Maoshan Taoist priests practice falsehood and become reality

Chapter 165 Magical Weapon Forging

There are two weapons masters in the Metallurgical Department of the Psychic Research Institute. They are Zhang Wanliang and Li Lisen respectively.

Both of them are masters in the field of energy weapons, and are good at developing and manufacturing various electromagnetic weapons.

Zhang Wanliang likes to make cold weapons in his spare time. When he has nothing to do, he forges swords such as Frostmourne and Fire Joy in private.

Li Lisen is a staunch hot weapons fanatic and often goes to private shooting galleries to show off his self-developed pistols.

For this reason, the two often quarreled over issues of stance.

"The sword is a man's romance!"

Zhang Wanliang believes that hot weapons such as guns cannot bring enough security.

The gun needs to be aimed, what will happen if a round of bullets is fired?

Unlike a cold weapon in hand, it can fight for a long time, fully unleash the user's potential, and also bring great psychological satisfaction.

However, Li Lisen believed that the security of the sword was nothing more than a "silver-like pewter tip", a frivolous thing. Only by killing enemies can you feel truly safe.

In terms of effectively killing the enemy, hot weapons can overwhelm cold weapons.

Weapons should be one inch long and one inch strong. Under any circumstances, extraordinary people should try to avoid holding cold weapons for close combat with evil spirits.

"What if the bullets run out?" Zhang Wanliang retorted.

"Then run!"

"What if there is someone behind you who needs to be protected, and you can't escape, and the bullets are empty?"

"You should run if you should."

"You are a cold-blooded animal, you don't even need a knife!"

"Where there is life, there is hope."

The dispute between the two developed from talking to equipment research and development, making the Metallurgical Department restless.

The reason why Xie Zerong did not come forward to mediate is that he believes that competition is conducive to progress.

Sure enough, in order to slap Li Lisen in the face, Zhang Wanliang worked hard and integrated multiple technologies to create the Thunder Sword 1.0, which he claimed was a melee weapon capable of killing B-level evil spirits.

Li Lisen's evaluation of Lei Shi was sharp:

"Isn't this just a nuclear electromagnetic rocket with a sword shell?"

He even directly used Leishu's core technology to develop an electromagnetic rocket launcher and won the Best Creative Award of the Year.

However, because the Thunder Sword could not find a suitable user, it eventually became a piece of scrap metal that no one cared about.

The Thunder Sword project was therefore discontinued.

It wasn't until by chance that Wang Yuran activated this bulky weapon and severely damaged the B-class evil mirage that the project was restarted.

However, the restarted projects are mainly based on Li Lisen's plan. After reading Wang Yuran's use report, he believed that launching Leishu 1.0 was equivalent to a suicide attack.

Ignore the electric shocks from the enemy and ourselves, and be a human bomb!

Melee weapons should not have such side effects. To this end, Li Lisen took drastic measures to reduce overly dangerous nuclear power technology and magnetic explosion technology, and changed the sword body to a normal size.

"How is that different from conventional electromagnetic weapons?"

Zhang Wanliang lodged a serious protest.

"Of course there is a difference."

While Li Lisen improved Lei Shu, he also equipped the sword body with a signal guidance device.

In this way, the sharp blade inserted into the enemy's body can become the coordinates to guide the laser weapon attack.

The idea proved to work wonders.

In the battle of the Pearl Tower, Wei Zonglin used Lei Shu's coordinate guidance function to deliver a shot of justice from the sky to Ouyang Hai and reverse the defeat.

Therefore, the research and development of cold weapons is moving in the direction of auxiliary thermal weapons.

Li Lisen suddenly became the top leader of the Metallurgical Department, while Zhang Wanliang could only resign himself to the position of assistant. According to Li Lisen's ideas, he developed various equipment and lived a life like a walking zombie.

Until three days ago, the Ministry of Metallurgy received an urgent notice requesting that the sharpest "sword" be forged in the shortest possible time.

Li Lisen was not good at forging traditional cold weapons, so the initiative of the project fell into Zhang Wanliang's hands.

Feng Shui turns around!

Finally, it was Zhang Wanliang's turn to ask Li Lisen to cooperate with him in developing weapons.

This feeling is simply too good!

Zhang Wanliang has seen the map and found that this is a typical three-foot sword of the Chinese people.

The sword is called the "King of One Hundred Weapons", which means that the sword is the king of weapons.

This type of sword with a cane pattern was very popular during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Zhang Wanliang himself had a collection.

A one-handed sword with a drum handle, the sword is light and agile, and rarely cuts hard. It is mainly used to pick points, use circular moves to strike directly, and use skillful force. It is not as good as the sword in actual combat.

Zhang Wanliang didn't quite understand why he had to urgently forge a sword that was not very functional in actual combat.

"The name is the Demon-Slaying Sword. Could it be that you want to use this sword to kill evil spirits?"

The hilt of the sword is wrapped with rope, and the scabbard material is designated as lightning wood. Just leave this part to others.

Zhang Wanliang and Li Lisen are mainly responsible for the key blades.

There are many types of sword blade materials, the better ones include clip steel swords, spin welded horse tooth inlay steel swords, etc.

These are ordinary materials, and Zhang Wanliang did not hesitate to use the most expensive S90V steel.

In terms of craftsmanship, steel clamping technology is used to make the blade have a composite material made of two types of steel.

First, cut the high carbon steel bar into a V shape, then embed the low carbon steel bar into the V opening, wrap the low carbon steel in the middle of the high carbon steel like a dumpling, and then beat it into one.

In this way, the sword will be sharp and hard, but also have a certain degree of toughness and will not break easily.

In addition, Zhang Wanliang also made a clam blade on the sword body, and added a green paste to the sword to ensure that the finished sword can not only blow hair and break hair, but also cut copper and iron.

The next step is to create the reflective effect of the sword blade. Zhang Wanliang went directly to the grinding machine, dried the sword blade to 20000 mesh, and directly produced a mirror surface.

It took nearly three days and three nights to forge a flawless and shining "Devil-Slaying Sword".

Looking at this nearly perfect handicraft, Zhang Wanliang felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment and showed off to Li Lisen:

"You see, killing without blood, this is the charm of cold weapons."

Li Lisen remained silent throughout this sword forging process. He was not impressed by Zhang Wanliang's forging skills, but wanted to give him a knowing blow at the critical moment:

"A sword can kill people, but what's its use? Can it destroy mutants and evil spirits?"

Zhang Wanliang wanted to refute, but he choked on his words again.

yes! Let alone competing with thermal weapons, this sword is inferior to an ordinary electromagnetic dagger.

Facing the variant, a proper embroidered pillow.

"At least... the forging process was pleasant?"

Li Lisen sighed: "We could have developed more useful weapons."

If it took two people three days and three nights to forge a weapon, what's the point of it if it's just a piece of art?

"Don't say it too early. Maybe it can be used in other ways?"

"Alas, it seems you still don't understand. Swords are ritual objects. This three-foot sword should be a gift from the authorities to Xuan Heng. It doesn't have much practicality in itself."

Li Lisen lamented Zhang Wanliang's innocence.

"So we have been busy for three days and three nights, making gifts for Taoist Xuanheng?"

"Aren't you very happy? All the s90v steel that was not in stock has been used."

"I... didn't think much of it at the time."

(End of this chapter)