The age of great voyages

Chapter 291 The Underworld and the Ratmen

Four years later, on the square in front of the towering castle, a group of heavily armed warriors were besieging a tall ogre. The siege of rich and not weak professional fighters is also stretched. He doesn't care about his head and tail. His whole body is covered with sword wounds and arrows. In particular, an arrow is inserted into one of his eye sockets, which is constantly shaking as he roars angrily.

It was now four years later. After four years of development and accumulation, Lin Chen already had a group of extremely well-equipped professional soldiers.

There are a total of 47 light infantry, 283 heavy infantry, [-] sharpshooters, [-] heavy cavalry, and [-] light cavalry scouts, a total of [-] people, and the daily food consumption is as high as [-] units.

However, after four years of development, this consumption is no longer enough to become a burden on the plane, because in the past few years, he has successively developed other lands on the plane, planted other cash crops and drought-resistant crops, and the daily food output has reached 310 units , enough to support this army, there is still surplus.

However, Lin Chen did not continue to expand his army because he still had 27 surplus production. He kept all the surplus and did not sell it for several years. There is also 13510 gold, up to 142800 food, 15400 wood, 15400 stone, and 1500 iron.

This is all in exchange for selling all kinds of surplus Warcraft meat and some magic props he made over the years.

After four years, he has already been able to make magic props and various scrolls by himself, and even the magic pattern structure can already be made, but the materials are insufficient.

On a certain day in the third year, Lin Chen suddenly discovered that there were only more than 1000 potential points left in his accumulation of nearly 200 potential points, and then those more than [-] subjects suddenly became advanced, and a huge amount of knowledge poured into his mind. Whether it's making magic props, copying scrolls, magic potions, etc., the ability has improved by leaps and bounds in an instant, and it has become a lot stronger all of a sudden.

He knew that this was a breakthrough in the real body, which was fed back on the attribute panel and benefited as a projection.

This level of knowledge and ability is considered very high, and advanced construction may not be completed, but it is still easy to do below the first level, and even the second level is definitely possible.

Of course, this refers to the situation where the conditions are sufficient, and the conditions are too simple now, and it is definitely impossible to do it.

But this is enough, how can such a high-level construction be needed in this trial, the first level is completely enough.

In the past four years, it is estimated that some trainees have been promoted to full-time professionals, but there is absolutely no one who can make money like him, and it is even more impossible to make money and gather enough troops at the same time.

At this point, the preparations are sufficient, and Lin Chen is ready to travel across the planes to plunder.

After preparing all the resources, he took out the crystal simulator that hadn't been used for a long time, and chose to promote. A lot of resources were swallowed up by the simulator, and the permissions were unlocked immediately, and a mechanical voice sounded:
"You have been promoted to the third-level authority and have the authority to explore the plane. Do you want to make this public?"

Before he could answer, there was another prompt:

"As the first trialist to be promoted to the third level of authority, you can make the following choices. If you make it public, you will get two points. If you don't make it public, you will get one point. Please make your choice within 60 seconds. The default timeout is public."

Looking at the rapidly disappearing countdown hourglass, Lin Chen thought about it quickly and chose not to make it public.

Trial points are extremely difficult to obtain, even a little bit is extremely difficult to obtain, but Lin Chen doesn't want to make it public now, and is used to making a fortune in a low-key manner.

After making a choice, this option is skipped directly, and there is no notification to everyone—that there is an anonymous trialer who has opened the third-level authority, just skip it, and the same point will be credited.

Then the system prompts again:

"Congratulations on your promotion to the third-level authority, and you will get a plane descending magic circle. Please choose a place to place it."

Lin Chen pointed to a high platform in the center of the square in front of the castle that had already been planned:
"There."

As soon as the voice fell, a beam of light descended from the sky and bombarded the stone platform, and the beam of light disappeared in the next second, revealing an oval light gate with a height of three meters, which was the portal of the plane.

Then the system has a series of prompts, basically some rules about plane exploration.

First of all, this portal can only be opened once a month, for three hours at a time, that is to say, it will take a month to open again after the arrival. The team sent this time is very important.

In addition, the portal is not opened casually. In addition to being free for the first time, a certain amount of tribute must be invested each time in the future, and a certain number of random plane coordinates will be obtained. The trialist can only choose one at a time. Plane coordinates, others will disappear.

To put it simply, it is to spend money to buy coordinates. The more valuable the offering is, the higher the probability of high-value plane fragments appearing.

The first time you open it is free, that is, it is free. It is definitely not good, but no matter how bad it is, it is still a dimension. Whether it is farming or mining, even digging rocks is useful.

Of course it is useful but not very useful, because when the tester reaches the third-level authority, the consumption of wood and stone is not very large. It can be said that these two things will be of little value in the future. The most valuable things will always be gold and food, and The value of rare items and minerals harvested in the plane, even iron ore, will decrease.

After all, as everyone enters the extraordinary stage in the future, what is basically needed is extraordinary items, rare minerals, etc., and ordinary wood and stone are enough.

Lin Chen had already made preparations, so he chose to start exploring the plane immediately. A light curtain immediately appeared in front of him, showing three unnumbered plane fragments, no plane name, and only some simple introductions.

How simple is it? It just says - a barren plane with a small area, and the danger is not high.

It's that simple, the introductions of the three are basically the same, the only reference value is the five words 'not high risk', but Lin Chen is skeptical about this, because he doesn't know that this evaluation is based on his personal strength , or based on the sum of the strength of the entire plane, or based on the newcomers who have just obtained the permission to explore the plane.

But no matter which aspect it is based on, one thing is certain, the difficulty of the plane for the first exploration is really not too high, not because it is the first time, the key is that this is a free opportunity.

As the saying goes, cheap is not good, and since it is free, it is absolutely impossible for high-resource plane fragments to appear.

So when faced with the choice of one of the three, Lin Chen didn't think about anything at all, and chose the middle choice at random. The plane numbered TXWD-14578 lit up, and the portal in front of him made waves, and the color turned into a faint green.

With a wave of his hand, five light infantrymen and two heavy infantrymen marched out, holding their shields up to the portal, and the two light infantrymen entered first.

Plane development is not as easy as it was when it first arrived. No one can tell where the teleportation location is, so the first wave to enter must be cannon fodder.

Two light infantrymen entered, and after a minute, the remaining three light infantrymen and two heavy infantrymen followed suit. After another minute, an infantryman re-emerged and signaled for safety, and Lin Chen ordered the rest of his men to dispatch all of them. Go in, and finally go in by yourself.

As soon as he passed through the portal, his eyes went dark for an instant, his pupils instantly ignited a ball of flames, and he saw the surroundings clearly. He actually appeared in an underground space. The dragon vision could see the surrounding environment clearly. An underground space about the size of a football field, surrounded by many holes of different sizes leading to nowhere.

"Underworld?"

This space is not very big, the underground is rugged, with jagged rocks, and there are many unique underground plants and luminescent moss on the ground. This is also the only light source underground. Even if ordinary people stay a little longer to adapt, they can roughly see Be aware of your surroundings.

Lin Chen also doesn't know how big and dangerous this plane fragment that may be part of an underground world is. Generally speaking, free ones are not too dangerous, but this kind of thing is not 100% sure, there will always be accidents , he would not bet on this kind of bet, so after making sure that there are no monsters in this space, he directly asked his subordinates to set up camp, and while the portal was still three hours away, he returned to the main plane and summoned a large number of farmers to start carrying materials, wood and stones. And a large amount of food, he wants to build an outpost in the cave opposite.

After more than an hour, the things were basically moved, and 60 farmers were left to build an outpost here, and more than [-] were left on the main plane to continue production.

Now the work on the main plane is not as much as before. Farmers now only have to farm, and other logging and quarrying have stopped. There is no wood in the plane for them to cut, and there is no stone for them to pick. They only need to concentrate on farming.

The fifty farmers who followed over rushed to work, and Lin Chen assigned his men to search the underground space carefully. He came to a stone wall covered with glowing moss and stood still. After a while, he suddenly punched the stone wall, "Boom." ' There was a loud sound, and a circle of ripples spread out with the fist as the center. The huge sound spread throughout the cave and reverberated. The moss on the stone wall was washed away, revealing the stone wall with a slight metallic luster.

"iron ore!"

He showed a hint of joy. Sure enough, there was not much else in the underground world except stone mines. He found one right after he arrived.

Regardless of whether the mine is big or not, even a small vein is enough for early development.

However, his joy did not last long. Suddenly, his ears moved slightly, and he turned his head to look in one of the directions. His eyes fell on a certain opening around the burrow. After more than ten seconds, the sound became louder, followed by a huge mouse head Getting out of it, Yuanyuan's eyes turned around and saw Lin Chen's eyes burning with flames, and his whole body froze and collapsed to the ground.

Directly inherited to the blood of the ancient dragon, Lin Chen's dragon veins are stronger than the average giant dragon. Of course, the powerful ability of Longwei is there. The weak creatures will become weak and paralyzed when they are impacted by the dragon's power emitted by him. Let him slaughter the earth.

This is a subterranean ratman, about 1.1 meters tall, a little thinner than the kobold, with a head like a big rat, a body like a human, and a thick rat tail behind it.

Lin Chen strode up to the rat man, waved his hand, and two soldiers stepped forward, grabbed him, tied him up and threw it aside, because he had already heard more small sounds coming from the depths of the cave, the rat There seem to be many people.

Soon, another Ratman came out, and the two soldiers guarding the cave raised their knives and dropped one of the Ratmen's heads, but this did not scare the Ratman behind, and because the Ratman died The Ratman was even more excited and pushed forward frantically.

When Lin Chen was studying, he had heard his teacher explain the habits of many races in the Void Sea of ​​the Heavens, including the Ratman, a common exotic race.

This kind of creature is courageous and small at the same time. When the number is small, it is very courageous. But if there are many people in the tribe, it will be very courageous. The bigger the tribe, the bolder it will be. It is said that if the number of rats reaches a certain level, even a giant dragon will dare to charge. .

It is said that the one who dared to charge the dragon didn't know if he had any proof, but it is true that the more the number, the more courageous it is. Just like now, a large number of ratmen rushed out of the cave and fought with the guards at the cave. The soldiers tore into a ball.

The weapons of these Ratmen are very simple, most of them are sharp bone spurs, sharpened stones, etc., but there is no iron. In the face-to-face massacre, especially ten heavy infantrymen holding a huge 1.5-meter-high tower shield and wrapped in iron cans stood in front, and light infantry assisted at the side. Kill as many Ratmen as you want.

The fight was over in less than 10 minutes.

It wasn't that the Ratman escaped, but that there were too many corpses blocking the entrance of the cave.

Lin Chen also didn't remove the blocked corpses, he didn't care about it for the time being, now was not the time to deal with the Ratmen, he had to build up the outpost base first, and had a certain amount of defensive power before he would lead his hands to wipe out the Ratmen.

If there is no accident, the owner of this plane should be this group of unknown number of ratmen. Killing these ratmen can basically occupy the fragments of this underground plane.

Relying on the stone wall to excavate, dig out stones on the spot and build a five-meter-high and three-meter-wide stone wall against the stone wall, flatten the protruding rocks on the surrounding stone walls, and shovel off the moss to prevent anything from crawling over the stone wall.

The base occupies about one-third of the cave, and it also surrounds two passages that lead to unknown corners. Lin Chen used the fossil-to-mud spell to turn the rubble left from the wall into soft Pour mud in, block a long section of the passage, and then turn mud into stone to seal it. After doing this, the base can be considered self-protective. It is difficult for these rat men to climb up the five-meter-high stone wall.

Next, level the ground inside the base, use fossils to shape it with clay magic, build a warehouse, a barracks, a row of houses, a main building, and install a ten-centimeter-thick solid wooden door. The base is considered complete. The resources moved from the main plane are stored in the warehouse, and all the subordinates live in.

Only then did Lin Chen feel relieved, and was ready to formally explore this underground plane.

(End of this chapter)