Chapter 9: The City Under the Sea
Kong Ming and Pang Shushi were chatting constantly, and at this time Sima Wei came over: "Kong Ming, now the scope of preliminary detection is that there are ore deposits within a radius of 100 kilometers, the south and the north have come to an end, there are none, but there are still many on the east and west, and they are being explored." Moreover, judging from the news from various deep-exploration teams, the depth of each place is also different, some are more than 30 meters, some are only 10 meters, and some can reach more than 100 meters. ”
Listening to Sima Wei's words, Pang Shushi couldn't get excited anymore, after all, there was too much excitement today, and now it has become a habit, but it is much calmer.
"This is a huge bonanza! I knew that there was a lot of wealth in the sea, but I didn't expect to be abandoned by others, and no one cared about it in the bottom of the sea, so we should have gone down to the bottom of the sea to continue to explore and search, maybe the problem of flying swords has already been solved. Pang Shushi said, and there was no sigh and self-blame in his words.
"Lao Pang, you can't say that!" Sima Wei said on the side, many things can't be counted like this at all, after all, there are many factors in this.
"What should I say then?" Pang Shushi rarely had a taste of asking for advice.
"We didn't have a god before, and there were many and powerful demonic beasts in the sea, so let those saints come down, isn't that looking for death? Sima Wei said with a smile, this old guy is a little bit sharp.
"Hehe, it seems that I have thought too much, indeed, it is very difficult to come down here with my previous strength. Not to mention the depth of the seabed, there are countless magical beasts in this sea alone. It's not something we can handle. Where is it like now, everyone has cleared all the demonic beasts in this area. That's what we're going to be like this—hehe. Pang Shushi thought about it for a while and said with a smile, just as Sima Wei said, it's just that you can't do it.
"Tang Xiang, according to the previous arrangement, start the next step of the plan, build an undersea base here. Kong Ming ignored the bragging of these two people, and shouted directly to Tang Xiang who was not far away.
"Yes. Tang Xiang next to him replied directly, this construction has been recognized by most people before, after all, compared to leaving a warship to develop here, building a base under the seabed is a very good and practical choice. And it should also be the best option. One is that because there are many unpredictable factors in the battleship floating on the sea, such as the tide of Warcraft and Beasts, typhoons, thunder and lightning, etc., the storage of these things will bring trouble to future mining, so according to their expectations, as long as the mine is large enough, then it is most cost-effective to establish a base directly on the seabed. Of course, due to the development of magical civilization, it is not difficult to establish such a base in the water, but there is no such precedent before.
Soon. Hundreds of people came down from the sea, all of them were gods, and they were all gods who had been promoted to the rank of magicians before.
Two hundred of them stood in a large circle.
"Go!" one of them called. He is the person in charge of this project, Wei Nan.
"Magic, Frozen Thousand Miles!"
"Magic, all waters return!"
"Magic. Space Teleportation!"
"Magic, Wind Beam Kill!"
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With a stream of controllable magic unleashed in the hands of these gods. Kong Ming and the others saw a shocking scene.
In a place of several hundred square meters. A semi-circular spherical ice cube appeared directly in front of them, and through the ice ball, they could see that there were still countless seawater flowing in the ball, and it was obvious that the frozen was just a semi-circular ball, which really opened their eyes to the control of these magics. Then a huge space teleportation array suddenly appeared in the spherical shape, and a large amount of air continued to pour out from this teleportation array, these are the air transmitted from the sea, if Kong Ming is on the sea, he must see that the other side of the teleportation array is more than two hundred meters from the sea in the air, and there are dozens of gods standing on the sword and constantly using magic and magic to blow the wind into the teleportation array. The air that continues to gush out of the spherical shape is obviously very difficult, after all, the pressure here is very huge, and at this time, the wind magic directly pulled out those difficult bubbles, only to see those bubbles come out and rush directly to the sea, but because they were blocked by the ice ball, they did not float out, so everyone saw that more and more air was directly gathered on the entire ice ball, this step is to drain the water in the ice ball, so that it is really suitable for ordinary people's life, after all, a base cannot be all god-level powerhouses, they need many people of other levels to come here for some construction and work。
Two hours later, a huge hemispherical clearing supported by ice appeared in front of Kong Ming, and some people were constantly digging inside, digging up the ore directly, and then taking it away. Since the people working were all gods, their speed was quite fast, but in just ten minutes, the entire seabed was dug down more than fifty meters, and all the sediment was cleaned up, revealing the hard rock below. Kong Ming really sighed when he saw this situation, although he knew that magic had reached an unprecedented height in his daily use, but it was another thing to know and really see it.
I saw that after the mud and sand were cleared, more than a dozen god-level magicians began to arrange the magic array, but fortunately, a lot of the work was done in advance, and they came here just to arrange the array.
"Scratch!"
Finally, when the magic array was arranged, a magician put a high-grade magic crystal directly into the card slot of the last magic crystal, only to see a looming hemispherical film began to form, and then continued to spread to the ground without gaps, slowly began to approach the ice, at this time, I saw that the few gods who released the ice magic undid a magic undo, and suddenly the ice disappeared directly, and their faces were pale. Then there was nothing to do, after all, they used their magic to hold the entire ice at a very deep seabed for a long time. It is also a great burden for them as gods. The disappearance of the ice has allowed the water that pressed the ice to find an outlet for its power. Rushed straight into the magic shield.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the powerful force directly changed the shape of the entire protective shield, and it flashed back and forth for a long time, and it still did not break, this situation made Kong Ming and them really a little excited, if the strength of the magic shield was not strong enough, then it would be a waste of time, but also a waste of financial and material resources. The impact of the magic array made dozens of magic crystals in the base of the formation directly scrapped, turning into a pile of useless stone foam, so anxious that those gods hurriedly used magic to blow away those stone foams, and then immediately put new magic crystals directly into it, so that the magic array withstood the attack of this wave of extremely powerful water power.
"Although I know that this is a thrilling thing, no matter how I look at it, I feel a little thrilling!" Kong Ming sighed on the side. Whoever looks at this kind of thing in this situation has the feeling that even though he is a battle-hardened man, he is still a man, not a god.
"I don't think you really want to stay in the water and watch these things all the time, right?" Zhuge Yibu asked on the side, although as a god, and still absorbing the water element, his own small universe continues to grow, but staying like this really makes him extremely unhappy.
"Hehe, I know you don't like this, but it's being built right now. Are you really sure you need to go in and absorb some dust?" Li Feizhi teased.
When the people around heard this, the people around them burst out laughing.
Kong Ming looked at it and said directly: "Okay, everyone knows the general situation." Now Tang Xiang and Pang Shushi are in charge of all this matter, you can do whatever you have to do, don't stay here anymore. ”
As the commander of the entire expeditionary force, everyone has their own affairs. After hearing Kong Ming's words, the entire crowd suddenly lost three-quarters of the people. The rest of the people are either responsible for this matter or have something to do with it.
Kong Ming still didn't move. He needed to know how much this shield could expand this place, and if the speed of mining was going on before, it might not take many days to get all the ore out of it, and if it was necessary to build an undersea city here?
Or maybe it was like seeing through Kong Ming's thoughts, Pang Shushi smiled on the side: "Did the commander watch a few gods inside clean up this place in less than a few minutes, and he didn't really want to build a base under the sea here?"
"With this thought, after all, if we can clean this place in a few days, we have some superfluous need to build another city. "Kong Ming does not hide his thoughts, there is nothing to hide, besides, only after speaking, you can get more opinions, sometimes this kind of chat is a good way to increase knowledge, although this is not formal, but it is also this kind of informal discourse, people can speak freely without any burden.
"Commander, this is three days away from our Alcatraz base, and one step further is the territory of the Poseidon Empire, I think we need a base, of course, this place may not be too ideal in terms of location, but there is a huge ore mine around here, which is the biggest reason for it to exist!" Pang Shushi said, he didn't know much about strategy or him, but he had an absolute say in the mine.
"That's right, it's just because it's not in the front and it's not in the back, so I'm a little hesitant, but that's not the main reason. Kong Ming thought for a moment and said.
"Oh, what's the main reason?" Sima Wei said strangely.
"The sea is endless, if we find one, we will build a base, then in the future, we need to build countless bases, so that we must disperse our forces to defend, and our forces will be dispersed too much, then our attack will not have the strength, now we have just left Alcatraz Island, the strength is still very sufficient, but not necessarily in the future, after all, we still need to fight for decades, this is not a short time!" Kong Ming sighed, the road is too far away, and there are too few people. There are so many places to conquer that they inevitably seem a little overwhelmed.
"Do we need to give up here?" said Pang Shushi, frowning. Although the mines here will not be mined for a few days, as Kong Ming said. There was no need to build an undersea city, however, he had a gut feeling that they needed this undersea city to do something. Moreover, this is an innovation, and every innovation is a very high honor for the initiator, and it is an extremely important inheritance for the future.
Kong Ming shook his head and said, "A city can be built here, and a big city should be built, but this place should have a certain purpose. After all, this is the first undersea city we have built, and we need it to provide us with the precautions for building a city under the sea. In other words, it's just an experiment, and it's not what I know about its future use. ”
Hearing that Kong Ming didn't mean to object, Pang Shushi and the others in charge of the construction and design of this city breathed a sigh of relief, this was the first underwater city they had built, and they needed it to provide them with too much.
Three days later. When Kong Ming came to the bottom of the sea again, there had been a great change here, and he came directly to the bottom of the sea from the teleportation array. The magic shield has expanded to a diameter of three thousand meters, and several specialized ore analysis and smelting plants have been established here. In addition to these, many places of residence were established. And here the initial traffic has been established to allow people to walk around it. Kong Ming looked up at the sky. About two hundred meters above is the thin layer of protective shield. Outside the protective shield, there is the deep blue water. Some magic lights from the ground shine directly on the sea shield, pass through the shield, reach the sea water, and then part of the light is scattered again and shines into the underwater city, so the entire underwater city looks faint and bright, and it looks very beautiful. Outside the protective shield, there is a large area of many gods, who are constantly absorbing the water elements in the sea, constantly filling their small universe.
"There are a lot of water elements and dark elements at the bottom of the sea, and it is safe to get out from here, so now most of them come directly from the teleportation array, and then go to the sea from here, so that they can save a lot of time, and there is no need to rediscover the way. Zhuge Yibu said. Since there are people mining all around, there are bands of warriors patrolling along the perimeter of the underwater city.
"How long can it be mined?" Kong Ming asked, they wouldn't be here for too long, now one is because there are precious ores here, and the other is that they need those warriors who have cultivated the small universe to continuously absorb those elements here.
"After a lot of time, we thought that there were only some precious dark iron ore and the like, but then we found that the rocks and mud on the bottom of the sea also contained a lot of metals needed to forge flying swords and warships, and the more we probed, the more we got something. Sima Wei said that on the first day, he thought that there should not be many things to get in these hundreds of kilometers, and after removing all the debris, it would be good to let more than a million people have flying swords, but then he knew that he was wrong, not only there are ores here, but also those sediments, which actually contain a lot of minerals needed by flying swords and warships, in addition to gold, so that they can get more things.
"Well, we've been here for a long time, and we'll need to set sail again in ten days! The construction here must be fast, especially the teleportation array with the battleship and Alcatraz Island will be built immediately, and we can rush over immediately if something happens, and the other one, the mining personnel here try to recruit people from other places as much as possible, and our expeditionary force soldiers will use as little as possible. Kong Ming said, they have been in this place for several days, although there is a lot of time, but they can't withstand such a little bit of consumption, they have to move forward.
"Well, in the past few days, news has come from the east, there is a group of islands ten days away from us, a group of desert islands, without any human beings, but there is a large group of demon ospreys hovering there. Preliminary reconnaissance, the demonic beasts above are mainly sage-level demon ospreys, and there are dozens of god-level ones, and they are the overlords of this area. Sima Wei said with a smile, for the flying monsters, if they are not as strong as the expeditionary force, then they are the object of the expeditionary military training uniform, although they can also step on the flying sword, but in that case, it will consume too much mana, and it is not cost-effective for the expedition, but these flying monsters can greatly enhance their continuous combat effectiveness.
"Oh, what's the situation?" asked Kong Ming with interest. For this kind of thing that increases combat effectiveness, he will not let go.
The other officers of the command who came to see with Kong Ming also looked at Sima Wei with interest. Especially Long Tianxian and Ling Yun. These two are the leaders of the Air Force, and they need more people and more monsters. When fighting with the demons, the flying monsters of their air force were almost wiped out, although nearly a million monsters were replenished later, but the war against the demons was over, and the quality of those monsters was different, they had to pick more than 100,000 of the more than 100,000 saint-level monsters and put them back into the monster mountain range. In this way, they also have the capital of pride in front of the Marine Army and the Navy, and you must know that among the three armed forces now, only they are the lowest in number.
"Now the specific situation has not come back, they have only explored a few dozen islands on the periphery, and there are still many in it that have not been explored and cannot be explored. Just know that they are like an empire, with a clear division of labor and ranks, and judging by the breath. Fighting should be a normal thing for them, because each Magic Osprey has countless murderous aura on its body, which is the result of continuous tearing and killing. Sima Wei said with some sighs.
Hear here. Everyone was silent, if it was just a god-level demon osprey, then it would not be difficult for them to win the battle. But if there is something special like an empire. That proves that there must be a powerful leader among this group of demon ospreys, and this leader may be a high-level god. But it is more likely that there is a Venerable One, and only such powerful force and wisdom can bring together those uncivilized Demon Ospreys. And now that dozens of god-level demon ospreys have been detected on the periphery, how can a high-level god's demon osprey command such a large group of demon ospreys? I think only a Venerable-level powerhouse is inside.
"Venerable, that's the legendary Cunzi!" Zhuge Yibu sighed. Not to mention the Venerable, before Kong Ming formed the expeditionary force, the gods were all gods and dragons for them.
The crowd was silent for a while. Where is such a strong man who can be hostile to people like them? They can overturn the entire expeditionary force with a single slap, and even if they attack hard-line and kill the other party's venerable, the price they bear is still very large, and it is not clear how many people will survive.
"Alas, it's difficult! Unless the commander lifts the order for the promotion of the Divine Beings to the Venerable, it will really be difficult to shake them with our current strength!" Long Tianxian said with some disappointment, at this time, he had a great opinion about Kong Ming's restriction on the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force to be directly promoted to the Venerable, although he knew that even this would be of great benefit to the subsequent development of the Expeditionary Force, but it would not be possible to pass it in front of him, let alone anything else? No matter who it was, this was a dilemma.
"Yes, Commander, we should let some of the soldiers with less potential directly promote to Venerable, so that we can surround that Venerable of the Demon Osprey!" said Hai Xing as he said.
Kong Ming was really a little speechless, since he came back, except for exposing his Venerable cultivation in his conversation with Li Feiyang, he had never told people about his true level at other times, and he usually just maintained a kind of divine fluctuation, so that all the people in the expeditionary force did not know his true strength, no wonder they were so excited and annoyed.
"Commander, give the order, let some people directly advance to the Venerable, so that our future battles will definitely be very easy. Lu Zhongyi also said on the side.
Kong Ming came down this time, not only to see how the construction of the underwater city was going, but also to decide the next move in the process, so he also took these people with him.
For a while, several officers who followed down on the left and right of Kong Ming made remarks one after another, asking Kong Ming to relieve some of the orders of the god to be promoted to Venerable. Only a few high-level staff members remained silent.
"Hehe, old dragon, how many small universes have you opened now?" Kong Ming smiled. (To be continued......)