Chapter 495: The mine car was robbed and arrived at Bosbon

Work: Lord Survival: Strategy Starting from the Dilapidated Courtyard | Author: Chinese Little Blacksmith | Category: N Dimension | Update: 2021-10-12 11:10:59 | Word Count: 10074 words

The flying height of the gryphon is not low.

Basically, they fly in the altitude range of 2,000 to 4,000 meters.

This distance exceeds the range of most ground weapons and arrow towers.

It is also the most energy-saving altitude range.

Continuing to increase the height will only increase the physical exertion.

The violent air currents and gusts high in the sky are major influencing factors.

In addition, the higher the flight altitude, the lower the temperature.

If you fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters for a while, a layer of ice will condense on your wings.

Even though it's sunny and windy on the ground, it's completely different in the sky.

One thing that needs to be emphasized is that griffins can fly at high altitudes.

Take Yingjiang as an example. There is no problem if the limit is raised to over 10,000 meters.

It's just that it can't last long flying at such an ultra-high altitude.

The physical energy consumption is several times that of the altitude range from 2000 meters to 4000 meters.

And that’s not counting drafts and cold.

So this height is the most suitable for griffons to fly.

In this case, its physical strength can be greatly conserved, which is equivalent to maximizing battery life.

The aerial beasts are actually not much different from those planes on earth.

That is to say, one is made of flesh and blood, and the other is a product of steel.

One's endurance depends entirely on physical strength, while the other relies on fuel supply.

Eagle Sauce has its own set of optimized ways to deal with this, which is also an innate instinct.

…

Not long after Zong Shen and the others left.

Dozens of ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages came from west to east.

The carriages carried the flags representing Bosbon.

But not all magic flags are just ordinary flags.

They passed through Xitano Village and were heading towards Zong Shen's territory.

Beside the convoy were five or six squads of light cavalry.

The leader was Hadro, the son of Baron Bezos.

This guy had just returned to Bangcheng to rest for a day, and the next day he took the initiative to ask Ying to lead a team to escort these refugees.

He is now trying his best to please his father.

He was afraid that Baron Bezos would not be willing to take him to the giant city of Lentax for an appointment.

So he took the initiative to shoulder the escort mission this time.

In fact, the preparation of refugees is not that easy.

They didn't set out until the morning after Zong Shen left.

After all, three to four hundred people needed to be relocated, and dozens of oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages alone were mobilized.

The speed of trekking on the road is also very limited. If you can travel for more than ten hours a day, it is considered good to be able to maintain a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour.

Because of this, it took five or six days to get here.

Along the way was the business road, which was the same path Zong Shen took when he first went there.

In order to avoid being harassed by rogue bandits, Hadro volunteered to lead the team.

Zong Shen had already left the territory, and Bajie was tied up in the second-level stable.

Hadro's chance escort may have passed him by again.

But no matter what, this group of refugees is a great supplement to the population of Zong Shen's territory.

After mastering these three to four hundred refugees, the total population of the territory will enter the thousands.

This also indicates that the territory has become a village-level unit settlement.

Don’t underestimate the village level, this is a threshold.

At present, the population size of most lords' territories hovers around the hundreds.

Those like Jiang Yi who have developed slightly better only have about 200 people.

It's not that there aren't any that can reach hundreds or even thousands of people, it's that they are rare.

Even if some lords are very lucky, it is not easy to quickly control such a large population.

The problem of governance that comes with population growth alone is difficult to solve.

At least Zong Shen can now perfectly eat these three to four hundred people.

Both the territory size and the corresponding command value are very suitable.

With the [Ring of Tribune (Purple)], Mariel is enough to accept these farmers.

In addition, there are some lords in the territory whose command values ​​are also vacant.

For these refugees, they may not only be ordinary farmers.

If you are lucky, you can still find some talents among the three to four hundred people.

It would be best to select some new heroic talents from among them.

This thing is like opening a blind box. Qualifications and talents are all unknown factors.

In the eyes of the aborigines, they do not have these particularities.

But for the lords, the nature is different.

There are many places to choose from here.

According to the speed of the convoy, it would take them at least two to three hours to reach Zong Shen's territory.

Near the living area, the magic flag has long been hung on one of the elemental arrow towers.

I think there will be absolutely no problem in meeting and contacting each other.

…

In the mine, the kobold chief Dutra has given the order.

It made the pups stop digging that ruined passage.

At the current location, no resurgence of the undead has been found, and no other crypt races have been encountered.

This proves that the situation is not too bad.

The overall operation of the mine is still very stable, and there is no one near the entrance for the time being.

But there is a hidden danger here after all, both above and below ground.

Zong Shen knew this.

There are large areas of sealed ruins underground, and there may be powerful undead monsters or crypt monsters among them.

There are idle lords on the ground, and these few days are just the interval between challenges, suitable for going out on adventures.

Who knows if a lord might wander around here.

In the past, there were many "natural obstacles" in this mine.

When you reach the entrance, there is Bajie, the Bloodtusk Boar.

Deep inside there are large groups of web monsters and kobolds.

Now these obstacles have been cleared by Zong Shen.

If a lord really discovered the mine and went deep into it to explore.

I'm afraid the kobolds, crypt demons, and two-headed hellhounds staying in the mines will be treated as monsters.

But even these kobolds, hellhounds and the like are not something that ordinary lords can defeat.

The four hellhounds alone are equivalent to four commander-level monsters.

And it's the kind of leader-level monster with strong chaotic damage.

Although two to three hundred kobolds are weak individually, they still have some fighting power when gathered together.

Zong Shen already understood this during the Crypt Challenge.

The mine is basically safe until he makes the next round of layout.

Scattered lords can't get in at all, and if they group together as a legion, they can't break through the mine quickly. As long as there is one hour of resistance, Dutra can ask for help from the territory.

During the cold winter period, the mine closed the wind vent in advance.

In addition, heating equipment such as various heaters and thermal balls come into play, making the problems in the mine much higher than outside.

This is also the only place where there is no downtime.

Kobolds wearing fur coats can still carry out mining operations.

Only the efficiency will be slightly reduced.

Therefore, a lot of mineral resources have been accumulated in the past few days.

All were placed in the original warehouse area.

Zong Shen had previously left a loader mecha here as a means of transportation.

It is now fully loaded and ready to go.

It takes three hours to make a round trip for the loader mecha, and it only takes half an hour to fill it up because Dutra uses the storage compartment to load it.

Plus unloading, storing, and organizing after arriving at the territory.

It takes five or six hours to transport everything at once.

The inventory accumulated in the past few days requires almost four to five trucks to be transported.

This was also a big project, so Dutra immediately started arranging transportation arrangements after dealing with the mine tunnel problem.

The fully loaded loader mecha quickly drove out along the spacious mine tunnel.

Head towards the territory located northwest of the mine.

The driver is a kobold prophet.

This is not the first time it has been responsible for driving a loader mecha to transport ore.

This trip requires passing through the ruins of Azshara's city walls.

The journey was relatively peaceful, and you wouldn't even encounter the territories of other lords on certain routes.

Half an hour later, it had passed through the ruins of Azshara's city walls.

This is also a dividing line. If you continue heading northwest, you can reach it in about 40 to 50 minutes.

The movement of the loader mecha is not small when it is moving.

A few minutes later when the tracks rumbled across the ground and flew away.

From the ruins of the city wall on the side, a head poked out from the wall that had not completely collapsed.

"There is nothing left in the ruins of such a huge city building."

"I don't know where those damn guys found the ruins."

This is a blond and blue-eyed lord. He seems to have come to explore the ruins of the city wall.

But it's obvious that he didn't gain anything substantial.

After he climbed out of the damaged tower, more than a dozen soldiers climbed out one after another.

There were seven or eight giant wolves and a few horses on the side, obviously bringing wolf cavalry.

The lord stood on the tower, stretched and looked casually.

When he looked northwest, he happened to see the loader mecha that had just driven less than two kilometers away.

From this distance he could still vaguely see some details.

"Huh?"

"What is this?"

"Something like a tracked truck..."

"Have a look!"

He made a decision quickly, and with a wave of his hand, everyone jumped off the ruins of the city building, mounted the giant wolf and horses and chased towards the loader mecha!

Even though Zong was already familiar with the loader mecha, for other lords, it was still a rare thing. Magical machines were not as common as cattle, sheep, and horses.

The maximum speed of the Weight Bearer mecha is only 30 kilometers per hour.

Ordinary prairie horses can reach a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and giant wolves can even be faster.

Under such a speed difference, the blond lord quickly caught up and used the wolf cavalry's method of catching a net to control the kobold prophet who was responsible for driving, thereby intercepting the loader mecha.

When he saw that the cargo hold of the loader mecha was full of ore, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Objects like this, unlike buildings, have no visible ownership.

There are more than 20,000 ores in this batch of ores, most of which are iron ores, and there are also many high-energy derivative minerals such as copper, mithril, fine gold, elemental crystals, magic crystals, and magic gems.

This is an irresistible temptation for any lord.

"Hahaha!"

"Kill this kobold!"

"It's finally time for me, Dempsey Morton, to rise up!"

A hysterical smile appeared on the blond lord's face.

The significance of this batch of ore to him is no less than that on earth, when an ordinary person suddenly obtains hundreds of millions of assets.

He no longer had time to think about where the ore came from and where it was going.

"No, wait, don't kill it!"

"Tie them up first!"

Just when the Wolf Cavalry under his command was about to take action, Dempsey Morton suddenly stopped his men.

Because he thought of one thing, what if this batch of resources belonged to a certain lord.

Then that lord must be extremely powerful. If they kill the kobold, the other party can read the relevant attack information.

To be on the safe side, it would be better to capture them alive directly.

Waiting for him to bring this batch of ore back to the territory, store part of it, and then sell part of it, then the devil will know that it was him who robbed this batch of ore.

At least based on his knowledge, he couldn't think of anyone who could be him.

After quickly capturing the kobold prophet alive.

Dempsey Morton himself took the seat of the Heavy Bearer.

After studying on the spot for more than ten minutes with a guilty conscience, he really mastered the driving skills.

He just drove the loader mecha and led his men back towards the territory.

Zong Shen, who was already halfway through the journey, had no idea that the ore had been hijacked.

There is a time difference of at least five or six hours.

Dutra would only notice it after the loader mecha timed out and failed to return.

But Dempsey Morton's belief that he was perfect was only deceiving himself.

Not all lords are named Zong Shen!

…

This thing is like an introduction.

What kind of storm will eventually brew is still unknown.

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you avoid getting your shoes wet?

This situation is inevitable, it is just a matter of sooner or later.

But our sect member is still concentrating on his way.

Ying Jiang was extremely fast, and it took him almost forty minutes to reach the desert area where shark lizards were rampant.

That is where the space node of the unknown region is located.

Looking down from the sky, all you can see is clear yellow sand.

Occasionally, black rock masses are exposed on the ground.

From a high-altitude perspective, the trade road is like a brown ribbon, gradually spreading.

There is only a black spot for passers-by on the ground. Horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts are slightly more noticeable, but equally insignificant.

Overall, this air trip was quite good.

Everyone was also very safe because they did not encounter any dangers along the way.

An overlord-level dragon-veined gryphon with a huge size and powerful combat power like Yingjiang is a bully wherever he goes, and most of the ferocious birds and monsters he encounters avoid him.

So there is no danger at all along the way.

About an hour and ten minutes later, Eagle Sauce had arrived at the outskirts of Bosbon.

This guy was too big, and Zong Shen was afraid that the city army would misunderstand him.

In addition, the defensive arrow tower matrix and the sentry tower where crossbowmen are stationed in the city are not vegetarian.

If he dared to let Yingjiang land directly without communicating, he might be shot into a sieve.

So Zong Shen very rationally chose to let Yingjiang land outside the city.

Let the accompanying soldiers be responsible for keeping an eye on Ying Jiang while he enters the city alone.

He would wait until he contacted Baron Bezos before considering taking them in.

This plan is the most appropriate.

Although Yingjiang's appearance is a bit scary, it won't cause a sensation if someone is guarding it.

It wouldn't work if it were left outside the city.

It can easily be regarded as an invading monster and attract the attention of the city army.

Therefore, Zong Shen chose to let Yingjiang land about ten kilometers outside Bangcheng.

There happened to be a few open spaces between the large farmland nearby, allowing it to land smoothly.

After landing, it indeed attracted the attention of nearby farmers.

Fortunately, they calmed down after seeing someone on the back of the big gryphon.

Those who can ride this huge aerial monster are definitely the big forces in the kingdom.

Zong Shen was the first to stand up and tell everyone his plan.

Let them wait where they are for him to respond.

Vereesa has a communication crystal on her body, so she can contact her quickly if necessary.

After settling down Yingjiang and everyone, Zong Shen walked onto the road.

A distance of more than ten kilometers is nothing, but it would still be a bit uncomfortable if we had to walk entirely.

This road is one of the main roads into the city, and the flow of people coming and going is not small.

Zong Shen walked quickly for a while and met a group of traveling merchants.

After spending four hundred dinars, he bought a prairie horse from a traveling merchant.

This is an old horse, and its condition is not very good. One leg is still lame.

Logically speaking, it is not worth 400 dinars. Normally, a fresh prairie horse only costs about 350 dinars.

The price was a small loss, but Zong Shen didn't care.

His current net worth is more than one million dinars, and he bought this horse just for temporary transportation.

Riding this lame old horse, Zong Shen spent more than ten minutes successfully entering the city.

After having the experience of entering the city last time, he rode the old horse towards the central area with familiarity.

It was just past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the streets were full of pedestrians.

There were farmers carrying baskets and vendors pushing wooden carts.

Under such circumstances, the horse cannot walk fast, and the actual speed is about the same as walking.

It took him half an hour to reach the central area.

When he crossed the street dividing line on his lame horse, soldiers immediately surrounded him.

Zong Shen explained a little and met again the team leader who informed him last time.

We entered the central area smoothly.

He declined the invitation to ride in the carriage proposed by the butler who came to greet him.

Zong Shen insisted on riding his lame horse.

According to the butler, Baron Bezos happened to be in the castle.

It's in the Raven Room on the other side of the castle.

Stepping onto the grass in the central area, Zong Shen felt much more relaxed.

Compared with the last time I came here, Bosbon is still so prosperous.

A vibrant city like this, as long as it is not invaded by wars and other unexpected events, may become a new giant city after hundreds or thousands of years of development.

In a relaxed mood, he unknowingly came to the so-called crow room.

The butler's introduction ends here.

Zong Shen got off his horse and put the reins on the ground stake beside him.

This is the back side of the castle and the shady side.

After taking a look, he walked straight over.