Chapter 1437 Machine

Ice caves are scattered all around the island in the middle of the lake, and it seems that the number of ice caves is still increasing.

And the oil spewed out from the island in the middle of the lake was endlessly absorbed by these ice caves, and it looked as if there was a bottomless pit below.

I came to an ice cave that was not filled with oil because it was a little far away, and looked closely.

This ice cave passage looks smooth and flat, as if it is naturally formed, and there is no trace of slashing and axe cutting from it.

Moreover, it does not go straight down, but leads diagonally to the bottom of the lake.

In my heart, a strange thought arose: oil was originally pumped from the ground, could it be that now, it is necessary to refill it into the lake?

What's the point?

After looking at it, I saw that this ice cave was about the thickness of a water tank, and it just slipped down through a person, and because of its mirror-like well wall, it was very suitable for sliding.

I'd like to go down and have a look, but ......

Once you go down, the wall of this ice cave is so slippery, how will you come up then?

I tried to scratch it with my fingers, and I felt that if I changed into the true body of the Qilin, I should be able to climb up from below with the tenacity and sharpness of the Qilin claws.

Thinking about it, I immediately decided to go down and find out the situation.

Slapped at the unicorn horse, and it understood what I meant, and immediately ducked away and hid.

When the unicorn left, I came to the edge of the ice cave and slid down quickly.

I could only hear the cold wind whistling in my ears, and soon, I fell into darkness.

I had to cast the true body of the Qilin, and only then did I barely gain a glimmer of vision, so that my eyes could be considered to be blurred.

It's like gliding through a deep mine, and if you have a "deep-sea phobia" or something, you're afraid it's hard to walk here.

It took about three to five minutes to slide until I reached the end of the ice cave.

The end of this ice cave, to be exact.

In front of my eyes, a cobweb-like passage appeared.

The passages, which were carved out of the ice, were transparent and visible, and some of them had a thick, pitch-black liquid flowing through them.

It's oil.

As I had guessed, the oil poured in from the channel, flowed into the water below, and then floated up a whole layer.

I realized that there was a vacuum underneath the ice!

This blackwater lake is like a bowl, under the bowl, there is water, and above the water, there is a vacuum, and after the vacuum, there is ice.

The influx of oil is filling this vacuum, and the surface of the great lake has slowly condensed into a shallow layer.

If you calculate according to the map, the surface of this lake is about 1,500 square kilometers, which is almost equivalent to the area of a large city if measured in terms of cities.

I can't help but sigh: so much oil, if it is in the future generations, it will be a fortune.

In this passage, a white beetle about the size of a washbasin, like an oversized ant, is walking through the ice cave, chiseling the ice into holes and carrying the ice out at the same time.

It turned out that these passages were all chiseled out by this beetle.

I just don't know, is it the people of the Night Ghost Clan who are driving these beetles?

What was the purpose of digging out these subglacial passages to pour oil into the surface of the blackwater lake?

A beetle ran past my feet, and it didn't seem to be a very clear indication of my presence.

Not only that, but there seems to be a faint fear of me.

Hey?

My heart moved: it seems that these beetles will not attack me.

In that case, I decided to take a deeper look.

The further I went, the more I noticed that there were more and more of these white beetles.

They carry not only ice cubes, but also everything that looks like bones.

Judging from its fragmented shape, it should be the bones of cattle, sheep and horses.

And the lower it is, the bigger the channel.

Finally, I came to the center of the lake, in a very large area.

Then, a scene that shocked me appeared!

I saw that in the middle of the lake, there were actually pieces of steel, inlaid with each other, and a huge steel "machine" appeared!

That's right, it's the machine!

The machine, which is made up of gears and pipes, and enclosed by pieces of iron, is about the size of a house, and stands in the middle of the lake.

The machine was clearly running, and it was making a "click" sound like grinding teeth of gears!

This......

I feel that my three views have been completely subverted: in the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, such a huge machine would appear?

And, it still works?

Not only that, but on top of the machine, there were people like dwarfs, no more than three or four years old, but with human appearance, who were scurrying around the machine, and driving beetles in and out from all sides.

It seems that the operation of the machine is driven by them!

Those little gnomes, some male and female, old and young, are the same as human beings, except that they have unique heads and are all big-headed.

It reminds me of the Bliss Ancestor I've seen before.

It seems that they and the Ancestor of Bliss actually have extremely similar things in common!

Could it be that this is a race that is not recorded in human history?

As soon as they saw me appear, those dwarfs who seemed to be a little lazy seemed to be very afraid of me, and they scurried desperately, moving things, moving machines, and chasing beetles.

They weren't trying to escape.

It's as if they were drudgery, and I was the supervisor of them, and when they saw me, they all started working hard.

It seems that my unicorn body seems to have made them a little "misunderstood".

A thought arose in my mind: Could it be that the white beetle brought oil out of the outer islands for the sake of this machine?

Could it be that machines can run on oil?

Ouch I'll go!

In later generations, the emergence of machines originated from the first industrial revolution, a person named "Watt", let mankind enter the new energy age, that is, the "steam age".

At that time, if we calculate according to time, it should be 700 years later.

Only after the age of steam is there the age of electricity, and the age of information.

If these gnomes are able to use oil to propel the machines in front of them, doesn't that mean that they have skipped the "age of steam" and are about to enter the "age of electricity"?

This is simply shocking, a thousand years ago, there was really such an "advanced" technology?

If this is the case, why is there no record of these dwarfs in later generations?

I thought, decided, and asked.

As for whether they can understand me, just try it.

So, I walked up to the machine and said, "Steward, come out for me." ”

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