously and let out a loud shout:
“Launch!”
Boom! boom! boom! ….
The high-pressure steam gushes, pushing the hot metal storm out, and in the blink of an eye, the first set of targets in front of him are directly torn into pieces.
“Shoot again!”
The soldier pulls a locking structure on the gun in his hand at the order to push the cone-shaped projectile into the magazine. The whole process takes less than a second, and then pulls the trigger again.
“Shoot again!”
Although this “steam gun” is far more bulky than normal flintlocks, the benefits are obvious.
As long as it is preheated in advance, and the pressure provided by the steam pressure tank is still up to standard, it can continue to launch without cumbersome loading of gunpowder and projectiles.
Slap! Snapped! Snapped! ….
Beside the shooting range, a group of distinguished spectators can’t help but applaud slightly when they see the performance of this new weapon that has been finalized.
“The premise is not to suddenly encounter encounters in the wild, and there is no time to create the necessary steam.
This kind of [high-pressure steam gun] should have a broad application prospect in urban defense work that can provide logistical support. Especially when dealing with ‘those things’, intensive firepower is the only reliance of ordinary soldiers. “
Standing at the forefront of the team, Aiwen, who was wearing a military uniform with a large waist and hip saber, gave him a positive affirmation.
At this time.
Time has come to the autumn of 196 Haiyuan calendar. It has been three years since the last time Ivan and the others landed on the moon.
This time, it was also a routine visit and technical exchange between the Grand Duchess of Galliot and his wife Olivia.
Except for the “Steam and Machinery Cult”, “Alchemy School” and the entourage of the two countries.
Wearing a red court dress, Her Majesty the Queen, who seemed to be a gorgeous red rose, accompanied her throughout the whole journey, and Olivia, who was wearing a white dress of the same style, lovingly hand in hand, like a white rose.
It’s like a pair of beautiful sisters.
Even in this kind of diplomatic occasions, they still talk and laugh without restraint. It is clear that the relationship has improved a lot in the past three years.
The autumn wind is blowing.
The corners of the two ladies’ exquisite skirts are flying, and it is vaguely visible that their straight and slender legs are wrapped in shiny thin silk stockings.
Livina is charming black, Olivia is clean and pure white.
These two women who are almost regarded as the most noble women in the material world lead the trend. Just like the original tulip trend, stockings have also become a fashion among the powerful and even the middle class and above.
Unexpectedly, it has become a popular export product in the “oil industry” that has just started in the Principality, and this high-end female product is worth more than gold of equal weight.
During these three years.
As high-level transcendents, they can’t see the slightest change in their appearance, but the changes in the mundane world are profound and subtle.
In the eyes of mortals that are difficult to adapt, the whole world is like being equipped with an accelerator, and it changes every day.
The “high-pressure steam guns” that are being tested and finalized, and the ten “high-pressure steam cannons” pushed up by the soldiers are just a small part of them.
[Watt III Military Steam Engine] Let “steam” become an easy-to-obtain, powerful and convenient energy source, and the first application scenario is armaments.
“Start [Analyzer]!”
A middle-aged man wearing monocles and a little sloppy came out from the crowd, directing a group of [steammasters] to get busy beside the huge machinery built nearby.
The middle-aged man named Charles Babbage was busy, while excitedly introducing his latest invention to Irvine:
“Two respected sires.
This machine surpasses all previous ‘differential engine’ models in terms of possible calculation range, simplicity, reliability and accuracy, or automation.
Already a new great invention! This time the firepower table calculation will prove it! “
With the gradual development of guns and the era of front-mounted smoothbore guns that were originally metaphysical hits, their ballistic calculations and firepower meter tests have become increasingly important.
A formal firepower meter requires 3000 different ballistic parameters.
As far as a single parameter is concerned, a trajectory with a flight time of 60 seconds can put an ordinary person directly on the ground, because that is a horrible workload that requires at least 20 hours!
Although the brain power of high-level extraordinary people is enough to easily cope with this kind of work, [steam division] and normal military personnel urgently need a calculation tool that can reduce this complicated ballistic parameter calculation to seconds.
Moreover, it must be universal and be able to be promoted throughout the military so that most ordinary people working in the frontline can also use it.
This Mr. Babbage, although not a powerful wizard, is just a wizard apprentice with a “construction branch”.
However, a series of “mathematical computers” developed by him is the one that best meets the needs of the military.
This brand new design is about 30 meters long and 10 meters wide. The whole body is made of brass. Babbage calls it an “analysis machine.”
It can automatically solve complex arithmetic problems with 100 variables, each variable can have up to 25 digits, and the calculation speed can reach an astonishing 100 times per second.
From Aiwen’s point of view, the originality of the “Analytical Machine” lies in:
This is the first “general-purpose computer” with basic components such as arithmetic unit, memory, controller, input and output device in the history of the fifth era!
In this new design, he also creatively proposed the concept of automatically formulating instruction sequences, so that the “analyzer” can run from the previous step to the next without human assistance.
With this “computing machine”, there is no obstacle for Babbage to break through the official wizard.
哐哐哐…
As the steam engine drives the transmission device to run, the precision brass gears roll like a ball, making a pleasant sound of “tick-to-tick”.
With the input and output of the punched paper card, a pile of data that requires a few days of calculation by the civilian staff is being generated quickly.
Look at this “analyzer” that is constantly running under the impetus of a steam engine.
Ivan nodded slightly.
Well, there is something inside.
If three years ago, it was only a rudimentary form, but now after three years, the world seems to have completely entered the “steampunk age”.
Moreover, it is not only the Tulip Alliance that is progressing, and the genius is by no means confined to one family or one country. As other countries on the Source Continent catch up, it means a lot of flowers bloom.
This also reminded Aiwen of a concept that he had just added to his “advanced chemistry theory”-“weak compensation”.
It means that the survival intensity (the tenacity of survival) of all creatures in the world always shows a downward trend, and one generation will be weaker than one generation is “gradually weaker.”
So if these creatures want to survive, they have to constantly look for more supporting factors. This supporting factor is “compensation.”
Just like the current state of the material world.
As the era moves, the power of extraordinary creatures diminishes. The more “evolved” human beings are, the weaker the individual power and the greater the number, and the greater the need for collective division of labor and cooperation.
“Delivering Weak Compensation” is applied to modern humans. Extraordinary power is “Despairing Weakness” and science is “Compensation”.
“Heh, this is the biggest trend in this world that has crossed many epochs!”
Of course.
If we talk about the shortcomings of the rapid technological advancement, it is probably the dense smoke that looms over Becquer at this time.
This is the throes of industrial development. Even Mennon Watt, the “god of steam and machinery” who has successfully condensed [the priesthood], cannot change it.
Also because of the increasingly harsh environment.
Now Livina, Her Majesty the Queen, spends a large part of her free time in the White Swan Castle that has undergone another round of expansion.
In the White Swan Castle, she has her own room, maid team, cloakroom… and even the wine cellar, where she is just like her own home.
Compared with Bekele at this time, Long Island with beautiful scenery and pleasant environment is simply paradise.
In addition, Ivan couldn’t help begging, using the power of [Divine Creature] and the crowned wizard, to establish a permanent portal in her room at St. James’s Palace, allowing her to communicate. freely.
At this moment.
Huh–!
A huge “rigid airship” dangles a black shadow, flying past the crowd to the depths of the shooting range.
“Herssey, haven’t you seen this new thing? When the test is over, we will go sit in a circle together.”
“Okay, sister Wella.”
Two women who have been in space are still feeling novel about this kind of crude in-atmospheric spacecraft.
Ivan’s [Demon Eyes of Insight] has already seen it all.
This airship has a rigid hollow copper tube frame, consisting of a longitudinal girder on the abdomen, 24 long pestles and 16 frames.
A large number of vertical and horizontal cables are used to enhance the structural strength.
The hull structure is covered with a tarpaulin skin, and there are 17 airbags inside the boat, with a total volume of 12,000 cubic meters and a total buoyancy of 13 tons.
Because the improved multi-airbag design can also play a role similar to the ship’s water tank, even one or two damages will not affect the flight, which greatly improves the safety of the flight.
Using steam power, the visual flight speed can reach 24 kilometers per hour, which is enough for actual combat, provided that you don’t encounter anti-aircraft guns.
“Everyone has it, get ready!”
After the “analysis machine” finished the calculation of the firepower meter, the [high-pressure steam guns] that were in the test stage adjusted their muzzles and pointed them at the huge living target that was put down by the airship ten kilometers away.
It was a huge monster with a body length of more than five meters and a scaly scaly like a super-giant crocodile.
And different from monsters in the conventional sense, this “crocodile” is not only huge, with sharp horns on its head, but also a strong smell of sulfur.
Even if it is tightly bound by the enchanted wire rope, hot lava is constantly splashing out in the nasal cavity.
This is a “demon-like” transformed by a higher-level monster, and it is also an acquired demon based on creatures in the material world.
This is also the key to the rapid launch of the [High Pressure Steam Gun] and [High Pressure Steam Cannon] projects to equip the army.
Three years ago.
Solomon’s so-called “chaos is here” in his letter illustrates the most fundamental problem that Ivan has not yet adapted to an immortal’s concept of time.
The previous period has been calm, and after three years of brewing, it is only recently that some signs of turmoil have gradually appeared in the material world.
Mainly because those cunning demon gods who came to the material world for “vitality” cannot carry too much power if they want to break through the barrier of the realm~ IndoMTL.com~ even if it comes successfully, they will be careful to hide and use dozens of them. It has grown slowly over a hundred years.
Of course, there are also courageous people. They have started poaching to obtain humans, and they have even continued to confuse people who were originally humans and are now monsters.
As the strongest human union to suppress the material world, the “Tulip Alliance” has the most expansive land and rules the largest population. This is also a problem that Ivan and Livina have to face now.
“Fire!”
Boom! boom! Boom! …
Two rounds of rapid fire, carrying a huge kinetic energy shell, easily tore the third-order “crocodile-like monster” into pieces.
[High Pressure Steam Cannon] Both the rate of fire and the power must be far higher than the conventional ship-borne artillery of the current sailing battleship. It can be said that the future can be expected.
At the end of the test, Livina turned her head and said with some expectation:
“Ivan, Hessie, should you take out the good things you told me before to deal with the devil gods?”