Karl's musket fired, causing a violent explosion.
This is not the "biubiu" or "pop" sound of a musket at all, it is exactly the loud "BOOM" sound of an artillery...
The moment the trigger was pulled, it was like pressing the time pause button, and more than a thousand people in the huge academic exchange hall fell silent.
Everyone's expressions were frozen, and their eyes widened as they looked at the stone gun target on the stage that had been blasted into rubble.
Faintly, I heard the sound of swallowing saliva.
What the hell, are you sure this is an exchange meeting between mechanical apprentices and not some top firearms display
The muskets made by low-level firearms apprentices are considered good if they do not explode with dumb bombs; even the apprentices in the advanced class can make a few outstanding junior muskets that are eye-catching.
But what the hell is this thing in front of me
The original process should have been for a slightly defective apprentice's musket to be put on stage for a display. Then various instructors and professors commented again, and the students accepted it humbly, and everyone was happy...
However, Karl took out such a weird musket and destroyed the target directly.
This was not a surprise at all, but a shock.
It's like playing Landlords. The landlord will explode at the first move. What do you do to catch it
... ... .
Ren was slightly surprised when he saw the surprisingly powerful power of this "bubble gun".
He had been concentrating on his practice for the past half year, and Karl was also immersed in the laboratory. He didn't know that Karl could actually create such a perverted musket.
He had a panoramic view of the scene where the muskets were fired just now.
Carl's [High Explosive Bubble Sprayer] does not projectile shells like ordinary muskets, nor does it scatter like ordinary shotguns. Instead, like a bubble machine, phosphorus fire sprayed out all over the sky and exploded directly in a wide range.
Not only is it powerful, it also comes with flame burning, penetration, explosion... various special effects.
Apart from Mr. Tust's "Sixteen-round Vulcan Cannon", it was also the most brutal musket he had ever seen.
Seeing the green flames all over the stage, Ren's lips slightly raised and he muttered in his mind: "Tsk, tsk, now it's interesting..."
There were all mechanics present, and no one looked down upon the bulk products sold in gun shops in the world.
Every mechanic definitely has his own, unique musket.
This is the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences, and these people's vision is naturally among the best in the world.
They judged it at a glance: it was obviously a homemade firearm that had never been seen on the market.
The technical difficulty in this firearm is extremely high.
Not even talking about the students, there are many techniques that even the instructors in the audience don’t understand.
Not to mention that the shape is a bit weird, but the power of this gun can definitely be called a "work of genius"!
... ... .
But... shocked. Shocked.
But anger immediately appeared in the eyes of those onlookers.
Since this is an academic exchange meeting, what do you mean by bringing out such a musket
This kind of musket, not to mention mechanical apprentices, even senior mechanics may not be able to make it!
Such exaggerated power involves high-level mechanical knowledge in various aspects such as gunpowder, enchantment, firearm structure, and materials.
It is even almost certain that this is not a special firearm that a machinist below a grandmaster can create "alone".
At this time, the host also recovered from the shock.
He looked at Karl, his eyelids twitched, and he wanted to reiterate the rules tactfully: "Mr. Karl, I think you may have some misunderstandings."
After a pause, he pointed at the bubble gun in Karl's hand and said, "What I just meant is that you need to show off your independently designed and created gun, rather than demonstrating it with other people's guns..."
Karl's little face was full of doubts when he heard this, and he said: "This is the musket I designed and made myself!"
Hearing this, the huge venue immediately fell into a brief silence.
host:"... "
Grandmaster Oliver: "..."
Everyone: "..."
In the audience, Renn looked at these guys with expressions of "Only a fool would believe it" and felt very happy.
If it were a different style of musket, Ren might have thought that Mr. Tust had helped Karl get involved in some details from the power he saw.
But looking at the childlike bubble gun shape, he concluded that it was 100% designed by Karl himself.
The old man said that this is Karl's talent.
"Imagination" is one of the greatest talents of a machinist.
Karl may not even realize it himself, but his talent in the mechanical field can be called a monster.
Although, his aesthetic is indeed a bit inconsistent with the mainstream.
... ... .
After a brief silence, at this moment, some students in the audience who could not hold their breath stood up.
"Hmph! You lied!"
The person who stood up was a handsome orange-haired boy, who was clearly the Mark from the advanced class that he had met in the academy before.
He pointed at Karl and scolded: "Even a senior mechanic may not be able to make this musket. You said you designed and manufactured it independently?!"
His words immediately resonated with other students.
"Yes! This rube who talks nonsense found a musket somewhere and said it was his own. How ridiculous!"
"Haha, you will do whatever it takes to gain fame through communication. Despicable country people!"
"The gun is a good gun, but it's a pity that it is used as a dirty way to gain fame. You have simply insulted the greatest profession of mechanics!"
"..."
Not only the students, but also the teachers shook their heads.
It's not that Carl's musket is not good enough, it's that it is excellent.
It was so good that it was completely beyond the scope of what a mechanical apprentice could produce.
When Carl took out this gun, he felt like a teacher asking a group of primary school students to research papers. The other children submitted reports on "Studying how tadpoles grow up." He directly handed in a highly professional "anti-resistance report". Cancer Paper”.
This is completely a "dimensionality reduction attack."
To the uninformed, this goes against “common sense.”
The only possibility is that the strange musket in Karl's hand is the work of another master, and he used it for his own purposes.
However, this is not an academic exchange at all. What needs to be demonstrated is your own work, and you are not allowed to take other people's works.
This is already "cheating".
In academic exchanges, this is a shameful act of cheating.
... ... .
Weren't you the one who told me to get a musket
Didn't you ask me to explain it
Didn't you ask me to shoot
Karl didn't know what he did wrong, which caused him to receive so many insults and abuses.
It was Ren who said "You're welcome" just now, and that's why he took out this most proud work.
Unexpectedly, instead of being praised, I was met with a flood of abuse and doubts. The looks from those people made him feel very uncomfortable. Looking at myself is like looking at a thief on the street.
Carl thought he had done something wrong.
Turning around, he looked at Ren and Tust in the audience at a loss, looking for answers.
Renn chuckled and nodded to him, the meaning was obvious: let it go.
Mr. Tust remained expressionless, but he sneered: "The atmosphere of Oma College has indeed remained the same as before. It likes to cling to circles and doesn't like others. If you think you can't do it, others will do it. Isn’t it possible? But it should be the case when you think about it. People like Brendan can be the dean and they are all competing for fame and fortune. How can there be a good academic atmosphere!"
Thirty years of solitary life have made the old man extremely paranoid, and his speech is indeed a bit unpleasant, especially to his enemies.
This sentence has little risk of harm but is extremely insulting.
His voice was not quiet, and those who could hear it were the tutors and professors of the academy in the front row.
These words mocked their entire Royal Academy of Omar, and everyone's face was ashen.
The young mentors did not know Tust's identity, and their faces could not hide their anger. But because Ren, the "Lord of Black Dragon City", was sitting there, they didn't dare to go too far.
The older professors all knew more or less what happened that year, as well as the grudge between Tust and Dean Brendan.
But his face doesn't look good either.
Mechanics speak for themselves based on their strength.
Just a musket can't hit their Omar Royal Academy of Sciences in the face!
... ... .
On the stage, a good academic exchange turned into a "farce".
"Go away, you cheating liar!"
"Go away! Country bumpkin, we at the Royal Academy of Omar do not welcome liars..."
"Go back to your Black Dragon City..."
"..."
These students from the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences are not very good at mechanical skills, but they are all masters when it comes to scolding people.
Karl's face turned red and he continued to argue: "This is the musket I made myself!"
At this time, Mark shouted again: "Haha... If you really made it, I will swallow this musket!"
Renn felt happy when he heard this.
I like hearing people raise flags the most.
At this time, he did not think it was a big deal and said to the host on the stage: "Since it is an exchange between two colleges... I think outstanding students from both sides should come on stage to show off."
After a pause, he said directly: "Since everyone has a dispute about whether Karl is the musket maker, it would be good to come up with a question to compare..."
This is a good approach and a normal communication process.
Excellent colleges from both sides appeared on the stage to compete, which can roughly compare the teaching level of the two colleges.
In the past, when other territorial academies came to communicate, even with this link, the students from the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences would win with an overwhelming advantage.
Come to think of it, this time is no exception.
As soon as these words came out, they immediately received responses from the young students.
Mark from the advanced class immediately stood up and walked towards the stage: "Humph, let's compete, I'm afraid you won't succeed!"
Someone came on the stage and immediately attracted cheers from other students.
"Senior Brother Mark, teach that liar a lesson."
"Yes! Let him see what real mechanical technology is..."
“Such a despicable person wants to step on our Royal Academy of Sciences, what a delusion!”
"..."
Everyone felt that the "liar" on the stage should be taught a lesson, and they also felt that they would definitely win.
Mark originally specialized in firearms and robotic arms, and was one of the few students with the best academic performance in the academy.
The best at the Royal Academy of Omar is naturally the best in the world.
Among mechanics of this age, even if Mark cannot win, he will never lose.
Everyone was optimistic about Mark, but Grandmaster Oliver felt something was wrong.
Because he was one of the few people present who knew the original information about the "Plague Base", and he also knew that the old man had mastered very cutting-edge mechanical technology.
Now that Black Dragon City is well prepared, it is obvious that it will not be "asking for self-humiliation".
However, it is only slightly worrying, but it has little impact. Even if the "exchange" was lost, a competition between students would be insignificant.
But at the same time, he was more curious about whether the young man named Karl could really make that musket
That musket was not technically difficult for a master like him.
But the hard part is “creativity”.
That kind of bubble gun, even if he hadn't seen this actual firearm, would have never imagined it.
... ... .
The exchange meeting seemed to be the home field of Oma Academy, but in reality it was the Black Dragon City side that was in charge.
Renn proposed a contest, and no one could stop it, and there was no reason to stop it.
Then, Mark from that senior class got in the ring.
After he took the stage, he directly provoked: "Since we are competing, this student Karl, what are you going to compete with?"
Karl looked at the guy who was mocking him the most, feeling deflated for a long time, and said displeasedly: "It's up to you. I can do it!"
Mark sneered, but had no intention of letting Karl skip over the musket thing just now, and suggested: "How about comparing it to muskets? Let the instructors give questions on the spot, and we make muskets on the spot?"
After saying that, he did not forget to mock, and said: "Haha! Since you said that you made the musket just now, you are not afraid to make another one in front of everyone, right?"
Karl was not to be outdone: "Compete!"
The two chose to make muskets. For the sake of fairness, they would not let Karl re-create a "bubble sprayer", but would re-create the question.
The Omar Academy asked Ren and Tust for their opinions on the question, but neither of them cared.
Finally, the instructors of the college discussed it and came up with a temporary topic.
Not long after, two machine tools were brought to the arena.
Both Carl and Mark had three one-meter-long thick alloy iron pipes in their hands.
The requirement of the topic is that they use these three iron pipes to make a musket. Other materials can be added by yourself, but the iron pipe must be a gun barrel.
This question is fair, limiting some materials and eliminating the possibility of opportunism.
Even if you memorize a lot of drawings in advance, you may not necessarily be able to use this kind of thick-diameter iron pipe.
Test the mechanic's firearm design ability, creativity, and basic skills.
With so many people watching, it was clear who was higher and who was lower.
... ... .
About ten minutes later, Carl and Mark each prepared the materials they needed and began to make firearms.
Mark brought the robotic arm he was working on and started rifling the iron pipe directly with the machine tool.
The sound of "crunching" and "crunching" metal was heard throughout the venue, which was very harsh.
The instructors in the audience could see what Mark planned to do at a glance.
The iron pipe is rifled as a whole, which is obviously intended to be a conventional "three-barrel shotgun".
The instructors looked at Mark's operation and began to comment one after another.
"Mark is indeed the best gunsmith apprentice in this class. His basic skills are very solid, and the rifling is perfect..."
"Yes. The better the rifling, the better the accuracy of the final test firing of the firearm. Even if Mark's gun is regarded as a graduation project, it will at least get an 'excellent' grade."
“Although the creativity is a bit lacking, it’s pretty good that the temporary questions can be completed to this extent...”
"..."
The instructors all thought highly of Mark.
Although it is a quite satisfactory "three-barreled shotgun", fortunately, the basic skills are solid, and the final product is at least not bad.
On the other hand, what is surprising is that Karl did not pull the rifling.
He carefully measured the lengths of the three iron pipes, and then used a cutting machine to cut the three iron pipes into nine sections!
"Hey... that kid actually cut off the iron pipe. Did he want to make a short-barreled firearm?"
"Haha, this idiot actually made everything into three. Although there is no problem in making short-barreled firearms, the finished firearms will have to compete for power. Can such a short musket be compared to Senior Mark's long-barreled three-barreled shotgun?"
"That's not right. Even to make a short-barreled musket, one is enough. He cut all three iron pipes. What is he doing?"
"..."
The students couldn't quite understand what Karl was doing, but the expressions on the faces of the instructors slowly froze.
An expert will know at a glance whether he is a master or not.
At this moment, Karl in the ring fell into a very serious state. At this time, it seemed that all the noise in his ears had stopped and he was completely immersed in gun manufacturing. The seriousness in his eyes made people feel like they were seeing a mechanical master who was immersed in his work, rather than a young boy with such a childish face.
Renn had never worried that Karl would lose, but looking at his serious expression, he looked slightly sideways.
Carl’s talent for concentration is truly extraordinary.
He can't understand mechanical manufacturing, but these instructors from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Omar can understand it!
At this moment, as soon as Karl took action, the expressions of the instructors who were chatting and laughing just now immediately became very complicated.
Although they didn't understand what Carl was planning to do by cutting nine iron pipes, they could understand his skillful operating techniques.
Compared to Mark before, this level of proficiency is not at the same level at all.
Like the stars to the bright moon,
This is a huge gap that can be seen at a glance!
No... Compared to the students, even the instructors of intermediate and advanced mechanics like them pale in comparison.
If the mentors themselves were on stage at this moment, they wouldn't think they could do better than the young man named Karl.
Gradually, there was no other sound in the academic hall, and everyone quietly began to watch Karl's operations on the ring.
And what’s even more shocking is yet to come!
... ... .
Karl cut the three iron pipes into nine sections, and then actually started to enchant them with alchemical materials!
Like electric welding, bursts of strange light lit up on his console.
Seeing this scene, the instructors were completely shocked.
"Alchemy enchantment" has an extremely complex procedure, just like refining a magic potion. It requires extremely high proficiency to ensure that the layers of complicated enchantment patterns can be imprinted on the target material.
This requires talent, knowledge, skills...all are indispensable.
"That's...the fourth level enchantment layer?"
"Oh my God, it turns out he really didn't lie. He can complete the fourth level of enchantment independently! It's incredible. Even a senior mechanic may not be able to achieve this level of proficiency. That boy..."
"That's [Level 4·Strong Rune]. Such a thick iron pipe is actually enchanted. What kind of firearm is he planning to make?"
"..."
In fact, the winner of the competition was already decided the moment Karl took action.
Carl only showed this hand, and everyone understood who was the "clown".
The level of the two people on the stage was not on the same level at all. The difference was... about ten stories high.
Moreover, the difference is not only in basics, but also in creativity and talent.
A traditional "three-barreled shotgun" and a "nine-barreled firearm" that will blind people's eyes without even looking at the results are vastly different in creativity.
Everyone, especially the instructors, had the same thought: "This is really a mechanical genius."
It can be said that the skill level displayed by Karl has surpassed most of the instructors present.
At the same time, they also remembered what Karl said before.
If he didn't lie, then he also made the bubble gun with his own hands...
So, what he said before that he is proficient in firearms, robotic arms, ammunition, steam locomotives, mechanical cities, blasting, energy... is it true
At this moment, everyone realized how stupid they had been, mocking such a mechanical genius whose mechanical level they wanted to look up to.
At the same time, they were also puzzled, where did this "Black Dragon Academy" come from, so that it could actually cultivate such powerful geniuses
What was originally a communication competition turned into a stage for Karl to show off his skills.
In everyone's eyes, apart from shock, there was only shame...
... ... ..
After a while, Carl stopped.
In his hand, he held a finished musket with a very peculiar shape.
It has nine barrels, looks like honeycomb, and is slightly ugly. It doesn't look like a musket, but more like a hammer.
Because it has not been polished, it still looks a bit rough.
But just seeing this rough and slightly ugly musket made the machinists of the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences unable to look away.
At this moment, the whole world became quiet again.