From Douluo Dalu to Queen

Chapter 230 Artillery Engineering
A few hours later.

Leng Xiyao stood in Lightman's laboratory, looking at the modified soul guide cannon in front of her with great satisfaction. Oh no, it should be called a howitzer now.

For soul masters, soul guide cannons require soul masters to have powerful soul power to drive them. However, after being transformed into a technological product, they only need to find a way to increase its caliber, manufacture larger, more powerful, more compressed shells and a more solid barrel to achieve an increase in power.

In terms of usage, the two things cannot be said to be somewhat similar, they can only be said to be completely unrelated; but in terms of design methods, they can be said to be exactly the same.

Just as a siege tank can continue to be used after being modified with a soul power engine, technology and soul guides are inherently infinitely interoperable; it's just a matter of changing the type of driving energy.

"Brother Teman, can this thing be mass-produced?" Leng Xiyao looked at the howitzer with a caliber of 120mm and directly asked the question that concerned her most.

In the previous life, this caliber was actually considered quite large, but in Douluo Continent it was obviously only a small guy, or even just a third-level soul guide device. However, after being changed to the design of a howitzer, its effectiveness was instantly magnified a lot, and in terms of power it was almost at the level of a sixth to seventh-level soul guide cannon.

After all, ordinary firearms can penetrate the protective qi of Soul Kings and Soul Emperors. This is a cannon after all, so you can’t kid yourself about the power.
Hearing Leng Xiyao's question, Lightman replied: "Mass production is not a big problem. This thing is not directly melted out, but is made of various components in advance and then assembled. The manufacturing process is similar to that of a larger gun."

"That's good." Leng Xiyao nodded in satisfaction, and then asked, "I wonder if we can make a batch in the next few days?"

Leng Xiyao was still brooding over the fact that the Sun Moon Chamber of Commerce had cheated her out of money. With her personality, if she was cheated out of a few hundred thousand, she would have to cheat back hundreds of millions or even tens of millions.

The best option is to go to the officials in charge of armaments in the Tiandou Empire or directly invite the emperor to promote their own artillery. Although the soul-guided cannons purchased by the Tiandou royal family from the Sun and Moon Chamber of Commerce are made of solid materials and are very powerful, they have too high usage requirements and are expensive. It is not a wise choice.

Looking at our own artillery, although the materials used may not be very good, it is extremely powerful, affordable, and there is no demand for its use. It is simply the best choice for arming the army.

As for the pricing, Leng Xiyao planned to sell one for around 100,000 yuan as a token of appreciation. A weapon of this power is definitely good value for money compared to soul guides.

"In the past few days." Lightman thought for a moment, then nodded. "The workers that Mr. Li sent earlier are all very skilled. If they give up their guns and devote all their efforts to artillery production in three days, it won't be a problem to rush to produce 200 cannons."

"That's good. By the way, the quality of this batch of artillery does not need to be particularly good. Ordinary steel will be enough. At the same time, some defects should be made. This way, when some people with ulterior motives conduct reverse engineering, they will suffer a great loss." Leng Xiyao added after thinking for a while.

Cannons are actually considered high-end weapons in Douluo Continent. If someone tries to imitate them, it could cause a lot of trouble.

However, with the group of professional craftsmen sent by Mr. Li, it should not be particularly difficult to design some parts to prevent reverse engineering.

The preliminaries will be over soon, and she has to bring more money before leaving Tiandou City, otherwise her future escape may not be easy.

But the money from the Chamber of Commerce should not be touched. Flanders also needs to save funds to expand his business and recruit more people to the guard. Therefore, Leng Xiyao can only use this batch of artillery to make some quick money.

"Understood. I will make sure no one can copy it." Letterman understood what Leng Xiyao meant.

A cannon is not like an ordinary gun. Even without Leng Xiyao's psychic enhancement, it can demonstrate extremely strong combat effectiveness. If others imitate it, the cannon business will not be able to be done.

Leng Xiyao was very confident in Lightman's work. After explaining the production of the artillery, she set off for Sunset Valley. She gave three liters of wine that she had obtained from She Long to Ariel, asking her to study the mystery of it.

Leng Xiyao was very interested in this good thing that could temporarily increase the Zerg's combat effectiveness. The Zerg themselves had a violent talent that could improve their combat effectiveness, and this wine could provide another powerful buff. If she commanded it personally, she could also add a layer of Fearless Charge. After this set of operations, the combat effectiveness would be greatly increased.

Ariel said that the development of this thing was a sure thing. The Zerg stored many products obtained from hunting soul beasts in their base in the Star Dou Great Forest. The less precious things were naturally sent to the Zerg queens for digestion and the production of new Zerg swarms, while the more precious things such as inner elixirs and soul bones were naturally kept.

Leng Xiyao was not interested in the thousand-year-old soul bones, and was too lazy to carry them with her, so she ordered her minions to find a hidden place to bury the trophies and take them out when she returned.

As for inner elixirs and the like, of course, you can have as many as you want. This stuff is a bit useless. It would be a bit of a waste to feed it to the Queen Insect, but it would not be worth it to exchange it for an insect nest. Therefore, a large number of inner elixirs of various soul beasts are piled up in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although the thing brewed by She Long is called snake gall wine, it can be applied to any kind of thing. It can probably be made into tiger gall wine or leopard gall wine. As long as it can be used, it's fine.

Although winemaking is a sophisticated science, it is obviously nothing to the biology master Ariel. In her previous life, she had to create culture dishes for countless species of bacteria and fungi. The same is true for distiller's yeast. After being catalyzed by the special spring water of the Yin-Yang Spring, it is not difficult to make a better distiller's yeast than She Long's.

With this kind of koji, the wine brewed will naturally be a fine wine that can be aged well.

After staying in the valley for a few days, Leng Xiyao observed the entire process of Ariel making the wine yeast. Looking at the raw materials that were already filled with fragrance before the winemaking began, she couldn't help but wonder, if she expanded the scale of production and made more good wine to sell, wouldn't that be another way to make money?
However, this thing is not easy to make. The raw materials are taken directly from the Sunset Valley. The quality of the materials here is naturally extremely high, and most of them are difficult to grow. It is obviously not suitable to use them as stable raw materials for brewing. Leng Xiyao had to give up this idea.

A few days later, Leng Xiyao received a message from Lightman. She went to the base to get the first batch of 120 cannons, and then returned to Tiandou City.

(End of this chapter)