Chapter 26 Resources

Last time I came here with Rose, I didn't bring anything with me, but this time I came prepared. Release the crystal beetles and start eating the steel. These little guys have a special liking for hard things, and eating steel is like eating cake. According to the key points explained by Woma, we first need to determine the reserves of steel. The specific method is to first calculate the steel reserves in the trees and then calculate the steel reserves under the ground.

The reserves of trees are relatively easy to handle. The average height of trees in the forest is about 0 meters, and the average diameter of the bottom of trees is 19 meters. However, the trunks become thinner as they go up, and tree forks cannot be measured uniformly, so we put them together. A tree is roughly calculated as a right cylinder with a diameter of 14 meters and a height of 0 meters. Calculated in this way, the volume of a tree is approximately 41,563 cubic meters. The specific gravity of iron is 7.86, but this is steel because it is mixed with some special materials. The specific gravity is about 7.81. In other words, the weight of this tree is about 324,607 tons. After measurement, the entire cave is an oblong shape with a total area of ​​about 14,400 square kilometers, of which the Sand Forest only occupies an area of ​​about 10,000 square kilometers. These giant steel trees are very large. One tree covers an area of ​​about 900 square meters. In other words, excluding the gaps between trees, one square kilometer can only accommodate about 1,000 trees, so the entire forest has about 10 million trees. tree. In this way, it can be calculated that the steel reserves of these steel trees are approximately 3.24607 billion tons. Isn’t it incredible that a battleship has an empty displacement of 100,000 tons? The aircraft carrier's empty load is less than 100,000 tons! If all this steel were used to build warships, at least 32.46 million warships could be built. Each of these many ships requires tens of millions of people. We simply don’t need that many warships, and of course we won’t build so many warships. According to the capabilities of our guild, one to two thousand warships is a lot. Even if we all build warships with a self-weight of 100,000 tons, 00 warships will only have 200 million tons of steel.

After I finished the calculation, a German mm next to me said in surprise: "One tree can build 3 ships, is there any left? We can't use the entire forest. Even if we need to build 00 warships, we only need 600 trees." Trees are enough.”

At this time, Woma also said: "It seems that we don't need the steel made from digging the ground. It's enough to get these trees back."

"I think since the steel reserves are so large, why don't we try a compound made of gold beetles? Let them eat the steel, and maybe we can get high-hardness materials."

"This is a good idea, try it quickly!" Woma became excited upon hearing this.

I quickly asked the crystal beetle to do the experiment. Command the scarabs to climb to the top of the tree and start chewing the tree.

Xiaoyao Daodao asked: "Why don't you put it down and eat it? That way we can see it!"

"A tree weighs more than 300,000 tons. If it falls, will you help it?"

"oh!"

1 The speed at which the Ten Thousand Crystal Beetle gnaws things is truly terrifying. It took less than an hour for a tree to be gnawed away. After they finished eating, I directed them to spit out the synthetic product, and what came out was a black substance. When the things gathered were big enough, I picked one up and looked at it. It actually showed that it was a material and had attributes. I read the attribute. "Ink steel, the product of demonized steel, has a black and matte surface and can be smelted. Its melting point is slightly higher than steel, its hardness is more than twice that of steel, and its specific gravity is 7.9, which is slightly higher than steel."

"What a good thing!" Woma sighed: "The hardness is more than twice that of steel, which means that the graphite steel plate is stronger when the thickness is only half the steel plate. To reach the hardness of the graphite steel plate, the steel plate must be twice as thick as the graphite steel plate. thickness above."

Another German girl said: "Don't the president's crystal beetles wear out every time? Let's see how many have come out?"

After hearing what she said, I quickly asked the crystal beetle to concentrate the spit steel, but I was shocked. After eating more than 320,000 tons of steel, more than 30 tons of black steel came out, and the output was only 1%. Fortunately, there is a lot of steel here, so one percent can be withstood. Essinger's dock only has 4 slots, which means that a maximum of 4 docks can be built. According to the slot size of Essinger, a shipyard should be able to have 4 shipbuilding slots. This is a game. Shipbuilding is very fast, but each shipbuilding slot can only build one ship per day. 16 battleships require up to 1.6 million tons of steel. The Crystal Beetle can only produce 30 tons of steel in one hour. It feels like the output can't keep up with the consumption! Why don’t I have enough crystal beetles?

Seeing the look on my face, Woma asked, "What? Is the situation bad?"

I nodded. "The production loss is only one percent. A 10,000-crystal beetle can only produce close to 80,000 tons of graphite steel a day at full power, which is not even enough for a very large tonnage warship."

Woma comforted me and said: "You don't have to be so sad. Battleships are not entirely made of steel. There are still many parts inside the hull made of other materials. The outer shell of the battleship was built using 80,000 tons of graphite steel. Its dead weight should be more than 100,000 tons. The full-load displacement of such a warship will not be less than 500,000 tons. The captain may be more than 1,000 meters long. Such a large warship is already a super-super warship. The American Iowa The battleship is only 45,000 tons and more than 0 meters in length. It is already one of the top three battleships in the world in terms of displacement. We don’t need to build such a large battleship, right? The displacement of an aircraft carrier at full load is less than 100,000 tons! Why should we build it so big? "

"I don't want to build a warship according to standard specifications. We have the advantage of propellers and large thrust, so we don't need to consider speed. Moreover, our naval guns are too big. If the warship is not big, we cannot guarantee accurate shooting."

"You don't want to build a sea bunker, do you?"

I smiled and said: "How smart! I just want to build a sea bunker. Without considering the load, I require the armor thickness of our warships to be doubled. Because of the hardness of graphite steel, the actual hardness of our warships is five times that of ordinary warships. And the armor thickness is only twice as thick. How big would it be to build a warship like this with 80,000 tons of Mexican steel?"

Woma did some calculations. "The armor is doubled, and including the special defense of important parts, the dead weight is still 100,000 tons. Calculated from this, the full load displacement is about 150,000 tons, and the hull length should not exceed 700 meters. God! Such a warship can Are you running fast?"

"Let's build a boat first for testing when we get back. Anyway, the thrusters customized in Atlantis have arrived."

"Let's talk about this later, I'm a little dizzy."

"Haha! Well, let's talk about it when we get back."

After a night of busy work, we finally built several large teleportation arrays. Because they will be changed in the future, we built temporary teleportation arrays this time. After dawn, a large number of craftsmen NPCs and players crowded here to start work. Because there is no need for city walls and defense facilities, the most expensive and troublesome things in city construction are not needed. The construction speed of Steel City is surprisingly fast. After dawn, Steel City was very busy, and I took Woma back to Essinger.

At around 8 o'clock in the morning, a large group of players appeared outside Essinger City. The players in our guild all had standard equipment. The messy clothes worn by those outside the city clearly did not belong to our guild. Our guild rarely has contact with the outside world. Logically speaking, there should not be large groups of people entering the vicinity of Isengard. Vader cautiously ordered a warning and found someone to notify me.

When I rushed to the city wall, the team outside had already arrived less than 3 kilometers outside the city. It looked like there were no less than 3,000 people in total, and they looked like a convoy. There are a large number of carriages among these players, and judging from the ruts, the carriages are loaded with heavy loads. Now it seems that these are not here to attack us. The 3,000 people are not as many as the players in our guild. Not to mention the NPC guards in the city, even if we fight on the ground, all our players can deal with them. No one would be stupid enough to attack a city like Isinger with 3,000 people. Besides, I have never heard of anyone bringing so many carriages into a war!

I asked Vida to pay attention, but not to be too nervous, and I went inside the city wall and stood at the window halfway up the wall, looking at the city gate passage. Although there is already artificial intelligence, NPCs cannot fully reach the level of humans after all. Just in case, I arranged for players to stand guard at the door, and the guards rotate every half an hour. Fortunately, Essinger only has one external gate. .

At this time, four players were standing guard at the city gate wearing full equipment, but none of them were wearing helmets to facilitate distinction. Of course, you can't just use players as guards. Players are only responsible for commanding. If you really want to encounter enemies, high-level NPCs are more powerful. At this time, there were two rows of NPCs standing neatly on both sides of the door. Each row was composed of 8 Seraphs, 2 Asiagod Knights, 1 Blood Lord, 50 Night Guards, and 0 Blood Skeletons. As long as something goes wrong, these people will block the enemy and the player will use the guild channel to call people. In addition, Hong Yan's residence is also very close to the city gate. If there is a battle, he will rush there immediately. Don't expect to rush in without tens of thousands of people with him.

The player team slowly arrived outside the city, and five players on horseback left the team and ran over first. The four gatekeepers from our guild have already stood in the middle of the road. The NPCs behind also realized that there was a problem with these people and stood behind these four girls. If anything goes wrong, they can immediately rescue the four players.

Perhaps they were frightened by this formation, and the five players outside did not dare to run too close. The leading knight stopped, and the four people behind him also stopped. The knight shouted to this side: "Is this Isengard?"

"Yes. What do you want?" Only one of the four girls guarding the door is Chinese, so of course she is responsible for speaking. "Isinger only allows players and NPCs from my guild to enter and exit for the time being."

"Your guild defeated the Temple of Light some time ago, right?" the knight asked.

The four mm in our guild put their hands on their weapons at the same time. "What do you mean?" The NPC behind the girls had already drawn out their weapons.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just checking." He pointed to the motorcade behind him. "These are the war indemnities that the Temple of Light needs to pay you, but they themselves are punished and cannot leave the city, so they hired us to transport the goods."

My private chat suddenly rang. "President, we are the city gate guards. Just now a team of players said we were escorting...!"

I interrupted her. "I'm at the window above you."

She looked up when she heard what I said. I waved to her and then said in a private chat: "Let them come in first. I will ask the NPC guards to come and watch. Three thousand people can't cause any trouble. By the way, Check the vehicles, there are more terrorists these days, it would be bad if they pulled explosives."

The mm couldn't help but smile, and then closed the private chat. "You can come in, but the vehicle will be inspected."

"No problem, this is your thing anyway." The knight was easy to talk to.

Player mm waved his hand forward, and all the blood skeletons behind him ran out. The convoy passed one by one, and the blood skeletons inspected the vehicles one by one. After a while the whole convoy drove into the city.

"Where is your president?" the knight leading the team asked.

The girl guarding the door instinctively raised her head and looked at me. This silly girl revealed her secret in just one sentence. I hurriedly stepped back and left the window. Ordinarily, they shouldn't have seen me. Quickly teleport to the teleportation array near the city gate, and then walk out of it. Pretending not to know what to do, he shouted: "What happened? Did Vida call me over in a hurry?"

The Chinese girl opened her mouth to argue, but the German girl next to her quickly reacted and held her down. "President! This knight has sent the last part of the compensation materials from the Temple of Light. We initially regarded them as enemies!"

"Oh! Have the supplies arrived? That's great." I turned around and said to the NPC guard next to me: "Transport the things to the warehouse, don't forget to check the list."

"Yes!" The guards immediately began to leave with the convoy.

The knight captain took out a scroll and handed it to me. "Please sign for it and click OK here to complete our transportation."

While checking the contents of the scroll, I asked, "Are you players?"

"certainly!"

"In the past, wasn't the NPC transport team responsible for transporting goods?"

The player said: "The Temple of Light has been banned by the system, and now all NPCs in the Temple of Light cannot leave the city."

"Isn't the transport team a free NPC?"

"But recently, a large number of thieves groups composed of players have appeared outside the city. It is extremely unsafe for supplies to leave the city. The temple must protect the transportation team, but they can't get out themselves and have to hire players to come out. In fact, there were player escort teams a long time ago But at that time, the movement of Hou Guangming NPC was not restricted. We were usually responsible for small-scale transportation, but now we are responsible for even large-scale transactions!"

"Aren't they afraid that you will be stealing from others?"

"Do you think NPCs are stupid? We paid a deposit equivalent to one-tenth of the value of the goods, and our identities have been recorded. If the items are lost, we must repay all losses, otherwise we will be wanted by the system. The Temple of Light has not been arrested yet During the lockdown, there was also a small escort team that did some robberies. At first, I thought they were just wanted by the Temple of Light, and I thought I could just hide with the dark forces. But after doing it, I went to the city controlled by the Dark Temple, and the NPC there actually said These players were people without credibility. The Dark Temple did not want people without credibility, so they were kicked out. Later, those players were hunted down by other players hired by the Temple of Light. The Temple of Light was not the same as the players. Players found Pursuit bounties usually require several kills. The Temple of Light has an unlimited number of kills. You get money once you kill him. This is equivalent to killing the player back to the novice village. Those unlucky guys were scared in the end. The pursuit order was revoked only after the things were returned. From then on, no one dared to watch over the thieves. Anyone with a band of thieves would fight tooth and nail to resist. By the way, there was also an NPC from the temple who was a believer in the team, that was it." The knight pointed it out to me secretly. "He is not a member of the Temple of Light, but he listens to the temple. Every guard team has such NPCs following them. The temple relies on them to judge whether the guards are guarding themselves."

"No wonder!" I heard in the private chat that the player responsible for verification said that the items were complete, so I pressed OK on the delivery certificate and handed it back to the knight. "Okay, thank you for your hard work. Essinger is currently in a state of war, so we are not accepting visits. If you are willing, you can have a meal in our cafeteria before leaving. If not, you can leave immediately. We have a teleportation array, so there is no need to Went back."

"Thank you, we have eaten dry food. Just lend us the teleportation array."

The players who sent them to the teleportation array kept looking around. Essinger's building was too grand for them. Comparing the urban buildings in Essinger to skyscrapers with hundreds of floors, those in other cities are all bungalows. Although we really wanted to visit, we didn't keep anyone, so these players had no choice but to be sent away by us.