The Dulagan Empire is located in the west of the main material continent of this world. Almost most of the northern half of the land and climate in the western continent are occupied by the empire.

Judging from the terrain distribution within the territory, 70% of the empire's territory is gentle plain areas suitable for building human urban residences, while the remaining 25% are both animal and plant resources and underground mineral resources.

The very rich forests and hilly terrain are not suitable for human habitation and living, and the proportion of land occupied by only five%.

The Great Needles Wilderness, located near the border southeast of the empire, is part of this five percent mile.

The wasteland covers an area of ​​more than 60,000 square kilometers, with an overall range of nearly elliptical, with a longest diameter span of more than 400 kilometers, occupying a considerable section of the border line in the southeast of the empire.

Needles wasteland is basically composed of Gobi full of irregular bare rocks and deserts flying with dry gravel. Only a small part of green vegetation is similar to the drought-resistant environment plants such as cactus and wormwood, which are

The creatures in the wasteland provide only food sources. But even these only plants are not so easy to collect, because they are somewhat special compared to their peers elsewhere.

', Compared with herbivorous or even carnivorous animals, it is not only a edible position, but also a 'predator' position similar to 'mania flower'.

The reason why this became like this is because this land had been radiated by a special force in the past, resulting in some strange "mutated" evolution.

The rainfall in the Needles wasteland is very small in a year. Although there is some groundwater circulating under the wasteland, the depth of burial is often not something that humans can easily mine. There are only some naturally formed surfaces similar to blow-out structures.

Ponds and even lakes evolved from water sources can be used by humans and animals. Some oasis that occupy less than three percent of the total area of ​​the Nederaes wasteland often form around these scarce surface water sources.

But these oasis are not suitable for human habitation. It is not because of insufficient scale, but because most of the plants in the oasis have undergone mutated and are very threatening to ordinary humans. Most people do not have the ability to do so at any time

Maybe when you are preyed by cannibal plants that come out of nowhere, you can live in the oasis with peace of mind!

In addition, dangerous things like poisonous insects, man-eating birds of prey, giant ground-digging sandworms can be seen in the deep areas of this wasteland. In addition, occasional sandstorms and tornadoes and other climate disasters, it makes it even more difficult to see them.

Ordinary people dare not step in at will.

Thanks to these characteristics, in addition to being called an abandoned wasteland, the Needles Wasteland is also nicknamed the Devil Wasteland by some artists, meaning a place cursed by the devil.

This land is pretty easy to say for the extraordinary people who have mastered extraordinary power and the army with sufficient firepower and weapons and equipment to recruit enemies, but for the weak ordinary people, it can be said that it is full of malicious intentions.

However, it is also a blessing for the harsh environment of this wasteland. For the empire, it can be said to be a natural buffer zone that is conducive to defending the border.

Not only is the harsh environment able to have a great negative impact on the army's progress, the gentle and endless terrain in the wasteland can also allow the garrisons of the border fortresses on the edge of the wasteland to discover the traces of the coming enemies more easily.

Coincidentally, the northwest of the Needles Wilderness is the territory leading to the empire, and to the southwest, it is the Kingdom of Rheinz, which has a profound stance of feud with the empire.

What's more interesting is that most of the terrain outside the eastern border of the empire are steep and undulating mountain ranges. These mountains extend from north to south like a wide wall along the eastern border of the empire, until they are close to Ni.

The land of the Great Delée Wilderness has turned into a gentle forest!

Because of this wonderful terrain, the overlord of the Eastern Continent, the Saint Angelic Kingdom, if they intend to march to the Western Continent, if their army does not intend to cross mountains and ridges and cross the natural barrier formed by the mountains,

We can only choose two offensive routes. One is to detour to the north, first enter a piece of the northern continent, and actively carry out a vast wild forest filled with a large amount of primitive vegetation. Go around to the northernmost end of the mountain range and then enter the western continent.

However, if you detour north, the route of march is too long. You may have to endure the attacks of various beasts and even wild elves in the forest along the way. After a long journey, it will inevitably hurt the soldiers' strength.

Another route is to march from the Needles Wilderness, the southernmost end of the mountain barrier. If you ignore the harsh environmental factors in the wasteland, the distance of this route can be said to be the shortest distance from the East Continent to the West Continent.

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For the country with strong national strength, their army will always be equipped with the most elite knights of the apology and priests who are proficient in attack magic, and there will be priests who are good at healing and detoxifying techniques to accompany them, and they will have to stand against the devil's wasteland

It is not too difficult to force the natural threats in this area. It takes much less time than detours to the Northern Mainland, and the logistics pressure will be relatively relaxed.

However, the dangers on the road will be relatively high, and after passing through the dangerous land, there is almost no time to relax and recuperate, and you have to face the attack of the empire's defenders stationed on the border to wait for their hard work.

The environment of the Great Wildland of Nederles has not been the case since ancient times. About a thousand years ago, when the Dulagon Empire was just established, it was still a grassland terrain suitable for freeing cattle, sheep and animal husbandry, with a large amount of fertile grass resources. For land

There is no difficulty in long-distance marching of the troops, especially for the rapid speed of cavalry troops.

At that time, the empire was often harassed by enemies from the Eastern Continent.

However, after a certain war, this land was used as an attacked level, and both sides of the war poured the war on it, causing the original fertile grassland to turn into scorched earth. Even if they gradually recovered from their anger after the war, they were still there because one side stayed at that time.

Residual radiation from certain special forces has been put into place, causing a large number of mutations that are unfriendly to normal humans in animals and plants.

Since then, this wasteland has become a natural danger, which is very conducive to stationing the defense side on the edge of the wasteland.

The empire loves and hates this natural barrier. It is because of its intention to resist the invasion of the church nation in the East Continent. It is precisely because of its existence that the empire was able to make hundreds of years ago*

At the time, the ambitious Grand Duke Rheince seized the opportunity. After announcing the split from the empire to establish a kingdom in the south, he used this natural danger to defeat the empire's siege army at that time, and thus gained a firm foothold in time.

Evolved into the great hatred of the emperors of the empire today!

Now, this place, which many artists call the Devil's Wasteland, is ushering in a group of uninvited guests.

Angus Slint sat on an eight-seater large armored vehicle with the silver hexagonal crystal emblem unique to the Rainbow Crystal Chamber of Commerce. Through the transparent window, he looked outside, looking a bit dazzling yellow in the sunlight.

The scenery of the Gobi wasteland.

With a huh, a flying sand shovel was blown up by the hot wind and hit the side of the armored vehicle, knocking on the glass window of the car door made a continuous and crisp sound. Listening to the power of the sound, Angus could be sure that this would be

If you hit an ordinary person directly, you will probably end up with a swollen head.

Even the guards accompanying outside had to release a series of elves to protect themselves and their mounts to avoid being injured by the flying stones in the wind.

What a bad weather!

Angus withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look at the black-haired boy who was sitting on the soft seat behind who looked young but was now loyal to him.

"Master, I still don't understand why you chose such a place? If you fight for a few more times, you may be able to gain a better territory from His Majesty the Emperor!"

"That's not necessarily." Jiang Yan was also looking at the Gobi scenery outside the window. After hearing this, he just smiled faintly: "Although the emperor is willing to cooperate with us, it is absolutely impossible to do the cede of territory. After all, this will

It caused a great stain on his throne and fame! Moreover, with the emperor's domineering style, it would be considered kind to not launch wars to seize other people's territory. It is really hard to imagine that he would be willing to cede his own territory to others, right?

Only the 'Nidreis Great Wilderness' part is nominally an empire, but in fact even the empire is unwilling to send people to the dangerous land, can it be sent out by the emperor as a favor, and it will not be possible.

It caused a strong rebound in the emotions of the people in China."

Speaking of this, Jiang Yan smiled playfully: "Maybe, when the emperor gave me this choice, he had never thought that I would really choose this dangerous land, and even devoted my efforts to operate it on the land.

Develop the power.”

Angus thought about the style of the emperor and nodded. He recalled that, indeed, after the Intellectual Brain expressed Jiang Yan's meaning and agreed to accept the Great Wilderness of Needles, Emperor Will was still briefly

The ground showed a hint of surprise.

"But even if you have to choose an open station, there are actually many places in the Western Continent that are more suitable." Angus looked at the car window, and an escort outside suddenly picked up the rifle in his hand at this time.

, pointed at a huge black vulture that was hit by the wind and sand, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

A flash of light spurted out from the muzzle of the spirit guide rifle, and a white bombardment like a laser, compressed by spiritual power instantly shot towards the sky, and extremely precisely knocked the vulture's head into a very accurate

A piece of flesh and bloody paste.

But strangely, the vulture whose head was almost completely blown was not dead yet. His neck was still sprayed with blood, but his body was waving his twisted wings as if he was frightened.

Until several blazing spirit cannon beams gushed out from the muzzle of the spirit guide rifle in the hands of the guards, and after shattering most of the vulture's entire body under the dense fire cross net, the other party

Then he fell weakly to a short distance in front of the convoy.

After the broken corpse of the vulture fell on the rock and soil on the Gobi surface, blood scattered everywhere, and a ball of blood splattered to a nearby one that was more than five meters high, with dark green skin but dark and dark, some of which seemed to be spots.

Stained giant cactus body.

The next moment, the cactus, which was not very good in color, twisted like a living thing, and the skin of the hard needles was cracked, revealing the blood-red colored inside, covered with several rows of densely packed sharp teeth.

The fleshy tissue looks like the mouth of a chrysanthemum-shaped monster.

That posture is truly the "bloody mouth".

Then, a blood-red tentacle poked out from the depths of the curious big mouth, swung in the air for a few times, and then ejected out suddenly. The movements were very quick to wrap up the remains of the vultures not far away,

In a blink of an eye, it dragged it into the inside of the bloody mouth, and then the cracked skin like a chrysanthemum was closed and returned to its original cactus posture. However, compared with the original, the body of this cactus obviously swelled unnaturally.

It looks a bit weird.

However, this did not last long. I saw the cactus squirming like a living creature. After a few sounds of shattering flesh and blood were heard under the skin, it returned to quiet and its body shape was also

It quickly returned to its original state in just a few seconds.

Only some dark red bloodstains flowed out from the gaps when its sharp teeth and cracked mouth closed, and applied to the green skin of the cactus. After encountering the hot wind and flying sand of the Gobi, it quickly dried into a pool of black.

Stains.

Angus, who looked at this scene through the car window, twitched his lips: "To be honest, I personally don't like this place very much."

"Yes, many people are like you and don't like it very much." Jiang Yan nodded: "But if this place is just about the transportation location, it is actually very suitable for the headquarters of my Hongjing Chamber of Commerce - it is almost

It is located at the center of the main material continent of this world. You can directly lead to the countries of the Western Continent wherever you go. You can go east and directly into the Eastern Continent. It is the best bridge connecting the Eastern Continent."

"But the 'indigenous people' here are not very friendly." Angus said with a wry smile, and then everyone could feel the ground below shaking slightly even through the shock absorption system of the armored vehicle.

The entire convoy stopped moving forward.

A few seconds later, there was only a loud rumbling sound in the Gobi Desert!

A carapace is yellow, three meters thick, and it is made up of ring-shaped insect bodies. The sides of the body are covered with dense hooks and sickles-like arthropods and long legs, and a black one is exposed at the front of the head.

The edge of the deep cave-shaped giant insect with layers of densely covered mouthparts emerged from the broken rock and soil, and the insect body coiled and locked the revitalized cactus that had just eaten before.

He opened his hideous mouthparts and bit the cactus with a sharp sneer. With his shrill struggle, he tore it into pieces and swallowed it into his stomach.

"Shit-!!"

After eating the cactus, this giant sandworm seemed a little dissatisfied. After a few loud noises, it suddenly turned its head and headed towards the convoy. The fierce aura with the peak military strength spread out without any concealment.
Chapter completed!