Chapter 81 Help and Deterrence(1/2)
"Don't move."
"Damn, this super weapon is not human, right?" I was a little worried when I saw that staff, because generally speaking, magic weapons refer to large weapons that can be operated by ordinary people who do not know magic and are based on magic. However, a mage appeared here, so the lightning that I just saw may not be fired by some kind of weapon, but it may be that this mage himself, and it was just launched through the dragon head at the bow of the ship. If that is true, then we will be in vain.
"I said don't move." The owner of the staff was obviously a little angry when he saw that I was still talking. He added some strength to the staff and pushed me back. Of course, the other party was a mage, and I was the leader of the tank team. Not only was it extremely strong, but it could also summon a group of tanks to appear at any time. So, normally, the other party would definitely not push me. Of course, it was impossible for me to compete with the other party at this time, so when I pushed forward in front of the other direction, I took a step back consciously to avoid angering the other party and sending me a shot. You must know that the energy in the magic gem fixed on my chest is still quite large.
"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Christina and Rose, who followed me, saw me retreating from the door, and at this time they also noticed the mage there.
Originally, according to the normal situation, what should have happened was that the guy over there found that there was a large group of people here, and then he would start to take me as a hostage to threaten nervously, and then be subdued by us. Perhaps the process was almost like this. However, in fact, the situation was slightly different from what we expected. After seeing Christina and the others, the other party actually did something I had never encountered before.
The mage actually swept around each of Rose and the others' faces, then locked his eyes on Christina, and then smiled at Christina with a standard playboy smile and said, "Hello, beautiful lady. I don't know if you can get to know me? I am Hilton von Sphinx, a mage in the first fleet of the Holy Spirit Empire. You can call me Baron Hilton or Hilton Master."
"Before we get to know each other, can you take away the staff that is pressed against our president's chest?" Christina said without being humble.
Hilton was obviously stunned for a moment, then he smiled and took away the stick. "I am happy to listen to your order, beautiful lady. I'll ask you presumptuously, are you also a mage?"
Christina nodded and said, "Yes, I am a mage. Can you tell me if there is a very powerful magic weapon in the room behind me? I saw it open fire outside."
"Oh, that's our president's masterpiece." After Hilton finished speaking, he looked at me again, then looked up and down at me and frowned and asked, "I'm sorry, beautiful mage. I seem to hear you call this person your president. But he is obviously a warrior? Does it mean that the president of your mage guild likes to wear armor? This is really a strange hobby!"
"Did anyone stipulate that mages cannot wear armor?" I snapped my fingers directly, and Ephrit appeared next to me in an instant. "Go in and see what that is."
Yifuri was about to walk in, while Hilton looked at Yifurith stupidly. He turned to look at me and asked in surprise: "Are you really a mage? Summoning, Mechanical, or Soul? It's not a space system, right?"
"I'm in the summoning system. Is there any problem?"
"So that's it. No wonder you wear armor." Hilton said: "As a summoner, you are the weakest link. It is also a good idea to wear armor to improve your defense ability, but sometimes this method is not necessarily useful."
Just as this guy was talking, Ephrit had already come out of it. Then he said to me: "There is a magic weapon inside, which can be confirmed to be a magic weapon, but I don't understand the specific working principle very clearly. I only know that it is a certain energy conversion using the energy-gathering magic array and magic crystal stone."
"Is this your summoning object?" Hilton looked at Everlit and asked, "Where did you find this kind of thing? It looks like a magical machine, but it seems...it seems to be more advanced. And I feel the huge energy it carries, it must be a very powerful summoning object."
"This is Iphrit, the king of fire elf. He is a constructed creature, not a simple machine. Of course, it does look very similar." After I finished speaking, I asked Iphrit, "Can you remove it?"
Ephrit thought for a while and said, "It should be possible, after all, the connection structure is fixed on the wood."
"Hey... are you talking about our stuff?" Hilton finally found out that we were going to grab this weapon, so he stood at the door and pointed his staff at Everett to stop him from entering.
"If I were you, you would get out of the way." Christina said.
Hilton stared at Everett and said to Christina: "Beautiful Miss, this thing is preparing to infringe on the property of our fleet. These things belong to His Majesty. If you plan to snatch it, I will definitely fight you. I believe this is not the result you want to see, so I suggest you better not force me. I don't want to go to war with you."
"Sorry, we have to get that thing." Christina said, nodding at me, and Everett immediately began to walk over there.
Seeing that Effrete was still walking, Hilton finally took action. He suddenly sent the staff forward, and a dazzling white arc immediately shot out from the gem at the tip of his staff, and then connected it to Effrete in a curved manner.
The moment I was hit, Iphrit immediately leaned back, and then his body was knocked out with a bang like an ordinary person being hit by a high voltage electric shock. Fortunately, I flashed fast, otherwise even I would suffer.
Looking at Everett flying out, I turned to Hilton with some anger, and then said, "It seems you are planning to resist."
"You are invading my warships, and I am forced."
"Okay, then since that's the case, we can only be like a real invader." I said and walked forward, and the Hilton immediately used his staff to look at me and wanted to release lightning again. However, as soon as he put the staff flat, he saw a small white thing appearing above my outstretched palm. Then the little thing disappeared the next second, but a sudden pain on his wrist. The staff in his hand also landed on the ground.
Hilton, who found that he had actually thrown away his staff, immediately bent down to pick it up. But he stopped halfway, because a sword blade had already pressed against his chin. As long as he was pushing down hard, he would cut open his neck. So he could only stop there.
"A wise choice." Seeing that Hilton stopped moving, I turned around and asked Effreit, "Effreit. How are you?"
In Hilton's surprised gaze, Everett stood up from the pile of debris that had just fallen into, and walked back to us. "For some reason, my energy actually rose a lot. It felt pretty good."
Hilton was completely stunned. The attack magic that came with his staff was the most powerful lightning-type magic. Unexpectedly, he did not kill Iphrit, but instead charged the other party. This situation completely exceeded Hilton's perception. In his imagination, even if the person hit by this lightning did not die, he should have lost half of his life. It should not be the current situation at all.
I didn't care about Hilton who had lost his ability to think, but let Zhenhong come over to see him, and then entered the cabin with Everett. There was not much space in the cabin guarding Hilton. Something that looked a bit like a marine engine was placed in the front of the room, and a specially made fixture was fixed there. In addition, there were several black pipes on the equipment connected to the dragon's mouth in front, and there was a smaller structure there, and the pipe was connected to the equipment. It seemed that the one on the other was the launcher, and the thing on the other side, which looked like a marine diesel engine was probably the main body of the weapon, that is, the energy conversion and compression equipment.
In fact, although I don’t know the working principle of this device, the design ideas of energy weapons are actually similar in the final analysis. First, an energy conversion and absorption device is needed to collect the natural free energy or the energy stored in the magic crystal. Next, a compression device is needed, because the concentration of natural energy or the energy in the magic crystal cannot be too high. After all, high energy is unstable. The third part is to convert the compressed energy into some kind of magic, fluctuation or something, and then launch it out, which forms a magic weapon system. Of course, this process also requires the assistance of a series of mechanisms such as transmission and stability, but the rough working principle is like this.
The thing in front of me is such a device. Although I don’t know the specific working principle, it can be guessed based on our team’s understanding of magic weapons and the structure of this thing. This larger diesel engine is the conversion, absorption, pressurization, and storage device of energy. Of course, the controller may also be on this thing. The smaller one in front is probably a simple launch stabilizer or something.
"Can you understand?" Jin Jin asked after coming in.
I nodded and said, "I can probably guess some of it, but the specific application still needs to be returned to let professionals be responsible for dismantling and researching it." As I said, I pointed to several key positions and said, "Help me support me, I will cut this thing off."
"That thing can't move." We heard a shout when we were dismantling it. When we looked back, we found that Baron Hilton was now being held in his hand like a chicken being pinched by Zhenhong.
"We all said it was a robbery, and you are still talking nonsense there. Do you want to die?" Jin Jin threatened.
Baron Hilton said with a sad face: "It's not that I want to die, but that I don't want to die. Even if you want to rob, at least you can wait until I finish talking before tearing it down?"
"What the hell are you going to say?" Zhenhong lifted him up impatiently and shook him a few times and said, "Say it first. No matter what you say, we will take it away."
Hilton nodded and said, "It is your business whether you dismantle it or not, but please don't let me bury you! I am an imperial nobleman. According to regulations, after being captured, you don't need to continue fighting for the country, so now I have no obligation to intercept you no matter what you do. However, there is a special magic array connected under the device. If the machine is moved or separated from the magic array, it will be completely disconnected, and then the device will explode."
"Self-detonation? How powerful is it?"
"It depends on how much energy reserves are left. However, with the current capacity, it is definitely no problem to blow the entire ship away. So..."
The explosion power of blowing a wooden warship doesn't require much power, but although we are not worried about what we are blown up by this thing, the problem is that if this thing explodes, our goal will be completely impossible. In this case, we must not let this thing explode.
"Tell me. How can this thing not explode?"
"Actually, the method is very simple." Hilton paused before saying: "According to the previous war agreement, you can ask for ransom after capturing the enemy nobles. However, although I am your captive, if you need me to do anything for you, you need to use the ransom to compensate for part of the remuneration. If it is not enough, it will need to be added. And I do not have the right to refuse. So, as long as you are willing to offset part of the ransom, I can tell you how to do it."
We didn't even think about ransom. Although we knew that there were such rules in ancient Europe, we didn't think about making money with this NPC. Now the other party actually asked us to deduct part of the ransom, so we certainly didn't care. "Okay. How much do you want to deduct?"
"I am the Baron of the Empire, and the ransom is 100,000 gold coins. At the same time, I am also a master, so I need an additional one.5 million, which is a total of 1.6 million gold coins. If I tell you how to disassemble this device safely, you need to let me offset 600,000 gold coins."
"No problem." I don't care anyway, so of course we agreed very readily.
When the other party heard that we agreed, he immediately said, "Okay, the deal is completed. Now I will tell you the solution. This design is actually very simple. The magic array is carved on the hull board that comes into contact with the equipment, so just remove the boards at these positions without moving them and the equipment. However, you need to be careful not to move the boards and the equipment during the process. As for how to disassemble after going back, I believe that if you have enough time, you can definitely think of many methods."
"How many gold coins are needed to buy a disassembly method from you?" I asked directly.
"This is simple, just 100,000 pieces."
"make a deal."
"You are really rich," said the Baron Hilton. "Then, it's okay to tell you. The easiest way to disassemble this device is to take out all the magic crystals in the energy trough, and then take away the gem in the center of the core converter. In this way, the soy milk of the entire device loses power and will not explode even if it wants to explode."
“It’s really simple.”
Although I bought such a simple answer for 100,000 gold coins, I don’t think this is a loss. After all, this saves us a lot of time. Moreover, the money is actually false. It’s a ransom, but I don’t think the system will let us get so much money for nothing for no reason, so there must be some interference factors that will not let us get money. If it’s on the main map, it’s fine, we can take the risk and try it out, but this is the task space, and I don’t want to make any mistakes. Don’t forget that when we came in, we chose ten times the punishment. If this is not good, we will all be in trouble. So, I didn’t plan to get any ransoms out of the way. The easiest way is to use this ransom waste, and it’s all done. Now, although we have lost 700,000 gold coins in nominal ransom, in fact, we actually got the safe disassembly method of this equipment without doing anything.
After telling us this disassembly method, Hilton sent us a free high-speed news, that is, the pipes between the small component in the front of the device and the host behind the machine cannot be disassembled casually, and it is filled with a gas. This gas is very corrosive and once released, we will suffer. Moreover, this gas is very precious. If we leak it, it will not be so easy to make this device work.
"I have to say, Baron Hilton. You are really a model prisoner." With Hilton's help, we successfully removed the secret weapon. After putting this thing in my Phoenix Dragon Space, we planned to take Baron Hilton to the fleet opposite.
The reason why we wanted to bring Hilton with us was because the two countries were hostile. We didn’t want Hilton’s ransom, but it wouldn’t prevent us from using this ransom to win people’s hearts, right? Since both countries have signed an agreement for this, they must be familiar with this kind of exchange work. So even if we don’t want the ransom, we can hand over Hilton to each other to deal with it.
Originally, the crew members were fighting with sea beasts when we entered this room, but when we came out, the situation here changed a little. It was not that the battle was over, but that there were more people. When we came up, there were obviously not many people coming here. But when we came out, a large group of people were confronting nearly ten sea beasts, and it was obvious that both sides had reinforcements.
Most of the sailors used cold weapons, and some of them had flintlock guns in front, but the number was small. Moreover, this gun was obviously very backward. Because the barrel in front was very thick and felt like a trumpet. This was clearly one of the characteristics of early gunpowder weapons. However, although the combat power of the sea beasts on the opposite side was pretty good, unfortunately their defense was too low, so they did not dare to act rashly when facing this weapon.
The sailors over there immediately regarded us as enemies after seeing us carrying Hilton. Because we were holding their mage at this time, our attitude was already very obvious.
The other party reacted very quickly. After seeing us coming out with Hilton, the people immediately pointed their weapons at us, and there was a guy who shouted that he wanted to drive all the sea beasts to us and let us fight with the sea beasts.
Although the other party’s idea is quite good, it’s a pity that they regard us as ordinary people. But in fact, we are not ordinary people at all, and this situation has no meaning to us.
In the surprised eyes of those people, before they could drive away the sea beasts, we actually walked directly to the sea beasts.
As soon as we found us approaching, the sea beasts immediately looked at us alertly and kept making deterrent roars at us with their teeth exposed. The meaning was basically equivalent to saying: "Don't come over, don't come over."
Although the sea beasts screamed quite scary, we didn't care about it and still walked forward on our own. The sea beasts screamed even more happily after seeing us not stopping. However, as our distance gradually approached the dangerous distance, the sea beasts did not rush up directly, but suddenly made a whimpering sound, as if injured dogs were like wounded dogs, they separated their tails to both sides, and then gave us a way out.
The eyes of the crew members were about to fall out when they saw this scene. They had seen the specific combat power of these sea beasts before, but they did not expect that these things seemed like scared dogs in front of us, without showing any fierce aura, but instead shrank to the side with their tails.
"Their intuition about danger is much better than you." Hilton, who was brought in by Minhong's hand, obviously wondered why these fierce monsters were like this after seeing us, but Minhong's words quickly made him react.
When he was subdued by Zhenhong, he was not caught after a desperate battle, but was caught without any resistance. In order to make him obedient, Zhenhong even deliberately waited for him to let him launch a few attacks before arresting him. In this case, Hilton could be said to have understood the gap between himself and Zhenhong, and Zhenhong's words just now further reminded him. The intuition of wild beasts is usually sharper than that of humans, because in nature, if you weigh the strength of your opponent, you will die. Therefore, the intuition of wild beasts evolved from the survival of the fittest under the natural selection of generations. Their intuition is so keen that they can hardly make mistakes. After all, it is death to make mistakes, and the price is too serious.
In this case, the beasts will instinctively avoid those too powerful creatures. Such a situation just now is the simplest reaction, which shows that the sea beasts have realized that we are extremely dangerous, even so dangerous that they can't even have the intention to resist.
After understanding this, Hilton understood our terror, and he suddenly looked at me. Based on the previous situation, it was easy to confirm that I was the leader of this group of people, and Christina had called me president before. So Hilton knew that I was the leader here. So, since even Zhenhong, who was under my command, was so powerful, how strong would I be? What about the others?
Of course, the leader is not necessarily the kind of person who can fight the most. The national leaders do not need to fight more than their own soldiers, but I appeared directly on the battlefield. This means that even if I am higher than Zhenhong and others, I am still a combatant, and the seniors who can go to the battlefield must be the kind of exaggerated combat power. Otherwise, I would definitely stay in the rear and would not come out to sway. After thinking about this, Hilton became more at ease. He was very sure that our strength was absolutely terrible and there would be no good result for resistance. It would be better to be a prisoner with peace of mind. Anyway, he could be redeemed afterwards. Besides, he has reduced a lot of ransom for himself, and I believe that the country will pay him this fee. After all, the ** division is a senior talent, not those nobles who only know how to deal with **, and the king will not give up on him.
Just as Hilton was ready to be a prisoner, the crew members on the opposite side were restless. After seeing all the sea beasts move out of the way, they obviously misunderstood Han Yi. They were surprised to see the sea beasts move out of the way. But then they thought that these sea beasts avoided us because we were the ones who trained these sea beasts. So these guys avoided us. After all, when they wanted to train these wild beasts, they only used cages and whips. So it was natural for these sea beasts to be afraid of us.
Unfortunately, they made a mistake in the situation because they didn't know that we had nothing to do with both sides. However, because they made a mistake in the situation, these people simply regarded us as beast trainers and did not realize how strong we were. As a result, they actually rushed up after the sea beasts separated, intending to kill us and rescue Baron Hilton.
"Are these guys crazy?" Seeing those guys rushing up with big blades and muskets, Zhenhong asked in surprise.
Christina said calmly: "Maybe I've made a mistake!"
Zhenhong thought about it and threw Hilton at me and said, "Please take care of me first, I'll deal with those people."
Although Zhenhong is also considered a beauty, the seafarers on the opposite side did not feel sympathetic at all. Seeing Zhenhong taking the initiative to force them to come over, several of the musketeers immediately pulled the trigger at Zhenhong. However, Zhenhong was not even afraid of ordinary bullets from the Gun God. It would be a ghost to be useful if the iron sand fired by this ragged weapon was useful. Just covering her face with her arms, Zhenhong continued to move forward without decreasing speed. The opponent's muskets rang out one after another, but they did not play any role in Zhenhong's body's set.
Completely ignoring the opponent's attack, Zhenhong had already strode to the front of the opponent's crowd. At this time, the two sides were in contact, and the musketeers did not dare to shoot, because the shape of these weapons determined that they had nothing to do with the word "accuracy". Speaking of which, these weapons were more like shotguns, and spraying a large piece was their main feature. Therefore, there was absolutely no way to fire when the enemy and us were mixed together.
In fact, it doesn't make any sense whether they can fire. Anyway, even if they shoot against Zhenhong's body, this weapon will not produce any lethality. Compared with these antique weapons, the attributes of the Zhenwu suit are really too strong.
Finally, he walked to the sailors. Zhenhong let go of his arm that was blocking his face, and then raised his hand and made an uppercut. He heard two rumblings, and the guy was hit by Zhenhong's chin. Then, like stepping on a catapult, he flew up and then knocked a big hole in the deck above his head and flew out directly.
At the end of this moment, before the people around him could react, Zhenhong had already swung her arm and punched the second person in the face. This time, it was similar to before. The man directly knocked a large area of the crowd behind him like a cannonball, then flew straight through half the cabin, then loaded a cannon and carried the cannon to penetrate the side platoon near the cannon window and flew outside.
After two consecutive times, the people around finally realized that they were afraid. Unfortunately, Zhenhong seemed to have no idea of their expressions at all, and walked into the crowd with his left punch and kicked the people around him one by one. Moreover, the people who were knocked away were like shells, hitting everyone, and hitting things and rotting. As for themselves... everyone disappeared, who knows what the result was? But one thing is certain, that is, these people must have died.
Just as Zhenhong was fisting at the crew, outside the battleship, several ships from the opposing fleet had already rushed up, but none of them opened fire. It was not because their warships did not have the ability to fire, but because their leader told them not to attack the ship.
The leader of this fleet is a very smart person because he saw the scene when we entered the ship. Although he didn't know what we were doing, on the deck, the crew once launched an attack on us, which shows that we were not in the same group as the other party. It was also because we were sure that we were not from the other party that the captain here decided not to let his warship attack the ship here because he was afraid of accidentally hurting us. The situation where we could fly before showed that we were all very strong. If we were injured by mistake, he doubted that the remaining people would seek revenge on them, and at that time he was very worried whether his fleet could withstand it.
It was precisely because of the wise choice of this fleet commander, that they did not directly fall out with us, otherwise even if they planned to help them, we would never be happy if they were inexplicably bombarded with shells a few times. Of course, we would probably not change our cooperation plan. Zhishi might not be sincere to them.
At this time, these warships were ordered not to attack the ship, so they could go around from both sides of it themselves, but when they were about to go around, they found something wrong with the ship. First, a man flew out from under the deck, then flew directly over the height of the mast and continued to rise. The height of two masts began to fall. Even if this height fell into the water, it would definitely kill people.
To be continued...