Galaxy's Voice

After two months of adjustments, the people at the ironworks finally delivered two sets of products to Xue Ming: a main weapon and a secondary weapon custom-made for the gunsmith and the Big Sister, as well as the ultimate weapon for close combat.

A row of boxes was neatly arranged on the table in the workers' recreation room. Counting from right to left, Xue Ming opened the boxes one by one according to the themes of [Wen Yu] and [Wu Huan].

Edogawa Tatsuro also spoke to the gunsmith about the firing mechanism of the "appetizer," emphasizing that pistol design is very particular about space utilization, and this engineer from Kobe was a master of it.

"Gunsmith, this is the pistol that Foreman Eric and I made for you. We argued for a long time before finally settling on a formal name for it, including the brand you requested. The full name is [Wenyu Kobe Mitsu- made] -- it sounds like a sword name, I hope it won't cause you any trouble."

When Xue Ming picked up the pistol, he felt it was too light. To accommodate the 9x39 ammunition, its bolt assembly almost completely squeezed out the space of the firing mechanism. The Desert Eagle, which uses.357 or.50 ammunition, is very bulky because its ammunition is large and cumbersome, and the design of the firearm must give way to the bullet.

The same applies to 9x39 bullets; the extra 20 millimeters require a longer slide travel and a more powerful shell-gripping hook.

Darren and Eric delivered a perfect result; the gun had a peculiar design and underwent numerous modifications to accommodate rifle ammunition.

The external hammer follows the classic design of the Browning 1911, which saves a lot of space for the slide and also showcases Browning's firearm design philosophy that was a century ahead of its time.

This hammer is particularly special; it's made into a strip-shaped straight hammer, rather than a hoe-shaped hammer. There are two advantages to doing this.

When not in use, the bar hammer can be almost concealed within the slide, flush with the case catch at the rear of the slide, making it easy to carry. The lighter weight of the bar hammer head reduces the hammer resistance encountered by the slide during recoil, and the overall posture of the gun is more stable when it is propelled by the gunpowder of the bullet.

The grips no longer feature the beaver tail design, and there is no grip safety or carrying safety.

Instead, there is a ring finger safety – a groove in the ring finger area of the titanium grip, requiring the ring finger to grip firmly in order to pull the trigger and release the hammer.

Its slide-free unlocking mechanism is ingenious, consisting of three movable latches forming a symmetrical double-sided release structure. Pressing it once ejects the magazine, and pressing it a second time releases the slide-free, allowing a new bullet to be chambered and locked for firing.

To the best of Xue Ming's knowledge, no weapons company in the world has integrated these two functions into its firearms designs.

Darren and foreman Eric did it, and they even made the two release mechanisms into one large component.

"The reason I'm called Kobe Mitsu is because I was born here." Mr. Tatsuro smiled with satisfaction, "Kagemitsu is the inscription of a famous sword manufacturer. It means a dragon head relief, like the bar hammer you saw, Mr. Gunsmith. It's also called a dragon horn hammer, which means that the Divine Dragon's antlers strike out thunder and lightning."

Jiang Xueming held this secondary weapon as if he were seeing a peerless divine weapon.

"Sophisticated!"

The titanium alloy grip is polished and has a bronze-colored, dragon-scale-shaped anti-slip texture. Unlike the layers of horizontal ridges, these semi-circular scales feel very comfortable to hold, more like the weapons of ancient warriors.

When your fingers are inserted into the grip safety, your ring finger slides into the groove, and you can hear the sound of the internal ball bearing mechanism engaging, like the sound of flowing water.

Its dragon body and horns are very beautiful, and look at its gun barrel—

--It was a thick and sturdy barrel with a front sight integrated into the design.

Made of titanium alloy using ultrasonic forging and ultrasonic flaw detection in one piece, in order to ensure the success rate, Eric scrapped more than 300 parts of the same specification. There are no sand holes, air holes or alloy delamination inside, and the internal stress is completely eliminated. Its dragon mouth is almost like a work of art.

Without the obstruction of a slide, this barrel resembles the island-style external barrel of the Infiniti series.

The residual heat from the bullet can affect accuracy, but by making the barrel and sight a single unit and exposing half of the barrel, the residual heat from the muzzle can be dissipated very efficiently.

The floating island structure prevents the front sight from sinking and locking, completely eliminating the problem of front sight jump. This structure has appeared on the Desert Eagle, but the Desert Eagle's segmented slide was simply to overcome the recoil of the.50 caliber, and had nothing to do with rapid fire or accuracy.

The component that connects to the stock and barrel is its large yet sophisticated muzzle brake.

It connects the gun's body and the slide rail together, locking the barrel firmly onto the rail. Like a train, the sliding motion is constantly repeating, wearing down the rail with each movement, making the contact surface finer and looser. The design of this muzzle brake, along with the body and slide rail, is truly ingenious.

Most handguns in the world use the sliding rails of the Browning 1911 standard.

Their slide rails are no more than three millimeters wide, made of only a thin layer of steel, and will experience increasing wear and tolerance issues during use.

Taro designed six multi-faceted slide rails for Kobe Mitsu. They are like a series of textured strips of a jigsaw puzzle, which are joined together by the natural bending and stretching elasticity of the metal, making them tight and solid. When Jiang Xueming picked it up, the long stroke experience brought by the 6.5-inch barrel was almost indescribable.

Such an exquisite design is the result of abandoning the bolt lock safety, traditional dry-release, traditional quick-release for troubleshooting, and traditional locking structure.

Xue Ming searched for a long time but still couldn't figure out how to open it. It was like a Luban lock made by an old carpenter. If the maker hadn't done it himself, the novice wouldn't have been able to find the way.

Darren approached Xue Ming, grabbed Xue Ming's hand, and guided his ring finger halfway to return the safety ball to the correct position. He then quickly pressed the release button twice, grabbed the muzzle brake, and removed the slide and barrel together.

Xue Ming then got a glimpse of the Divine Dragon's internal organs; the most sophisticated aspect of this activator's structure was its mortise and tenon joint cutting method.

Darren and Eric didn't have a multi-axis machining center on hand, so all the grinding and cutting of parts were handed over to [Fragrant Dream]. Brown corundum or glass beads—in these days, Steel Cat has been practically spitting out sandblasting, producing countless scraps.

After Xue Ming reassembled the firearms, Dalang delivered two <Alien> magazines.

It is completely different from the square shape of standard pistol or rifle magazines.

It's not a double or single row; it resembles an oval tube.

--The same applies to Kobe Mitsu's magazine well; the vertical or parallel arrangement of rifle cartridges is too heavy for a pistol grip.

This feeding mechanism is more like the spiral arrangement of a drum magazine, with twenty-one bullets packed tightly into it from top to bottom, like a spiral staircase.

To ensure stable feeding of this magazine, the magazine spring, like the recoil spring of the firearm itself, is a flat spring.

The feeding mechanism is just as Mr. Darren described for semi-automatic shotguns. Two rounds are pre-loaded into the bolt, one chambered and ready to fire, and the other tilted upwards at almost a 65-degree angle, waiting for the bolt carrier's lever to move. The bolt then moves backwards, pulling out the spent cartridge case. The one-way lever, like pushing a shotgun shell, pushes the ammunition in the reserve magazine into the firing chamber.

The manufacturing of these complex, <Alien> parts requires a great deal of materials and manpower. Each processing step involves adjusting the various internal stresses caused by the impact of bullets, the interlocking of springs, and the counterbalancing of steel and various alloys to maintain the dynamic balance of the gun during firing. All of this must be done by humans; simple mechanical assembly lines simply cannot accomplish this.

Ultimately, it was its trigger—

--The crescent-shaped trigger uses a sliding, rather than bending, firing mechanism. Everything is designed to match the gun's movement during firing, as well as the length of the gunsmith's fingers.

The steel artists ultimately brought the weight of the entire gun down to 1,760 grams.

Xue Ming fired as soon as he inserted the magazine, and the sound of bullets exploding immediately rang out in the workers' recreation room. The rifle bullets, which had not been slowed down by the flash suppressor, roared angrily!

In close-quarters combat at a distance of seventeen meters, within a mere four seconds, Xue Ming the bullseye on all twenty-one targets. He was almost like a killing machine running at full power. The bullets he spat out and the way he moved his arm to pull the gun sideways were all testaments to his honed skills and the might of Jing Guang's ruthless army.

While the spent cartridge cases were still rolling on the ground, the targets on which the rubber tires were located had already burst open, the terrifying kinetic energy of the rifle bullets leaving astonishing lacerations on these targets.

Jessica was dumbfounded. This was beyond her common sense. To be able to create widespread casualties so quickly with such a simple and small weapon was something she never dared to imagine.

The repeatedly moving slide is skillful and agile under the tutelage of the ironworker. The muzzle brake and island barrel both have DLC diamond coating, making them extremely reliable, accurate, fast, and deadly.

If viewed through the lens of ancient connoisseurs of swords and weapons, this is a rare protective treasure, a peerless sword that can emit a cold light in the night.

After a very long time, Xue Ming finally let out a breath; he could hardly believe that he could do such a close-quarters shooting feat.

As for the guns he usually gets, rifles have their uses, pistols have theirs, and his previous wife—no, his previous partner—was a titanium alloy version of the COMBAT MASTER.

"Its trigger pull is really light, and the rebound is quick. It fires as fast as my finger can go. The magazine release button and slide reset button being made into one almost halved the reload time—I can't describe the feeling."

He raised his gun, checked the sights, and looked from the rear sight towards the front sight. The aiming baseline felt as sharp and comfortable as a spear that could break down a door.

The rifle test firing just now was too frightening. Because the 9mm pistol bullet's firing method can cause very limited damage, the bullet's kinetic energy was almost more than doubled. It was like an ordinary martial arts master using his signature move, but it produced explosive power like a fantasy novel, which greatly surprised him.

The muzzle brake allowed the standard 5.4-inch barrel to be extended to 6.5 inches, and the longer barrel made the bullets more powerful. Its power was almost comparable to that of small-caliber rifles.

Jiang Xueming had originally thought that if Foreman Eric could really build a.60 caliber explosive gun, even if it meant [Fragrant Dream] suffering greatly, he would teach Hunwei to use this weapon that no human could wield. However, Jing Guang's answer made him very satisfied, even overjoyed.

The appetizers are finished--

--The second weapon case contained a finished product that was modified based on the VSS silenced rifle.

Although a reference model exists, its firing mechanism and bolt assembly have been completely altered, retaining only the forward-facing and silencing components.

The prototype was a Soviet weapon, and the industrial design was naturally completed by Soviet engineers. Gancharov and Xue Ming succinctly stated its name: "[Wenyu Galaxy]."

As for why it's called the Milky Way--

--Because you can hear the sound of the Milky Way.

The stock of the <Alien> firearm is quite interesting. You need to tap the tether next to the right-side bolt handle, and the hydraulically driven stock will immediately spring onto Xue Ming's shoulder.

This rifle lacks a traditional magazine well and handguard, only having a bridge for mounting sights. As for the magazine?

Xue Ming didn't understand, and even thought it was an alien weapon.

Apart from an oval-shaped interface at the ammunition feed mechanism, Xue Ming could not see any other openings.

Its shape resembles a submarine. It lacks a perforated handguard for heat dissipation, and when viewed from the open-bolt position, the chamber is completely sealed, making it quite strange.

If you gently shake the gun, you can hear a faint rhythm of flowing water.

Another weapons designer took out dessert, specifically a club used for close combat.

"This is the magazine, and also your melee weapon."

Xue Ming took a look and immediately understood the mystery behind it.

It was a long, oval-shaped magazine with a maximum diameter of about 45 millimeters, which could fit perfectly into the lower handguard of the Galaxy. Its surface was covered with fluorescent diamond powder, and it was also the answer sheet submitted by two masters of materials.

When aiming the gun, a strange sound of flowing water could be heard coming from below the sight.

Xue Ming couldn't see the muzzle, only the muzzle structure extending from the foregrip, resembling an Osprey flash suppressor.

When the trigger was pulled, the bullet struck the rubber target, followed by the cry of seagulls!

Upon hearing this sound, Gancharov burst into laughter.

Before Xue Ming could react, he pulled the trigger again.

--The cries of seagulls continued, but there were no more subsonic explosions exceeding 100 decibels.

The sonic boom of a supersonic bullet can travel almost two kilometers. Even the best flash suppressors in the world can only reduce the sound of a bullet to a level similar to the sound of a firecracker. It is impossible to eliminate the explosion sound of a bullet.

But what exactly is going on?

Xue Ming raised the gun, removed the magazine, and his intense curiosity made him very interested in the gun's internal structure. Where was that sizzling sound coming from?

"It's hydraulics and grease, no water. We didn't use a single drop." Gancharov laughed heartily. "We put a one-way valve in the gas system of the barrel. Traditional suppressors have to decelerate the bullet, absorbing the velocity of the propellant gas and the sound waves into that dark pipe. High-density grease and coolant, or the spare space in the hydraulic system, can do this—I bet Polechev and I that the valve will make a really strange sound! Like you hear, from the chamber to the barrel, then into the pressure relief valve, through the deceleration of the oil, it finally produces the [galaxy] sound. The sonic boom of the bullet is completely absorbed in the entire front section of this silenced rifle."

Its rate of fire is around 800 rounds per minute, and the bullet kinetic energy is average, but the sound of a seagull's cry is negligible compared to conventional ammunition. Perhaps when the enemy sentries hear its gunfire, they won't even know what's happening.

Ultimately, it comes down to sticks and clubs.

--Polechev called it [Wu Huan Ark].

It is crafted from the remains of the Ming De, ensuring reliable structural strength. Used as a magazine for the Galaxy, it can hold fifty 9x39 rifle rounds via a rotating stepped storage system.

This magazine is like a warhammer—

--The hammer part is a boat-shaped mount for attaching the butterfly tripod, like the spearhead of a Poland war hammer, while the other side is a concave four-sided hammerhead that can hold the front handguard of the galaxy.

Remove it, grip the anti-slip groove at the magazine's tail, and you can use the warhammer. Grip the weight-reducing cutout on the hammer body, which also serves as the bullet viewing window. This area can also be used as an anti-slip grip for the handguard.

Gancharov demonstrated other uses to Xue Ming, taking out the Ark separately and breaking off the spearhead, bending it into the shape of a cane or scepter.

With just a light press, the bullets in the magazine, propelled by the ruthless Ark Warhammer, spewed forth from the heat source of the Holy Light Greatsword through the opening in the neck of the hammerhead, spewing out ferocious flames and bullets.

Although it cannot be aimed, this kind of combat weapon practically screams "no martial ethics."

Jiang Xueming was still a little worried--

--Because this design sacrifices the hammer's sturdiness and reliability, with moving parts, there will always be deformation of the joints, affecting its lethality as a hammer.

Although the sound of the Milky Way was very pleasant, the dessert seemed to have lost its intended function.

Gancharov's words were a wake-up call.

"You want to fight in close combat? Why not use the Big Sister's body? Why not use the Big Sister's fighting weapon? A young man's first warhammer doesn't necessarily have to be used to kill enemies. It can be a cane, a magazine, or a vicious hidden weapon, but who cares if it can actually hit people?"

Jiang Xueming opened the Big Sister's dessert.

Inside was a two-handed sword, approximately 131 centimeters long and 37 millimeters wide.

"That makes sense!"