Law of the Swarm

Chapter 347 Early Spring Three Months Later
As the cold wind blowing from the north gradually weakens and subsides, the Lierte forest has once again returned to life after winter.

In early spring, a certain vine in the Lierte Forest blooms red and white flowers at the same time, and many dark brown butterflies also break out of their chrysalis at this moment, announcing the arrival of spring.

Scattered buds are pulled out from the branches of some plants, and some seeds on the ground are also drilled out of the soil due to changes in temperature and humidity.

For the seeds of these grass plants, the sooner they emerge from the soil, the more they can take advantage of the sunlight, seize the opportunity in the growth in the next few months, and steal the nutrients of the surrounding plants.

The forest that is gradually rejuvenated, in fact, the law of the jungle has already begun as early as this moment...

It has been half a year since the floating island that suddenly appeared above the Lierte Forest, but for the ordinary creatures in the Lierte Forest, their lives have not changed much.

Compared to a few years ago when the Lierte Forest suddenly fell heavy snow and it became extremely cold, this year's winter in the forest was a little noisy except for a small area, which was not much different from before.

Most of the Lierte Forest remains quiet and quiet this winter. Plants wither and go dormant. Some arthropods and annelids such as insects hide under the soil or inside trees. Snakes and lizards It also goes dormant in winter, except for a few small rodents like mice and rabbits that are still active in winter, and the forest winter is still spent in silence and depression.

However, starting from the spring of this year, the rules of the law of the jungle in the Lierte Forest may have to be written, because after the lord of the glacier Ola left, the Lierte Forest once again ushered in a new owner—the Archbishop of the Golden Banana Church Sith Tem.

At this time, in the oblique lower part of the eastern part of the floating island, the original landscape of trees mixed with dead leaves and broken branches has completely changed. In this area of ​​two kilometers long and wide, the ground has been covered by gray square cement floor tiles. More than [-] buildings, large and small, are located in it, and many buildings are still under construction.

In the westernmost part of the floor tile area, it belongs to the industrial area of ​​the Golden Banana Church. In just a few months, three cylindrical chimneys have been built here. At this time, there is a big meat ball with wings on the top of the chimney. Absorbing the smoke continuously, thousands of busy gnolls, lizardmen, and all kinds of insects gathered at the bottom of the chimney coming in and out...

In the central area of ​​the building, that is, around the Krypton Gold skyscraper, there are some transparent glass covers that form a large glass greenhouse. There are green grass and hundreds of lush banana trees in the glass greenhouse.

Although it is only the beginning of spring, these banana trees have violated the laws of nature and have already grown many green bananas. It is estimated that these bananas will mature after a period of time.

On the easternmost side of the building area diagonally below the floating island, a large group of dwarves, many snakemen, jackals, elves, and a few humans were pointing at a large black iron block.

Under the black iron block, there is this railroad track extending to the south, and there is another railroad rail extending to the east not far away. Both railroad tracks are far away from the end.

Traveling Merchant Dorn is one of the few who are watching the humans.

Dawn is about 1.7 meters tall and has brown curly hair. He looks about 25 years old. He is wearing a slightly worn-out brown padded jacket and a gray-green cloak that is also somewhat worn out. embarrassment.

At this moment, the traveling merchant was leading his land beast, and while eating the dry bread he was carrying, he looked cautiously and curiously at the place he had come to for the first time.

Although Dawn was very courageous, his mortal physique, coupled with the coming and going of alien creatures and flying insect monsters, still made him a little timid.

The traveling merchant Dawn comes from a small human frontier country bordering on the southern part of the Warren Plain. Because he is curious about the outside world, he became a traveling merchant. He used land beasts to carry a small amount of goods and traveled back and forth around the world. .

Because he doesn't have much fighting strength, Dawn usually only looks for safe trade routes, or travels with some large caravans.

This time Dorne traveled so far, because the rumors about being in the elf kingdom were too exaggerated, and the Lierte forest was not particularly far from the elf kingdom, so the traveling merchant came here by a ghost.

If the rumors about the kingdom of elves are true, then he will see many gnolls in the Lierte forest, and if the wolves no longer hold hostility towards him, then he can follow the newly built road in the rumor, Travel across the treacherous Warren Plains, straight back to the land of men.

In fact, several other human beings who also appeared here came here temporarily because of the rumors about the kingdom of elves.

After all, the human country is too far away from here, and the Warlund Federation established by the jackals and pig-headed people is separated, so the human countries in the south still don't know anything about the newly built town without walls in this forest.

……

The huge island floating in mid-air and the crystal building standing hundreds of meters above the ground undoubtedly confirmed to Dorne that this is a town that only existed in legends.

And according to the information revealed by those elves, this floating island only came to this world half a year ago, and the crystal building called "glass" inlaid on the outside has only just been built for more than three months.

Hearing rumors from some humans in the same company, the reason why this town has a variety of alien races is because of a god named Mana, the God of Krypton Gold.

Since the age of 20, Donne, a traveling businessman who has been traveling all over the world, has never heard of the name of the god of krypton gold, Mana, but according to the news revealed by the elves, as long as they come here, they can get an ability called "translation software" .

Using this ability, he can understand the words of many different races. For their traveling merchants, this is undoubtedly a very valuable ability.

And most importantly, if the rumors are true, it is very easy to obtain the blessing of the God of Krypton Gold, and you can even get the blessing of the God of Krypton Gold without agreeing with the God of Krypton Gold.

Looking at the crystal building in the distance, a piercing siren suddenly appeared, and Dawn hurriedly grabbed the panicked ground beast.

Accompanied by the sound of steam with increasing frequency, the iron block named "train" gradually moved forward, and the speed gradually became faster and faster...

boom! ! !
Just after the thing called the train advanced a distance of [-] meters, an explosion suddenly appeared, and several cheering dwarf craftsmen also showed disappointed expressions.

"The steam power of this 'train' is too rough. I really can't figure out why Bishop System developed this thing. It is obviously easier and faster to use magic power, right?" It was the dwarves, who had not been here for a long time, who showed doubts and asked the surrounding dwarf craftsmen.

After hearing this, a dwarf craftsman quickly explained: "Using mana power not only consumes expensive crystals, but also requires more expensive materials to create an energy circulation circle, and only those who have mastered magic power can manipulate the circle. , there are too many restrictions."

"You must have never browsed the krypton gold forum. You must have never read "Energy Theory" written by the alchemist Kanbal. Magic energy is just a kind of energy, and converting combustion into power through steam is a kind of 'new energy. ', although this kind of energy is not as effective as magic energy, it is cheap and only needs to burn some coal." Seeing this, another dwarf also echoed and explained.

"What you said seems to make sense, but I still think it's better to use mana power."

……

The discussion of several dwarves did not attract too much attention from the traveling merchant Dawn, because he simply could not understand what the dwarves were discussing.

The traveling merchant just looked at the train that had exploded and overturned a hundred meters away, and a huge Beetle Beetle appeared there, and that Beetle Beast quickly carried the overturned train back.

This is indeed a town that can only exist in legends...

(End of this chapter)