Chapter 459: Everyone shows off their magical powers, minus 50 degrees Celsius
It is precisely because of this that Zongze did not redeem the [Magic Drilling Machine].
Now when he saw the small iceberg, he reacted almost immediately.
After a simple test, he found that Xiaobingshan was extremely resistant to physical attacks.
The melting point was far higher than that of ordinary ice. He lit a bonfire nearby and let the flames burn the ice. It took five or six minutes to melt the ice layer, which was about ten centimeters thick.
This situation is normal. Doris activated the "fire breathing" skill and used clustered flames to burn small icebergs, but the effect was not much better, let alone an ordinary bonfire.
Speaking of which, the communication between the two brothers is decreasing day by day, and they both have their own things to take care of.
In the past two days, Zong Shen would take some time before going to bed every time to send some winter information to Zong Ze through the [Friends and Relatives Channel]. The two brothers only had brief exchanges.
We are no longer children, and we won’t be bored every day. As brothers, it is enough to know that the other person is developing well. The world of lords is busy, and the more powerful the lord is, the more so.
In addition to flame melting and physical attacks, he also tried to use multiple arcane missiles to bombard the small iceberg, but the effect was also not optimistic.
There is no concept of solidity for this kind of small iceberg. Even the arcane missiles fired with Zongze's super high magic damage can only hit a gap the size of a soup basin.
Each small iceberg is five to six meters high and covers an area of 70 to 80 square meters. With such damage capability, hundreds of arcane missiles cannot penetrate it.
After casting the arcane missile, he also tried to use arcane shaping to dismember the small iceberg, but he still failed.
This kind of small iceberg is completely a special creation during the challenge period and does not contain any magical elements.
In the end, Zongze had no choice but to use a stupid method, asking his subordinates, the rude orcs and blue-skinned trolls, to use black iron spears to chisel the ice bit by bit.
The efficiency of twenty or thirty orcs and trolls working at the same time is not low. According to this progress, it will take about one or two hours to break...
Although he is not comparable to his elder brother Zong Shen, he is much stronger than ordinary lords.
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In the Kugit Empire south of the Rhodok Kingdom.
In the Naboru Basin, Chen Rui is also using the [Magic Drilling Machine] to destroy small icebergs by drilling.
His efficiency was even faster than Zong Shen, because he also used another strange-looking magic mecha.
This kind of magic mecha also has a crawler-type chassis, but the functional part in the front is three cutting saw discs of amazing size. Each set of saw discs can be freely retracted inward or extended forward.
This also comes from the points exchange, called [Magic Cutter], which is a large cutting machine.
It is more efficient than the Ripper Mecha. The crawler-type transmission structure can ensure the traffic efficiency in ice and snow. Multiple sets of saw discs can directly cut several grooves on the small iceberg quickly, destroying the structure of the small iceberg, making it
The penetration speed of the drilling rig is increased by at least 30%.
The overall exploration efficiency is higher than Zong Shen, which comes from the experience he heard in his previous life.
The efficiency of combining a cutter with a drilling rig is faster than developing two drilling rigs together.
However, the landing position of the small iceberg has changed significantly in this life.
He could only confirm the location of the small iceberg by actively going out to search for it.
Chen Rui, like Zong Shen, also chose to act in groups.
Garona, the powerful half-orc hero under him, led the group to launch the treasure hunt operation with the same configuration.
For this stage, he invested 4,000 points in purchasing the magic mecha.
He did not disclose such details to Zong Shen, because this was information that could really change his gains. What he told Zong Shen was basically false information.
This is enough to show Chen Rui's cunning. As Zong Shen himself said, friendship still needs to pass the test of time.
In order to survive the catastrophe and enter the prologue of the third act, he will do his best to unite all the forces that can be united, but this does not mean that he will dedicate everything in a pure way.
Going through the catastrophe is not for anyone else, but ultimately for himself.
This is the objective nature of cooperation, which is both inevitable and cruel.
The Eight Immortals crossed the sea and showed their magical powers.
However, this also indirectly proves the horror of the catastrophe, which makes the reborn people who have been born in two lifetimes not sure that they can survive it safely. They still have to unite other lords and strong men to rewrite the outcome.
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In the third stage of the winter challenge, no matter it is the strong or the weak.
Or those ordinary people who make up the majority are working hard to become stronger in their own way.
Busy time is like dense quicksand in an hourglass, slipping away quietly when you don’t expect it.
When the afterglow of the sun completely disappears on the horizon where the sky and the earth meet, night falls immediately.
The six-hour sunny period officially ended, during which the temperature once reached 5 degrees Celsius above zero.
The cold air on the surface has been released, and the thick snow is like falling into water, constantly collapsing and merging with the underlying ice, further thickening the thickness of the ice layer.
This is the transformation of snow into ice.
After six o'clock in the evening, the temperature began to drop precipitously.
After the sun sets, the temperature returns to minus 20 degrees Celsius.
At this time, Zong Shen was already more than ten kilometers away from the territory.
After he obtained the second Winter Treasure Box in the afternoon, he temporarily returned to his territory.
He personally taught Vereesa and Luna how to drive the [Magic Drilling Machine], and also mobilized the gun shield warrior Katis and several dragonborn rangers to follow them in the loader mecha.
A second treasure hunting team was temporarily formed to go out together to find the small iceberg that contained the winter treasure chest.
Regardless of how efficient the second group is, even if it can only open up a small iceberg in an hour, it is still worth it.
It is now past seven o'clock in the evening, and Zong Shen has obtained a total of nine winter treasure chests so far.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, about 63 ice beasts of various types were killed.
The Winter Treasure Chests are too scattered, and not many are left near the territory.
On average, one Winter Treasure Chest will appear in an area of 40 square kilometers.
The farther back you go, the longer the trek interval is, and the corresponding acquisition efficiency is lower.
Zong Shen has only obtained nine treasure chests from the beginning until now, eight of which have not been opened, and they have all been stored in the storage compartment.
As for how many treasure chests Luna and Veresa have obtained, Zong Shen doesn't know yet.
With the territory as the center, he roughly divided the four directions into east and west, with each group responsible for one side.
Each side is divided into three small areas: due east, northeast, southeast, due west, northwest, and southwest.
According to the itinerary and plan, Zong Shen planned to finish work at 1 o'clock in the morning.
To this end, he also consulted the guide's opinion and got a positive answer.
The situation this time was completely different from the previous snowstorm expedition.
The main force to find the winter treasure chest and break the small iceberg is the [Magic Drilling Machine].
The combat mission is not difficult, it is enough to deal with varying numbers of captain-level ice and snow beasts.
It is worth mentioning that while Zong Shen was exploring the treasure chest, he also encountered a wandering winter snow monster. He killed it and gained more than 4,000 experience points and 1,000 points.
Extraction value of 125 points.
Now Zong Shen arranged the drilling machine and the loader mecha in a simple camp, and took everyone to take a temporary rest and eat.
The three thermal spheres emit a heating force field at the same time. After being superimposed together, they can barely resist the temperature difference changes. There are currently no violent storms and snow, and it belongs to the so-called "dry and cold" state.
In addition, it was a warm and sunny day throughout the afternoon, and everyone's combat load was very small, so there was no serious loss or overdraft of everyone's physical strength.
The conditions for keeping out the cold in such an environment are much better than the night before.
They just need to return to their territory before the super-cold water ice rain falls.
Zong Shen leaned against the drilling machine while Doris made a bonfire using the wood she carried with her in the storage compartment.
The soldiers simply roasted the dried meat next to the fire to loosen the fiber slightly, making it easier to chew, and then began to feast on it.
When it comes to eating, the soldiers under Zong Shen's command have never been picky about their food, especially when they are out on military expeditions. There are not all kinds of self-heating military rations in this world, or even rich seasonings like instant noodles.
, and there is no so-called canned food.
Although the freshness of food can be ensured through frost magic, based on the military distribution standards, it is impossible to popularize portable frost magic storage containers.
As military food, it must be low in price, durable in storage, easy to make, and high in heat and energy.
In this way, it can be distributed to the entire army as a standardized military ration.
As a result, high-end magical products and technologies are naturally excluded.
In fact, there are many areas worthy of study in this aspect.
Zong Shen now likes to use the earth as a reference, compare the endless continents, and look for industries that can be expanded.
Taking military rations as an example, canned food is actually a good direction.
With the magic technology of this world, food can be processed under high temperature and high pressure.
Tin cans and aluminum cans are not difficult to make, but there does not seem to be a metal material like "aluminum" in this world, but iron still exists, and there is a lot of it.
Lords have a certain chance of mining minerals even from ordinary rocks.
This phenomenon obviously goes against the geological common sense on the earth, and it is not known whether it is a characteristic of the world or the work of the Lord system.
Therefore, there is no shortage of "iron" resources. Just in the few days since the arrival of the lords, a large amount of iron ore resources have been mined.
Therefore, it is completely feasible to develop canned food, and the technical difficulty is not too high.
After Mr. Mars built a large ranch in his territory, Zong Shen could try to make canned food, which was another deep processing method of beef, mutton and livestock meat.
Of course, as a lord who descended from the earth, it is not difficult to find the advantages, disadvantages and different characteristics of the two worlds.
Specifically, we still have to wait until we have enough ability. Now, for everyone, we are just getting started.
After a short rest in place, Zong Shen and the others set out on their journey again.
In his field of vision, the small icebergs marked by the golden circle became increasingly sparse and distant.
Throughout the afternoon, due to the appearance of sunny days and the improvement of the weather, many lords became active. The blue-white icebergs were very eye-catching on the pale snow.
In fact, these small icebergs will even reflect dazzling light in the sun. As long as there are small icebergs near the territory, they can be discovered almost immediately.
Every time he encountered a small iceberg that someone had climbed first, Zong Shen would decisively choose to give up.
If you have time to struggle here, you might as well seize the time and continue on your way.
His biggest advantage is that he possesses the [Magic Drilling Machine], which can quickly break through the iceberg.
Then he relied on his powerful personal force to quickly kill the captain-level monsters guarding the winter treasure chest. It was precisely because of this that he was able to quickly harvest the treasure chest.
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Time flies by.
When Zong Shen walked out of a small iceberg thirty-four kilometers away from the territory.
It was already 0:23 in the morning, and he decided to call it a day.
In order to obtain the winter treasure chest, he has been active outside for more than eleven hours.
He has witnessed the weather rising from clear to clear and then cooling down at sunset, until now the temperature around him has dropped to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
Even without wind or snow, this temperature is deadly enough.
Every breath of air is cold enough to sting the trachea and lungs, and the airflow will turn into iceflakes in an instant. It is unimaginable that even breathing can become difficult.
People don't even dare to urinate anywhere, and you don't dare to take out your chickens without building a relatively warm temporary camp.
Many people have no concept of minus 50 degrees Celsius. This temperature is already a terrifying temperature that can only be reached in extreme climates and seasons in the earth's poles.
According to the "Cold Level Table" of meteorological professionals on Earth, temperatures below minus 39.9°C are classified as first-level extreme cold.
Under such circumstances, hard steel will begin to become cold and brittle, and pouring a ladle of boiling water over your head will quickly turn into ice.
Under the surrounding night, white mist floats like a night ghost.
Everyone's exposed skin became stinging, and they all wrapped their heads and faces with sheepskin.
Fortunately, there has been no snowstorm yet, otherwise even Zong Shen would freeze to death outside without any other preparations.
Doris's "fire breathing" skill was weakened again, becoming only as thick as a child's arm.
The cold environment makes the fire element scarce, and the same spell model cannot gather more fire elements.
Not only the fire element will be severely affected, but also the water element will be changed.
The magic water arrows fired will freeze into ice cubes during flight.
Frost magic will be strongly strengthened here.
This is the power of low temperature, that terrifying low temperature that far exceeds the human body’s tolerance!