Chapter 291: The Underworld and the Nezumi
Four years later, in the square in front of the castle, which has been gradually perfected and more majestic, a group of heavily armed warriors are besieging a tall ogre, at this time the battle is nearing the end, although the ogre is strong, but in the face of a pair of experienced and not weak professional warriors are also overstretched, regardless of the head and tail, the whole body is covered with knife wounds and hung with arrows, especially one of the eye sockets has an arrow inserted, which is constantly shaking with his angry roar.
At this time, it was four years later, and after four years of development and accumulation, Lin Chen already had an extremely well-equipped professional soldier.
A total of twenty light infantry, fifteen heavy infantry, ten sharpshooters, five heavy cavalry, two light cavalry scouts, a total of forty-seven people, and the daily consumption of food was up to 283 units.
However, after four years of development, this consumption is no longer enough to become a burden on the plane, because in the past few years, he has successively developed other lands in the plane, planted other cash crops and drought-tolerant crops, and the daily output of food has reached 310 units, which is enough to support this army and still have a surplus.
But Lin Chen did not continue to expand his army because there was still twenty-seven surplus production, all the excess let him save, and he did not sell it for several years, but still bought a large number of materials on the trading platform every year and accumulated them, and now there are a total of 13,510 gold, up to 142,800 food, 15,400 units of wood, 15,400 units of stone, and 1,500 units of iron.
This is all in exchange for all the years by selling all kinds of surplus monster meat, as well as some magic props made by himself.
In the past four years, he has long been able to make magic props and various scrolls by himself, and even the magic pattern construction can already be made, but the materials are insufficient.
One day in the third year, Lin Chen suddenly found that Bentun had accumulated nearly 100,000 potential points, and there were only more than 1,000 points left, and then the more than 200 disciplines suddenly became advanced, and a huge amount of knowledge poured into his mind, whether it was making magic props or copying scrolls and magic potions, etc., his abilities instantly improved by leaps and bounds, and he became a lot stronger all of a sudden.
He knew that this was a breakthrough on the side of the real body, so that it was fed back on the attribute panel, and it also benefited as a projection.
These knowledge abilities have reached the advanced level, which is already very high, and the advanced construction may not be completed, but it is still easy to do it below the first order, and even the second order has a certain possibility to make it.
Of course, this refers to the fact that the conditions are sufficient, and now the conditions are too simple to be able to do so.
But that's enough, in this trial, you don't need such a high-level structure, the first order is completely sufficient.
It is estimated that in four years, there have been trialists who have been promoted to full-fledged professionals, but there is absolutely no one who can make money like him, let alone make money at the same time and gather enough troops.
At this point, he was fully prepared, and Lin Chen was ready to shuttle through the plane to plunder.
Preparing all the resources, he took out the crystal simulator that had not been used for a long time, chose to promote, a large number of resources were devoured and absorbed by the simulator, and the authority was immediately unlocked, and a mechanical voice sounded:
"You've been promoted to Level 3 clearance, and you have permission to explore the plane, do you want to make this public?"
Without waiting for him to answer, there was a hint later:
"As the first trialist to be promoted to the third level of authority, you can make the following choices, public, you will get two points, non-public, you will get one point, please make a choice within sixty seconds, timeout will be public by default."
Looking at the countdown hourglass that quickly disappeared, Lin Chen quickly thought about it and chose not to make it public.
Trial points are extremely difficult to obtain, even a little is extremely difficult to obtain, but Lin Chen doesn't want to make it public now, and is used to making a fortune in a low-key voice.
made a choice, this option was directly skipped, and no notification to everyone appeared - saying that there was an anonymous trialist to open the third-level permission, it was directly skipped, and the same point was credited to the account.
Then the system prompts again:
"Congratulations on your promotion to the third-level authority, you will get a plane advent circle, please choose a placement location."
Lin Chen pointed to a high platform in the center of the square in front of the castle that had been planned for a long time:
"There."
As soon as the words fell, a pillar of light fell from the sky and slammed into the stone platform, and the next second the pillar of light disappeared, revealing an oval light gate with a height of three meters, which was the plane portal.
Then the system has a series of prompts, which are basically some rules about plane exploration.
First of all, this portal can only be opened once a month, three hours at a time, which means that it will take a month to open again after the arrival, and if there is a danger in the plane, it will take a month to support, so the team sent for the first time is very important.
In addition, the portal is not opened casually, in addition to the first free time, every time you have to put in a certain amount of tribute sacrifices, you will get a certain number of random plane coordinates, and the trialist can only choose one plane coordinate at a time, and the others will disappear.
To put it simply, it is to spend money to buy coordinates, the more valuable the sacrifice, the higher the probability of high-value plane fragments.
The first time you turn on the free, that is, it's free, it's definitely not good, but it's not good at it, it's also a plane, whether it's farming or mining, even digging stones is useful.
Of course, it is a little useful but not very useful, because when the trialist reaches the third level of authority, the consumption of wood and stone is not very large, it can be said that these two things will have little value in the future, the most valuable will always be gold and food, as well as rare items and minerals harvested in the plane, and even the value of iron ore will decrease.
After all, in the future, as everyone enters the transcendent stage, what is needed is basically transcendent items, rare minerals, etc., and ordinary wood and stone are enough.
Lin Chen had already made preparations, so he chose to start plane exploration as soon as possible, and a light curtain immediately appeared in front of him, showing three unnumbered plane fragments, no plane names, only some brief introductions.
How simple it is, just write - a barren plane with a small area, not very dangerous.
It's as simple as that, the introductions of the three are basically the same, and the only reference value is the five words 'not dangerous', but Lin Chen is skeptical about this, because he doesn't know whether this evaluation is based on his personal strength, or the sum of the strength of the entire plane, or based on the artificial standard of newcomers who have just obtained the permission to explore the plane.
But no matter what aspect it is based on, one thing is for sure, the difficulty of the plane given for the first exploration is really not too high, not because it is the first time, the key is that this is a free opportunity.
As the saying goes, cheap is not good, even if it is free, there will never be a high-resource plane fragment.
So in the face of the choice of one of the three, Lin Chen didn't think about anything at all, and casually chose the middle option, the plane numbered TXWD-14578 lit up, and the portal in front of him rippled, and the color changed to a faint green.
With a wave of his hand, five light infantry and two heavy infantry came out of the line, holding their shields and approaching the portal, with two light infantry leading the way.
Dimensional development is not as easy as when it first came, and no one can tell where the teleportation location is, so the first wave to enter must be cannon fodder.
Two light infantry entered, and after a minute, the remaining three light infantry and two heavy infantry followed, and after another minute, one infantry came out again and made a safe gesture, Lin Chen ordered the rest of his men to be sent in, and finally walked in by himself.
As soon as he passed through the portal, his eyes instantly darkened, and his pupils instantly burned into a flame to see the surroundings clearly, it turned out to be in an underground space, the dragon vision saw the surrounding environment clearly, he and his subordinates were in an underground space about the size of a football field, and there were many holes of different sizes around it leading to the unknown place.
"The Dark Regions?"
This space is not very large, the underground is rugged, strange rocks, and there are many unique underground plants and luminous mosses on the ground, which is also the only light source underground, even if ordinary people stay a little longer to get used to it, they can roughly see the surrounding situation.
Lin Chen didn't know how big and dangerous this plane fragment that could be part of an underground world was, generally speaking, it wouldn't be too dangerous, but this kind of thing was not 100% certain, there would always be accidents, he wouldn't bet on this, so after making sure that there were no monsters in this space, he directly asked his subordinates to set up camp, and while the portal still had a three-hour duration, he returned to the main plane to gather a large number of farmers to start carrying materials, wood, stones and a large amount of food, and he wanted to build an outpost in the cave opposite.
In more than an hour, the things were basically moved, and another fifty farmers were left to build an outpost here, and more than sixty were left on the main plane to continue production.
Now there is not as much work in the main plane as before, the farmers now only need to farm, and the other logging and quarrying have stopped, and there is no wood in the plane for them to cut, no stone for them to pick, just concentrate on farming.
The fifty farmers who came with him hurried to work, Lin Chen assigned his subordinates to carefully search the underground space, and he came to a stone wall covered with glowing moss to stand still, and suddenly smashed his fist on the stone wall after a while, with a loud bang, a circle of ripples spread around the fist surface, and a huge sound was transmitted to the entire cave buzzing and echoing, and the moss on the stone wall was washed away, revealing a slightly metallic stone wall.
"Iron Ore!"
He showed a hint of joy, sure enough, there are not many other stones in the underground world, and he found one when he first came.
Regardless of whether this mine is large or not, even a small vein is enough for early development.
However, his joy did not last long, suddenly his ears moved slightly, he turned his head to look in one of the directions, his eyes fell on a certain hole around the cave, and after more than ten seconds, he heard that Suosuo's voice became louder, and then a huge mouse head came out of it, and his round eyes turned around and saw Lin Chen's burning gaze, and suddenly stiffened and collapsed to the ground.
Directly inherited to the bloodline of the ancient dragon, Lin Chen's dragon vein is stronger than the average dragon, of course, the ability of Long Wei is full of force, and the weak creature will be weak and paralyzed on the ground by the impact of the dragon power he exudes.
This is an underground rat man, about one meter and one or two tall, a little thinner than a kobold, with a head like a big mouse, a humanoid body, and a thick rat tail behind it.
Lin Chen strode in front of the rat man, and with a wave of his hand, two soldiers stepped forward to grab it and tie it up and throw it aside, because he had already heard more small sounds coming from the depths of this cave, and there seemed to be many rat men.
Soon, another nezumi came out, and the two soldiers guarding the entrance of the cave raised their knives and fell, and a rat's head flew out, but this did not frighten the nezumi behind, and because of the death of the nezumi, the nezumi behind was even more excited, and frantically squeezed forward.
When Lin Chen was studying before, he had heard the teacher explain the habits of many races in the Heavens and Void Seas, including the rat people, which were common exotic races.
This creature is both big and small, and when there are not many people, it is very bold, and the bolder the group, the bigger the number, and it is said that if the number of rats reaches a certain point, even a giant dragon dares to charge.
It is said that he didn't know if there was any basis for this daring to charge at the dragon, but it was true that the more people there were, the more daring they were, just like now, a large number of nezumi rushed out of the cave and tore apart with the warriors guarding the cave entrance.
The weapons of these rat people are very simple, most of them are sharp bone spurs, sharpened stones, etc., but there are no iron tools, the civilization of the rat people is very primitive, and there have not been any forged iron rat people, and the face of fully armed warriors is completely one-sided slaughter, especially ten heavy infantry with a huge tower shield of one meter and five high, and the whole body is wrapped into an iron can.
The battle was over in less than ten minutes.
It's not that the nezumi escaped, but that there were too many corpses blocking the hole.
Lin Chen didn't remove the blocked corpses, he didn't care for the time being, now was not the time to deal with the ratmen, he had to build the outpost first, and he would have a certain defensive strength before he would lead his men to clean up these ratmen.
If nothing else, the owner of this plane should be this group of unknown number of nezumen, and killing these nezumi can basically occupy this underground plane fragment.
Relying on the stone wall to excavate, dig out the stone on the spot and build a stone wall five meters high and three meters wide against the stone wall, flatten the protruding rocks on the surrounding stone wall, and shovel down the moss so that nothing will climb over the stone wall.
The base accounts for about one-third of this cave, during which there are also two passages that do not know which corner to which corner, Lin Chen used the fossil as mud spell to turn the debris left over from the construction of the wall into soft mud and poured it in, blocking the long passage, and then sealing it with mud and stone, do these well, the base is considered to have the power of self-protection, and the five-meter-high stone wall is difficult to climb up with these rat people.
Next, the ground inside the base was leveled, the fossils were used to shape the mud spell, a warehouse, a barracks, a row of houses, a main building, and a ten-centimeter-thick solid wooden door were installed, and the base was completed, and all the resources that were moved from the main plane were stored in the warehouse, and all the subordinates moved in.
At this time, Lin Chen put his mind at ease and prepared to officially explore this underground plane.
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