Chapter 542: Spawning monsters and looking for gold mines
"Walk!"
After checking the dark lair on the ground below for a while, Qiao Shan drove the floating city and continued to move forward.
"Come here and carefully sense the location of the dark lair. It's best to draw a map!"
While controlling the floating city to circle around the dark lair area, Qiao Shan also called his newly upgraded eighth-level spy elf over.
Since this person can locate the location of the dark lair based on the breath of the power of rules.
That would just make the best use of it, allowing it to directly locate the location of each dark lair, avoiding the effort of finding it yourself.
"yes!"
After hearing Qiao Shan's instructions, the newly upgraded eighth-level spy elf stood on the edge of the floating city and quickly sensed the situation.
After this elf reached the eighth level, his longest sensing range reached more than ten kilometers. His sensing range began to move slowly along with the floating city.
"Tell Xiaohong to keep a low profile in the Shurima Desert. Let's go explore other places first, and we'll come back!"
After leaving the spying elf behind to locate the dark lair, Qiao Shan called Alice over and asked her to start spreading the message.
"Let the hair in the Niah River lurk, don't be too rough, and wait until I have time to see the mysterious palace it discovered at the mouth of the Niah River."
"In addition, tell the two of them not to go to the area where I was originally born."
Thinking of the area where he had just used the power of authority to cause riots with the power of rules and sparks, Qiao Shan emphasized again.
"yes!"
After hearing Qiao Shan's instructions, Alice responded and quickly started passing on the instructions.
"Tell Lan that we should leave their place to the east of the Elf Forest first, let her know, and let her not go to the original place easily!"
After that, Qiao Shan asked Lan to remind him again.
"Then tell the big dog and the second dog in the south that if someone suddenly appears, let them surrender first!"
After thinking for a while, Qiao Shan called Qin Dalong over again and asked him to arrange a dragon-capturing spearman to greet the two heroes who had recovered, the big dog and Ergou, who were almost being herded by him to the south of the original birth point.
Don't let the two of you get fucked directly after you leave. That would be bad.
Although they are two unknown heroes with low loyalty, they are his own people after all.
He doesn't want to be killed by others casually.
"yes!"
Under Qiao Shan's instructions, the response sounded.
Soon, Qiao Shan made a simple arrangement for the characters around the original birth point.
Next, he set his sights on the map and looked for gold mines. He didn't know how far he would go or how long he would leave.
But he knew that anything was possible.
It's possible that he'll come back soon, but it's also possible that he'll be out wandering for a long time.
And once he wanders outside for a long time, he still has to make arrangements for some of his vassals.
"Huh~"
After arranging all his vassals, Qiao Shan let out a breath and glanced at King Chu Jiang and Queen Weiyang, who continued to lie on the long-leaf grass, dozing.
He quickly walked to the side of the eighth-level spy elf, looked at this person and started drawing circles on a large piece of paper.
More than an hour later,
Qiao Shan's floating city has almost circled the entire Dark Lair area.
He determined that the length and width of this dark lair area located north of his original birthplace was approximately more than 900 kilometers.
To the east, there is still the Nea River, and to the west, there are high mountains.
Instead, heading north, after passing through the Dark Lair area, Qiao Shan saw a large, not deep, gentle canyon covered with grass.
The canyon was probably more than two hundred kilometers long, so Qiao Shan was not in a hurry to explore.
After seeing the boundary of the Dark Lair area, he glanced at the canyon from a distance and then returned directly to the high altitude of the Dark Canyon.
"What's this?"
After driving the floating city over the dark lair and inspecting all locations, Qiao Shan's eyes were fixed on the paper on which the eighth-level spy elf had drawn many circles.
"Each circle represents a dark lair!"
Already knowing that the place where the power of rules fluctuated that he had detected was the spy elf in the dark lair, he quickly gave Qiao Shan a reply.
"Then why are some circles big and some small?"
Qiao Shan looked at the circles of different sizes on the paper. He already had a guess in his mind, but he still chose to ask questions.
"The big one represents the stronger fluctuations in the power of rules in the Dark Nest, and the smaller one represents the weaker the power of the rules in the Dark Nest!"
"The bigger the circle, the more special the Dark Lair is!"
A quick explanation of Spy Elf.
And its explanation is the same as Qiao Shan guessed.
Qiao Shan even knew through the comparison of [prompt sounds] that the so-called power of rules is stronger, which is related to the level of the dark lair.
The higher the level of the Dark Lair, the larger the circle drawn by the spying elf on the paper.
At this moment, there were one hundred and twenty circles, large and small, drawn by the spying elf on the entire paper.
In other words, the total number of dark lairs below, regardless of level, is more than one hundred and twenty.
In the past, Qiao Shan's floating city had defeated a level one dark lair.
At that time, he killed two million monsters in one go.
At this moment, through the information from [Beep Sound], Qiao Shan discovered that in the entire Dark Lair area, the highest level Dark Lair was Level 5.
However, the number of level five dark lairs is not large, only two or three.
The largest number are still level one and level two dark lairs.
Qiao Shan, who had fought through a level one dark lair, knew that the strength of the monsters spawned from a level one dark lair was very low, with the highest being only level three. It was no challenge to him at all.
What he was thinking about at the moment was what level of monsters would be spawned in the fifth-level dark lair.
Based on previous experience and the large number of reminders from this [prompt sound], Qiao Shan also knew the reason why he did not receive many rewards when he entered the void wormhole for the first time.
The reason why I didn't get any rewards at that time was because the energy accumulation in the Dark Lair had not yet been completed.
Because his air shield opened directly, 2 million monsters exploded out of the first-level dark lair.
A semi-mature dark lair that is opened in advance has no energy brewing and therefore no rewards.
Qiao Shan, who had just driven the floating city and circled quickly around his head, used [prompt sound] to check the information of each dark lair. He knew that in order to gain experience and rewards, he had to wait until the dark lair was brewing and "mature" before starting the fight.
In this case, the monster's rewards can return to normal.
Qiao Shan, on the other hand, had already discovered several "mature" dark lairs through the [prompt sound] during his previous circling inspection.
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【Dark Lair
Rank: Level 3
Status: The energy has been accumulated, and the countdown to automatically spawn monsters is 21 days, 16 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds.
Nest type: Crypt
Number of monsters: 200
Explosion mechanism: It will explode once within a month after the energy is accumulated; or it will explode instantly when a city lord's birth point that opens the air shield appears within 50 kilometers of the dark lair ground.
Types of monsters to spawn next time: Orcs, lion-headed men, tiger-headed men, war beasts, etc.
PS: mature~
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Soon, Qiao Shan set his sights on a third-level dark lair.
He knew that as long as his floating city fell, this level three dark lair would definitely explode.
According to the explosion mechanism of the Dark Lair, the Dark Lair will not explode when his floating city is in the air.
But as soon as it lands on the ground and is fifty kilometers away from the Dark Nest, the Dark Nest will explode instantly.
Regardless of whether the Dark Lair's energy accumulation is mature or not, as long as it enters a range of 50 kilometers on the ground, it will explode instantly.
It's just that if you accumulate enough energy, you will be rewarded, but if you don't accumulate enough energy, you won't be rewarded much.
"Try giving it a try?"
The dark lair that Qiao Shan fought before didn't accumulate enough energy, so there were no rewards.
At this moment, seeing the level three dark lair he was eyeing in front of him, the energy accumulation had been completed, and Qiao Shan wanted to hit it and test the harvest.
His current two goals are gold coins and experience.
He wanted to see if what was revealed in this mature dark lair could meet his needs.
If you can be satisfied, that would be great.
He will be very happy if he directly finds a treasure without having to run around too much.
"fall!"
After making the decision, Qiao Shan controlled the floating city and landed near the selected dark lair.
Fortunately, the distribution of the dark lairs below is either a coincidence or a special feature. The distance between every two dark lairs is not less than 50 kilometers.
The two closest dark lairs are both sixty or seventy kilometers away.
Therefore, if Qiao Shan's floating city falls, there is no need to worry about causing the outbreak of two dark lairs at once.
"boom!"
A minute later, the floating city shook slightly and finally landed on the ground.
Wow~
The moment the floating city landed, the dark lair targeted by Qiao Shan instantly shone with light and was directly activated.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
After being approached by the floating city from the ground, the dark lair suddenly lit up, and a hole suddenly opened.
Various orcs such as lion-headed men and tiger-headed men with strong muscles and two to three meters tall rushed out from the dark lair.
And their target is the floating city where Qiao Shan has landed five kilometers away from the Dark Lair.
Roar!
Roar!
Roar!
The orcs, holding black weapons in their hands and glowing with a strange black light, were running fast in the dark and strange woods.
Soon, they divided into several teams and rushed to the bottom of the floating city from three directions.
"with full force!"
Seeing that the orcs had rushed below the floating city, Qiao Shan directly ordered Alice to launch an attack on the entire defense tower.
He guessed that the monsters that escaped from the level 3 dark lair were only at the fifth or sixth level in combat power, not much higher.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Following Qiao Shan's instructions, arrows were shot out from the floating city whose protective shield had been opened.
In an instant, all the orcs running at the front fell to the ground.
"Experience +107"
"Experience +113"
"Experience +91"
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And Qiao Shan's ears immediately heard the message of experience improvement.
"The level is only level five, maybe level six, which is not very high. Can one give me about 100 experience points this time?"
Looking at the half-orc lying on the ground and hearing the system sound ringing in his ears, Qiao Shan thought to himself.
Compared with the dark lair he fought the first time, this dark lair, which was already full of energy, actually gave him more experience.
Qiao Shan was still very happy about this.
Killing an orc gives you 100 experience points.
According to the display of the [prompt sound] just now, there are 2 million orc monsters in the level three dark lair activated by me this time.
If each one can give 1 million experience points, a dark lair in Qiao Shan can give 200 million experience points.
He still wants this kind of experience value.
There are nearly a hundred such dark lairs in the entire dark lair area, and each one costs 200 million. If they are all cleared, Qiao Shan can gain tens of billions of experience in one wave.
With such a huge amount of experience, it is possible that his level can be advanced to the ninth level, or even to the middle of the ninth level.
This is what Qiao Shan likes very much.
Of course, the premise is that all these dark lairs are in a state of full energy, and they are not opened in advance because of the sudden fall of the floating city.
According to Qiao Shan's wandering over the dark lair area just now, he knew that a dark lair full of energy like the one in front of him actually only accounts for one-fifth or even one-tenth of the entire area.
The quantity is not large.
Therefore, the idea of him using the Dark Lair to gain tens of billions of experience directly is just a thought.
In fact, it is impossible to gain so much experience.
If all the dark lairs with full energy were cleared, the experience would only be one billion at most, or even less than one billion.
Qiao Shan, who has already experienced the dark lair, knows that if the dark lair energy is not accumulated well, there will be no experience gained. He has already tested this.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
While Qiao Shan was thinking and making judgments, his defense tower attack did not stop at all.
As for the orcs that were rushing forward, they were all shot dead by the defense towers before they got within 1 kilometer of the floating city.
"The tower elf takes action! Attach multi-shot and dark arrows!"
Seeing that the defense tower completely blocked the monster one kilometer away, after thinking about it, Qiao Shan asked his newly upgraded eighth-level tower elf to take action.
All eighth-level tower elves are very capable, but he hasn't used them yet.
Although the monsters spawned from the Level 3 Dark Lair at this moment are only Level 5 or Level 6, they are not enough to test the power of the tower elf.
When using them to test, the tower elf can copy the abilities of his three skills at once, which is still possible.
Qiao Shan is looking forward to the fact that the tower elf can summon 32 skeletons at a time.
If everything goes well, with the five tower elves plus himself, the six of them can summon 192 skeleton summons after one round of attack.
This suddenly greatly improved his attack flexibility.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
Following Qiao Shan's instructions, the five newly upgraded tower elves quickly flew to the edge of the floating city, and then in Qiao Shan's expectant eyes, they all turned into huge defense towers more than fifty meters high.
After the eighth-level tower elf transformed, his appearance changed drastically.
Like a pagoda, it has eight facades. On the eight towering facades, there are arrow stacks sticking out one by one.
The cold light arrows exposed from the arrow stack are very dazzling.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The tower elf transformed instantly and immediately fired the arrows on his body.
Arrows bursting out of the black mist were shot directly at the orcs in front.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The tower elf, who has inherited twice the attack power of Qiao Shan, will of course be able to kill a fifth-level or sixth-level orc in an instant.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
After a round of arrow attacks from the five tower elves, one hundred and sixty skeleton knights appeared on the spot!
"YES!"
Seeing a wave of attacks from the tower elf, he not only shot 32 arrows, but also successfully summoned the skeleton knight.
Qiao Shan understood that his test was successful.
From now on, when he needs to summon unlimited skeleton summons, he won't have to do the hard work alone.
There are five Huta elves who can help him.
Looking at the five tall tower elves who continued to shoot in front of him, Qiao Shan felt extremely happy in his heart.
Done!
He knew very well that if he had five eighth-level tower elves when he attacked the void wormhole that was fixedly opened earlier.
Then the speed at which he previously reached 100 waves will definitely be doubled.
With five Huta elves helping him summon skeleton summons, he will be able to do more things with his hands free.
The five tower elves perfectly inherited his skills.
Five of them took action together, faster than him, more stable than him, and stronger than him!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
Under the summons of the little elf from the Huta Tower, within a few seconds, the number of skeleton knights in front of them reached thousands.
"Defense towers stop attacking!"
I saw the power of the tower elves and the number of skeleton summons.
In order to further test the limits of the tower elf, Qiao Shan asked Alice to stop the attack on the defense tower on the floating city.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
Forbidden!
Soon, the defense tower stopped attacking, and there were only five units still attacking on Qiao Shan's floating city. They could shoot tower-changing elves with instant killing power in one shot.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
As the defense tower stopped attacking, the orc monsters began to rush forward.
Soon, the skeleton knight summoned by the tower elf collided with the orc monster.
Without the suppression of a huge number of defense towers, the Orc monster finally approached the Skeleton Knight.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow
But then, more skeleton knights were refreshed.
The orcs smashed a lot of skeleton knights, but the tower elves summoned more.
As the defense tower stopped attacking and all the orcs were eliminated by the tower elves, Qiao Shan discovered that the attack speed of the tower elves had actually increased.
From the previous shooting speed of two rounds per second, it has now almost become three rounds per second.
Qiao Shan's stress test was successful.
The combat power of the Huta Elf can indeed be improved!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The little elf from the Huta Tower took action with all his strength, and quickly pushed back the orc army that had advanced a few steps.
As more and more Skeleton Knights were summoned, the point of confrontation began to move forward.
"Um?"
Half a minute later, Qiao Shan frowned when he saw the situation ahead.
Change!
He saw the difference!
As more and more skeleton knights were summoned, he found that the attack frequency of the tower elves had dropped again.
From the highest three rounds per second, it has now become one shot per two seconds.
“Can we still automatically judge the situation?”
Soon, Qiao Shan judged that this was the tower elf automatically adjusting the shooting speed according to the trends on the battlefield.
These eight-level tower elves who have activated advanced intelligence actually know how to adjust their combat efficiency.
Moreover, Qiao Shan also saw that more and more skeleton knights were summoned in front.
These pagoda elves actually started to automatically change the type of summons and summoned skeleton archers instead.
The melee skeleton knights cannot stack their positions. As the number increases, they can no longer stand.
As for the Huta Elf, it can actually follow the changes in the battlefield and automatically summon skeleton bow shooters with superimposed positions and unlimited proficiency.
This surprised Qiao Shan even more.
Sure enough, the eighth-level tower elf had more parameters waiting for him to discover.
The eighth-level elf not only has extraordinary combat power, but his wisdom and control of the battlefield have also improved by several levels in an instant.
The more Qiao Shan looked at it, the happier he became.
"With the tower elf, the defense tower and I will be free!"
A few seconds later, Qiao Shan discovered that with the automatic control of the Hua Tower Elf, he didn't have to take action or worry.
It seems that the tower elf can arrange everything automatically.
"Can I hang up?"
Looking at the situation around him, Qiao Shan suddenly felt like he was automatically hanging up to fight monsters.
When facing such a monster, the eighth-level tower elf immediately freed his hands.
There is no need to worry or participate anymore.
"good!"
After discovering that he could be lazy, Qiao Shan nodded, mounted Qin Dalong's double-headed flying dragon, and flew directly to the sky.
I started to check the monsters from the air, and adjusted the automatic combat of the tower elf...
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"Um?"
A minute later, Qiao Shan, who was riding on the two-headed flying dragon and observing the battlefield from a god's perspective, discovered an anomaly again.
Not enough blame!
As he took off, and as more skeletons were summoned, he found that the battle line had once again been pushed forward a lot.
Even because of the forward push of the battle line, it was beyond the range of the tower elf.
Several of the tower elves stopped shooting.
After a wave of skeleton summons were consumed and the monsters pushed the battle line over again, the tower elf continued to attack.
And the reason for all this is because there are not enough monsters.
There are many monsters in the level three dark lair activated by him.
Up to 2 million.
However, such a number of monsters is not like a void wormhole. The faster you fight, the faster I will kill them.
The monsters in the Dark Lair are refreshed at a constant speed.
There is no automatic adjustment mechanism at all.
This kind of monster spawning mechanism is very friendly to some newcomers who have just opened the air shield.
This frequency and mechanism of spawning monsters allows newcomers to have more arrangements and adjustments.
It also gives newcomers more chances of survival.
But for Qiao Shan, this is not beautiful.
He has super powerful attacks and can be completely crushed. Of course, I hope the monsters will refresh quickly.
In this way, he can clear the level three dark lair in front of him at a faster speed.
Unfortunately, the situation did not go according to Qiao Shan's idea.
Although his combat power is enough to instantly kill a large number of monsters, the defense towers are all stopped at this moment. Only the floating city made by the Tower Transformation Elf has already suppressed the monsters back.
It stands to reason that under such circumstances, more monsters should break out from the Dark Lair.
But, it didn't!
The frequency of spawning monsters in the Dark Lair remains constant and does not change at all.
After another half minute, Qiao Shan rode the two-headed flying dragon and circled the dark lair where monsters were being spawned several times. After that, he determined that there was another disadvantage of spawning the dark lair on his own - it was time-consuming!
The monster's dark lair is constantly refreshed, making it impossible for him to defeat monsters quickly.
His monster spawning speed can only follow the spewing speed of monsters in the dark lair.
You can't adjust it yourself at all.
Through observation, Qiao Shan also roughly calculated that based on the current monster spawning speed of the Dark Lair, it would take him almost four hours to clear the Level 3 Dark Lair with 2 million monsters in front of him.
This directly made Qiao Shan frown.
He didn't expect that there would be such a mechanism for spawning monsters in a dark lair full of energy.
It took him less than an hour to brush the void wormhole from 46 waves to 100 waves in one go.
At this moment, a level three dark lair would take him four hours.
Qiao Shan couldn't bear it.
Maybe for others, this speed is okay.
But for Qiao Shan, this is a bit too slow...
It's a bit too slow...
This is not his style.
"Send out all the dragon-capturing spearmen to find gold mines!"
Helpless, Qiao Shan could only arrange other things.
The erupting dark lair monsters have been tightly controlled by the Huta elf, so he doesn't need to worry about them.
But it looks like this kind of spawning of monsters will last for more than three hours.
Qiao Shan planned to take the opportunity to take a closer look in the nearby area for another requirement of his - gold mines.
At this moment, in addition to the need for gold coins, he also has another need, which is gold coins.
In the area where the dark lair is located, there are five levels, which can refresh the dark lair of monsters of about eight levels.
Qiao Shan wanted to see if there was any gold mine he needed in such an area.
If there is, then the amount of gold coins that can be mined from the gold mine accompanying the eighth-level monster should be quite a lot.
At this moment, the tower elf can control everything automatically.
Because the refresh speed of monsters is too slow, it will take a long time to defeat monsters automatically in such a boring way.
Qiao Shan wanted to take the opportunity to look for other things he needed.
In addition, he also wanted to check carefully how many dark lairs with full energy were in the entire area.
Moreover, he also wanted to calculate how long it would take to defeat all these dark lairs with full energy, and what the final profit would be.
"yes!"
After hearing Qiao Shan's instructions, Qin Dalong responded quickly.
Soon, a dragon-capturing spearman riding on a flying mount flew out from Qiao Shan's floating city.
They spread out and quickly began to check over the dark lair area.
Earlier, Qin Dalong had led the dragon capture spearmen to inspect the dark lair.
At this moment, the dragon-capturing spearmen who set out again were familiar with the road and quickly dispersed into an area like a dark forest with many dark lairs.
"This way!"
Qiao Shan, riding on Qin Dalong's two-headed flying dragon, also started searching personally.
It's not interesting to stay on the floating city and watch the tower elves automatically fight monsters.
Qiao Shan rode on a double-headed flying dragon and circled the vicinity of the floating city to inspect it himself.
He wanted to see if he could be lucky enough to find a gold mine near this level three dark lair, which was not low in level.
Wow~
Wow~
Wow~
While the battle continued near the floating city, the two-headed flying dragon under Qiao Shan slowly flapped its wings.
After reaching the eighth level, due to the power of the sun, his vision is no longer affected by darkness.
Qiao Shan, who was riding on the two-headed flying dragon, carefully searched for any bright yellow spots on the dark land below.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Occasionally, when he sensed special places, he would shoot arrows and explode some rocks.
After blasting the ground with arrows, he quickly checked for possible golden minerals...