The ice walls are thick, the buildings are majestic, the river outside the city is frozen with ice, and white mist is filling the air. This is Glacier City, an important town on the northern border of the continent.
The royal palace is grand and vast.
Zanla was half-kneeling below, holding the Glacier Sword in both hands and raising it high above his head. On top of thousands of steps made of ice, stands an icicle with a diameter of tens of meters. Blue energy is floating in the ice. There is a tall figure faintly in the center, sitting on a luxurious and majestic throne.
"Are foreigners very average in strength?"
A cold voice came from inside the icicle, echoing in the empty hall. Although it was heard through thick icicles, the majestic aura of the other party still made Zanla feel terrified.
Zanla lowered his head: "Yes!"
"Is it just a humble and silent race?" Bingzhu spoke again, with a hint of doubt in his tone, and then said, "That's fine! My old wounds will be healed within a month or two. Let's just let the small and humble ants linger. Let’s take a while!”
Zanla looked happy: "Is the king going to take action himself?"
"The third lord of the Snow Alliance may have some abilities, but he cannot pose a threat. Moreover, Xuehou is extremely ill and has no ability to fight anymore. In Glacier City, there are ten major corps, the army is elite, and their morale is like a rainbow. This is an excellent opportunity to unify the ice field!" Frost Troll Vaughn said slowly: "As for external forces... Although there is no threat on the surface, they must not be taken lightly."
Zanla said: "The search corps will look for every alien that appears in the wild and kill them all!"
"Let's keep the Glacier Sword for now!" Vaughn has confidence in Zanla, "How is the investigation of the ice demon alien's treasure?"
"The news this time is relatively accurate, and the investigation has revealed some clues, which only need to be verified."
"Go on! Find the treasure!"
"Yes, my king!"
"Get down!"
Zanla, the commander of the search corps, stood up with the Glacier Sword and backed out of the majestic palace.
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Ice and Snow Town.
Zhang Mu visited the machinery factory.
Lingtian occupies a very small area in the supply area of Bingxue Town, and most of the area is covered by large-scale factories. Every machinery factory is well organized, and the workshops are constantly operating. Robots shuttle through them and are making semi-automatic machinery.
The chassis of an armored vehicle was quickly and automatically welded. In less than thirty minutes, it had been initially formed and transported to the next workshop for other production.
The mechanical production level of Bingxue Town is probably decades ahead of the Earth.
"The armored vehicles in Ice and Snow Town are manufactured here. We occasionally go outside the territory, buy some drawings at high prices through the black market or alien tribes, use robots for production, and put them into factory work." Xue Ling looked at the robots at work. "Because it is extremely risky to go outside the territory, and the blueprints and robots are very expensive, most of the factory area is not in use. The human race pays the rental fee, and the machine factory can be activated immediately. You have goblins as slaves, which is really an excellent resource. Eliminate the sky-high fees for purchasing mechanical drawings.”
Zhang Mu nodded: "Goblins are good at machinery manufacturing and operation. As long as we have good machine tools and production equipment, we will definitely be able to produce firearms, cannons, armored vehicles, and even low-level robots!" He said, observing the situation in the machinery factory, "As expected. In the town, the machinery factory exceeded expectations, and in terms of ore resources... "
Xue Ling replied: "There are 7 resource secrets within the jurisdiction of Ice and Snow Town. In addition, there are several natural mines on the snow mountain side, which provide grade 1-4 ore. There is no big problem. In addition, there are smelters and fur in the town. Processing plants, alchemy refineries...etc., raw material processing plants, fully capable of large-scale production."
The urban production system is complete, with various basic production sites and processing plants. The goblins in the Dawn area are no different from the goblins in the outside world. Due to the limitations of materials and equipment, the Dawn area can only produce basic firearms, artillery, explosives, etc. Icefield With the support of Shangcheng Town, the production equipment has been greatly improved. At the same time, Icefield can directly produce level 4 materials, further improving production capacity.
"The factory usage fee is not cheap."
"The Snow Clan is willing to pay half!"
Zhang Mu nodded with satisfaction. The factory usage fee is easily 50,000 to 80,000 yuan, and it can only be rented for 15 days at a time. The initial gains will definitely outweigh the losses, and there is no hope of getting back the money in a longer period of time. However, using the factory is not for profit. The human race needs more advanced armored vehicles and powerful ones. Stronger bombs, artillery, and firearms are worth spending even a premium on. Survival is the key.
The goblins have a large number of mechanical blueprints in their hands, armored vehicles, tanks, helicopters... Using the equipment in Ice and Snow Town, they can carry out mass production. Zhang Mu can buy better mechanical blueprints through the mysterious store to produce stronger war machines in the long run. It is a good thing to improve the strength of the human race.
Camps vary in difficulty of survival.
The alien forces in each region are different and cannot have the same level of difficulty.
Some areas are high difficulty and some areas are low difficulty.
Dawn Plains is a relatively difficult area, and the domination is very fair and will not increase the difficulty in vain. In fact, the rewards for clearing the Dawn Plains are higher than most areas, including direct rewards and indirect rewards.
The direct reward refers to the super reward obtained by defeating the alien race, while the indirect reward has many aspects, such as regional resource production, obtaining slave tribes, etc. After the human race occupied the camps of the dogmen, goblins, and terrors, the relationship between the three tribes and the human race changed from a hostile clan relationship to a slave clan relationship.
The better the slave race is, the better support the human race will get and the better it will be to gain a foothold on the mainland!
The most useful race among the three races is undoubtedly the goblin race!
Zhang Mu went to the rented shop. All the dozens of pieces of equipment on consignment were sold. The total sales reached 160,000 gold coins. The purchase cost from the mysterious store was about 100,000 gold coins. The golden war spear in the trading house had long been sold. If it is lost, the buyer bought the weapon in Bingyan Town. As for the race, it is also marked, and it is the human race of Bingyan Town.
"The war spear was put into the trading house, and it was bought by someone from China within 30 minutes. It seems that it was sold too cheaply."
Zhang Mu took out 25,000 gold coins and purchased additional flour, which had reached more than 600 portions. Zhang Mu took away the purchased flour. Making pancakes saves materials. One portion of flour can make three or four pieces. Zhang Mu added 2,000 portions of flour to purchase. cap, then return to the village.
There are 150,000 gold coins left in the personal backpack, about 300,000 gold coins left in the Huangquan warehouse, and 500,000 gold coins left in the mercenary union warehouse. Each regiment does not have many gold coins, and the mercenaries are not very wealthy. They can only maintain a foothold in the Despair Icefield. Because there are very few ways to make money in Despair Icefield, and the gold coins cannot make ends meet, it will inevitably go bankrupt in the long run!
It’s time to look for the Ice King’s treasure.
Zhang Mu didn't tell too many people about the treasure map. He only called Huang Tian and Lei Ming to study it.
The information on the treasure map is not very accurate. The Ice King's treasure palace is under the ice, sunk in the endless dark ice sea. It is not fixed, but has regular activities. It is precisely because of this that the various tribes in the ice field have not been able to find the location of the treasure for hundreds of years.
This treasure map records the activities of the treasure.
As long as you arrive at the designated place at the designated time, you can enter the treasure.
"It's incredible!" Zhang Mu admired the Ice King. "No wonder there has been no trace of the treasure for more than four hundred years!"
Huang Tian said: "Calculate the location of the treasure first!"
Lei Ming looked at the treasure map and said: "If there are no major changes in the treasure, then it is not difficult to calculate the approximate coordinate points, but precise positioning is difficult. The treasure map information does not seem to be complete."
After some calculations, the three people calculated the coordinate position as: "432X.322X.431". The coordinates consist of three sets of numbers, representing horizontal coordinates, longitudinal coordinates, and altitude coordinates. The point formed by the three lines is a unique and precise coordinate. From There are two unknowns in the data calculated from the treasure map. The precise coordinates cannot be determined, and only the approximate area can be located.
Ice King left behind several treasure maps.
Each one has independent content.
With a treasure map, in addition to the coordinates, there are many unknowns, and the difficulty and danger will increase several times!
Leng Yun pushed the door open and said, "Mu Mu, there are a few outsiders looking for you!"
"Find me?"
Leave the coordinate positioning work to Lei Ming.
Zhang Mu followed Leng Yun out, and several unfamiliar mercenaries were standing at the entrance of the village. All the mercenaries, including Chen Tingting and Qin Xiaoshi, were there. Zhang Mu looked at a few people. The leader was a tall middle-aged man. He was very handsome and manly. Although he was not young, he had the temperament of a male protagonist in a Japanese and Korean idol drama.
"My name is Yang Guang."
"Oh? The leader of the Bright Mercenary Group at Daybreak Camp?" Zhang Mu shook hands with him, "I am Zhang Mu, the leader of the Huangquan Mercenary Group."
Yang Guang nodded: "Our personnel were all dispersed. A large number of trolls caused us serious casualties. Fortunately, we met friends from the Giant Spirit Tribe and the mercenaries from Dawn Camp were rescued. They are now settled in Icewind Town. Chen Tingting and Qin Qin and I Xiao Shi got in touch and found out that the two of them had been rescued by Huang Quan, so they came here specially. Thank you to our friends in Huang Quan for your help."
Yang Guang came to ask for someone
Zhang Mu said with a calm smile, "Captain Yang is too polite. Tingting is my sister, no matter what angle you look at, it is the right thing to do! There are not many relatives in the world, and it is really unexpected that I can meet my sister. Here I want to say I would like to express my gratitude to Commander Yang, if it weren’t for the bright mercenaries taking care of her, how could this stinky girl be alive today?”
The implication of this sentence is: Our family is reunited, so don’t think about going back!
Yang Guang is not stupid, "What are you saying? We have heard that the mercenaries in Huangquan are powerful. I am also happy that Chen Tingting can be reunited with her family. If Tingting is willing to stay in Huangquan, I will sincerely wish her a better life." A good growing environment!”
Chen Tingting said gratefully: "Yes, thank you very much, leader!"
Yang Guang's eyes fell on Qin Xiaoshi, "Qin Xiaoshi, come back with me!"
Qin Xiaoshi showed hesitation, "I want to be with Tingting, but..."
Yang Guang frowned slightly.
"Xiao Shi is the chief priest of your group. Huang Quan should not have kept her." Zhang Mu paused and then said: "But Xiao Shi and my sister are close friends, and they have some connections with me. You see..."
Yang Guang is not a fool, and of course he is unwilling. "As an important member of the Guangming Mercenary Group, how can Qin Xiaoshi explain to others if he doesn't take her back? Please don't embarrass me! Xiaoshi, please think carefully."
Qin Xiaoshi showed a complicated look.
Zhang Mu quickly said: "No, Huang Quan did not mean to make things difficult. I am willing to pay 150,000 gold coins to make up for the cost of training two people in the past few months."
150,000 gold coins!
A huge sum of money!
The Ray Mercenary Group has just stationed in the Giant Spirit Clan town, and the relevant rules are already clear. The mercenaries in the Dawn Camp have limited wealth and find it difficult to gain a foothold in the Ice Field of Despair. If there is an injection of 150,000 gold coins, the pressure will definitely be reduced a lot.
The value of talents cannot be measured by money.
Yang Guang would definitely not be happy if two potential members were given away to others.
Besides, giving away talents for money will definitely lead to gossip and doubts from your subordinates!
Zhang Mu once again increased the stakes: "Isn't it a good thing that the two groups take this opportunity to become a brother team and share each other's needs?"