The reason for this is to reduce the frontal pressure of each wall and to facilitate the design of internal load-bearing columns.
This idea was contributed by the village chief Peidi.
They are the real experts when it comes to underground construction.
They can rely on clues to deduce the direction of groundwater and the activity of ground veins in the future.
The former is the most common factor causing small-scale underground collapses. Once the humidity in a certain cave is above the normal level all year round, especially if there is varying degrees of water seepage, the cave's risk of collapse will rise linearly, and some may even
directly becomes **.
The latter is the culprit of large-scale cave collapses. When digging caves, master cave diggers such as underground gnomes and mountain dwarves do not just dig randomly. They will actively avoid the earth veins that can serve as the main support points.
, and even consciously reinforced it to make the entire dungeon stronger.
As Sean had imagined at the beginning, after getting the ground-burrowing purple worm, all he had to do was find a straight line and dig to the northern fortress in one go.
This kind of thinking is a bit too taken for granted and completely ignores the ever-changing nature.
Many places on the earth look similar on the outside, but the internal composition is different, and the variety is beyond imagination.
If the soil layer is divided into hierarchical structures: overburden layer, leaching layer, transition layer, sedimentary layer, parent material layer and parent rock layer.
If classified according to soil quality, it can be divided into: soft soil, ordinary soil, gravel-hard soil, soft stone, sub-hard stone, hard stone, and extra-hard stone.
The soil structure is not static. The conditions vary from place to place and are inseparable from changes in the general environment.
Various soil types are also mixed together. Maybe the first 100 meters are still solid rock soil, and the next 100 meters turn into gravel and solid soil.
If they are simply rushing to dig holes, the purple insects naturally don't need to consider these things, they can just walk in a straight line, and they don't care whether there will be landslides after walking through.
If you want to dig underground passages that can be used for a long time and are not easily damaged by the natural environment, you must avoid some dangerous areas.
For example, in the phreatic layer and deep water layer, even magic rocks cannot withstand the erosion of water.
For example, in desert areas, at least the construction should not be too shallow, and the underground veins should be fully utilized as support points.
Because the surface of the desert area changes too easily, a strong wind can turn the basin into a sand dune, greatly increasing the pressure on the underground. If the tunnel is built directly under the sand, it will easily be crushed.
In fact, the general environment where the City of Shadows is located is not an ideal environment for a large underground city. Instead, it is affected by the energy and laws spilled from the space cracks over the years. The surrounding areas are severely darkened and the strata have become relatively stable.
The current dungeon has just emerged.
In fact, the entire City of Shadows is centered on the space rift and is circular. The farther away from the space rift, the worse the stability of the strata, and the higher the difficulty in building a large number of caves.
In other words, if the spatial rift is really completely sealed, the stability of the City of Shadows will inevitably be affected.
Therefore, many residents of the City of Shadows are not as strongly opposed to closing the space rift as Alma, and some are even hesitant.
Once they are not handled well, their future will be deeply affected.
This investigation discovery was secretly remembered by Sean. If there is a disagreement with Alma due to space cracks in the future, he can start from this point.
The biggest weakness of the lawful good camp is that they are easily threatened by the overall situation.
Sean found that he was definitely a madman when it came to infrastructure construction. Once he was immersed in it, he couldn't help himself.
In the City of Shadows, he was by no means as simple as building his own mage tower.
After activating it, Sean couldn't stand the complicated and disorderly layout of the City of Shadows, especially the way to the Alma Labyrinth was too complicated.
As soon as the underground mage tower started to take shape, he mobilized the residents of the City of Shadows to carry out a major renovation of the City of Shadows. In particular, several main passages leading directly to the mage tower were opened first, connecting most of the local residents' villages.
They will be greatly improved to support the construction of the mage tower and facilitate the transportation of materials, especially the mushroom ingredients provided by the myconids.
The project here has not yet been completed, and the construction project of the underground tunnel leading to the Yongye Army is also on the agenda.
Don’t forget that there are more than one ground-burrowing purple worm.
After the construction of the Wizard Tower in the City of Shadows was operating normally, Sean took Dragon Soul and the others to visit the energy mine again and found another earth-burrowing purple worm dormant there.
Except that it took a little time to search for traces of this ground-burrowing purple insect in a complicated cave, the whole process went very smoothly.
This ground-burrowing purple insect was obviously weaker than the one that was captured first. Not only was it two sizes smaller, but it was also several times younger.
Dragon Soul's previous guess was correct. This earth-burrowing purple worm was produced by the self-division of the previous earth-burrowing purple worm. From a genetic level, both sides were the same.
The only thing I guessed wrong is that this guy didn't split up temporarily to deal with Sean.
This kind of self-division not only consumes a lot of energy, but also consumes terrifying flesh and blood. After the division, both the mother and the offspring need to eat like crazy, at least tens of thousands of prairie cattle, to make up for it.
The first time Sean provoked the purple earthworm, another one was nearby, but it just didn't have time to join the fight.
Sean was too lazy to use his brain to come up with overly complicated names for the earth-burrowing purple bugs, so he simply distinguished them by serial numbers. The one he got first was named No. 1, and the one he got later was named No. 2.
When Sean drove the No. 2 Purple Digging Insect back to the City of Shadows all the way, the residents here were really shocked because they had never seen two Purple Digging Insects appear at the same time.
No one was so full that they went to observe this terrifying underground predator up close.
Apart from the shock, there was also a burst of ecstasy.
Because they have personally experienced the convenience of underground construction with a controlled ground-burrowing purple insect.
They mobilized the entire village and spent several years excavating the work. It only took a few days for the ground-digging purple worm to be completed. They only needed to spend a small amount of manpower and refine it on this basis.
The mountain dwarves mobilized the entire adult workforce, including the women, to forge steel bars at a speed that could not keep up with the magic masonry created by the earth-digging purple worms in half a day.
Many times, the underground purple insects have to stop and wait for the construction progress of the mountain dwarves and underground gnomes.
The road arrangements in the City of Shadows are all carried out in the earth-digging purple insects' spare time.
Two ground-burrowing purple insects jointly build a mage tower, which is obviously redundant.
When the No. 2 Digging Purple Insect arrived, he replaced the No. 1 Digging Purple Insect and focused on opening the underground tunnel to the Yong Ye Army Territory.
After the passage is opened, all aspects of the resources of the Yongye Army can come up, but only on one side.
On the other hand, Sean wanted to use the earth-burrowing purple insects to speed up the construction of some key facilities in the Evernight Army and make full use of the energy mined from the energy crystal pit.
Otherwise, no matter how much energy crystals he digs, it will be meaningless.
When the Digging Purple Insect spent half a year digging a 1,500-kilometer-long underground passage and returned to the territory of the Yongye Army, you can imagine the shock it brought.
Unfortunately, this is an absolute secret of the Yongye Army. Except for a few high-level officials who know a little bit about it, this news has not been announced to the public at all.
After Digging Purple Insect No. 1 returned to the northern fortress, it only stayed here for a few months, connecting several areas with numerous caves in the Andis Mountains through underground passages.
The key point is to open an underground passage from the northern fortress to the Andis inland lake, and then continue south.
Passing through the mountains, we entered the city of Geqi at the junction of the Donau Plain and the Carthusian Hills.
This place is currently Marshal Tagore's defense area. The main task is not to defend against the Kingsley family, but to mine. This is the largest metal mining area in the Yongye Army.
Digging Purple Insect No. 1 arrived here and squatted there for three years.
In the past three years, its output has been absolutely terrifying, and the entire western front of the Donau Plain has changed to revolve around it.
It first helped build an energy reactor here.
Then around this energy reactor, a semi-automated iron ore mining line was built.
After the amount of iron ore mining increased, large-scale steelmaking plants powered by energy reactors naturally emerged.
In his spare time, he also opened a passage deep into several rich mines controlled by the Carter Army, from where he could continuously steal minerals.
Fortresses, towns, and fortresses, large and small, have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The entire Western Front is impregnable. If the Kingsley family has the courage to invade with their troops again, they will find themselves unable to move forward, with nails everywhere.
An underground tunnel from the Donau Plain to the Huayu Plateau is naturally indispensable.
However, this tunnel was only opened secretly and was not put into use, because once the Duke Brian family of the Garden Plateau knew about it, they would probably go crazy and start a war with the Yongye Army leaders without hesitation, cutting off all ties with them.
All trade transactions.
The reason why Duke Bryan's family had previously ignored the little tricks made by the leader of the Yongye Army in the Flower Language Plateau and the cooperative relationship with the Warlock Alliance, and seemed to be solitary and self-admiring, was because they owned the natural dangers of the Flower Language Plateau, Yongye
No matter how powerful the military leaders are, it is impossible to shake their dominance.
As for the Warlock Alliance, the relationship between the two parties has never been a slave relationship. On the contrary, in some aspects, the Warlock Union's influence is greater than that of the local lords and nobles. It has already attracted the resentment of these people in power. If it were not for the Warlock Union's influence among scholars,
It was so big that they had long since uprooted the top of the sky.
The leader of the Yongye Army wanted to take the blame for the Warlock Alliance, and they were eager to give it to them with both hands, so how could they stand in the way?
It's just that the same thing, in the hands of different people, plays different roles.
The Warlock Alliance is in the Flower Language Plateau and is a huge burden to the Grand Duke Brian's family.
But when they arrived at the Yongye Army, it became a powerful boost to their development.
After four years of continuous construction and investment, the First International Academy opened by the Yongye Army Leader and the Warlock Alliance in Brother Port has begun to take shape, and has successively trained two batches of political, economic, and academic students for the Yongye Army Leader.
The mid-level and senior talents on board have made up for one of their shortcomings.
Because of their joining, the military government model led by the Yong Ye Army gradually transformed into a conventional model.
In particular, the large-scale development of the Donau Plain has given them the opportunity to shine. For this kind of comprehensive large-scale construction, brains are better used than fists.
Under their instigation and leadership, waves of Yongye people abandoned the familiar and comfortable life in the Andis Basin and went deep into the relatively wild Donau Plain, where they built villages, reclaimed wasteland and farmed fields, and incorporated the crocodile tribesmen who had never migrated.
Villages and gathering points bloomed and took root all over the Donau Plain.
The reclaimed farmland spreads around these villages and gathering points.
Except for the fact that the weather here is too hot and humid in the summer, and there are too many mosquitoes and flies, which makes Andis people a little uncomfortable when they go out to the mountains for the first time.
Generally speaking, the Donau Plain, which was transformed from a swamp, is incredibly fertile. All you need to do is hitch the oxen, plow deeply, level the ground, clean up the weeds, and sow the seeds. You don’t even need to apply fertilizer, as long as the manager
If you are diligent enough and clean up the overgrown weeds twice more, the harvest will definitely not be too bad.
Not to mention those students with agricultural backgrounds, who have been researching better seeds, more convenient farming tools, more effective weeding methods, and more reasonable fattening and farming.
A series of conditions combined to create a bumper harvest for the Yongye Army for four consecutive years, the kind that gets better and better every year and doubles.
Eighteen years of eternal night.
The Yong Ye Army Leader has made a turnaround in terms of food, and its own food output and consumption are basically the same. If the current situation continues, there will be a surplus of self-produced food next year.
Although the output and consumption have been equal, the Yongye Army leader still consumes a very large amount of food. The food imports from the Asia Minor Plain and the Flower Language Plateau have never stopped. No matter how much food can be transported, they will not hesitate.
Eat it in one bite. This is of course for the purpose of stocking up on food.
However, the grain trade market is shrinking year by year.
This is not to say that the harvest is not good, on the contrary, whether it is the Asia Minor Plain or the Flower Language Plateau, except for small-scale natural disasters, it is generally a good year. Even wandering beggars rarely starve to death on the streets during the harvest season.
When most people are wealthy, their kindness tends to be abundant.
But even the local lords and nobles who are insensitive to politics can clearly feel the storm gathering in the Ashan continent. Anyone with a little bit of political wisdom will give priority to filling their own granaries.
The principle of not panicking when a family has enough food is applicable to all the world.
At that time, whether it is to sit on the ground and raise the price, exchange food for military protection, or hire people to protect yourself, all are feasible strategies.
When the great lords and nobles were reluctant to sell the grain in their hands, the grain in circulation on the market was immediately reduced by 80%.
It sounds cruel to say, but it's true.
The ruling pyramid of the Byronic League has long been seriously deformed.
Ninety-nine percent of the entire alliance's wealth is in the hands of one in 10,000 people, whether it is existing or about to be produced.
The turmoil in the Byron League was manifold.
The most direct reason comes from the top level.
In the third year of King Laurie's accession to the throne of the Lancelot royal family, he ignored the opposition of the royal ministers and personally went on a pilgrimage to Saint Eden, the Holy Land of Saint Ether. He left all government affairs behind and practiced three penances in the oracle church closest to the true God. Moon, listen to the teachings of the God of Truth.
During these three months, the Holy See of Saint Ether made a mad campaign, telling all believers and citizens that King Laurie was the chosen son sent to the world by the God of Truth in order to save the people of the world and avoid the coming of the apocalypse. reduced to hell.
The effect was very significant, and many people in the territory who did not originally believe in the Holy See also converted.
Because this time the Holy See was building momentum and not only sent out a large number of missionaries with holy power, but also the enemies of the true God - the undead.
These undead souls naturally come from the undead kingdom that is constantly spreading on the Odin Prairie.
The Holy See first showed the terrifying immortal nature of these undead to the world in public, and then used holy power to purify them in public. Coupled with their set of preaching words that had been revised for hundreds of years, the natural effect was amazing.