The Thousand Faces of Konoha's Weird Man

132 Final preparations

After practicing more than a dozen shuriken rounds, Kira has been able to hit the target accurately, and his scores are all five points. Unfortunately, the thing designed by Sakichi and Katasuke was still in the experimental stage, and its ammunition capacity was not very high. The long and narrow magazine could only fit a dozen shurikens. When it is actually used on the battlefield, you can use things like "expanded magazines" to increase battery life, or even directly insert seal scrolls to turn a person into a mobile fort. It doesn't take much effort. Compared with modern warfare, Using machine guns in squads also saves manpower.

"It's really a terrible weapon." Masashige, who is dedicated to studying ninja technology, can certainly see the power of this weapon. It can allow an untrained child to master the skills that can only be used by outstanding warriors with more than ten years of ninja age, and kill lives. The technique is more efficient, "I have long heard that the Tono Ninja Tool is powerful, but I have never had the opportunity to see it. Now I finally understand why Konoha has listed it among the ranks of export restrictions."

To be honest, Sakichi really didn't submit these gadgets to Konoha. What he gave to Konoha were all large-scale anti-army ninja tools. As for why Konoha restricts exports, Sakichi also knows a thing or two. In addition to establishing technical barriers, the more important reason is that these things are too powerful.

Any rapidly developing society cannot avoid one problem, and that is productivity and the means of production. The same is true in the world of Naruto. Sakichi and Fangsuke represent advanced productivity, but the people who control the means of production are traditional ninjas. Emerging technologies are bound to be hindered in the process of transmission. It is not that the old-school ninjas cannot see the benefits of new technologies. On the contrary, they see the horrors of new technologies and that is why they hinder its spread.

Because this affects the interests of vested interests, once this technology spreads, it will not only affect the careers of traditional ninjas, but also add countless variables to their missions.

Even if you are a cannon fodder ninja, if you want to step onto the stage of war, you still need necessary training, which can take several years at most or a few months at most. To the ninjas from the old ninja villages, they are nothing more than rotten sweet potatoes and stinky bird eggs. Just goods. But after being equipped with this kind of thing and forming a large scale, it will really be the existence of gods who can kill gods and Buddhas who can kill Buddha. In addition to using large-scale escape techniques to fight, traditional ninjas are completely capable of mid-range confrontations. Falling behind.

Therefore, they must restrict the development of Tono ninja tools, just like the Mizi country during the Industrial Revolution. Once this technology spreads, there will definitely be a situation where sheep cannibalize people. Traditional ninjas are like those "farmers" who will be ruthlessly deprived of their "land", and accordingly they lose their rights, status and wealth.

History will always be surprisingly similar, not because everyone has experienced the same situation, but because the things that create history are called people. Human beings are all repeaters. They will always make the same mistakes and take the same path. Therefore, Zoji can already predict how the world will develop, but he does not need to explain it to Zhengcheng. This is a creature of a different dimension. Zoji is born Standing on the shoulders of giants.

"It's too early to say this now." But there are some things that can inoculate Masashige. Don't let Kujo have too high expectations for these emerging ninja tools and forcefully want to form his own modern ninja army. "These things are actually not It’s not as good as it looks.”

Picking up the shuriken launcher that Kira had missed, Saki smashed its seemingly solid shell with a punch. The exposed core is quite complex. Looking at Masaki and Kira's confused eyes, it's like a child seeing the inner structure of a watch for the first time.

"This piece of equipment has only fired dozens of shuriken rounds, but the internal wear and tear is already quite serious." Saki casually touched the inside of the equipment with his fingers. The rough belts and worn gears fully demonstrated that the life of this equipment has expired. Towards the end, "The wear and tear of parts will cause a reduction in design accuracy and even cause failure."

After shaking the ninja tool in his hand a few times, Saki inserted two more shurikens.

The first shot went out smoothly, but the aim was naturally a little crooked.

The second one got stuck directly in the ninja tool, bursting several belts and flying some gears.

"If we apply it now on the battlefield, people who equip these things will be in this situation when they arrive on the battlefield, and then become a living target for others."

Sure enough, after Sakichi's demonstration, both Kira and Masashige's expressions turned gloomy. The reason is very simple, and a smart person can figure it out. But because of this, smart people have a lot of troubles, and they feel unhappy that they cannot make the best use of their resources.

"This is not the biggest flaw. The more fatal flaw of this thing is that the cost is too high." The cost of this thing is of course high, but the cost of anything produced in a laboratory is high. Because every part is polished by hand, there is no place that will specially produce parts suitable for this piece of equipment for you. You can only keep changing and trying to find the most suitable materials or substitutes. Any piece of equipment from design to investment Every battlefield has to go through this cycle. It can be as short as a few years, but it's really hard to say how long it will take. Just like the atomic bomb that Mustache wanted to design, he didn't see the cost until he shot himself. This is the tragedy of new weapons. Once the thing in Sakichi's hand is proven through experiments and the best matching solution is found, the cost will drop significantly after mass production, but Sakichi is still not ready to explain to these two guys who don't understand the difference between industrial production and laboratory products. , this is not the focus of future development, and the opponents Sakichi needs to face in the future cannot be solved with shurikens. "And the production cycle of this thing is very long, and we don't have suitable raw materials on hand."

Another bombshell, industrialization is a systematic project, including energy, materials, etc. Although Konoha is at the center of the Naruto world and a strategic hub, in terms of scientific research and technology, the level of the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Water is obviously higher than that of the Kingdom of Fire. This is a problem left over from history. Hokages have always relied on their height and strength to fight. Only those who lack their own abilities will seek help from outside forces.

On the other hand, in the Iron Kingdom, the metallurgical level seems to be quite good, and Sakichi is very interested in inspecting the market, if time permits.

"That's such a pity." Kira looked at the scrap in Saki's hands with some disappointment. Just as Saki thought, ambitious people want to put their ambitions into practice all the time. As an ally, Saki felt it necessary to pour cold water on him. Keep everyone awake. Once a group enters madness mode, destruction is what greets them. Just look at MLM.

"It's not a pity." Zoji still has a lot of things on his hands. Although he pours cold water on him, he can't kill him with a stick. When closing a door for others, remember to leave a window. This is the basic quality of a conspirator. "We still have many works here. As long as one of them is successful, it can change the world."

Immediately, Zoji nodded towards Fangsuke.

Most of the trial works were Sakichi's ideas, and Fang Zhu just localized his thinking, so the general direction was still based on Sakichi. Since Zuoji nodded, Fangzhu didn't have to hide it and took out some strange things.

"This is a fragmentation grenade, bah, this is an explosive kunai." Saki spat, almost spilling the beans. Of course, the principle of this thing is a grenade. "Wrap the kunai and the detonating talisman with a metal of moderate hardness. After detonating the detonating talisman, These ninja tools will fly out under the action of the explosion, which is very effective against dense opponents. They can also be used in tough battles and can cause effective damage to enemies behind the bunker. Of course, according to personal habits, the filler can also be used Replace it with something like a thousand copies.”

This thing is a grenade. The principle is simple. The difficulty lies in the manufacturing of the shell. You can't use ductile metal, you need something that is both brittle and strong. Of course, Sakichi had experimented with gunpowder formulas in this world, but the power in this world was a little ridiculous and could only be used as fireworks. Probably because there was a substitute like the detonating talisman, Saki could only research some things based on the detonating talisman.

"boom"

Huge cracks were opened in the earthen wall in the corner, and the wooden mechanism behind it was riddled with holes from kunai shots.

"In the later stage, we will improve the product structure, separate the shell, filling and detonating symbols, and flexibly produce them on the battlefield according to the target's situation." Apart from some creativity, this thing has basically no technological content.

So Kira and Masashige just watched it as fireworks.

"This one is awesome." The next thing was relatively large, hanging on Zoji's hand like an arm shield, with a huge seal scroll attached to the back, "This is a variant of Water Release, but it doesn't need to be You can control it with chakra"

After a simple buzzing sound, Zoji pointed a hole in his arm shield at the hole-riddled earth wall.

Soon a stream of water shot out, and as Zoji's arm slid, the wall was cut into two equal pieces on the left and right.

"I call this thing a high-pressure water jet."

After all, "Suizanbo" was someone who had done ninja work. Masashige recognized at a glance what Saki was imitating in this move.

Water Breaking Wave, a powerful offensive water escape ninjutsu, violently sprays a rapid ultra-high-pressure fine water column from the mouth to attack the enemy. The attack range will change according to the amount of chakra. It is extremely powerful and lethal, like a sharp blade.

To put it simply, the water escape uses chakra to be compressed in one's own body, and then released with extremely high initial velocity and a very small caliber to achieve extremely high pressure, allowing the water escape to produce incomparable destructive power.

Therefore, it is a joke that the strongest water escape technique can be "developed" by a skill that the natives know how to do. It is like pressing some people's brains into the ground and rubbing them, and asking if they are happy.

Sakichi is different. This thing is stronger than Water Release and has less technical content.

He just asked Fang Zhu to do everything possible to shrink a device similar to a water pump, give it more powerful power, and then rely on the seal scroll to seal the water in, and then output it powerfully, relying on the pressure generated by the large amount of water flowing through the narrow area to let the water flow through the solid High pressure builds up inside the metal channel.

According to Sakichi's calculations, the pressure can only reach about 200, which is difficult to deal with metal, and can only cut through all trees and earth walls.

But cutting people is definitely easy.

The principle of this thing comes from the scientific research expert Red Sand Scorpion, and Zoji has already seen the effect of this thing, so there is really no pressure to make a low-end version.

"Masaki-sama has a sharp gaze. He can tell at a glance what ninjutsu my ninja tool is imitating. It's just that this ninja tool of mine can be used without the support of chakra." Shuizanbo is a high-level ninjutsu. , at least a chuunin who specializes in water escape can use it. Now hanging this weird-looking thing can allow soldiers to use high-level ninjutsu. What else is there to be dissatisfied about? After a pause, Sakichi added, " It’s not that you don’t need chakra at all, you must at least be able to use the simplest sealing technique.”

But even so, this condition is extremely low.

"As for its disadvantage, it may be that the range is a bit closer." Due to pressure, in addition to being unable to cut metal, once the attack distance exceeds a dozen meters, the water flow does not have the ability to cut silicate compounds. However, it is still an effective method to break through the defense of Earth Escape.

"It's already very impressive." If it is made large enough, it will also be an effective means to break through the solid wall of Shinobu. "Then its other shortcomings are not the difficulty and time of production."

"bn" Chengdu has learned to be strong, and Zoji couldn't help but want to praise him.

Although he couldn't understand what Saki was talking about, Masashige could still guess from his expression that he must have guessed it right.

I also lost interest in water jets.

"Don't be discouraged. I believe that as long as we cooperate well and have the financial support of the Fire Nation, we will no longer be constrained by Konoha. The development of ninja tools can also enter an era of rapid development. In the future, the Fire Nation's envoys will no longer be needed. Instead of traveling by carriage, you can use the iron horse driven by thunder escape to travel between Kyoto and Konoha in a very short time, and you can even fly freely without relying on escape skills."

"That's something that will happen in the future. Let's discuss this issue after you settle the three amounts." Drawing cakes to satisfy hunger is acceptable for ordinary people, but it is far from enough for Kira and Masashige.

"There will be results soon. I came to Fangzhu today to prepare for that matter." Saki turned to Fangzhu and asked, "Are you ready for what I want you to do?"

"That one?" Fang Zhu gestured on his body, and after getting Zoji's approval, he started rummaging through the boxes.

Soon, Zoji got something that looked like a metal mesh in his hand.

"Because there are too few materials, we can only make it so detailed. As for the effect, there is no way to find people from the Hyuga family to experiment, so I don't know the specific effect, and that."

"That's enough. There shouldn't be any big problems. Now it's time to ask that guy for assistance."