Astral Cockroach

In the beginning, Banbu had considered laying tracks and building trains for transportation on the Longzhu Continent.

After calculating the costs, it would require a large investment of labor and hundreds of millions of Origin Stones, which was too much. Lizhufeng didn't have that many Origin Stones, and it was estimated that Chiwu Mountain wouldn't be willing to invest that much either.

However, in recent years, the wreckage that had been found meant that too much time and energy was being wasted on transportation.

The Longzhu Continent was still alright, but the Guanli Continent was definitely more serious. After careful consideration, Longzhu and Guanli Continents were still acceptable, but when it came to developing the southern hemisphere's continents in the future, there probably wouldn't be enough labor to transport the wreckage. After all, the Giant Dragon Bamboo God's blessed species only produced 18 bamboo fruits every 10 years, and the number of warriors participating in treasure hunting was destined to be limited.

Building the railway that ran through the Longzhu Continent early would allow for the invested costs to be recovered sooner.

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With only 100 meters of track, the train model instantly sped off.

Banbu extended the track to two hundred meters, turned around, straightened it, and demonstrated again.

Chiwu Ghost King and the others were a little confused: How did the thing start running on its own? What's the use of it?

Some couldn't understand Banbu's intention.

Banbu guessed that this would happen, so he activated his metal ability and flipped the train model over, with the wheels facing up. He tapped his antennae and patiently explained, "Similar to a fan, electrical energy drives the motor to rotate, and the motor drives the wheels to rotate, so it can run on its own."

While explaining, he closed the switch to demonstrate, and the wheels rotated.

After all, they were Origin Power creatures, and they gradually understood how the train model could run along the tracks without warriors pulling it.

Banbu tapped the carriage with his antennae and said, "Things can be loaded inside and pulled along, so there's no need to trouble the warriors to carry them."

Chiwu Ghost King immediately thought of a deeper problem and asked with difficulty, "Lord Banbu, you don't mean to build a metal road that runs through the entire Longzhu Continent, do you?"

Banbu said, "It's not just about running through the Longzhu Continent, the western region will also have to turn south and go straight to the Rainbow Maze at the southern end. Once it's built, the wreckage found on the Guanli Continent or other continents in the southern hemisphere won't have to be transported laboriously. It can all be gathered together and transported back in one trip."

Sea棠 Butterfly King said, "This consumes a lot of electricity! How many wind power stations will need to be built to be enough?"

Banbu said, "Compared to cleaning up metal beasts, this thing doesn't consume much electricity. 36 level-one electric boxes will be enough. I can solve the electric box problem, including replenishing the electricity. It can be sent to the Dao Mantis tribe, they have an inexhaustible supply of electricity, and it will only cost a small price."

The energy storage capacity of a level-one electric box is still extremely powerful.

The cleaning robot doesn't consume much electricity when cleaning up garbage. The electrical energy is mainly consumed in the process of the decay energy field precisely decomposing the collected garbage into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

Baba consumes electricity mainly due to the anti-gravity engine, ordinary calculations are not particularly energy-intensive.

Lei Bamboo Ghost King stepped forward, somewhat laboriously flipped the train model over, and pushed it to run on the track, asking, "Lord Banbu, if this thing is enlarged tenfold, it won't be able to get over a mountain in its way, will it? I feel like it won't be able to get over even a small hill."

Banbu said, "That's right, it must run on flat terrain. If it encounters mountains or hills, it will need to be dug through and pass through the mountain. If it encounters rivers, sturdy bridges will have to be built."

"I have carefully observed the terrain environment of the Longzhu Continent. It's just that there are particularly many undulating mountains in the eastern region, and in densely mountainous areas, it can be bypassed, and in sparsely mountainous areas, it can be directly passed through. The situation improves in the central region, and in the western region, it's a flat road all the way, and it can be laid directly forward."

Chiwu Ghost King asked, "Lord Banbu, must these steel rails be laid?"

Banbu said, "They must be laid. The train can only run back and forth along the tracks."

Chiwu Ghost King asked, "Can't it be laid directly? It will collapse."

Banbu said, "So, we also need to build a roadbed and lay sleepers."

As he spoke, he used his metal ability to demonstrate and explain.

For the lower layer of the roadbed, earth and stone abilities can be used to simply solidify it, the middle layer is paved with gravel, and the upper layer is laid with sleepers, and finally the steel rails are laid.

The sleepers are relatively simple. According to a unified model, earth and stone abilities can be used to condense and solidify earth and stone.

The steel rails require large-scale mining, smelting of pure iron, and then the awakened metal ability of the Lord-level warrior must be used to strengthen them into high-quality steel rails.

"This cost…" Chiwu Ghost King was troubled.

Banbu said, "Gather all the warriors who have eaten the Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit and work together to build the road, and appropriately send warriors who have not eaten the Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit to help. This is a compromise solution that saves Origin Stones and maintains progress."

Warriors who have not eaten the Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit consume Origin Stones with every move they make in an environment without Origin Power.

However, at present, Chiwu Mountain only has 33 warriors, including 9 Narrow Butterfly warriors who cannot participate in labor. Lizhufeng, including Banbu, only has 17 warriors at most, and the Black and White Flower Cockroach tribe is even worse, with only 6 warriors in total.

The project is huge, there is too little labor, and many tasks must be helped by warriors who have not eaten the Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit.

Laying steel rails is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly.

However, once it is built, it will be a permanent solution, and only a small amount of labor will be required for maintenance and upkeep in the future.

In addition, there is another benefit: Previously, when wreckage was discovered, it was mostly ordinary God-given species. Because transportation was too troublesome, they were abandoned, and only the "God-grade" God-given species wreckage was transported away.

Chiwu Mountain is close to the Longzhu Continent, and they can consider transporting out all the ordinary God-given species wreckage found within the Longzhu Continent. Using them to strengthen and enhance ordinary life-seed plants can have good benefits.

Chiwu Ghost King and Lei Bamboo Ghost King were the first to be somewhat tempted.

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Lord Qiufeng tentatively asked, "Lord Banbu, you don't plan to let our Black and White Flower Cockroach tribe contribute Origin Stones, do you?"

Banbu said, "That's roughly the idea. Lizhufeng provides the technology, Chiwu Mountain provides the labor, and the Black and White Flower Cockroach tribe provides the Origin Stones. But it's not absolute, after all, you have the fewest warriors participating in treasure hunting, and so far, you have the fewest gains."

Chiwu Ghost King said, "The Origin Stone expenditure shouldn't exceed 300 million. Why don't the three families divide it equally? Each family spends less than 100 million, and they'll earn it back by finding a 'God-grade' God-given species wreckage."

Banbu and Queen Qiufeng did not respond, as they did not want to spend too many Origin Stones.

Chiwu Ghost King said, "The current problem is confirming that the four continents in the southern hemisphere are in the same situation as the Longzhu Continent, with enough relics remaining."

Lei Bamboo Ghost King asked, "Lord Banbu, how do you plan to cross the sea?"

Banbu said, "It's very simple, find a pond to demonstrate."

Banbu had carefully considered that the feasibility of sailing ships was too low, and steamships were more practical. It was just that he would have to spend more effort to dismantle the spaceship wreckage that had fallen into the Rainbow Maze and dismantle all the electric boxes and wires inside.

In front of a pond, Banbu demonstrated and explained the operating principle of the steamship. The main thing was to let them understand how metal could float on the water surface, and how the motor drove the propeller to rotate, thereby driving the steamship to sail in the water.

It wasn't a very difficult problem to understand.

In comparison, building a large cruise ship was much easier than laying steel rails. It was just a matter of using more metal, a very simple problem. If the railway was completed according to plan, finished metal components could be transported over by train. The total cost would not be high and would be acceptable.

After further discussion, they began the first step: Banbu went to investigate the situation in the southern hemisphere.

Chiwu Ghost King sent out warriors to transport a batch of metal in the form of wheeled vehicles, all the way to the Rainbow Maze in the south.

Banbu brought Big Bear and Oil Tea.

The triangular continent south of the Rainbow Maze had tropical rainforests that were too dense and mountainous, and wheeled vehicles could not pass at all. Banbu melted them into steel pillars, carried them with Big Bear, and crossed the Rainbow Maze.

Delivered to the coast, constructed into a small steamship. The process was simple but heavily loaded and busy, taking eight months to complete.

At the same time, Chiwu Mountain's 4 level-one electric boxes were fully charged, dismantled, and installed on the steamship.

Big Bear was bulky, so he wasn't taken along for the exploration. Oil Tea was best at tracking and searching, and set off with Banbu.