Chapter 182 Rifle

Erwin was not a rash person. He became the team leader largely because of his calm character. He estimated the strength of both sides. If they launched a sneak attack, they could basically kill the murloc without any harm.

The tower is not far from here. Zeus once gave them a blueprint with the time marked on each area. Here, the Banshee team can arrive in three minutes at most.

Three minutes. Erwin licked his lips. He had seen those banshees when he was studying in the advanced class. As long as they arrived, no matter how many murlocs there were, they could be dealt with. Even if this murloc was just a vanguard and there was a large army behind it, they only needed to hold on for three minutes.

Erwin made a few gestures, and the patrol members came over and began to discuss in a low voice.

The fishman hid behind the reef and observed quietly for a while before tentatively walking forward. His vision was not very good, and his perception in the sea was not very useful from land. Fortunately, his intuition was quite sharp, so he could always find a suitable place to hide and walked here safely.

Suddenly, a "pop" sound was heard in the darkness, and then a round object rolled over.

The fishman was stunned for a moment, and wanted to retreat cautiously, but a shrill scream suddenly sounded behind him.

That was a flare, used by the patrol team to give warnings. After it flew into the sky, it began to light up, guiding the Banshee Squad over.

Three people were standing behind the merman. One of them fired a flare arrow, and the other two pointed their bows and arrows at the merman. By the time it realized something was wrong and wanted to dodge, it had already been hit by an arrow.

Then it rolled and crawled backwards, but ignored the round thing. When the fishman came above it, it exploded.

"This is what happened." Erwin pointed to the murloc's corpse on the table. There was an arrow stuck in its body, but the extensive burns were the real cause of its death.

The patrol team was issued a simple grenade by Hughes. It had average damage capability but contained a large amount of flammable material, making it more like a incendiary bomb and could emit a large amount of flames as a warning.

"Very good cooperation. Your team will be rewarded." Zeus patted Erwin on the shoulder. A team of six people, equipped with simple armor, can defeat a lone murloc in a head-on combat, but they may not be unscathed. Moreover, Erwin took out the flare to warn immediately, so that even if an accident occurred, it could be handled. It was indeed an accurate judgment and execution.

But Zeus's expression gradually became gloomy.

The mermen have already reached the island. They may be vulnerable on the shore, but what about in the water?

Zeus looked at everyone, and everyone had a bad look on their face. Almost all of them had a lucky mentality: sea urchins and fish people were active underwater, and they could live in peace as long as they stayed on the island. At worst, they could give up the sea.

"Everyone, you have already seen that it is useless to retreat blindly. Even if we don't go to the sea, the fish people will come to the shore."

"This is only what we found. What about the ones we didn't find? This is still on the island. We have almost no means to search in the sea. How many of these fishmen and sea urchin monsters are there in the sea?"

Hughes looked at the silent people, felt the oppressive atmosphere, and shook his head. "We can't avoid this war. We originally hoped that the pirates could provide assistance, but now there is no news from them. We originally hoped that the refugees from the north could give us more manpower, but now it's too late. Castel has become a real isolated island. We don't have any help. We have to fight this battle by ourselves."

The people around swallowed their saliva, and Xiusi slowly looked around, looking at everyone in the room one by one.

Ash and other banshees had eyes full of hatred and anger, while Alexi had a look of eagerness for battle. Connor looked at Hughes calmly and nodded slightly when he looked at him. Chloe showed hesitation, but after a slight sigh, she raised her head.

Fortunately, at least no one here retreated, or rather, they had no way to retreat.

"But we also have good news." Hughes' tone softened a lot. "Mercemen are much more clumsy on land than in water. On land, it is our home turf."

The Banshees nodded slowly, "Yes, they will react much more quickly in the water."

"If the fishman is like this, then the sea urchin monster may be easier to deal with."

This is good news. Although it has not been confirmed, it is at least a hope.

The most troublesome monsters in the sea are sea urchin monsters. As long as they can be dealt with, the fishmen have nothing to fear at all.

"The war has officially begun. There will probably be many direct battles in the future. Alexi, the selection and training of soldiers must be accelerated. You should hand over part of the engineering work to your subordinates. The newly selected trainees have been assigned to your side."

Hughes redesigned a set of procedures for selecting and appointing bureaucrats. He had previously implemented this system on a small scale on the island. The factories and test sites under his management were the original test sites.

Originally, he planned to take action against the public officials on the island later. After all, they were theoretically under the management of the Queen, and it would be somewhat improper for Zeus to interfere. But he couldn't care less now.

Anyway, they couldn't complain to the Queen.

Alexei nodded heavily, he had been waiting for this day for a long time, finally he could take over the battle affairs, his heart was burning with joy.

"Chloe, I need your cooperation now. Put aside other research for now and give priority to researching things that will be used on the battlefield. I will give you some blueprints later. Take them and have a look."

Hughes had already developed the rifle a long time ago. This thing doesn't have much technical content, but it can't be used as the main weapon against sea urchins, so it has not been equipped in large quantities.

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Now that the murlocs have landed, the patrol team must at least be equipped with thermal weapons. Rifled rifles are easy to make, but they require smokeless gunpowder.

With nitroglycerin, it is not difficult to prepare smokeless gunpowder. Hughes even has a ready-made preparation process, which can be handed over to the Fire Moths for a little improvement before they can prepare it in large quantities. This is also the task he plans to give to Chloe.

The previous preparation in the laboratory had not been successful due to the existence of the technological lock. Good news came two days ago that it was finally successful.

Now, as long as the production line is started, smokeless gunpowder can be produced in large quantities. It is a huge improvement from flintlock to rifle, not to mention that smokeless gunpowder is also a necessary technology for improving artillery.

The advancement of science and technology is gradually accelerating, and the world's restrictions on technology are slowly weakening. Castel will soon be able to usher in a technological explosion.

Getting better.

Chloe nodded slightly. "No problem. By the way, if it's on land, [Nymphs] can use their extraordinary abilities to build a perception network, but this requires manpower, and those who are sent to perceive can't do anything else."

“How much coverage can it provide?”

"With the current manpower, if you don't count me, it's about half the island. I only have three extraordinary people here."

"Then stay for a while and tell me in detail about your extraordinary abilities."

(End of this chapter)