Master of Thermodynamics

One day later, when the exploration team gradually deepened into the fog, the reefs became denser and denser, and the waterways in many locations were extremely narrow. The 500-ton exploration ships were inaccessible at all, and the crew could only drive the magic boat to explore around.

"Om..."

The extremely hard magic alloy drill bit can easily break the reef, and the stone chips will fly around.

"The depth should be almost the end, stop..." a middle-aged prospector wearing a thick protective suit of Nima rubber said aloud. Because of his helmet, his voice sounded rather dull.

Another young prospector operating the "Magic Drill" immediately stopped drilling and manipulated the drill bit to rotate in the opposite direction, slowly withdrawing from the drill hole, and a lot of rubble was brought out.

The middle-aged prospector picked up a piece of gravel, checked it over and over again, and said his conclusion:

"This is ordinary rock and does not contain any metal components..."

Drilling the rocks in the misty area to explore whether there are valuable minerals is also one of the main tasks of this exploration operation.

To this end, the exploration ship deliberately carried a 1-ton simple magic drilling machine, accompanied by two experienced prospectors, full-time responsible for operating the machine and identifying ore.

However, so far, little has been gained.

The exploration team only discovered a ferrous iron ore and a bauxite ore.

After rough exploration, the two prospectors judged that the total reserves of black iron ore should not be less than 30 million tons, and the maximum should not exceed 50 million tons.

This number sounds very alarming, but compared with the iron-clad island with reserves of up to tens of billions of tons, it is insignificant.

The reserves of bauxite are slightly larger, at least 80 million tons, but there is also no shortage of bauxite near the Tide Islands.

In addition, this place is remote and surrounded by fog, transportation is extremely inconvenient, and the mining value is pitifully low.

"Hi, guys, please help lift the drilling rig onto the boat..." the prospector shouted to the magic boat that was parked not far away.

The magic boat drove over immediately, and the four tall sailors quickly jumped onto the island and reefs, and together they lifted the heavy drilling rig and placed it on the carrying platform at the back of the magic boat.

After the machine was fixed, the magic boat drove to the next drilling site.

...

For Renault, exploration operations are a leisurely holiday.

He can see all kinds of scenery, and at the same time wash and slice all kinds of creatures, put them on the grill, or put them in a hot oil pan, and enjoy delicious food.

For others, this is a dangerous and hard journey.

...

"Everyone, the reef in front has many strange small round holes on the surface. I suspect it may be a nest of some kind of creature..." A sailor observer standing at the highest point of the magic boat put down his binoculars. Said his face solemnly.

After Diez's tragedy, the exploration team took a lot of care and no longer used sophisticated magical firearms to rush everywhere.

"So." the sailor in the lead asked, "Gremo, you look around again, is it possible for us to bypass this reef?"

Gremor nodded, and raised his binoculars again.

However, after observing for a while, he gave a negative answer:

"Sergeant Lucas, the nearby waterways are all very narrow, I'm afraid our boats can't pass... There seems to be a relatively wide waterway 7 kilometers away, but it needs to make a big circle..."

The leading sailor, Sergeant Lucas, was silent for a moment and said flatly:

"We have drilling missions on our bodies, so we don't have time to delay too much, everyone just rushed over!"

He turned to look at the sailors under his men, and issued a series of commands:

"Bossy, Dennison, you two get the kicker ready..."

"Fayez, you are here to control the heavy machine gun of the double-headed snake on the bow..."

"Others, pick up your'Magic Air Rifle', ready to shoot at any time..."

The sailors shouted together:

"Yes!"

An atmosphere of solemnity enveloped this magic boat.

...

What Sergeant Lucas referred to as the "Magic Burst Airsoft" is essentially an alien version of an automatic rifle.

It is a new type of magic air gun designed by the Weapons Research Institute led by rune magician Murphy. Its biggest feature is continuous shooting.

This burst air gun is equipped with a magazine with 24 rounds of ammunition, and the pneumatic feeding system installed in the gun body, the user does not need to manually load the bullets, and the firing interval is shortened to 0.2 seconds.

Compared with the old magic air gun, the firepower density of the new air gun is increased by at least 5 times. In other words, a soldier holding a burst air gun is comparable to five soldiers holding a magic air gun.

At present, the army and navy of Haichao have fully replaced the continuous firing air guns, while the old air guns have been withdrawn from active service and are only used for recruits and reserve training.

...

"Hula...hula..."

The propeller stirred up the water waves and pushed the magic boat forward.

Observer Gremor's guess was right. As soon as the magic boat approached the reef, a transparent liquid was poured out of the small round holes on the surface of the reef. Hundreds of black tentacles swarmed out and waved all over the sky.

These tentacles are soft and slender, with a large number of spikes distributed on the surface, the epidermis is wrinkled, and the number is extremely large, densely packed together, this scene is simply numb to the scalp.

"Spitfire!"

Sergeant Lucas roared loudly.

"Huh...huh..."

The nozzles held by the two sailors burst out two flames instantly, and the flame tongue reached 15 meters in length, welcoming large tentacles.

This is exactly the new weapon of the army-the flamethrower.

Its principle is very simple. It uses high-pressure gas to atomize the "light oil" with low ignition point and fast burning, and spray it from the nozzle.

The nozzle integrates a set of heat magic heating device, which can instantly ignite the mixture, and shoot the fiercely burning high-temperature flame at the target.

Thanks to the characteristics of other worlds, chemical explosions are greatly suppressed by magical energy, and flamethrowers do not have to worry about explosions and are extremely safe.

The flame from the ejector is dazzlingly white. This is a phenomenon that occurs when the temperature of the flame exceeds 1500 degrees.

"Ziz...Ziz..."

As soon as the large tentacles touched the flame, the mucus on the surface was instantly evaporated. Then, under the action of the high temperature, the tentacles were quickly dried out, quickly turned black, and finally burned.

The tentacle monster reacted extremely quickly, and when it realized that the opponent was not easy to provoke, it immediately decided to give up.

The burning tentacles broke automatically and fell into the sea, while the remaining tentacles retracted into the round hole at a faster speed.

"Continue to breathe fire... Burn me against the stone!"

Sergeant Lucas grinned and shouted new instructions.

"Huh...huh..."

The two sailors adjusted the jet valve to the maximum, the flame became more and more fierce, and the flame tongue surged to an astonishing 20 meters, directly licking the reef.

The next moment, the reef melted!

"Chichi...chichi..."

The hot lava rolled down, and after touching the sea, a large white mist rose up, and the surroundings of the reef suddenly became foggy. Fortunately, the strong sea breeze continued to blow the fog away, allowing everyone to see the shadow of the reef in a blur.

However, lava cannot directly threaten the sea monster.

Because the reef does not melt fast, it is impossible to melt the entire reef in a short period of time.

But this is enough.

The heat of the blazing flames continuously flows into the inside of the reef, and the temperature begins to rise linearly.

Sea monsters are aquatic creatures and have very poor tolerance to high temperatures. They will definitely not be able to stand it for long.

30 degrees……

50 degrees...

70 degrees...

"Something came out..."

Seeing a dark shadow emerging from the other end of the reef, Observer Gremo immediately issued an alarm.

Obviously, the sea monster finally couldn't hold it, and it planned to escape.

"All fire!"

Sergeant Lucas called out the order without hesitation.

"His...His..."

A double-headed snake heavy machine gun and a row of air guns set off a terrible metal storm.

The intensive rain of bullets rushed forward, shooting the sea monster into a riddled with holes, and fragments of limbs flying everywhere.

...

On the exploration ship 2 kilometers away, Ottore, the supernatural being with the ship, pointed to the corpse of the strange fish placed on the deck, and introduced:

"Lord Lord, this is the mutant sea fish we just discovered... Hey, you may not know that it can crawl on the shore, and it runs faster than ordinary people..."

Renault looked at the strange fish while listening to the story.

It is about 3 meters long, not too big in size, but strange and vicious in appearance.

A row of low spikes protruded from the back, which looked striking and unusual. The fins were quite thick, with claws like barbed hooks growing on the top. There were a lot of scratches on the surface of the fins, which were obviously traces left by crawling on land. .

A sarcoma bulged on each side of the fish head, with a large number of stomata on the surface, which was ugly and abnormal.

This made Renault unconsciously think of the sarcoma on the neck of the "Aquatic Black Orc".

He secretly guessed that the sarcoma of the strange fish is likely to act as a "lung" for breathing on land, which is exactly the opposite of the aquatic black orc.

"Lord Lord, this guy has an extremely fierce temperament. After seeing the prospecting team, he rushed towards us... Its claws were incredibly sharp. During the crawling process, after rubbing the stone, it actually left a deep scratch. mark."

"However, it is not the opponent of Magical Firearms. The sailors only used a few rounds of volley and successfully killed it..."

Renault glanced at the fish corpse full of bullet holes and frowned invisibly. Then he stretched his eyebrows, restored to the original state without any abnormalities, and said with a smile:

"Let someone send this to the kitchen...well, its meat should be good. Order the chef to make a ‘sauerkraut fish’ for dinner..."

"Yes!" Ottore responded, smiling and summoning his subordinates to work.

Renault moved his gaze to the surface of the sea and looked at the vast sea of ​​fog in the distance. At this time, he looked calm, but a stormy sea was thrown in his heart.

He sighed silently and murmured in a low voice:

"This is absolutely abnormal... Why are there so many mutant sea monsters in the Sea of ​​Mist? What happened here?"

Adanis, who was lying quietly beside Renault, shook her furry ears and wagged her tail again.

He stretched out his hand and stroked the cat's head a few times, and Adanis snored comfortably.

"Aini." Renault stared at the rolling clouds and misty mountains and asked softly, "Can you feel the strange fluctuations in the depths of the mist?"

Adanis tilted his head and stared into the distance, and after a moment, it nodded hesitantly.

This action shows that it has a faint feeling, but it is not clear.

"But my feeling is very clear."

Renault stroked Adanis's head and said slowly:

"In fact, after we built the 20-meter-high giant'Roadbed Weather Magic Sensor' on Odin Island earlier last year, the Magic Sensor sensed that there is an abnormal concentration of magic energy in the misty sea all year round, the intensity is almost Equivalent to a large storm."

"In the middle of this year's harvest month, Moganyi discovered that the'magic radiation index' of the Misty Sea suddenly increased by 50%... I have a strong feeling that something extraordinary is about to happen. ..."

"In the past few days of exploration, I only noticed that there are too many mutant sea monsters here... In just 2 days, everyone encountered 13 mutant sea monsters, and all of them have never been before. The type I have seen."

"It's really weird... Why do these mutant sea monsters stay in the Sea of ​​Misty honestly? Why don't they migrate to other sea areas? For example, the nearby Tide Islands... With their strength, they should live more moisturized lives in other places. ."

"Damn it, I should have come in and take a look..."