Thousands of sparks

Chapter 56
When driving, explaining the working principle of the internal combustion engine to a person who does not have a reserve of mechanical design principles, this process must be painful, even tortured.

However, it is always a good thing to have someone to talk to, and Du Sande quickly found a way of explaining that the Captain could accept.

After changing the professional vocabulary of "combustion", "work", "deflagration" and so on to "explosion", Mr. Captain instantly understood what Du Sande was talking about.And the interest in chatting is getting higher and higher and stronger.

"A combustible gas mixed with a certain proportion of air will ignite after being compressed, and then explode in a small space." Dusand roughly explained the principle, and then stepped on the accelerator hard.Then he frowned, "It seems that the air pressure in the cylinder is not enough."

When stepping on the accelerator before, the engine will produce changes in speed according to the extent of Dusand's foot stepping.But now, after stepping on the accelerator, the speed of the engine seems to be not much different from when it was not stepped on.

Due to the rush of work, there is no speedometer, no tachometer, and naturally no fuel gauge on the experimental vehicle No. [-].Dusand's shifting and driving operations all depend on the little experience left over from the driver's license test ten years ago.

Now, there is no response to stepping on the gas pedal.Dusand judged that the gas stored in the gas cylinder was more likely to be exhausted—of course, it might also be because the pull rope that controlled the release of gas was broken.To specifically determine what the reason is, you can find out by changing the gas cylinder.

Dusand stopped the car and turned off the engine on the spot.He said to the navy captain beside him, "Please be careful, I will go to the carriage behind to get the gas cylinder."

There is no doubt that for a convoy that may be ambushed, the safest situation is of course during the maneuver.As long as the convoy is moving, it will be very difficult for the enemy to ambush the convoy-shooting objects that are moving is actually very difficult.

In order to have the ability to attack moving objects, the army has specially purchased large-caliber air-burst shells and fully automatic shooting firearms.Gangsters obviously don't have that sort of stuff - at most they're armed with a few single-action rifles from the army.Such weapons are not suitable for attacking moving objects.

As a result, convoys are most vulnerable when they are stopped.Du Sande asked Mr. Captain to be vigilant and went to get the gas cylinder by himself, in order to minimize the risk of personal injury after being attacked.

Although it was used as bait, if someone was actually injured when it was used as bait, it would be difficult for people to accept it.It's best to knock off a little bit of the added armor plate and wipe out the enemy.

After adjusting the button in the Steam Knight to the high-torque mode represented by the mountain peak, Dusand walked towards the logistics carriage and began to unload the goods.

Lorraine fell asleep in the carriage, and when she saw Dusande in the steam knight armor, she screamed several times in fright.In the end, Dusande had to take off his helmet, and then comforted her with Polina for a long time, which made the drowsy little girl calm down again.

After changing the fuel while carrying the gas cylinder, Dusand started the vehicle again with the joystick, then climbed into the cab with difficulty and prepared to drive forward.

Then, he discovered... that Mr. Navy Captain was missing.

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According to the original plan, the navy captain wearing steam knight armor will be responsible for protecting Dusand's safety throughout the entire process, and will provide a lookout when Dusand is repaired or refueling the vehicle.

But now, the person responsible for the protection of the lookout is gone.

In the hilly area with few trees, a steam knight with a height of more than two meters and a height of nearly three meters could not just disappear out of thin air.Dusand suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.He didn't care about other things, he jumped directly onto the roof of the car and began to observe the surrounding environment.

The officer's car parked about 100 yor behind the experimental car No. [-] also found that something was wrong, and the countermeasures they took were somewhat incomprehensible to Dusande—the roof of the carriage was suddenly cut open, and one of them looked a bit Brass instruments resembling ancient armillary spheres appear on the roof.

In the center of this instrument, there is a huge lens with a diameter of about one joule, and inside the lens is a calcium stone about the size of Dusand's head.

A hand stretched out from the carriage, holding a lighter in it.It seems like if things go wrong, they'll start firing right away.

Dusande only glanced at the instrument before refocusing his attention on finding the missing Mr. Captain.What that machine was, and when it should be used, Dusande didn't care.He just wanted to know what happened to the captain.

Just when Dusande could hardly hold back the anxiety in his heart and was about to drive away first, a burst of mud suddenly rose up on the hillside more than 300 miles away.

A few seconds later, a humanoid monster covered in mud jumped out from under the ground.It also held a person in its hand—this poor person was held by the thigh by the humanoid monster, and he appeared from the ground with his head down and in a state of embarrassment.He kept trying to resist, but whether it was the dagger in his hand or the blow with his fist... it had no effect on the humanoid monster.

Dusande was a little nervous. He was about to adjust the knob in the steam knight to the fire level, and then he saw a humanoid monster walking towards him in the distance.While walking, its joints and back spewed out one after another thick white steam.

That is not a monster, it is Mr. Captain who just disappeared!

Mr. Captain carried the poor "captive" all the way to the car.Then it came out directly from the steam knight's back armor.

The steam knight maintained an upright posture, while the captive was still held upside down in its palm.It can be seen that the action just now exhausted Mr. Captain's physical strength, and even the beard on his face was wet.

"This guy, just peeked here in the tunnel next to him." The captain explained the reason for his sudden disappearance to Dusand, "He has a weapon on his body, and after seeing that I found him, he immediately Drill into the tunnel. This man should be a spy."

Dusande glanced at the "spy" with his head down.

His figure was very thin, and his clothes were torn.The hair is long and messy, and there is a strong bad smell on the body - there are many scars on the arms.

What attracted Du Sande the most was the tattoo under the spy's neck.

The quality of the tattoo looks very good, it clearly depicts a battleship firing in deep space.And around the battleship pattern, there is a circle of words that Du Sande can't understand.

"It's from the Alliance." The navy captain recognized the meaning of the tattoo faster than Dusand, "These thieves like to tattoo the patterns of ships that have served on their bodies. This person should be..." He He narrowed his eyes, and then added, "It's a crew member of the Fish Nest-class cruiser. He doesn't have any other tattoos on his body, so he might be a recruit."

(End of this chapter)