ACT016: Technology Flow Dwarf
Wies admits that the ID card of the "City of Freedom" Ramses is indeed very attractive. The thousand-year-old city located under the rule of the Dwarves in Zhongpanzhou is even more than humans. It is the first free trade zone opened by the United Kingdom of Dwarves and is currently one of the richest cities in the world. With his resident ID card, almost all countries and cities in the world will open their doors to Wies.
Therefore, Weiss finally chose to accept Kabbalah's employment. After all, the incidents in the past few days have made him feel extremely unconfident about his luck. Even Ling Lan, a spearman known for his "Lucky E", seems to be a little better than himself in terms of luck, which makes Weiss feel sincerely depressed.
However, Weiss didn't know that they were lucky enough to be released by Shun. Because at this time, the senior officers of the Fourth Division were busy dealing with the Senate observation group that had just arrived from the country and made a special trip to "make trouble" for them. When he was upset, Sean Renault was careless and gave the two people he wanted to focus on as "Shunhui favors". When he realized it, the three of them had already run away.
After leaving the special prisoner-of-war camp, Kabbalah helped Ling Lan get her spear back. Because this girl was a citizen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, she flatly refused the recruitment of the Aaron Empire. When she heard that Kabbalah was looking for someone to help, she volunteered to participate in the action in the "chivalrous spirit", which saved Kabbalah a lot of verbal talk.
The three of them sat in a carriage with the "Silver Phoenix" logo and went east. On the way, Kabbalah told the two in detail about the situation of the Principal of Nadal and the Engineering Corps. At the same time, he also said that the trading company had prepared everything for the operation and would have a team of dwarf mercenaries to accompany them to act.
"By the way, since your trading company is so powerful, there should be many chess piece owners, right?"
"Our trading company has a strong overall strength, but these strengths are not all in Nanfengzhou. Saving people is racing against time. If people are transferred from China now, we can't wait for time."
"So let's get us here and get a cram?"
"...I can't refute." Kabbalah shrugged, and seemed helpless, there was still one thing he said, that is, he hoped to solve this problem alone before the reinforcements at the headquarters arrived, because only in this way can his ability be highlighted and he will take credit to the greatest extent. After all, salesmen are not a job, and the competition in the workplace in the goblin world is very cruel!
After the carriage left the city, he drove to a flat ground outside the city. Weiss was surprised to find through the car window that a large sailboat was parked on the grass, surrounded by armed dwarves patrolling and guarding. Not far away was the camp of the Emperor's armored troops, but the two sides seemed to get along well and there was no sign of tension.
"Is that airship? Your trading company's?"
"Yes, that's the Enterprise of our trading company. The headquarters arranged three civil airships of this type in the Principality of Nima for emergency purposes. The first search and rescue team took away two of them when they set off, but they disappeared with the people and the ships. This is the last one we have on hand."
The two of them walked on the airship under Kabbalah. This was the first time that Weiss had personally seen this new type of transportation called "the greatest product of the guiding era". Over the past 900 years, countless travelers wanted to make similar aircraft, but it was not until 12 years ago that the National Academy of Technology of the Republic of Langson was the first to complete the development of their own airships. Among them, the earliest one to make the "civil version" was the trading club alliance mainly composed of goblins.
As soon as the three of them reached the deck, a dwarf who looked particularly strong quickly walked towards them. The other party was short and sturdy, but compared with the fat man of the same type, his plate was completely made of muscles, especially the two outrageously thick arms. Weiss could not imagine how many years he would have to be single to reach his level! At this time, the dwarf came to them and asked in a muffled voice.
"I said it's an old trick. Did the Aarons send us two and a half-old children?"
"What a fool! They didn't plan to care about our affairs at all. These two are my friends, not those Zidi. They heard that we were in trouble, so they came to help. And... don't even call me a long trap again!"
"Oh! Then I'll thank you for your help here first. My name is Scardo Prinzi. I'm the captain of the security team. You can call me Hammerhead. I'm very happy to meet you."
As soon as the staff arrived, the airship rushed to the sky and flew southeast. Weiss was very interested in what this thing was flying in the sky, because there were no airbags on the upper part of the ship except for the sails, and the two spouts at the tail were not very powerful. At first glance, it was not much different from ordinary water sailing boats.
"Master, how did this thing fly?"
"You ask me, who will I ask? This thing was not something I have developed! I knew there was a power furnace on the main frame of the ship. As long as the thing can be fixed, the toilet can be used to the sky when activated."
“…It’s really unimaginable technology (this world is becoming less and less free for time travelers).”
After the Enterprise took off, it flew unimpededly to the inland hinterland in the sky. After all, this kind of aerial vehicle has only emerged in recent years. Therefore, except for some border states in Nanfengzhou that have the conditions to obtain air defense weapons, the inland countries can only rely on a few warlocks and shooters to guard the sky in key areas such as the capital and fortresses. Airships can safely avoid it as long as they go to the wild.
According to the calculations of the airship captain, they can enter the territory of the Principal of Nadal only after flying for 6 to 7 days. However, for safety reasons, the captain suggested that after entering the Nadal area, they should first put them on the ground in the safe area, and then leave the airship to stand by in the air. If they want to call them for support, they only need to fire signal flares to the air.
The Enterprise, which flew 1,200 meters along the way, did not encounter any other situation except for the warlock who wanted to get close to each other twice. This made Weiss, who thought the journey would be very difficult, enjoyed a rare comfort. He chatted with Ling Lan every day and then played chess with the dwarf mercenaries and played various board games they brought.
It is worth mentioning that although Weiss had long heard that the dwarves generally love to drink, and even according to some of his "common sense" in his previous life, these guys should be addicted to alcohol, but in the past few days when they were with these mercenaries, Weiss had never seen them touch even a drop of them outside of meals. Weiss couldn't help but ask curiously and found out that he had already quit this "bad habit", which really surprised him. Fortunately, Weiss was not particularly confused about this issue, so he turned his attention to the equipment of the dwarves.
As we all know, the dwarves are the second member in the world to join the "High Intelligent Race Club", and they also promoted their own vassal goblins to become the third. Like the elves who created the "Magic Age", they also had their own unique civilization in the process of imitation and improvement, and proudly named it the "Mechanical Age".
The elves invented the bow, and the dwarfs transformed it into a crossbow! The elves invented the magic cannon, and the dwarfs miniaturized it and began mass production! The dwarfs showed a completely different vitality from the declining elves at that time.
And unlike elves who pursue "perfection", in the eyes of dwarves, as long as they meet the three requirements of "solidity, durability, and energy production", there is no doubt that they are good things. This pragmatic spirit allows them to overwhelm the "quality" of elves in most fields with overwhelming "quantity"! If humans had not emerged later on the rise of the crowd of people who had their own "technology trees", then the one who dominates the world now would definitely be these guys with an average height of less than 1.2 meters.
Although the dwarf mercenaries who were traveling with Weis and others were nominally private armed forces of security, they worked in Nanfengzhou, which is famous for its chaos. Therefore, the equipment they used was almost the same as the standard equipment of the United Kingdom Army, second only to those elite ace troops.
The main equipment of the mercenaries is a full-coverage heavy armor. The design of this armor is in line with the usual mechanical style of the dwarves, and it also incorporates some new guidance technology, which can make the wearer move more lightly and flexible, and has significantly improved its defense. According to Wies's cognition, this thing should actually be called "single soldier exoskeleton".
The overall armor gives people a strong and heavy feeling, with many weapon hanging points on the outside. Dwarf mercenaries can freely load weapons or armor modules according to their own habits and mission needs, and the surface is painted with jungle camouflage, and only a silver-gray phoenix mark is painted on the shoulders and the back of their heads. Therefore, in terms of appearance, in the mountains and densely vegetated southeast hinterland, the armor has very good concealment.
Take Scardo's "captain aircraft" as an example. This dwarf with strong arms is so strong that it makes people wonder if he is single. His armor is like a mini tank! Each shoulder is a small grenade launcher, and a few of them can hold one or two hundred rounds in the huge ammunition supply. The main weapon in the right hand is a dwarf's favorite "guided shelling axe", which is suitable for use at all distances and distances. The left hand is a round shield that can block half of the body, and the edge of the shield is a sharp chain saw. As long as the button on the handle is pressed, it will rotate, and the flesh and blood of the enemy saw will fly across.
The weight of this set of equipment is at least half a ton in weight, which means that the dwarf's strong and durable physique can be played. After changing to ordinary human soldiers, even if there is a guide device inside to reduce the burden, they will not be able to move half a step.
These armors that look really cool and dazzling, full of violence are like a short version of Iron Man, with extremely fierce combat power! But because of this, Weiss couldn't help but worry that the first search and rescue team with the same equipment and several chess owners could be troubled, and I'm afraid that it would not be solved by all their abilities.
PS: The new cover has been uploaded, I feel good about myself. I would like to thank Mao Yujun who helped make it, but I made more than a dozen pictures in one go, asking me to choose whatever I want, and then said "I am addicted". Is this really a "real man"?
Chapter completed!