Chapter 203 Scientific Research and Floating Rays

While the adventurers were worried about their future and thinking about how they could struggle to save their lives.

Ji Lin was thinking about another problem. They had already established a firm foothold and were going to expand towards the other two mineral veins. The preliminary reconnaissance report of the teams had been put on the table. The remaining two mineral veins on this small sky island were all controlled by elemental creatures.

There were a large number of forest spiders hidden in the forest, and perhaps tree monsters.

Before these threats were eliminated, the rare plant resources on the sky island were obviously not easy to use, and the army could only carry out plant collection.

These rare plants were a considerable fortune, and they could be used as research materials for spells and runes.

One unit of floating plants was sold for up to 40 gold in the market of the first era, and there was no market for them.

This micro floating vein is equivalent to a gold mine that produces 40 gold per day and never runs out, and can produce 1,200 gold per month... No matter from which angle, this is quite profitable.

It is already one-tenth of the capital output of the territory.

When the initial investment is completed and the vein starts to operate, the lord who controls the strategic resources will make a lot of money even if he simply sells the strategic resources to other lords.

The premise can be maintained, and no one wants to hand over this lucrative industry to others.

As for scientific research, this money-eating beast, Ji Lin did not feel it when he was developing technology before, but now that it has been upgraded to the first era, the problem of high technology research and development costs has been forced to be placed in front of him.

Researching rune technology requires spell materials, and researching spell technology requires spell materials-all of which are consumable. Most of the spellcasting materials in the market are like floating, with no market. Technological civilization has its unique advantages in this respect. Its technology is really cheap, and the materials are materials that can be purchased in large quantities in the market, but the price is that the research and development cycle is slightly longer.

Buying is painful. High-sensitivity spellcasting materials are either out of stock or very expensive, close to one unit of gold. The territory cannot support the research of the first-level rune literature purely by buying.

Similarly, the application research of floating requires a lot of floating investment... Technology is built by money, and Ji Lin is deeply and accurately aware of this.

Money! Resources! If you want the engine to run fast, you have to have good fuel.

This unit of floating is definitely not enough for the dean to burn. Just like this, it is estimated that one thousand and two hundred gold will be used for scientific research project investment in a month.

Ji Lin thought about these problems and felt that his hair was about to fall off.

And the local creatures are a little too curious about them.

The slow-moving airship controlled by Ji Lin had not yet flown far from the ground when it was stared at by a slowly flying manta ray in the air. The gray manta ray, the size of a person, curiously hit the iron-clad wooden can.

Although Ji Lin, as a lord, would not die here and would at most be recalled to the territory to be resurrected, it was still not a good feeling to be inexplicably gone.

The system would not help you eliminate the pain.

Ji Lin took out a hand crossbow used on the airship and shot down the thing that looked very much like a manta ray from the air, letting it fall to the ground and struggle.

Then he controlled the airship to land slowly.

Ji Lin learned very quickly.

Or it is hard to say how difficult it is to control a heavy and extremely stable body. All Ji Lin can do is control it to fly slowly in front, behind, left and right. The speed is too slow and the engine output is too small, so Ji Lin can't do anything he wants to do.

The airship will maintain a state of near-hovering when there is no one operating it, and will stay in place when there is no wind.

Its advantage is that it can fly, but the large amount of wood and iron materials used to maintain its structural strength, as well as the airship shape that completely ignores air resistance, make the speed of this airship extremely slow at 3km/h.

You should know that the basic movement speed of infantry is 5km/h.

The movement speed of 3km/h made Ji Lin directly give up the plan of using this airship to go to his island, and it is better to send it back to the academy in the territory for technical research.

This thing is too slow, Ji Lin can't drive it.

He believes that mobility is life, and this kind of thing that can be called a living target... forget it.

And it should be modified to add special shooting holes for musketeers.

Stepping down from the airship, Ji Lin looked at the manta ray that was still jumping and showing its activity on the ground with its face facing up. Its white belly was shaking, which was a bit cute.

[Floating Manta Ray (Small)]

[The 2nd Era]

[Melee Defense/Block]: 50

[Moving Speed]: 30km/h

[Armor Strength]: 30

[Weapon Power (Sharp Teeth and Claws)]: 50

[Features]:

Wind Flow Barrier: Projectiles will be more difficult to hit the floating manta ray because of the wind flow barrier surrounding the floating manta ray, and the projectiles will be subject to a maximum of 50% hit penalty.

Ride the Wind: The floating manta ray does not have a very strong flying ability. It uses the wind flow to spread its soft wings and increase its moving speed by 400%

Hunting Group: The floating manta ray will never swim alone, they always hunt in groups. When the number of floating rays exceeds the number of targets they attack, they gain up to 30% bonus to all attributes, 40% bonus to hit rate, and 15% bonus to dodge.

[Small floating rays active in the Sky Island area, the most numerous predator in the Sky Island world. They have evolved special organs in their bodies that can store floating rays and resonate with floating rays, allowing them to fly freely in the air with the help of air currents. ]

Ji Lin browsed the introduction of the floating ray. The weapon power of 50 points is very high, worthy of the magical creature of the first era, and has exceeded the weapon power of most non-rune cold weapons.

The weapon power of the crossbowman is only 22 points, and the weapon power of the musketeer is only 45 points. The standard weapon power of the infantry of the first era fluctuates around 30 points.

In the early era, the weapon power of melee weapons is generally stronger than that of ranged weapons. The weapon power is calculated based on the value of unit output per minute... The firing rate of muskets and crossbows per minute... is simply terrible.

And melee weapons can continuously output damage to the target as long as they are pulled close to the hand-to-hand combat range.

The time it takes for the crossbow to fire is enough for the sword-wielding infantry to chop you to death several times.

Even in modern times, firearms are only constantly compressing the use space of cold weapons in hand-to-hand combat, and cannot completely replace its existence.

Ji Lin browsed the introduction of floating rays, felt that he had forgotten something, and then read it again.

‘Hunting group: floating rays will never swim alone, they always hunt in groups. ’

Groups...

Ji Lin's eyes fell on a group of floating rays that were constantly approaching him in the distance. They were riding the wind and attacking this small island at a high speed. The roar was transmitted to Ji Lin's ears with the sound of the wind.

Ji Lin turned around and ran away.

Finished.

Floating water is a necessary mineral for their survival. These floating rays need to absorb a small amount of floating water every once in a while to make themselves grow and replenish their consumption. Today is the day they come here to replenish their food.

This is the reason why the explorer team was able to successfully take down the micro-mining site. The local biota here had evacuated and rested in the small forest on the island. In the long struggle, the creatures in this world have evolved a tacit understanding between the populations to a certain extent.

Everyone takes what they need. The floating water produced by these mineral veins is enough for this small island and the nearby biota.

That adventurer team is lucky. They can take down a micro-mining site at a very low cost.

That adventurer team is unfortunate. If Ji Lin hadn't been there, they would have been torn to pieces by the arriving floating rays.

The floating rays, which have some weapon power and a hunting group feature, don't look like vegetarians.

Then Ji Lin came and built his outpost on their feeding path.

Now Ji Lin has to make sure he is not torn to pieces by these angry floating rays.