God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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Bei Hai looked calmly at Lu Jun, then nodded seriously, before turning his gaze back to the steel warship, staring at the behemoth without moving.

Facing Bei Hai's gaze, Lu Jun sighed softly, his resolve hardening.

"Notify the relevant personnel to hold a meeting to discuss the subsequent assembly issues," Lu Jun issued the notice without turning his head.

The personnel who had been prepared in advance immediately went to inform the other managers in the shipyard after receiving this notification.

After delivering the announcement, Lu Jun turned his attention back to the massive steel warship.

Unlike other warships that are a hundred meters long, this steel warship, built under his supervision, is a true national treasure, or even a weapon that can decide the outcome of a battle!
The steel needed to cast just this one warship would be enough to arm a million-strong army. The enormous cost and time spent building it was not just for show.

Just as Lu Jun and Bei Hai stood there, looking at the huge steel warship, a voice came from behind them.

"The new generation of vector projectors has been developed, and the effect this time will be completely different." Zhang Hong, from the Zhang family of Nanyang, was over seventy years old, but when describing his construction achievements, he was still energetic and spoke clearly, excitedly saying, "Through breakthroughs in etching technology, we have solidified the corresponding etching nodes. This time, space will no longer be an obstacle for us!"

Several years ago, everyone had already learned about the unique nature of the Kushan Empire's collective defense, especially its special defense that could solidify space with clouds to form spatial barriers. This greatly surprised everyone and also made them realize the limitations of vector projectors.

From the perspective of conventional physical attacks, even the first-generation vector projector possessed extremely terrifying kinetic energy.

With such terrifying kinetic energy, while it might not be able to burn mountains or boil seas, it could certainly break through mountain peaks.

However, with this level of kinetic energy and penetrating power, it's wishful thinking to think that it can break through spatial defenses.

The special structure, which does not contain any willpower, makes it extremely difficult to forcibly distort the traces of space and break through the spatial defense. Even if the kinetic energy is increased tenfold, it is difficult to shake the space, and naturally, it is also difficult to shake the corresponding spatial defense.

In response to this collective defense capability beyond the conventional sense, the Zhang family of Nanyang, the Lu family of Jiangdong, and the Huang family of Jingzhou all contributed manpower and resources, working together on research and development.

Given that Huang Yueying and Li Yuan had already conducted research on etched nodes and made significant progress in their research, several institutions further allocated resources to accelerate this research, thereby obtaining a solution.

"Oh? The space defense problem has been solved?" Upon hearing this news, even Lu Jun, who was staring at the behemoth in front of him, immediately came back to his senses and looked at Zhang Hong with considerable surprise.

Beihai, who had been standing still, turned around and looked at Zhang Hong upon hearing this news, a hint of anticipation in his expression.

Of everyone present, no one understood the power and uniqueness of the space defense better than Bei Hai. Faced with the space defense capability constructed from collective cloud energy and willpower, even with all-out effort, even with a vector projector exceeding its output limits, and the air in the flight path generating a scorching and distorted sensation, it still could not shake the space defense in the slightest.

Unable to break through the enemy's defenses, it was impossible to achieve effective results. And when faced with the enemy's attack, the defensive capabilities of our side could not be as effective as spatial defense. Even if the enemy's attack capabilities were not particularly strong, when one side could effectively output damage while the other side could not, the Beihai ship, unable to output damage effectively, eventually sank in that vast ocean.

The unique location of the sinking site means that it is impossible to salvage it in a short period of time unless salvage technology advances in the future.

This process could take decades, or even centuries, to complete a salvage operation at a depth of hundreds of meters.

It is precisely because of this battlefield experience that Beihai sincerely desires a weapon that can solve the problem of space defense.

Unable to break through the enemy's defenses, unable to shelter and protect the crew on board, what a desperate scene it was, and Bei Hai not only participated in it personally, but also witnessed it all.

Even if they wanted to bring back the crew's last words, time constraints made it impossible to attend to everyone's needs...

"Solved, and there's more than one way." Zhang Hong, who had finally solved the problem, excitedly explained the solution: "One method is to invest a large amount of mental energy into the corresponding etched crossbow bolts, using the massive mental energy to neutralize the willpower in the spatial defense, thereby obtaining a channel that ignores the spatial defense and achieving a direct hit on the opponent."

"If we do that, the weapon's striking power will probably decrease significantly, right?" After a moment's thought, Lu Jun instantly understood the drawback of this method.

Putting aside the difficulty of injecting and solidifying a large amount of mental energy, just neutralizing willpower with mental energy means that time is needed to react. For a vector projector that is already extremely fast, this reaction time and integration time will inevitably greatly weaken the power that the vector projector still possesses when launching weapons.

“That’s right. Doing it this way will indeed greatly reduce the power. Even if we fire in normal conditions, the power will be reduced by about 80%. However, the remaining power is enough to destroy and severely damage the Kushan ships after passing through the space defense system.” Zhang Hong, who had already conducted experiments and tests in advance, stated the experimental data very frankly.

The vector projector was designed with overflowing offensive power in mind. Even with only 20% of its power, it still had the potential to sink the Kushan Navy flagship.

"What about the other options?" Upon hearing that it was only possible to sink the enemy, Lu Jun immediately inquired about other options.

“Another option is to directly utilize space by increasing the energy input of the vector projector, and then, before the shooting begins, use collective will to lock onto the target, and then forcibly break through space to connect with the predetermined target, thus forcibly destroying the opponent…” Zhang Hong directly stated the second, more straightforward option.

Since the Kushans were able to establish corresponding spatial defenses, they were more direct and used methods that shattered space to deal with the spatial defenses, directly using powerful force to send bricks flying and forcibly dismantle the opponent.

Just like piercing a shield with a spear, directly destroying the opponent's defenses naturally grants the ability to continue striking. (End of Chapter)