Chapter 256 - 228 Trigger
The higher-ups regard Chen Xuantian as just a ’trigger’; he doesn’t need to worry about casework.
However, with the Gou Qian’er incident, there’s no need to think about quantum communication for now. The virtual cabin requires inspection and repair. The third team suffered heavy casualties, Fang Su Fifth Zeng and Gou Qian’yi need to recuperate, and Gou Qian’er’s vacancy likely needs to be filled.
With nothing better to do, after returning to Cangtian Base, Chen Xuantian played basketball—oops—tested the pen flying sword at the training base.
The design of the Poison Needle Pen Gun actually dates back quite some time; it’s for covert assassination, based on the principle of a muzzleloader, with a relatively simple structure. Once assembled, it relies on compressed air to fire, and poison is added to the bullets to increase lethality.
The one that Fang Su gave him doesn’t have particularly advanced technology, apart from the paralysis toxin; mainly, there’s a ’flying sword chip’ placed at the pen tip, which can adjust the bullet’s trajectory mid-flight. But it’s still not a real flying sword; it can’t fly on its own and needs to be launched from the barrel.
Moreover, the chip at the pen tip also requires charging, and the range of movements it can perform is limited. At most, it can control accuracy and improve hit rate, hovering around a five or six dozen meters arc. Performing actions like ’neck-cutting, throat-slashing flying sword beheading’ that don’t quite comply with the laws of physics is even harder.
Also, due to time constraints, only one pen warhead applied with the ’flying sword chip’ has been experimentally made, and the production of the flying sword chip is also classified. So it has to be recovered after firing, and to avoid damaging the chip, direct collisions should be avoided as much as possible, achieved more through ’slicing’ or ’grazing.’ Therefore, even if it hits, without poison, it would only cause as much harm as a mosquito bite.
So, in terms of power, don’t even compare it to a gun. Probably even the force exerted by a basketball thrown by Chen Xuantian is much greater.