Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 58 Elisa's Mystery
Without the support of a system and logistics, Su Ming is currently unable to handle these things. The level of technology and complexity required to suppress countermeasures from another world may not be easily achieved.

Therefore, we still need to consider artillery, which is simple, efficient, and can be adapted to different budgets.

Another option is rocket launchers, but official versions are hard to come by, while pirated versions are everywhere. However, all of these options depend on the fact that the troublemaker has to finish off the vehicle heist first.

Su Ming glanced at the little troublemaker, checked his phone, and discovered that his target for this trip, the Independence-class littoral combat ship, was equipped with a 57mm naval gun.

Despite the fact that this naval gun has a range of over ten kilometers and an extremely high rate of fire, Su Ming felt there was no need to embarrass himself by bringing such a thing to another world, and it really didn't have any deterrent effect on the battlefield.

More importantly, given the nature of the US military, Su Ming had reason to believe that it was equipped with a bunch of flashy but impractical gimmicks designed to scam funding. It might even require checking the digital signatures of the parts just to turn it on, and refuse to launch if the verification fails.

Even dogs wouldn't want American weapons from 2000 onwards.

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When they approached within seventy kilometers, the battleship Star Rain spotted them and quickly stopped.

Fifty kilometers behind it, a convoy consisting of three frigates and one supply ship was also accelerating toward the Xingyu.

"They're really cautious," Violet said, glancing at the radar with little interest.

Based on their current position and speed, the two sides will not intersect. The Zhiyuan turned due east, swaggering over the course cleared by the Xingyu.

Three hours later, the wind speed increased to 22 knots, and there were no ships within an 80-kilometer radius. The Zhiyuan was approaching the area where the sea monster was said to be.

Su Ming unfolded the white bone mark and began to switch to sail form.

"Can we get some more bones?" Su Ming asked, as he was once again forced to dismantle some of the ship's buildings and facilities.

“The original White Bone Fortress was three times larger than it is now,” Violet told him. “However, since it was wanted a year ago, it has been engaged in various battles and has suffered continuous losses. Size is both a strength and a burden.”

Whether strength becomes a burden or not depends on how it is used. Are there any alternative methods?

“Any corpses will do, a large number of corpses,” Violet replied. “However, since the White Bone Fortress was created twenty-seven years ago, there has been no war since the Despair Plains.”

"Oh?"

"The improvement in maritime shipping technology has provided a cheaper route for trade between the Western and Northern Continents. The Plains of Despair has lost its unique status, and its strategic value has been greatly reduced."

“That’s good,” Su Ming replied. “Peace is the foundation of development.”

“Even if we develop well, we can still fight wars.” Zijin sighed. “I’ve been watching for so many years, and the only difference is that we’ve gone from fighting a war every few years to fighting a war every few decades.”

"Our two worlds are pretty much the same. However, thanks to the counterbalancing effect of world-destroying weapons, the frequency, scale, and intensity of wars on Earth have indeed decreased significantly in recent years," Su Ming said.

"A world-destroying weapon?" The scholar was intrigued. "Could you get one to take a look?"

“No, its defenses are so high that even a thousand troublemakers couldn’t do anything about it,” Su Ming replied. “Besides, the rays that leak out during teleportation would kill me.”

"If there's a problem, we'll solve it!"

"Some problems are better left unsolved."

With the sails assembled and the angles adjusted, the Zhiyuan's speed began to increase, eventually stabilizing at around 26 knots.

"At 26 knots, the sea monster shouldn't be able to attack us." Su Ming continued to teach the black skeleton the basics of ship operation, so that he could be freed from the work of steering the ship.

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In the afternoon, the black skeleton was already able to guard the driver's cab on its own, and knew to call for backup if anything unusual happened.

Su Ming then went to the library to read books and began studying rune spells. The Summoning of All Things spell was the foundation of his survival in this other world, but it currently had many inconveniences. Su Ming hoped to research how to adjust it, ideally creating some modifications that could be chosen according to actual needs.

During this time, Zijin had already tidied up the library, and all the books and materials were neatly arranged and categorized.

He noticed a whole cabinet full of textbooks from the Temple of Light, along with numerous notes. Su Ming opened them and, sure enough, saw Elisa's name.

Based on the printing date of the primary textbooks, Elisa enrolled 38 years ago at the convent school.

The notebook records college activities and daily schedules. According to one record about food distribution, she was initially assigned to the six-year-old group.

The little girl's notes on her schoolwork were neat and orderly, showing a very serious attitude towards learning.

In terms of content scope, Elisa started from scratch in the field of light-based knowledge, but a year later she began to produce unofficial divine language books.

Su Ming couldn't understand the divine language at all. According to the description, it was a complex language, with sentences as the basic unit. What was even more troublesome was that there was no connection between the affixes and the meanings of the divine language, so learning it meant memorizing entire sentences.

Judging from the notes, Zijin suffered greatly, spending most of her early time on this. This situation suddenly improved in her third year of school, and the girl's academic progress became rapid.

Six years after enrollment, temple textbooks ceased to appear, replaced by esoteric research books. Even light magic papers attributed to Elisa began to emerge.

In her eighth year of enrollment, Elisa, who had just turned fourteen, obtained the title of saint in an overwhelming manner.

Su Ming really wanted to ask her, "Doesn't your conscience hurt when you use your academic knowledge to bully a group of underage girls?"

Love letters also increased during this period. Indeed, although it was an all-girls academy, it didn't stop the students from sending love letters to Elisa everywhere.

Gender is definitely not a problem!

But all traces came to an abrupt end in the eleventh year, when Elisa was seventeen. Su Ming calculated the time; it was exactly twenty-seven years ago when the Bone Fortress was born.

Su Ming wrote it down on the paper.

From the available information, we know that the Chestnut Owl was her initial form, Elisa was the second, and the Bone Fortress was the third. He labeled Elisa with numbers 44 to 27 and the Bone Fortress with numbers 27 to 0.

No, Su Ming noticed a problem. The Bone Fortress is in undead form, while Elisa is in living form that coexists with it—these are not linear.

Su Ming took out another piece of paper.

He wrote on the first line: 27 years ago to recently, [Elisa (Sealed)], [Bone Fortress (Event)].

On the second line, he wrote: 44 years ago to 27 years ago, [Elisa (active), 0 years old to 17 years old].

The third line reads: ____ years ago to 44 years ago, [Chestnut Owl Scholar (Activity)].

Historically, the image of the Chestnut Owl scholar was that of someone with purple hair and purple eyes, similar to how Su Ming first saw the skeleton. For this reason, she was often called the Eggplant Scholar at that time.

(End of this chapter)