Lou Gao's affairs were settled, and Quan Yi then went to the First Blacksmith Shop.
Unlike Lou Gao, the First Blacksmith Shop bore another important task.
That was weapons research and development.
Within this year, Quan Yi and Blacksmith Yuan had developed firearms to match the Smokeless Gunpowder.
Ever since Quan Yi changed the bullets to fixed cartridges with metal casings.
The research and development of firearms completely broke away from the Firearm of the Black Powder era.
In order to maximize the performance of the Smokeless Gunpowder metal-cased cartridges, Quan Yi and Blacksmith Yuan jointly developed a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.
And today was the day to officially test its power.
It was built before Quan Yi went to the Star Dou Great Forest, but due to its powerful performance, the existing shooting range could not fully test its data.
For this reason, Quan Yi decisively built a dedicated shooting range.
Quan Yi arrived at the Research Institute, walked into the room, and found it empty.
Quan Yi was not surprised, he quickly walked to a corner of the room.
There was nothing in the corner of the room, but Quan Yi pressed a part of the wall next to it with his hand, and the smooth surface recessed with his pressure.
"Click!"
The sound of mechanical rotation sounded, and the ground in front of Quan Yi slowly rose, revealing stairs extending downward.
Quan Yi slowly walked down the stairs, and as Quan Yi went deeper, the wide-open entrance slowly closed.
After the entrance closed, the end of the dim passage emitted a faint soft light, so that people would not be unable to see the situation under their feet.
The stairs dropped straight down, descending about four or five floors, and Quan Yi walked into an extremely empty underground space.
The underground space was about two thousand meters long and wide, and six meters high, and all six sides were covered with hard granite.
Various lamp-shaped Soul Guidance Devices were inlaid everywhere on the walls, providing light for the dim underground space.
Under the light, Quan Yi could see that the underground space was divided into shooting lanes.
Quan Yi's side was the shooting position, and the opposite side was the location of the shooting target.
However, the shortest distance to the target here was more than three hundred meters.
The farthest was placed close to the opposite wall, which was two thousand meters away.
Just as Quan Yi was admiring the newly built underground shooting range, Blacksmith Yuan, who was arranging something in the distance, noticed Quan Yi's arrival.
He stood in the middle shooting position and waved to Quan Yi, "Young Master!"
Quan Yi walked to Blacksmith Yuan's side and said, "Why are you here alone?"
Blacksmith Yuan touched the huge barrel placed on the shooting table and said, "I'm not very relieved to put this thing here, so I come to see it every day these days."
Quan Yi's gaze followed Blacksmith Yuan's and moved to the shooting table, where a strangely shaped Firearm stood on the shooting table.
It was composed of a gun body and a triangular bracket, so it could stand on a flat surface without anyone holding the gun.
What was even more peculiar was that a belt of metal-cased bullets was connected to one side of the gun body.
Quan Yi's eyes were full of heat as he looked at it, and its name in his previous life flashed in his mind.
Maxim Heavy Machine Gun.
Quan Yi smiled and said, "I want to test its power now."
Blacksmith Yuan replied, "I have been preparing these days, Young Master can test its power at any time."
Blacksmith Yuan stepped aside to make way for Quan Yi.
Quan Yi turned sideways and grasped the handle behind the gun body.
The cold metallic texture from the palm of his hand did not extinguish the heat in Quan Yi's heart at all.
Quan Yi straightened the gun body and looked forward, and saw a thick steel plate placed one thousand meters away in this passage.
Moreover, this was just the first one, and behind it, several steel plates of equal distance were neatly stacked.
Quan Yi's eyes were fixed ahead as he decisively fired the first bullet.
"Pa pa pa pa pa..."
In just an instant, brilliant flames erupted from the cold barrel, and countless bullets rained down, rapidly striking the steel plate a kilometer away.
"Clang clang clang clang..."
In an instant, the five-centimeter-thick giant steel plate was riddled with holes by Quan Yi's heavy machine gun.
"Bang!"
In less than thirty seconds, the foremost steel plate collapsed with a crash, and the second steel plate behind it began to bear the brunt of the heavy machine gun's attack.
The dense smell of Gunpowder, the sound of bullets impacting the steel plate, and the clatter of falling shell casings together formed a tragic symphony of death.
Such sounds, if made above ground, would definitely be noticed by those nearby.
No wonder Quan Yi built the shooting range deep underground.
The loud noise and bright light lasted for a very short time. After a minute, the gun stopped firing.
The hundreds of bullets loaded on the ammunition belt were used up in a short minute.
Quan Yi looked at the two steel plates pierced by the machine gun and shouted, "Awesome! Blacksmith Yuan, we succeeded!"
Blacksmith Yuan, on the other hand, was completely stunned, staring blankly at the terrifying scene before him.
Although, as the forger, Blacksmith Yuan knew its power best, this knowledge was only theoretical.
Today, after witnessing its true power with his own eyes, Blacksmith Yuan was also very excited.
"Young Master, we succeeded."
Quan Yi was still not satisfied and said to Blacksmith Yuan, "Are there any more bullets?"
Blacksmith Yuan opened the ammunition box next to him, personally carried it to the side, and reloaded Quan Yi.
Quan Yi gripped the gun handle again and fired forward.
"Ta ta ta ta..."
The line of bullets, under Quan Yi's control, carved a circle on the third steel plate.
A minute later, the new ammunition belt was exhausted.
Blacksmith Yuan immediately took out a new ammunition belt, seamlessly loaded it for Quan Yi, and Quan Yi continued to shoot at the steel plate.
After the third ammunition belt was used up, an ear-piercing Steam sound came from the cold barrel.
White Steam emanated from the channel on the side of the barrel.
This was a cold water pipe designed to cool the heated barrel.
Therefore, its barrel was also thicker than other barrels.
Quan Yi vented to his heart's content. Five ammunition belts, more than a thousand bullets, were vented on the steel plate in just a few minutes.
When the water inside the barrel was completely evaporated and all the prepared bullets were used up, Quan Yi finally let go of his hands with lingering satisfaction.
He laughed loudly, "Blacksmith Yuan, with it, our Quan Family will have the power to change the entire continent."
Blacksmith Yuan looked at Quan Yi with a fiery gaze and said, "Yes, Young Master, with it, no matter if we face thousands of Soul Masters, we can subdue them with bullets."
A scene flashed through his mind: on an open battlefield, enemies came with tens of thousands of soldiers.
And on their side, they only needed to build a line of defense and place a dozen machine guns carrying countless bullets.
A dozen minutes later, countless steel bullets pierced through the bodies of tens of thousands of people, leaving countless pools of bright red blood on the ground.
Such a terrifying weapon made Blacksmith Yuan feel a chill in his heart.
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