Chapter 7: Encounters

Under the command of Zhang Shen, the newcomers collected a large amount of wood and steel from the ruins of the building on one side and piled it up on the deck of the wooden ship. Because it was a wood and stone building, wood was everywhere and soon filled most of the deck space. However, there is very little steel, and judging from its forging process and material, the civilization level of this world is not much higher. Fortunately, Zhang Shen's repair work did not use much steel, otherwise it would be another tragedy.

On the shore, everyone craned their necks to watch Zhang Shen's "performance".

Zhang Shen stood at the bow of the ship, surrounded by various broken wooden planks. He crouched down, took out his pen and quickly drew a formation on the deck.

A circle that symbolizes the cycle of all things;

The hexagonal shape symbolizes the six mysteries of the world;

"Water" and "earth" become "wood", and "fire" and "earth" become "gold";

He was extremely proficient in extracting a series of reaction techniques from the memory bank in his mind, modifying and blending them with the results of the basic laws of the world he had just analyzed, and adding them to the refining array.

Formation!

After checking to confirm that there were no mistakes or omissions, Zhang Shen took a deep breath and activated the first refining formation in this world.

Forge into a formation and start!!

The silver-white arc burst out, spreading like electric snakes in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, the entire wooden ship and the materials on the deck were enveloped.

"Timber...... Separate...... Grade...... Under the control of Zhang Shen, the wood closest to the deck suddenly began to decompose, and the long or short wood fibers were separated from the original wood, as if they had life, "drilling" into the deck below, "squeezing" into the deck where the wood became loose, making it more dense and tough.

These fibers either squeeze into the gaps between the original fibers, or merge with the previous fibers to become longer and tougher, making it better without changing the grain division of the wood itself.

In the eyes of Jiang Zhaohui and others, they only saw that the wood that was originally piled high seemed to be placed in the thin snow under the scorching sun, quickly melting, reducing the height little by little, until it was gone!

When more than ninety percent of the wood disappeared into thin air, the original dilapidated wooden boat was gone, replaced by a new ship, each of its planks seemed to be taken from dozens of years of excellent trees, the texture on which is clear, at a glance people have a sense of pleasing to the eye, and even have an urge to come up and smell it.

Moreover, compared to the artificially created artificially made of a large number of parts pieced together and tenoned, there is not a single splicing gap visible on this ship, as if heaven and earth were created naturally, which is amazing.

After completing the repair work of the wooden ship, Zhang Shen used the remaining wood and steel that had not yet been used to add some supporting facilities to the wooden ship, as for the last remaining bit of steel, he had the idea to forge it into 3 small hand crossbows and dozens of arrows, and then install a bowstring of average quality, and give it a try, hey, there is an effective killing distance of nearly forty meters......

Two of the 3 bows and crossbows were given by Zhang Shen to two women who felt strong and had the courage to fight, and the remaining one was given to the sister of the two little Lori. It was also at this time that Zhang Shen knew the names of the two, the one who claimed to be his sister was called Ai Yi, and the younger sister was called Ai Ai. Ay got the bow and crossbow, and looked very happy, and thanked him in a soft voice, and made someone's face burst into blood.

Sensing the blazing eyes of the others, Zhang Shen said that this kind of thing can be done at any time, but it will not be said until after entering the human gathering place, and there will be no problem with one person at that time.

Everyone boarded the ship in turn, and then, an embarrassing thing appeared-

The boat can't move!!

The ship has sails, the problem is, there is no wind! Besides, such a large ship cannot use wooden oars...... (PS: In the original book, the power to drive the boat is provided by the pulley set installed on the river bank, which requires manpower, and everyone treats these things as if they are broken and falls into the river)

Zhang Shen was embarrassed~~

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, embarrassed and embarrassed.

At the critical moment, someone stepped up.

It was a woman with very thick black-framed eyes, about twenty-seven or eighteen, with long hair tied into a ponytail, always very low-key, and had no sense of existence. She calls herself Bo Jue, studied at Beijushan University, studied mechanical engineering for more than ten years, and is particularly interested in ancient ships, carriages and horses, etc., and happens to know a kind of human power device that can solve the problems in front of her.

She drew a structural drawing, Zhang Shen said that she couldn't understand it at all, but fortunately, the self-proclaimed "Xiaojing" Dongguan woman's ability to extract is the same "water flow manipulation" as Li Jing, and she likes to make her own models on weekdays, and her brain hole is relatively large, and she successfully restored the structure of Bo Jue.

Although the device looks complicated, the principle is actually very simple, similar to that of a bicycle. Figuratively speaking, it is to install more than a dozen pedals on the ship to convert manpower into the mechanical power of the wooden boat to move forward......

Zhang Shen gave the two girls a few bottles of potions for detoxification, healing injuries, and replenishing spirits, and each of them gave a defensive jade talisman that could defend against missile bombardment.

Xiao Jing's gaze at Zhang Shen suddenly became hot, and Bo Jue was also very excited, and his enthusiasm soared upward, and he even proposed to transform this wooden ship into a submarine that could travel underwater...... This proposal was decisively ignored by Zhang Shen.

After some tossing and turning, the wooden boat finally succeeded in starting, and followed the river all the way through the Higanshina district, through the wall of Maria, and into the "Three Rings", the Maria area.

The Maria region is located between the Wall of Mary and the Wall of Rus, the largest of the three regions, providing more than 70% of the food and other supplies to the other two regions, especially the central Sheena district, although it is vast and sparsely populated (relatively speaking), it is the most important part of the three regions.

In this way, it is also understandable why the human form has taken a sharp turn since the wall of Maria was breached, and even if the giants have suffered from internal strife and their attack has been greatly reduced, they can only huddle behind the wall of Sheena, waiting for death in despair.

The nameless river (I don't know its name anyway, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the anime, and if you have a comic book party that knows, you are welcome to slap your face) After entering the Maria area, the river became wider, and the river was calm and waveless, except for a long scratch left by a wooden boat.

Thanks to the wide channel of the Nameless River, although several groups of giants were aware of the existence of the wooden boat and the food on it on the way, the giants' water-fearing nature and the distance outside the attack range made them unable to cause any trouble to Zhang Shen and his party except for a few futile roars.

Under the temptation of low-level potions and props that Zhang Shen himself could not use, more than a dozen newcomers, including women, desperately pedaled in shifts to provide the wooden boat with the power to continue to move forward.

Thanks to this, and Zhang Shen's use of potions to restore his strength regardless of the cost (in fact, it really didn't cost much o(╯□╰)o), it didn't take long for the wooden boat to cross the Maria region and reach the entrance to the river of the Wall of Rus.

The passage between the two places - the solid wood gate weighing a thousand pounds somehow loosened the connecting willow nail on one side and fell diagonally, blocking most of the passage, and the only remaining gap was a little smaller than the size of the wooden boat......

"Damn it!" Zhang Shen scolded secretly, and had no choice but to let Bo Jue, who had become his deputy, command Jiang Zhaohui and others to temporarily drive the wooden boat to the side of the riverbank, and he floated to the huge gate with the help of props, and drew a concise refining array on it, without touching its stable structure, to create a passage that was enough for the wooden boat to pass through.

A pure, silver-white arc of lightning flickered and spread, enveloping the entire gate. In the flashing of electricity, the gate is like a dead tree in spring, and several "roots" like things are born from it and spread to the bluestone wall hole above, and then countless small "roots" are born and deeply penetrated into it!

There is no doubt that this is the effect of Zhang Shen's alchemy.

At tea time, a large piece of the thick wooden gate that was immersed in the river was missing, but the other end seemed to grow together with the city wall, and even the texture of an ancient vine could be seen.

"Is it Zhang Shen?"

Zhang Shen was about to return to the wooden boat, when a sudden voice from the opposite side of the wall hole sounded directly in his head, which made him stunned on the spot.

The voice......

"Sister Lan?!!"

With eight points of familiarity and two points of unfamiliar voice, and the strong joy that followed, Zhang Shen was a little unsure for a while, and suddenly there was an idea containing intense emotional fluctuations.

"It's me." There was a faint joy and relief in the voice on the other side of the wall, and the strangeness disappeared.

"We'll be right here!" As the saying goes, one of the four joys of life is "meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land", so it is conceivable that the joy brought by this slim probability can be imagined to be able to meet very few acquaintances in a strange world!

"Wait!" Zhang Shenzheng was overjoyed, but a low cry suddenly came from his mind.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Shen heard a different meaning from the voice of the blue phoenix. Seem...... She's in trouble?!

With this thought, Zhang Shen immediately put his ear to the cold city wall.

As mentioned earlier, the civilization level of the giant world is not high, but what makes Zhang Shen and others extremely puzzling is that the human beings here can use such "rudimentary" tools to build three giant walls that are difficult to complete even if they are placed in modern society with various construction machinery!!

It's not scientific!

You know, if the three walls were put together, the length of the walls could stretch from Hainan Island all the way to Moscow!

Not to mention that it is also about ten meters thick, and it is made of polished pure natural stone bricks!

How unscientific is this!!

When he first crossed the Wall of Mary, this discovery made Zhang Shen stunned and almost scared.

Returning to the text, Zhang Shen pressed his ear to the wall, and immediately, a slight vibration sound passed through the thick masonry into his ears.

The voice was not strong, and it was very noisy, but Zhang Shen heard a familiar roar from it.

It was the roar of his new friend, the giant.

Mixed with it is the shaking of the earth.

[PS: Tomorrow you can return to the "normal" time update...... Probably ......]

[PS2: From next week, unless there is an accident, at least (9) chapters per week, including debt repayment (I still owe you (5) chapters, remember), excluding additions]