Chapter 706: Four Years

The reason for this is to reduce the frontal pressure of each wall and to facilitate the design of internal load-bearing columns.

This idea was contributed by Village Chief Pei Di.

In terms of underground construction, they are the real experts.

They can use the clues to infer the direction of the groundwater and the activity of the ground veins in the future.

The former is the most common cause of small-scale underground landslides. Once the humidity in a certain cave is above the normal level all the year round, especially if there is water seepage to varying degrees, the danger of the cave's collapse will rise linearly, and some may even become directly into **.

The latter is the culprit of large-scale cave collapses. Master diggers such as underground gnomes and mountain dwarves, when digging caves, do not dig casually. They will actively avoid the leylines that can serve as the main support points. , and even consciously strengthen it, making the entire dungeon stronger.

As Xiao En imagined at the beginning, after the purple earth-digging worms are in hand, they only need to find a straight line and dig to the northern fortress in one go.

This kind of thinking is a bit too taken for granted, completely ignoring the ever-changing nature.

Many parts of the earth look similar on the outside, but the internal composition is different, and the variety is beyond imagination.

According to the hierarchical structure, the soil layer can be divided into: covering layer, leaching layer, transition layer, sedimentary layer, parent material layer and parent rock layer.

If it is classified according to the soil quality, it can be divided into: loose soft soil, ordinary soil, gravel hard soil, soft rock, sub-hard rock, hard rock, and extra-hard rock.

The structure of the soil layer is not static, and the conditions of different places are different, which is inseparable from the changes of the general environment.

All kinds of soil are also mixed together. Maybe the first 100 meters is still rocky soil, and the last 100 meters will become gravel and solid soil.

If they are simply rushing to dig holes, the purple worms naturally don't need to think about these things, they can just walk in a straight line, and they don't care if they will collapse after they walk through.

If you want to dig an underground passage that can be used for a long time and is not easily damaged by the natural environment, you must avoid some dangerous areas.

For example, the submerged layer and the deep water layer, even magic rocks, cannot withstand the erosion of water.

Another example is the desert area, at least not too shallow, and make full use of the underground veins as support points.

Because the surface of the desert area is too easy to change, a gust of wind can turn the basin into a sand dune, which greatly increases the pressure on the ground. If the channel is built directly under the sand, it will be easily crushed.

In fact, the environment where the City of Shadows is located is not an ideal environment for a large dungeon, but is affected by the energy and laws overflowing from space cracks over the years. The surrounding areas are seriously darkened and the ground has become relatively stable. Only now has the current dungeon.

In fact, the entire City of Shadows is centered on the space crack, which is circular. The farther away from the space crack, the worse the stability of the ground, and the more difficult it is to build a large number of caves.

In other words, if the cracks in the space are really completely closed, the stability of the City of Shadows will definitely be affected.

Therefore, many residents of the City of Shadows are not as strong as Alma about closing the space cracks, and some even waver from side to side.

Once they are not handled properly, their future will be deeply affected.

The discovery of this investigation was secretly kept in mind by Sean, and if there was a disagreement with Alma due to a space crack in the future, he could start from this.

The biggest weakness of the lawful good camp is that they are easily threatened by the overall situation.

Sean found that he was definitely at the level of a madman in terms of infrastructure, and once immersed in it, he was a little bit unable to extricate himself.

In the City of Shadows, he was definitely not as simple as building his own mage tower.

After launching, Sean couldn't bear the complicated and disorderly layout of the City of Shadows, especially the way to the Alma Labyrinth was too complicated.

As soon as the underground mage tower had a slight start, he mobilized the residents of the city of shadows to carry out a major reconstruction of the city of shadows. In particular, several main passages leading directly to the mage tower were opened first, connecting the villages of most of the local residents, so that It will greatly enhance their support for the construction of the mage tower, and facilitate the transportation of materials, especially the mushroom ingredients provided by the mushroom people.

The project here has not been completed yet, and the construction of the underground tunnel leading to the Yongye Army has also been put on the agenda.

Don't forget, there is more than one earth-digging purple bug.

After the construction of the Mage Tower in the City of Shadows was running normally, Xiao En took the Dragon Soul and the others to another energy mine and found another earth-digging purple worm that was dormant there.

Except that it took a little time to find the trace of the earth-digging purple worm in the complex cave, the whole process went smoothly.

The strength of this earth-digging purple worm was obviously weaker than the one captured first. Not only was it two sizes smaller, but it was also several times younger in age.

Dragon Soul's previous guess was correct. This earth-digging purple worm was generated by the self-split of the previous earth-digging purple worm. From the genetic level, both sides are the same.

There is only one thing I guessed wrong, that is, this guy was not split temporarily to deal with Sean.

This kind of self-split not only needs to consume a lot of energy, but also consumes terrifying flesh and blood. After the split, both the mother and daughter need to eat frantically, at least tens of thousands of prairie cattle, to make up for it.

When Xiao En first provoked the earth-digging purple worm, the other one was nearby, but it didn't have time to join the battle.

Sean didn't bother to use his brain to come up with too complicated names for the purple worms, so he simply distinguished them by serial numbers. The one that was done first was named number one, and the one that was done later was number two.

When Sean drove the No. 2 purple worm back to the City of Shadows, the residents here were shocked again, because they had never seen two purple worms appearing at the same time. No one is full enough to observe this terrifying subterranean predator up close.

In addition to the shock, there was a burst of ecstasy.

Because they have personally experienced the convenience of a controlled ground-digging purple worm building underground.

They mobilized the entire village and spent several years of excavation work. The digging purple worm can be completed in a few days. They only need to spend a small amount of manpower to refine it on this basis.

The mountain dwarves mobilized the entire clan's adult workforce, including those women, and the speed of forging steel bars couldn't keep up with the magic bricks made by the earth-digging purple worm for half a day.

Many times, the earth-digging purple worm had to stop and wait for the construction progress of the mountain dwarves and subterranean gnomes.

The road arrangement of the City of Shadows was carried out in the spare time of the Digger Ziworm.

It is obviously redundant for two earth-digging purple worms to build a mage tower together.

When the No. 2 Burrowing Purple Worm rushed over, it replaced the No. 1 Burrowing Purple Bug, and focused on opening up the underground tunnel to the Yongye Army Territory.

After the channel is opened, all the resources of the Yong Ye army can come up, but it is only one aspect.

On the other hand, Xiao En wants to use the purple earth-digging worm to speed up the construction of some key facilities of the Eternal Night Army, and make full use of the energy mines mined from the energy crystallization pit.

Otherwise, no matter how many energy crystals he digs, it will be meaningless.

When the Digging Purple Worm took half a year to dig a 1,500-kilometer-long underground passage and return to the Yongye Army, one can imagine the shock it brought.

It's a pity that this is an absolute secret of the Yong Ye army leader. Except for a very small number of high-level people who know a little bit, this news has never been announced to the public.

After the No. 1 digging purple worm returned to the northern fortress, it only stayed here for a few months, connecting several areas with many caves in the Andes Mountains through underground passages.

The point is to open an underground passage from the northern fortress to the Andes inland lake, and then continue south.

Passing through the mountains, I entered the city of Geqi at the junction of the Donau Plain and the Karth Hills.

This place is currently Marshal Tagore's defense area. The main job is not to guard against the Kingsley family, but to mine. This is the largest metal mining area of ​​the Eternal Night Army.

The No. 1 earth-digging purple bug stayed here for three years.

In the past three years, its output has been absolutely terrifying, and the entire western front of the Dunau Plain has been changed to revolve around it.

It first helped to set up an energy reactor here.

Then around this energy reactor, a semi-automatic iron ore mining line was built.

After the mining of iron ore increased, large-scale steelmaking plants powered by energy reactors naturally came into being.

In his spare time, he also opened up a channel to go deep into several rich mines led by the Carter army, from where he continuously stole the mines.

Large and small fortresses, towns, and fortresses sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The entire western front is impenetrable, but if the Kingsley family has the courage to invade again, they will find themselves unable to move forward, and there will be nails everywhere.

An underground tunnel from the Donnao Plain to the Huayu Plateau is naturally indispensable.

However, this tunnel was only opened in secret and was not put into use, because once the Duke Brian family on the Garden Plateau knew about it, they would probably fall into madness and fight against the leader of the Eternal Night Army without hesitation, cutting off the relationship with them. All trade dealings.

The reason why the Duke of Brian’s family ignored the small actions of the Yongye army leader in the Huayu Plateau and the cooperative relationship with the Warlock Alliance, and looked like a self-admired, is because they have the natural danger of the Huayu Plateau. No matter how powerful the military leader is, it is impossible to shake their dominance.

As for the Warlock Alliance, the two parties have never been in a slave relationship. On the contrary, in some respects, the influence of the Warlock Alliance is higher than that of the local lords and nobles, which has already aroused the resentment of those in power. If it were not for the influence of the Warlock Alliance on scholars Too big, they uprooted the top of the sky long ago.

The Yong Ye army leader wants to take over the Warlock Alliance's blame, and they can't wait to give it away with both hands, so how can they get in the way.

It's just that the same thing, in the hands of different people, has different effects.

The Warlock Alliance is in the Huayu Plateau, which is a huge burden for the Grand Duke Brian's family.

But when it came to the Yongye army leader, it became a powerful boost for their development.

After four years of continuous construction and investment, the First International College established by the Yongye Army Leader and the Warlock Alliance in Brother Hong Kong has begun to take shape, and has continuously trained two batches of political, economic, and academic students for the Yongye Army Leader. The mid-to-high-level talents in the field have made up for one of their shortcomings.

Because of their joining, the military government model of the Yongye Army has gradually changed to a conventional model.

In particular, the large-scale development of the Dunau Plain has given them a chance to shine. For this kind of comprehensive large-scale construction, brains are easier to use than fists.

Under their agitation and leadership, a wave of Yongye people abandoned the familiar and comfortable life in the Andes Basin, and went deep into the relatively wild Donau Plain, where they built villages, reclaimed wasteland and farmed fields, and incorporated the crocodile people who had never migrated.

Villages and gathering points are blooming and taking root in the Donau Plain.

The reclaimed farmland spread around these villages and gathering points.

Except that the weather here is too hot and humid in summer, and there are too many mosquitoes and flies, which makes the Andes people who come out of the mountain for the first time feel a little uncomfortable.

Generally speaking, the Donau Plain, transformed from a swamp, is fertile and frighteningly fertile. As long as the cattle are harnessed, plowed deeply, the ground is leveled, the weeds are cleared, and the seeds are sprinkled, there is no need to apply fertilizer, as long as the managers If you are diligent enough and clean up the overgrown weeds twice, the harvest will definitely not be too bad.

Not to mention those students with agricultural backgrounds have been researching better seeds, more convenient farming tools, more effective weeding methods, and more reasonable fattening cultivation.

The combination of a series of conditions has created the four consecutive years of bumper crops for Yongye Junling, which is getting better every year and doubles upwards.

Eighteen years of eternal night.

The Yong Ye army leader fought a turnaround in the grain, and his own grain output and consumption are basically the same. According to the current situation, next year's self-produced grain will have a surplus.

Although the output and consumption are on the same level, the Yong Ye army still eats a lot of food. The food imports from the Asia Minor Plain and the Huayu Plateau have never stopped. No matter how much food can be shipped, they will not hesitate. Eat it in one bite, of course it is to save food.

However, the grain trade market is shrinking year by year.

It's not that the harvest is not good, on the contrary, whether it is the Asia Minor Plain or the Huayu Plateau, except for small-scale natural disasters, it is still a year of great abundance. Even wandering beggars rarely starve to death on the streets during the harvest season. When most people are rich, kindness tends to be richer.

But even local lords and aristocrats who are not sensitive to politics can clearly feel the gathering wind and rain in the Arshan continent. As long as they have a little bit of political wisdom, they will give priority to filling their own granaries.

The principle of not panic when there is surplus food at home is common in all worlds.

At that time, whether it is to sit on the ground and raise prices, or to exchange food for protection by force, or to hire people to protect themselves, are all feasible strategies.

When the major lords and nobles were reluctant to sell the grain in their hands, the grain circulating in the market immediately decreased by as much as 80%.

It sounds cruel, but it is the truth.

The ruling pyramid of the Byron Alliance has long been severely deformed.

Ninety-nine percent of the wealth in the entire league is in the hands of one in ten thousand people, whether it is existing or will be produced soon.

The turmoil in the Byron Union was manifold.

The most immediate cause comes from the very top.

In the third year of King Laurie of the Lancelot royal family, he ignored the opposition of the royal family and went to the holy place of Holy Eden to make a pilgrimage. month, listen to the teachings of the God of Truth.

During these three months, the Holy See of Saint Ether frenziedly campaigned, telling all believers and citizens that King Laurie was the chosen son sent by the God of Truth to the world, in order to save the people of all ages and avoid the apocalypse. reduced to hell.

The effect is very remarkable, and many people who did not originally believe in the Holy See also converted.

Because this time, the Holy See not only sent a large number of missionaries with holy power, but also brought the enemy of the true god—the undead.

These undead naturally come from the undead kingdom that is constantly spreading on the Odin prairie.

The Holy See first showed the terrifying undead nature of these undead to the world in public, and then used holy power to purify them in public, coupled with their set of sermons that have been revised for hundreds of years, the natural effect is amazing.