Chapter 200: The Thirteen Cities of the Devil's Crypt (Pay attention to safety on Valentine's Day)
In the following time, Fang Ping continued to temper his bones and practice tactics while attending the special training class.
Gradually, the cave formed a rough impression in his mind.
This impression became three-dimensional when the teacher led everyone to Building 2 of Mowu South District to look at the topographic map.
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Building 2.
In the hall of thousands of square meters, the only thing that exists is a huge sand table, a modern sand table.
The old professor who led the team walked into the hall and said with a smile: "On the third floor is a simulated topographic map of the Demon City Caves.
The 4th floor is the Donglin Cave terrain sand table, and the 5th floor is the Donghu Cave sand table.
Currently, Mowu only has the maps of these three places, while the military headquarters has all the maps.
Catacombs is just a general term. We prefer to add a prefix in front because the 22 cave entrances are not connected.
Maybe it's connected, but at least humans haven't explored it in depth yet. For so many years, no one has been able to reach the next entrance from one entrance.
As for all of us, what we are going to enter next is the Demon City Caves.
In the cave, you cannot use technology or take pictures. If you bring your mobile phone camera inside, it will lose its source of power...
So these maps are all simulated sandboxes made by human beings after a little exploration, a little exploration, and finally summed up."
Everyone in Fang Ping no longer wanted to listen to what he had to say.
Everyone is staring at the sand table at this moment!
"Is this a city?"
"A village? The city is so small?"
“What is the proportion of this sand table?”
"The cave is actually like this. I thought... it was a group of savages, primitive people..."
Many people know that there are civilizations in the caves, just like the earth.
But many people feel that cave creatures are in an era where they eat hair and drink blood.
But now, as soon as the sand table came out, everyone realized that they were wrong. On the sand table, there were many cities, and the conspicuous and tall city walls told everyone that the underground cave was not a savage society.
They have their own civilization and their own social system.
It may not be as advanced as the earth, but everyone takes different routes. This is not a difference in civilization level.
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Fang Ping glanced briefly, frowned, and asked softly: "Teacher, the standard number on the map is 13 cities. In other words, the crypts of the Demon City can accommodate 13 cities? How big are these cities and what are their populations?
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The instructor leading the team shook his head and said: "It's not 13. Remember, only 13 have been detected so far!"
The meaning of these words is completely different from Fang Ping's.
Zhang Ziwei, who was not far away, said lightly: "Maybe we can treat each cave entrance as a world instead of a whole.
In the world of the Demon City Dungeon, we have only detected this distance so far, and the price is extremely heavy.
The three masters of Mowu all died in this process."
Obviously, she knows more than Fang Ping.
Fang Ping didn't care about this, but frowned and said: "So, the location of the entrance to the underground cave on the surface does not necessarily mean that it appears at the same location in the underground cave. This kind of space passage may appear irregularly?"
His words were a bit convoluted, but the instructor still understood.
The old professor smiled and said: "Yes, for example, there is an entrance over there in Donglin. The straight-line distance from the entrance to the Magic City is 600 kilometers.
According to this location, we enter from the entrance of the Magic City and walk eastward, and we should be able to find the entrance of Donglin.
But at present, there are masters who have explored 3,000 kilometers to the east, but still have not found the entrance. Going further east, there is already an endless ocean...
This means that if the cave is so large that it has no limit, it will be dozens or hundreds of times larger than our earth.
Otherwise, it means that the space passage appears randomly, and there is no connection between the surface and the cave.
There is another possibility..."
Speaking of the last possibility, the old professor glanced at Zhang Ziwei: "It's just like what Zhang Ziwei said, each entrance to the cave is actually an independent world... However, Commander Li of the Military Department denied this statement.
Commander Li said that he once felt the aura of the strong man inside the eastern cave entrance at the entrance of the northern cave."
"Commander Li from the military department?"
Everyone was immediately interested. The first person on the list of Chinese masters was Li Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the military.
"Yes, that's what Commander Li said." The old professor sighed: "This is not good news. We would rather be a separate world than really want the crypt to be a whole.
But Commander Li's words should be true. Since he has felt it, a strong man like him at the Grand Master level will not make wrong judgments.
This also means that the catacombs are actually connected and in the same world.
The reason why we didn't detect another entrance... is probably due to our strength and the fact that the cave is too big.
It’s just a magic city cave, traveling 3,000 kilometers eastward and 2,000 kilometers westward…
The east-west span is at least 5,000 kilometers!
As for the north and south, when we enter the cave, we will be in the far south. Behind us is also a vast sea. It is impossible to detect how big the sea is. All strong people who travel far fall into the sea, perhaps because they have lost their way.
To the north is where the cave creatures gather. We can only go about 1,000 kilometers deep, and further back, we have already entered the depths of the cave, which is extremely dangerous."
"The east-west span is 5,000 kilometers, and the current detection limit from north to south is 1,000 kilometers..."
Fang Ping looked at the sand table in front of him, which looked like a long strip.
Doesn't this mean that... it's 5 million square kilometers in size!
Fang Ping swallowed his saliva and said softly: "Teacher, do you mean that the area of the Demon City Caves alone that has been detected is half the size of the Huaguo University?"
"good."
"This is still not a complete detection..." Fang Ping swallowed again, "Then if the detection is complete, an entrance area may be as big as the Hua Kingdom?"
The old professor nodded again and said meaningfully: "Maybe it is bigger than China. This is also difficult to say. No one knows what is in the deep sea in the south. What about the deep north? In all directions, we have not detected the limit.
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Therefore, you can regard the 22 cave entrances as 22 worlds, which is also possible.
After all, only Commander Li has discovered the same strong aura so far, which means that the creatures in the middle and low-level caves are still unable to penetrate the next entrance."
"An entrance, a world...perhaps bigger than China..."
At this moment, Fang Ping truly understood why everyone regarded the cave as a world-ending crisis!
Too big!
In China, there are currently 22 entrances. Even based on the detected area of the Magic City, 22 crypts are equivalent to 11 times the size of China!
An area of hundreds of millions of square kilometers!
Asia covers an area of less than 45 million square kilometers.
Africa is the second largest, covering about 30 million square kilometers.
The third largest continent, North America, has about 24 million.
As for the other continents, they are even smaller. The seven continents currently discovered by humans have a total area of about 150 million square kilometers.
In China, the area of the caves detected is close to the size of the earth's land area.
Other countries are similar.
Now alone, the area of cave entrances discovered around the world is almost 1 billion square kilometers, which is more than six times the size of the Earth's land area.
"There are only 13 cities in such a big place..." Fang Ping suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
With an area of 5 million square kilometers, China has one to two hundred prefecture-level cities and nearly a thousand county towns, and the population in the south is as many as seven or eight billion.
There are only 13 cities in the Catacombs. No matter how big it is, the population will not be too large.
The old professor also confirmed this: "The population of the cave is not too large, so we cannot conduct in-depth exploration later. However, we have dealt with the first city many times after entering from the entrance.
Among them, the population is about 2 million, and the army is about 200,000. They have their own social system, and not all people are soldiers.
They also have ordinary people, lots of ordinary people.
The population of the Demon City Dungeon is probably over 30 million, and the number of combat troops is around 3 million.
At present, what we need to face is only the first city in the cave - we named it Tianmen City."
"Tianmen?"
Fang Ping frowned and said, "This name is enough to praise them."
The old professor shook his head and sighed: "At the beginning, maybe everyone had some illusions. Maybe, as the ancestors of Guangsheng Temple said back then, this is the fairy world...the gate of heaven...the gate to open heaven..."
"pity……"
The old professor sighed again and again. Unfortunately, over the years, the underground caves have brought only death and destruction, and no one has any extravagant hopes anymore.
This is not a fairyland, it is just a beautiful fantasy of human beings.
Yu Xianghua said: "Teacher, so what we in the Demon City need to face is only the opponent's 200,000 combatable soldiers?"
"only?"
The old professor laughed and said: "Do you know how strong the underground cave is?
Warriors account for 10% of their combatable troops, and they have their own warrior army!
An army of pure warriors!
You have no idea how terrifying an army of 20,000 warriors is in the caves where cold weapons are king!"
Yu Xianghua couldn't help but said: "Don't our military headquarters also have an army of warriors?"
"It's different. The military has indeed trained many warriors over the years.
The current number of warriors in China, whether they are Qi-blood warriors or actual combat warriors, exceeds one million.
But the military headquarters is not all there are. There are many warriors in the military headquarters. The total number of all military regions together is probably no less than 200,000, which is double the number of students at Wuhan University.
However, the military headquarters needs to guard 22 entrances, which is very few if divided equally.
Moreover, the society on the ground also needs the military to pacify the cult, which delays some warriors.
There are less than 5,000 military warriors actually stationed in the Demon City Cave.
Therefore, we have always been in a defensive position, not to mention... they have 13 cities. Even if they really concentrate their efforts and wipe out Tianmen City, what next?
We fought a battle with Tianmen City and lost all our casualties. Once more troops are added to the city behind, our entire army will inevitably be annihilated.
Now that we are engaged in a tug-of-war with Tianmen City, the cities in the rear will not increase their troops. The burrows have a strong sense of territory. When Tianmen City is not at a disadvantage and asks for help, most other cities will sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.
Based on our observations, the catacombs do not appear to have a centralized central government, with cities as independent units."
"In other words, our army and warriors in the cave can only compete with the city of Tianmen..."
"wrong!"
The old professor shook his head again and said: "It's not about competing, it's about trying to defend. We are no match for Tianmen City.
Of course, this is a field battle, and the other side does not dare to attack our base with all its strength.
First, our garrison was heavily defended and they suffered heavy losses.
Second, at the critical moment, we dispatched many masters to carry out encirclement and suppression. If it were not for the support from the rear city, Tianmen City would naturally not be the opponent of the entire Chinese nation.
But our powerful masters cannot enter in large numbers, let alone destroy Tianmen City, unless they are sure to join forces to fight against the 13 cities.
Not to mention, there are terrifying and powerful people further north in the 13 cities.
Once too many human masters gather, it is very likely that these terrifying and powerful people will emerge.
The Kyoto Caves were built once 70 years ago. At that time, there were less than 100 Chinese Grandmasters, but more than 40 masters gathered together to destroy the Kyoto Caves...
As a result, many strange and terrifying powerful men appeared deep in the cave.
In the end, 16 grandmasters of the Chinese nation fell. That battle also damaged the foundation of the Chinese nation. Kyoto Wuhan University was almost destroyed in that battle, and the president, vice president, and deans of each college all died in the battle!"
Talking about the past, the old professor was filled with regret.
Kyoto Martial Arts University has lost many masters in battles over the years, which is actually related to this kind of war.
During the Battle of the Catacombs and Mowu, the later established martial arts universities had few participants, but Kyoto Martial Arts University has always been the main force, which has also resulted in double-digit number of grandmaster deaths since the establishment of the school.
Everyone in Fang Ping felt a little aggrieved.
"So, we can only defend?"
If you fight, you can't fight on a small scale.
On a large scale, it would put pressure on the future of China. Even if it could be fought, it would only be able to pacify one or two caves, but in that case, most of the powerful masters of China would probably die.
What to do with the remaining cave entrances?
The old professor chuckled and said: "There is no need to be so pessimistic. The younger generation is growing up very quickly and the future is still bright.
A few decades ago, how many powerful masters did China have?
But now?
Nowadays, we are getting stronger and stronger, but the progress of the underground cave is not as fast as ours. Therefore, we will always be on the defensive in order to buy time for future humans.
If we really wanted to fight, hundreds of masters from China would be able to wipe out at least three or five cave entrances!
But once the caves are really connected and we have destroyed so many entrances, the time for a full-scale invasion of the caves will come in an instant.
So we would rather fight a small-scale battle and rely on human lives than go to a full-scale war!"
Today, there are more and more strong people, and this is visible to the naked eye.
In the past, the number of great masters in China was no more than a hundred.
In the past 30 years, nearly a hundred masters have appeared!
An average of 3 grandmasters appear every year, which is simply unbelievable.
Gurus appear every year in the business world, and so does the government.
Under such circumstances, the government is actually unwilling to launch a decisive battle immediately. It would be self-destruction and can only be tolerated.
Delay time!
The longer time passes, the greater the hope of mankind. The final decisive battle still depends on the strong.
The usual catacomb missions and catacomb wars are actually a kind of military training to train strong men!
There is nothing we can do about the large number of soldiers and middle- and low-level warriors who sacrifice themselves. At this time, people need to sacrifice, and if no one is willing, then the demise of mankind is not far away.
At this moment, everyone stopped asking questions and started looking at the sand table.
There are 13 cities in the catacombs, distributed in a fan shape.
The farthest south, where the population of the Demon City Cave enters, is the sea. On this side of the sea, the State of China has its headquarters.
Tianmen City is about 80 kilometers away from the station.
It doesn't sound far, but in modern society, you can get there in half an hour by driving a car or racing.
But in the caves, we mainly rely on walking. Such a distance is still quite far. If we rely on forced march on foot, a march of 50 kilometers a day is considered a strong army. If we march 70 kilometers a day, such an army must be called an elite.
80 kilometers away is Tianmen City, which is also the gateway city to the Demon City Cave.
Behind them are other cities.
There are mountains, water, and everything you need in the cave.
Seeing everyone watching carefully, the old professor smiled and said: "Technology is still very magical. Soon, our 3D three-dimensional map of the cave will be ready. By then, everyone will be able to feel everything about the cave more intuitively."
After we entered the cave, we mainly operated within 30 kilometers of the station.
We have done some cleaning at this distance, so it is relatively safer.
However, Tianmen City's army is also moving, including their warriors, some of whom are not soldiers. They are also moving freely, so danger is inevitable.
In the caves, except for the cave humans, let’s call them that for the time being.
In addition to the cave humans, there are many other dangers!
Including their animals and plants, some animals even have the power of high-level experts. The cave is more like a legendary mythical world. These animals and plants may be regarded as monsters.
Danger is everywhere.
Likewise, opportunities are everywhere.
Why are humans getting stronger and stronger?
It has a lot to do with the crypt!
Including our various elixir manufacturing, development and utilization of energy stones, and even the creation of some tactics, they are all related to the cave.
Do you know why several fifth-level students of Mowu have made such rapid progress?
It’s also related to their opportunities in the catacombs!
I will not introduce these one by one. There has never been a textbook compiled before, because only third-level warriors can enter before, and when entering the early stage, there will be a short training period at the military headquarters.
In the military department, there is a collection of various information.
This is also the first time that Mowu has opened a second-level special training class, so we are negotiating with the military department to print and distribute some cave teaching materials to everyone, so that you can read it yourself to deepen your impression..."
The old professor's words made his mouth go dry, and everyone in Fang Ping also listened with fascination.
It turns out that several fifth-level experts from Mowu all got opportunities in the cave.
The pursuit of strength is what all warriors look forward to. The benefits of the underground cave may be a key reason why warriors continue to fight.
At this moment, the image of the cave became increasingly clear in everyone's minds.
Fang Ping no longer cared about getting lost.
The cave is neither a desert nor a prairie. There are cities and human strongholds, so it is not so easy to get lost.
Thinking about the many benefits of the burrow, everyone was eager to try it. They wished they could enter the burrow immediately, get the benefits, and break through to the third, fourth or even fifth level.
At this moment, a basin of cold water fell from the sky, extinguishing the heat in everyone's hearts.