NPC's Poverty Story

Chapter 119 New Weapons in the Equipment Department

Rowling arrived in Cangzhou in the afternoon, along with new weapons from the equipment department, which are still a bunch of unassembled parts.

The task of assembling fell on An Mio's head. After all, the equipment department only provided one weapon, and no one was willing to come to Cangzhou to provide technical guidance.

Before assembling the new weapon, everyone's attention was on Elstina. They all heard that this girl was brought back by An Mio near the worm's nest.

This is an inevitable situation. Elstina didn't panic at all, and vividly fabricated a story about falling into the water and drifting here after being killed in the nearby sea. As for whether everyone believes it or not, I don't know.

An Mio listened to Elstina's fluent narration, only to realize that this guy is not only a little good at making up stories, but also has a strong language learning ability, and he has mastered the common language of the universe so quickly.

Rowling was noncommittal to Elstina's words, and turned her head to look at An Mio, showing a lack of interest: "You picked him up, you can figure it out yourself!"

An Mio was not surprised by Rowling's reaction. Elstina is no different from ordinary people now. Except for Erica, it is almost impossible for anyone to discover Elstina's true identity.

"I can take Elstina in, but is there a financial subsidy?" An Mio asked casually.

A group of people looked at An Mio speechlessly after hearing the words. They all knew a little about An Mio's obsession with funding, but they also knew that Rowling's obsession with it seemed to be deeper.

Sure enough, Rowling seemed to be lacking in interest, but she immediately became serious after hearing An Mio's words: "Remember, there is no way I can get funding from here."

"..."

Erika on the side raised her head and glanced at Elstina after hearing An Mio's words. She blinked her eyes and suddenly felt a sense of crisis. There will probably be another guy who will grab food from her in the future!
As if sensing Erica's gaze, Elstina looked down at Erica, she was very interested in Erica's existence, this little guy could tell her true identity at a glance, and An Mio But she didn't mention a word about her origin.

A short meeting ended in a discussion about funding. As the only mechanic here, An Mio also got the assembly drawing of the new weapon from the equipment department.

Compared with traditional weapons, the thing on the blueprint is more like a signal tower. According to the introduction given by the equipment department, after this thing is activated, it will condense energy at the top of the tower. After the energy reaches the limit that the tower can bear, it will Launch the energy ball.

Of course, it has one of the biggest shortcomings, that is, it cannot carry out precise strikes. The direction in which the spire launches energy balls is fixed, and it can only attack fixed targets in that direction.

The equipment department named this thing the energy-gathering spire. It is still only the first generation and has many shortcomings, but there should be no problem with attacking dormant insect nests.

After all, it is an energy transmitter, and it is still the kind that cannot be aimed. Once the target starts to move, it can only bombard the air.

An Mio didn't know what the working principle of this thing was, after all, it was a confidential part, and what she saw was only the finished product waiting to be assembled.

It is not difficult to assemble an energy-gathering spire according to the drawings. The car carried the parts of the energy-gathering spire to the beach where the insect nest is located. The huge silver-white insect nest still stands in the sea like a mountain.

The weather was rare and sunny, and the insect nest under the blue sea and clear sky shone with a glistening white light, as beautiful as suet-fat white jade, if only it were not that big.

Although it seems that there is no abnormality in the insect nest, An Mio knows that it has actually become an empty shell, and of course it cannot be said to be completely empty. After Na's, they will no longer wake up.

Naturally, these things cannot be told to Rowling and the others. An Mio quickly erected the energy-gathering spire with the assistance of everyone, and adjusted the firing direction to the position facing the insect nest. The insect nest itself is dead, and she also Don't worry about the Spire being empty.

Looking at the spire as tall as several people, everyone was still a little apprehensive. If this thing could not destroy the insect nest quickly, it would completely anger the insect nest.

In fact, according to past experience, although the things developed by the equipment department are not convenient and easy to use, there is absolutely no need to worry about their power, because when they develop weapons, they often discard some unnecessary things to improve weapons lethality.

But this time, after all, what was going to be destroyed was the insect nest from the void, an enemy they had never encountered before, so some worries were inevitable.

Elstina, who came over by herself, also expressed a little surprise, although she didn't have a good view of the so-called energy-gathering spire. It may not even be able to penetrate the protective layer on the outside of the nest.

But after all, everyone else showed an excited and worried expression, so naturally she couldn't be indifferent.

An Mio stepped back after completing the assembly, and left the operation of this thing to others. Anyway, the insect nest is already a dead thing, so there is no need to worry about any accidents.

She turned her head and saw Elstina with a "surprised" face. Her expression was very exaggerated, but fortunately no one paid attention to her.

In fact, An Mio was very curious about how Elstina thought of coming to see her former body being destroyed with her own eyes. Does she have any special hobbies?
A series of unreliable thoughts popped up in An Miao's mind, but they were quickly interrupted by Luo Lin's voice:
"This is the first actual combat test of the energy-gathering spire, but don't worry, if it fails, I will temporarily freeze the worm nest."

Rowling's voice came from the front, which is why she proposed to come to Cangzhou. Even if she failed to destroy the insect nest, she could use her extraordinary ability to temporarily freeze the insect nest, and then wait for the reinforcements from the empire to arrive.

At this time, Kayla, who was in charge of activating the spire, was ready.

And such an unprecedented action is naturally indispensable to the audience. After two days of keeping a low profile, the players heard about this action to destroy the nest, and now they are watching the situation here from a distance.

For this strange group of people who are not afraid of death, everyone has a tacit attitude towards their actions. The key is that they can't control this group of people.

For players, this kind of action is often accompanied by tasks, so they will naturally not miss such opportunities.

After making all the preparations, the energy-gathering spire was officially launched under Keira's control.

The body of the tower shining with metallic luster became brighter, and electric arcs danced on the alloy crossbar every day, and soon formed a strange force field around it, forcing everyone to leave the scope of the steeple.

Time passed slowly, and a blue energy body was condensed in the air at the top of the tower. Electric arcs surged around the energy body, which was violent and beautiful.

The energy was still condensing, and waves appeared on the clear and windless sea, as if the air was trembling, and everyone's eyes were attracted. They could feel the power of the violent energy, and it would definitely not lack destructive power.

"It seems that this thing can still break through the protective layer of the insect nest, but I don't know what it tastes like..." Elstina looked at the growing energy sphere and muttered. If it is in the nest state, it should eat this energy as a delicacy.

Although the outside world generally thinks that the Void Zerg eats everything, but in fact this is a misunderstanding. They eat to absorb energy, and they don't eat anything that has no energy.And as long as it is a substance that contains energy, they can extract the energy by devouring it, so they leave the impression that they can eat everything.

The pure energy body gathered by the energy-gathering spire is an incomparable delicacy for the Zerg, and it is impossible to have such a delicacy in a place where energy is scarce like the void.

But Elstina just thought about it, touching that ball of energy now would be tantamount to suicide.

Soon, the energy of the energy-gathering spire had reached its limit, and without other operations, the energy ball as big as a car had already left the spire and flew towards the predetermined direction.

The berserk energy ball carried the whistling sound of the wind, the crackling sound of the air, and the space where it passed was distorted, while the insect nest still stood quietly, as if it knew nothing about the upcoming danger.

At this moment, except An Mio and Elstina, everyone watched this scene with bated breath, waiting for the scene where the energy ball collided with the void insect nest and detonated the insect nest.

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At this time, Ilesa and the technicians from the Equipment Department, who were far away in the Tianye Headquarters, were also watching the situation on Rowling's side remotely through satellites. The former was because of work, and the latter was to record the test data of new weapons.

Although they didn't go to the scene, they couldn't neglect to record the data.

So far, everything is going well. There are no problems in the assembly of the energy-gathering spire, and there are no mistakes in the initial debugging. Several people in the equipment department recorded these things. The next most important thing is to estimate the lethality of the energy-gathering spire after it is launched.

They saw through the monitoring screen that the energy-gathering spire was charging, and everything was as expected, and then they saw that the energy-gathering spire reached its limit, and the berserk energy ball was about to launch.

However, at this time, the entire monitoring screen suddenly flashed red light, followed by the sound of an alarm. The technicians in the equipment department were stunned for a moment, and Eliza had already called up another screen from the screen, which was a On the world map, a huge red dot is jumping at the location of Cangzhou.

"Could it be that the worm's nest has recovered in advance?" Someone asked in surprise.

"No! This signal is Exile No. [-]!" Eliza stood up suddenly, "No. [-] has appeared! Inform Senator Rowling and them, No. [-] is near them."

Eliza calmly gave the order, and then said to several people in the equipment department: "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't have time for you to record the data."

(End of this chapter)