The age of great voyages

Chapter 96 The Desolate Territory and the Sandworms

The worm was only about 1.5 meters long, with a humanoid worm head, yellow skin, wrinkled and furrowed like a worm, and sharp horny fingers, which were very hard. The sand snake bit the worm's hand but could not penetrate it.

"An alien race in this world?"

Lin Chen's eyebrows twitched as he watched the Sandworm man bite off the entire head of the Sand Snake in one bite and just chew it up and eat it.

Generally, humanoid creatures have a certain amount of intelligence, but it's just a little bit of wisdom. Seeing that the sandworm man eats sand snakes raw, his intelligence is probably not much higher.

Of course, it may be that due to the fragmentation of this world, it would be nice to have food, and they are not allowed to have such high requirements in terms of food.

But no matter what, judging from the observation of the sandworm's predation, the sandworm is not very intelligent, nor is it strong, so it should not be too much of a threat.

Lin Chen didn't ask his men to kill the sandworm. It's useless to kill it now. The most important thing now is to explore the fragments of this world and find a suitable place to build a base.

There is no other choice. It is inevitable to establish a territory in this world where resources can be said to be non-existent. What he can do is to choose a better location.

First summon the two-headed ogre brothers Akron and Akron. The two brothers are huge enough to block him from the scorching sun, and they are also qualified bodyguards. As for the mountain giant Xiaoxiao, there is no need to bring it out for the time being. Let's talk about finding a suitable place.

Simply identifying the direction, he led two of his men to the east, where he observed the edge of the world less than a kilometer away from him.

Although the edge of the world's crystal wall can be seen, what needs to be explored still needs to be explored. Anyway, I can't leave for the time being, and I have enough time to explore every inch of the entire world's fragments.

The edge of the world is very magical. It looks like an endless desert from a distance, but when he comes to the edge and observes carefully, he can see a shimmering curtain of light rising from the yellow sand, like a huge On the screen of the movie, the same image as the edge of the world is drawn on it. If you don't pay attention, you really think it is a huge desert.

Lin Chen stretched out his hand and pressed the edge of the crystal wall of the world, as if pressing on extremely hard glass, but he knew that if he had enough strength, he could forcefully break through this crystal wall and enter the void.

But he didn't dare to do that, because he could vaguely see a huge figure staring at him in the void behind the light curtain through the light curtain, just waiting for him to open the light curtain and enter the void.

They can see outside, and of course the Void Predator outside can see them. Although he can't come in, he has been guarding outside. No matter which way he goes, the Void Predator will turn to that side until the sky lasts forever.

When encountering a Void Predator in the void, the only way to escape is to drill into the world fragments. The only way to escape is to rely on a much faster speed than the Void Reaver to cover a long distance. If the speed is not fast enough, the opponent can keep chasing Go on, even if it is ten or a hundred years, it will not stop until one party dies.

Of course, if you are strong enough, you can counterattack and kill the Void Predator, but this requires at least three or four strong people to do it.

The edge was full of yellow sand. He directed the two-headed ogre to dig more than ten meters deep with a big shovel, but there was still sand. He didn't continue to dig, and walked along the edge of the world in the other direction.

The boundless yellow sand kept Lin Chen depressed, so much so that he walked more than ten kilometers along the edge of the world, and when he saw a wasteland covered with thin sand grains, he actually burst out with a feeling of joy.

Although it is a wasteland that has been desertified, it is not a desert after all, and it can still be used after renovation.

The deserted wasteland in other worlds is completely wasteland, and no one would think of transforming it, but in this world, the fragments have no choice at all.

Fortunately, there is a mountain giant and a tree of life. With a little time, the world can still be transformed.

First, gather the world spirits and establish a base. The most important thing is to bury a space beacon and establish a teleportation array to communicate with the Tower of Eternity. Only then can resources be obtained from the outside world to slowly transform the world, and finally turn the desert into fertile farmland.

This would definitely cost a lot of time, money and resources, but again, he had no choice.

An hour later, Lin Chen and two of his men stood at a gap in the world.

To be honest, he was very surprised. He never thought that one area of ​​this world fragment was connected to another world fragment. In simple terms, a world fragment was split into two halves, but they were not completely separated. It is like a bridge connecting two small islands.

Lin Chen stood at the gap less than 20 meters wide and looked in. On the other side was the deserted wasteland connecting the gap, but walking inside, the barrenness gradually disappeared, and a layer of yellow-green color gradually appeared in the wasteland. It can be seen that there are large areas of drought-tolerant plants growing on the wasteland.

Farther away it was too blurry to see clearly, but it was sure to be much better than this side.

"It's really poor and there is no way out. The willows are dark and the flowers are bright again. There is such a turning point."

Lin Chen was overjoyed, and immediately led two of his men through the connection gap into the other side of the world.

Stepping onto the wasteland covered with a thin layer of sand, he looked back and glanced back. As he crossed the gap, he vaguely felt that he had passed through an almost imperceptible membrane. He understood clearly in his heart that this was because of this. Although the two world fragments are connected together, they have been broken after all. They are now in the stage of being broken. Maybe one day there will be a random collision or a strong fight, and it may be suddenly broken.

However, Lin Chen didn't care. He found out that the debris on this side and the desert on the other side are of no value. Even if it is broken now, he is not afraid, anyway, he is not going to build a base there.

Even if this side is all wasteland, it is much better than the desert.

When he stood firmly on the hard ground, Lin Chen felt tears welling up in his eyes. Even if he stayed in the desert for an hour, it felt like a long time had passed.

The environment is not the point, the point is that he has a scalp tingling feeling when he thinks about the possible difficulties in finding a way to transform a desert world into a world suitable for ordinary people to live in in the future.

Well now, no matter how bad the wasteland is, it is a hundred times stronger than the desert. With the seeds of life and mountain giants, it is much easier to transform, at least it will save a lot of money.

Excitedly walking on the wasteland, he squatted down from time to time to check the few plants on the wasteland. Occasionally, he could see small insects such as small sand scorpions and sand snakes, and sometimes he could see some. The sand worms that came out of the wasteland looked at each other for a while, and he was about to order Akron and Akron brothers to catch him, but the sand worms shrank down and disappeared, and he rushed immediately. Going forward, I saw only a cave left in place, and the sand worm was gone.

"It's a little troublesome!"

Lin Chen held his chin and thought for a while, then looked up and looked around, and said:

"This world is not peaceful, let's quickly find a suitable place to build a base, and wait until the defense is established, even if there are more sandworms."

Two-headed ogre brothers Akron and Akron buzzed:

"We listen to the master."

He looked at Lady Scarlet, and Lin Luoyi said expressionlessly:

"You are the leader!"

Lin Chen shrugged and said:

"Let's go then!"

I don’t know how big this world fragment is. Anyway, he walked from the desert fragment for almost an hour and didn’t see the edge of the world. On the contrary, he saw traces of sandworm people from time to time, and saw sandworm people’s burrows on the wasteland from time to time. The larger ones were forty or fifty centimeters, and the larger ones were more than one meter. Occasionally, caves with a diameter of two or three meters could be seen, which made Lin Chen's expression a little dignified, and he was no longer so relaxed.

Caves are generally dug according to the size of the person entering and exiting. The larger the size of the cave, the bigger the cave. A cave with a diameter of two or three meters means that the creatures passing through the cave are extremely large in size. This is not good news for him.

But no matter how bad the news is, he will not retreat. He doesn't want to go back to the desert, and he is not without strength to resist. As long as the base is established, he will have enough strength to resist.

Going forward all the way, after crossing a small forest, Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he saw a small hill not far ahead.

"This place is nice, let's go and have a look."

Soon they arrived in front of the hill, and just one glance at Lin Chen made him even more satisfied.

This is a very small mountain, with an area of ​​about two or three kilometers. There are more than 20 peaks in total, most of which are more than ten meters high and 30 meters high. The highest peak inside is not more than 50 meters. The mountain is short and tall. Small and bare is barren hills.

In terms of value, there must be nothing, unless the stone can be sold for money, but in his eyes, this is a very good place for building a base.

"Brothers, our base is here."

He turned around and waved vigorously at the two-headed ogre brother and the scarlet lady, announcing loudly.

The two-headed ogre Akron and Akron brothers responded very cooperatively. Only Lin Luoyi looked at him with clear eyes expressionlessly, and the arrogance that had just risen in his heart suddenly disappeared. cut.

"Okay, let's go in and take a look."

With a dry cough, he waved his big hand into the small mountain range.

There is nothing in this barren mountain, no trees and vegetation, not even insects, and no sandworms come here to hunt, but there are still a few sandworm caves found in it, but the traces of the cave entrances are very old, and it is estimated that it has been a long time No sandworms came.

Lin Chen knew very well about these sandworms. If there were no accidents, these sandworms were his biggest enemies in the early stage.

It would be nothing if he was just passing by, but if he wanted to establish a base in this world to occupy the world, the sandworms who were the natives of this world would definitely resist, and conflicts were inevitable.

Standing on the highest peak among the mountains, Lin Chen clasped his hands together, and with a sudden pull, a black line was torn apart in the void in front of him, and quickly stretched to a height of 30 meters. As he parted his hands, the black line stretched to both sides. Opened, it turned into a huge portal 30 meters high and [-] meters wide, with undulating faint waves in the portal.

After a while, with a dull loud noise, the undulating light arched a big bag, highlighting a huge face, breaking away from the light, a huge stone man's head came out, and a ball of divine light in the crown above his head Twirling spin.

Xiao Xiao, the king of mountain giants, returned to the world again after a lapse of several months.

The 20-meter-high mountain giant king walked out of the Rubik's Cube space, raised his head to the sky and roared, and the huge sound spread in all directions.

When he lowered his head, his huge body slowly squatted down facing Lin Chen, and said in a buzzing voice:
"Xiao Xiao, I have met my master!"

Lin Chen laughed loudly, took a big step suddenly, and jumped directly from the top of the mountain. Xiaoxiao stretched out his huge palm to prop up, and firmly supported the falling figure and moved in front of him.

Stepping up to the small shoulder of the mountain giant, Lin Chen pressed his huge rock head with one hand, and pointed around with the other hand and said loudly:
"This is the place I chose, and it will be our home in the future. I need your power to transform this world."

A little buzz said:

"This is my mission!"

Standing on the small shoulders, it is like standing on a moving mountain, feeling the power of the mountain giant's every move, he is full of pride, some powerful subordinates, what else can stop him, the sandworm man No, not even the Void Reaver.

After pretending for a while, Lin Chen let Xiao Xiao approach a mountain as high as him, jumped directly from his shoulder to the top of the mountain, took out a stack of blueprints from the Rubik's Cube space, sat down on the ground and started flipping through them.

This is the blueprint about base construction that he specially downloaded from the Internet before he came here. There are hundreds of them, basically including most of the common world terrains, as well as base construction blueprints of many mainstream shapes. He needs to find one suitable for the current group of people The mountain topography is in line with the base's own aesthetic point of view.

After seeing two pictures, the two-headed ogre brother and the scarlet lady came over, and he asked the two to sit down and help look at them and choose them.

There are various types of these blueprints. Whether it is plains, hills, wasteland or even swamps, bases can be built. Even pure water or underground worlds have construction methods. He needs to choose a type he likes from them.

First, he divided the drawings into categories to select the current terrain. There were more than 40 drawings in total, and then removed the expensive ones first. Now he didn't have so many resources to build something too big or complicated, so he just wanted it to be simple and practical.

After removing his conditions, there were only four drawings that could be used. He spread out the four drawings one by one and looked at them one by one.

The first one is a huge mountain city, based on these hills, connected by city walls to form a large base.

The second one is a medium-sized mountain castle. A castle is built in the middle of the mountains, and then the outer hills are transformed into military strongholds. They attack and defend each other, and the defense is extremely powerful.

The third picture is an underground castle. The underground is hollowed out into a huge underground space to build a base. As long as the entrances and exits are not breached, the underground base is safe and secure. However, Lin Chen rejected this choice immediately. The sandworms in this world It will make holes, and the base is built underground and it is easy to be breached from all sides.

The fourth one is a comprehensive base, the underground space below the castle above, the two are integrated, even if the above is breached, the bottom can be defended.

(End of this chapter)