The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

After all, the metal weapons made by the Stonemen themselves were too crude. Even the Neolithic humans on Deep Blue Star made exquisite stone tools. Some of them could even be called works of art. They were definitely not the crude and shoddy things in the hands of the Stonemen.

However, it can also be seen from this point that after the demons occupied the Golden Star, they consciously imposed a technological blockade on the Stonemen. Otherwise, after thousands of years of occupation, the technological level of these Stonemen should not still be at such a primitive level.

Because the Qinglong Empire was already short of money, they had already started mining various metal ores after occupying Jin Yao Star, even before they were able to completely wipe out the remaining enemy forces there.

The Qinglong Empire is different from the demons. Because its technological level has almost completely recovered to the pre-war level, it is not afraid of learning much from the Stonemen who are still in the Stone Age. It directly uses the most advanced mining equipment.

As a miner, Ma Weiguo never thought that one day he would be mining on an alien planet.

Because the environment on Jin Yao Star is very harsh, especially the air, which contains many toxic substances, when Ma Weiguo and his colleagues first arrived here, they often almost fainted from poisoning because they forgot to wear gas masks.

Later, after breathing more of the toxic air, Ma Weiguo and his team gradually adapted to it. It must be said that the human body's ability to adapt is really strong. Of course, this may also be related to the fact that Ma Weiguo and his group of miners are all relatively strong. As a hard-working miner who insists on exercising in his spare time, Ma Weiguo successfully broke through to the Xiantian realm a few months ago. However, since he was used to being a miner, even if he broke through to the Xiantian realm, he had no intention of joining the army.

But he didn't expect that even if he didn't join the army, he would still end up on the front line of the battlefield one day. He was not talking nonsense. There were often some enemy stragglers who attacked near the mine where he was. In order to protect the safety of these miners, a total of one thousand undead warriors were specially arranged to garrison here. These undead warriors would not get tired and did not need to rest. They could patrol and stand guard around the mine day and night.

Listening to the gunfire coming from not far away, Ma Weiguo knew that there must be another group of fearless enemy troops coming to attack. However, because the human soldiers had been controlling the undead warriors to guard the mine tightly for so many days, no enemy could successfully rush into the mine. So from the very beginning when he heard the gunfire, he was nervous and scared and looked for cover with his fellow workers. Now, Ma Weiguo can listen to the rhythmic gunfire and eat lunch calmly.

They were eating here, and a group of Stoneman miners not far away were also eating, but those Stoneman miners were eating pieces of ore that had just been dug out.

There is a younger boy from the Stoneman tribe among them. He is very curious and likes to pester Ma Weiguo and others to ask about the principles of their mining equipment whenever he has free time.

Ma Weiguo thought that with the technological level of the Stonemen, even if he told this kid about it, he probably wouldn't be able to really understand it! So he answered his questions truthfully these days.

Look, the Stoneman boy named Pointed Head found an opportunity and came to ask Ma Weiguo about the working principle of the Hercules II mecha that they most commonly used in mining.

This Hercules II mecha, although its name sounds impressive, is actually a civilian mecha with a very crude shape. Although it is a humanoid mecha, its head is almost invisible. The cockpit is located on its chest, and its two mechanical legs are very short and thick. Most of the time, it relies on a pair of tracks on the soles of its feet to move forward. Only in places with a large difference in terrain will it switch to a forward form and slowly climb up step by step. Its two mechanical arms, although equally strong, are a little longer. The front end of the mechanical arms can be replaced with various tool modules, such as drills, buckets, and sledgehammers.

After spending some time answering Jiantou's questions today, Ma Weiguo had almost finished his lunch. He took out a napkin, wiped his mouth, and prepared to continue working.

However, just as he stood up, he found that something was wrong with the pointed head's condition. The other party's body surface seemed to be constantly wriggling, as if something inside his body was rapidly reorganizing.

Before Ma Weiguo could go forward to take a closer look, the thick mineral skin on the other party's body was torn apart, and metal bones protruded from the inside, and some delicate and some bulky parts began to be constructed on its body surface.

After just over ten seconds, its originally tall and thin figure changed completely, and it turned into a large mecha with a similar shape to the Hercules II mecha. However, the mecha transformed by the pointed head was taller. The height of the authentic Hercules II mecha was only more than three meters, while the height of the mecha transformed by the pointed head was about six meters.

"Oh my god! Transformers!" Ma Weiguo couldn't help but exclaimed as he looked at the pointed head that was slowly adapting to its new body.

Realizing that this was definitely a major discovery, he no longer cared about the possible danger outside, and quickly trotted out of the mine and found a sergeant-level squad leader who was commanding operations on the battlefield, and told him about the changes that had just happened to the pointed head.

Just at this time the battle was about to end. The team leader felt that Ma Weiguo's description was not clear enough, so he simply let his deputy captain take over the command. He and Ma Weiguo returned to the mine to personally check the changes in the tip.

After seeing with his own eyes the Hercules II mecha that Pointed Head had transformed into, the team leader was also stunned. Then at his request, Pointed Head changed back to its original state.

According to Pointy himself, after transforming into the Hercules II mecha mode, his defense and strength will be greatly improved, almost doubled compared to before, but his speed and flexibility will be greatly affected, becoming less than one-third of the original.

In addition to this Hercules II mecha mode, Pointed Head feels that he can also record a new transformation mode into his own Spark, so that he can use different transformation modes according to different environments.

If his strength could break through to the third level, he should be able to record a new transformation mode, and then he could be fully capable of land, sea and air. And if he was not satisfied with a certain transformation mode, he could spend some time deleting it and then try to record other transformation modes.

But if you want to obtain other transformation modes, you must at least know the basic working principle of the equipment. This is an easy thing for humans, but it is a huge difficulty for the Stonemen whose brains are not very good. Jiantou is considered a relatively talented and intelligent person among the Stonemen, but even so, it took him several days to roughly understand the working principle and general structure of the Hercules II with the help of Ma Weiguo. If it were other Stonemen, it might take several months to figure out the structure of such a relatively simple civilian mecha.

But no matter what, the transformation ability that Ma Weiguo inadvertently helped Jiantou to develop was a major discovery. The team leader quickly reported it to his superiors. At the same time, he also prepared to escort Jiantou to several starships that were still hovering over the wound of Jin Yaoxing, so as to conduct a careful study of the changes in his body and help him better develop his transformation ability.

In the opinion of the captain, the transformation mode that the sharp head has chosen is not very good. After all, the Hercules II is just a civilian mecha, not designed for combat, which makes it very bulky and not flexible enough in the ever-changing battlefield. The only advantage may be its high defense and power output.

After learning about this situation, the military leaders had the same idea as the captain. They quickly found Jiantou a Qinglong Empire's most advanced aerospace fighter, a newly released combat mecha. The aerospace fighter was naturally prepared for Jiantou to use in air combat. As for the combat mecha, it can be used in both air and land, and can even dive for a short period of time when necessary. However, in general, its most powerful ability is land combat.

Because the structures of these two pieces of equipment were many times more complicated, even a genius like Jiantou had to spend more than two months with the help of many military experts from the Qinglong Empire to barely master the basic structures of these two pieces of equipment.

And just after Pointed Head successfully mastered these two new transformation modes, problems arose again. That is, after the transformation is completed, the other functions are still fine, but in terms of weapons, what Pointed Head transforms into are basically just fancy weapons with only second-level attack power, which is simply not as powerful as the genuine fighter planes and mechas.

After some consideration, the military experts decided to make some external weapon modules specifically for the Pointed Head. Normally, the Pointed Head would store these weapon modules inside its body. After the deformation, they would take out these weapon modules and install them in the right places. In this way, the Pointed Head would have the attack power of genuine aerospace fighters and combat mechas.

Originally, those military experts thought that Jiantou would also need some time to figure out this method before he could master it, but unexpectedly, this time Jiantou mastered this skill in less than two days. Those weapon modules were easily absorbed into his body, and he could use the energy of his fire for maintenance and charging. When transforming, he only needed to pay a little attention, and those weapon modules would change naturally and be activated into working mode.

During the research and training of the Pointed Heads, these military experts actually also found some other Stone Man warriors to teach, hoping that these Stone Man warriors would also master this transformation ability.

However, what discouraged those military experts was that the ordinary stone warriors had a really poor learning ability. After several months, they could not even figure out a simple civilian mecha like the Hercules II, and had not figured out a single transformation mode.

You know, the stone warriors found by the military experts are among the smarter ones!

After Ye Tianlong learned about this, he also put forward his own suggestions. He thought that the military experts should not let the Stoneman warriors run away before they could walk, but should first let them imitate the transformation of the simplest equipment, including the heavy tanks that were almost completely eliminated by the front-line troops.

In addition, he felt that IQ was not the most important factor in learning this transformation pattern. Another more important factor should be curiosity, which is manifested in the pointed head. He always maintained sufficient curiosity about those unknown and novel things and liked to ask questions all day long.

Such stonemen have a strong desire for knowledge, so they will be more efficient in learning. They may be able to activate their transformation abilities faster than those stonemen warriors who seem to have high IQs but actually do not have high curiosity.

Although those military experts did not attach much importance to the suggestions made by Ye Tianlong, an "outsider", who asked Ye Tianlong to be the emperor! Even if the other party asked them to eat baba, they had to try it! Not going would be disobeying the emperor's order!

Soon, the military experts set up a special experimental group to train the Stoneman warriors according to the suggestions put forward by Ye Tianlong.

As a result, it was proved that sometimes the words of laymen were not necessarily wrong. At least Ye Tianlong was right this time. After doing what he said, seven of the Stonemen warriors mastered the most basic transformation mode of tanks in just three days. After installing the powerful main gun weapon module, the attack power of these guys directly soared to the third level. Even lord-level demons would be severely damaged by their shells. In addition, because they chose the transformation mode of the iron lump shape of tanks, their defense was also very strong. At least in the second level, there was basically no opponent who could break their defense. Only those enemies of the third level could effectively break through their thick "tank armor" and hurt the internal fire core. However, those third-level masters with relatively low attack power could only scratch their armor with one or two hits at most. If they wanted to completely penetrate their armor, they would have to hit it dozens of times. But if there was so much time, those Stoneman warriors in tank mode could have fired several shots at the enemies. As long as the enemies were willing to take the powerful armor-piercing shells they fired, they would not mind exchanging injuries with them.