Chapter 41: Apocalypse Equipment (1/2)
Chapter 41: Apocalypse Equipment
Bai Yi closed his eyes after seeing that Yu Han had left. He also had to hurry up now; he didn’t know what might happen if he let Yu Han reach the research facility in Tongariro National Park first.
“Old Harvey, why don’t you bring us to see your apocalypse equipment? I heard that it’s really impressive.” Bai Yi said to Old Harvey. The rest who became rather down from the departure of Yu Han’s group immediately started to pay attention.
“Of course, that’s all the equipment that I’ve collected!” Old Harvey was a fanatical apocalypse believer, so he instantly became excited talking about his apocalypse equipment.
The others were quite surprised as well. Apocalypse equipment?
In reality, Hopper and his family, as well as Mavis and the others, only entered this base half a day earlier than Bai Yi’s group. After that, the monsters appeared, and they found Bai Yi and the other severely injured people. A lot of them didn’t even know that Old Harvey had this ‘apocalypse equipment’. After all, not everybody was as meticulous and thorough as Hong Qi Hua.
Old Harvey collected a lot of weapons, both hot and cold.
Katanas, machetes, broad swords, sabres!
Fire axe, heavy axe…!
A flamethrower and a hook gun!
Other than that, they were still 20 handguns and more than 10 submachine guns, 3 sniper rifles, 2 assault rifles and an uncountable number of bullets. Maybe when compared to the military this was nothing much, but when one realized that this was all acquired by Old Harvey himself, then it was absolutely astounding. Of course, Old Harvey’s status wasn’t that of just a fanatical apocalypse believer. This medium-sized base, along with those weapons, wasn’t something a normal citizen could acquire.
However, nobody was in the mood to care about Old Harvey’s status now; they were all dazzled by these rare military weapons.
“These things were modified; you can’t buy them outside! Although they still can’t compare to the weapons that the military use, their power is already really amazing. Of course, these things aren’t standard issue in the military.” Old Harvey explained as he walked. The people walking behind were all curious. Just how powerful were these weapons? Could they be used against those monsters?
“This is the flamethrower, who wants to try?” Old Harvey said to everybody.
“I’ll try! How do you use this?” Qin Kai Rui was the most excited, and the others didn’t fight with him over it either.
“You hold this here, this is the safety. Remember, do not point it at any of your allies, the destructive power of this thing is amazing.” Old Harvey said seriously first and did not immediately pass the weapon to Qin Kai Rui. This wasn’t a joke, if the person treated it as a toy and fooled around then somebody really could die.
The flamethrower used butane gas cassettes as the fuel source, it could be carried around on your back, and it connected to a muzzle on your hand. It could spew out high-temperature flames of more than 1000 degrees Celsius up to a distance of 400 meters away. The destructive power of this weapon was extremely huge, but it was also heavily dependent on fuel for its effectiveness. Old Harvey only had 20 butane cassettes and every cassette could only last for half an hour, so it couldn’t be used carelessly.
Everyone listened to Old Harvey explain but didn’t pay it much mind.
After Old Harvey finished his explanation and demonstration, Qin Kai Rui grabbed hold of the flamethrower and squeezed the trigger, pointing it at an iron pot three meters away.
With a ‘Pu!’, everybody got a shock!
Blue flames instantly shot out from the muzzle and halfway through the flames became as wide as a plate in size. The flames frenziedly consumed the oxygen in the air for combustion and within 10 seconds, the iron pot started to show signs of melting. Even though they were all quite far away, everyone could still feel the scorching air.
“Hahahaha! How awesome!” Qin Kai Rui laughed excitedly, already treating the flamethrower like his own.
“The flamethrower was initially meant to be used for welding, but this one went through some modifications and resulted in the power and distance of the flames increasing greatly. However, this caused the temperature of the flames to fall but I think you guys understand that.” Old Harvey explained proudly.
They understood, of course they understood!
With the flamethrower as the first demonstration, everyone was filled with expectations over the hook gun.
The head of the hook gun was a 3-hooked claw; it used liquid nitrogen as the propellant and was connected to a high tensile strength titanium cable. Within a distance of 20 meters, it could even pierce through a 1-meter thick bridge pier. Moreover, the 3-hooked claw would automatically open up upon piercing through an object and lodge itself in it. Using the high tensile strength titanium cable, it could grab a hold of anything. Of course, if it really was used against a monster then it was more likely that the monster would pull you over.
After Qin Kai Rui tested the flamethrower, he wanted to try out the hook gun as well. However, Hong Qi Hua walked over and took the hook gun from Old Harvey. Seeing that it was Hong Qi Hua, Qin Kai Rui blanked for a while, and stepped back timidly.