Chapter 977 Shortcuts Frightened
Although the Black Silver Mining Town belongs to the territory of the Mother of Defiled, its actual jurisdiction is controlled by the City of Lansi. The nearby Farne Lord is just the nominal owner of this town.
As the name suggests, the Black Silver Mine Town is a town specially built for the black silver mines produced in the nearby Black Forest. Except for a few of the people in the town are militia, the others are pickers who are responsible for picking mature black silver mines.
Although black silver ore is a metal ore, this metal ore is different from the metal ore buried under the Viron world. Black silver ore grows on trees, and is actually a kind of fruit called black silver ore tree.
It was also a very coincidental that Lanxi City discovered the black silver mine. At that time, Lanxi City happened to have experienced an abyss tide. That abyss tide caused a large number of casualties in Lanxi City, and many equipment were destroyed by the abyss monsters. Some parts stocks left by Lanxi City before were exhausted, and these urgently needed parts need to be remade.
All this was prepared by the early remodelers of Lansi City. The manufacturing machinery and methods for various parts required for various devices had been left behind, but the remodelers at that time did not expect the wear and consumption of various equipment.
After a period of time, the raw materials prepared to be used for manufacturing parts have been used up, and several raw materials needed to make key parts have been consumed, so we need to go to the Black Forest to find raw materials for manufacturing.
Among these used up raw materials, ordinary metal ores and clay are easy to find. There are many such ores around them, and the reserves are extremely large. It is impossible to get rid of the danger of using up for hundreds of thousands of years. Only one metal used to make the internal signal lines of components has not been found.
Although some scholars tried to replace them with other metals at that time, these substitutes often had the problem of missing signal packets. This problem is not a problem in normal times. It only requires retransmission of data, but on the battlefield, it is the difference between life and death.
Therefore, Lanxi City had to unite with other church forces in the realm of the gods and sent the largest manpower to enter the depths of the Black Forest to find alternative metals. As a result, more than 30 exploration teams sent were sent, and only seven of them came back, and they were incomplete. The other teams died in the Black Forest.
Just when Lanxi City thought that the exploration operation had failed and was about to mobilize more personnel to form an exploration team to continue exploration, a hunter living on the edge of the Mother of Defiled Field took a spherical metal object to see if he could receive the mine search reward issued by Lanxi City. As a result, he became the recipient of the reward, not only gaining a lot of money, but also becoming a field noble in the Mother of Defiled Field, and his fief was Faenling.
This mineral that can replace the special metal species is not a mineral deposit in the conventional sense, but a fruit that bears on a tree. When the fruit grows on the tree, it can even be picked and eaten by people. However, after ripening and falling, the fruit cracks and the seeds fly out of the fruit, the broken fruit does not rot, but undergoes some unexplainable transformation and turns into pieces of metal. Because of its black and silver color, this metal is called the black silver fruit by the locals. The trees that grow this fruit are also called the black silver tree.
The black silver tree is extremely rare in the black forest, at least within the influence of Lanxi City. To this day, only one piece has been found in the forest growing on the edge of the Mother of Defiled Field. The number of this black silver tree is not very large, only about 300 grams, and the fruits produced each time are less than 3,000.
Although this amount of black silver ore can alleviate the demand for special metal ore raw materials in Lanxi City at that time, it cannot guarantee that if Lanxi City encounters large-scale component damage, the raw materials consumed for manufacturing components will be supplied, so Lanxi City is thinking about transplanting this black silver tree.
The final result is that this kind of tree can only grow on that land. After transplanting it to other places, it will die immediately. When transplanted with seeds, it will not even germinate. Even later, gods will take action to try to give birth to this kind of tree, but the result will still be the same.
The final transplant of the black silver tree was left alone. Lanxi City could only join hands with the people of the Mother of Defiled Church to build a village dedicated to taking care of the black silver tree, which is now the Black Silver Mining Town.
Moreover, Lanxi City knew the importance of the Black Silver Tree, so it also sent some ordinary mecha sergeants to be stationed near the Black Silver Tree, specifically used to take care of the Black Silver Tree. The Black Silver Mining Town has become the only town outside Lanxi that has a Mecha sergeant team.
Therefore, when the transportation team arrived at the Black Silver Mine Town and Leo got off the car and saw a team of ordinary mecha sergeants conducting handover work with the mecha sergeants sent over, he was not surprised.
The process of leaving Lancie City with Sylvia with disguised as the Church of the Victims was very smooth, because almost every time the tide of the abyss passed, the Church of the Victims would form a transport team to transport various ore raw materials, but this time the speed of forming the transport team seemed to be much faster.
On the way, although the transportation team encountered some tax cards established by local lords, they did not encounter any difficulties and got used to it very smoothly. Moreover, the people inside the transportation team did not ask about the origin of the two, but just regarded the two as victims as the senior management of the victims. Until Leo and Sylvia left the transportation team and entered the Black Forest, no one asked about the situation of the two of them, as if they thought they were carrying out some secret missions.
"What's wrong?" After the two of them re-entered the Black Forest, Leo suddenly saw Sylvia frowning, as if she was a little uncomfortable.
Sylvia responded: "The power of the Black Forest is repelling me. Although it is not very serious, it makes people feel uncomfortable."
Leo thought for a while and said, "It should be related to your bloodline power. Although you are not suitable for the abyss species, the abyss power on your body has reached the upper limit that the Black Forest allows. If something happens, you'd better not take action and leave it to me. Otherwise, the more power of the abyss demon dragon you use, the stronger the rejection you will be, and it is very likely that it will cause some harm to your body in the end."
Upon hearing this, Sylvia nodded slightly, agreed to Leo's proposal, then she looked around and asked, "Where are we now?"
"According to the information we obtained from Lansey, our current location should be here." Leo took out a map of the Mother of Defiled Field, pointed to a prominent edge near the northwest corner of the map, and then moved his finger and said: "The location of the Black Silver Woods should be here. According to the information provided by the Light Man, Mirror Lake should be at this location."
Sylvia looked at the map in Leo's hand and couldn't help but smile bitterly, saying, "Is there no more detailed map? This map only has the marks of the Mother of Defiled Field. The black forest outside is blank except for the black silver forest."
"The space and time of the Black Forest are chaotic, and it is impossible to use a map to identify it." Leo put away the map and explained: "The Black Silver Forest is fixed by the ten surrounding gods including the Mother of Defiled, so it can mark an exact location. Otherwise, even if the location marked on it is marked, you will not be able to find the location you want according to the mark on it."
"Since that's the case, how do we find Mirror Lake?" Sylvia asked in confusion.
Leo pointed to the Mother of Defiled Field outside the Black Forest behind him and said, "Jing Lake should be like these gods, and it has been fixed in a place by some kind of force. We just need to walk in a fixed direction. No matter how the Black Forest changes, we can eventually walk to Mirror Lake." As he said, he paused again and said, "But we should be able to open a shortcut."
"A contract ring?" Sylvia guessed.
Leo nodded, then he raised his hand with the contract ring high, thinking about the Mirror Lake leading to the Luyuan Forest in his mind.
Then, I heard the noise suddenly coming from the woods beside them. Then I saw that all the originally dense trees moved a distance to both sides, and the shrubs and weeds below also moved, eventually revealing a straight and flat forest passage.
"Let's go..." Leo put down his hand and was about to say something to Sylvia when a loud noise suddenly came from the Black Silver Mining Town they had just passed.
Leo and Sylvia looked at each other without saying much, made the same decisions and actions, and quickly moved towards the Black Silver Mining Town.
The two of them soon arrived outside the Heiyin Mining Town. At this time, they only saw the fires in the Heiyin Mining Town soaring into the sky. The fire surrounded the entire town. However, there was no sound in the town, only the crackling sound of the fire burning wood.
Sylvia wanted to rush in to check the situation, but was pulled by Leo because Leo's spiritual net did not feel any creatures from the Black Silver Mining Town, whether they were alive or dead, as if just when they left the town and entered the Black Forest, all the people in the town disappeared, and the town was also reduced by a fire.
Leo told Sylvia what he found. After hearing this, Sylvia also used her method to check the situation in the town. As a result, just like Leo, she only found the burning town, but did not see anyone.
"What's going on?" Sylvia asked with a puzzled look on her face.
Leo thought for a while and said, "We shouldn't be in the previous period now? Have you not noticed it? The carriage we were riding in was not there. Not only that, but even the buildings in the town are much less than before."
Under Leo's reminder, Sylvia also realized the unusualness of the Black Silver Mining Town in front of her.
"It should be caused by the fact that I used the Black Forest contract ring just now to open a shortcut," Leo made another inference and then asked in confusion: "However, what time is the Black Silver Mining Town now? I remember that after the construction of the Black Silver Mining Town was completed, except for some monsters that ran out of the Black Forest, they had never been attacked, and they were completely burned out by a fire. If there were any, they would have been recorded."
"What if it wasn't the former Black Silver Mining Town?" Sylvia also thought for a while and said, "You also said that there has never been such a thing in the past Black Silver Mining Town. What if this happened in the future."
Just as Sylvia said this, a loud thunderous sound suddenly came from the sky. The two of them looked up and found that there were broken patterns like mirrors in the sky. Then they saw countless broken light spots in the Sky Broken City, replaced by meteorite fireballs falling all over the sky.
"This..." Sylvia was stunned by everything in front of her. She looked straight at the sky, not knowing what to say.
However, Leo was not scared by the scene in front of him. He calmly and quickly analyzed the place where the meteorites fell in the sky and the power generated by the meteorites. He found that most of these meteorites would fall around. And judging from the power of meteorites, unless there is a omega-level advanced living organism blocking the power of the Omega-level life, the place will be completely destroyed by meteorites.
"Let's go!" Leo did not intend to explain slowly, and pulled Sylvia back into the black forest and ran towards the passage he had opened.
The moment they walked out of the Black Forest, the landform of the Black Forest had changed, but Leo could feel the location of the shortcut passage, so he did not take a detour, and directly arranged his spiritual energy around his body and rushed forward. Even if there were trees blocking him, he did not take a detour, but knocked the trees and rushed over.
The two of them quickly rushed to the shortcut passage and rushed in without thinking.
The moment Leo and Sylvia rushed into the shortcut passage, the surroundings suddenly became quiet. The two people who stopped could see the trees on the right outside the passage growing and withering at an extremely fast speed, and new trees were constantly filling in, while the other side was boundless ashes, as if they had been burned by a fire, and they could even smell the smoke from the burning trees.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Sylvia asked curiously: "What's going on?"
"The flow rate outside is different from the shortcut channel we are in now." Leo is not unfamiliar with the scene in front of him. When the spacecraft enters the speed of light, the scene around him will become like this.
"What about here?" Sylvia asked, pointing at the forest where the fire burned.
"It should be caused by the fallen meteorite group we just saw." Leo quickly gave the answer, but he felt it was not right. Then he looked at the burning forest there, and then he seemed to see something in the flames in the distance.
Chapter completed!