Chapter 223 Unfortunately, the dead cannot speak

The Sky Fortress, which hangs over the Dawn City of the Rain Country, is the equipment research and development department second only to the main control room in area.

Figures wearing white coats and goggles trotted by from time to time, and wires as thick as baby arms crisscrossed on the ground.

Many researchers wearing white coats sat on the ground, flipping through the research data and reports piled up beside them. Most of them looked sloppy and had dark circles under their eyes.

In the experimental field in front of them, there was a row of human-shaped targets made of special materials. No metal could be seen in the entire field, and there was nothing that could conduct electricity.

In front of the huge rubber table more than ten meters away from the human-shaped targets, a researcher had a strange device on his arm, which looked like a powerful gun-type ninja tool.

Only a glass curtain wall made of high-strength material separated them. Except for the figure standing in the front with his hands behind his back, everyone else clenched their fists and looked at the field nervously.

"【Thunder Cannon Type I】Project, the 103rd experiment, begins."

With his casual order, the researcher in the field raised his arm and aimed his right eye with a one-way mirror at the eyepiece.

Sizzle! Squeak! !

As the chakra in his body rushed out like a flood, countless invisible "snakes" seemed to appear in the air, and the azure current flowed into the firearm ninja tool with a sizzling sound.

The energy tank on the cannon was quickly filled, but the researcher's face gradually turned pale.

Feeling that the chakra in his body was about to be completely exhausted, the researcher's face suddenly froze, and the lightning flow that had originally gathered in the cannon suddenly stopped.

Boom! !

The chakra that was condensed to the limit flashed out, and the azure lightning ball dragged a beam in the air. The amazing power and lightning speed set off a frenzy, leaving several shocking wounds on the ground, and blasted on the special human-shaped target in the distance.

The dazzling light instantly illuminated the surroundings like a waterfall. The temperature reached nearly 1,000 degrees Celsius in an instant, and the snake-like electric current splashed and danced in the air.

"Cough! Cough cough!"

When the dazzling light faded, the researcher had been knocked over by the reaction force. His right arm, which was equipped with the thunder cannon, was charred black, and he could even faintly smell a strange meaty aroma.

And the human-shaped target he aimed at was left with only black ash scattered on the ground.

"It actually, really, really succeeded?!"

The other researchers all looked at the scene with dull eyes, and soon came back to their senses with excited expressions and laughed loudly: "Hahaha! Good! Good!"

"Are you starting to be complacent now?"

As the understated voice sounded, the originally hot atmosphere suddenly stagnated.

The man wearing square-framed glasses walked into the ground, with his name and position written on the nameplate on his chest.

——Lei Menguang, the general manager of the [Thunder Cannon Type I] project.

Several researchers fell silent, scratching their messy heads and looking over the sound. Some of them greeted with a joking face: "Boss, don't be too serious. At least it was successfully launched."

"Hmph, a bunch of lunatics. If it doesn't succeed, someone will die here."

Lei Menguang snorted coldly, looked at the unlucky guy who no one cared about, and said: "Take him down for treatment quickly!"

"Hehe, Boss Leimen."

The researcher who took the initiative to ask for the experiment without any precautions and enjoyed it was brought to him and laughed: "We are lunatics, and you are the leader of a group of lunatics!"

Lei Menguang glared at him unhappily and waved his hand to signal them to get out quickly.

Looking at the charred ground with residual electric current, he squinted his eyes slightly and murmured in a low voice: "Is this a success or a failure?"

While thinking, a gentle voice with a smile came from behind.

"It's very lively. It seems that I came at the right time?"

Leimen Guang subconsciously stood up and turned his head to look. He saw Yunchuan, who was dressed in white, coming over. He was surprised and said, "Master Yunchuan, how come you have time to come here today?"

"I'm leaving soon. Before I leave, I'll take a look at the situation here." Yunchuan looked at the charred mark and asked curiously, "How is the research on the thunder cannon going? It seems that the power and progress should be good, right?"

This thing is much more advanced than the "kunai gun" used by the Kingdom of Sky before. The technical content of the "kunai gun" is not high. As long as you understand the structure and have enough materials, you can easily imitate it.

Not only does it have the disadvantage of slow loading speed of kunai, but it also has the weaknesses of slow firing speed and insufficient force.

It is not much different from the power of most ninja throwing kunai, and its flexibility is far less than that of ninja throwing kunai. No matter how convenient it is, it still cannot achieve any effective results at all, and can only catch the enemy off guard.

The Sky Ninja Village was actually helpless in developing this kind of ninja tool. After all, they could not use other ninjutsu while controlling the flying ninja tool.

After the previous invasion of Konoha, the five major ninja villages had already been prepared, and the threat of the kunai gun had been greatly reduced.

Such ninja tools are undoubtedly very outdated ninja tools nowadays.

In order to change this small ninja tool, it has undergone several improvements in the past few years. First, the firing speed of the kunai gun was increased, and then in order to increase the penetration of the kunai, a device with wind attribute chakra was added.

That is to say, the "Wind Gun" that the Sky Legion has put into use and is mass-produced has increased its power and speed to a level that even ordinary ninjas can hardly defend against.

Of course, the premise is that the opponent does not realize that he is being targeted. If he is prepared, with the dynamic vision of most ninjas and the speed of the teleportation technique, he can still barely avoid it.

Moreover, the "wind gun" also requires the user to have wind attribute chakra. This "thunder cannon" can be used directly if it only has enough chakra.

The super large attack range and the not-too-slow rate of fire are enough to form a covering blow, leaving the ninja with nowhere to dodge.

"Well... no, we can't say it's successful yet."

Raimon Hikari nodded subconsciously at first, but then quickly shook his head and lifted the frame, saying calmly: "Now we can only preliminarily verify the feasibility of the device, and there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved."

After that, he picked up the arm cannon on the table, and under Yunchuan's curious eyes, skillfully took apart the ninja tool and explained: "At present, the main body of scientific ninja tools is generally divided into three parts, namely Shell, inner shell and core.”

"Because the thunder attribute chakra is the most destructive, the shell of the thunder cannon, as you can see, is made of the hardest and high-temperature-resistant metal, so that it can be guaranteed not to be easily damaged during long-term use."

"The inner shell is different. The biggest feature of the inner shell is to amplify and conduct chakra. Therefore, the inner shell needs to be made of very precious chakra conductive metal."

Raimon Hikaru picked up the so-called "inner shell", adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "Thunder cannons are ninja tools that consume a lot of chakra. The better the conductivity of the inner shell material, the better the chakra output." The higher the conversion rate.”

"However, chakra conductive metal is an important strategic material for the entire ninja world. We currently have very few chakra conductive metals in reserve, and the conversion rate can only barely reach 60%..."

Yunchuan took the black "inner shell" and said thoughtfully: "So, if you want to use this thing, the amount of chakra required by the user is very high, and it is not yet possible to achieve large-scale mass production. ?”

"Yes, although it is more flexible and convenient than the previous shaped cannon in Kong Ninja Village, our test results show that if the energy is 100% charged, even the powerful jounin can only fire two to four rounds."

Raimon Hikaru nodded very calmly, led Yunchuan into another laboratory, and said: "In addition to material restrictions, the cores currently used in thunder cannons also have very demanding production conditions."

As they spoke, the two looked at several red-haired figures in the laboratory, one of whom was Uzumaki Ichiya whom they had not seen for a long time.

He held a blue cube in his left hand that was about the size of a walnut and exuded a strange aura.

In the other hand, he held a long and slender knife, and he was carefully carving on it without blinking.

His movements were very slow, but his hands were very steady. His body was as motionless as a sculpture. Only a few fingers were controlling the small carving knife. Every time he dropped the knife, he was very calm and firm, and even the rhythm did not change at all. .

Gradually, light appeared in Uzumaki Ichiya's eyes, and even Raimon Hikaru, who was watching beside Kumokawa, slowly clenched his hands into fists behind his back.

Finally, when the last line was slowly carved, Uzumaki Ichiya stopped, the serious light in his eyes slowly faded, and a trace of fatigue appeared on his face.

However, when he subconsciously raised his head and looked behind him, and saw the curious face of Yun Chuan approaching him, he was startled for a moment, but quickly realized what he was doing and stood up to salute: "Master Yunchuan, you..."

But before he could stand up, Yun Chuan raised his hand to hold his shoulders and pushed him back to his seat.

Yunchuan pointed at the researchers who were immersed in their own world and completely turned a blind eye to him and smiled: "You don't have to be so reserved in private. You should also learn a little bit from those guys about what it means to be informal."

As he spoke, Raimon Hikaru picked up the cube and placed it in the palm of his left hand, slowly injecting the soft and trace amount of non-attributed chakra in his body into it.

In an instant, the cube emitted a more obvious blue light, and the soft pale white halo turned into an electric current visible to the naked eye.

"Interesting, is this the 'core' of the thunder cannon?" Yun Chuan raised his eyebrows, "You have been able to utilize the sealing technique to this extent."

Just now, he could feel the chakra in Uzumaki Ichiya's body like flowing water. After injecting it into the carving knife, he gradually carved complex patterns on it from the tip of the knife.

This feeling is very similar to the way Yangyan Village makes the detonating talisman. On the one hand, it is drawn on a special talisman paper, and on the other hand, it is inscribed on a special ore.

It now appears that the function of the spell engraved on this "core" is to convert non-attribute chakra into thunder attribute chakra, so that those who do not have thunder attributes can also use it.

"Yes." Raimon Hikaru nodded, "As you can see, the core is the key among the keys. It can even be said to be the foundation of scientific ninja tools, but the process of inscribing the technique is extremely complicated and cumbersome."

"We also based on the sealing technique books that the predecessors of the Uzumaki clan worked hard to leave behind, and tried one by one to find this technique that can transform attributes."

Uzumaki Ichiya on the side explained helplessly: "Even so, there is no shortcut to the inscription technique. The inscription process takes about five hours, and there cannot be any errors or pauses in the middle."

"Among all the Uzumaki clan members who have become researchers, I am the only one who can achieve an 80% success rate."

Yun Chuan also noticed that his hands were shaking at this time, and it was obvious that this was not an easy task for him.

It lasted five hours, and the chakra in the body had to be controlled like a gurgling water. If the amount of chakra output was too little or too much, all previous efforts would be wasted. The requirement for chakra control was simply abnormal.

"Can we make a thousand of them within three years?" Yun Chuan asked after pondering for a moment.

"This..." Raimon Hikaru pushed up his glasses, and finally shook his head with a wry smile, "Although I don't want to admit it, if we can't break through the limitations of materials and technology, it may be a bit difficult to make a thousand in three years."

Hearing this, Yunchuan's eyes flickered slightly, searching for his unclear memory, vaguely remembering some things that were almost forgotten.

"If I remember correctly..." He slowly raised his head and said with twinkling eyes, "The level of heavy industry in the Country of Snow is close to that of the Country of Rain, and chakra technology seems to be developing well."

The country of snow is located close to the polar zone. It has ice and snow weather most of the year, and there are few warm days.

Although the local agricultural industry and per capita GDP are less affected by the weather, the Snow Country still has its own ninjas, and it seems to have chakra armor that can enhance ninja chakra and enable A-level ninjutsu to be used multiple times.

"Snow Country? I seem to have heard of it before, but I didn't expect that they are also researching chakra technology..."

Raimon Hikaru was a little surprised, but he soon understood, and smiled like a self-deprecater: "That's right, after all, it's a small and poor country, and there are no ninjutsu. It can't train any strong ninjas, so it can only use 'tricks'."

After laughing at himself, he adjusted his mentality and thought: "If they really created a chakra armor that can use A-level ninjutsu multiple times, maybe they have really found a chakra transmission material with a higher conversion rate. ”

"Okay, in that case, I'll let someone run around."

Yun Chuan nodded without hesitation, then seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly laughed: "Speaking of which, the team of the Sky Legion went out not long ago. When they come back, remember to ask them how they feel about using it."

"Of course, this is excellent actual combat data." Raimon Hikaru couldn't help but laugh, "It would be better if we could know the experience of the Sunagakure ninja, but it's a pity..."

"Dead people cannot speak."

This chapter is just to supplement the setting so that the rest of it won’t be too abrupt. There should be two chapters tomorrow.