Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

Right now, in the field.

"Speaking of which, isn't Swire pregnant?"

"You're only just finding out?"

Aren't you going back to keep watch?

"Aren't there professional nurses available? I don't know how to do that."

"Um... Won't you get beaten up for doing this?" Even a tough guy like Old Chen knew that he would definitely get beaten up by his wife at this point.

"No, she knows I'm doing legitimate business."

"Um..." Old Chen thought it made some sense; men should prioritize their careers over their families, but he still felt it wasn't quite right.

"Besides, it's not like I never go home after get off work; it's just that things at the experimental field need to be taken care of..."

These soybeans aren't for eating, but for pressing oil. The biomass oil is then processed and used as fuel.

The new aircraft ultimately had to use fuel engines, because Master Nian simply couldn't stand those strange Originium devices and the Frankenstein's monster of unknown origins in space technology.

Thus, the aircraft with wire flight control and a propeller driven by a fuel engine came into being. This is also the new aircraft training that the little witches of the Aviation Sorcerer Guild will soon undergo, which is why the Doctor said that they might not be able to adapt.

Because the original aerial attack required the user to be inside a safe mothership, but now it requires actually taking to the air.

Physical fitness, physique, and adaptability are two different things. Putting aside other factors, the "rotation hell" might eliminate half of the people on the spot to do ground crew work or transfer them to the second squadron's drone unit to continue flying hummingbirds.

An engine that burns soybean oil is hardly enough to power a large aircraft. So, some wet components had to be added to reduce weight and increase buoyancy to solve the aircraft's problem, and it became the behemoth that the little witches saw.

The three-engine heavy bomber can perform horizontal bombing with iron bombs directly, or precision bombing by launching a large number of sight missiles. Its improved version is a real gunship. Under the murderous gaze of the ground crew, Master Ke carried a 70mm Originium railgun in the form of a pod, and then the warlock fired it. The 20-round magazine turned this thing into a real gunship.

In addition, there is a two-seat fighter jet used for dive attacks and clearing enemy drones. The pilot is responsible for flying, while the sorcerer in the back seat is responsible for guiding the attack. It can also be used as a reconnaissance aircraft, allowing the sorcerer to guide friendly artillery fire.

This guidance technology comes from the artillery precursor technology provided by the Ursus Cooperation Agreement. In exchange, Ursus and Iberia were also given some manned aircraft technology. For Ursus, it had little military use, but for Iberia, it solved their immediate problem.

Doesn't the Sea Siren like to cause pollution? Close-range combat will result in pollution, mid-range combat will result in ambushes, hand cannon firing is too limited, and long-range weapons are not very effective against the dense swarms of Sea Siren.

And now—you're dumbfounded, aren't you? Your dad can fly. The Hummingbird light gunboats, in conjunction with heavy bombers, have spread throughout Iberia before Kazdel. The pilots don't care about any sea creatures, and are even less affected by any neurotoxins. They can directly drop bombs horizontally from an altitude of 1200 meters or use Hummingbirds to bombard the ground with grenades at close range.

Developing fighter jets was also a requirement of Iberia. Although Hai Si lost the main brain, just like Xia Lin lost the internet, he lost 99% of the technical blueprint and technical system.

However, it's inevitable that aerial units will be developed, and bombers won't be as easy to use as they are now. Developing aerial combat units in advance is essential.

Chapter 59 Title: I Went to the Toilet for Paid Time

Chapter 59

Satie City, a suburb of the Aviation Academy, while not explicitly admitting only girls, is predominantly populated by boys who prefer the roar of heavy machinery. Therefore, the campus is predominantly female.

For the Sarkaz people, in the past, on average only one in twelve children would survive to adulthood.

However, now at least 11 children can live to adulthood, which poses an unseen threat to the family.

Parents' income, connections, and experiences are unlikely to provide a way out for every child. While boys can be visibly turned into laborers and earn wages due to war and industrial development, girls seem somewhat "redundant."

In the past, pretty girls could be sent to entertainment venues or sold to slave traders to serve as maids for nobles and wealthy families.

However, the ban on human trafficking, as well as the ban on certain entertainment industries based on human trafficking and disguised slavery, has led to a sudden increase in the number of idle women in society.

Textile factories absorbed some, cotton fields absorbed another portion of the stronger women, and schools, kindergartens, and some non-heavy jobs absorbed some more, but a large number of women still struggled to find employment.

For most Sarkaz girls, the Aviation Sorcerer Guild is practically a golden path to success. The work is easy, the salary is generous, the uniforms are beautiful (emphasis added), the food is excellent, and they get to work with beautiful drones. Naturally, there are a lot of people signing up.

This also allows the academy to recruit pilots and aviation sorcerers according to high standards. The requirements for the former are more stringent than those for the latter. Not only is the sorcerer's talent required, but also extremely high physical fitness and balance adaptability. At the same time, the body must be free of scars and deformities, and the weight must not be too heavy or too light.

These standards are too high for current propeller-driven piston aircraft. However, there are still two prototypes with arc jet engines waiting to have their flight control and various avionics systems perfected. Once they are put into use, the requirements for their size will be too high.

The latter requires less physical strength, but demands more attention and concentration than a pilot.

After all, you're controlling a drone, and the slightest carelessness can cause it to crash, and you can't rely on muscle memory to help.

"It's been so long since I've been back, it feels like so much has changed." The little witches, who had returned from vacation, chattered as they poured into the campus. Compared to the past, the campus had expanded to at least three times its original size. In addition to the original drone training field and obstacle avoidance training area, there were now several extremely spacious runways and some warehouse-like buildings.

The main teaching area has also been expanded by half, with the addition of a tower and a four-story teaching building.

"And there are more people too." The trainees walking around looked curiously at the women in casual clothes running around the campus, wondering who they were.

"Ahem, everyone assemble! Act like instructors!" The captain's face darkened. Had these little brats become this wild after a month of playing around?

"Go to the dormitory first, then to the auditorium to listen to the briefing, assign tasks, have a meal, rest, and then participate in new assessments and studies. I hope you haven't forgotten what you learned on the battlefield."

"Yes, sir!" A few hours later, in the hangar, "This is your future partner, the 'Sky Tree' battlefield command aircraft, and its control crew."

This is Terra's largest man-made aircraft, built by combining technologies from various sources, and features four large piston propeller engines.

Since they couldn't directly burn biofuels to obtain enough power, they ultimately solved part of the problem with Lao Xia's makeshift method.

An electronic fuel injection controller was designed to inject supersaturated Originium additives into the engine to increase the thermal power of the biofuel. The drawback is that it causes severe carbon buildup and forms a large number of solidified Originium crystals, which leads to a rapid drop in subsequent thermal power and even mid-air engine shutdown.

Ultimately, the only solution was for Master Ke to design a more complex mechanical structure that used the strong winds of high-speed flight to remove excessive condensed Originium dust, which severely polluted the environment and was not very effective.

Therefore, we are still in the testing phase, looking for a way to solve this problem. Electric aircraft using Originium reactors are too large, hydrogen batteries cannot power them, and Lao Xia doesn't know how to build nuclear reactors. As for fuel engines, Terra doesn't have oil refining capabilities, and how to remove Originium from crude oil remains a problem for Terra.

Terra Oil is primarily based on shale oil, which is not only difficult to extract but also difficult to refine. What's even more troublesome is...

Since it's shale oil, meaning oil is extracted from cracks in rocks, it's impossible to imagine it without Originium particles mixed in.

The other type of source rock oil has a deflagration effect. When mixed with a large number of saturated source rock particles, the combustion process is completely uncontrollable. It explodes at the slightest touch, and deflagration fuel cannot be used for power.

Solving this problem would mean that Xia Lin and the Terrans would need to build and explore a completely new and mature petrochemical refining system from scratch, so... let's just burn bio-oil.

Although the aircraft has not yet undergone production testing, short-duration flights are still possible. This means that aviation sorcerers will not be restricted by aircraft carriers, i.e., Rhodes Island, in terms of the range and maneuverability of their air strikes.

After all, once the enemy detects Rhodes Island's location, drawing a circle with a radius of 55 kilometers centered on it will cover the entire area that could be attacked by air. Combined with the flight speed of drones and the average duration of a warlock's concentration, the element of surprise in an air attack becomes very low.

Furthermore, due to the limitations of Rhodes Island's movement speed, it cannot achieve the high-speed penetration capability of a true air force. As a result, the witches in the reconnaissance team must carry drones and follow the shield guards into the front line to conduct ground reconnaissance on foot and launch drone strikes.

"The cabin can carry 2 Hummingbird drones and 4 assault drones, supporting high-altitude towed release mode. The cabin has an operating console and a simulated magic staff. The crew includes a captain, co-pilot, and pilot, plus two Hummingbird teams and one Raider team, for a total of 24 people. Report complete!"

"This is where you'll need to practice and coordinate your vehicles for the next month, and teach the new recruits in the school battlefield skills."

The captain said, "A veteran squad paired with a rookie squad. The Raider Drone's Strike Witches are also rookies, but their fighting styles are different."

Over the next few days, everyone had a look at various aircraft codenames, most of which had serious defects and were still being improved and explored.

However, the doctor believed that it was better to have people waiting for equipment than equipment waiting for people, so he simply explored and improved the equipment while training people to become familiar with these aircraft that were completely different from Terra's traditions.

Meanwhile, on the front lines of the central province, things have been much better for Theresis's forces since Raytheon Industries and Victoria provided a batch of "Assault Drones." There are no longer hordes of hummingbirds raining down fire overhead, because those "Bird-Catching Spider Drones" can indeed pose a significant threat to the hummingbirds.

The "Jumping Spider" large assault drone can also conduct precision attacks on enemy mobile mortar positions, which largely reverses the disadvantage in firepower.

However, limited by the speed and carrying capacity of drones, even the largest jumping spiders cannot pose a threat to the Titan, which can still happily use its twin main guns to remove the nails one by one.

The Kazdel Civil War has almost turned into a technology showcase for the various arms groups, with large numbers of observation teams deployed to the battlefield to observe the uses of these new equipment and then make timely improvements.

Although the arms industry reacted more swiftly, in terms of actual market feedback, apart from Theresis who clung desperately to foreign aid as a lifeline, most generals still harbored a strong sense of resistance and did not recognize the performance or effectiveness of these equipment.

After all, they didn't have the pressure from the generals under the Regent of Kazdel, who faced the gallows for both defeat and surrender, and only victory offered a glimmer of hope. Naturally, they were more motivated to improve their tactics.

Rhodes Island, "Crew complete, ready for takeoff!" On the runway, a streamlined aircraft was ready. "Whoosh!"

The engine ignited, and the powerful jet rockets propelled the aircraft along the runway, rapidly accelerating to takeoff speed and pulling it up.

"Air traffic control lifted, all crews disperse..." After jettisoning their booster rockets, the small drones unfolded their gliders and sped toward the battlefield. They were then subjected to intense anti-aircraft attacks. The ratio of ranged operators to melee operators on the front lines had now reached an astonishing 9:1. Most people were extremely nervous about the unidentified flying objects—even a monkey would learn its lesson after being blown up eight times.

"Release the attack group!" The powerful missiles attached to the drone detached, switching to high-speed gliding mode. At the same time, the drone's engine started, switching from inertial gliding to active power module, raising its altitude and letting the anti-air crossbow bolts and spell jets pass by.

"Locked on!" The fire control operator, enduring the dizziness and significant delay caused by the high-speed spin, focused his view as much as possible on a narrow window of an air raid shelter tower. "Disengage!"

One of the out-of-control strike missiles was hit and destroyed by a lucky crossbow bolt, while the other, having gone out of control too early, and affected by the blast wave from the previous one, struck the tower wall without achieving anything.

The remaining two drones accurately hit their targets. Unlike Victoria's style of maximizing attack power to inflict damage on warships and armored units, Xia Lin's assault drones chose a route of precision and high-speed penetration.

The payload capacity was very small, but the explosive power of 43g of metallic hydrogen was enough to detonate the ammunition and other flammable and explosive materials piled up inside the tower.

One tower was completely destroyed, while the other was in much better condition, though thick smoke was billowing out. "Attack complete, move out of the combat zone and await damage assessment!"

The Predator drone had shed all its load and nimbly continued to raise its altitude, returning almost touching the lower layer of the dense cloud of Originium particles.

Compared to hummingbirds, which can stay airborne for extended periods, the Predator drone's mission is to enter at high speed, eliminate targets with high precision, and then return quickly. Therefore, it becomes useless once it has fired all four of its onboard sight missiles.

"Post-strike assessment: one air defense tower was completely disabled, and another was moderately damaged. Preliminary assessment indicates that it will be repaired before the attack is launched."

"Tsk, the power is still a bit low..." With a load redundancy of less than 50 grams, even using expensive metallic hydrogen explosives was not very effective.

However, if the amount of propellant is increased, the fire control operator will no longer be able to control such a heavy and high-speed object with accuracy.

Moreover, it is difficult for assault drones to guarantee that they can glide at a safe altitude for a sufficient amount of time.

Increasing the load in one place means that all subsystems of the entire system need to increase their load, which is similar to adding more water to flour and more flour to water. In the end, it is still not as effective as a real missile.

"It's gotten this big, could all those guys be dead?" The doctor frowned. Logically speaking, those self-proclaimed gods should be jumping out one after another. Of course, this kind of homemade product is not as good as a professional ancient Terra war machine.

They didn't rule Terra in the past because they didn't have enough industrial power and were not united. Some wanted to save the world, some wanted to settle down, some wanted to live out their remaining years in peace, and some wanted to go crazy one last time.

Furthermore, under those environmental conditions, it was extremely difficult to turn these technologies into tangible products.

However, the conditions are now basically in place. To be honest, those old guys should have jumped out one after another, regardless of their motives; it shouldn't be this...calm.

“Of course! Those guys from Da Yan have long since given up. They’re like people who were bitten once and are now afraid of ropes for ten years. How could they possibly stir up this mess? I’m telling you, Xiao Xixi, when are you going to give up your dream and come help me?” Master Nian seemed to be talking to someone far away.

"Ah, it's such a waste to use that power of yours for offering solace at the end of your life, you are..."

"Alright, alright, I won't say anymore. How's the situation on the Great Yan side?" Master Nian asked casually.

"What else can happen? Nobles, Qi Wan, commanders, grand secretaries, gentry, they're all fighting fiercely..." Xi said calmly.

That's the situation in the Great Yan Dynasty. The emperor was the most powerful gentry in the land and the head of the gentry group, but he wasn't the representative of the gentry class, which might be hard to understand.

In fact, just as the state is not a personified entity, so too is the relationship between the emperor and the gentry class.

He was the most powerful gentry in the country, so in a one-on-one situation, ordinary gentry could not stand up to the royal family; they had to unite.

Conversely, as a member of the gentry class, he mostly sided with the gentry and did not excessively harm the interests of that class.

However, no matter what, the emperor is not the state, nor the embodiment of the state or a certain class. He is an individual, and being an individual means that he is capable of betraying the group to which he belongs. This is not out of any lofty ideals or anything, but based on the basic instinct of fellow gentry and landlords—the large landowners' devouring and suppression of the small landowners.

Therefore, even if he was the biggest landlord in the world, he was still a landlord. Precisely because he was a big landlord, he would inevitably have conflicts of interest with most landlords and gentry.

Compared to a "big landowner" like him, "small landowners" had to recruit more stakeholders to oppose him and prevent their land from being taken away. They were essentially natural adversaries.

For ordinary gentry and landlords, the feudal bureaucrats were their representatives, used to bargain with the imperial court, the largest landlord. The feudal bureaucrats and the gentry and landlords were not a single group, but two, and they were in a cooperative relationship.

As for what ordinary people are? They are the "price" they haggle over.

"That serious? I don't remember it being this serious before."