Extraordinary Voyage

2021-06-06

Chapter 858 Three Years and Weak Compensation

“Everyone has it, get ready!

Open the valve , the steam is charged, and each unit pays attention to the pressure gauge”

唧——!

In the outskirts of Bekele, the capital of the Phalatis capital, in the shooting range full of weeds, snow-white steam shrouded, and a group of soldiers with metal cans and some strange firearms lined up facing the target. .

The commander slammed the command knife down, loudly shouted:

“Fire!”

Boom! boom! boom!

The high-pressure steam spurted out, pushing the hot metal storm flying out, tearing the target of the first group in front of him to pieces in the blink of an eye.

“Shoot again!”

The soldier pulled a locking structure on the firearm and pushed the conical projectile into the magazine. Pull the trigger.

“Shoot again!”

Although this “steam gun” is far more bulky than a normal flintlock gun, the benefits are obvious.

As long as it is preheated in advance and the pressure provided by the steam pressure tank is up to the standard, it can be fired continuously without the need for tedious loading of gunpowder and projectiles.

pa! pa! pa!

Beside the shooting range, a group of distinguished audience members could not help applauding when they saw the performance of this new weapon that has been finalized.

“The premise is that you don’t suddenly encounter encounters in the wild, and you don’t have time to create the necessary steam.

This kind of [high-pressure steam gun] is used in urban defense work that can provide logistical support. The application prospect should be very broad. Especially when dealing with ‘those things’, intensive firepower is the only reliance of ordinary soldiers.”

Standing at the front of the team, wearing a military uniform, cloak, waist and crotch saber Alwin gave it a positive affirmation.

At this time.

The time has come to the autumn of the 196th year of the Haiyuan calendar, and it has been three years since the last time Alwin and the others landed on the moon.

This time is also the routine visits and technical exchanges between the Grand Duke Garriott and his wife Olivia to Phalatis and the “Steam and Mechanicism” every once in a while.

Except for “The Cult of Steam and Mechanics”, “School of Alchemy” and the entourage of both countries.

Wearing a red court dress, like a gorgeous red rose, the queen Your Majesty accompanies the whole process, and Olivia, who wears the same white dress, looks like a white rose. holding hands.

Like a pair of beautiful sisters.

Even on such diplomatic occasions, they are still talking and laughing, clearly showing that the relationship has improved a lot in the past three years.

The autumn wind blows.

The beautiful skirts of the two ladies were flying, and it was vaguely visible that their straight and slender legs were wrapped in shiny thin sheer stockings.

Rivina is a charming black and Olivia is a clean pure white.

Leading the trend by these two women who can almost be regarded as the most noble in the material world, just like the tulip trend at the beginning, silk stockings have also become a kind of among the powerful and even middle-class women in various countries. Fashion.

It has unexpectedly become a hot commodity for export in dukedom’s fledgling “oil industry”.

And this high-end women’s product is worth much more than the same weight of gold.

Women are crazy, men are crazy!

During these three years.

As high-level transcenders, they don’t see the slightest change in appearance, but the changes in the mundane world are profound and unnoticeable influence.

In the eyes of mortals who are hard to adapt to, the entire world is like being equipped with an accelerator, and it is changing day by day.

The “high-pressure steam guns” that are being tested in the finalization stage and the ten “high-pressure steam guns” pushed up by the soldiers are just a small part of them.

【Watt III military steam engine】Make “steam” an easy-to-obtain, powerful and convenient energy source, and the first application scenario is armament.

“Start [Analysis Engine]!”

A middle age person wearing a monocle and a little sloppy all over came out more and more, commanding a group of [steam divisions] beside him The huge mechanical side built up began to get busy.

A busy middle age person named Charles Babbage excitedly introduced his latest invention to Alwin and the others:

“Two Dear Your Majesty.

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This machine surpasses all previous ‘difference engine’ models in terms of the range of computations possible, simplicity, reliability and precision, or automation.

It is already a brand-new great invention! The firepower table calculation at this time will prove it!”

With the gradual development of guns, they are separated from the era of front-loaded smoothbore guns that were originally hit by metaphysics. Ballistic calculations and fire table testing are also increasingly important.

A regular fire table requires 3000 different ballistic parameters.

As far as a single parameter is concerned, a ballistic with a flight time of 60 seconds can directly put an ordinary person down, because that is a terrifying workload that requires at least 20 hours!

Although the brain power of high-level transcenders is enough to handle this kind of work easily, [Steam Division] and normal military personnel urgently need a calculation that can shorten this complicated ballistic parameter calculation to seconds tool.

And it must be universal and can be promoted throughout the military, so that the overwhelming majority can also use it for the ordinary person working on the front line.

This Mr. Babbage, although not a powerful wizard, is just a wizard apprentice of “constructing branches”.

But a series of “mathematical computers” led by him are the ones that best meet the needs of the military.

The whole new design is about 30 meters long and 10 meters wide, and the whole body is cast from brass. Babbage called it “analytical machine”.

It can automatically solve complex arithmetic problems with 100 variables, each variable can have up to 25 digits, and the operation speed can reach an astonishing 100 times per second.

From Alwin’s point of view, the groundbreaking “Analytical Engine” lies in:

This is the first computer in the history of human beings in the fifth era with computing, memory, controller, A “general-purpose computer” with basic components such as input/output devices!

In this new design, he also creatively proposed the concept of automatically formulating instruction sequences, whereby the “analytical engine” can run from the previous step to the next step without human help.

With this “calculation machine”, Babbage has no obstacles to break through the official wizard.

Bang bang bang.

As the steam engine drives the transmission, the precision brass gears roll like rolling balls, making a pleasant “tick-tock” sound.

With the input and output of punched paper cards, data that requires a bunch of civilian staff to calculate for several days is rapidly being generated.

Watch this “Analytical Engine” that is constantly running, powered by a steam engine.

Alwin gently nodded.

Well, there is an inner taste.

If it was just a prototype three years ago, but now three years later, this world seems to have completely entered the “steampunk era”.

And it’s not just the Tulip Alliance that makes progress, and geniuses are by no means limited to one family and one country. With other countries on the source continent catching up, it’s quite a bit of a blossoming meaning.

This also reminded Alwin of a concept that he had just added to his “evolutionary theory” – “weak compensation”.

That is to say, for all living things in the world, the survival intensity (the tenacity of survival) of the descendant species always shows a decreasing trend, and the generation will be weaker than the first generation is “decreasing”.

Therefore, if these creatures want to survive, they have to continuously look for more supporting factors, and this supporting factor is “compensation”.

It’s just like the current state of the material world.

As the era moves, the power of extraordinary creatures decreases. The more “evolutionary” human beings, the weaker the individual strength and the greater the number, and the greater the need for collective division of labor and cooperation.

“Weakness compensation” is applied to modern human beings, extraordinary power is “weakness”, and science is “compensation”.

“Oh, this is the biggest trend in this world that spans many epochs!”

Of course.

If there is a flaw in the rapid advancement of technology, it is probably the thick smoke shrouded in the sky over Becquerel at this time.

This is the throes of industrial development, and even Memnon Watt, the “God of Steam and Machinery”, who has successfully condensed [Holy], is powerless to change it.

Also because of the increasingly harsh environment.

Now the Queen of Levina, Your Majesty, spends a large part of her free time in the once-expanded White Swan Castle.

In the White Swan Castle, she has her own room, maid team, cloakroom and even a wine cellar, and when she arrives there, it is like her own home.

Compared with Bekele at this time, Long Island, with its beautiful scenery and pleasant environment, is simply paradise.

In addition, Alwin couldn’t help begging, using the power of the [divine creature] and the crown wizard to build a permanent Transmission Gate in her room at St. She can come and go freely.

Right now.

Wow—!

A huge “rigid airship” hangs a shadow, flying over the crowd to the depths of the shooting range.

“Hessie, haven’t you seen such a new thing? Let’s go sit together after the test is over.”

“Okay, elder sister Wella.”

Two women who have been in space are still amazed by this humble intra-atmospheric vehicle.

Alwin’s [Evil Eye], has seen it all at a glance.

The airship has a rigid hollow copper tube skeleton, consisting of a longitudinal beam on the abdomen and 24 long pestles and 16 frames.

Extensive longitudinal and transverse bracing is used for structural strength.

The outside of the hull frame is covered with a skin made of tarpaulin, 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 of the improved design of multiple airbags, it can also play a role similar to the water barrier on a ship, even if 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 to put into actual combat, provided that anti-aircraft guns are not encountered.

“Everyone has it, get ready!”

After the “Analytical Engine” completed the calculation of the fire gauge, the [high pressure steam cannons] in the experimental stage adjusted their muzzles one after another, pointing to ten A huge living target dropped by an airship from a kilometer away.

It was a gigantic Great Demon with a body length of more than five meters and scales like a super-giant crocodile.

And different from monsters in the conventional sense, this “crocodile” is not only huge, but has sharp horns growing on its head, and it also has a strong smell of sulfur on its body.

Even though it was tightly bound by the enchanted wire rope, fiery lava was constantly spewing out of the nose.

This is a “demon-like” transformed by a superior monster, and it is also an acquired demon based on the material world creatures.

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 has come” in his letter, and one of the most fundamental problems is that Alwin has not yet adapted to an immortal’s conception of time.

In the past few years, it has been calm and tranquil. It was not until after three years of deliberation that there were some signs of turmoil in the material world recently.

Mainly because of those cunning Demon Gods who came to the material world for “life”, and if they wanted to break through the boundary barrier, it was impossible to carry too much power.

Even if it succeeds, it will be careful to hide and use the time of dozens or hundreds of years to grow slowly.

Of course, there are also courageous people who have begun to poach the flesh and soul of human beings, and even continue to create “demon-like” who were originally human and now monsters to confuse the public.

Nowadays.

As the strongest human-state union that suppresses the material world, the “Tulip Alliance” has the most extensive land and the largest population, which has also become a problem that Alwin and Liwena have to face. .

“Fire!”

bang! bang! bang!

Two rounds of rapid fire, carrying huge kinetic energy shells, easily equivalent to third rank “Crocodile Demon” was torn to pieces.

【High Pressure Steam Cannon】No matter the rate of fire or the formidable power, it is far above the conventional ship-borne artillery of the current sail battleships, and it can be said that the future is promising.

The test of the new weapon to be used in homeland defense was over, Liweina turned her head and said with some anticipation:

“Alwin, Hersey, you told me before. The good things that can deal with Demon God, should we take them out now?”

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(end of this chapter)