Greenway is the last big city located in the northern part of the southern border of the empire. Beyond this city and further north is the vast and dangerous black pine forest—that vast forest that is shrouded in shadow all year round occupies almost one-tenth of the entire country. In the dense forest, poisonous swamps, animal dens, and lairs of some ancient creatures can be seen everywhere. Although the black pine forest is also rich in some rare alchemy materials and ores, due to the danger and some terrible legends deep in the dense forest, few people will Willing to take the initiative to enter the depths of the jungle.
For many years, the people of the empire have been devoting themselves to developing this vast forest. After all, it would be a waste to let such a piece of fertile land be placed in the hinterland of the empire without being developed. Herds of beasts, large and small, made the development work extremely slow. After so many years, the imperials have only built a few cities around the pine forest—Greenway is one of them.
This city can be said to be one of the most successful examples of the "Black Pine Forest Development Plan". The land where it is located was still part of the dark forest two hundred years ago, but the efforts of several generations of druids and mystics have made this land from Breaking away from the "life cycle" of the black pine forest, the crazy sprawl and rebirth of the trees stopped at the forest barrier in the north of the city, while the imperial people thrived in Greenway, built the city, and reclaimed good fields, making it a solid place. The fortress of civilization has finally gained a firm foothold.
But the cost of building such a city is simply too great.
In order to win a piece of land from the black pine forest, the manpower, material resources and energy spent are enough to build ten large cities of the same size in any other place on this planet, and there is no need to worry about the forest counterattack, so this ambition The vigorous development plan did not last. Greenway was the most successful and last pioneering city. Since Greenway was completely stabilized two hundred years ago, the empire's attitude towards the black pine forest has changed from development and expansion to maintaining the status quo. This system has continued until today. To this day, I am afraid that not many people still remember those days when they cut through the thorns and thorns in the dense forest and measured the land inch by inch.
With Leah's assistance, it was not difficult to pass the checkpoint. The caravan successfully obtained all the legal procedures and entered this legendary city.
Greenway is obviously more prosperous and huge than any previous town. This bridgehead-like city has been expanded and added for countless generations. Now it stands like a huge ant nest on the border of the forest. It used to be a pioneer group The workshops and camps set up have now become residential houses and shops. People living in this city make a living by selling various resources collected from the black pine forest. It is also possible to purchase various special products from the black pine forest at a relatively low price. And there are even three towers in the city that can accommodate medium-sized airships, which are military ports used to transport supplies to the north—after all, it takes a lot of manpower and resources to build a pioneering city here. reciprocated.
In the north of the city, between the black pine forest and the city buildings stands a majestic high wall. The light green wall shines with magical brilliance all the year round. The wall is inlaid with rune stone bricks from elf craftsmen. Black pine forest encroaching on the city - Although this land has been separated from the black pine forest's life cycle, the small-scale plant spread has never stopped. Without this fence, the bushes and weeds everywhere may drive any city official crazy .
The magic caravan was driving on the boulevard, but Hao Ren didn't appreciate the scenery outside for too long, he drew the curtains, and lightly tapped the data terminal lying on his shoulder, pretending to be dead: "Has the data been analyzed yet? "
"Damn chicken, you can think of this machine when something happens," the data terminal snorted, "but you still have a keen sense, there is indeed something wrong with those guys called black sword knights."
"Undead creatures?" Vivian raised her eyebrows. "I don't think their aura looks like living people... The heat source reaction and blood distribution on their bodies are also not right."
"It's alive, but it's strange...incomplete," said the data terminal. "The samples encountered are limited, and the results analyzed by this machine may not be accurate. Or soldiers transformed by other methods. Their bodies are still active, but there are many things that are not biological tissues that are operating in their bodies. The nerve signals in various parts of their bodies are considered normal, but the activity of their brains is so low. It's unbelievable—this situation is indeed a bit like zombies driven by undead spells, but as I said just now, their bodies are alive."
"Synthetics that rely on commands," Hao Ren muttered while rubbing his chin, "Let's classify them as such for now."
"Why are you so interested in those black sword knights?" Liya looked at Hao Ren curiously, "Isn't your job to save the world?"
It's okay not to mention this, but Hao Ren's face immediately wrinkled when he mentioned this: "Don't mention it, observing and recording civilization and ecology is the job of the censor, okay? Saving the world should be my boss's job Work! If it weren't for the special situation in the dream plane, what I should do every day should be to record these things related to civilization observation... "
Liya was taken aback immediately: "So this is your job?! I thought your main task was to collect the corpses of civilization and calculate my inheritance..."
Hao Ren: "...Have you finished your homework?"
Leah: "I don't take you like this!"
Hao Ren smiled triumphantly, and then turned to analyze the planetary analysis report just received from Nolan.
His expression changed slightly.
There is a particularly eye-catching mark in the analysis report: An abnormal signal response was found inside the Laherian core.
The precision scanning probe has completed scanning most of the structure of the planet, and even Nolan himself ran to the core to set up a temporary mooring point, and the steady stream of planetary analysis reports were gathered at the Giant Turtle Rock Platform The mainframe of the spacecraft, and then uploaded to Hao Ren.
Since the planet was split in two and the core was exposed for a long time, the once molten and hot core has now cooled into an iron-rich sphere. Although its temperature is still deadly to humans, it is considered a planetary core. "Cold".
After many days of careful searching, Nolan finally found something interesting in the cooled earth core.
"Boss, I scanned a special dense area in the depths of the earth's core. There is a group of unknown substances with a density and energy intensity higher than the average hidden below, and it is constantly releasing strange energy pulses."
Hao Ren suppressed the surprise and excitement in his heart, and turned to ask for details: "There is only such vague information? Can't figure out what it is?"
Nolan hesitated for a second: "...the scanning system encountered some trouble, there is interference."
A strange energy field is wrapped around the core of the earth in Laherien. This energy field even interfered with Nolan's advanced radar system, so that Ms. Jianniang has not been able to fully understand what is buried in the earth's core. what is it.
But at least one thing is certain: such a thing will not naturally arise in the interior of a normal planet.
It is man-made, and it is definitely not something that the civilization on the surface of the planet can create today.
During the spiritual connection, the image of Nolan came to Hao Ren's mind. In her background was a mass of dark red matter that was still glowing slightly red in the earth's core, and various fine fragments were floating around the earth's core. In a low-gravity environment, it is the "dust" raised by the oscillation of the star core.
The expression on Nolan's face was a bit tangled: "Boss, the things in the earth's core are still releasing energy pulses, but the signals are chaotic, and there is no useful information to decipher. Who do you think left it?"
"This planet has been destroyed once, but even before it was destroyed, what lived on its surface was nothing more than a planet-level indigenous civilization. According to Liya's observations that year, it is impossible for that civilization to be in the core of their home planet. Put something," Hao Ren thought, "so what you found may be a relic left by the civilization of the last era—something that existed before the formation of the Dark Realm."
Nolan frowned: "This thing may be related to the 'vaccine' we are looking for, but it is now wrapped in a layer of energy field, which has obvious traces of encryption, and it looks like a password box —Forcibly cracking it may cause serious problems.”
"It can't be cracked by force," Hao Ren said immediately, "it's buried deep in the earth's core, and if there is any problem there, it will cause disaster for the entire planet. If it blows up, we will be guilty of great crimes."
"... Boss, I always feel that with your physique, it's best not to say such a thing on your own initiative, what if it comes true?"
Hao Ren was a little embarrassed: "Why are you following me now... Seriously, don't stimulate that thing casually. You have to break through that energy barrier safely. If the spaceship's computing power is not enough, I authorize you to use the world There is only one requirement for tree computing support: stability, as stable as possible, understand?"
"Nolan understands."
After the communication was hung up, Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
Nolan has made pretty good progress there.
There are two groups of soldiers on Laherien's trip, one is Hao Ren and his friends, the main task is to operate on the surface of the planet, personally participate in and observe the form of civilization in this world, and record how this civilization survives in a special environment. Survival and operation, observing the changes that are taking place in the Dragon Empire is one of the tasks; the other is Nolan and her army of probes, whose task is to scan the material structure and deep secrets of the entire planet, and look for them in those dead things. clue. Two routes were run in parallel to simultaneously complete the observation of civilization and the documentation of the local environment.
By the way, you can also search for traces related to the Lord of Madness.
Hao Ren was full of emotions: In fact, this is the normal work process that a normal inspector should carry out under normal circumstances—the shitty way of pulling out the main cannon before landing in the past is not normal at all. what!
And after he finished feeling, he felt a slight sense of urgency: Nolan has found a significant anomaly on the planet. Although the anomaly is covered by an energy barrier, it is only a matter of time before the barrier is broken. Can actions on the surface also achieve certain results
His intuition told him that there must be some secret hidden in this Dragon Empire. It is this secret that makes it completely different from any other country on the planet Laherien. He believes that as long as this journey reaches the end, this secret will be revealed Will definitely reveal...