Chapter 322 - 247: Rocket Jump

Chapter 322: Chapter 247: Rocket Jump

"But before that, we need to solve another problem." Ye Qingzhou had just finished painting a grand picture for them, but her tone shifted abruptly.

Lin Fan and Ye Qingniao were standing side by side, their gazes fixed on the night sky outside the window, both clearly lost in their own worlds.

One was imagining his own heroic figure, the other was picturing the scene. A single sentence from Ye Qingzhou yanked them back to reality, and they both blurted out in unison, almost subconsciously:

"What problem?"

Their highly synchronized, dazed expressions made them look exactly like two students who’d been caught daydreaming in class by the teacher.

"Oh, right!"

Before Ye Qingzhou could explain, Ye Qingniao’s brain finally caught up. She glanced at Lin Fan, then at the blueprints.

"Didn’t you say you can only jump a dozen meters or so at most? This optimal range is at least thirty meters, let alone fifty. How do you plan to get up there?"

She pointed a finger upward.

"Step on your right foot with your left to fly up?"

"Hah, I thought it was something serious."

Upon hearing this, Lin Fan’s expression didn’t grow solemn. Instead, a carefree ease spread across his face. He waved his hand dismissively, looking as if he had a trick up his sleeve.

"I can’t do it myself, but someone else can."

He walked over to the empty window, jutted his chin toward the RV across the road in the distance, and said matter-of-factly,

"I’ll just have Zhaozhao fly me up..."

’A Chu Zhaozhao-brand bomber plus a Lin Fan-brand air-to-surface missile!’

Lin Fan imagined the scenario in his head.

The air was silent for a second, then Ye Qingniao let out an undisguised scoff.

"How stupid," she commented mercilessly. "I can already picture her circling above your battlefield. You give the order, and she swoops down to carry you up..."

"That’s one backup plan, but you can’t exactly carry her around with you at all times."

Ye Qingzhou was noncommittal about this plan, but her gaze was sharper and her words more practical.

"Besides, the essence of her ability isn’t true flight. She can’t be that fast."

Ye Qingzhou had made some preliminary observations of Chu Zhaozhao’s ability and naturally had her own assessment.

"When you need to use this weapon, it’ll most likely be in a critical situation or against a powerful enemy. In a high-pressure moment like that, you won’t always have the luxury of leisurely summoning your ’transport vehicle’."

"Hmm?"

Lin Fan’s mind was sharp. He heard the negation in Ye Qingzhou’s tone but also detected a complete lack of panic. His eyes darted, and he leaned forward slightly, looking at her with anticipation.

"Since you put it that way, Colonel Ye, it seems... you already have a solution?"

Ye Qingzhou didn’t speak. She just turned around, rummaged through the messy pile of blueprints on the table for a moment, and then precisely pulled out a rough draft from the very bottom, handing it to Lin Fan.

"Take a look at this."

Lin Fan took the drawing, and Ye Qingniao squeezed over as well, craning her neck curiously to look at the paper.

It was a sketch with a completely different style from the "power axe" blueprint spread out on the table.

If the power axe was a wild battle-axe, then the object in this drawing was the epitome of streamlined design.

A long, slender shaft, a sharp tip, a conservative cutting edge, and a tail with a distinct counterweight structure... that still looked like a nozzle.

Viewed as a conventional cold weapon, it was undoubtedly a long spear.

It had a tip, a shaft, and an edge.

But after staring at the special tail structure for a moment, Lin Fan’s first thought was—’This is still a goddamn rocket.’

"Isn’t this just a rocket?"

Ye Qingniao said after glancing at the blueprint.

"This is the secondary weapon I designed for you. A heavy power spear."

Ye Qingzhou picked up a pen and quickly sketched the airflow direction on the drawing.

"The structure is very simple, with no complex internal mechanisms. I merely improved the airflow chamber at the spear’s tail and optimized the head for piercing and cutting."

She paused, then added a data point.

"And it’s very light. The total weight can be kept to one hundred kilograms."

"One hundred kilograms... very light..."

Ye Qingniao, standing to the side, rolled her eyes. She clearly had no energy left to comment on this group’s redefinition of "light weaponry."

"The power component of this weapon wasn’t designed to increase its lethality. Its nozzle faces downward, and it has an extremely high thrust-to-weight ratio."

Ye Qingzhou looked at Lin Fan and held up one finger. "It was designed this way for a single purpose..."

"To launch me upward," Lin Fan said quietly, looking at the blueprint for the ’skyrocket’.

"Exactly."

Ye Qingzhou continued her explanation, her tone becoming more animated.

"Because it only needs to provide axial thrust, without the complex attitude control required by the power axe, the nozzle’s structural design is much simpler. It uses the same de Laval nozzle, but I’ve already calculated the basic parameters."

After speaking, Ye Qingzhou glanced at her watch, then placed the drawing on the table and quickly scribbled some annotations.

"With these dimensions, we won’t need any complex manufacturing processes. There’s plenty of steel at the construction site."

She looked up at Lin Fan.

"Go find your people and have them cut a base template. Using that ’Shaping’ ability of yours, we can build it right now."

"..." Lin Fan picked up the blueprint and looked at it, then rolled it up and put it in his pocket. He grabbed a walkie-talkie from a nearby table and pressed the talk button.

"Brother Liu, this is Lin Fan. Where’s Wu Haitao? I’m coming down to find you guys. I need something..."

He put down the walkie-talkie, walked directly to the window, and leaped out.