Urban Sims

Chapter 70 Exploration, Discovery

From that beautiful and noble bird with a clear and high-pitched cry, just like the legendary "Phoenix".

Zhou Ming knew right away that this was a brand new land that no one had ever set foot on, a land that was completely different from the land he lived in before, a new continent that was completely different!

The towering Ural Snow Mountains have isolated a complete continent geographically. Even though the two continents are still tightly bound together, the two independent ecosystems have undergone hundreds of millions of years of species evolution. , the differences and changes produced are even greater than the differences between Asia and America, which float on two spherical surfaces and are separated by thousands of miles of oceans.

On the west side of the continent, because the crustal plates are relatively strong and the overall structure is relatively stable, there are many flat landforms such as plains, grasslands, forests, and swamps. In addition, the Ural Snow Mountains block the invasion of the eastern monsoon to a certain extent. The overall climate is relatively comfortable and mild. There are not many types of larger animals and plants, and there are probably thousands of the most common ones.

On the eastern continent, the crustal plate structure is fragile, and many surfaces are fragmented. In addition to some flat terrain on the western continent, there are countless volcanoes, mountains, hills, deserts, basins and other complex landforms on this continent. Many areas, even Complex of various landforms.

There is also karst landform formed by the dissolution of underground corrosive water on limestone, which is also extremely common in this continent.

Therefore, on this continent with countless topography and landforms, it is almost impossible to count the types of animals and plants that are actively growing.

And Zhou Ming, who wanted to find the resources he wanted, soon had a huge harvest.

Down the mountain from that pass, walking eastward for less than [-] kilometers, Zhou Ming found the sulfur he dreamed of finding by the side of an underground magma river flowing with fiery red lava—a large amount, enough to last for decades as long as.

After walking down the plateau at higher altitudes and heading east all the way to the grasslands and forests at low and middle altitudes, Zhou Ming was overjoyed by the large number of new discoveries made every day.

Countless towering and sturdy trees, some can be used as spices, some can be used to make high-end furniture, some have medicinal value, and the fruits on some trees are delicious and nutritious, and can be eaten directly.

There are countless lively animals of all sizes, some of which can provide meat, some can provide fur, and some can be domesticated and raised as livestock mounts.

There are countless mineral resources on the surface and underground. Some are exposed and easy to mine, some are of high grade and do not need to be selected, and some are so beautiful that they can be called rare treasures.

But these trees, animals, and mineral resources did not stop Zhou Ming, even if he stayed for a short period of one or two days. He even made the expedition members throw away the few pieces they picked up on the road. Huge dog's head gold and several glamorous gemstones-these things are too bulky, and they will affect the speed of subsequent expeditions.

Entering the low-altitude plains and meandering down a long river, they traveled eastward for thousands of kilometers and discovered countless more valuable animal, plant and mineral resources.

Although some of these resources are not necessary, their potential value cannot be underestimated.

For example, there is a kind of watermelon-like fruit that grows on vines. The giant watermelon that grows out is the same as the space watermelon on the earth. Each weighs hundreds of catties. If one is killed, it is enough for dozens of people to eat.

For example, there is a kind of grape fruit that grows on the tree, hanging on the tree in clusters, similar to the grapes on the earth, but larger and sweeter in taste. Hundreds of clusters can be produced on a single vine.

For example, there is a plant similar to sugarcane, the diameter is thicker than an adult's arm, and it grows seven or eight meters high. It is a bit hard to chew, but the juice inside is unprecedentedly sweet.

There are also some wild rice-like crops and bamboo-like plants that are of great help to agriculture and the construction and furniture industry. Once introduced to the western mainland, they will inevitably bring about huge changes in people's diet structure and living environment.

In the end, Zhou Ming got a small amount of giant watermelon, grape vine and wild rice seeds and put them in his backpack. As for plants that are not easy to carry like sugar cane and bamboo, he temporarily gave up.

In addition to plants, Zhou Ming also discovered a large number of valuable livestock resources, such as a huge bison, which is very scary in size, bigger than a car, but has a very docile personality, and does not actively attack non-threatening creatures. You know that burying your head in eating all kinds of grass is obviously a good livestock object for domestication into cattle.

There are also wild horses that run faster than leopards in the forest, and animals such as wild donkeys, wild deer, wild sheep, wild boars, wild dogs, etc., which are small but very clever, all have good potential for taming and breeding.

Of course, there are also some large carnivorous animals with strong aggressiveness, such as tigers with venomous fangs in their mouths, ferocious lions with a body length of three meters, crocodiles in the water, and some giant pythons. , bringing a greater threat to life all the time.

However, since everyone carried sharp alloy swords that were not easy to rust, these aggressive carnivorous beasts could not gain benefits in front of them. The only time when they were more dangerous was when they were besieged by hundreds of wolves. It's just that a few players suffered a little skin trauma.

What really caused the downsizing of the expedition team was mostly inadvertently bitten by various poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, centipedes, ants, and spiders, which were hard to guard against. After poisoning two team members, Zhou Ming asked everyone to wear a suit. The protective clothing with extremely fine mesh can only be opened in places where no poisonous insects gather.

After walking eastward along the river for more than three months, Zhou Ming had no choice but to continue eastward when he came to a large swamp that seemed to be filled with black tree stumps, but in fact was filled with countless crocodiles. He turned his head to the south, Heading towards the south of the continent.

After walking south for more than a thousand kilometers, a pyramid-shaped building with a height of [-] meters and a unique shape, which was obviously built by intelligent civilization, appeared in front of Zhou Ming and others.

There are people in this new continent!

A group of aborigines with yellow skin, black eyes, brown hair, flat face, and high nose bridge.

These aborigines are naked on the upper body, with white cloth wrapped around their lower body, oil paint on their faces, and bird feather hats on their heads. Most of them hold wooden spears and stone weapons, and some aboriginals also hold them. What they hold is a bow and arrow with rough craftsmanship, or a bamboo blowing arrow. After using poisoned arrows and poisonous needles, the lethality to people and prey cannot be underestimated.

Looking at the Muzha villages and domed thatched houses where the aborigines lived, Zhou Ming estimated that the level of civilization development of these aborigines should be at the end of the Stone Age, but they have not yet entered the Bronze Age.

However, there was a discovery that made Zhou Ming feel a little strange at first. In this aboriginal village, except for some aboriginal women who took care of the livestock, they were busy working, and the other male aboriginals seemed to have nothing to do, either lying there and basking comfortably in the sun , or played a game of shooting wooden targets with blowing arrows, and very few went out hunting or working in the fields with tools and weapons.

It was time for lunch, and when Zhou Ming saw the "lunch" that the natives had for lunch, he almost jumped up excitedly.

Corn is very thick and long, and only one corn can be full.

There are also sweet potatoes, which are rich in sugar and starch. They are huge and weigh more than ten catties each. At least three or four natives need to share one to finish.

There is also a kind of breadfruit that looks like bread, about the size of a hamburger. Zhou Ming doesn't know how it tastes. Seeing how the natives eat it with gusto, the taste is definitely not that bad.

In order to observe what the parent plants of these three kinds of food look like, Zhou Ming took a few people and quietly followed an indigenous woman who was picking fruits, and went to their food collection place to have a look.

Shocked!
On the yellow plant with stalks more than three meters high, there are six huge corns growing impressively.

From the relatively barren slopes, the sweet potatoes dug up are each as big as a football.

There is also a breadfruit tree with a height of more than ten meters and a crown like a cover. On the prosperous branches, there are at least a thousand breadfruits.

After sweeping his eyes again, Zhou Ming couldn't help but lose his voice when he saw the isolated plant with a height of more than six meters and the branches growing "white clouds" next to the bread grove: "God!" , you are not cheating on these aborigines, are you?"

It turned out that the tree that grows the "white clouds" is a "cotton tree" that magnifies the cotton-growing plant in Zhou Ming's impression by more than ten times.

On the cotton tree, each flower is pure white "cotton" the size of marshmallows. There are hundreds of flowers on a tree, enough to weave several clothes.

Corn, sweet potato, breadfruit tree, cotton tree, Zhou Ming, who discovered four crops with great strategic value at one time, was envious and jealous of these natives. These natives must be the illegitimate children left by God, otherwise how could they have such a good life? , enjoying the VIP treatment that even he opened a cheat.

After secretly collecting the seeds of these four plants at night, Zhou Ming led the expedition team and continued to walk more than a thousand kilometers south, and finally entered an aboriginal empire. This aboriginal empire was at war with the giant savages in the west. Giant savages, all of them are like Tarzan of the orangutans. Adults are more than three meters tall, with rough skin and thick flesh, amazing strength, and there seem to be quite a few of them.

As a result, in a battle between 5000 aborigines and 300 giant savages, the thin aborigines won a complete victory, and the giant savage tribe suffered heavy losses and fled in embarrassment.

It turns out that the key to the indigenous people's victory in the war is that they tamed a giant mount named "Kodo" by Zhou Ming. "Kodo" is a herbivorous animal shaped like a large rhinoceros with a body It is more than 10 meters long and weighs more than five tons. The spine on the back is like a broadsword. The spines on both sides can carry a lot of cargo. Because of the short limbs, the Kodo can carry a lot of things, but it cannot walk too fast... ...But if it is used to charge on a mount, the sharp horn on the head of the Kodo beast will be a sharp weapon for charging.

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