Alien Knights

Walking into the secret dock built deep underground, Todd looked at the huge monster in front of him, and stood there in surprise, without moving for a long time.

A huge black battleship that was half built was quietly sitting in the center of the underground dock, lying on a wooden ship frame with a height of three floors, almost occupying the entire space of the underground cave.

Compared with the completely experimental heterogeneous warship that participated in the naval battle of Lone Rock City in the past, this huge warship is nearly ten times larger in terms of length and displacement. If you really want to compare, the comparison of the two ships is like putting an apple and a cherry together.

The whole body of this new warship is black, with a faint metallic reflective color. It adopts a spindle-shaped hull structure, completely abandons sails and corner cables, and uses common twin-axis propellers for propellers. The bottom of the ship has a steering function. rudder and ailerons. From the appearance, it is obviously similar to the modern battleship of the previous life, and it is more in line with the design style of fluid mechanics.

Around the battleship, thousands of workers, scholars, and crew members are intensively conducting a series of construction and testing around the battleship.

The sound of knocking and conversation spread throughout the cave. Even though it was late at night, everyone's faces were full of enthusiasm for work, and there was no sign of fatigue or boredom.

"The Holy King is here!"

Accompanied by a loud shout, everyone who was busy with work looked at the visitor at the gate in surprise. After a short period of distraction, everyone quickly dropped their work, knelt on the ground, and walked towards Todd's direction , The praises come and go, endlessly.

"The total length is 107.5 meters, the full load displacement is 2130 tons, the overall width is 9.68 meters, and the draft is 3.81 meters." Facing his brainchild, the excited Wayne walked to the front of the battleship, looked up at the non-stop The squirming parasite limbs proudly said: "The maximum ship speed is 4.1 kilometers per hour, and the standard crew number is 201, including 167 crusaders and 34 humans."

Passing through the staff kneeling on the ground, Todd slowly walked to the pedestal of the battleship, and when he got closer, he felt the hugeness of the battleship and the insignificance of human beings.

Todd looked at the connection between the armor and the armor, the intertwined keel tentacles, and asked, "Is this the module you are talking about?"

Wayne nodded to the assistant behind him, who blew the whistle around his neck.

After a while, the originally tight-fitting battleship armor began to gradually deform. One piece after another, the parasite decks loosened the joints between each other and transformed into independent insect body units.

Watching an orc jump off the hull with a separated keel parasite that looks like a huge iron plate, Wayne said: "Your Majesty, as I introduced before, every host controls A hull module, and the modules are connected by the nervous system of the keel to ensure the smooth transmission of commands from the bridge."

Todd asked: "How many modules are there in the entire warship?"

"The entire battleship is divided into six areas, namely the command area, the power area, the armor area, the cabin area, the weapon area, and the reconnaissance area."

"Among them, the command area has three modules, that is, three pairs of keel parasites, including a main command module and two sub-command modules."

"The power area includes 16 modules, including 6 propeller modules, 6 bearing modules, and 4 linkage modules."

"The armored area refers to the outer armor and inner armor of the hull. The outer armor has 65 modules, and the inner armor has 35 modules."

"The cabin area includes the hull frame and internal nervous system routing, and together there are 32 modules."

"The modules for the weapon area and the reconnaissance area are still being manufactured, and the quantity has yet to be determined."

After listening to Wayne's introduction, Todd asked: "How is the control of the module and the host of the parasite arranged?"

Wayne waved Todd and motioned him to walk up the steps to the hull and take a look.

Todd walked up the stairs and came to the construction site of the hull. Looking in through the unfinished part, the densely packed parasite limbs linked countless keels together. Among them, some keels have been changed into cabins, some have been changed into floors, and some have been changed into lines.

And many keel modules are immersed in a viscous liquid, in the center of them, a host can be vaguely seen sitting or lying inside.

Pointing to the internal structure of the hull, Wayne explained: "The keel limbs of most modules are soaked in a special nutrient solution. During the non-war period, the keel parasites enter a dormant state, and the daily supply of nutrients Consumption can be completely provided by nutrient solution, and the host can temporarily leave the parasite module at this time, and carry out free activities such as eating, sleeping, and entertainment in the hull."

"Once entering the state of war, the host must immediately return to the body of the parasite module, respond to the command from the command module, and enter the activation mode of its own module. The keel parasite will start to extract nutrients from the host body for use in consumption during the war."

Todd thought for a while, and then asked: "If this battleship is put into a state of war, how long can the nutrients in the host body last?"

Wayne rubbed his chin and said while thinking: "This time is not fixed, it will continue to change according to the situation on the battlefield."

"Let me give you an example. For example, if our side needs to engage in close combat with enemy warships, the ship armor will inevitably withstand a lot of artillery fire. Although all armor modules can be continuously repaired through regeneration, this repair requires consumption The host has a lot of nutrients in the body. Intuitively, if you use numbers, assuming that the person controlling the armor module is an orc with a standard physique, then after being hit by uninterrupted artillery fire, the host will appear in the armor module in about two hours The circumstances of the death."

"But if you are attacking the enemy from a long distance, then the module host that controls the weapon system will be the most stressed. If the cannon of the alien destroyer is fired at the maximum power, it will be fired about nine times in a row without considering the rest. Endangering the life of the weapon module host."

"Weapon system? Cannon?" Todd looked around, then suddenly turned to Wayne and asked, "Why didn't I see the weapon of this battleship?"

Wayne nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed towards the cave behind the dock: "The weapon of this battleship is the absolute best secret in the entire study of alien weapons. Its experiment and manufacture are placed in a safer place. And , Its power is also destined to not be placed in this narrow place."

Todd looked towards the cave at the end of the dock with a curious look on his face.

He jumped off the wooden ship frame and said to Wayne, "Come on, take me to see the battleship cannon you are talking about."