Chapter 137: Iron Strikes Need Its Own Hardness
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The number of books preserved by the magic card masters of the Eternal Library can be said to be as great as a galaxy, but it is extremely difficult for Luo Zhengdao to look through these books, he once tried to open a book, but after a long time, he opened it and saw that there were rows of strange symbols on the pages, and these symbols were constantly changing and beating like a computer with a virus. Feeling dizzy, Luo Zhengdao hurriedly closed the pages, so he had an inexplicable sense of fear for these magic card masters' collections, these surprisingly large books must not be for people to see!
Excluding those unknown areas that Luo Zhengdao can't touch, it is not difficult to find some different storage in this neatly laid out eternal library.
"What is this? Periodic table? β
As Luo Zhengdao's fingertips touched the strange point of light, it began to change from a point to a line and finally stretched into a light curtain, and then a brief and slightly abstract chart appeared on it, and the words were full of a complex and incomprehensible profoundness. With wide eyes and trying to identify these characters that appeared on the light curtain, Luo Zhengdao muttered half guessing, half confused.
The longer he lived in the new world, the more he learned about the things here, and the more he understood the things here, Luo Zhengdao was confused by the actual situation in this world.
The old world evolved from fishing, hunting, and nomadism to the age of farming, announcing the beginning of civilization, and it took only about 10,000 years to reach the stage of aerospace science and technology. When you look at the fact that the New World has a much longer history than the Earth, it is puzzling that the development of civilization has not survived the Old World, but has stagnated on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. Assuming that the negative effects of civilization faults are caused, this reason alone is not enough to explain the massive decline of civilizations that have followed after the peak of civilization.
Whether it is the ancient elf civilization, the giant civilization, or the dragon civilization a little later in time, not to mention the spectacular peak duel between Aragami and the Demon Card Master, and even the First Goblin Empire is more than a cut above the civilization of the current era. In that case, why did the new world stay at a low-end level and stagnate?
In the old world, the sudden decline and demise of ancient civilizations was not without precedent, except for the ancient civilizations that were only left with scales and half claws, and all the historical facts were unexaminable, among the four known ancient civilizations, excluding the Chinese civilization with the least qualifications, the remaining three became historical dust under the butcher's knife of the invaders. However, this does not prevent the flame of civilizational enlightenment from being rekindled elsewhere, and how can the new world, whose territory is far wider than the old world, repeatedly regress in the form of total collapse of civilization? This matter is difficult to explain clearly with known reasons, Luo Zhengdao can only draw a big question mark in his heart, and it is not possible to do it overnight to pursue the answer to this kind of deep digging into the dark curtain.
"Hmm, what does that mean? Again, every time I say something halfway through, I run away! β
Luo Zhengdao, who was unconscious, was so engrossed in memorizing the information of this chart that he stopped contentedly until he was sure that he could make a copy of the gourd after he left.
Rote memorization imprinted the content of the form deeply in his mind, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help but feel a little tired, and opened his mouth to greet the administrator and said:
"Hey, let me go if nothing else! I've been very busy these days. β
"You...... Are you sure? β
Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao asked very vigilantly:
"Well, why do I feel like I'm about to be cheated when I hear you?"
"Ouch! I hurt Lao Tzu to death, and I was really pitted again! β
After regaining consciousness, Luo Zhengdao suddenly felt that the muscles up and down his body were twitching violently, and the taste was like sitting on an electric torture chair, every inch of skin was as if it had been violently scrubbed with a sharp wire brush, and it had to be disinfected with a whole bucket of concentrated salt water, and every nerve from head to toe was producing radiant pain with the rhythm of the heartbeat. This kind of extreme experience of not finding the origin of pain, the stimulation of Cheng DΓΉ can be compared to sitting on a high-voltage electric chair and being electrocuted to the point of half-baked unlucky death row prisoner, it is really a feeling of wanting to die!
"Will, we're here. Yes! How did you get like this? β
The whole person was slumped on the bed, and the cow gasped for a long time, and Luo Zhengdao, whose eyes were blank, heard a gentle knock on the door and the call of Vina Dubov, and he was like a heart booster injected into his body, and immediately struggled to get up from the bed.
Stumbling to the door of the lounge, Luo Zhengdao opened the door, his bloodshot eyes really scared the unwary Vina Dubov.
There is no doubt that breaking the jar and breaking is a common problem of all intelligent races, and after suffering a heavy blow that is difficult to recover, silently wiping the wound and preparing to fight again, that is undoubtedly the real powerhouse. It is a pity that this kind of mortal su zhì will only appear in a few outstanding individuals, as the intelligent race of the group lacks the ability to reason and discern, once the blind masses begin to be dominated by some kind of fanatical enthusiasm, then there is no need to expect the only remaining rational properties to restrain the manic group emotions like wild horses to vent wantonly.
Standing on the command platform on the stern deck of the Avenger, scanning the situation on the shore through a telescope, Luo Zhengdao could only gather a thousand words into a lament, and said:
"I Should Have Known ......"
Not far off the coastline, you will see a small seaside town in flames, and the streets and alleys of the town are clogged with corpses. The blood that had not yet congealed gathered into a stream, meandering along the terrain and staining the river that passed through the city, and the water that should have been clear was like a red ribbon at the moment, and the strong rust smell was revealed in the bewitching and disgusting.
Whether it was to deceive oneself or to cover one's ears, the Second Goblin Empire learned of the tragedy of the near-total destruction of the Armada, and the Goblin Emperor used the seal, the Senate approved the document, and the military department signed the latest order on the relocation of the border and the forbidden sea.
If the Goblin Regular Army always returns some strong people with a sense of honor and disdain to carry out massacres against unarmed civilians and degrade their reputation, the human puppet army composed of scum and scum is a group of unscrupulous standard gangs. Taking advantage of the power they held, they wantonly plundered the property of the residents, molested women, and when the residents resisted, they immediately summoned people to launch an armed suppression. Assuming that the situation of the arsons being bandits is exactly what the Goblin Military Department hopes to achieve, then they have indeed fulfilled their wishes, and there are not a few human beings who have died at the hands of this gang of puppet soldiers.
Saril Byrne, the Yaling Overseer with a delicate and cold face like a classical sculpture, stood at the side of Luo Zhengdao, whose face was pale and his body trembled slightly, and she said quietly:
"This time the goblins really don't care about face."
At this time, Brando Scarlet Yan didn't care about being compassionate here, and eagerly said to Luo Zhengdao:
"Lord Earl, don't waste time here, let's rush to Qiongzhou immediately! Get ahead of the goblins, that's the remedy we can do now. β
As everyone knows, the foundation of Count Fulu's family is in Qiongzhou, and there are not a few Qiongzhou sailors in the pirate fleet. Immediately, he nodded solemnly and said:
"Well, let's get out at once! Target, Qiongzhou. β
100,000 people, a tiny number left in the old world where the population problem is becoming a world crisis. However, this is also a small miracle of rape created by Luo Zhengdao when he led the pirates to plunder the goblin butcher's knife from Qiongzhou Island and its nearby islands. Although how to settle and feed these people has become a problem for him, Luo Zhengdao does not feel remorse for his actions, after all, people's brains are not leeks, it is easy to cut them off with a knife, and they will never grow again.
Countless countries have been overturned throughout the ages, almost without exception, starting from famine, so food supply is not an insignificant matter.
Luo Zhengdao is not an empty theorist who can't distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings, and he can still understand the difficulty of feeding 100,000 people. The barren Wake Reef is completely dependent on the Mage Tower for food and water, of course, that food is a drop in the bucket, counting on temporary emergency relief to delay the famine, if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of feeding more than 100,000 people, then you must take another path. Large-scale water diversion to irrigate desert land has transformed the Gobi Sand Sea at Wake Reef into thousands of hectares of fertile land. This ambitious agricultural project is a major project that Luo Zhengdao has been working on for a long time, and it is still a long way from success, and this is the crux of his headache.
In the scorching desert area, the amount of steam that can be irrigated in the open air is staggering, and the amount of arable land that can be irrigated by the fresh water pumped by the mage tower can also be calculated. If you want to produce more food, you can either increase the amount of water you use or reduce the consumption of farmland, and there is really no shortcut. In addition, after the implementation of the policy of relocation and sea ban, the social order of the main 6 is still in a rather chaotic state, and the outflow of silk products can be said to be very small compared to before, leaving only Xiangjiang can barely maintain the filament trade with the tacit approval of the goblins, which directly leads to a further sharp decrease in the number of caravans coming and going to the main 6.
The pirates are not unfounded, and with the apparent decrease in merchant ships on the Aether Sea, the harder it is for them to make a living, and the terrible feeling of being constantly tightened with a noose around their necks is undoubtedly a chilling red flag.