Chapter 121: The Hanging Garden
It didn't take long for Du Shen to feel it, so he opened his eyes and smiled at Mario beside him: "We are lucky. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info select the target as soon as it comes. ”
Mario was inexplicable, looking up at the canopy of the tree at a high place: "What kind of plant is this?" Can you survive buried in the sand? ”
"It's artificial." Du Shen turned around and summoned Matthur, who had been guarding nearby: "Mathur, you lead the first regiment, divide into two teams, and go to the other two nearby mountain bags." You check to see if the big tree buried in the mountain bag is still alive. ”
Mather gathered his men and hurried away. Du Shen commanded the remaining wizards to continue digging and carrying the gravel. Du Shen drove the ghouls at the same time and dug deeper.
As night fell, the wizards had razed the mountain. At the bottom of the mountain, the ground is all hard black rock, which is very flat. Five large trees, as if deeply rooted in the rocks. They are distributed in a roughly cross-shaped shape, separated by hundreds of meters from each other.
Du Shen led Mario to the tallest, thickest tree in the center. The trunk at the base of the large tree swells to form a relatively round tree hole, about 20 meters in diameter. The tree hole resembles a natural wooden house, with a few small windows and a large gate. The door has no doors, and the windows have only ridges and no curtains or glass.
At this time, a wizard had already cleaned up the sand and gravel in the hollow of the tree. Du Shen led Mario into the tree hole and saw the wooden pillar erected in the center. A large crystal ball is also embedded at the top of the wooden pillar.
Du Shen walked to the wooden pillar and pressed the crystal ball with both hands to feel it silently. He quickly let go and walked to the deepest part of the tree hole. There is a wooden cabinet there, built against the wall. The wooden cabinet is roughly cubic in shape, with a side length of about one meter and a half, and only one drawer on it. Du Shen opened the drawer, and it was empty.
The drawer is an elongated cuboid with a small volume, estimated to be less than half a cube. Du Shen took out one piece after another of jet-black crystals from the pendant and put them in the drawer. Almost filling the drawer, Du Shen pushed the drawer back.
Du Shen turned and walked towards the wooden pillar in the center of the tree hole. He ignored Mario, who kept asking questions.
Du Shen pressed the crystal ball at the top of the wooden pillar. The cloudy crystal ball slowly emitted a faint glow. Inside the crystal ball, runes kept flashing.
At the door of the tree hole, a sudden announcement sounded. Du Shen turned his head and saw Mather standing in the doorway. He beckoned: "How's it going?" Check to see if the trees in the other two mountain packs are alive? ”
Mather walked in, shaking his head as he walked, "The trees inside, as far as they have been excavated so far, are almost rotten. Only a few tree trunks remain. Our people, still continue to look at the trunk at the bottom"
Du Shen was not disappointed either, and nodded: "Recall all the people in the group." There is no need to dig those two mountain bags. ”
Mather took the order and left. Mario asked unhappily, "Now you've checked it out, right?" Tell me, what is this stuff for, right? ”
"I've heard of the Hanging Garden," Du Shen walked out of the tree hole, "this is a floating boat." ”
"Hanging Garden!" Mario was stunned and excited. He hurriedly chased after Du Shen, half-convinced: "Really? We are now standing on top of the Hanging Garden. ”
Du Shen nodded and drilled out of the tree hole. He ordered the guards at the gate to summon the commanders of the second and third regiments.
Mario turned around and looked around, then reached out and touched the outer wall of the tree hole: "I've dreamed of having a hanging garden since I was a child. Hey, should we, the garden under our feet still fly, right? ”
"It's really fake," Mario became more excited, touching the east and west, "this is something that has long been lost!" ”
"So, we're lucky." Du Shen casually chatted with Mario and waited silently. It didn't take long for the two regiment leaders to gather in front of Du Shen. Du Shen instructed the two: "Find the edge of the rocky ground and clear its outline." Keep digging down the digging. The two of you take turns to replace. The three regiments first camped and rested. ”
The two regiment commanders deliberated a little and carried out their own actions. Du Shen walked straight out. After walking about 600 meters, Du Shen stopped and drove a ghoul to dig up the sand under his feet. It didn't take long for the ghouls to touch the hard stone beneath the gravel.
"Not at the edge yet." Du Shen continued to stay away from the tree hole house. He walked for a while, then stopped, and drove the ghouls to dig. After a few times, Du Shen finally found the edge of the rocky ground. Du Shen drives the ghouls and cleans up the sand under the rocks. Rocky ground, arc-shaped, shrinking downward. Du Shen didn't dig deep, only two or three meters deep. He stretched along the stone wall, at both ends.
Time passed, and after a whole night, Du Shen finally cleared out the general outline of the floatboat. The shape of the float boat resembles a symmetrically split half of an egg. The cut faces upwards and is a flat, pitch-black rock floor. Five huge green trees grow on it, twenty or thirty meters high, with trunks several meters in diameter.
The float boat is about 1,000 meters long and 800 meters wide. The base is less curved, or can be seen as trapezoidal. The rocky ground of the float boat is not very thick, only twenty or thirty meters.
The morning sun was rising, and everyone had already dug to the surface at the bottom of the rock.
After Mario's short training, four wizards climbed to the top of four relatively low trees. They'll be in the treehouse, controlling the crystal ball. The crystal ball is the controller of the energy hub of the floatboat. Plus that crystal ball in the hollow of the tree. A total of five crystal balls that work together to control the movement of the floatboat.
At this time, Du Shen had already walked into the tree hole. He stood in front of the wooden pillar in the center of the tree hole, and gently pressed the control center with both hands. Just by pouring a small amount of energy into the crystal, the crystal ball emits a faint light. The power matrix is activated instantaneously. Du Shen made a few thoughts, and in the distance, the crystal balls of the four auxiliary consoles lit up at the same time.
The four wizards followed Mario's previous guidance to sort out the energy veins and work together to assist Du Shen in controlling the float.
"Boom!" It was like thunder, and there was a continuous sound from the bottom of the floatboat. The ground trembled, and the float floated slowly. With the entire bottom of the floatboat, completely off the ground. The thunderous sound suddenly weakened and quickly disappeared.
At the same time, whether it was the wizard who stayed on the Gobi ground or the wizard who stayed on the float boat, they all felt that the shaking of the ground disappeared in an instant.
The float slowly ascended, and the wizards in both locations became excited at the same time: in the current era, there was no one who could fly in the air on their own. Relying on the floating boat in front of them, everyone seems to be invincible?
The float did not rise too high, only a distance of several hundred meters. Du Shen gave the command, and the four auxiliary helmsmen cooperated. Du Shen and Mario are constantly testing the performance of the floatboat.
The float moved slowly, and the people on it crowded to the edge of the rocky ground, excitedly looking down. At first, the wizards were cautious, for fear that one would accidentally fall and die. However, as they approached the edge of the stone platform, everyone felt that there seemed to be an invisible force field on the edge of the platform. The farther you go outside the airship, the more resistance you will experience. Of course, if the wizards were desperate, they would still be able to jump from the edge of the stone platform into the air.
Du Shen tested the performance of the float boat for several days. In fact, the floating boat in front of me was more of a plaything for leisure in ancient times. The float boat had no defenses and could only rely on the personnel above to resist an external attack. The floatcraft can also rise to an altitude of up to 5 kilometers above the ground. The fastest speed of the float boat is 50 kilometers per hour. And over time, it may cause damage to the energy system.
All kinds of shortcomings are only relative to the developed technology of ancient times. In fact, according to Du Shen's memory, there was only this last floating boat left in the Manluo world. The temple does not have airships. The strong people in the temple who can fly in the flesh are extremely rare. But they were barely able to climb the stone platform. Now Du Shen has been able to create pitch black shooters. As long as the shooters are properly arranged, I am afraid that those strong people who can fly will be shot to death before they fall to the stone platform.
That is to say, in the current era, with enough vigilance, the float has become an insoluble war machine.
Compared with ordinary people, the benefits brought by the floating boat to Du Shen are particularly significant. With the floating boat as a substitute, Du Shen can collect the Fear Force more extensively, as well as pseudo-divine power. If needed, Du Shen can stay in mid-air and command the ghouls to attack ground targets.
As long as the energy is sufficient, the float can continue to move. In this way, Du Shen can almost create a steady stream of monsters. With the help of the Tide Gate, Du Shen can teleport over long distances every day.
In this way, Du Shen planned to fill the area around the Death Ridge with tens of thousands of ghouls. On the one hand, it can be used as a security measure to defend the base camp; On the other hand, these non-direct monsters can become materials for wizards to refine demons.
The only thing that made Du Shen feel limited was that the float boat needed a nightmare crystal as a power fuel. Fortunately, the float boat is a dual power system, and the consumption of Nightmare Crystals is not too large. Moreover, the Nightmare Crystals in the Manlo World are widely distributed, and they only need to be mined and refined by manpower.
Currently, Du Shen intends to rely on the Shadow Fortress and the Thunder Empire to obtain the Nightmare Crystal. Although there were abundant Nightmare Crystals near the Death Ridge, Du Shen had too few people in his hands and had to use them on the blade.
Du Shen stayed in the Gobi for several days. He loaded all the wizards onto the airship and flew southeast. It's not too much trouble for wizards to get on and off the airship. The airship comes with a short-range teleportation array. When the airship is less than 500 meters above the ground, Du Shen can lower the portal through the main console. After that, as long as the height of the airship is less than 3,000 meters, wizards can easily get on and off the airship through a portal on the ground.
To drop and recover the portal, the height of the airship must be lowered to less than 500 meters. In a way, this is perhaps the airship's biggest weakness.