Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 197 Hot Air Balloon and Ground Armor
With Xu Qi's reminder, Lu Yuning finally remembered the man's name. In short, he had a good impression of him. If he was willing, it would be a good choice for him to control this mutated spider.

After all, although the mutated insects are intelligent, their IQ is not high, and it is difficult even for Xu Qi to command them.

Moreover, Xu Qi's ability depends on bonds. If the bonds have not reached a certain level, it is difficult to command the mutants to actively attack.

Otherwise, if we could control the bee colony as easily as with our own hands, many things would be much simpler.

Lu Yuning gave some instructions about this matter and handed it over to Xu Qi to handle, mainly to ask about Wang Liang's wishes.

This incident also reminded Lu Yuning that it would be amazing if the mutated egg could be hatched.
But there's no rush. The spider eggs can hatch, and the bird eggs should be able to hatch sooner or later.

But now that the weather is getting colder, the eggs need to be processed. It’s best to move them indoors.

Lu Yuning thought about it and handed the matter over to Wu Xiao and Zhang Qian.

Wu Xiao didn't waste any time and ran out directly to move the eggs that had been temporarily stored under the tree roots into the warm shelter.

After that, just let Zhang Qian observe it when she is free.

After dealing with these two matters, Lu Yuning continued, "Next, regarding technological means, I plan to develop aviation, specifically hot air balloons. Compared to projectile weapons, I think it's better to be the most thorough and directly achieve air strike capabilities. This way, there's no need for complex calculations and weapon adjustments, and it has great advantages in strike range and accuracy. It's also our biggest killer weapon."

"Are you going to heaven?"

"Bomber!"

"Awesome"

“I suddenly became more confident.”

Everyone was obviously excited about this topic.

The idea of the hot air balloon has maximized Weiguang's current capabilities. Their strongest means are actually various projectile weapons, including thermite bombs, smoke bombs, incendiary bombs, etc.

In order to maximize the advantages of these bombs, a flexible delivery device is necessary.

Although they can now realize more advanced catapults or catapults, the problem with this type of weapon is that the accuracy of the shells drops seriously beyond a certain range, and if it exceeds Zhang Xinyue's detection range, there is no way to detect it. In addition, this thing is not easy to adjust. By the time the person who fires adjusts the shooting angle, the opponent may have already run away. This is especially true in scenes with more people.

Therefore, it is better to directly carry out air strikes, so as to achieve the ultimate in accuracy, range, and safety.

This hot air balloon should have aviation, reconnaissance and projection capabilities integrated into one.

However, it is not easy to produce. Not only does it require technological means, but it may also require the help of Li Wengang.

Lu Yuning first identified several key personnel who were key to the implementation and use of the hot air balloon.

Zhang Xinyue is in charge of the investigation.

Zou Yunxin was responsible for fire support and direction control. This was the first application of Zou Yunxin's wind energy conversion capabilities.

Wu Xiao is responsible for support, ammunition replenishment, and some long-range projection situations.

Zhang Qian is responsible for the take-off and landing of hot air balloons, as well as the heat insulation of hot air balloons, the insulation of various artillery shells, etc.

The final key figure is Li Wengang, who is the key to whether the hot air balloon can truly take off.

With his special ability, the conditions for realizing the hot air balloon will be greatly reduced, like an important patch.

These are Lu Yuning’s tentative air force personnel. As for himself, he thought it would be better to provide ground support.

He is now considered the strongest fighter in Weiguang, and the ground is more suitable for his performance.

Of course, these are just preliminary ideas. After all, when they were making the steam pump, they encountered many unforeseen problems. However, they now have an important patch ability: Zhang Muyan's ability to reduce friction to zero.

This ability will become increasingly critical in future technological development. With its ability, the implementation of steam engines and hot air engines will become much simpler, and the efficiency will be increased exponentially.

For example, the piston that was the most troublesome problem in the past, and the problem of valves that could not be opened and closed under high pressure that the steam pump at that time could not solve, will be solved.

Perhaps real kinetic weapons can be developed based on the steam system.

Imagine firing a cannonball several times the size of a person into a crowd of people at high speed. The power would be devastating.

However, its disadvantages are obvious. Its flexibility is definitely very poor, and it is only more powerful against shrunken humans.

The symbiote, for example, poses little threat.

On the contrary, it has a relatively strong restraining ability against Fuxing's insect-controlling method. No matter how many insects there are, they are still insects. Even mutants cannot withstand a high-kinetic energy weapon hitting them.

In short, a series of kinetic energy devices and weapons derived from steam engines and gas engines are also planned items for the future.

However, these two things are not the most critical technological means at present. Lu Yuning plans to consider them after making the hot air balloon.

In addition to this hot air balloon, Lu Yuning wanted to use a lot of metal materials to make some protective devices because he had brought back a lot of metal materials before, but he had no idea for the time being.

The main reason is that they don’t have much material, and it is unrealistic to wrap up the entire shelter. Besides, the branch office cannot just ignore it.

Lu Yuning shared his idea with everyone.

"Let's brainstorm and see how to use this metal material."

"Why not just build a fortress?" Xia Fei suggested.

"It's too inflexible. If we get discovered, we'll be trapped inside," Liu Rui said.

Zhang Muyan was stunned for a moment and said, "Why not just make it movable?"

"Armored vehicle?"

"Yes, it's an armored vehicle, but it's a little simpler, a human-powered armored vehicle."

Lu Yuning's eyes lit up. This was a good suggestion.

He had been concentrating his thoughts on strengthening the shelter, but forgot that it would be better to build a mobile fortress.

But he thought of a problem.

There's actually not much this mobile fortress can do. All we can think of right now is for people to hide inside and command the mutated spiders to fight.

But there is actually no point in hiding in there, and you must have a way to fight back.

For example, fire arrow shooting.

This can only be done with Zou Yunxin inside, and he is the main firepower of the hot air balloon.

That would definitely be too much to handle.

Lu Yuning shared his thoughts with everyone, then said, "In this case, we'll need Yingying's coordination ability to transfer Lao Zou's abilities to the people in the armored vehicle. This way, we have to ensure coordinated land and air operations. Otherwise, if we exceed the coordination range, the people in the mobile fortress will be useless."

"Land-air coordination. Sounds like a very militarized tactic."

(End of this chapter)