National Juggernaut

Chapter 712 The Center Blossoms

Large white airships floated slowly in mid-air, and the giant gondola under them contained at least 300 people.

"I think this is crazy. This kind of garbage-powered hand-made airship is actually overloaded!"

This is an extremely cheap local military product. The simple principle and simple design of a gas that is more gas than air will fly the payload. It is very reluctant to say that the airship is very reluctant, but it is a bit like a balloon. ,
For some reason, the number of researchers in this world far exceeds that of a normal fortress city, and after the previous period of work came to an end, Zheng Li gave them a new task.

This is a local specialty "big balloon" from design to material, even including a basic screw.

The design requirements given by Zheng Li are very simple, just "floating", "try not to disintegrate automatically", "load capacity is the priority, and safety can be slightly reduced", "comfort? What do I want that thing for? , according to the shipping standard.".
At that time, the designer of the mechanical module laughed. He has seen countless nonsense design requirements of Party A, and he has never seen Party A who does not take his own life seriously, and is so easy to dismiss.

In two days, just two days, this "balloon" has been downgraded several times, from a drawing to a real thing.

Yes, downgrading. The design plan that the big brother came up with at the beginning satisfactorily fulfilled all the requirements of Zheng Li. The safety and stability even vaguely surpassed the obvious models on the market, but Zheng Li only calculated the cost. And even though the big guy said that materials can be provided locally, Zheng Li needed to do ten years of industrial parts design first, so he directly sent back the design.

"Reasons for rejecting the design? Too advanced, too good product quality?"

It is said that when the boss saw the rejection document, he was stunned for a minute.

Next, there is constant hard grinding.

According to the habit of moving to the city design unit, split a large project into several or dozens of small projects, and advance one by one. If you get stuck, reduce the material and raw material requirements bit by bit, and overcome a small project item and then go to the next one.

This seemingly "regressive" development progress is actually an infinite approach between "theory" and "reality".

When the first finished balloon floats slowly out of the workshop, it also means basic industries such as the "hanging basket", "air valve", "chemical industry", "rubber industry" and "metal processing" of the balloon , completed the transition from zero to some.

This is actually quite scary, because the materials in each world are actually different. Even if you want to use mature and complete sets of technologies to manufacture finished products, you must first complete the selection and replacement of local materials.

Under normal circumstances, it is necessary to hire experts, polish and try bit by bit, toss for half a year to make a foundation, and then consider what kind of industrial area to build according to the new local material chart.

It's complicated to say, but there are a few ready-made examples. There are huge wild forests in a certain world. The sap is quite viscous and becomes a very elastic soft gel after drying.

A local leader had a brain twitch, thinking that this should be a high-quality rubber product, and he could try to develop a large car manufacturing and processing industry.

The result is that experts were invited to toss for three years, and finally figured out the specialty trees in this world. It turned out that it was a kind of food. Well, that’s right, high-calorie food with high protein and high starch will automatically disintegrate after going out for a period of time. The taste is still very good.

Therefore, the "Flywheel" compressed biscuits, energy bars, and instant noodles are well-known in seven cities, but it is embarrassing that the factory still insists on the "original" brand name.

The materials of each world are unique, just like human beings develop industrial civilization, the hundreds of metal elements and their compounds alone do not know how many years of research, it is basically impossible to study the infinite materials of an unknown world clearly too realistic.

The development of most of the world is still superficial, and it is almost enough to develop the resources that are easy to develop on the surface. But this time, Zheng Li directly reversed it.

Instead of developing industries based on local specialties, he asked the research department to come up with local specialized versions of general-purpose technologies based on his own "military industry needs."

Just a "balloon" has tossed a top module expert for seven days and seven nights, and there are three chemical industry experts and two material science experts. When this balloon comes out, it means that the characteristics of many materials have been figured out. The entire industry chain of related production has been figured out.

Next, it is to add bricks and tiles to the upstream and downstream of this core industrial chain, and derive a single "industry" into a technological tree.

If this was not an undefeatable and undelayed task issued during the war, the researcher of the executor might have already slapped the order issuer in the face.

At this time, the boss of the module who said it was "super simple" almost crashed into the big tree at the door to death.

But not to mention, the gold and silver faucets in the R&D department are really good, and the two master craftsmen are even super masters who turned decay into magic, and abruptly completed this incredible task.

And the land of the monsoon has also harvested several fragile, start-up, and immature industrial sectors that have already produced stable finished products.

In Zheng Li's view, this is the most important thing. When there are products and commodities that can be sold, the capital chain and material chain can be rolled up, the R&D talents can be fed, and the worker team can be raised, which will naturally lead to healthy development. among.

This is just the beginning, Zheng Li suddenly "goes crazy" and throws out several development orders for "war machines" that seem to be completely nonsense, and also requires that every raw material must be imported from this event. Components cannot exceed one thousandth.

The weirdest thing is that these R&D bosses scolded this "prophetic lunatic" and "magic stick designer" for their misconduct while gritting their teeth to tackle key problems. As a result, they really made breakthroughs one after another and realized the downgraded version of local mass production. , including but not limited to catapults, rams, mine carts, and internal combustion trains. Don’t ask why Zheng Li wants to develop train research and development when he is fighting a war. Many people have become numb to his wantonness.

However, the main force in this war is the Yuling tribe and the centaurs. Most of the human fighters and researchers are in the third-line or logistics positions, so it is difficult to find a reason to refuse.

So, these days, Zheng Li's list is one after another, and occasionally he will personally go into battle, using rudimentary (compared to the boss) knowledge of psionics and incredible "inspiration" to randomly point to the direction of research and development, but it often works. , so that several big researchers began to doubt life, doubting whether they have used what they have learned in their lives in the wrong place.

Or, I should find a supernatural person to handle everything. If I can't find the "time system" and "fate system", I should find someone who can throw dice better than myself.

"War is the first driving force behind technological progress."

Inexplicably, Zheng Li thought of several world wars in the old days, which were indeed the era of great technological development.

Is the emergence of the initial technology of war?No, it was the war that triggered the demand for "progress", and then the demand forced many researchers to turn their whimsical ideas into reality, and forced investors to invest funds in each "idea", and finally formed a technological explosion.

It is very strange, the industrial level and technical level of Monsoon Land are evolving at a speed visible to the naked eye. Most people think that this is the credit of Zheng Li, and titles like "Eye of Time" don't need money to go to him He smashed it up, but Zheng Li knew that he really had to thank the world.

Thank you for the fact that this world is huge enough, and its vigorous vitality has produced a variety of plant and animal species, and all kinds of resources are abundant enough to be squandered and trial and error at will.

Thanks to the protection of the will of the world, the R&D team has had one good luck after another. This is the root cause of the R&D personnel if they have divine assistance, and they have really received "divine assistance".

It is actually not difficult to restore all kinds of equipment, equipment, and weapons. What is rare is that the current material self-sufficiency rate exceeds [-]% and the parts self-sufficiency rate is [-]%, which means that even if the world becomes an eternal bloody battle, outside support will be delayed. Arrived, there is still a continuous supply of industrial products and war equipment on my side.

And on the battlefield, the birth of various new products has indeed greatly expanded the combat power and mobility of one's own legion.

Not to mention, the "Balloon Legion" that was floating in the midair hit the weak point of the Gomels. They couldn't attack the air at all.

"Operation Circus" was kept secret before it was launched. After the balloon airship was developed, it has been improved and not put into the battlefield, and then frantically stocked up in the factory. With countless and tireless workers, Zheng Li even felt that he could not use it. The labor force of the main city has been hired.

At this time, hundreds of balloon airships, with a total force of 10,000+, slowly floated in midair, and Gemel below could only stare blankly.

The few flying generals, Gemel, were "ambushed by justice" as soon as they floated in the air, and fell directly.

Gemel's weakness of not being equipped with powerful weapons and equipment was revealed, and they were unable to deal with the balloons drifting slowly above. At this time, a sudden gust of wind came, and the speed of those balloons was one step faster.

When Gemel's main force reacted and sent out a small number of elite air riders to wave their hands to hunt, those balloons had been scattered, and each one was looking for a direction to move forward.

The most ridiculous thing is that part of it has disintegrated by itself while "parachuting".

Some even double-jumped in the air before the umbrella was fully deployed, and then jumped into a certain mountain nest.

"Bloom in the middle, sow everywhere"

The weird tactics had even weirder results. The original army enjoyed a wave of forced armed air force reconnaissance. It stands to reason that such crazy gang-hopping tactics, even if they got information, they couldn't bring it back.

But these people didn't intend to go back alive, they frantically wandered around, trying to spy on the military situation.

Originally, Gemel's troops were concentrated on the front line and the rear, and there was an empty troop transport area in the middle. The men and horses were good at running, and they finally forced an airship to stop. Hundreds of men and horses each chose a direction and ran. They may be able to fight with these super-large centaurs who have evolved into "mammoths", but it is absolutely impossible to catch up.

In the end, when the "seeds" were finally extinguished, the armed investigation has achieved very good results, and the "dark areas" on the map were forcibly lit up.

[Mortals, your recklessness and stupidity make me laugh, so let me grant you eternal peace. 】

In the end, probably because some unlucky guy had too much luck, he finally offended the reaper, and the giant god took action himself.

The unlucky balloon exploded in an instant, and before the more than 300 men and horses had time to accelerate to the ground, the plan of fleeing in all directions was still verbal, and the crazy storm of divine power tore everything apart.

But when Zheng Li in the rear got the news, he was overjoyed.

For a long time, he had been a little anxious about the lurking of the reaper, but he couldn't really show it.

The trip to the two worlds and the recognition of the nature of the Reaper made Zheng Li sure that the Reaper was definitely not as reckless as it appeared on the outside. A consciousness collection composed of countless soul AIs, how could it not use their brains.

This time, so many balloons and troops were assembled, and the front-line combat power was forcibly transferred to armed reconnaissance. In fact, they planned to try their luck. Now, the result came out
"Give me the map, which direction he was planning to go, and where were they stopped?"

Staring at the place where they were intercepted, Zheng Li suspected that if the reaper really planned to hide something, it should be in that area.

"What could it be? A super war machine? A magical weapon smuggled from afar, or a giant who can change the situation?"

It stands to reason that after determining the approximate location of the investigation target, the elite investigation team and Ace should be sent to further investigate, but Zheng Li, there is a better way.

"Let's do another wave of balloon reconnaissance, let the factory work overtime, this time double the number of balloons, and then everyone will forcefully rush in that direction."

Since the original plan has low cost and quick results, and has really achieved results, is there any reason not to continue.

Soon, really quickly, in order to avoid the evolution of Gomel with a unit that is good at anti-air, on the third day, a new round of balloon breakthroughs began.

This time, both the visual effect and the speed of the breakthrough are much stronger than before.

After all, when the "little invention" named by Zheng Li really achieved amazing results, he naturally had more say, and since this nonsense invention has achieved strategic advantages, further improvement and innovation Projects are inevitable choices.

In just today, the standard template of the balloon airship has evolved another seventeen times. This time, when Gemel's forward saw the giant army passing by with the wind, he could only sigh helplessly and continued to explode. The self-destruction of the fortress, the fortress of the shrinking fortress, or, you can also spit at the sky to express your indignation.

But this time, when a large number of airships approached the previous "killing point", the furious reaper jumped out again. At the same time, this also verified the rumors that there were important secrets in that area, and, that Secret, should not be able to move.

The "material" sent out this time is enough, and there are still a few real elite lurkers lurking in it.

Finally, someone brought back a picture, the super giant tower leading to the dome of the sky.

"Is this the Reaper's Throne?"

(End of this chapter)