"Spatial Element Manipulation".

Jiang Yan had a sense of surprise after seeing this skill program at the beginning.

Just as "Earth Element Affinity" and "Earth Element Manipulation" are matching skill programs, this "Space Element Manipulation" is obviously also paired with the "affinity" type talent program of the space system that Xiaobai had before.

After carefully analyzing the effect of this program, Jiang Yan was even more pleasantly surprised.

The sentence in the program information description, 'The level of lv.3, the skill effect is enough to reach the point of condensing and concentrating the spatial elements to the point of manifesting them in reality', which immediately reminded Jiang Yan of a wonderful usage.

The discovery of a spatial gap leading to the heterotope plane in the depths of the Nederlais's underground rock formation was still somewhat within Jiang Yan's expectations, but the 'Empty Hell Crystal' associated with the spatial gap was a complete windfall.

And because of the birth conditions of the 'Empty Dark Crystal', this kind of heavenly treasure can be described as 'can be encountered but not forced', and Jiang Yan's ability to pick it up is completely the result of luck.

However, in the final analysis, the birth condition of the void hedron is that after the space element is rich to a certain extent, it is stimulated by a specific factor to condense and manifest the solid element spar.

So, it's self-evident what Xiaobai's "Space Element Manipulation Lv.3" can do now, right?

Jiang Yan wanted to use Xiaobai's skill to create the Void Hell Crystal with his own strength!

Of course, this kind of thing is certainly not so simple.

After all, Jiang Yan's "program" database is not without elemental energy manipulation series of skill programs such as "Earth Elemental Manipulation" and "Fire Elemental Manipulation", but it is not so easy to directly use this ability to gather the corresponding elemental particles to create things like 'Earth Elemental Crystals and Fire Spirit Crystals'.

It is impossible to create the corresponding elemental spar simply by compressing and condensing the elemental energy at ultra-high density, because it is likely to only make the overly dense elemental energy directly unstable and burst, causing a very terrifying elemental energy explosion!

This instability must be addressed so that it can be firmly embodied in a form such as a hedron.

Therefore, Jiang Yan's ideas have to be considered in the long run. However, he already has some initial inspiration for this.

It's just that Jiang Yan doesn't have the leisure time to ponder these things now, so he has to go and see what the dragon masters from the empire have in mind.

Although under normal circumstances, Zhi Brain would not allow the powerhouses of other forces to step into the territory of the Netherdes, which has become Jiangyan's territory, but the people who came over from the empire this time are in the formal form of official diplomacy, and because the two sides have finalized the cooperative relationship before, it is not good to keep the other party out.

Of course, the strength of the visiting dragon clan masters is quite good, and if Jiang Yan doesn't make a move, or if he doesn't use the demonic mushroom monster to fight, it will be difficult to stop the other party, which is also an important reason.

Zos and Angus, as the limited third-level Legendary Realm combat power under Jiang Yan's command, are in charge of entertaining each other in the city in the surface oasis.

So after returning to the surface, Jiang Yan did not delay too long, and directly left the central lake and returned to the city.

"Here...... Has it been built to this point?" Jiang Yan, who was flying high in the sky, looked down at the scenery below with some emotion.

More than a month ago, Jiang Yan asked the Zhi Brains to command a large number of sub-machines to build a city stronghold in this oasis in the center of the Nederlais, and with the method of using various convenient spells to quickly build the sub-machines, the city has already been completed.

Moreover, the overall specifications of the inner city of this oasis have reached one-third of the total area of the oasis, that is, about fifty or sixty square kilometers, and the style of the urban buildings inside directly adopts a modular structure with a bit of science fiction style, that is, the form of high-rise buildings with a very regular structure, and the limited space utilization rate on the surface is maximized to the point of no waste.

Of course, it is not as exaggerated as the ten-story high-rise buildings on the earth in Jiang Yan's previous life.

After all, this world is not a generally peaceful and peaceful environment like Jiang Yan's previous life, because there are strong people here who can easily destroy the city, and some of the aftermath caused by their casual actions will easily affect the surrounding environment, such as the shaking of the earth and the shaking of the mountains. Even if the incident site is more than 10 kilometers away from the city, and there are special defenses to stabilize the foundation and building structure, disasters such as "earthquakes, storms, and shock waves" caused by the aftermath of such a battle between the powerful can be a lot of pressure for buildings such as buildings that are too tall. The higher you build, the greater the threat.

Therefore, the intellectuals in charge of urban planning did not pay too much attention to the utilization rate of building space in terms of three-dimensionality, but strictly limited the number of building floors of the highest ordinary houses to the single digit allowed construction specifications.

As for official buildings with special purposes, there are no such restrictions, such as Sorcerer's Towers for Sorcerers to stay in and be responsible for watching, guarding the city, maintaining the protective barrier, and casting large-scale long-range spells to the outside world.

Because of the very convenient and convenient spell support of the Rapid Construction and Alchemy System, the city has adopted a modular construction approach, which is similar to stacking blocks. Therefore, all buildings with similar functions adopt a uniform style.

This greatly facilitates the subsequent expansion of the city, especially the relocation of immigrants from other places who are attracted by the Dream Church in the future, and then the brains can easily expand new residences for residents on the basis of the original buildings by adding modules according to their needs.

However, even if we don't talk about the future, theoretically, with the equipment of the current Oasis Inner City, it is enough to accommodate more than 500,000 permanent residents.

It's a pity that Jiang Yan checked the current data in the city that has been counted by the brains, and found that the population that has settled down is only more than 150,000.

And this is already the most densely populated city in the country of the Dream Sect under Jiang Yan.

In the past month or so, the Brains have basically consolidated their domination over the entire Nederless Desert - in this case, in terms of military management such as the laying of the network of sub-machines and the security control of all areas, rather than in terms of civilian construction such as human facilities.

In addition to the city of the Oasis Inner City, other areas of the Nederles have also discovered some relatively small oases, each of which has built the basic form of the town and moved some residents into it, which can be regarded as satellite towns of the Central Oasis Inner City.

There are more than a dozen of these satellite towns, large and small, with populations ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.

The population of all the towns in the entire territory of the Nederes, even counting the soldiers in service, adds up to just over half a million.

Compared to the population density of any second-rate town like the empire with a permanent population of more than 200,000, the residents on Jiang Yan's side are really a little too rare. It can be called a sentence of 'vast land and sparsely populated'.

There's no way around it. After all, Jiang Yan's current population team is still through the network of slaves he has laid out, secretly abducting and abducting from all countries in the entire Western Continent...... I mean, to save, to secretly collect the less visible people at the bottom of the social ladder or on the marginals, and to collect the numbers that have been accumulated over a period of more than two years, and by actively encouraging the existing population to have more children.

Well, by the way, out of the 500,000 population statistics, nearly 80,000 are newborns under the age of three......

This bit of population, placed on other forces, is a very fatal flaw. This is because, excluding differences in individual strength and knowledge and technology, the size of the population usually intuitively represents the strength of the country.

You must know that only a large enough civilian population can afford to support a sufficiently formed army and establish a sufficiently prosperous livelihood industry.

Where do you recruit soldiers from if you don't have enough people? Agriculture, commerce, and all kinds of livelihood and logistics industries all need personnel to fill the posts, and they are still indispensable, and this proportion is usually far higher than the proportion occupied by soldiers in the army.

How many formed armies can a population of only 500,000 support a permanent army? According to the average of the countries of the world, the answer is: only 20,000.

Then look at the number of professional soldiers in other countries, take the Kingdom of Rhines as an example, the number of soldiers stationed on the northern border alone on the other side is more than 80,000 according to the data detected by the brain.

This ratio of support between civilians and professional soldiers is still due to the fact that the social production technology of this world has gradually begun to popularize spiritual guidance technology in modern times.

If the times were to go back 200 years, the gap between the number of soldiers and civilians would only be even greater because of the limitations of the productive forces of industry and agriculture without the support of spiritual guidance.

Of course, this ratio is also due to the fact that in recent decades, the movements of the entire main world continent have been relatively stable, and there have been frequent wars involving too many countries, which can be regarded as a relatively peaceful era. In wartime, this ratio of soldiers to civilians would definitely be even higher.

In short, Jiang Yan's small population, compared to other countries' forces, I am afraid that the number of low-level soldiers that are enough to produce will not even be able to make them stuff their teeth.

If it weren't for the existence of extraordinary powerhouses in this world who could bring together all the monstrous power and break the city with one blow, the national strength of this 'Dream Sect Country' under Jiang Yan would probably not be valued by others at all.

But this state of 'vast land and sparsely populated', Jiang Yan feels that it is somewhat a problem that must be improved.

This is not because there is not enough to support the rank-and-file soldiers. In fact, the number of soldiers under Jiang Yan's command accounted for a proportion of the total population far exceeded the average form of this world.

Basically, it can be said that it ...... As long as there is a need, all the people are soldiers!

The 'all the soldiers' mentioned here are not the kind of militia that are temporarily recruited and have little combat literacy, which are similar to farmers, but the 'elite soldiers' who will not lose to the combat effectiveness of the professional armies of various countries, and even surpass them by a lot.

In terms of weapons and equipment, Jiang Yan, who has sufficient logistics sub-machines, is unlikely to be lacking;

In terms of soldiers' combat effectiveness, the existence of data abilities and inheritance-type intelligent brains allows any civilian with the identity of a sub-machine to buy their own "program" skills with the credit coins exchanged for contributions, including combat-type "programs", anyway, they who have become sub-machines cannot disobey the permission management of the intelligent brain, and there is no hidden danger of violating the ban with force! is not afraid of boasting, even if Jiang Yan is the most ordinary teenager, his hard power after excluding experience and skills will not be worse than that of regular soldiers serving in other countries;

Finally, the lack of combat literacy formed by battlefield experience? This only needs to let the soldiers who are temporarily in battle casually load a level 0 military-type auxiliary intelligent brain, and then these soldiers don't have to think about anything, just empty their heads and obey the ultra-precise command of each soldier. Because of the constraints on the authority of the subordinates in the handset network, they don't even need to worry about the efficiency of their execution of orders, even if they themselves can't understand and react in time, the auxiliary portable military intelligent brain will replace their consciousness to control the body to complete all tasks.

Combining these factors, one can imagine the combat effectiveness that these so-called civilians under Jiang Yan's command can exert when they need to fight.

Of course, all these conditions for this must be that these 'civilians' are willing to join the 'slave network' and truly become a "slave" under Jiang Yan's command.

However, there will basically be no problem in this regard, because under Jiang Yan's rule, only those who have authorized the registration of their identity in the 'handset network' can be regarded as citizens and can enjoy all the social benefits that exist based on data abilities.

Jiang Yan doesn't think he's a demon, so he won't force anyone who doesn't want to join the 'slave network'. But the price is that the social status will be lower than that of citizens. The most intuitive point is that any consumption they make in the "mobile network" is the 'original price' launched by outsiders!

Jiang Yan set the price difference very widely.

For example, a program of "Fire Element Affinity Lv.1", a mobile machine with internal welfare permissions only needs 100 credit coins to buy, while people outside the 'mobile network' want to buy it, they have to spend at least 1,000 credit coins!

As for outsiders, sorry, the credits you top up and any data "programs" purchased with them can only be used by you, and cannot be traded or transferred with others.

The limitations of this area are even supervised by the brain at all times.

If some local tyrants want to buy other people or even buy a sub-machine for him to gather credit coins for themselves, it will only be wishful thinking!

By the way, under Jiang Yan's command, even if some civilians can ignore the many benefits of the convenient function of the data ability with high scores, they are likely to give in in to the consideration of their future generations in the end—Jiang Yan insidiously added the functional assistance derived from the data ability to the universal education system established by his own power.

Other people's children can easily learn all the required curriculum knowledge as long as they are instilled with the 'knowledge program' of the brain, while their own children also have to spend a lot of time studying and studying seriously, but the efficiency is not as good as that of the vast majority of peers in the school who enjoy the convenience brought by data ability?

What parent wants to let their future children fall behind so much?

Even if Jiang Yan does not deliberately restrict, the 'handset' citizens who have enjoyed the convenience of data abilities can easily master the skills given by many excellent "programs", and they are not comparable to ordinary people in terms of social competitiveness, and ordinary people who are not citizens will naturally be squeezed to the bottom of society by the pressure of competition.

But you can't blame the top of the government for doing it, after all, it's just something you want to do. The convenient benefits of "data ability" belong to the private resources monopolized by those in power. If you yourself are stubbornly unwilling to obey the rule, there is no need for the government to kindly open these welfare privileges for 'outsiders' like you!

Jiang Yan has also done a lot of similar measures. He doesn't even need to think of it, the brains will come up with it themselves.

The combination of these privileges + restrictions prompted the vast majority of civilians under Jiang Yan's command, even if they hesitated at first, they would eventually choose to join the 'slave network' under the convenient temptation of data abilities. I want to talk about "The Almighty Supreme of All Worlds" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~