#591 - Discover the Secret Realm, Harvest: Gauss Weapons

Zhang Zhi pondered for a while, but the exploration team had only just left the plaza and already encountered an attack. It seemed that the areas explored by that professor back then were now likely filled with various robots again.

Needless to say, there should be a fully automated factory still operating within this secret realm.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for so many robots to appear.

This secret realm seems to be a military base, no doubt about it.

This is both good and bad news.

The good news is that as a military base, it must have a large number of offensive weapons and even complete sets of equipment, such as fully automated factories for manufacturing robots. There must be many such facilities within this secret realm.

The bad news is that if this is really a military base, then there must be very few research institutions, or rather, there is basically no theoretical data here, mostly just finished products.

In that case, if the Refining Qi Small World wants to acquire those powerful offensive technologies, it can only start reverse engineering from the finished products bit by bit.

This would take much longer than directly obtaining the technological data.

However, reverse engineering is not without its benefits. At the very least, the research system within the Refining Qi Small World needs to fully understand the technology before it can be successfully reverse engineered.

In addition, if this is really a military base, then the difficulty of this exploration may be much higher than previously estimated.

Zhang Zhi sighed softly and prepared himself for a fruitless exploration. He thought that if it didn't work once, he would just come back a few more times.

This time, he would treat it as accumulating experience. Also...

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhi's gaze shifted to the destroyed robot, thinking that at the very least, even if these war robots were destroyed, they would still be of considerable reference value to the people within the Refining Qi Small World.

At this moment, another explosion roared from a certain place. It seemed that another exploration team had been attacked.

Zhang Zhi glanced in that direction expressionlessly, then asked the deity who was flying over with the destroyed robot: "What are the attack methods of this robot?"

The deity bowed slightly and said, "Your Honor, this puppet has eight arms and eight legs."

"Among the eight arms, four can shoot out a kind of light that can pose a certain threat to cultivators in the Transformation Realm."

"The other four arms, two of them can fire iron pellets that are about the size of rice grains but can penetrate green-level protective gear."

"Although the power of these iron pellets is not great, they are extremely fast, and beings below the Divine Illumination Realm can hardly dodge them."

"If a Transformation Realm cultivator gets hit, unless they are a body cultivator, they will definitely be seriously injured."

"If it weren't for the somewhat long attack interval of this weapon and the small size and limited power of the pellets, I think this would definitely be a very powerful weapon."

"If the pellets were larger, I think even Legendary Realm cultivators might not be able to withstand it."

Zhang Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly upon hearing this. From the description just now, this weapon sounded a lot like a Gauss weapon.

The only problem with Gauss weapons is their high energy consumption. He glanced at the robot's size, thinking that this race hadn't made much progress in energy technology? So a robot of this size couldn't accommodate a very advanced energy system, which is why the rate of fire of the Gauss weapon was so slow?

Just as Zhang Zhi was wondering what kind of weapon this iron pellet launcher was, the deity continued, "The last two arms can shoot out something about an inch in size that explodes upon contact with anything."

"After that thing explodes, the power in the central area can pose a certain threat to cultivators in the Transformation Realm, and the affected area is about forty zhang in radius. The roars just now were the sounds made when this thing attacked."

"In addition, although the outer shell of this robot doesn't have any extraordinary power, its defensive strength exceeds that of ordinary green-level armor."

"This puppet is very effective against low-level cultivators. It's the first time I've seen something without any extraordinary energy that can possess such great power. If there could be more of these things, they would definitely be a powerful weapon for combat."

"The appearance of this puppet in this area without extraordinary laws and extraordinary energy is indeed a powerful weapon for guarding the secret realm."

This deity was from the Spirit Treasure Small World and only had some understanding of technological things after the people of the two worlds began to learn about them, so naturally, he didn't have the concept of bombs and shells.

So the description just now was a bit strange.

Zhang Zhi frowned slightly upon hearing this.

The affected area of the explosion is forty zhang in radius? That's about a twenty-zhang radius. The power seems to be about the same as the kill radius of a 125-caliber truth from his previous life.

A shell about an inch, or about three centimeters, in size can have such great power, which sounds pretty good, but this is a race that controls space technology.

The power, or rather the technological content, of their bombs seems very mismatched for a race that can control space technology.

Moreover, not only the power of the shell explosion, but if the weapon on this robot is really a Gauss weapon, then their energy system is too weak.

The technological level displayed by this robot is definitely not like that of a race that controls space technology.

Zhang Zhi walked over and fiddled with the destroyed robot, pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at the locations where explosions were still coming from.

Outside the plaza were buildings dozens of meters high made of some special material. From the plaza, he couldn't see the situation on the side of the exploration team that was attacked.

His gaze swept over those buildings, and a thought flashed through Zhang Zhi's mind. Then he shook his head with a chuckle, thinking that he had been thinking too much just now.

In his previous life on Earth, the weapons that humans controlled were also quite powerful. Have you ever seen a police officer use an RPG or drive an armored vehicle when catching a thief?

This is the inside of that race's own base. Who would use those high-powered weapons in their own home?

Otherwise, if enemies invaded, the number of people accidentally injured by their own weapons might exceed the casualties caused by the enemy invasion.

The weapons carried by these robots should just be the police equipment carried by security guards and auxiliary police in his previous life.

Otherwise, a race that has already mastered space technology wouldn't even have mastered micro-nuclear energy technology.

However, Zhang Zhi looked into the distance again. If he followed the logic of general situations, if there were problems that security guards and auxiliary police couldn't solve, then regular teams might be dispatched.

This is close to the plaza where the portal is located. If everything within this secret realm is still operating normally, destroying a few robots on his side should have activated the defense system within the secret realm. It shouldn't be long before he can verify whether there are more powerful robots within this secret realm.

It was a bit of a pity that when that professor explored, he only mentioned these robots slightly and didn't give too detailed an explanation. Otherwise, Zhang Zhi wouldn't have to guess here.

Perhaps that half-step God Lord Realm professor thought that these things that could only cause damage to beings below the Transcendent Realm were not worth his time to study?

While Zhang Zhi was pondering the situation within this secret realm, several more places echoed with violent explosions.

Zhang Zhi nodded slightly to the deity beside him, signaling him to attend to his own affairs. He circled the robot a few times, pondered slightly, then with a slight thought, hundreds of specially dressed dependents appeared beside him.

After those people were summoned, they saluted Zhang Zhi, then all stared at the destroyed robot in front of them with shining eyes. Then, a group of people gathered together and began to whisper, and some even started to work directly.

These people were the main researchers of all mecha-related projects within the small world.

After Zhang Zhi summoned them, he gave them some jade pendants, so they could record the research process, discoveries, and results of these robots during this period, so he could take them to the small world, so their main bodies could enter the state faster.

As time went by, more and more teams encountered attacks.

Since the dependents summoned so far were basically all ordinary Realm cultivators, and their equipment also had a generation gap compared to those robots, only two hours had passed, and the number of casualties had already approached one thousand.

This was still due to the fact that more than ten Divine Illumination Realm beings had been helping all along. Otherwise, the casualties of the exploration team would probably have exceeded 10%.

During this period, all the destroyed robots were transported to the plaza where the portal was located, according to Zhang Zhi's instructions.

More than forty robots had piled up on the plaza.

However, all the robots that had appeared so far were of the same model.

These robots of the same model also proved from the side that there should be one or more robot production factories or workshop-like equipment still operating within this secret realm.

Just as Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan were looking with great interest at the dozens of researchers disassembling the robot wreckage over there, a dense and extremely loud roar suddenly came from the distance.

Immediately afterward, Zhang Zhi noticed that as many as dozens of dependents were killed at the same time.

This should be that an exploration team was completely annihilated.

Liu Wanwan also noticed that many of the dependents she had summoned had been killed in a short period of time. After exchanging a glance with Zhang Zhi, she turned her head to look in the direction of the roar.

About four kilometers away from the edge of the plaza, a large area of fire appeared.

Looking at the fire, Zhang Zhi thought that a new type of robot had appeared?

Soon, the roar disappeared, and then a Divine Illumination Realm being flew over with a robot that was completely different from before.

This robot was still eight-legged and eight-armed, but it was much larger, about twenty zhang in height.

According to the Divine Illumination Realm cultivator, all eight arms of this robot were used to launch shells, but the types of shells launched were somewhat different. There were conventional shells, incendiary bombs, armor-piercing shells, fragmentation shells, and even poison gas bombs.

Moreover, the power of the conventional shells launched was about five times greater than before, which could already pose a certain threat to cultivators in the Transformation Realm.

After this shell-type robot appeared, other models of robots continued to appear one after another.

The appearance of these new models of robots immediately brought huge casualties to the exploration team.

The official summoned by Zhang Zhi to be responsible for exploration affairs noticed that the situation was not right, immediately changed his strategy, began to gather all the exploration teams to set up defenses, and at the same time asked His Honor for more powerful equipment support.

Zhang Zhi understood that the powerful equipment support they were referring to was naturally the Spiritual Qi Annihilation Cannon.

With the Spiritual Qi Annihilation Cannon, one shot would turn the incoming robots into ashes.

But correspondingly, it would definitely cause a lot of damage to the surrounding buildings. If this base was really still operating, such great destruction would definitely raise the threat level of these people by several levels, and the robots that came would probably be even more than they could cope with.

Therefore, after weighing it for a while, Zhang Zhi rejected their request for the Spiritual Qi Annihilation Cannon, but consumed Boundary Force to summon more dependents.

At the same time, Zhang Zhi's current requirement for them also became to form a line of defense to block the robot's attack, and at the same time, search the buildings within the safe area.

The reason for this was that Zhang Zhi was now listening to the content of the researchers' exchange and found that this secret realm exploration seemed to have good gains.

His established goal was likely to be achieved!

This time's harvest was that Gauss weapon.

Gauss weapons require a powerful and stable energy supply, and at the same time have extremely high requirements for the material of the gun barrel.

For technological paths, if the technological level is not reached, it is indeed a big problem.

But there is no problem at all for Refining Qi Small World.

There is currently a Spiritual Qi Extinction Engine in Refining Qi Small World. The main direction of these scientific research bosses is mechs, and they also have a certain research on the supporting weapons and energy systems of mechs.

After those researchers determined the location of the robot's control center, Zhang Zhi told the gods who were taking the battle to destroy only the other control center as much as possible.

Therefore, only the control system was destroyed on the robots that were destroyed later, and the Gauss weapons on them were not destroyed and could still operate.

With the development and popularization of electricity in Refining Qi Small World, knowledge and technology in the field of electromagnetism have already accumulated to a certain extent.

After the researchers initially studied the operating system of those Gauss weapons, they found that according to the current situation in Refining Qi Small World, it seemed possible to replicate this powerful weapon.