Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 296 Arms of the Metal Colossus

"Weapons... This machine should be equipped with weapons, right? The pilots of the Alpha Civilization can't go to the battlefield with bare hands, right?"

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this way, a head-up display woven by orange light curtains suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, on which the weapons equipped with this machine body were clearly marked in alpha characters.

"Heavy armor-piercing sword: sufficient energy/spare energy crystal: 16 pieces.

Plasma Charged Cannon: Cooldown Complete / Spare Ammo: Unlimited.

Annihilator Rounds: Not yet authorized / Spare Ammo: 1 round. "

Ke Lan stretched his hand behind his back, just in time to grab the hilt protruding from his shoulder-this giant sword with a blade length of nearly ten meters appeared behind the mecha at some point, but Ke Lan Just didn't notice it before.

"This is the melee weapon of the Alpha Civilization?" Ke Lan quickly looked at the giant sword in his hand. Although the giant sword was completely manufactured in accordance with the aesthetic style of the Alpha Civilization, its general structure is similar to that of self-cooling weapons in the human world. The weapons of the same name that have been passed down from the era to modern times are almost the same - streamlined sword tip, thick sword spine, and blades on both sides... Even the guard and hilt are the same. In online games with the theme of sword and magic, it will not make people feel inconsistent at all.

The only difference is that there are a large number of precise crystal structure structures embedded in the hilt of the sword. Ke Lan just moved his mind slightly, and these crystal structure structures were activated instantly. With a "buzz", the tip of the sword and the blade immediately A colorful mask like an energy shield appeared, and the remaining energy of the "heavy armor-piercing sword" in the head-up display was rapidly decreasing.

"It should be similar to the principle of an energy shield generator... It's just that it has been constrained into a sword shape by some means, and the power at the tip of the sword should be compressed several times, making it more penetrating. Penetration and destructive power..."

Ke Lan tried to swing the huge sword, and immediately left a deep ravine on the ground.

As for the feel...he felt like he was cutting butter with a red-hot knife...

In addition to this heavy-duty armor-piercing sword, the metal colossus is also equipped with two other long-range weapons-plasma-charged cannons are not difficult to understand. Humans can already manufacture such weapons with the current level of technology, but Alpha Civilization has miniaturized this kind of human beings that can only be installed on main battleships, and installed them on ten-meter-class mechas.

If humans want to do this, they must solve three problems:
One is the safety issue, needless to say, the other is the miniaturization of the energy supply device... If the people in the research institute can get similar equipment and analyze it through reverse engineering, it should be easy to solve... But the third problem , it is more difficult.

The barrel material problem.

The barrels of the plasma cannons installed on the main battleships are basically disposable consumables. After one shot, most of the barrels are basically evaporated. If it is to be miniaturized, the barrels must not be disposable. Yes - mechas are not battleships, and there is not so much load and space to carry a large number of spare barrels.

Although the display screen indicated that the ammunition of the plasma-charged cannon was unlimited, but since it was a plasma weapon, it definitely needed energy.Ke Lan estimated that this weapon should use the energy of the metal colossus itself, but before the energy of the metal colossus is drained, the life of the barrel will be exhausted one step at a time... That's why the spare ammunition will be displayed as "unlimited "Bar……

"I just don't know where this cannon is..." Just as this idea came to mind, there was a sound of metal parts colliding above the metal colossus, and a pitch-black cannon barrel protruded from where the neck should have been. , pointing to the position where Ke Lan's line of sight focused.

"The material problem is actually solved in this way..." Ke Lan instantly understood how the Alpha people solved the material problem of the gun barrel: this gun barrel, which is more than one meter long and has a wall thickness of five centimeters, is made of 01% purity. Nino alloy casting... Such a large amount of Nino alloy is enough to manufacture hundreds of thousands of standard "[-]-style" assault rifles... This is indeed a solution to the problem, but the cost performance is too low.

Of course, if humans can crack the formula of Nino alloy, perhaps this problem can be solved easily.

At this time, an extraordinarily large black beetle quickly circled above the isolated island. After increasing its speed to the limit, it turned its head and swooped down towards Ke Lan—this speed, coupled with its own carapace The strength of the gun is no different from a shell that has just been fired. If it is hit, even the active main battle tanks of the human army will definitely not be spared.

Ke Lan didn't know the defensive ability of the metal colossus, but in any case, even if it was for testing, there was absolutely no reason to take a shell hard.

As soon as he turned his gaze, the plasma-charged cannon had already locked on the beetle, and the plasma group with a blue outer circle and a white inner core dragged a comet-like arc streamer out, and hit it with huge energy——

"laugh……"

Without the violent explosion flames as imagined, the beetle was vaporized the moment it touched the plasma ball, and then, the plasma ball silently melted away several beetles on the flight path, and slashed in the air. After passing a bright and beautiful arc, it fell into the distance.

Ke Lan immediately glanced at the barrel of the plasma-charged cannon—as expected of Nino alloy, it's just that the inner wall of the barrel turned red, and there was no sign of deformation at all.

The data on the head-up display changed from "cooling complete" to "cooling 2%."

"In one second, the cooling progress is [-]%. If you calculate this way, the rate of fire of this thing is one shot every fifty seconds..."

This data is similar to the plasma cannon on a large battleship, but the latter will replace the barrel and charging core every time it shoots. Fifty seconds is just the time required to replace the corresponding parts. In a sense, the battleship Every cannon on it has a lifespan of only one shot, which is not considered a cooldown at all.

At this time, Ke Lan's eyes moved to the third weapon.

"Annihilation bomb... From the literal meaning, shouldn't it be an anti-matter weapon?" He muttered in a low voice, "A big killer like the 'Death Ray'? It's a pity that there is only one round of ammunition...and it also shows' Not yet authorized', is it possible that the authority to use this weapon is not in the hands of the pilot?"

This point made Ke Lan think of those nuclear submarines loaded with nuclear weapons in the Earth Army in the old era. Although the launch button of the nuclear bomb was right in front of the captain, if the captain did not get permission from the superior, the captain would just push the button. The button exploded, and the nuclear bomb could not be launched.

(End of this chapter)