Legend of the Planet Builder-Chapter 185 - s 182 183 This is Not a Drill (Double
Chapter 185 -s 182, 183 This is Not a Drill (Double Update for Monthly Votes)
Chapter 185 -s 182, 183 This is Not a Drill (Double Update for Monthly Votes)
Busan, Korea’s first port and second-largest city, was once one of the world’s busiest ports.
However, at this moment, there wasn’t a single cargo ship coming or going at the port; in the city, there were no congested streets; in the high-rises, there weren’t any bustling crowds.
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Instead, there were various warships, armored vehicles, ground artillery, and hastily constructed military fortifications.
The crowds had long since evacuated to nearby areas, as this place was about to become a battlefield between humanity and the Zerg.
The eyes of the world once again focused here, with the last defeat occurring just a day ago.
And Japan’s industrial strength was even greater than Korea’s. Even with Bai ying’s assistance, could they truly hold on?
In the operations command center, the commanders were urgently discussing strategies. The experience from yesterday’s battle could be applied immediately today.
How to block the attack of the three types of beetles had become the focal point of their discussions.
“The beetles have astounding defenses. In close-range offensive and defensive battles, tank armor-shattering bombs and armor-piercing bullets are more effective against beetles than short-range missiles. We need to stockpile large quantities of armor-shattering bombs and armor-piercing bullets.”
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He Xingzhou wasn’t focusing on this war, because the insects were also closing in on Shanghai. At their current pace, they would reach it within fifteen days!
At this moment, the steel Great Wall section in Shanghai was already more than half built, and it should be barely completed in fifteen days.
This wasn’t enough!
A few thousand red beetles, green beetles, along with a hundred black beetles and the mutant creatures breached the defenses of the Diaozi District.
*What if more, stronger Zerg came to Shanghai?*
“The steel Great Wall should have no problem blocking mutant creatures and Level 1 and Level 2 Zerg,” He Xingzhou thought, “Level 3 Zerg would pose some difficulty, but Level 4 and Level 5 Zerg, like those black beetles, might not be stopped with just shells and missiles!”
*What if there were even more advanced Zerg… The risk would be too great! Weapons and equipment must be upgraded as quickly as possible.*
The Xuanwu Plan’s weapon research had long since begun. He Xingzhou initially wanted to improve laser weapons, but the appearance of the beetles changed his mind. He wanted to improve the electromagnetic gun first!
Laser weapons and electromagnetic weapons had different advantages. If faced with a Level 5 black beetle, laser weapons would need to burn it continuously for several seconds to kill it.
That kind of laser weapon that could instantly vaporize it couldn’t naturally be made now.
The electromagnetic gun could quickly gain immense kinetic energy; it could even punch a big hole through a fifty-meter-thick steel plate! It was about instantaneous bursts, whereas laser weapons were more like continuous output.
“In coastal defensive battles, while laser weapons had a long attack range, they were easily affected by seawater and weather, and couldn’t instantly kill the beetles. In comparison, the electromagnetic gun was more lethal to beetles.”
He Xingzhou analyzed and decided to improve the electromagnetic gun first.
He called out the Quantum Light Computer and opened the weapons tech tree.
“Unlocking the basic inductive electromagnetic gun requires 300,000 energy units.”
“Unlocking the basic electromagnetic railgun requires 500,000 energy units.”
“Unlocking the basic Plasma Electric Thermal Gun requires 700,000 energy units.”
“Unlocking the basic electromagnetic recompulsion gun requires 1,000,000 energy units.”
The basic inductive electromagnetic gun technology was already mastered by Shen Zhou. He Xingzhou immediately input the data and unlocked it.
However, this electromagnetic gun used acceleration coils fixed in the barrel, which, when supplied with alternating current, generated an alternating magnetic field that produced induced current in the projectile coil. The magnetic field of the induced current interacted with the magnetic field of the acceleration coil current, generating electromagnetic force to accelerate the projectile and shoot it out.
The electromagnetic railgun, on the other hand, operated by laying electromagnetic rails, which produced a strong magnetic field when electrified. The projectile would be shot out at high speed due to the Ampere force acting on the electrified slider, theoretically even reaching sub-light speed.
The electromagnetic railgun also had strong destructive power, but if it were to be manufactured now, a problem of extended acceleration rail length due to its ultra-high destructive power would arise.
The Plasma Electric Thermal Gun utilized high-pressure plasma heating to propel the projectile forward.
As for the final electromagnetic recompulsion gun, it operated on similar principles to coil guns, but employed a continuously recompulsing method.
It combined the ability of a coil gun to fire heavy-mass projectiles with the ability of a railgun to fire ultra-high-speed projectiles, imparting a higher acceleration force peak to the projectile for greater power!
Currently, the mainstream technologies around the world were inductive electromagnetic guns and electromagnetic railguns, with no mature electromagnetic recompulsion guns.
He Xingzhou unlocked all four types of electromagnetic guns in one go. Though their usage scenarios varied, none were necessarily stronger than the other, but their manufacturing difficulty differed.
Under present circumstances, the electromagnetic recompulsion gun was most suitable, having greater power and not requiring the manufacture of ultra-long electromagnetic rails for now. Its turret was a rectangular structure that could be manufactured quickly.
Recently, the Quantum Light Computer’s energy units were sufficient, as a nuclear power station had been constructed on the Steel Great Wall route, providing He Xingzhou with a new energy source.
He Xingzhou absorbed and understood this information, then directly connected to the electromagnetic weapon research institute via the cloud, pulling the team responsible for researching the electromagnetic gun into the channel.
“Everyone, I’ve found a design method for the inductive electromagnetic gun!” He Xingzhou announced.
“What method?” Inquired Bao Xiangbei, the team leader and electromagnetic weapons expert, who had led the team in designing numerous electromagnetic weapons.
