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Chapter 2094 The Maelstrom and the Doomsday Volcano
  Empire Clash does not seem to have much to do with the remote wasteland city. Wasteland City was actually undergoing its own expansion during this period. But this expansion is not so obvious in the military field. It didn't attract much attention.

When the two major forces are fighting for eight cities, people are out of their minds. Wasteland City, the most remote place, has secretly controlled more than ten cities. These are all desolate cities in remote areas. There is no city around it that can be found within a radius of three to four hundred miles.

Under normal circumstances, even if these cities are controlled, they cannot be regarded as urban agglomerations. However, after the railways connect them together, each city can be completed within a day.

Three hundred miles seemed very far away in the era of infantry and cavalry. It would take about a month and a half to walk, and it would take four to five days if it was a forced march, unless it was a war horse. Moreover, it is possible to cover such a long distance in one day by constantly changing horses during the ride.

And it can only allow a few people to cross, rather than allowing countless people to complete the round trip between two distant places in a day like a train.

With such a connection, even if they are far apart, the actual travel time between the two cities is shorter than those cities that are close together.

It can completely transport civilian supplies, weapons, equipment, etc. on a large scale.

In a new era, this could already be used as the foundation of a new empire.

Originally, these cities did not want railways to be built near their own territories, which meant that armored trains could drive directly to their own territories, which meant that the wasteland formed a substantial force deterrent against them.

But their refusal is meaningless. As they become more and more economically dependent on Wasteland City, if they continue to defy Wasteland City's requirements, they will lose all aspects of economic support. The temporary factories they set up would be forced to stop production because of the loss of raw materials. Various luxuries purchased will also lose supply and, once exhausted, can never be replenished.

I have adapted to the convenient and fast life of this era, and then I want to continue to survive without these supports. There is no doubt that it is extremely difficult.

It’s like someone who has become accustomed to the era of mobile phones and the Internet. Back in those days when several people would get together to watch one TV show. You will also feel extremely bored and find it difficult to adapt.

That is, under the influence of various economic shackles. Surrounding cities had to allow railways to connect each other, and even allow railways to be built into their own cities. Although they were still an independent city-state in name, as the armored trains conducted military exercises again and again and passed by their door, these people knew that they were actually under the actual armed control of Wasteland City.

Now the railway has passed through both sides of the portal smoothly. The train was running at high speed on both sides, crossing these transmission nodes and spreading all over the world.

Although those so-called prosperous areas are not yet connected to the railway, the area that Garden City can actually control now exceeds 10 million square kilometers.

In the past, most of these places were actually deserted areas, areas that were abandoned by people for exile because they were too far from the portal and were relatively difficult to develop.

After these areas were connected by railways, train stations appeared in these places. became prosperous again. With the advancement of technology, the advantages and disadvantages of portals will actually be reversed in the future.

Those portals that are all gathered together will be disliked by people to a certain extent because they are too close to each other and the range they can actually control is too small.

Of course there are advantages to getting together after all. It means that the protection ability of the core defense circle of the territory is strong enough. Even now, Lan Nuo can prosper and develop the territory and advance to the next era. When facing the five plus three city-states guarded by thermal weapons, there will be The feeling of a breeding dog biting a hedgehog and having difficulty swallowing it. These towns are too close to each other. With each other's support, even if the weapons and equipment are backward, there are countless exits from the Cunning Rabbit's three caves. It is also difficult to crush with force.

But this kind of defense is more than enough but not enough offense. If it really comes to that situation, we can send troops to surround these cities, and then completely ignore this area. Siege until they surrender. In the face of the productivity of the next era, this siege is not difficult. It can be easily accomplished without weakening the country's national strength.

Chengying's current development direction is still to continuously strengthen its strength in this area. Beyond that the whole point is to gain control of the ocean here.

In the presence of a large number of portals, the ocean is actually an extremely special resource point.

There is no salt and iron franchise in this world. To be precise, there is no salt, because unlike on Earth, salt in this world is not a scarce mineral, but one that can be easily mined. There is no way to monopolize minerals. There are a large number of salt mines on the surface of this planet, which are different from the salt that we know from the sea water.

These rock deposits are accumulated in the strata, just like coal mines, where large amounts of salt can be mined directly.

There are actually similar minerals on the earth. But because table salt is easily soluble in water, it is difficult for this kind of stuff to accumulate in the ground.

But this is different. The portal is actually a very special existence. It's not necessarily just on the planet's surface. It's just that the only ones that humans can use are those on the surface of the planet. More is actually in the air and underground. It's just that humans have no way to use the portals in the air and underground.

And if there are portals in the air and underground, it means that there are actually portals in the ocean. Occasionally we see some wonders in this world.

That is on the ground or in the sky. A huge waterfall like boundless water will emerge, and endless seawater will gush out from the waterfall, falling to the ground and creating a lake out of thin air.

Most of these lakes have no way of flowing out. Perhaps it will become larger and larger as seawater accumulates. In some places, the sun is relatively hot, and the lake will continue to maintain a volume during the evaporation process. Under this volume, salt mines will accumulate on the earth. , after the rules of the space gate were completely changed, the large amount of salt accumulated in the sea water here became a mineral vein. Because the rainfall in these areas is not high, the salt will remain on the earth for a long time. This is an extremely special resource on this continent.

In addition, sea water is not the only thing falling from the sky. Sometimes it is possible that the magma in the ground is sent to the sky under the influence of the portal.

In fact, the last empire was born from the place where it was named Mount Doom.

The portal located in the geomagma was connected to a portal thousands of meters high in the sky, so a hellish scene appeared in that era.

There is magma hanging high in the sky, and the river flows down, forming a magma waterfall in mid-air.

At the beginning, the magma fell on the ground and flowed in all directions, causing a huge disaster. The ecological environment of this area was such that the original city-state was directly submerged by the magma and turned into a dead land. Later, the magma gradually expanded outward to the limit, and finally solidified to occupy a huge area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers.

After solidification, the magma began to pile up higher and higher. The shape of a cone is constantly stacked upward from the bottom. In the process of constant solidification and continuous rising. The mountains are getting taller and taller. Getting closer and closer to the location of the magma waterfall in the sky. Eventually, the height of the mountain reached the same height as the magma waterfall, and a huge magma lake was formed at the top of the mountain. The lake water continues to rise, and from time to time it slowly rises out of the peak.

The water in these magma lakes will solidify at the top of the mountain. Occasionally it will flow out. So the mountain continued to grow higher. Until eventually the magma solidified at the top of the exit, sealing the top of the mountain.

A huge mountain with an unprecedented height of 8,000 meters was formed. And there is a large amount of magma accumulated inside such a huge mountain. Over time, the pressure of the magma inside builds up. And this means the layer of magma that solidifies at the top of the mountain. Will break under great pressure. When the pressure is high enough, the cap will break and produce the most spectacular volcanic eruption of the past era. The magma will turn into bright golden light pillars at an altitude of nine thousand meters, and then fall in all directions above the clouds. The surrounding area will be baptized by such meteorites.

Fortunately, the eruptions of this mountain peak are very regular. Through strict records and calculations, the period of its eruptions can be calculated, so that corresponding avoidance can be carried out.

The terrifying memory this volcano brought to the empire also gave him the name Mount Doom.

Now that the Doomsday volcano has been completely extinguished, as the location of the portal changes, the magma in the Doomsday volcano will lose its source and eventually gradually cool down.

There is only such a huge basalt left on the ground.

And this is different from the mountains created by geological movements. It has no foundation. In the future, this mountain will continue to be weathered by wind and rain. It may crack in the future, or it may continue to change its position with earthquakes one after another. It's like building blocks placed on a wooden board. Because there is no foundation. It is a migrating mountain and its position is not fixed. Although it is now stuck in the ground due to the huge gravity,

But where the future will go no one knows. The new doomsday volcano now seems to be in the process of forming, and magma can now be observed in the sky above the planet's equator. Flow into the sea water. During this time, a basalt island has been formed above the sea water. The size of the island is still getting larger and larger, and a new doomsday volcano may be built here in the future.

For the time being, Cheng Ying is not able to utilize the magma. What he is looking for is the space gates located on the seabed. The energy there can be barely used to build a special power generation facility in that sea area and expand the sea base. , manufacturing special shipyards.

Maybe a brand new energy center can be developed above the ocean, and finding such a space portal in the ocean is actually not too difficult.

From ancient times to the present, there have been horrific legends about ships missing in the maelstrom at sea. Although most of these are fabricated, a large part of them are real.

There may be portals on the bottom of the sea, which means that seawater will leak along these portals, and the seawater leaked by the portals will be like opening the stopper below in a bathtub. A large amount of water will flow from this It flows away through holes, and whirlpools form above the water. These are the maelstroms where ships are lost.

Sometimes the rotation speed of the whirlpool is not very fast, but in fact after falling into it, there is no way to escape, because the speed of the ship can no longer exceed the speed of the whirlpool water, so it can only get closer and closer to the center of the whirlpool, and finally be completely swept in , and then fell into the space gate.

When human ships enter space in this era, no one will be crushed by the huge water pressure. Even if they emerge from the sky or other places again, few people can distinguish the missing ship among the debris.

Of course, there are also some ship recorders who successfully survived the ship that fell into the maelstrom. The people inside fell from the sky, fell to the ground and fell into the big lake, but did not die. Later, he became a legendary navigator. He was a famous navigator even in the empires of the past. It is even said that in his era, he invented a super route that borrowed the power of the maelstrom to accelerate sailing in the ocean, connecting the two countries. The time required to travel between continents has been greatly reduced. He single-handedly changed the structure of the empire.

This once lucky navigator survived in the great world. He became the idol of countless generations of navigators in later generations. Even if the empire changed from generation to generation, those who lived by the sea or on the islands would erect a statue of him and recite his name in admiration.

The ships Chengying built on the seashore were only able to be built successfully with the help of many sailors who believed in Sadio. And they chanted the names of their idols after seeing steamships that could run without sails. Consider it an unsinkable warship.

Under normal circumstances, even when facing a maelstrom to collect warships, with the help of a compass, they can escape smoothly. However, this is not an absolute portal. In addition to the difference in location, there are also differences in size. The difference is that if you encounter a wide enough portal underwater, the scale of the university is likely to exceed expectations, and it may also cause the ship to crash and people to die.

[To be continued]

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