Chapter 138 "Blacksmithing"
Unlike the relocation outside, the machine shop still remains intact with all kinds of equipment - of course, because of Tabitha's personal habits, this place looks even messier than the outside. .
"After your original monomolecular knife broke, you said you wanted to get a new one. I kept this just for you."
Tabitha styled her long hair randomly With a knot tied behind his head, he led Song Shi into the workshop.
On the long table in the center of the workshop, among a pile of miscellaneous items, there are several boxes of different sizes.
Tabitha opened one of them and found a nearly two-meter-long rectangular piece of metal lying quietly inside the box.
"RT-12 special steel, absolutely good stuff, I spent a lot of effort to get it." Rubbing the piece of metal, the woman said with pride: "High corrosion resistance, strength Big, especially the toughness and metal fatigue limit. Your original standard steel crow is already pretty good, but this thing is a lot higher than that."
"Let's put it this way, as long as the output is enough. It's high, you can just use it to chop tanks."
Song Shi also pressed his hand on the metal, felt it carefully, and nodded: "It's really good. How much did it cost?"
“What’s money?” Tabitha said with a casual wave, “Don’t worry about it, just use it.”
"And to be honest, although several performance data of this thing are excellent, they are all aimed at cold weapons and are not suitable for use in exoskeleton armor, prosthetics, weapon parts and the like - how many are there these days? People use cold weapons? So the price is not bad.”
Strictly speaking, because of the highly developed technology of implanting prosthetics, the concept of “cold weapons” has reappeared in the long history. .
Because of the prosthetic body, it is difficult for ordinary firearms to kill with one hit. However, in complex and narrow environments such as steel structure buildings, factories, alleys, etc., cold weapons are more useful and silent. and concealment.
This is also the reason why most gang members on the streets carry a cold weapon with them. Cheap monomolecular knives, alloy bats, hammers, and big wrenches can at least smash the brains and cause blood to kill, which is no problem.
As for the wider battlefield, where the ban on heavy weapons is lifted and high-intensity battlefields are supported by long-range firepower groups, cold weapons will withdraw again - or in other words, pure "cold weapons" will disappear.
Add a thermal edge module to the long knife, and after linking it to the prosthetic body to receive energy, it can cut through the armor plate with one knife, just like a high-temperature welding gun. Chain swords and impact axes are also classic weapons, used to charge into battle, and are also good at casually blowing up human bodies.
There are also items such as electric energy halberds and plasma lightsabers. In the company's weapon store, nationalities are divided according to the latest discounts - cold weapons have discounts, then they are energy weapons. Energy weapons have Discounts, then they are cold weapons.
Furthermore, there are "high frequency weapons", which are the weapons of the senior executive commissioner underground in the First Research Institute. It can use high-frequency vibration to quickly destroy heterogeneous material armor and break through all types of conventionally hard armor.
But without exception, few people will use pure cold weapons anymore.
"—You're right, but you forgot about psykers."
Song Shi raised objections and said seriously: "For psychics, cold weapons are better."
"Are you sure?" Tabitha obviously did not agree with this statement: "Look, Flashing Star Not so with Quemu, and I have also seen some combat videos involving psychics, and they are also dominated by firearms."
"So they are wrong."
Song Shi absolutely. He said hesitantly, but after a pause, he added: "Well, I can't be completely wrong. For low-level people, firearms and prosthetics are indeed more useful. But in the end, a truly powerful psyker duel will have to be fought with the hands. "You can think of it as an inherited custom."
"I doubt it." Tabitha thought for a moment and insisted on her opinion.
However, the two of them did not spend too much time on this topic. The most important thing at the moment was to recreate a weapon.
Song Shi walked to the workbench and took out all the contents of the boxes, including the RT-12 special steel.
At this moment, Tabitha handed over something.
Song Shi turned his head and found it was a hammer. He couldn't help but be surprised: "What is this?" Upon seeing this, Tabitha was also stunned.
“Don’t you use it?”
“Huh?” Song Shi was confused: “What should I use this for?”
Tabitha was shocked: “Didn’t you mean forging? Is flame the embodiment of the image of 'forging'? Well, isn't it true that you forge weapons?"
Song Shi pressed something on his side with one hand, and the "forging flame" quickly spread and poured in. Blessing, he pulled the operating lever and after confirming that there was no problem with the startup, he looked at the other party with a puzzled expression.
"Why should I leave a more accurate and convenient machine tool unused and use a hammer to hammer it myself?" His tone was strange and very subtle: "And I don't know how to hammer at all."
As a freelancer For golden hunters, combat in a barren resource environment is a required course.
You can assemble simple firearms and maintenance equipment from discarded parts in a garbage dump, and you can also survive in the wilderness without carrying any supplies.
But he has indeed never learned the technology of "forging iron" - because it was not used at all in the past.
“Aren’t you a psyker?!”
Song Shi was even more incomprehensible: "Do psychics have to be able to forge iron?"
"You are not a psychic, idealistic and unreasonable." Tabitha looked like she wanted to say something, but she spat out a few words intermittently. Finally, she took a deep breath, started the cutting machine next to her, and gritted her teeth and said: "——Work!"
So, the two of them started to work.
The first step is to cut and shape the RT-12 special steel into a specific rough outline. Song Shi had previously provided a design drawing, a nearly straight blade with a slight curvature, about one and a half meters long. knife.
Then comes quenching and plating. The former cools the rough embryo, and the latter is where Tabitha also purchases some other materials to compositely strengthen the long knife and reconstruct a three-layer single-molecule cutting edge. - This step is done by Tabitha.
Song Shi slowly calmed down his breathing.
At this moment, he is holding a transparent, thumb-sized transistor. Inside is an irregular-shaped prismatic crystal. In a vacuum environment, this crystal emits little bits of dense white light.
——[Zero Element Crystal].
As the commander of the Enlightened One, Harold obtained something specifically for Song Shi, which was the key to turning the "weapon" into a "psionic weapon".
As Tabitha retreated, Song Shi picked up a sharp carving knife in his right hand, and crushed the transistor directly with his left hand. The red-gold flame suddenly burst out, engulfing the bursting zero element crystal. Immediately afterwards, the flame poured into the tip of the carving knife and turned into a red-gold embellishment.
Directly breaking the zero-element crystals into weapons can also make them carry psychic energy, but this is too crude.
Song Shi turned over the carving knife and cut his wrist open. Under his gaze, a large amount of boiling blood burst out and poured into the long knife.
In the next moment, in the flowing blood, the carving knife quickly drew along the blade, outlining solemn and complicated lines.
Technology from the Vampusta Empire, a so-called alchemical structure that can increase the adaptability and carrying capacity of weapons to psychic energy.
When everything ended, it was midnight.
"Well...it's done."
(End of this chapter)