Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 264: Night is as Bright as Day
Airships are quite troublesome to manufacture, not only because they waste time but also because their payload is limited. However, this is relatively safe. Even if they fail, only the airship will be scrapped. All industrial products during wartime can be treated as consumables.

On the contrary, if the Crusaders advance all the way, there will be more variables, they may encounter unknown risks, and those polluting snakes in the sea may not be easy to deal with, but this way they can actually establish an advantage.

The most precious thing now is actually time. Although Monica came here to help, the Pirate King was about to absorb enough pollution and proceed to the next transformation. Therefore, after making sure that the sea water could recede, Zeus decisively chose to implement both plans together.

The airships flying in the sky do not affect the advancement of the Crusader Army on the ground.

After finalizing the plan, Alexei immediately went out to carry it out. Hughes looked at his back and sighed.

As the chief clerk, I am actually a pretty good commander, but I feel that the plan seems a bit extreme.

When it comes to attacking, it is either a crushing of equivalent numbers or a crushing of the army. There is no such careful arrangement of firepower networks and demarcation of killing areas as in defense.

Is it that he is better at defense?
Looking at this tall northerner, Zeus stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

The airship bombing plan was executed very quickly. The researchers of the Fire Moth quickly removed all the weapons from the airship and replaced them with simple and crude bombs.

The bomb was specially made, and what made it special was that it had an extra-long fuse. Considering the equivalent of this bomb, if the fuse was a little shorter, the airship might not be able to fly out of the explosion range before it exploded.

In addition to the time fuse, the bomb was also equipped with Nini's sea snake as a double insurance for early detonation.

This time, no one was sent to drive the airship. After loading enough fuel, Nini's sea snake directly controlled it remotely. Originally, it was impossible to control it from such a distance due to the range of the banshees' mental connection, but now Monica was here.

It was normal that she would not be discovered by the monsters in the sea. After all, those monsters strictly speaking belonged to the flesh and blood of the sea god. How could they fight with the soul of the sea god?
With Monica as a relay, the airship quickly took off shakily.

This time the bomb had a hand-rubbed shell. Nini used fossils as mud to make a huge iron barrel. This was a bomb with a total weight of nearly six tons and a crazy explosive charge of more than five tons, which directly emptied the inventory of the entire explosives factory.

You should know that ordinary aerial bombs only have a TNT equivalent of 500 kilograms.

Everyone stayed away from the airship. If it exploded, even the walls of the cathedral might not be able to withstand it.

The workers who loaded the explosives were gentle and careful. After they finished, Nini controlled the sea snake. The steam engine, which had already been filled with fuel, roared, the ropes tied to the airship loosened, and the huge airship slowly rose into the air.

It was not until it became a small dot in the sky that people gathered around and watched it fly farther and farther away with lingering fear.

"Can this thing deal with the Pirate King?"

"As long as it's still a carbon-based organism." Zeus couldn't help wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. With the relatively crude technology of this era, being able to make a bomb of this size is basically the limit. If it is made bigger, it may explode at the slightest disturbance on the road.

For enemies that cannot be solved by this equivalent, piling up a larger equivalent may not be effective. This means that the Pirate King is more difficult to deal with.
Zeus was suddenly stunned. With Castel's current level of organization, the equipment and combat effectiveness of the Crusaders, wouldn't they be like a mad dog out of a cage once they go out?

The Queen is dead? As a retainer of the Queen, it would be unreasonable for him not to go to the Rhine to pay his respects, and bring some Skitarii and airships to protect him from bandits.

And the pirates in Gem Bay are finished. Does Caster have to send troops there to help with the disaster?

Thinking about it this way, I feel so busy. I have to deal with this pirate king as soon as possible.

The airship was not slow and it reached above the Pirate King's Court after a few hours.

Nini was already sweating profusely. This airship was much more complicated than the ones used in previous experiments. She was operating it in a panic. If she wasn't a Banshee who could control six arms and had the talent for multitasking, it would have been difficult for her to lift the airship.

Now she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"How is it, is the position correct?" "A little more to the left, Sister Nini."

"Well"

"What's wrong?"

"fine"

Xius looked at Nini's embarrassed expression and couldn't help but sigh.

They really forgot about Monica.
He told the banshees about Monica. Although they were surprised, they also expressed their understanding.

Putting themselves in other people's shoes, these banshees tried their best to act familiar with Monica, but some things were difficult to conceal.

Besides, the Banshees are a race of the mind. Monica should have seen through their pretense at a glance, but she didn't say it out loud and acted as if everything was normal.

Maybe Monica really has grown up.

Thinking of Monica's tall and slender figure, Xiusi felt a pain in his heart for some reason, as if the little girl had disappeared.

Xius quickly shook his head, he was thinking about something.

Soon, under Monica's instructions, Nini controlled the airship, then operated the mechanism and dropped the bomb.

The next step is to withdraw the airship and then guide it.
In the darkness, a bright light suddenly flashed in the distance. It started with just a tiny flash, and then half of the night sky lit up. The orange-red mushroom cloud could be seen even in Castel.

In an instant, the night became as bright as day.

"My Lord, we have lost an airship."

"What's going on?"

"The bomb's reliability is still insufficient. The violent impact caused it to explode directly, saving us the trouble of detonating it."

Hughes sighed. It was a good thing they didn't have anyone operating the airship. It was also a relief that nothing went wrong when loading the bomb.
After Xius and Nini talked for a few words, the explosion was heard. Many people were frightened and went outside to check the situation.

"Inform the people around here about the explosion, calm them down, and don't let anything get out of hand."

Soon, after the banshee's explanation, these people knew what the explosion was, which made them even more unable to sleep. They discussed with great interest whether this bomb could kill the Pirate King.

"Monica, what's wrong?"

"I'm still some distance away, but from my perception, the Pirate King seems to still be there."

Still there? Not killed?

This was beyond Zeus's comprehension. Was the Pirate King made of stone? Even if it was, it would have been vaporized in the center of an explosion of this magnitude.

"Not only that, my lord, from what I perceive, the Pirate King seems to be unharmed."

(End of this chapter)