Chapter 1328: Chapter 1075: Miniature Light Cannon
Yahola was over forty years old, in the prime of his life, and his temperament as brutal as his robust physique. His gray hair, combined with a beard as stiff as steel nails, was his signature mark. When he walked, he liked to deliberately make his steps very heavy to heighten his intimidating presence. However, to his subordinates, he already seemed very intimidating.
For instance, right now, Jessica’s legs had gone weak from fear.
"Speak, Jessica, you lost my ship, and you almost got my men killed too. If you cannot give me a proper reason, I will beat you half to death in front of everyone right here and now,"
Yahola said, his voice booming and rough, resonating loudly throughout the entire cargo hold.
"It was the same person as last time," Jessica said, her voice trembling nervously.
"The same person as last time? Which person?" Yahola clenched his fists, ready to strike.
"The person who attacked our cosmic stone mine last time! He was hiding on that merchant ship, and when our spaceship docked with it, he stormed through to us. He was too strong for us, we stood no chance, so he drove us into the cargo hold and then opened the cargo bay doors, leaving us to fend for ourselves," Jessica hurriedly explained the situation exactly as it was.
That person?
Yahola looked around the cargo hold at the pirates, only half remained, which meant basically the other half were already dead. Even those who had survived were severely wounded.
Clearly, if once was a coincidence, twice pointed to a real problem.
"Against me? Hahaha, asking for trouble!" Yahola burst out angrily, his hair standing on end, looking like a monster.
"Group Leader..." Jessica tried to say something more.
"This time it’s not your fault, so I won’t beat you. Lad, you’d better take the time to heal your wounds. This time, I want you guys to catch him with your own hands!" Yahola said with a cold laugh.
After stealing a spaceship, Long Yi had little interest in it. He casually parked the spaceship in a crevice on an asteroid, then went to the position of the ship’s light cannon. Yes, what interested him more was the cosmic stone light cannon.
Such a thing as cosmic stone light cannons did not exist during the Giant era, because the nearly omnipotent Giants had many ways to achieve such firepower without needing cosmic stones.
So Long Yi was very curious about the working principles of a cosmic stone light cannon.
The warship had about forty light cannons mounted, aimed in various directions, but there was only one cosmic stone light cannon, installed on a freely rotating base under the bow, requiring three people to operate simultaneously.
There, Long Yi saw the carefully manufactured cosmic stone cannonballs.
They were spherical, highly polished on the surface, but inside they bore the engravings of Giant magic. Long Yi carefully deciphered them and found it to be an incomplete Giant magic spell, designed to instantly disintegrate the cannonball into energy. However, due to the incompleteness of the magic, the release of energy was not thorough.
Looking at the light cannon itself, it was larger than ordinary warship light cannons, similar in energy structure, but modified to handle a higher level of energy, and behind the barrel, a mechanism to load the cannonballs was installed.
Long Yi stuffed one cannonball into the muzzle. Immediately, the cosmic stone cannonball lit up, ready to fire. He aimed the muzzle at a distant cliff and fired. Instantly, an astonishing crater was blasted into the cliff.
Looking at the design principles of the light cannon, Long Yi scratched his head and smiled.
"This thing, I can totally miniaturize it," he said.
Long Yi had a theoretical basis for wanting to miniaturize the light cannon. First, he was not short of cosmic stones. Second, since he had mastered the complete cosmic stone catalysis magic, he could ensure the power of the miniaturized light cannon would not decrease significantly.
Of course, a key reason was naturally that: every warrior has their own perfect handgun in their heart!
Manufacturing a light cannon wasn’t so simple, especially a cosmic stone light cannon, which had a more complex structure. Particularly when miniaturizing the light cannon, the internal structure required more precision.
Traveling in space, Long Yi had plenty of time to ponder this issue.
First, he needed Lingling’s help with the energy structure part. The current Lingling could be considered a cosmic stone life form, with a more precise understanding of cosmic stones. As for the cannon’s main body, he would use fine gold—an ultimate favorite of the Giants, strong and well-adapted to energy.
After several trials, Long Yi finally finalized his miniaturized light cannon.
A standard revolver structure, a five-shot capacity, a scaled-up version of the classic Smith & Wesson handgun!
Then, a group of unfortunate pirates in front of him were staring agape at Long Yi’s recent creation—a massive hole on the side of the spaceship.
Although magic rapidly sealed the breach, an unlucky pirate had already been sucked out by the negative pressure.
"Alright, pirate brothers, I now declare this spaceship mine," Long Yi skillfully spun the two Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannons in his hands and sheathed them at his waist.
At this moment, the captain of the ship was having difficulty swallowing, his mind reeling from shock.
They were from the second-ranked Pirate Group in the entire Plane, ’Interstellar Wraiths’. They had just fought off two escort ships with their three vessels and forcefully boarded the flagship of this major fleet. This piece of fat was supposed to belong to the Black Sea Demon Pirate Group, but for some reason, their Group Leader suddenly gave it up. The Interstellar Wraiths, who had been eying it for a long time, immediately followed and captured the ship in one fell swoop!
Normally, that should have been the end of it, and it would be time for the joyful division of spoils! But then a hostage on that flagship suddenly stood up, shouting loudly, "Aren’t you from the Black Sea Demons?"
As the leader of this operation, he burst out laughing, "We are the Interstellar Wraiths! How could those fools from Black Sea Demons have our strength?"
At that moment, the leader still remembered the expression on that man’s face—it was one of dissatisfaction, and then he said, "Never mind, it doesn’t matter who it is. Alright, now I declare, all your pirate ships are mine, please leave quickly!"
Almost immediately, all the pirates burst into laughter, thinking the man was insane, but the ensuing battle proved that he was not just talking.
All the pirates that had boarded were completely knocked out, and the intact pirates had to retreat back to their own spaceships. Meanwhile, that big fellow kept charging forward, pursuing them all the way to the bridge.
On the bridge, a pirate attempted a sneak attack, but the Giant suddenly pulled those seemingly decorative items from his belt. Then, accompanied by the fluctuations of the Cosmic Stone Light Cannon, a huge hole was blasted inside the spaceship. Although that pirate wasn’t hit directly, the sudden huge negative pressure sucked him out of the spaceship.
This was the Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannon! The thing that countless mid-tier technicians dreamed of but had never successfully created!
At this point, the pirate captain was completely dumbfounded.
"So, are you leaving on your own, or should I blast you out?" Long Yi pointed at the two Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannons at his waist and asked all the surrounding pirates.
Are you kidding me? Was there even a choice?
Meanwhile, the captain secretly contacted the other two ships, instructing them to be ready to come to their aid at any moment.
Shortly after, the pirates all departed, and the other two ships immediately used magic to pull them over.
"Go! Hurry up and go!" As soon as they entered the cabin, the captain immediately shouted loudly. At this time, Long Yi was standing on top of the battleship, now his, and suddenly drew the Mini Light Cannons from his waist, chanting, "Do you feel lucky today, kid?"
Bang! Bang!
The two revolver Light Cannons alternately bombarded, sending beams of light repeatedly striking the two ships that hadn’t picked up speed yet. Maybe their power had decreased, but the ordinary armor of those ships still couldn’t fully withstand such bombardment. Metal armor flew everywhere as the two ships slowly moved out of the attack range.
After the barrage, Long Yi habitually spun them a few times before sheathing them back in his holsters.
"Whew, really, there’s nothing quite like a revolver for a man," Long Yi said with satisfaction.
Thus, in the following period, news of pirate ships being robbed appeared in various corners of the universe. And according to descriptions, such acts of robbing pirates were almost always done by the same person.
The Giant, always wearing a smile. And most importantly, he had two Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannons!
In this Plane of spaceship combat, the Cosmic Stone Light Cannon generally sits at the very top tier of firepower. Apart from the Azure Sky Empire and the Hong En Empire, which might still have some advanced technology from Giants, practically no other light cannon’s firepower could exceed that of the Cosmic Stone Light Cannon. The immense power of such a cannon makes its miniaturization a dream of all engineers. However, simply reducing the size of the cannon is impossible because the current Cosmic Stone Light Cannon is already a product of mutual compromises in materials and energy. Once you reduce the size, the strength of materials isn’t sufficient. Some engineers once attempted to make it using the Giant’s favorite material—Fine Gold. However, the primary problem with Fine Gold is the scarcity of raw materials, and an even bigger problem is difficulty in processing. The Giants originally processed Fine Gold on an atomic level, and in the mid-tier Plane, the available technology choices are very few.
Thus, this issue became the greatest challenge for countless weapons experts.
But now, there is such a person who not only miniaturized the Cosmic Stone Light Cannon but even turned it into a portable handgun!
According to some weapons experts who have seen the scenes bombarded by that Mini Light Cannon, the power of the Mini Light Cannons absolutely isn’t too low!
