Compared to the ancient wood fossil collection project on the side of the withered forest.

The resource gathering field on this side of the asphalt swamp is larger and has more labor units involved.

After all, before the discovery of high-energy resources such as carbonite ore, the only material that could be harvested from the withered forest was ancient wood fossils.

Although the ancient wood fossil between stone and wood is also a relatively rare alchemy material and spell casting auxiliary material, and from the dissected ancient wood fossil tree, you can get a very rare "wood heart" crystal.

However, as far as the current development is concerned, this resource is not of great use or is not urgently needed, and there is no need to invest too much manpower and material resources for extreme exploitation.

Therefore, the asphalt swamp, which is urgently needed to build roads and develop the chemical industry, has become the target of Ash City's all-out exploitation.

However, with the discovery of carbonite minerals that can be activated into "uranium rods", the value of withered forests is a different matter.

However, due to the birth of the Giant Ant Empire, there is no shortage of labor there, so there is no need to mobilize manpower from the asphalt swamp to mine it...... There are hundreds of millions of giant ants over there, which can grow the size of a cow if they are fed a little moss, and they are infinitely powerful if they don't eat much, and what kind of bicycle do they need?

In the strata of the withered forest, which is on average thousands of meters thick or even tens of thousands of meters deep, there are not only giant ancient trees that have crystallized carbon, but also coal slime like earth and charcoal like rocks.

This is probably the evolution of herbaceous plants and shrubs associated with ancient giant trees in ancient times under the action of time, and then buried into the ground layer by layer by geological changes, the deeper they are buried, the better the quality.

Although the quality is not as good as that of carbon-crystalline giant wood fossils, it can also be used as a high-energy fuel...... It's similar to coal, except it burns longer.

After hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, even the "dark energy slime" of ordinary soil contains much richer energy than the free dark energy in space.

After compression, shaping, ignition and other processes, these "dark energy slime" processed into "dark matter energy blocks" can replace traditional coal resources as fuel, and are extremely high-energy and pollution-free.

If you have to give an example, a rural peasant woman bought such a piece of "dark matter energy block" the size of honeycomb coal and went back to the stove to make a fire to cook, and the dark energy flame released by it could continue to burn for a hundred years without extinguishing the high-temperature heat of a large steelmaking furnace!

In addition to "dark peat", there are also "dark energy carbon blocks" that are closer to the form of coal, which contain higher energy levels, and the dark energy radiation that can be released after ignition is stronger.

Moreover, there is also a kind of "dark matter carbon essence" between "dark energy carbon block" and "dark energy carbon crystal" in the "dark energy carbon block vein", which forms a carbon crystal system with different energy levels and utilities together with other associated ores.

Therefore, even if the use of carbon crystal ore has not been fully developed, it is certainly not wrong to collect more energy minerals as reserves.

Because I was worried that the dying world of Otters would be gone that day.

The size of Bai Yuqi's resource plundering team has been increasing exponentially.

Although the "near-death" of a plane may be a process of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, it stands to reason that there is plenty of time to mine slowly.

But because of this uncertainty, maybe it will collapse tomorrow?

So with the idea of grabbing as much as you can, desperately plundering all kinds of resources in the world of Etes, and the resources are not too much, even if you can't use them for the time being, it's good to save them and put them in your pocket.

Otherwise, why did Bai Yuqi keep thinking about catching strong men everywhere to do coolies for himself?

Not only the Ancient Titan Armadillo and the Giant Ant-Man who were sent to the door by himself, but he didn't even plan to let go of the Diggers and Aircraft Carrier Bugs under the Blue Venom Demon.

On the asphalt swamp side, as the main resource gathering site, the asphalt collection site can be said to spread along the edge of the swamp to the end of the sky, and there is no end in sight.

Some people may be curious, how can an asphalt swamp with an area of 20 million square kilometers be collected in a short period of time?

But although the area of the world of Otus is large, Bai Yuqi is not an ordinary person?

Just like the sand resources rich in dark energy on the side of the Death Sand Sea, they were all handed over to the Undead Scourge Legion under the command of Gu Aotian to be responsible for collection.

Based on the principle of [Endless Sand Jar], the "Sand Sucker", a strange product made in batches, was sucked into the "Sand Storage Subplane" and preserved, as a raw material for condensation to reduce the crystallization of dark matter.

The asphalt swamp was also handed over to the Golem Gathering Group under the jurisdiction of the Construct Intelligence Corps.

This kind of gathering golem, which is specially made in the shape of a dinghy, is equipped with a special "desilting device".

After the batch is made, it is thrown into the asphalt swamp and pumped endlessly.

A large amount of wet asphalt as thick as paste, or "lake asphalt, asphalt slurry".

It is sucked up by the "desilt pump" that is driven to the maximum pumping power, and stored in the "asphalt storage subplane" for later use.

Since both sand and water can be pumped, there is no reason why asphalt cannot be pumped.

As long as you understand the manufacturing principle of the strange thing [Endless Sandpot], isn't it natural to make some [Endless Asphalt Tank]?

A large area of asphalt processing plants and chemical plants are built and processed nearby.

It is like a beacon tower on the endless Great Wall, with billowing wolf smoke.

Black smoke smokes like dark clouds all day long...... Fortunately, there is no need to worry about environmental problems such as air pollution and water pollution.

Wait until the wet asphalt in the upper layer of the asphalt bog is drained.

Dry asphalt cemented at the bottom of the swamp, or "rock asphalt, stone asphalt", is even better.

Directly use a high-temperature wire saw, cut into pieces of standard cubes, and then use the teleportation array to transport away.

Due to the astonishing speed of the collection, the asphalt swamp shrank at a rate of several kilometers per day during Bai Yuqi's year of retreat.

It is no wonder that the Black Prison Dragon Lizard, another remnant of the Natural Sect, could not withstand the pressure of the Ash Legion on the Eastern Front and continued to retreat to the interior of the Asphalt Swamp, taking advantage of the location of the Asphalt Swamp to swallow everything to slow down the Ash Legion's attack.

Although they have organized countless attacks over the past year, their greatest achievement has been the destruction of some of the Golems and chemical plants, and if they dare to take the lead, they will be bombarded with saturated firepower.

However, although their individual strength is strong, but their combat power is insufficient, they do not dare to break out of the scope of the asphalt swamp and engage in melee combat with the ash army in the asphalt pit that has been collected.