Not long after, the expedition team that Ash had sent into the southern jungle hurried over.

When they left, they were all convenient, carrying only a very small amount of dry food and necessary weapons, but now, they were very much like hunters and leather merchants in the mountains, almost all of them carried two or three or even a dozen animal carcasses on their backs, Ash looked closely, most of them were common wild animals such as deer, hares, and roe deer, but they also included two huge wild boars, and even a fierce tiger!

Speaking of which, there is no one else who can carry a tiger or a wild boar back from the jungle by himself, except for the incredibly strong non-humans under Ash.

When they came to Ash's approach, they first threw aside the prey they were carrying on their bodies, then walked up to him and knelt down on one knee and said, "Master." ”

Ash nodded and asked, "Did you make a discovery in the woods?" Get up and talk about it carefully. ”

"Yes, master."

The long swordsman at the head nodded, and then stood up and said respectfully: "Back to the master, after we entered the jungle for about fifteen miles, we first encountered a swamp, and found that the area of that swamp was not small, and it almost crossed the entire entrance to the Zhongnan Valley, and there were many poisonous insects, snakes and ants in it, in order to pass through there, we spent a lot of effort, and also lost two people. ”

Speaking of this, the soldier paused, glanced up at Ash, but saw Ash nodding and motioning for him to continue, and didn't say anything, he knew about it when he brought people into the jungle, which is why he gave up exploring the jungle in the first place.

Seeing that Ash didn't mean to blame him, the soldier lowered his head and continued to speak: "When we passed through the swamp, we found that there were a lot of jungle beasts inside, and the deeper we went, the bigger the beasts became. ”

"In addition, we have also found a large number of edible fruit tree vegetation, although the amount of resources that can be obtained from it may not be as large as the beasts in it, but it is also a very large resource pool, and finally, and most importantly, when we went deep to the south according to your instructions, we found a stone mine that can be used for us to mine, and the quality of the stone in it may be better than the one in the previous base, and although we can't estimate the specific quantity, it is definitely more than the previous one!"

Listening to his words, Ash smiled and was very satisfied, but it was not until the last sentence that he really had a sense of surprise!

Among the four resources he needs, gold and stone ore are the two resource units that are the most difficult to find and the most urgent need for stable mining sources, and the acquisition of gold has not yet been settled at this stage, but with the news of stone mines, at least it is many times better than the current situation, no matter how bad it is, as long as the reserves of that stone mine are huge enough, he can also follow the previous practice and sell stone ore from the market to earn gold, you know, in the market, the selling price of stone ore is much more valuable than wood and food!

"You did a good job, tomorrow I will organize some men, and you will take them to that quarry, set up a quarry, now go and rest first, and set off early tomorrow morning."

Thinking of this, Ash nodded to the group with satisfaction and sent them back.

Just as he was about to turn his head and walk up the stairs and return to his mansion, a short symphonic orchestral sound suddenly sounded in his mind, and after he heard the unusually familiar tone, he immediately perked up, turned his head and forgot in the direction of the mouth of the Zhongnan Valley.

Aina and Adie who were following him also turned to their senses with his movements, and then, they saw that at the mouth of the valley, which was originally empty and pitch-black, at some point, a huge castle had been erected, and the castle was sixty or seventy meters high, which was as high as a high-rise residential building in the previous life, but in this world, it was definitely a behemoth, at least the castle of Mo Feng that Ash had seen in Fit City before was only more than thirty meters high at best!

The castle, which was almost as tall as the mountain peak behind it, was lit up with fire, illuminating the entire valley mouth and half of the base, so even though it was night, Ash could still see it clearly from afar.

Ash remembers that in the original game, the castles that players can build will also show different styles according to the different powers of the selected country, among which Huaxia and Dongying are a style, which is a pavilion architectural style in ancient China, France and England are a style, the whole castle is boxy and slightly monotonous, and the Aztec and Maya are a style, and its castle is shaped like a pyramid.

In addition, the castle style of Persia and Turkey is much more atmospheric than the previous three, the four corners of the castle are each supported by a cylindrical auxiliary fortress that blends with the body, and the overall expansion surface is huge.

And the last one, is the Gothic, Viking, Teutonic castle castle, the structure of this kind of castle is more complex than the previous ones, the front is low and the back is high, and there is also a whole body of the sub-fort around the support, but except for the front side of the cylindrical shape, the rest are straight lines, and because the front side of the castle has a slightly lower platform, the number of the sub-fort has reached six, and then look at the two sub-forts on the front side, one high and one low, during which there is a drawbridge connected, the top of the whole castle is equipped with a platform and dense battlements, the overall structure is extremely complex, and it is very magnificent!

And this castle in Ash is exactly that!

And it's more majestic than in the game, it's more delicate and complex, and the size is even bigger!

At this point, Ash had no intention of going back to rest, and directly led Aina and Diedie to rush towards the direction of the castle.

The castle was surrounded by a square moat nearly twenty meters wide, the drawbridge at the main entrance was falling, and the main gate, large enough for seven carriages to pass side by side, was open to greet his master.

Ash stopped at the door, took a deep breath, and resisted the excitement in his heart, before stepping in again.

Stepping through the door and entering the main hall, Ash's first instinct was to look up, just because the space inside was too open!

Rao had seen many magnificent buildings in his previous life, but he had never seen any space in a building that could compare to this castle.

Ash saw that there was at least a distance of more than forty meters from the floor to the roof, and the floor was made of black smooth marble, and the top of the head was in a straight arc, densely covered with baroque-style sculptures, and there were more than twenty disc-shaped ornate headlamps hanging down.

The wide main hall is surrounded by a circular staircase divided into two passages, the staircase is made of wood, the whole body is ink, it looks very strong, and it also has a full luster, the heavy staircase climbs up, connecting a slightly smaller wide corridor in the middle of the second floor of the castle, and on both sides of the corridor, there are two slightly shorter stairs connecting the third floor, Ash looked up, and saw that the light was as far as his eyes could see, and there were no less than a hundred rooms in the hall around the three floors of the room doors that could be seen together!

The hall is decorated with two rows of stone carvings on both sides, like hollow arches, behind which is a flashing door leading to the various rooms, and a pair of torches are inserted in every other arch on the wall in front of the hall, and the lamp plates hanging overhead illuminate the whole hall brilliantly, and with the luxurious relief patterns that can be seen everywhere in the castle, this castle looks less like a castle for military purposes, but like a royal palace!

Ash's face flushed with excitement, and he kept shuttling from castle to castle, his heart surging with excitement, and he wanted to take a good look and note every corner and place of this castle that belonged to him.

Behind him, the performance of Aina and Adie was even more unbearable, the two daughters were more flushed than Ash, their breathing was heavier, and their eyes had a psychedelic brilliance, women always liked gorgeous and beautiful things, and in their lives, perhaps this huge and luxurious castle was the grandest and most shocking work of art.

After more than an hour, Ash turned around the entire castle, and after summoning Johnson, who had just finished cleaning the battlefield and was also stunned by the place, to tell him something, he led Aina and Addie to the third floor of the castle, which belonged to his room.

He already knew roughly that there were no less than 300 large and small rooms in this castle, most of which were military rooms such as armory, soldiers' barracks or guard rooms, observation towers, etc., and living rooms such as kitchens, banquet halls, reception rooms, cleaning rooms, and even museums were all concentrated around the hall on the first floor.

The first half of the castle has three floors, and the second half has six floors, and Ash's room is the entire third floor of the first half of the castle, which is his private property except for two rooms at the top of the staircase for servants and guards to rest.

Small dining room, study, treasure house, living room, library, training hall, all kinds of rooms, everything, and all of them are extremely spacious and luxurious, especially his bedroom, which is even more spacious and gorgeous, enough for a dozen people to sleep together, running on it without feeling cramped, a giant marble staircase fountain bath with a length of 20 meters, and a huge wardrobe that can hold the clothes of everyone in the base for a whole year, all of which gave Ash a lot of surprises, and even almost reached ' The level of fright, and even more exaggerated, his balcony was still the whole deck of the sub-fort that was slightly higher in front of the castle!

Ash stood on the floor of his bedroom in a daze, and it took a long time to digest all the information here, thinking that even the bedroom of the Emperor of Vertes might not be as spacious and luxurious as his own, he walked in and sat down on a soft sofa the size of a car, then looked up at the ornate chandelier overhead, which was obviously inlaid with gold dust, and turned his head to look at the delicate work of art that was obviously carved from jade, the large porcelain next to it, and the velvet carpet that covered the entire room under his feet, The soft animal hair under the buttocks, and it was not long before he sighed again and again that the power of the system's black technology was revealed.

He really couldn't understand how those villagers could make these things out of less than 5,000 stones