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“Creak…”

“Creak…”

In a small open space within the puddles, the sound of gears grinding incessantly could be heard.

On a small earthen platform stood several high-ranking officials of the Papal State, while behind them, along the path, citizens wearing black padded jackets were walking forward.

From time to time, someone would stop and curiously look over, only to be whipped on the buttocks by an elder with a willow branch, hurrying to catch up with the group.

“What exactly is this?” Xixi asked, looking at the item in Jieshika's hand, somewhat puzzled.

He had never seen anything like it before.

It was a long, strip-shaped object, somewhat like a short spear, but the front end of the wooden shaft was not a spearhead, but an iron pipe resembling a morning glory flower.

This strip-shaped object was about one meter forty in length, with about two-thirds being the wooden handle and one-third being the iron pipe at the front.

At the side of the joint between the iron pipe and the wooden handle, there was a disc-shaped container, with a winding key inserted into it.

At this moment, Jieshika was holding the wooden handle of the device under his arm, while the iron pipe was placed on a Y-shaped wooden support.

The iron pipe was aimed at a metasequoia tree, about 50 meters away, with a 1.5 mm thick steel deck hanging on it, equivalent to the armor thickness of ordinary soldiers commonly equipped by White Maple mercenaries.

Jieshika excitedly reached out and kept twisting the winding key, and a series of gear turning sounds were coming from inside the disc-shaped container.

“What exactly is this?” Xixi leaned over and whispered to Huoen, “You guys spent two days and came up with this?”

“Of course, this is the most useful weapon for old farmers to deal with knight lords.” Huoen said confidently, “Do you know what the secret is?”

“What?”

“ Orichalcum.”

Xixi was too familiar with what Orichalcum was, perhaps it was a powerful weapon for Huoen to strike knights, but for these numerous dependents with low magical power…

It felt inferior to spells.

Xixi frowned: “Your Majesty, I must tell you that we wizards have done many experiments on the use of Orichalcum, and the history of Orichalcum has come to an end.”

“Is it over?” Huoen shrugged, “Why do I feel like it's just beginning?”

Xixi wanted to say something, but Huoen raised a finger to his lips: “Shhh… just keep watching and you'll understand.”

After turning it about ten times, Jieshika stopped twisting the winding key and turned to look at Huoen.

Huoen smiled and nodded at him. The next second, Jieshika pulled out the winding key.

The following scene was unforgettable for Xixi in his life.

At the moment Jieshika pulled out the winding key, an ear-piercing shriek that seemed to penetrate the soul burst out from the air pressure balance holes on both sides of the iron pipe.

“Buzz——Bang!”

The sound of an object sliding in the iron pipe was like the roar of thunder, and then, a dozen black afterimages shot out from the iron pipe.

Those black shadows pierced through the thin air and heavily hit the metasequoia tree hanging the steel plate, the towering metasequoia tree shook, shaking off countless leaves.

The huge sound startled everyone around, and even the villagers who were still on their way were shocked to stop.

The terrified neighing of horses almost drowned out Xixi's murmur.

“This, this… impossible, ah?”

Seeing Xixi incoherent, Huoen was very satisfied, he motioned to the black hat army sergeant next to him to take the steel plate.

The sergeant kicked over the slime blocking the way, waded to the side of the metasequoia tree, took off the steel plate hanging on it, and ran back excitedly.

“20mm caliber, iron sand stone bullet, armor penetration 1.5mm ordinary steel plate, metasequoia wood penetration depth about one inch.”

Huoen handed the deck to Xixi.

In a daze, Xixi subconsciously took the deck, which had seven or eight dents, two of which penetrated the deck, creating flared openings.

He had seen this kind of plate breastplate before, the thickness of its chest could reach 2mm, while the edges were 1mm or even less.

Its breastplate thickness was even enough to withstand the direct shot of a light crossbow, and since the plate armor replaced the chain mail, the original Eagle Foot Bay crossbow mercenaries quickly declined.

The best way to deal with this kind of armor is to first pull the knight off the horse with a halberd, and then insert a thrusting sword into the weak part of the plate armor gap, or use a two-handed sword and battle axe to forcibly break the armor.

But now, just insert the key into the round box and twist it a few times?

“What exactly is this?”

Huoen took the clockwork gun from Jieshika and introduced: “This is called a clockwork gun, the structure is very simple, it consists of a clockwork box, gun barrel, clockwork key, gun handle, and firing rod.

The most core part is the clockwork box, the clockwork in the clockwork box is made of Orichalcum alloy, with two cast gears.

One-third of the firing rod is in the gun barrel, and two-thirds are in the gun handle. When the Orichalcum clockwork is tightened with the clockwork key, it is pulled out.

The clockwork rotates instantly, driving the gears, the gears drive the firing rod, and push the iron sand stone bullet to fire.”

This is because of the particularity of the clockwork, simply using the firing rod to replace the gas propulsion of gunpowder.

Huoen was inspired by the clockwork little frog in 嘉莉(Jiali)'s hand that day.

The energy density of clockwork mechanical energy storage is actually quite high, and the space it occupies is also small, which is convenient for carrying, replacing, and launching.

The Orichalcum alloy clockwork also has an extremely useful characteristic.

The normal clockwork stores energy to tighten and releases energy to loosen.

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If the Orichalcum alloy clockwork's magic power is not exhausted, as long as it loosens to the limit, it will rotate in the opposite direction to contract and consume energy, and then loosen again, repeating until the magic power is exhausted.

Huoen would twist two more turns when using the clockwork gun, so that the excess magic power could pull the firing rod back to its original position.

If he could find some skilled craftsmen in the future and use this function to make an automatic gun machine, Huoen would let the knights see what a Maxim gun is.

“What is the shooting frequency? How many shots can be fired at a time?” Xixi's words instantly pulled Huoen back from his fantasy time to reality.

He said with a wry smile: “Most dependents can only fire one shot, a few, such as Das and Madelan can fire two shots in a row.”

“What about those two?”

“ Madelan forcibly fired the third shot yesterday and is still in a coma, Das used the initial version, we thought it was all firing rods, no need to make a fully enclosed gun barrel…

That semi-open gun barrel was cast, and there were air bubbles on the gun barrel wall. We were too excited and forgot to wrap the iron sand and stone bullets in paper, as a result… anyway, he is still alive.”

But a lightning-shaped scar that will never fall off will be added to his forehead or even skull.

“What about you?” Xixi took the clockwork gun from Huoen, with an ambiguous look in his eyes.

“I can probably fire ten to fifteen shots in a row, if someone helps to load, it's about five to seven seconds per shot.” Huoen thought for a while and added, “ Ranna can fire five or six shots, 嘉莉(Jiali) tried it once yesterday and fired seven shots.”

“What is the production capacity?”

“The casting gun barrel is two halves combined, which requires Ranna to manually weld, and the craftsman to scrape and trim the bore. The firing rod has high requirements and needs to be forged. The gears are cast and need to be polished.”

Huoen stroked his chin: “With Ranna present, casting ironware is very simple, mainly the welding and craftsman parts are more laborious, so, two or three pieces per line are about the same.”

“Can I try it?”

Huoen made a gesture of invitation, and Xixi immediately stepped forward and fired a shot under the guidance of Jieshika.

But after he finished firing, he suddenly sat on the ground, rested for about three minutes, and got up and fired another shot.

After shooting, he limped, carrying the clockwork gun, and walked to Huoen's side:

“Your efficiency in firing the clockwork gun is much higher than mine, you shouldn't only be able to fire one shot, you can try two methods, the first is meditation, to reduce magic power waste, the second is soothing potion, to reduce the dizziness after magic power consumption… Ouch…”

Before Xixi could finish speaking, he vomited all over the place, and Huoen quickly stepped forward and gently patted his thin back.

“Ouch… dizziness…” Xixi wiped the vomit from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, “You named this… ouch…”

“It's named, the gear system and clockwork system are researched and produced by the craftsman 安坎(Ankan), and the firing system and the design of the entire gun are researched and produced by the craftsman 尼克狄(Nikedi).”

“So, I named it the 坎尼狄(Kannidi) Type 1 Clockwork Rifle.”

Raising his head, Xixi held the clockwork gun in his hand, as if he could see a new secret party family rising.

“Do you know what you are holding in your hand?” Huoen's gaze seemed to be able to travel through the dense woods and over the distant mountains.

“What?”

“What you are holding in your hand is the future.”

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