74: Iron Curtain Machine Gun

The two days Lu Yang spent at Yanzi Ridge were probably the happiest he had since coming to Train World.

Every day, he didn't have to work; he just ate, drank, enjoyed himself, listened to music, and danced.

People even rushed to give him resources.

He couldn't have been happier.

However, it was tough on Yun Qiqi, Yun Chuchu, and Zhang Hong, along with the other service-oriented female attendants.

They just couldn't handle it!

Zhang Hong was popular because of their high Appearance and unique characteristics.

Many people liked them.

As for Yun Qiqi and Yun Chuchu, it was because Lu Yang was now as strong as a monster, effortlessly mastering all sorts of acrobatic positions.

In Lu Yang's hands, they were like toys.

Lu Yang could play with them however he wanted.

Yun Qiqi had never heard of any decent person changing positions eighteen times in ten minutes with their partner.

Even Yun Qiqi, who came from a dance background, found it a bit overwhelming.

In the end, she had to pull Qin Bingbing in for an emergency.

Only after giving Lu Yang something 'fresh' did they escape unscathed.

In his free time, Lu Yang, taking advantage of his ample resource reserves, upgraded both the Reverse Technology Research Center and the PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer full production line to Level 5.

He gained the characteristics “Repeat Research” and “Extreme Production.”

[Repeat Research: By spending the original construction cost of a finished vehicle component, the finished vehicle component can be retained for repeated research. White quality vehicle components can be researched once, green quality vehicle components three times, blue quality vehicle components five times, and purple quality vehicle components ten times.]

The basic analysis success rate of the Reverse Technology Research Center also increased across the board.

The analysis success rate for white quality vehicles increased to 18%, with a fixed analysis time of 6 hours. Green quality vehicles had a 9% success rate and a fixed analysis time of 12 hours. Blue quality vehicles had a 1.8% success rate and a fixed analysis time of 24 hours. Purple quality vehicles had a 0.18% success rate and a fixed analysis time of 48 hours.

The analysis success rate for orange quality and above vehicles remained three question marks, as always.

[Extreme Production: Activate Extreme Production mode, increasing production efficiency by 100% and reducing production cost by 90%. Daily activation time: 1 hour. Maximum accumulated time: 10 hours.]

Lu Yang quite liked the “Extreme Production” characteristic; it saved him a lot of resources during production these past few days.

When producing PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer shells, activating Extreme Production reduced the time per shell from 6 minutes to just 3 minutes.

Resource consumption was also significantly reduced; in one hour, if all Level 5 shells were produced, 450 units of tier 3 copper ore could be saved. (Level 1 shell: 5 units of tier 3 copper ore; Level 2 shell: 10 units of tier 3 copper ore; Level 3 shell: 15 units of tier 3 copper ore; Level 4 shell: 20 units of tier 3 copper ore; Level 5 shell: 25 units of tier 3 copper ore.)

[Ding, esteemed Train Captain, Iron Curtain Machine Cannon reverse analysis complete. Analysis progress 100%. Obtained blueprint “Iron Curtain Machine Cannon Full Production Line (Purple)”.]

Lu Yang was originally watching Qin Bingbing and Yun Qiqi rehearse a private dance.

When he saw the message notification from Xiao Xin, he was completely stunned.

The Iron Curtain Machine Cannon was a purple-grade vehicle component, a finished vehicle component Lu Yang had purchased from the Pan Stone.

Since there were no other suitable finished vehicle components to analyze, Lu Yang had put the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon in for analysis as a form of consolation.

Given the reverse analysis success rate for purple-quality finished vehicle components, and to prevent analysis failure, Lu Yang had specifically bought 10 of them before the Reverse Technology Research Center was upgraded to Level 5.

As a result, the first analysis, which just finished its 48 hours...

It... it actually succeeded!

This unexpected surprise came too suddenly.

Too sudden to prepare for!

Lu Yang almost couldn't conceal his joy.

Qin Bingbing and Yun Qiqi on stage couldn't help but shiver, afraid that their esteemed Train Captain was about to demand another special training session.

[Iron Curtain Machine Cannon Full Production Line Blueprint]

[Grade: Purple Quality]

[Construction Cost: 350 units of Level 2 Iron Mine, 250 units of Level 2 copper.]

[Construction Effect: Can produce Iron Curtain Machine Cannon and its matching ammunition by spending resources.]

Lu Yang had coveted this thing immensely when he first saw it on the Black Knight.

But at that time, he didn't have the blueprint and didn't know the specific parameters of the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon, so Lu Yang could only stare enviously.

Now, after a successful analysis, he saw the specific parameters.

Lu Yang couldn't help but admire his sharp foresight back then.

A machine cannon is also called an autocannon.

This Iron Curtain Machine Cannon had a bullet caliber of 25mm and used a chain-fed bidirectional ammunition supply.

It supported switching between high-explosive and armor-piercing rounds.

The maximum rate of fire was 200 rounds per minute, supporting single-shot, three-round burst, five-round burst, and continuous fire modes.

It could be adjusted electronically.

The theoretical range was 1000 meters, possessing both anti-aircraft and infantry support capabilities, with a 400-round ammunition capacity.

Although its armor-piercing capability was weaker, that was in comparison to artillery of the same class.

Among the current weapons on the Xinhuo Train, it could undoubtedly rank third, surpassed only by the Small Electromagnetic Railgun and the PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer.

It was much stronger than the Harvester Individual Grenade Launcher.

The Harvester Individual Grenade Launcher was suitable for unarmored targets.

But against targets with light armor and armor, its effect was much worse.

The Iron Curtain Machine Cannon was different.

It was precise and impactful.

One shot fired would definitely create a fist-sized bullet hole in iron armor of the same class.

Under continuous fire, it could even cut iron armor of the same-class train in half, like a bullet curtain cutting knife.

This was also the origin of the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon's name.

However, Lu Yang felt that the Reverse Technology Research Center was even more impressive.

Because the finished Iron Curtain Machine Cannon bought from the Pan Stone, as far as he knew, the Pan Stone could only produce the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon but had no ability to produce ammunition.

Ammunition could only rely on the fifty rounds that came with the production line.

This was also why, despite the superior performance of the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon, its sales were not high.

But what the Reverse Technology Research Center reverse-analyzed was a complete production line, including ammunition production.

This changed the nature of things.

If it weren't for fear of causing unnecessary speculation and affecting subsequent acquisitions of finished vehicle components, Lu Yang would have even wanted to introduce the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon as a new product on the Xinhuo Train.

However, upon realizing that the wallets of other Train Captains were mostly drained, Lu Yang dismissed this idea.

First, he would promote the more profitable PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer.

Once the PLZ Vehicle-Mounted Self-Propelled Howitzer stopped selling well, he would then bring out the Iron Curtain Machine Cannon to sell.

That would be another significant increase in income.

He truly was a sales genius!