Chapter 382

Outside London, in a confidential facility.

Several armored Jaguar XJs drove to a building.

A moment later, Murphy also walked out of an office, came to the door and shook hands with Patrick enthusiastically, "Prime Minister, welcome to Umbrella Industry for guidance and inspection."

Patrick's mouth twitched. What are you pretending to be a big head for? They don't know who the boss is, but don't I have a clue in my heart?

However, Murphy's identity was not disclosed in Muggle society, and he could only cooperate with the acting, "Hello, Mr. Murphy, let's go."

"Prime Minister, please this way." Murphy made an inviting gesture and led Patrick into the hall.

"Umbrella Military Industry was just established. We have set up three R&D bases in the country. This is one of them, and it is also the most comprehensive one." Murphy briefly introduced the situation here, and then said, "Next, I will take you to visit several major R&D products in this base. Let's go to the Light Weapons R&D Department first."

The Light Weapons R&D Department has two connected buildings, half of which is for R&D and design, and the other half is for testing and demonstration.

Murphy took Patrick directly to the demonstration field. Behind a transparent bulletproof glass, Murphy pressed the intercom button, "Tester, demonstrate the Rainstorm machine gun."

Opposite the bulletproof glass, a tester put on protective equipment—this was to prevent ricochets from accidentally injuring people, after all, a line of large characters was written on the wall "Safe production! Always sound the alarm!", then the tester picked up a light machine gun from the shelf next to him and said into the microphone: "Rainstorm light machine gun."

Then, he unfolded the gun stock from the folded state and closed the buckle, "The gun stock is foldable. After folding, the gun length is 835 mm, unfolded 1030 mm, gun height 260 mm, gun barrel including flash hider 485 mm. The whole gun uses engineering plastics and fiber materials, gun weight 6.8kg, belt-fed, but can also use magazines, ordinary belt 100 rounds of bullets, magazine 150 rounds."

Saying that, the tester took out a bullet from the side to show, "7.62 mm caliber, with single-shot, three-burst, and burst modes, theoretical rate of fire 12,000 rpm to 16,000 rpm."

"Hmm?"

Listening to it, it all sounded quite ordinary, but what is this theoretical rate of fire?

Patrick is not a military fan, but he has made up for a lot of basic military knowledge in the recent period. Even heavy machine guns like Gatling have a rate of fire of only a few thousand, and ordinary light machine guns have a rate of fire of less than 1,000. Can this ordinary-looking light machine gun reach a rate of fire of 10,000?

10,000 bullets per minute??

Its magazine only has 150 rounds.

"Start the demonstration." Murphy said.

The tester installed the magazine. Then, a row of targets appeared 20 meters in front of him.

The tester set up the gun, aimed, and then pulled the trigger, the muzzle swinging slightly at will.

In an instant, the targets were hit by dense bullets one after another, all falling down. Then the second row of targets appeared, falling down again, and the third row was the same.

Judging from the sparks splashing from the targets, in just over ten seconds, I'm afraid thousands of bullets hit the targets.

"This..." Patrick couldn't understand, "How is this done?"

Murphy clicked a button on the console, "You can look at the slow-motion footage."

A set of slow-motion footage appeared on the monitor on the side.

I saw the muzzle of the Rainstorm machine gun emitting fire, and then a bullet was fired, but not long after leaving the muzzle, the bullet suddenly became two, and after a moment, the bullet seemed to split again, becoming four, then eight the next instant, and finally sixteen bullets hit the adjacent two targets like a rainstorm.

"This is... Replication Spell?!" Patrick had already been in contact with magic and naturally had some understanding of magic-related knowledge.

"Cough, it is void particle technology—physical replication." Murphy said, "Of course, we usually use Replication Spell to call it, after all, it is more vivid."

"In fact, the gun body itself has not been modified much. The Replication Spell is enchanted on the bullet. When the bullet passes through the gun chamber, the delayed multiplication Replication Spell enchantment on it is activated, replicating once every two milliseconds, up to five replications. One bullet can become sixteen."

"The rate of fire of the gun itself is probably around 800 to 1,000. After the bullet is multiplied, it is a rate of fire of over 10,000."

"So this is a light machine gun that has the weight and portability of a light machine gun, but can achieve or even exceed the firepower suppression capability of a heavy machine gun, and the ammunition consumption is no different from an ordinary light machine gun. An ordinary infantryman carrying two magazines is enough to form suppression against a team of enemies."

"This is just a primary product. We can also control the scattering position of the replication bullets by adjusting the enchantment, for example, making the replication bullets appear on the straight line before and after the real bullet, you can hit a continuous straight bullet chain; making them appear in the horizontal direction of the real bullet, you can hit a fan-shaped barrage; or concentrating them around the real bullet, you can form a surface damage like a shotgun."

"We are currently studying how to install the enchantment adjustment method on the gun body. In this way, we can use unified enchanted bullets and achieve different firing modes by adjusting the gun body mode."

Patrick listened and couldn't help but think of an arcade game that is very popular now, Contra.

This thing, isn't it the various bullets in Contra?!

But the Rainstorm machine gun is just the beginning. Murphy pressed the intercom button again, "Tester, demonstrate 'Death's Eye'."

The tester put down the Rainstorm machine gun and took down a heavy sniper rifle from the display shelf, "Hulk anti-material sniper rifle."

Then the tester showed the foldable and detachable tripod, introduced the grip, detachable parts, etc., and then said: "The total weight of this gun is 13.2kg, magazine capacity is 5 rounds, uses 12.7mm caliber bullets, and the bullet muzzle velocity is 1470 meters per second."

Patrick felt that something was wrong, but he hadn't figured it out yet. The tester picked up a scope next to him and said: "Death's Eye scope. Universal for all enchanted firearms."

This is Death's Eye?

Then the tester installed the scope on the sniper rifle and additionally mounted a laser sight.

The demonstration began. There were three targets. The tester first aimed at the leftmost target with the scope, then pressed a button on the gun body and said: "Mark."

Then he put the sniper rifle on the table at will, let the laser sight aim at the second target in the middle, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" The leftmost target hit the ten-ring.

He aimed at the rightmost target with the scope again, pressed the button on the gun body, then let the laser sight aim at the second target in the middle again, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" The rightmost target hit the ten-ring.

Patrick understood, "Self-tracking bullets?!"

"Not bad," Murphy said, "The gun body has a Throwing Spell enchantment, which can accelerate the bullet like an electromagnetic rail, so the muzzle velocity can reach more than 4 Mach. This is not important. The important thing is the Death's Eye scope. You can use it to mark targets for 'all bullets firing at once.' Next, all bullets fired from the muzzle will aim at the target by themselves."

"Not affected by wind speed, gravity, and other factors. Wherever you see in the scope, it hits there."

"Of course, this requires special bullet enchantment cooperation, and the angle cannot be too outrageous."

"However, theoretically, this gun can make anyone a sharpshooter who never misses, making it something that soldiers with eyes can do to kill targets from a thousand meters away."

"Imagine, on the battlefield, your soldiers are all sniper gods like Zhang Taofang and Simo Häyhä. With the Rainstorm machine gun, one person is enough to block an infantry company."

(End of chapter)