coobybook Chapter 120 Weapons
Chapter 120 Weapons
Two days later, in the middle nest and the sewer.
As a densely populated hive city, Kalimdor is naturally equipped with a powerful sewage system to meet the needs of industry and life.
As the population of Middle Nest continued to grow, factories continued to expand, and new ones were built, the drainage system also continued to expand. Once this system expanded to a certain extent, due to the loss of blueprints, the constant deaths of construction workers, and Middle Nest's already chaotic management, no one would ever know the full picture of this vast network that extended to every corner of the hive, let alone what was hidden within it.
But now, deep in this huge drainage system, there were constant sounds of hammering and knocking.
The closer you get to the source of the sound, the clearer the hammering becomes, and the air around you becomes more stuffy.
The sound came from a section of pipe that no one knew when it was built. This section of pipe was circular, with a diameter of nearly eight meters and a length of several hundred meters. The walls of other pipes on the outside were made of lime and steel bars, but the walls of this section of pipe were all reinforced with alloy.
This layer of pipes is separated by a layer of metal plates one-third of the way from the ground, and is divided into two floors. The lower floor is used as a warehouse, while the upper floor is filled with miscellaneous mechanical equipment.
The continuous pounding sounds came from the end of this pipe.
This is Ivan's forging factory. He chose this place when he was studying with the mechanical priest who was killed in the explosion. Finally, he slightly changed the flow direction of the surrounding water pipes, thereby making room inside for a small factory.
After Ivan's simple planning, the efficiency of the inefficient drainage system not only did not decrease, but increased by one third. In the past, there would be water accumulation on the streets every time it rained, but after Ivan's changes, the water accumulation phenomenon disappeared.
Ivan spent nearly five years maintaining and building this small forging factory. He turned the knowledge he learned and collected into reality here. Sometimes some weapons of unknown origin but extremely powerful would appear in Kalimdor. These weapons were most likely prototypes made by Ivan and released to the outside world for practical testing.
Compared to this small forging factory, Kant No. 15 can only be regarded as a cutting-edge laboratory.
This forging factory has had few visitors since its construction. Apart from Ivan himself, his teacher, and the mute servitors, the only visitors here are lizards, spiders, and rats.
But today, the number of visitors coming here exceeds the total of all previous years.
Ivan stood in front of the furnace, the flames dyed his pale face under his robe red. He seemed to be completely unconcerned about the scorching temperature of the furnace, and just stared at the temperature display on the digital screen next to him.
Standing behind him were Char, Arabelle, Howard, and Francis. This forging factory was not designed to receive visitors, so the space left was barely enough for one person to enter and exit. Now that so many people came here at once, it seemed extremely crowded.
"drop!"
The instrument issued a prompt, informing me that the temperature inside the furnace had reached the required level. So Ivan turned around and extended his hand to Francis.
Since entering the factory, Francis has been holding his scepter in both hands. He put the scepter against his chest, closed his eyes and recited hymns devoutly.
And when Ivan stretched out his hand to him, although no one reminded him, he still opened his eyes as if he had sensed something, and then handed the scepter to Ivan with great reluctance.
"God Emperor... please forgive my disrespect." Francis said.
"As long as it brings victory, the Divine Emperor will forgive and pardon all sacrifices," Howard comforted him. "Think positively. Guiding you to appear before us and showing us the power of this holy relic was perhaps the Divine Emperor's will."
Two days ago, Howard realized that this scepter was more or less a holy object, capable of effectively killing demons in the Warp.
To be on the safe side, he conducted an experiment after defeating Cecil.
Although Cecil died at that time, the remaining demons were not completely eliminated. When the human side was cleaning up the battlefield later, a Nurgling was captured.
The little monster was locked in a mouse cage, but it was still showing its fangs and claws, emitting plague and stench.
This just happened to be the subject of Howard's experiment.
Howard was standing outside the cage, stabbing the Nurgling with his scepter.
Although the monster was small, it was still a demon, with a tough skin. Ordinary sharp weapons would probably not be able to penetrate its defense, but this scepter easily pierced the Nurgling.
The little monster was pierced by the scepter and nailed to the ground. This monster, which should not have felt pain, began to scream and struggle. They were strong enough to lift Howard up easily, but they could not shake the scepter at all.
A moment later, the Nurgling turned into a wisp of ash, and not even a trace of it was left on the scepter.
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"Piety that does not bring victory is meaningless." Ivan said this coldly.
Then he pulled open the lid of the hot furnace with his bare hands and placed the scepter inside.
The lid is closed and mechanically locked from the outside.
Through the transparent glass partition, everyone saw that the scepter was twisted and deformed under the high temperature, and finally melted into boiling silver paste, which was collected into a large crucible.
The crucible is then removed and reprocessed.
A small amount of silver paste, copper paste and tungsten are mixed, cooled and placed into a machine tool to punch out the shape of a bullet. After the bullet shells are cooled, the cores are filled in and the primers are sealed, becoming the shape of a common and reliable rifle bullet in Zhongchao.
Although the addition of silver and tin to the bullet slightly reduces its strength, the effect of these so-called "impurities" is enough to make up for this small flaw in strength.
Soon Ivan produced several boxes of silver-mixed bullets, which were neatly stacked and numbered thousands.
But only a small amount of the liquid from the melted scepter was used to make these bullets. Ivan used the remaining liquid to make six large-caliber bullets made of pure silver.
Those silver-mixed rifle bullets will be distributed to other men, and these six pure silver bullets are specially for Arabelle to use, because Arabelle is responsible for protecting Howard.
Ivan made all the remaining liquid into tiny steel balls, and then loaded them into grenades along with gunpowder and the ashes of the untouchables.
There are more than twenty finished grenades in the end, and these grenades will be their most powerful weapons.
After making these grenades, Ivan heated the last of the silver paste into plasma at high temperature and sprayed a thin film on Char's battle axe and Arabel's folding knife.
The ruby on the top of the scepter was taken down and worn on Howard's chest.
Because in Ivan's opinion, this gem was fragile and difficult to process, and had no value as a weapon, so he simply left it to Howard to wear as a talisman.