Arknights, but the family has fallen again

It's the sound of a fishman talking.

Four fishmen were lying at the corner with their big heads that were even a little ugly, holding steel forks.

This group of enemies is a common combination in the Bay Area: Murloc F4.

Although its simple skill set does not have pressure damage, its potential critical strike ability can often send fragile heroes to death with one blow.

Then, when it is the hero's turn to act again, if he has not stopped bleeding or replenished his blood, players will even start praying that the bell of the Death Gate will ring - after all, only by passing the Death Gate can you hear the bell, and if you can't pass it, you will be sent away directly.

"If we heat the air here, the fishy smell will become even more pungent..." Huang muttered, but still swung the heat-driven axe without hesitation.

The liquefied air was captured by the Originium circuits at the axe's face, and Huang's Originium technique effectively drove them. The bursting air currents stirred up a heat wave, pushing the axe blade in the opposite direction to complete the fierce slash.

The fishman that was locked by the big cat tried to raise his harpoon to block in panic.

But it was just a clean break.

Frost Star also tried to dance with the Cold Driving Halberd.

The heating system on a cold-driven halberd wasn't as complex as a heat-driven halberd; for any sorcerer, it was no different from turning a microwave timer. Consequently, when this function was integrated into the small end of a cold-driven weapon, competing for space with the spellcasting unit, it was only passable.

If it weren't for Huang's explosive heat-driven axe slash, Shuangxing might have been surprised. But now, she only felt that the cold-driven halberd's movements were slow and dull, far less crisp and agile than Huang's.

"Yes, yes, one, two, three." W faced the charging fishmen boredly and drove the Originium detonator.

Bang!

Amidst the explosion, she leaned back and looked over at Kal'tsit, who had been slacking off, and asked with familiarity, "Smelly Otter, don't you have any new toys suitable for me?"

Chapter 111: The width of the flattery determines the width of the railroad tracks

After entering the dungeon, in order to better record the map of the bay, Ott's attention shifted from W to Kal'tsit. Just now, when he was acting as a narrator, introducing the background of the bay to the girls, it was through Kal'tsit's body that he narrated.

Perhaps this is why W concluded that Ott was still with Kal'tsit. She didn't have superhuman senses like Blood Demon, so she couldn't be relying on her familiarity with Ott and her intuition, right?

Wouldn't that mean it's completely wasted?

Kelsey simply chided in her usual tone, "W! Stop messing around!"

The Sarkaz girl turned around and took a look at the battle situation.

After she confirmed again and again that all the fishmen had been killed, she shouted in dissatisfaction: "Old woman! You let Ott go aboard! I'm asking him!"

“…He said he was working.”

Ott is indeed working.

"Doctor, are you planning to use this as an explosive?"

Wendy pointed to the square, warning Huang that within the enclosed square was a blast-proof barrel. Inside the barrel was the Cold Drive Axe that Froststar had previously broken.

In fact, there are similar weapons on Terra.

In the early days of Arknights, there was a bombing drone that would occasionally bring little surprises to players during the development phase - the Stormbird (yes, not the pigeon) drone.

It has a variant called the "Illusion Drone". Unlike the Stormbird, which throws conventional warheads to cause group physical damage and accelerates in the air after throwing, the Illusion Drone throws special warheads that have group spell damage and freezing effects.

"Well, with a large number of ice wizards, the production cost of liquid nitrogen will be quite cheap."

Besides temperature, pressure is also a crucial factor influencing gas liquefaction. If pressure is met, temperature can be relaxed. However, in the 21st century, it's impossible to produce liquid nitrogen with a personal handheld device.

It relies on serious industrial equipment.

Soviet astronomer Kardashev once roughly divided cosmic civilizations into three levels based on their energy utilization. Civilizations that fully utilize all the energy of a planet, star, or galaxy are classified as K1, K2, and K3.

The Earth in the 0.7st century is generally considered to be a K civilization.

But Originium is the ultimate creation of a K2 or even K3 level civilization.

With the help of Originium and Originium skills, many things that seem to have no cost-effectiveness or are simply impossible on Earth instantly become useful on Terra.

Wendy wanted to ask where all those ice mages came from, but she wisely suppressed her curiosity.

"Liquid nitrogen?" Wendy asked, "Don't we need to liquefy air?"

Ott said: "In a frontline weapon like the No-Hose Power Axe, sacrificing a certain upper limit in exchange for stability and versatility is very worthwhile."

Wendy asked in return: "Since you are considering the upper limit, why not use liquid hydrogen?"

Ott readily agreed and said, "That's not impossible."

But he is quick to point out: “But it’s cheaper to make liquid nitrogen from air – we can’t afford liquid hydrogen yet.”

There are many things in this world that have endless uses and you don’t need to spend money to buy them just yet.

Just like sunlight and air.

The vast majority of air is nitrogen. Directly liquefying air might be difficult for Earth's sophisticated industrial production, but with Originium as a foundation and sufficient Originium skills, the Terrans have always been unconcerned.

Besides, liquefied hydrogen has other uses...

On the other side, in the bay.

Kal'tsit closed her eyes and pretended to listen. After a while, she said to W, "Ott does have something new for you to test. It's explosive—but it has to wait until we get back."

The Sarkaz girl instantly became full of energy. She raised her fists high, her body surging slightly as she shouted, "Great!"

"Long live the otter!"

At the same time, in the blacksmith shop, a former Rhine Life member who was concentrating on drawing sneezed.

"Ah!"

The simple word "otter" is somewhat ambiguous.

"..." Wendy hesitated and wanted to say something.

"Just say it straight." Otto glanced at her.

"I'm just a bioengineer. I don't know much about what's happening on the front lines, and I haven't passed the physical fitness test yet..." Wendy put on her armor first, then said, "But isn't the Winter Soldier series' designed ammunition load a bit too much?"

Ott's eyes lit up and he said, "Tell me in detail."

Although Kal'tsit and the operators always tend to regard Ott as an omnipotent and omniscient monster, Ott is very self-aware: except for the micro-control that has plug-ins to guarantee a minimum and only small wins and big wins, his other decisions have room for improvement.

Wendy came up to Ott with a piece of paper in hand and explained, "If you use a civilian water pipe as the barrel of the Winter Soldier's gun, then the nitrogen in a liquefied gas backpack is enough to shoot four or five pneumatic guns into oblivion."

Terran people! Show some respect to seamless steel pipes!

This thought flashed through his mind, but Otto still obediently followed Wendy to read the formula.

Finally, he admitted, "It was a bit too much."

On Earth, the development of firearms has greatly increased the intensity of war by greatly reducing it.

Previously, archers, infantry, and cavalry, both expensive to train, were the primary force in warfare. Temporary conscripts were often only able to assist with combat or use their bodies as building materials. Their greatest moments on the battlefield often came when they served as the catalyst for a major rout, allowing the enemy to breach their positions.

But firearms allowed these "civilian laborers" to enter the battlefield after only three days of training. They could even, with a little luck, shoot and kill a well-trained soldier.

The musketeers were far away from the bloody excitement of the front line. Although they were actually more dangerous, the soldiers were also... more difficult to detect danger.

The battlefield was thus transformed from a Shura field filled with years of martial arts to a fight between novices hundreds of meters apart - in front of the battlefield equipped with muskets, soldiers had to hold their lines and fight hand-to-hand with the enemy under a rain of arrows.

After the age of muskets, being able to line up and be shot became a kind of "discipline" worth boasting about.

So they would recruit soldiers for their army according to strict criteria: they would select only the poorest, the most desperate, and those with the least room for improvement, because they had nothing left to lose.

How long does it take for a boy to become a man? How old is it for these men to die for their country? The rulers of that time were indeed too prudish, and they were no different from the executioners.

Under the rule of muskets, the indiscriminate recruitment and rapid training of soldiers gradually reached their limit. The ultimate result was the "miracle" of an average of 2,000 bullets per person being killed on the European battlefields of World War II.

Chapter 112: Bullet Size Determines Gun Caliber

During the weapons testing phase, Ott discovered that he had created a device that could "waste bullets as much as possible"...provide four or five soldiers with enough gas logistics to allow them to each destroy one or two enemies and still have some left over.

But Ott soon realized another use for these liquefied gas backpacks: "Providing them to individual soldiers is a bit excessive, but what if we provide them to a group of soldiers?"

The squad is supplied with liquefied gas.

The Ursus people under his command are gone forever.

Although the Ursus Army had the fantasy of dragging the people into the battlefield and having an army of one million in size (the source comes from the setting collection)... if this fantasy could be realized and used in Terra, then the country that would eventually capture the Central Valley would not be Victoria.

Do the Yankees just naturally enjoy the cold weather? They just enjoy being in a place where their urine turns to ice?

But the question raised by Wendy made Ott realize that the equipment cost of his already low-cost Winter Soldier project could be even lowered - as a soldier, the number of shots and slashes they could complete on the battlefield at a time was extremely limited.

Otto doesn't need to prepare a liquefied gas backpack for every regular soldier. He only needs to prepare one for every ten people.

With such equipment as the starting point, this future winter soldier will thoroughly implement the route of large quantities and sufficient supply... No matter how embarrassed the infected person is, they can pick up a pneumatic weapon worth fifty dollars under the call of "You still have life, don't you?"

In this way, Otto really has the possibility of raising a million combat-capable soldiers on Terra.

If that's the case, then there seems to be no need for the Power Axe to continue exploring the "pipeline" route?

It seems that Otto's early launch of the pipeline-free power axe project has become a far-sightedness?

Oh no, now everything is really going according to plan!

If there is a book, it will be long; if there is no book, it will be short.

With the map completed and the team returning, something unexpected happened during the cleanup: after the team returned to Hamlet, a week passed "instantly".

This "moment" means that everyone in the town spent a whole week from the heroes' departure to their return.

But Ott lived through a "moment" and a "whole week" at the same time.

"Doc Otter? You look so bad? What's wrong?"

After a week of intensive work, Wendy has become much closer to Otto, and she has also started calling Otto by his nickname.

"…I feel like vomiting."

The other operators, including Doberman and the entire engineering department, might have been unaware of anything, but Otto was very sure of what he had just experienced.

The contradiction between a moment and a week made him feel physically nauseous.

Although his body was more spiritual than physical in the border area, Ott still felt spasms.

Hearing the word "vomit", Wendy subconsciously retracted her hand, but looking at Otto's pale face, she resolutely put his arm on her shoulders - she was a mysophobia, and even shook hands with the gloved hand.

"Medical operator!" she blurted out, but hesitated.

No serious milk here.

"I'm... fine." Ott said intermittently: "Give me a glass of water, and then... call Kal'tsit over."

Almost immediately, an engineering officer handed the water to Otto.

"Kelsey?"

Although she didn't quite understand, Wendy still rushed out of the blacksmith shop.

Otto slowly lay down with the help of an orange-colored engineering department operator.

"Doc, why are you suddenly..."

The person who spoke was Mel.

Another "otter".

Considering that the "Otter" in Otto's name is just a nickname, she is actually the real "Otter".

During this "week", she also became familiar with Otto, who "worked with everyone".

"..."

Why is it cold?

I thought the thing Drucker (passerby) was holding every day was a thermos cup...

Ott, and indeed spent a week with them.

"I'm fine, it's not a big problem." Otto shook his head and pressed his abdomen tentatively.

There is no feedback.

Is this discomfort psychogenic, or is it a disorder of brain and nerve activity?