Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 290: Armament of the Metal Colossus
"Weapons... This machine should be equipped with weapons, right? The pilots of the Alpha Civilization can't go into battle unarmed, right?"
Just as Ke Lan was thinking this, a head-up display made of an orange light curtain suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, on which the weapons equipped by this machine were clearly indicated in Alpha text.
“Heavy Armor-Breaking Sword: Sufficient Energy/Spare Energy Crystals: 16 pieces.
Plasma Charge Cannon: Cooldown Complete / Reserve Ammo: Unlimited.
Annihilation Rounds: Not Authorized / Spare Rounds: 1."
Ke Lan reached his hand behind him and just grabbed the hilt of the sword extending from his shoulder - this giant sword with a blade nearly ten meters long had appeared behind the mecha at some point, but Ke Lan had never noticed it before.
"Is this the melee weapon of the Alpha civilization?" Ke Lan quickly took a look at the giant sword in his hand. Although this giant sword was made completely in accordance with the aesthetic style of the Alpha civilization, its general structure was almost the same as the weapon of the same name in the human world that has been passed down from the cold weapon era to the modern era - streamlined sword tip, thick sword spine, blades on both sides... Even the guard and hilt are the same. If it was shrunk several times and thrown into some online games with sword and magic themes, it would not make people feel out of place at all.
The only difference was that a large number of sophisticated crystal structures were embedded in the hilt of the sword. Ke Lan only moved his mind slightly, and these crystal structures were instantly activated. With a "buzz", a layer of colorful light like an energy shield suddenly appeared on the tip and blade of the sword, and the remaining energy of the "Heavy Armor-Piercing Sword" in the heads-up display was rapidly decreasing.
"It should be similar to the principle of the energy shield generator... except that it is constrained into a sword shape through some means, and the power at the tip of the sword should be compressed several times, making it have stronger penetrating power and destructive power..."
Ke Lan tried to swing the giant sword, and immediately left a deep groove on the ground.
As for the feel... he felt like he was cutting butter with a red-hot knife...
In addition to this heavy armor-piercing sword, the Metal Colossus is also equipped with two other long-range weapons - plasma-charged cannons. It is not difficult to understand that humans can already manufacture such weapons with their current technological level. It's just that the Alpha civilization miniaturized these big guys that humans can only install on main battleships and installed them on ten-meter-class mechas.
If humans want to do this, they must solve three problems:
The first is the safety issue, which needs no further explanation. The second is the miniaturization of the energy supply device... If the people in the research institute can get similar equipment and analyze it through reverse engineering, it should be easy to solve... But the third problem is more difficult.
The material problem of the gun barrel.
The barrels of the plasma cannons currently installed on the main battleships are basically disposable consumables. After firing a shot, most of the energy in the barrel is basically evaporated. If it is to be miniaturized, the barrel must not be disposable - the mecha is not a battleship, and does not have that much weight and space to carry a large number of spare barrels.
Although the display screen indicated that the ammunition of the plasma-charged cannon was unlimited, since it was a plasma weapon, it definitely required energy. Ke Lan estimated that this weapon should use the energy of the metal colossus itself, but before the energy of the metal colossus was drained, the life of the cannon barrel would be exhausted first... So the spare ammunition would be displayed as "unlimited"...
"I just don't know where this cannon is..." This thought had just come to mind when a sound of metal parts colliding was heard above the metal giant. A black gun barrel stretched out from where the neck should have been, pointing to the position where Ke Lan's sight was focused.
"The material problem was actually solved like this..." Ke Lan instantly understood how the Alphas solved the material problem of the gun barrel: this gun barrel, which is more than one meter long and has a wall thickness of five centimeters, is actually cast from 100% pure Nino alloy... Such a large amount of Nino alloy is enough to manufacture hundreds of thousands of standard "Type 01" assault rifles... This is indeed a way to solve the problem, but the cost-effectiveness is really too low.
Of course, if humans can crack the formula of Nino alloy, perhaps this problem can be solved.
At this time, an extremely large black beetle quickly circled above the isolated island. After increasing its speed to the limit, it turned around and dived towards Ke Lan. This speed, coupled with the strength of its own shell, was no different from a cannonball that had just been fired. If it was hit, even the main battle tanks currently in service in the human army would definitely not be spared.
Ke Lan was not clear about the defensive capabilities of the Metal Colossus, but no matter what, even if it was for testing, there was no reason for it to take a cannonball head-on.
As soon as he turned his sight, the plasma-charged cannon had already locked onto the beetle. A ball of plasma with a dark blue outer ring and a blazing white inner core dragged out a stream of arc light like a comet's tail, and crashed into it with a huge amount of energy.
"laugh……"
There was no fierce explosion and fire as imagined. The beetle was vaporized the moment it came into contact with the plasma ball. Then, the plasma ball silently melted several beetles on its flight path, drew a bright and beautiful arc in the air, and fell into the distance.
Ke Lan immediately glanced at the barrel of the plasma-charged cannon - it was indeed Nino alloy, only the inner wall of the barrel turned red, and there was no sign of deformation at all.
The data on the head-up display changed from "Cooling down completed" to "Cooling down 2%."
"In one second, the cooling progress is 2%. So, the firing rate of this thing is one shot every fifty seconds..."
This data is similar to that of the plasma cannons on large battleships, but the latter will replace the barrel and charging core every time it shoots. Fifty seconds is only the time required to replace the corresponding parts. In a sense, each gun on the battleship has a lifespan of only one shot, and it cannot be considered a cooling time at all.
At this time, Ke Lan's gaze moved to the third weapon.
"An annihilation bomb... from the literal meaning, it can't be an antimatter weapon?" He muttered quietly, "A big killer weapon similar to the 'death ray'? It's a pity that there is only one round of ammunition... and it shows 'unauthorized'. Could it be that the pilot does not have the permission to use this weapon?"
This made Ke Lan think of the nuclear submarines loaded with nuclear weapons in the Earth's army in the old era. Although the nuclear bomb launch button was right in front of the captain, without permission from his superiors, the nuclear bomb could not be launched even pressed the button.
