Chapter 237: Abundant Goods
In terms of people's livelihood, the only thing that can really be self-sufficient in the coastal area is food, water and electricity.
"How do you secure the power supply?"
This surprised Sun Xiang. Along the way, he saw that the power supply in several cities was very tight.
Cities like Takeshi Shinkawa rely on solar panels and can only provide the most basic defensive power supply at night. For the majority of the population and practitioners, at night they can only be lit with torches, as their ancestors did.
Several modern power generation technologies are not very reliable in these troubled times, and everyone basically lives on solar cells. Now lightning says that there is plenty of electricity, which is really surprising.
"Professor Xu Yishan helped us design and install the first deuterium ion controllable nuclear fusion reactor. "There's also a heavy water plant. At the current level of energy use, there is enough water to be used in the coastal area for 300 years. ”
Master Sun stared at Xu Yishan speechlessly. Xu Yishan's little face was a little red, she was not used to being praised by onlookers.
She humbly admits: "I just did some tiny work. ”
It's great, I really don't know what the so-called "big thing" looks like in Little Lori's heart.
Lightning continues to report on the properties of the Marina.
The actual control of the current Coastal City includes the urban area within the city walls, the suburbs outside the city walls, and a few scattered resource collection points further afield. Taken together, it is about 5,000 square kilometers in size.
This area makes Sun Xiang a little proud, in ancient times, everyone was crowded on the top of the mountain to live, at most open some small caves. More than 5,000 square kilometers, placed in the last era, the Gaomen faction was a huge gang. Xiaoyue has kept a big foundation for herself.
Although the area of the coastal area is not small, the production is not too rich. The main ones are the following:
The richest reserves are the black iron, and there are several hills where the dark iron can be mined. This metal has a high degree of aura affinity and a hard texture, so a large number of low-level weapons are forged from it. But because Xuantie is originally a big road commodity, it is not valuable.
In the western suburbs, near a col, there is a large amount of Fengdeng soil that can be excavated. This soil can promote the growth of plants, and scientists at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences have developed an ambitious plan. They plan to use this aura mutated soil to transform all the fields around the Marina.
But Fengdeng soil has a very strange property, they need a lot of water to keep it moist. Otherwise, it will dry out and lose its growth-promoting properties. Therefore, for the time being, only part of the experimental field can be renovated by the river.
Eagle Jade is a soft, almost jelly-like spiritual material, and its discovery was a complete accident. It was supposed to be born deep underground.
Xu Yishan's heavy water plant needs to pump large amounts of groundwater, so Yingyu is pumped to the surface. The staff found this soft jade material in the color of clotted fat in the water filter, and after the practitioners' attempts, if the armor was inlaid with eagle jade, the weight of the armor itself could be greatly reduced.
Thunder bauxite is an associated mineral in a local bauxite mine in Binhai. Because of the abundant electricity, the aluminium smelting plant did not shut down in troubled times, and continued to refine metal alloys for the coastal city defense.
Workers have separated this exotic pale blue aluminum in the cell, which absorbs electricity and converts it into more lethal lightning. With a little forging, it's a good lightning weapon.
Thunder bauxite is the ace specialty of Binhai, and many cities are willing to secretly exchange with Binhai. However, because of the extremely low production volume, this business is better than nothing.
In addition to these mineral spirit materials, Binhai also produces some spirit wood fairy grass.
The first is Cangwu Mountain, the sycamore tree in this park has been absorbing the aura since the revival of the aura, and it has been continuously absorbing the aura and turning into the legendary cangwu.
Tung canthus is a fairly useful spirit wood, it is lighter than dark iron, but it is not easy to process. This material cannot be cut, only finely crafted. Moreover, the sycamore on the mountain becomes a paulownia very slowly, and so far less than 1/10,000 of the sycamore has changed.
On the sunny side of the hillside, borneol flowers can be collected. The fifth leaf of this flower is as bright as borneol, hence its name. This leaf has the effect of removing fire poison.
There are other spiritual grasses, such as the occasional white grass in wheat fields, that grow tall foliage on roadside street trees. In the era of abundant aura, the treasures of heaven and earth are not only found in inaccessible places as imagined. Many of them are closely related to human life.
For example, in the sewage treatment center on the coast, a pale gray miasma was created, which killed many workers at first. But later, some cultivators tried to collect it, and found that it was actually a toxin that was very effective against the demon clan. This sewage miasma can even cause a lot of damage to the spirits.
In addition to these heavenly and earthly treasure spiritual products, there are also some special boundaries within the coastal area.
Cangwu Mountain has a precious spiritual spring, and the spring water in it can have a certain healing effect. The spring is now thoroughly protected and the water is transported to the medical center on the waterfront for further refinement and use as a precious medicine.
After the troubled times, almost all the original pharmaceutical factories have been closed due to lack of raw materials. Cultivators can refine their own medicine, but for civilians, once they get sick, they can only resign themselves to fate. The seaside is one of the few cities that still provides medicine to civilians, and it is all thanks to this spiritual spring.
In addition, Cangwu Mountain is also scattered with about twenty spiritual vein gathering points of all sizes. Cultivators who practice in this kind of blessed land can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Strangely, there are several such blessed places in residential areas. However, most of these blessed lands are related to the abilities of the spiritual system, and their functions are not yet clear.
There are blessed lands, but there are also dangers. The cave at the top of Cangwu Mountain has become a real Jedi with no return. No one knows what's inside, and it's been sealed off completely.
There used to be a small lake to the east of Marina City, which used to be a park, and the citizens loved to go fishing. But after the revival of the aura, the water there turned black and was shrouded in an ominous mist. Get too close and you'll be attacked by strange forces. Lu Ning investigated several times, but he couldn't find out the truth.
As long as they don't approach, they will be safe, so they temporarily put up barricades to prohibit people from approaching. Later, I will free up my hands to investigate again.
There are more than a dozen places large and small in such a dangerous coastal area, and the cultivation strength is insufficient and the energy is limited, so they are all left there for later.
After Lightning introduced the general situation of Binhai, Sun Xiang fell into deep thought.
He was very familiar with Xuantie, Fengdeng soil, cangtong, and borneol, and these were also common spiritual herbs and spiritual grasses in the previous era. But Eagle Jade and Thunder Bauxite are unheard of, and there is no record of anything similar in nature.
This should not be a difference between ancient and modern names, but a unique product of this Reiki era. In fact, it is normal to think about it, every era will have its own characteristics.
In this era, human science and technology civilization have developed unprecedentedly, and the human population has grown unprecedentedly. This has never been the case in previous eras.
Therefore, between heaven and earth, it is not only natural that such unique products are born that are different from the past?