Volume 20 Chapter 127 Air Magic Stone

"Slow down, I didn't hear it clearly!" The old man shouted anxiously when I asked. //.com Novel Network//

When I heard the other person's words, I remembered that I might have asked too quickly just now, but although I understood that I didn't give up on studying this wheelchair. Although this is just a small wheelchair, its value is quite terrifying. You should know that this thing can fly, and it is not an ordinary flight. This thing can hover vertically, and what's even more amazing is that this thing has no sound at all.

Although the gravity resistance device we bought from Ashufud's Iron Crusader can also levitate in place against gravity, the thing not only makes it very noisy when it works, but more importantly, it cannot move once it fly. If it weren't for the tracked transmission mechanism to bypass this defect in disguise, the gravity resistance device would have only been used as a suspended elevator. But the old man obviously had no problems with this thing. When the old man came in, the wheelchair could be suspended and moved, and there was no problem with steering. I just didn't know if this thing consumed a lot of energy and could be enlarged. The most important point is - how high can this thing fly?

"Sorry, I was so excited just now. What kind of power does this thing float up?"

"Oh, you say this." The other party looked like he didn't take it seriously and signaled an assistant next to him to lift up a lid behind the wheelchair. I hurriedly leaned over and took a look. What's quite amazing is that the underside of the lid was not the complex mechanical system I expected, but... it was... empty. It was really empty. The wheelchair, which looked like a toilet with armrests and side baffles, was very large, so I thought that after opening it, I would see a bunch of very complex precision instruments, but it turned out that it was empty. And looking at the shape, it seemed to be made completely according to the design goals of the storage box.

"What about the power system of this...this thing?"

"Here is here." The old man raised a ball in his hand. It was a very standard ball. It looked bright blue on the outside and looked like plexiglass. Of course, there was definitely no material in the game, so this thing should be made of some other material. The diameter of the blue ball is about seven or eight centimeters. It was just right in the hand. It was very comfortable to hold it. It didn't feel too big or small, just...

"Is this the power system?" I never thought that the power system of this wheelchair was external, and what's even more outrageous is that it subverted all my common sense. Not to mention the principle of the small ball floating on, the transmission problem alone is very puzzling, because the ball is not connected to the wheelchair, but is grabbed by the old man in his hand. According to this situation, if the ball produces buoyancy, how does it transmit power to the chair? Is it through the old man's body? But if the chair is hung on the ball by the old man's arm, then what else does he have to do with the chair? Isn't it easier to sew the ball directly on the clothes? Besides, even if the clothes can't bear the pulling force, it's okay to put the ball in the storage box behind the chair? What's the matter with this in your hand?

The old man didn't know if he was too old or did not know how to observe his expressions. Anyway, he had not reacted until the particularly burly and tall guy next to him found the problem. Instead, the particularly burly guy explained to me: "Have you misunderstood something?"

"Misunderstand?"

Seeing me staring at him blankly, the muscular man immediately explained: "The doctor means that the thing in his hand can provide power to move the suspended chair. The buoyancy of the chair itself is not provided by that ball!"

"So that's it!" After hearing this explanation, I finally understood it. Fortunately, there were only two people in the scene, and the old man and I were often confused by this problem. The floating wheelchair was not moving fast, and there was no friction after being suspended. So if it was just to provide the power to move forward and backward, it could be done by the old man's arms. After all, this power is not greater than pushing a wheelchair in reality. On the contrary, because this is a suspended wheelchair, the resistance will definitely be much smaller.\\.com First release\\"Well, if this thing only provides horizontal power, then what is the thing floating?"

"Of course, it depends on the air magic stone."

"Air Magic Stone?" Because the Iron Empire rarely comes into contact with the outside world, and the direction of social development is completely different, many things of the Iron Empire are named by themselves. For example, I have never heard of this Air Magic Stone outside, and I don't know if it is a mineral or a certain known ore, but the name of the Iron Empire is different. "Where is the Air Magic Stone you are talking about? Can you show me?"

"The piece in the chair is already fixed. If you want to see it, you need to remove the cover. It's very troublesome. If you want to see, we can go to the arsenal. There is a ready-made air magic stone there."

As soon as I heard the other party say this, I immediately asked the other party to take me there. The order he received before coming was to take me to visit him. So I agreed without hesitation when I heard that I had to see the other party hesitation.

To go to the so-called equipment warehouse, you have to enter the dungeon. As mentioned earlier, the main body of the Iron Empire is actually down on the ground, and the part on the ground is only some military facilities. Although the equipment warehouse also belongs to military facilities, it is located underground because it belongs to the logistics support department.

The road leading to the underground of the city is located in the mountain in the center of the island. Although this mountain looks like an ordinary mountain on the outside, it has actually been hollowed out inside. Almost one-third of the area inside the mountain has been converted into functional areas, and only two-thirds of the vegetation covered on the surface of the mountain is real, and the rest are camouflage. As long as the operator presses a switch, the plants will automatically separate the defensive cannons below with the camouflage plate. Therefore, it is more suitable to say that this mountain is not a mountain than a mountain.

The passage into the mountain is at the foot of the mountain, and there is a camouflage door at the entrance, but I think this design is completely unnecessary. After all, there is a wide road with gravel outside the camouflage door. Even if you hide the door, the road is still there. When people see a road directly extending to the mountain, they will suddenly disappear. The fool also knows that it is a camouflage door.

After following the guides through the huge camouflage door, what appeared in front of us was not a downward tunnel, but a slightly upward slope. After rising more than a meter, the road turned horizontal again, but the landscape in front of me reminded me of Longyuan's underground base. The huge hall was supported by several huge stone pillars, and the empty space was filled with busy people and machinery. The walls and ground of the entire hall were covered with metal, and the thickness seemed to be quite low. I guess even if the Americans hit the ground bombs in this place might not cause any damage.

I'm still observing the situation in the hall. The muscular man over there has found a car. Although this thing is different from the cars in reality, it is also very different from the carriages in the game. In fact, I think it's better to say that it's a mobile platform than calling a car, because it's a bunch of wheels added under a large flat plate. Those wheels are not big, with a diameter of only fifty centimeters at most. The metal plate on the wheel is two inches thick, about five meters long, and more than two meters wide. There is no cab or steering wheel on the metal plate. The control device is a vertical stick located at the corner. This thing is standing there like a fighter's joystick. If you want to move in, just grab the pole and push it in that direction. And the larger the tilt of the joystick, the faster the speed.

Such a simple operation method is quite amazing, but it just happened to me to find an opportunity to ask for a try to get off the car. Because there is no seat or something on the tablet, don't expect comfort. Fortunately, the metal ground is flat enough, so it's not at all. After obtaining consent, I personally tested it and found that this thing responds very sensitively to the operation and can hardly feel the response time. In other words, this thing may be the operation direction and driving of the direct mechanical structure like a bicycle, because there will be a response delay between magic circuits and electronic circuits, which may not be felt for ordinary people, but my reflex nerves can definitely find it.

In addition to being sensitive to movements, another feature of this car is that it has sufficient power. I don’t know if it is the result of gear adjustment or the power device itself is very powerful. Anyway, this thing has a strong horsepower, and it feels quite strong when starting. Even if I push the joystick to the bottom in an instant, the car will immediately increase its speed. However, although the horsepower is strong and the speed is very fast, the machine selection speed of this thing is very slow. Even if it runs to the limit speed, it is about 30 kilometers, which is faster than normal people running, but it is also very limited.

According to the muscular man's explanation, the reason why this thing is not fast is mainly because it is specifically responsible for transporting supplies on the ground. It is a commuter car in the base and its function is similar to that of a forklift in a factory, so what is needed is power rather than speed.

After playing for a while, I roughly tested the performance of this thing and returned the car to the muscular man to drive. He drove the car to a front door, and there was a closed space inside the door. I could tell at a glance that it was an elevator, but the area was large. If I squeezed, it would be fine to park in more than a dozen tanks.

After we drove into the elevator, many cars came in one after another, but these cars were empty, with three people standing on each, which looked like transport personnel. After seeing me, those people showed curious eyes, feeling like we saw aliens on the road. Fortunately, the guides around me seemed to have a lot of identities, so although the people there kept staring at me, they did not surround me to watch the fun.

After the thing suspected to be an elevator was filled, it lowered the gate and started moving downward. I calculated based on the falling speed. The dungeon was actually located more than 180 meters deep below the surface. Even if you go directly to the elevator, it took more than 30 seconds to reach the end.

When the elevator door is opened, the first thing we see is a wide passage area. This passage is like a subway platform, except that the location of the rails is replaced by a row of elevators, and the space in front is much taller than the waiting area of ​​the subway station.

Due to different identities, we were the first to drive out of the elevator. The muscular man drove the car into the passage and immediately turned into the fork on the left. After running a short distance, he directly saw a gate that was as high as five or six meters and nearly ten meters wide on the wall on the left. Unlike ordinary warehouses, there were not only guards outside this gate, but also a bunker. We first underwent inspection of the outpost more than ten meters away from the door, and then passed it. After passing it, we arrived at the door. Then the muscular man signaled us to get off the car, and then took us into the inside of the door through a small door at the edge of the door.

"This is our equipment library. How about it? It looks pretty good, right?" The muscular man is obviously a military representative, because he seemed quite proud when introducing the equipment library, while the fat man next to him and the semi-demented old man had no reaction.

I looked around the entire equipment library under the introduction of the muscular man. I have to say that the muscular man does have the capital of pride. The area here is very huge. I feel that the Longyuan's experimental weapons reserve library is not as big as this place. The wide storage area looks at least tens of thousands of square meters. The rows of shelves inside are lined up like supermarkets. Each shelf has equipment. Of course, the types cannot be as numerous as the products in the supermarket. After all, this is a reserve library, not a supermarket. Most of the shelves are filled with gorgeous rifles that I saw before. I just glanced at them and saw thousands of them. I guess this thing is marked equipment here. If all the things I saw are distributed, I guess I can get one in the Iron Empire.

After seeing a surprised expression on my face, the muscular man guided me with satisfaction: "Please come here, the air magic stone you want to see is here."

In fact, the so-called air magic stone of the muscular man is not pure ore. This is an equipment library rather than a simple warehouse. It is impossible to put the ore directly here. What the muscular man showed me was actually a kind of equipment that had been processed, but because this equipment itself is just polished ore, it can also be considered that this is the original ore.

"Is this the air magic stone?" I asked in surprise as I looked at the air magic stone in my hand. The air magic stone in front of me grew a strip, about fifteen centimeters long, about five centimeters wide and about one centimeter thick. It looks a bit like the paperweight stone used in the study, but the color is strange. The color of this thing is a very dazzling orange red, which looks similar to the reflective suits of the cleaning workers. I have never seen the ore in nature have this color before.

After I picked up an air magic stone, the muscular man also took a piece and explained: "This is the air magic stone, but the original ore is not long, but strange and strange. What you see now is the finished product that we smashed and re-bonded after separating the raw ore from impurities."

“Is this glued back on powder?”

"Yes, the shape of the air magic stones that are separated is not regular, and they usually do not have such large pieces. After being crushed, they can be shaped at will, and they must be crushed during the process of separation of impurities, so it is not easy to get the whole piece. Fortunately, the air magic stones that are re-bonded after crushing have not changed in terms of performance."

I nodded and asked, "Do you have a lot of this ore on your island?"

The muscular man shook his head and said, "In fact, the reserves of the air magic stone are not high. The warehouse is almost one-third of the reserves on the island. Half of the remaining two-thirds are in use, and one-third are proven reserves and have not yet been mined and processed."

"Did you find this mining area?"

"Yes, we have only discovered this mining area at present, and the area is very small. However, we estimate that this kind of ore should not exist only, and there should be some other places, but it was not discovered, or the person who discovered it did not know its value."

I nodded and asked again, "What is this thing glued?"

"Just add water."

"ah?"

"Air Magic Stone is a very strange ore. It has a characteristic that is different from ordinary ore. It is slowly dissolved in water. We crush it and dissolve it with water, then pour it into a mold to dry it. When the water completely evaporates, it will become the finished product in your hand."

"It actually dissolves in water? Why does it sound like salt?"

"It's a bit like salt." said the muscular man: "This air magic stone will become relatively strong once it is formed. It has a high hardness and is a little brittle, but it has little impact on our current use needs."

"Why are you all using this thing?"

"Of course it is used to reduce weight." The muscular man first showed off his muscles, and then explained: "You should have noticed that most of the residents of our Iron Empire are very thin, and there are very few people as strong as me. Although the weapons produced by our inventors have tried their best to consider weight, sometimes they still feel that they are too heavy, so we use this air magic stone to reduce weight. When encountering equipment that needs to be lightweight but cannot reduce weight, we will install a few air magic stones, so that the originally heavy equipment will become very light. And you also know that this air magic stone is soluble, so we can make any shape as needed, so even close-fitting armor can easily add a layer of air magic stone to reduce the weight."

I heard that even armor can add air magic stones, I immediately became excited. It was not because I planned to reduce weight to the players of our guild players' armor. After all, the armor in the game itself ignores part of the weight, and the game system does not allow players to modify equipment at will, so I did not plan to modify the players' equipment. What I really thought of was the mobile angels. These guys are artificial creatures. If they are attached with air magic stones that can reduce the load, wouldn't they be able to increase the motor power by a large margin without changing the power system?

Just as I was thinking about the beautiful prospect of adding air magic stone to the mobile angel, I suddenly realized a problem. After weighing the air magic stone in my hand, I asked the muscular man in surprise: "Didn't you say this thing can lose weight? Why am I so heavy in my hand?"
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