Chapter 10: Firearms Debut

The Star Dou Great Forest is located in the southeast of the Barak Kingdom, about 500 kilometers away from Soto City where Shen Feng is located. It is one of the three most famous gathering places for wild soul beasts on the Douluo Continent.

Its area is so large that it is almost equal to the land area of ​​the Barak Kingdom, and it spans the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire, the two largest empires on the continent.

Among them, two-fifths of the area is in the Tiandou Empire, and the other three-fifths is in the Xingluo Empire.

Of course, the Tiandou Empire has never acknowledged such a thing, so the Xingdou Great Forest is actually a territorial dispute point between the two empires.

But the funny thing is that these two empires have been arguing over the Star Dou Great Forest for hundreds of years, but until now, neither of them has any actual control over the Star Dou Great Forest.

Because the Star Forest is a completely primeval forest, its terrain is extremely complex, including wetlands, mountains, swamps, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, etc., almost everything is included.

The soul beasts there are also extremely terrifying. The closer to the center of the forest, the stronger the soul beasts become.

Even in its core, there are many hundred thousand year old soul beasts comparable to Nine-ring Titled Douluo lurking inside. For thousands of years, few human soul masters have dared to break in.

But risks and opportunities coexist. It is also the cradle of all soul beasts, the place with the most complete soul beasts in the world, and the favorite place for all powerful soul masters.

Because every time they go there, it means they are about to achieve a spirit ring breakthrough, or help others hunt for spirit rings and make a fortune.

Of course, it is also the place where soul masters suffered the greatest casualties, and it is also the most dangerous place with the most concentrated skeletons of soul masters in the world.

It would take at least three days for Shen Feng and his group of four to travel to the Xingdou Great Forest by carriage.

It's not that the horses are not strong, but the roads in this world are really bad. The better ones may be paved with some gravel and compacted, but the worse ones are pure dirt roads with potholes everywhere. The road conditions are simply hard to describe.

If the horses were allowed to gallop all the way, everyone's bodies might have fallen apart before they even reached their destination.

The carriage was a bit bumpy, but since everyone was a soul master, they naturally didn't take the bumps seriously.

Even the youngest, Shen Feng, adapted quickly thanks to the passive power of his martial spirit.

Just as Shen Feng got used to the dizziness of riding in a carriage, he placed the backpack he brought from home in front of him.

Then he took out the yellow bullet shell, filled it with a standard amount of smokeless gunpowder, and finally added a lead alloy bullet, and handed it to Shen Rui beside him.

"Dad, please help me. I also need some means of self-protection."

When Shen Rui saw the bullet handed over by Shen Feng, he nodded slightly and took it without saying anything.

I saw a faint golden light shining from his right arm. He exerted force with his fingers, and the bullet and the shell suddenly came together tightly with a slight click.

"Here, is this okay?"

Shen Feng took the compressed bullet from Shen Rui and carefully checked it. "It's OK. It's better than the one I compressed with the machine myself."

"There are more than a hundred here. I'm going to trouble Dad."

Shen Rui waved his hand: "It's a small matter, you load the gunpowder yourself, I will help you suppress it."

After so many years, Shen Rui only knew how to prepare smokeless gunpowder, but he already knew everything about the structure of firearms and the making of bullets.

Click, click, click—

Shen Feng filled the cartridge case with gunpowder, while Shen Rui used his fingers instead of a machine to press in the bullet. The father and son worked like an assembly line, and one yellow bullet after another was quickly formed with subtle clicks.

Flanders looked at the cooperation of the father and son curiously, and asked in confusion: "Well, may I ask, is this a soul guide device?"

Flanders, who had never seen a bullet before, actually mistook the bullet for some kind of soul guide.

Shen Rui held up a bullet that had just been pressed into shape, "Is this what you are asking about, senior?" "This thing is called a bullet, it is not a soul guide, and it does not require soul power to use."

"If you insist, it should be considered a kind of arrow, which is launched by a mechanical device similar to a crossbow, causing damage to distant targets."

"Xiao Feng, you should have a gun now, take it out and show it to the seniors."

Shen Rui was very generous because he was sure that Flanders would definitely not understand the firing principle of guns.

Shen Feng nodded, took out a ten-centimeter black pistol from his backpack and handed it to Flanders.

"Senior, this thing is called a pistol. It is a device specifically used to fire bullets."

Flanders took the pistol with curiosity, and looked at it over and over for a long time, but he only figured out the function of the trigger, which should be some kind of triggering device like a crossbow.

Flanders opened the window of the carriage, pointed the pistol out of the window, and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened.

Frowning slightly, Flanders, unwilling to give up, pressed the trigger several times, but nothing happened.

Shen Feng chuckled: "Senior, this is not how you use this thing. If the bullets are not loaded, it will be useless to pull the trigger."

Flanders was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly: "I'm just trying, trying."

"I'm just very curious about how this thing, which is so small and has no bowstring, can fire short arrows like a crossbow."

"And this thing has neither a point nor a blade, so why is it called a gun?"

Shen Feng smiled slightly and said, "How about I demonstrate it to you, senior?"

Flanders looked at the pistol in his hand again, and curiously returned the pistol to Shen Feng.

"Here, I'm really curious about how this little thing works."

"You said earlier that you wanted to use this thing to protect yourself, so it must be quite powerful."

Shen Feng smiled mysteriously and said, "Of course, I will never let you down."

Taking the pistol, Shen Feng skillfully pulled out the magazine, loaded the bullet, inserted the magazine back, and loaded the chamber. All the movements were done in one go.

After thinking for a while, Shen Feng took out a tubular object about ten centimeters long from his backpack and carefully installed it on the muzzle of the pistol.

Then he stuck his head out of the carriage window, looked around for his target, and aimed his gun.

puff--

There was only a slight sound, and half of the flying bird about 20 meters away from the carriage fell to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Flanders pupils suddenly contracted, "Good, so fast."

"This weapon is several times faster than a crossbow arrow. Even I can only vaguely see a trace of its afterimage."

"If it's used for a sneak attack, even I might get hit if I'm not careful."

As he spoke, Flanders seemed to have thought of something. He reached out and grabbed Shen Feng's shoulder, and said excitedly, "Xiao Feng, I wonder how much this weapon is worth? Is it difficult to make?"

"If there are any extra ones, I would like to buy two."

"Of course, I don't need it myself, but there are two food-type soul masters in our Shrek Academy. I want to buy two for them to use for self-defense."

(End of this chapter)