I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Traveling to distant unknown areas is a very risky act, because if they cannot gain a foothold there, it will be extremely difficult for them to retreat. The only way out is to fail the mission and withdraw from this world.

Even if you are surrounded, it is not easy to find a safe place to evacuate.

Even if you successfully evacuate, you will have to start all over again next time because the location you enter this world from is random each time.

So whether to continue exploring here step by step or to venture out, she needs to think carefully before making this decision.

Betty expressed her idea and wanted to hear everyone's opinions.

Nia whispered, "Perhaps we can modify this train?"

"Ok?"

"If we advance step by step, it will not be possible for a few small teams like us. It will require a large force to advance over a period of years."

"So we either stop here, or we can only find a way to directly cross these secondary areas and directly break into the opponent's important facilities area. After all, whether it is the agricultural area or other areas, the pressure we face is roughly the same."

What Nia said made a lot of sense. The division of areas was only for intelligent races. Monsters would not consider this, so it would be better to choose more important areas as targets.

And to put it more darkly, areas such as agricultural and industrial areas are likely to be densely populated areas, and the more important a place is, the fewer people there are.

However, it is definitely not an easy task to pass through these areas directly, which is why Nia wants to transform the train.

Armored train? This is their traditional art~

Nia's idea was voted through by everyone, and the next issue was to divide the work and modify the train in front of them.

The equipment they have now can do a certain degree of cutting and welding, but not more, so there isn't much room for tinkering.

After allocating a small team to clean up and guard, the remaining people focused their attention on modifying the front of the car. They wanted to embed an armored ram into the outside of the car to wrap the front of the car.

The magicians in the team used fire magic to completely dismantle the side panels of other abandoned train carriages, re-welded the outside of the first three sections of the carriages to use as armor plates, opened suitable shooting holes inside and completely moved the on-board machine gun system in.

The most complete feature of the two simplified anti-aircraft vehicles is the on-board parallel MG34 and its automatic loading system, which can automatically complete the replacement and loading of ammunition. Soldiers only need to hang a new magazine box on its external hinged chain.

When manpower is tight, the automatic loading system on the winch can maintain full output for about 34 minutes even if the MG5 is firing at full power. If it is not so tight and rotation shooting is used, this time can be extended to 15 minutes.

The limitation here is the overheating of the barrel rather than the lack of supply from the loader. Alternating shooting can give the barrel sufficient cooling, so the duration can be extended.

But it doesn't matter. In fact, if it were the previous situation, these two parallel machine gun systems would have basically been abandoned. As long as they went a little deeper, they would not be able to continue to supply this big eater.

The two parallel machine guns consume thousands of rounds of ammunition per minute. Who would dare to use them without a fixed ammunition supply?

That is to say, they can continue to serve only after the decision is made to use armored trains. They are definitely powerful weapons installed on armored trains.

While the team was busy refitting the train, the external cleanup exploration team cleared the entire building by tapping and attracting, and brought back a stack of storage cards and several recorded surveillance videos from a room similar to a monitoring room.

'This is what we found when we checked in the monitoring room. We recorded in detail the source of the disaster at that time...'

The video shows a busy scene. The spacious hall is full of stalls selling various things. Besides the buyers who are looking around, there are soldiers patrolling in exoskeleton-like uniforms.

Most of the passengers who got off the trains after they stopped were holding various types of guns. It was obvious that the main function of this area was to carry out buying and selling transactions not long ago.

At the soldier's reminder, everyone clearly saw that an area in the hall that looked like an air-conditioning outlet suddenly spewed out light purple smoke. People who were touched by it fell to the ground instantly and began to mutate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this time, the people in the video had already reacted. No matter they were pedestrians or guards, they opened fire at the fallen person without any hesitation and retreated quickly.

But as the smoke got closer, more and more people fell to the ground. One soldier was unable to dodge and just as he raised his weapon to his temple to commit suicide, he fell to the ground and began to mutate.

In a short while, all that was left in the camera was a bunch of monsters crawling up and flying around.

Did they also encounter a virus similar to the red fog?

Betty pointed to the upper right corner: "Wait! That guy seems okay?"

The video was replayed, and in the corner of the camera, a man's upper body fell in front of the camera. When the bodies of the people around him quickly transformed into monsters and attacked the surroundings, the man climbed up again and disappeared from the camera.

'It's a bit strange, the monsters don't seem to attack him?'

'Immune to the virus? His eyes seem to have turned white, like those monsters.'

To be honest, it would have been fine if we hadn't watched the video. After watching it, everyone had more doubts. They had guessed the suspected source of infection of the red fog a long time ago, so they were not surprised.

But the way these guards and citizens handled it later clearly showed that they knew about this thing, so why did they make such a serious mistake? Neither the guards nor the citizens prepared emergency filters and respirators.

This thing can even be made at home. There is no possibility that there is no one in a large group of people who don't have it. No matter how expensive it is, there will be a few people who can make it, right? Unless the way it is infected is not by inhalation, but by contact?

If this is the case, then security checks and the defense of fresh air systems in various locations must be extremely important, and there is no possibility of dereliction of duty. No one would joke about their own life when it could be fatal at any moment.

How did this get in? An insider? What about the immune person?

The same touch caused completely opposite results. This purple mist was very strange.

There are too many questions to sort out at the moment, but one thing is known for now, that is, it is best for them not to let their bodies come into contact with the external environment of this world. With the conversion efficiency of that thing, it can be said that if it touches you, you will die, and there will be no room for resistance.

This thing itself is countless times more terrifying than the monster it transforms into.

Chapter 378 'A Monster'

With the cooperation of everyone, an armored train with three carriages and two locomotives gradually took shape.

Although there are only three carriages, this underground transportation line in this society is obviously one of their main means of transportation. The overall height of the carriage is more than seven meters, divided into upper and lower floors, and the width is about four meters. This type of train itself has certain potential for war transformation.

Maybe there really is an armored train, but they just haven't encountered it yet.

As the train officially started with a dull vibration and roar, they also embarked on a new journey.

No monsters were encountered in the tunnel, and the occasional three or two that appeared were easily crushed to death. But as the train entered the planting area and saw the densely packed closed factory buildings, more and more wandering monsters rushed towards the train like a tide.

The power output of the rear propulsion locomotive was increased to the maximum, and the entire armored train began to accelerate rapidly. Like a hedgehog, the densely distributed shooting points around it madly fired at the monsters along the way. The conical ramming cones in the front squeezed the monsters blocking the track into meat paste to open up the way forward.

Just as Nia guessed, the number of monsters in this area is countless. If they want to gain a foothold here, they will probably not have much supplies left after the situation stabilizes.

And perhaps because the concentration of monsters here has exceeded the carrying capacity, a large number of monsters have merged into three or even five huge strange species that appear from time to time and cause them some trouble.

Even though Betty had a strong mental state, she was still disgusted by the five-headed monster's weird appearance.

Regardless of whether this monster has three or five heads, the head organ has basically degenerated, like a bouncy tumor swinging on the top.

The white pupils appear densely on the monster's body, and the constant opening and closing of the multiple pupils is enough to cause trypophobia in many people.

However, with the powerful power of the train's double locomotives, it only entangled with the opponent briefly before breaking out of the encirclement of the monster army.

Sitting back on the train, the assault gunner in the squad suddenly spoke in a deep voice, with a hint of determination in his tone: "Without artillery, those heavy firepower will be troublesome. A 75mm cannon can destroy those guys."

In the past, they were always chasing others, not the experience of being chased left and right like they are now. Even if the opponent wants to surround them with a large number of people, the comrades in the air will soon be blown away.

"What you said, wouldn't it be better to give you a tank? The ground is full of explosions." The deputy captain shook his head. It was obvious that he was spoiled by the military and he only thought of artillery support when he saw everything.

Betty curled her lips and did not participate in the discussion. Instead, she silently checked the status of her equipment.

Their outer mechas are all standard equipment, but they have different levels of logos in conspicuous positions to prove their identity. This is also a compromise for mass production.

The standard configuration is a PKDM machine gun, 4 various throwing weapons with a 4x18 capacity on both sides, a close combat alloy sword for self-defense, and an extra-large capacity tactical backpack with a soft ammunition chain bridged on the back.

There are many differences between the standard weapons of different arms. The positioning of the PKDM machine gun is like the assault rifle in the hands of traditional infantry, which is a standard configuration for the grassroots level.

Depending on the mission and team preferences, there is still room for modification in the optional equipment, such as adding recoilless guns, Vulcan cannons, rocket launchers, etc.

Later I discovered that these optional weapons would sometimes have side effects if they were actually equipped. The recoil and weight were too great, and the targets were very obvious, so they were only fun when you were bullying weak opponents.

Basically, few teams will modify it. At most, they will install a set of disposable rocket launch nests as covering fire. The main battlefield fire support is still completed by other arms.

This time, when they were performing the mission, most of the team members chose to use shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, so their instantaneous firepower burst was actually not weak.

But, not many people are willing to use it now.

After all, it feels great when you ejaculate, but the time to reload will make you cry and lose your mind.

As they entered the industrial area, the speed of the train suddenly began to slow down. Betty noticed something unusual and walked into the cab, where she found that several experts were already gathered around the large holographic screen, examining it attentively.

'The power supply to the track has been cut off, and the train is now sliding without power due to inertia.'

“Can you check where the problem is?”

'No, I think it's likely that the energy in this area has been exhausted or destroyed.'

Betty shrugged. "Well, it looks like our ride has come to an end."

Press the headset: "Everyone get ready and get off the bus!"

Nia controlled the remaining aliens to rush out and explore the way, while the members of the three teams were scattered in this area and advanced together. When faced with a large number of monsters surrounding them, such a position could give the team a great deal of room for error to deal with emergencies, so as not to end up in a dead end with enemies attacking from both sides after a one-way breakthrough.

But they were prepared to deal with cluster attacks, but no monster appeared in this industrial area and the whole space was eerily silent.

"Crunch, crunch..."

Betty tore off a handful of unknown objects covering the ground: "What is this? It looks like organic matter?"

The thing in her hand was a soft mass that looked a bit like stranded black and purple jellyfish covering the entire surface.

Inorganic substances are mainly composed of metal, non-metal and semi-metal elements, which have relatively simple structures and are usually connected by ionic bonds or covalent bonds.

In contrast, the structure of organic matter is more complex, relying mainly on covalent bonds between carbon atoms to build long chains or ring structures.

In layman's terms, organic compounds refer to the so-called "living substances" that are closely related to life and are obtained from animals and plants.

Everyone was walking on the ground covered with unknown objects and looking around vigilantly. The organic matter covering the surface flickered with a faint light as they walked.

"Whoosh...Bang!"

A dull thud sounded from behind everyone. Turning around, they saw a thick purple-black tentacle with a diameter of 3.4 meters and a length of more than 10 meters slamming heavily on the ground. A long strip mark of more than half a meter appeared in its place, which made everyone's eyelids twitch.

Not far from the tentacle, Nia fell to the ground in a mess. It was obvious that the tentacle was heading towards her, but Nia successfully dodged it at the last moment.

"Shit! There's something wrong with these things on the ground! Use napalm to burn them! The rest of you can fire freely."

The tentacles that fell to the ground were immediately surrounded by dense metal bullets and were smashed into pieces in a short while. However, these pieces quickly dissolved into the ground and were absorbed by other black carpets around them.

Perhaps it was because of the attack by Betty and others, or perhaps it felt that it had been exposed, the surrounding black carpet suddenly arched up to a certain arc, and thick tentacles formed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Everyone's faces turned green. They were just wondering why there were no monsters. Now it seemed that there might be only one monster in the entire industrial zone, and that was itself.

Chapter 379 Electromagnetic Weapons

If you could look down from mid-air at this time, you would find that the black carpet within a thousand meters radius is making the same movements. The ups and downs of the rhythm can be seen everywhere, as if it is breathing, which is enough to drive people with trypophobia crazy.

Who can avoid such a dense attack? If you are hit once, you will be hit into a discus by an infinite series of shots, and you can't even dunk it.

However, the teams reacted quickly. As soon as Betty called, the flamethrowers raised their large flamethrowers and sprayed napalm on the surrounding ground.

The colloidal fluid-like gasoline instantly burned when it came into contact with the air, purifying the surrounding black carpet into pure black slag at an extremely fast speed, and a large area regained its original surface appearance.

The seemingly useless flamethrowers that Medea had assigned to them against all odds turned out to be very effective after they entered the other world.