137: Firepower coverage, the power of the Gatling gun

"Holy smokes, the Streamer finished it already?!"

"No way, I didn't even blink, did I miss a step? How did Brother Su already finish?"

"Streamer, slow down a bit. Can you explain again how to install the trigger buckle when assembling it at the end?"

"Hahahahaha, I knew that even with the Streamer's hands-on teaching, I might not learn it. Good thing I had foresight and didn't even try."

"A six-barreled gatling gun, tsk tsk tsk. I didn't expect the Streamer could actually make one out of cardboard. It certainly looks intimidating, but I wonder about its power."

In the live stream, looking at the gatling gun Su Yu had completed, whether they were military enthusiasts or not, everyone was full of curiosity about the final product.

Before today, they had heard of wooden guns, and plastic guns, but never that a gun could be made from cardboard.

Even more unexpected was that Su Yu not only made a gun today in front of everyone, but it was also the most complex structure: a gatling gun.

It is well known that among firearms, rifles have great power but are mostly single-shot. While submachine guns can fire continuously, their power and range are somewhat inferior in comparison.

But a gatling gun is different.

This type of firearm combines the high power of a rifle with a continuous firing mechanism. According to data reports from the Military Industry Information Network, the most advanced gatling gun in the world currently can achieve a terrifying rate of fire of 6000 rounds per minute.

That translates to 100 rounds per second!

However, that is, after all, made of alloy cast iron and ignited by a gunpowder firing pin, so it naturally cannot be compared with the pure cardboard creation in front of Su Yu.

But he was also unsure about the specific power and rate of fire of the cardboard gatling gun; everything would only be revealed after testing.

"Alright, we have finished making the gatling gun. I believe everyone found it very simple. At this point, I won't repeat the teaching."

"Now, let's test its power together."

As he spoke, Su Yu lifted the cardboard gatling gun, which was about one meter long and weighed over ten jin, and walked towards the small courtyard outside the villa.

And indeed, even though it was entirely made of cardboard, after being loaded with enough 'bullets', the total weight of the gatling gun was still not to be underestimated.

If he were using it himself, it would be fine; he could accept such a weight.

But if it were for the Little bros, he might have to add a movable omnidirectional wheel device. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly let two or three Little bros struggle to carry the machine gun around, could he?

For the gatling gun's 'bullets', Su Yu chose to use small foam balls.

Originally, according to the system's complete reward, the 'bullets' needed to be small paper balls rolled by hand. But Su Yu found it too troublesome, and after small paper balls were rolled tightly, they actually hurt a little when they hit a person.

If they only hit the body, it would be fine, but he was afraid that bullets have no eyes, and if they accidentally hit a fragile part like the eyes, it would be troublesome.

Small foam balls would not have this problem.

A whole piece of foam looks large in volume, but it is very light in weight. A slight rub in the hand can yield many 'bullets'!

Moreover, if the 'bullets' are light, the farther they are fired, the more the trajectory will drift.

Hitting a person's body would not cause any actual harm.

Arriving in the courtyard, Su Yu secured the ready-to-fire machine gun with a bag and then propped it at his waist.

Afterward, he found a small tree poking out from beyond the courtyard wall and aimed the gun at it.

At this time, the muzzle was about five meters away from the tree canopy.

Su Yu took a deep breath and then pulled the trigger!

Click, click, click, click, click—

The gatling gun's muzzle began to rotate slowly after Su Yu pulled the trigger.

And with the rotation of the muzzle, the 'bullets' in the circular drum magazine also began to make a rustling sound, seemingly scrambling to enter the ready area, waiting to be fired at any moment!

It's finally starting!

In the live stream, the audience members watched the camera excitedly, one by one, afraid of missing any thrilling moment.

Two seconds later, the muzzle's rotation speed reached its fastest!

The next second! A sky full of white foam balls sprayed out from the gun barrel!

Instantly, the white balls formed a dense and extremely wide area of suppressive fire, like a white waterfall, flowing down three thousand feet, making the entire patch of leaves on the top of the wall rustle.

The power of the white balls was not great; even with such a wide range of suppressive fire, only a few leaves fell from the tree.

Su Yu squinted his eyes, keeping the trigger pulled, and began to adjust his position relative to the tree canopy.

Thirteen meters, ten meters, five meters, three meters.

Soon, when he stopped the 'firepower output', he had already gotten the answer he wanted.

He had roughly calculated the power of this six-barreled gatling gun.

The maximum range of the foam 'bullets' was thirteen meters! Beyond this distance, the 'bullets' would not fly.

At a distance of ten meters, it could achieve comprehensive suppressive fire. The foam 'bullets' felt nothing when they hit a person, only looking intimidating.

When the distance was shortened to about eight meters, the 'bullets' hitting the body felt like a gentle drizzle.

Shortened to five meters, the feeling was similar to being hit by water 'bullets'.

Three meters, this was the most effective 'killing' distance! The 'bullets' could directly make the leaves flutter, and if they hit a person's body, they would also make a crackling sound.

Immediately after, Su Yu also tested the 'bullet' storage capacity.

Calculated as one full magazine, it took about one minute of continuous firing to empty one magazine.

Moreover, compared to a real gatling gun, another advantage of the cardboard gatling gun was that it did not require cooling. After emptying a magazine, one only needed to immediately remove it and replace it with a new magazine to continue fighting!

It should be known that this is a very important point in suppressive fire.

Once the endurance can't keep up, the situation of him charging at the opposing Little bros today would occur. They could use the long vacuum period of reloading time to quickly approach him and cause effective damage.

After completing a series of tests, the audience in the live stream was already engrossed.

The vast majority of Su Yu's audience were young people, with a small number of middle-aged people. As members of this age group, everyone actually had dreams of live-action gun battles when they were children.

However, the number of toys available at that time was too limited.

The weapons of older audience members when they were children were at most slingshots. And young people similar in age to Su Yu, or slightly older, although they also played with guns when they were children, the 'bullets' they used were basically BB pellets.

The power of those 'bullets' was not small, and they could not be directly shot at people.

Su Yu still remembered that when he was a child, he used this to shoot at the chickens in the village, causing the neighbor's chickens to scatter in chaos, almost successfully hunting two laying hens.

If the Old Lady hadn't intervened in time to save him from distress, he would probably have been strung up and beaten on the spot.