Chapter 542 Lord Greedy Demon God, save me!
Suddenly, a mysterious aura emanated from the surface of the stone, like wind, frost, rain and snow that had gone through thousands of years, witnessing the passage and changes of the years.
"Huh?" The expressions of several strong men frantically digging into the ice changed and they turned their heads.
But this breath only disappeared in the blink of an eye, and in the blink of an eye, the stone became ordinary again.
"Is it my imagination?" City Lord Ta Gang kicked the round bump hard, almost knocking off his own toes.
"Everyone dig quickly! The wind is getting stronger!"
It was finally dark, and there was no time to dig another igloo.
Everyone hid in the igloo and stayed with this strange lumpy ball.
The howling snowstorm is getting bigger and bigger, and the manic air-conditioning is like a runaway horse dragging debris and raging in the air. Even a trace of breeze seeps in through the cracks, and it hurts like a whip when it hits the face.
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Anyway, it was boring to have nothing to do. While everyone was drinking and eating meat, they studied this iron problem.
"Stinky and tough."
"It occupies such a good place, and there's no way to throw it out now."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense! Hug together to keep warm and build up your strength!"
But when they thought that the ruins were not far away, everyone couldn't sleep.
"The Hongxiang Clan and the Troll Clan in the distance are at war. The reason is the ruins of a low-level civilization." Constantine, the great scholar, started chatting, "That civilization relic is located at the intersection of large-scale geothermal energy. The two races
If you want to move the entire city, war will naturally break out."
"Alas..." Everyone sighed.
The demand for thermal energy is an eternal topic in the "Northern Territory".
"Who can win?"
"It should be the Hongxiang clan...their war capabilities are stronger."
The bachelor took out a golden book with lines of text on it: "The ice fish people civilization located in Dongda Lake has developed a brand-new fossil resource called flammable spar."
"This resource contains huge chemical energy, which is more than 30 times that of coal. It is also the mainstream mineral in the future. We have to pay attention to whether there are veins of combustible spar in the surrounding area."
City Lord Tagang took a sip of the hot soup, took a wooden bucket and started to soak his feet. The 42-degree hot water made his whole body feel comfortable: "I heard that this flammable spar is very difficult to mine."
"Yes, it is usually found at the bottom of deep-water lakes, and only top experts can mine it. Moreover, the water pressure is too high, and there is a risk of drowning."
Top experts working as miners, this kind of thing... is really unimaginable for ordinary people.
But in the north, it is a matter of course!
Because of poor technology and underdeveloped robotic technology, automatic mining cannot occur.
In addition, the amount of traditional coal is getting smaller and smaller, and civilization cannot live without energy if it wants to thrive.
"Actually, there is another kind of energy that is the best!" The bachelor suddenly thought of something and said in an exaggerated tone, "In the advanced ruins, there is a technological product called 'Eternal Energy'. With just a few hydrogen atoms,
It will bloom with endless light and heat.”
"You know the hydrogen atom, right? It's the hydrogen atom in the water molecule?"
These rough guys basically don't learn anything about physics and chemistry, and they are confused.
They are just extremely enthusiastic about "eternal energy" and "it would be great if the ruins in front of them had this device."
"Don't think about it. That eternal energy device looks like a mountain. You guys can't move it away." A mysterious voice suddenly said in everyone's ears.
"That's true..." The bachelor nodded, "Eternal energy is not a boiler. Only a powerful technological civilization can play with that thing."
"Can't we in Ulan City? We also have many craftsmen!"
"No, it's far from it! It needs maintenance, you know? Just like a steam engine, it needs maintenance. Even horseshoes need maintenance!" The bachelor spread his hands helplessly, "I have said it a long time ago, we have to move towards technology.
In the transformation of civilization, don’t spend all day cultivating your physique. You have to read and write, and at least complete the compulsory education!”
"Without a technological civilization, even if the treasure is right in front of you, you can only resell the equipment to others. You will suffer a big loss."
Everyone felt a little ashamed.
They really have no culture.
But the transformation of civilization...how can it be accomplished just by talking about it?
You have to convince the parents of young children to change their minds.
We need the cooperation of other cities and don't start a war at this fragile moment.
How is this possible under the current conditions?
"You can use dry hot rock to generate electricity." The man added, "The heat reserve of dry hot rock is higher than that of coal. After generating electricity, you can start large-scale industrial production."
"Electric power technology? Haha, are you kidding me?" The bachelor was speechless. "It's freezing outside, and wires can easily freeze. After freezing, the poles will be too heavy and will break!"
"And where do we get all these copper wires? Do you know how many miles away the large copper mines are?"
"Although power technology is good, do you know how much investment is required? Lord City Lord, how much are you willing to invest?"
The Lord of the City who was soaking his feet touched his nose. He would rather buy a steam engine so that he could use it immediately.
Electric power technology is really too illusory.
As a result, the voice said again: "I don't want to invest, and I don't cultivate talents. I just want to pick up what's ready. Even if you pick up rubbish, you can only resell it. You think it's better to buy than to make."
"No wonder the development of Maille City is even better now."
"Hmph, do you think they didn't resell it?" the bachelor said disdainfully, "We humans are a weak race, and we only have four cities."
"Other races come from more powerful worlds. The cities of some races are over 20 years old. Isn't it normal for them to develop faster than us?"
"Who is the strongest?"
"In this area, the dwarves with abundant geothermal energy are the strongest clan. There is no way, they were born in a good place and were born to live near the crater. God is sometimes unfair."
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the howling cold wind outside is like the cry of the world.
Even the temperature inside the igloo was constantly dropping, making everyone shiver from the cold.
"So after we dug up the treasure, we still have to sell it to the dwarves?" the city lord couldn't help but ask.
Academician Constantine was helpless: "Then the dwarves are certainly easy to talk to...Other races may take advantage of them, especially the goblins, whose reputation is extremely bad. Don't do business with them."
"I see, thank you for clarifying the mystery." The mysterious voice murmured to himself, "How come there are so many races in such a cold place? It doesn't make sense."
"Why is it unreasonable? Shouldn't everyone live a good life?"
Suddenly, the Grand Maester reacted!
Who the hell is this voice?
Looking around, cold sweat suddenly broke out from his forehead.
"Who was talking just now?"
"I."
"Sir, don't pretend to be a fool."
"I am Lu Yuan, the Demon God of Greed." That mysterious voice came from no one knows where it came from.
"Who are you? Where are you?" The city lord tensed his body, and the muscle lines on his face made him look like a hard sculpture.
"I told you that I am Lu Yuan, the Demon God of Greed. You dug me out. Why don't you recognize me now?"
Everyone's eyes widened and they looked at that iron lump!
"What is this?"
"Lord City Lord, we may have encountered... a spirit monster. This kind of spirit cannot be seen or touched." The bachelor once again spoke plausibly, and then used code words to communicate, "They retain a part of their life.
Memory may be lodged in this iron lump."
"Of course, these spirits no longer have wisdom, or in other words, their wisdom is very low."
"Everything is just a mechanical conditioned reflex. So sometimes inexplicable answers will be given."
The city lord looked at the big stone cautiously: "Can this kind of spiritual monster hurt people?"
"They may take over the body and try to seize the body! But as long as we stick to our minds, it won't be a big problem. After all, our extraordinary levels are relatively high..."
"Isn't that still dangerous?"
The bachelor solemnly said: "Lord City Lord, this may be our opportunity. This spirit body may have appeared in the ruins! Its memory is very useful to us."
"I understand, then you can try it."
"Ahem..." The bachelor cleared his throat and switched back to their native language, "Your Excellency Lu Yuan, when did you die? Why do you know the language of our Ulan clan?"
"I'm not dead! I'm in a state of inspiration, and simple things like language learning can be easily accomplished."
The bachelor turned his head and lowered his voice: "Generally speaking, spirits think that they are not dead."
"Otherwise, if they are gone in one breath, they will really die."
So that was the case, everyone nodded.
It sounds a bit like a mental patient who thinks he is not crazy.
"Greed... Sir Lu Yuan, what do you know about the ruins of distant civilizations? Are they high-level ruins?"
"Well, to be honest, the level of science and technology is just like that. A stronger vision can easily wipe them all out." The mysterious voice said, "We still have to keep moving forward, moving forward, and moving forward endlessly.
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"It seems that your Excellency is not very satisfied with his own civilization. Their city was wiped out by a vision." The bachelor clapped his hands and came to a conclusion.
Everyone is speechless. As you said, such a powerful city will be "easily destroyed", so what are we, just an ant on the roadside?
The bachelor comforted him: "Don't be surprised."
"Every civilization has that kind of angry youth. No matter how perfect the civilization is, there are still people who are dissatisfied. And this greed... It's normal for Lu Yuan to have a little resentment because of the vision."
"That's true."
At this moment, the big stone bounced suddenly, and the entire igloo was shaken slightly.
Lu Yuan's voice became intermittent: "It's not that I'm dissatisfied, but the enemy is too strong and I can't defeat it. I'm thinking about ways to become stronger now."
"Who is the enemy?"
"Oh, I don't know!"
"I hope there are no enemies here...Wait a minute, I seem to have thought of a key point. If you create a variety of counter-entropy elements and match them with each other, it may bring about new ideas..." Lu Yuan started to babble.
Thoughts on the ground.
"Look, this spirit has very low intelligence, like a mental patient." The bachelor nodded seriously.
Everyone is convinced.
At this moment, the Demon God of Greed has entered a critical period of growth.
Lu Yuan was indeed asleep, but miraculously, his mind was active.
Everything now felt like a dream to him. He dreamed that a group of indigenous people were surrounding him, so he chatted casually and happily, with no other meaning.
The igloo became quiet for a while, and everyone stared at the iron lump with wide eyes.
"Can you cut open this iron lump?"
"Inappropriate. It is difficult for a spirit body to survive long in the air. If it loses its possession, it will die soon. It has not yet shown any harm, so we don't need to be too nervous."
"It can't really be a stone man." Someone suddenly thought.
"Wait, do you feel that the environment is getting colder and colder?"
"Yes... yes, my body is shaking from the cold." Everyone stared with their big eyes and their hearts "thumped".
Looking again, even the alcohol in the thermometer was frozen.
The extreme cold wave has truly arrived at this moment.
This is the most desperate disaster in the north. Under the terrifying cold wave, the ambient temperature dropped to below minus 200 degrees Celsius!
This is really terrifying ultra-low temperature!
Even oxygen and nitrogen will liquefy!
This part of the liquefied gas will adhere to the surface of the skin, continue to evaporate, and take away a large amount of heat. It only takes a few minutes to freeze a level six expert to death.
Everyone had to activate the extraordinary fire, form a light curtain, and fight.
Tagang nervously took out a bell, and the voice of another pair of people came from inside: "Ulan clan, we may have encountered an extreme cold wave. Most of us will not survive the night. We must huddle together to keep warm."
"Okay! Come to us, we dug a large igloo."
Not long after, more than two hundred people from Maille City led their mounts and tremblingly entered the igloo.
Everyone's face looked ugly, and the hats on their heads were frozen solid.
I happily went out to dig for treasures, but before I could even figure out my horoscope, I encountered the most terrible cold disaster.
Under extreme temperatures, oxygen begins to condense and oxygen rains from the sky.
As the air gradually became thinner, the stove could no longer be lit and began to go out.
"It's terrible... everyone is back to back and stuck together." Several leaders took out a fiery red stone called "volcanic stone", which can emit heat that is better than nothing.
Their whole bodies are glowing with red light, and now they can only use extraordinary fire to top it off.
Former enemies can only sit in the same room with a little more warmth and a little more hope.
The combat effectiveness was lower. The mount located outside the igloo was frozen into a hard zombie within a few minutes. The liquid oxygen and nitrogen covered the surface of the skin with a thin layer of frost.
"It seems that your Pegasus is not much better than our Pegasus."
"Hmph." The big man from Maile City snorted coldly, his teeth shaking continuously, "Why are you talking about this when you can't even see the sun tomorrow?"
"There is nothing wrong with our city."
"No problem, the city is a geothermal area...even if it gets colder, it won't be this cold."
"But this extreme cold wave may last for many days."
"Damn it, I should have traveled a little longer to reach the ruins of civilization. At least I would have had a shelter from the wind and rain..."
"Everyone activates the extraordinary fire in batches to dissipate heat. You must withstand it."
The only thing that everyone is thinking about right now is staying alive...
The competitive relationship that once existed turned into a joke in the face of life and death; the greed that once existed disappeared before natural disasters.
If they could go back and light the stove, they might be able to shake hands and make peace right away, drinking and talking.
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In the City in the Sky, dozens of kilometers away, the detective team members were eating hot pot and watching the oxygen rain falling from the sky, which was extremely shocking.
The temperature dropped by 100 degrees Celsius in 10 minutes, which can only be described as some unknown supernatural phenomenon.
This is the first time everyone has seen the air frozen into liquid.
"Why do you feel like you have arrived in the era of wandering earth?"
"Don't let down your guard, there may be strange activities in this environment. Ensure the heat supply of poppy trees."
"The poppy tree is fine! The temperature in the greenhouse is 24 degrees Celsius."
And inside the small cave sky, it is naturally as warm as spring.
The thermal insulation ability of Xiaodongtian is already good, and the controllable nuclear fusion device provides endless heat energy, so that humans do not have to worry about energy issues.
Many people regard oxygen rain as a wonder of the world.
This cold wave continues, and the blue oxygen lakes are like eyes dotted on the earth. These lakes are like boiling, with bubbles popping up one after another.
The strong wind keeps surging, and everything in the world is independent and interconnected, forming a complete destiny together.
The outline of the snow-capped mountains intercepts the dim starlight, the turbulent dry ice snowflakes kiss the liquid oxygen lake, the cold weather in the north is hidden in the cotton-padded jacket worn yesterday, an insignificant snowstorm fell in the coffee cup, and the old wolf in the small cave imitates the ferns.
Plants stretch the body.
And the igloo outside the green city is connected to the breath of the universe...
"Boss! I can't hold it any longer!"
After many days of fierce fighting at low temperatures and low oxygen, the soldiers' faces were frozen to the color of pig liver, and the extraordinary fire in their bodies was on the verge of extinguishing.
"You have to hold on even if you can't hold it! Come, take a sip of wine!" The city lord just wanted to take out the wine bag on his belt, but he smiled bitterly, because the wine inside had long been frozen into an ice lump, and he couldn't pour out a drop of wine.
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He looked desperately at the gray sky. The cold wave was still continuing and seemed to have no intention of fading away. More and more people were exhausted.
Are the high-level combat capabilities of the two cities going to freeze to death in the wilderness?
With so many of their masters dying collectively, what is the future destiny of the city?
Will it really be annexed by foreign races? Will it be massacred?
He doesn't know.
Don't even want to think about it.
At this moment, the mysterious voice appeared again, looking extremely excited: "Hahaha! I have become Taoist Master, with a total of three anti-entropy elements!"
"Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things! The fields are all in my hands."
The iron knot shook, and the crazy voice was particularly loud.
"What's going on? So many people are so disgraced? They look like they're about to die. Don't you even know that your mount is dead?"
The bachelor was helpless. He didn't know whether this "spirit" was gloating about his misfortune or if he really had no wisdom. He said speechlessly: "Senior, we have encountered an extremely severe cold and will freeze to death."
The voice said: "Are you too fragile? You can freeze to death, and you still want to pick up garbage with this little strength."
"Don't you know that the real peerless garbage is in dangerous places?"
The people in Ulan City are fine, but the soldiers in Mailu City have their eyes wide open. You dare to mock us even though you are a piece of iron?
But they really don't have the energy to tinker with this thing, so they can only suffer.
"Hey, come closer, I, the Demon God of Greed, Lu Yuan, will protect you!"
"Be careful, the spirit body may take the opportunity to seize the body!" the bachelor said in a low voice.
But now we are still treating a dead horse as a live doctor, and we have no choice.
I'm going to freeze to death anyway, so just think of it as your last fantasy.
A soldier with weak fire, his whole body was hard, passed by, his lips turned purple and trembling: "Lord Demon God of Greed, save me!"
His hands and feet had long since lost consciousness, and he relied solely on willpower to hold on.
The moment he touched the stone, a surging heat spread to his chest!
No, this is not just heat, but - life force!
The soldier's eyes widened.
A lot of life force has been transferred in!
He instantly felt as comfortable as if he were in a hot spring, and almost moaned. He even started to feel crazy because he was wearing too many layers of clothing. The large amount of life force made him want to take off his clothes.
"It's over, he started to take off his clothes." Many onlookers couldn't bear it.
In the late stages of hypothermia, the human body may experience abnormal behaviors due to nervous system disorders, such as taking off warm clothes because it feels very hot, thereby accelerating its own death.
But there was nothing they could do. They couldn't protect themselves, so they could only yell: "Don't take off your clothes!"
"I'm really hot! It's really hot."
"You can't take it off! This is an illusion!"
The soldier, who was about to freeze to death, turned rosy!
When the people around him touched it, they found that the other person's body was as hot as a stove, and they all showed incredible expressions!
At this moment, the mysterious voice said again: "Oh? You actually have six extraordinary abilities and a divine skill - the divine sense of smell?"
"It would be a pity to die here. I, the Demon God of Greed, will save your life without charging a high fee. Why don't you lend me your divine skills and return them to you when the time comes? Isn't that excessive?"
"Whoosh", without allowing him to object, a bright light was forcibly pulled out from his nose.
The soldier's mind was in a trance, and he was suddenly shocked. His "God's Smell" ability had been quietly taken away!
He opened his mouth, but did not dare to shout. He could only say tremblingly: "Sir, my divine skill has been taken away!"
"But my body does heat up, what should I do?"
"What?!"
This iron lump suddenly became weird, almost like a wild beast, showing its fangs.
But now, they really don't have the strength to resist.
"What should we do? Does a spirit have such ability? We have encountered something!"
The great scholar felt depressed and secretly came to a conclusion: "This thing actually feeds on extraordinary abilities! It must have become a climate... You can't offend it now. But you can't continue to feed it."
"Our...life is miserable!"
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