Arriving at the 'realgar mine' mining site, it is a relatively low-lying place with small hills on the left, and the surrounding landscape is generally flat.
It is 40 kilometers away from Manbach Town, 5.8 kilometers away from the Zhenbei Iron Mine, and 12.7 kilometers away from the Snowy Wasteland. It is nearby the nearest human camp, the Zhenbei Iron Mine, the Snowy Wasteland Supply Station and the Seventh Monitoring Point Camp.
The 'Zhenbei Iron Mine' has a large number of miners, which is no less than the population of Manbach Town. Daily eating, drinking and urination is a big problem. Therefore, it has a large mining base on the ground. People are not machines, so it is impossible.
They stay in the mines all year round without eating, drinking or sleeping. The miners' base is where they rest.
Although the safety factor, material reserves, etc. are not as good as Manbach Town, after all, it is a gathering camp that supports a hundred thousand miners, and the scale is not that small.
But now there should be no one, and all the miners, including those in the miner base, have been slaughtered by the swarm of gold-eating rats.
The ‘Snowy Wasteland Supply Point’ is the last place where supplies can be exchanged in and out of the Snowy Wasteland. It is not under the jurisdiction of Manbach Town, but is closely connected with Manbach Town and has a permanent population of two to three thousand.
The seventh monitoring point camp is an observation point set up by the regional lord. Some people say that it is used to detect movements in the snowy wasteland. Others say that it is used to monitor the town of Manbach. What is its specific use? Maybe Manbach
Lord Bach will know, but ordinary people will never know.
There are 'armies' stationed here, and there are at least two armored cities. Each armored city is quite large in size. If placed in Manbach Town, it would definitely be ranked among the top 100.
The most important thing is that the armored city at the seventh monitoring point is equipped with 'heavy artillery'.
The seventh monitoring point camp has little contact with the surrounding areas. Except for occasionally going to Manbach Town for purchasing, other times it is active near the monitoring point.
"It's so cold!"
Standing on the deck of the "Castle", Li Yinguang felt that the temperature outside should be almost below zero, and the howling northwest wind made him shrink back.
The housekeeper Godard said: "It will get even colder in the next few days. After entering winter, the whole world here will be covered with ice and snow. Even during the day, the average temperature will not be lower than minus 40 degrees Celsius.
It will last for several months.”
Li Yinguang frowned and said, "Can the Iron Armor City still be activated?"
"It's possible, but it requires more fuel." Butler Goda said helplessly in a low voice: "Master, fuel is a big problem for us, and it should be solved even more than the weapon system. 'Castle'
Once there is no fuel, even if we are not killed by the enemy, we will freeze to death in the wilderness!"
Li Yinguang nodded: "Let's mine the 'realgar mine' first, and when we have collected enough, we will go to the forest in the west to cut wood."
Wood is the most primitive fuel, and at the same time, it is also the lowest-cost fuel. However, the disadvantages are also obvious. First, it provides limited kinetic energy to the smelting furnace, and the wood-burning armored city cannot run. Secondly, it requires a lot of space to store wood.
, even if the entire armored city is filled, it will not be able to sustain the smelting furnace for too long.
When he has no choice, the Iron Armored City Lord will also choose wood as fuel to support him for a period of time.
The preferred fuel is 'black fuel', which is actually hard coal, can provide a large amount of kinetic energy, and is distributed over a wide area. However, there are no large-scale black fuel mining areas around the town of Manbach. They are all distributed in small mines. With luck,
Li Yinguang and the others may also encounter the 'black fuel mine' in the wild.
Secondly, there are 'mysterious gems', 'mysterious fuel', 'mysterious ore', etc., which are all treasures that can be thrown directly into the smelting furnace and turned into fuel.
In fact, anything burned in a smelting furnace can be converted into kinetic energy. It is just a matter of the production conversion rate.
The 'space radar' detection shows that the 'realgar mine' is about ten meters in front of the Castle, but it needs to be dug down about ten meters.
It would be much easier to install excavation equipment on the Castle. The problem is that the Castle does not have such equipment, so it can only be excavated by machinery and personnel.
The "Castle" armored city can provide lighting for those digging below, and the commanding heights can monitor surrounding movements to prevent accidents.
Construction and excavation at night is not a good choice, and now it is not a good choice to mine here during the day.
At least the surroundings are safe now. With Li Yinguang operating the 'space radar' on the Castle, there won't be any major problems.
Just a bit of a fuel drain!
Bucher organized his manpower to simply modify the vehicles that could be modified and used for excavation, and then put them into excavation.
Li Yinguang's request was to dig as quickly as possible and mine the 'realgar ore' immediately as soon as he saw it.
Try to finish mining a few tons of 'realgar ore' underground before dawn, and then leave without leaving any chance to the pursuers.
The excavation work went relatively smoothly. About an hour later, the housekeeper Goda ran up with a piece of 'realgar ore' weighing dozens of kilograms.
He said excitedly: "Master, I dug it!"
Li Yinguang, who was drowsy, suddenly regained his energy. He squatted in front of the 'realgar ore' and studied it while saying: "Give me an order. Except for the necessary guards, everyone else will be involved in the mining work. Dig as much as you can."
, we have to leave after dawn!"
"yes!"
Butler Goldar turned around and left quickly. Although the price of realgar ore is not very expensive, it is not too cheap either. The most important thing is that the Castle has mined ore in the wilderness for the first time, which is the first time in history.
Li Yinguang put his hand on the 'realgar ore', and a cool energy was extracted from the 'mysterious gem' that was sewn in the realgar ore, but the 'realgar ore' did not change much.
The energy absorbed by the 'mysterious gem' stitched in the heart is the energy absorbed by the 'realgar ore' in nature, not the material energy of the realgar ore itself.
To put it simply, after being absorbed by the 'mysterious gem' stitched in the heart, the 'realgar ore' can still be used as 'realgar ore'.
Li Yinguang couldn't say what the theory was, but he knew that the piece of 'realgar ore' in his hand could also extract realgar.
Just like the pine cone-shaped 'Iron-Eating Worm Nest', although it has been swallowed and absorbed by the 'mysterious gem', it still exists and can continue to be used in the same way.
However, after the 'mutated black fuel' was absorbed by the 'mysterious gem' stitched in the heart, it turned into a pile of slag and could not be used again.
Perhaps it is because the 'mutated black fuel' directly turns into 'energy' and is stored in the 'mysterious gem' stitched in the heart.
These 'energy' can be directly used in the Iron Armored City, which is equivalent to converting the 'smelting furnace' into kinetic energy, so there is no need to exist.
Or maybe the 'mysterious gem' stitched in his heart absorbs a kind of energy that Li Yinguang cannot understand. Anyway, after it is absorbed by it, whether it is the 'iron-eating insect nest' or the 'realgar ore', it can still be used.