Chapter 44: The Growth of Strange Things
The surrounding scenery changed in an instant, from lying on the hospital bed to floating in the jungle and the beach in mid-air, Zhang Longchu looked up at the sky, and quietly watched three huge twenty-sided golden dice were born out of thin air, slowly took shape, and fell at his feet.
The dice rolled in the air for a while, showing the numbers 17, 16, and 19, which totaled 52, and at the same time, the side length of the woodland that had been dispersed from about 20 kilometers to about 30 kilometers had instantly expanded by a third from about 20 kilometers in length.
Suddenly, a high and uplifted hilly land and a shiny black lakeside appeared on the east and west sides of Chulong City, respectively.
30 times 30 is an area of 900 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of a small county of a principality in Europe in the old and middle ages, enough to support more than 100,000 people.
After that, Zhang Longchu looked down at the land under his feet, felt the slowly accelerating time, and watched his followers struggle with the harsh natural environment little by little, expanding their living space, and inexplicably felt a little feeling in his heart.
Unexpectedly, the mysterious power absorbed from the gods of the different planes that lingered around him suddenly had a special reaction, like a bridge between the consciousness of Zhang Longchu and his followers.
"Great landlord, great landlord, you rule the whole world, omnipotent, please let our old city lord pass through this pass, recover from illness, and then continue to lead us to fight for our lives in this wild land...";
"The god of the great beast is on top, and the believer Zhao Yiding prays here, willing to exchange his ten-year life in exchange for the great master of our Chulong City to recover from his illness, kowtow, kowtow, please be merciful...";
"The lord of the city has no children and no daughters in his life, he has done so many good deeds, escaped with a lot of people, and broke into a situation overseas, but he didn't take a holiday, and he was seriously ill just after a few days of stable life..."... Suddenly, countless thoughts rose in his mind, and Zhang Longchu's spirit almost collapsed without preparation.
Fortunately, in a trance, he used the last remaining bit of reason to bite his tongue with all his strength, and took the opportunity of the severe pain to turn his mind to get rid of the world of strange things, and after feeling relieved and relaxed, he really fainted.
I don't know how long it took to wake up from the coma, Zhang Longchu opened his eyes weakly, shook his head and looked around, and found that he was lying in a well-groomed room, the only difference from the hotel suite bedroom was the bedside table next to him, which was replaced by a whole set of 'vital characteristics monitoring instruments'.
"Where is this, hospital or hotel..."I couldn't guess where I was for a while, a thought flashed in Zhang Longchu's heart, and at the same time, a small light yellow light above his head lit up.
A few seconds later, a young and pretty white girl in a pink nurse's uniform pushed the door and walked in, smiling and saying, "Mr. Long Chu, are you awake, do you need some water?"
Dr. Martin, who is in charge of your condition, will be there shortly, and if there is anything uncomfortable, you can tell him later. ”
"I'm fine, thank you, may I ask if this is here, is it a hospital?" Zhang Longchu, who felt that his body was gradually becoming more and more powerful, sat up from the bed, looked around and asked.
The nurse walked quickly to Zhang Longchu's bedside, pressed a button on the side of the bed, and folded the upper part of the bed so that the patient could lean comfortably;
While carefully trying not to irritate the patient's nerves, he replied, "Yes, this is Henry. Intensive care unit at Dom Friendship Hospital.
Your parents brought you to the hospital yesterday at noon, and the two of them stayed in the room all night, and then went home to rest after being strongly persuaded by the doctor..."
"Is it..."After figuring out that the place where he was was in the hospital, Zhang Longchu stopped paying attention to what the nurse continued to say, frowning and began to recall his experience before fainting, "... How could so many voices ring in my head at the same time, I almost went crazy.
Could it be that those mysterious energies absorbed from the alien plane suddenly gave me super hearing like Marvel's Daredevil in the world of strange things, no, no, that voice is not heard by ear, but telepathy, yes, telepathy!
I, I sensed the wishes of the believers.
The prayer of a believer should be as instinctive to a true deity as an ordinary person eating with his mouth and listening to a sound with his ears.
But for a mortal like me, this ability is extremely magical, and it is impossible to grasp it at all, could it be that the energy flowing from that alien plane idol contains certain laws mastered by the gods, and can I master this ability..."
Guessing this, he couldn't help but get excited, and was about to enter the world of strange things immediately to verify his thoughts, but then he thought that if he woke up and was in a coma in the hospital, he didn't know what kind of incurable disease he would be treated, so he could only sigh, suppress his impatience, and quietly wait for the arrival of the doctor.
Ten seconds later, when Dr. Martin, who was in charge of diagnosing him, came into the ward and found that the patient had fully recovered his health, he did not do any further examination and directly made a judgment that the old disease had recurred.
Filling in the medical report with the diagnosis of "emergency neurological disorder leading to coma", the doctor, who was small, bald and had a short gray beard on his chin, smiled and said to his patient: "What you need now is to rest and relax, young man."
I'm going to prescribe some sleeping pills for you today, and when you wake up tomorrow morning, you can go and talk to Dr. Cornell, the best psychiatrist in our hospital, and will tell you how to deal with some of life's difficulties, and what questions do you have? ”
"No more doctors, thank you." Zhang Longchu deliberately showed a grateful expression, coped with it, and after Martin left, he immediately asked the nurse to put the head of the hospital bed down again, asked for a glass of water, swallowed sleeping pills into his stomach, and turned his mind after lying down, and entered the world of strange things.
This time, with full psychological preparation, he tried to comprehend the self-improvement life of the believers, in order to establish a spiritual connection with them, and sure enough, he once again mobilized the mysterious power that lingered around him, and countless voices of prayer appeared in his mind.
It's a pity that after the first step was successful, the next thing was not as smooth as Zhang Longchu imagined, he found that these mysterious powers generated by the heterotopic god statue and absorbed by his own 'strange things' were completely consumables, although he could sense the prayers of believers, but it was impossible to teach him to master this ability.
Carefully experienced, there are only two functions of this mysterious power, one is to let Zhang Longchu hear the prayers of the believers in the world of strange things;
The second is that this mysterious power can be applied to believers and cause some unknown changes to them.
There is no point in listening to the prayers of believers without fulfilling their wishes.
And instilling the mysterious power directly into the body of the believer, although it will definitely produce beneficial changes in the feeling, but judging from the amount of mysterious energy devoured by the current strange object, it can only act on three or four believers at most, and it will be exhausted, and for Zhang Longchu, who already has tens of thousands of believers, it is only a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough at all.
After thinking about it, Zhang Longchu finally divided these mysterious powers into three parts, and instilled them into the master surnamed Xu, who had been leading the Chulong people since the establishment of the walled city, and slowly transformed from a craftsman who was proficient in smelting and casting to a successful politician;
When the fleeing Chulong people encountered the attack of fierce beasts for the first time, everyone was afraid to retreat, and the disabled people fought against the beasts without retreating, and later single-handedly trained countless civilians into elite soldiers, and a monk who claimed to master all kinds of advanced spells, but was unable to cast them because the enemy injured the Qi Sea Dantian.
Master Xu and the Severed Finger Warrior contributed greatly to the rise of Dragon Chu City, as for the eccentric Fang Shi was originally just a 'Yin Qing Master' who predicted the weather on a sea boat, and only became the director of fishing after the establishment of Chu Dragon City, but later he built the first school in the city with foresight, and slowly transformed into an important figure with far-reaching influence, so he was selected by Zhang Longchu.
After these three people received the effect of mysterious energy, their already old and seriously ill bodies soon became young, and with their continued leadership, the Chulong clan quickly became stronger after spending the first ten years of pain due to the lack of strong men caused by the war.
Black iron ore was first found on the hilly land on the east side of the castle, and then in the black water lake on the west side, oil was refined that could be burned for a long time, replacing wood and charcoal for cooking and dispersing the casters.
Life in the primeval jungle is full of dangers, and the lessons of the past have taught the Churyu people that if they lack the necessary force protection, even the richest city-state may be destroyed overnight, so after having these two 'sharp weapons', the first to benefit is the army.
Soon after, the powerful black iron 'Flame Crossbow' was invented by Master Xu himself, a huge crossbow five feet high and three feet wide, which could be equipped with 12 sharp arrows as thick as thumbs at a time, with four long lines engraved on the shaft and filled with fire oil.
Once fired, as long as the sharp arrow and the flint cleverly mounted in the crossbow head collide, the entire crossbow arrow will immediately ignite a raging fire, and the catapult power of the giant crossbow bowstring is very amazing, within two hundred steps is enough to penetrate deep into the trunk of the tree, if it is not for the fact that the trees in the world of strange things are extremely heavy when they are alive, it is very difficult to ignite, but I am afraid that the whole tree will burn.
At the same time, seeing that the newly discovered iron ore was abundant, and the tribe produced more than 1,000 catties of black iron per day, the Severed Finger Warrior selected hundreds of the tallest and strongest young men among the Chulong Clan, and refined a 'Fire Lance Sword Army';
This small army of 100 people, everyone is equipped with a four-edged blade with a five-foot length and a three-foot lance with a handle, holding the lance in both hands during battle, and igniting the fire oil in the dark groove of the blade with flint.