Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don t Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 358: Chapter 252: Rocket Artillery (First Update)

Click! Click!

A week later, Su Jie was fiddling with a half-meter-tall puppet on the table.

The puppet was made of simple spirit wood, with very little precious spiritual material. It couldn’t compare to those truly used in battle.

“Yin God Puppet Technique.”

When Su Jie bit his fingertip, letting his blood drop onto the puppet, it immediately started moving with clicks, stepping forward under the control of Su Jie’s Spiritual Power.

“Jump!”

Receiving the command, the puppet hopped.

“Roll!”

“Run!”

“Squat!”

“Backflip!”

“Dog paddle with all four limbs on the ground!”

“Attack my house’s thousand-hand centipede.”

Su Jie continuously performed tests; the little puppet got noisy due to its poor material causing severe joint friction.

In the end, it even annoyed the sleeping thousand-hand centipede, which turned over and sent it flying with one flip, the puppet crashing against the wall with a smack, its body cracking twice and completely breaking down.

Buzz! Buzz!

The thousand-hand centipede turned over and went back to deep sleep.

“Looks like I have quite a talent for learning puppetry techniques!”

Despite this, a smile appeared on Su Jie’s face. Having practiced the puppetry technique to this extent in just a week, Su Jie considered himself quite gifted.

He dismantled the broken puppet, recycling some materials that were still usable, tidied up and left the residence to go to the Puppet Hall.

As with his last visit here, the disciples of the Puppet Hall had gathered, but this time they weren’t fiddling with puppets but were huddled around a drawing board covered with dense drafts of designs, discussing new puppet schemes.

“Master.”

Zhu Zhangqi spotted Su Jie and hurriedly stood up.

The other disciples followed, getting up to salute, their voices rustling as they ran up near Su Jie.

Because a few days earlier, Su Jie had mentioned that he would show them a brand new puppet design, and everyone was curious.

“Here are my design drawings.”

Su Jie didn’t keep them in suspense, pulling out a bunch of drawings from his Storage Bag, the number of which was considerable.

Taking one of the weapon structure drawings, Su Jie placed it in front of the drawing board for everyone to see.

“What is this, so many tubes?”

Zhu Zhangqi leaned in, looking at the weirdly shaped puppet design in front, his head popping up with a bunch of question marks.

The design depicted a perfectly square rectangular shell.

The front of the shell had dozens of honeycomb-shaped openings, with several round wheels below, similar to car wheels, and a pulling device, mostly pulled by oxen or horses.

“Is this a puppet?”

“What are all these chimneys for?”

“Such a strange puppet, how does it fight? It doesn’t look fast, and there isn’t a levitating array on top, it shouldn’t be able to fly.”

A group of Puppet Hall disciples looked utterly baffled; they had played with puppets for many years and seen all kinds of ingenious designs, but they had never seen such a square puppet.

“This type of puppet, I call it a Rocket Artillery.”

Su Jie explained with a smile, pointing to the rocket artillery drawings, which Liu Yingying had collected for him.

Rocket artillery isn’t a sophisticated weapon nowadays. Current rocket artillery is advancing towards informatized, digitalized, and intelligent development.

Liu Yingying got it from the Mao Bear Country, the inventor of rocket artillery, without asking for a price. Hearing that Jieke Company, a super military-goods customer, wanted old rocket artillery designs, the Mao Bear Country’s ordnance design bureau sent a package directly.

“Rocket Artillery? Master, how does this weapon attack?”

Zhu Zhangqi was scratching his head, the currently most skilled puppet master in Puppet Hall, capable of independently designing fourth-grade puppets, yet baffled by this oddly shaped puppet.

“Its weapon isn’t for close combat but for striking enemies several kilometers away. The specific principle uses spirit stones as kinetic energy to launch this tail-fin rocket ammunition from the barrel, striking distant enemies.”

As Su Jie spoke, he pointed to a young disciple next to him and smiled, “Zhang Lei, didn’t you come up with a kind of jet-type spirit stone kinetic energy device last time? It can be used here; the specifics are on the drawings, let’s start like this…”

Su Jie took the drawings and began to educate them one by one about the structure of the rocket artillery.

“Did everyone understand?”

An hour later, Su Jie looked around at them again.

A group of disciples nodded; they were all talents studying puppetry techniques. Although the rocket structure was weird, the principle wasn’t complex, and they quickly understood.

“Good, then let’s start production. Let’s first make a prototype.”

Su Jie clapped his palms and handed over the design blueprints to them.

“Yes, Master, but we don’t have much spiritual material left in our hall.”

Zhu Zhangqi was full of confidence, but when it came to spiritual materials and money, his tone immediately sank.

“What spiritual materials do you plan to use to make it?”

Su Jie asked directly.

“I plan to use Bihai Iron as the main body. This type of steel is sturdy and heat-resistant, with good anti-vibration properties, and it can also improve firing accuracy. Moreover, to make the triggering device more rapid, it would be best to use the Shunri Treasure Pearl for energy storage… Also, for the tail fins of the rocket, I plan to use golden thread tail feathers….”

Zhu Zhangqi went on without stopping, already clear in his mind on how to create the rocket artillery Su Jie was talking about.

“Stop, stop, stop.”

Su Jie interrupted Zhu Zhangqi, looking at him with a helpless expression.

“Why are you using such good materials? Based on your approach, how high would the cost of this rocket artillery be?”

“But, shouldn’t puppets use good materials!”

Zhu Zhangqi scratched his head, looking quite innocent as he spoke.

“You haven’t changed your way of thinking. Listen to me, the main body of the rocket should primarily use some lower-grade Spirit Steel. Except for the Spiritual Power used in the propulsion, replace all other spiritual materials with the lowest grade possible, wherever you can save, save.”

Su Jie commanded without hesitation. Zhu Zhangqi and the other disciples of the Puppet Hall hadn’t shifted their thinking and were still thinking of following the high-quality route of past puppet creations, but Su Jie had no intention of doing so.

“But in that case, the accuracy and stability would greatly decrease….”

Zhu Zhangqi wanted to argue further, but facing Su Jie’s gaze, he eventually bowed his head like a defeated rooster, resignedly.

“You’ll understand why I’m doing this once the prototype comes out.”

Su Jie waved his hand, jokingly. What precision does rocket artillery need?

Being able to rapidly pour a large amount of explosives onto the target area, creating a dense barrage with a large coverage area, was already sufficient to meet the requirements.

As for precision bombing, that was the goal of cannons and missiles, but compared to other cannons, rocket artillery was easier to produce, making it Su Jie’s first choice.

“Additionally, this is the spiritual material I have borrowed from the Refining Hall for the Puppet Hall. If any of you need it in the future, you can come to me for approval, as I’m not against supporting your research in puppetry.”

Su Jie took out a brand-new Storage Bag filled with spiritual materials he had previously borrowed from the Refining Hall.

Momentarily, the inside of the Refining Hall was filled with a treasure light, shining brightly with Spiritual Radiance.

“Cold Gold Divine Sand, Fire Essence Black Gold, Star Magnetic Crystal Stone, Sky Blue Silk, Heavy Iron Wood, Ten-thousand-year-old Sky Blue, Auspicious Cloud Stone Milk, Xuanbing Soul, Nanming Leaving Fire Stone, Golden Thunder Bamboo…”

All the disciples present brightened their eyes; many of these spiritual materials were advanced grade and worth thousands of Spirit Stones. Being accustomed to poverty, they were almost too overwhelmed to move upon seeing these materials.

“Don’t just stand there, start making.”

Su Jie knew what would motivate these guys the most.

“Just watch, Master, give us two days, no, one day. We will make the rocket artillery for you in one day.”

Zhu Zhangqi, as if infused with an adrenaline rush, swung his fist and shouted, “Everyone, get moving, let’s craft the rocket so Master Su can witness our capabilities.”

“Let’s do it!”

The disciples rolled up their sleeves and wholeheartedly agreed.

Quickly, thirty-six disciples sprung into action.

Some began processing steel, throwing Spirit Steel Ore into the furnace to melt using Spiritual Power, refining the necessary steel liquid.

Next to them, some used Spiritual Power for artificial casting into the specific molds, channelling the steel liquid into them.

Others refined the processed steel liquid, further enhancing the strength of the steel, and while the steel was not yet fully set, they tapped on the cast barrel guides with their bare eyes, achieving precision even finer than a ruler.

Some started creating the rocket base, others set up the barrels one by one, and some began manufacturing the corresponding rotating mechanisms and aiming devices.

The disciples were clearly divided in their tasks, busy as bees.

Compared to crafting the exquisite puppets of the past, making the simple and robust rocket artillery was quite a few levels easier, not to mention the extraordinary power of Spiritual Power which made their production speed soar.

Su Jie was not just watching; on those specially made tail fin rockets, he released human-faced moths from the Insect Control Bag, which spat acid into specially made glass containers, completing the manufacturing of the tail fin rockets.

As afternoon arrived, the first rocket artillery was produced thanks to everyone’s joint efforts.

It was still the first production and a bit rough with many areas needing a bit of research, but after becoming practiced, the speed would increase even more.

…

As the sun set, a rocket artillery appeared on the ground of the Puppet Hall.

The cold steel body of the vehicle, 32 cold barrel guides arrayed in 4*8 formation, and 220 mm caliber tail fin rockets placed within them.

The wheels underneath formed largely, not of rubber but of a type of resin called Yellow Dragon Liquid, which performed similarly to rubber.

Seeing the completed rocket artillery, Su Jie called forth the Thousand-Handed Centipede and said to Zhu Zhangqi and the others, “Come up, let’s go test the effectiveness of this weapon.”

“So big!”

The disciples, having seen Su Jie’s widely renowned Thousand-Handed Centipede, internally marveled at its well-deserved reputation as a Mid Grade Five Refinement poisonous insect, and then cautiously climbed onto the back of the Thousand-Handed Centipede.

Su Jie also stored the rocket rounds in the Storage Bag, guiding the Thousand-Handed Centipede into the air, ready to find a spot to test the power of the Tianyuan World version of the rocket artillery.