The weather is very good today. Li Mu is sitting on a hot air balloon admiring the sea of clouds dyed golden by the sun.
Although the scenery is beautiful, he has no intention of admiring it now.
The city-building task also has stages. According to the information instilled when you first came to this world, the city-building task is divided into three stages. The first stage has a population of at least 10,000, the more the better, the second stage gives the city fire entities to build a fire city.
The final third stage is to resist the demon's minions, but the extent of the resistance is not disclosed.
But the longer it is, the better. At the same time, the smaller the casualties, the greater the benefits in the end.
After these days of search and rescue, the wasteland with a radius of thousands of miles around has almost only a population of more than 5,000. If you want to find the population, you can only go to the mountains near the wasteland and the cities where all the survivors have fled. But these hardest-hit areas can really be found.
Give out five thousand living people?
He had Song Lei, so he discovered the survivors very early.
He has the Apparition and Shrinking Charms, so he can rescue all the survivors he finds in one day.
Even so, he only saved five thousand people in half a month. Even though his strength is not as good as those reserve city lords who have accumulated a lot of experience, he doesn't think he will lose to them in terms of saving people. In this case, what happened to the other reserve city lords?
Get a population of 10,000?
Li Mu couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried, so in the end he could only take it one step at a time.
That night, Li Mu apparated and sneaked into the mountains.
The wasteland is the territory of the white goat, so the total number of fire insects and fire animals, except those enslaved by the white goat, is actually very small. But it is different in the deep mountains. The number of fire insects here is so large that it makes one's scalp numb.
If the fire insects hadn't killed each other, the ruler of the fire world would never have had the turn of other life forms.
After several days, Li Mu only found a few hundred survivors.
Among them, there are seven who master the fire, which is why these people can survive here.
Li Mu tried to go deeper into the mountains, but encountered the legendary air wall that only existed in the game.
Obviously, there is only such a large copy map on the mountain side.
In desperation, he could only change the direction. The wasteland was surrounded by mountains on two sides, and there were plains and forests on one side and city ruins on the other. In the ruins of the city, Li Mu only found one survivor and almost lost his life when he met a white goat. On the other side of the forest and sea, there was a total of
Only a few thousand people were found.
After a whole month of busy work, the population limit has only reached 6,700.
At this time, Li Mu finally realized that there was only one way to have a population of tens of thousands of survivors, and that was to rely on the remaining 3,300 people born from these 6,700 survivors. But even if the survivors were forced to create villains, there would be no
You can't even hope to raise a population of 10,000 in three years.
Because of the current population of 6,700, only a little over 1,000 of them can have children.
Li Mu's scalp goes numb just thinking about wasting three years here.
So he thought of the Pioneer Clan's biochemical laboratory. Cloning was the Pioneer Clan's specialty. Even if he didn't clone humans, it wouldn't be a problem to get some test-tube babies. By then, there wouldn't be as many people as he wanted.
However, the first test-tube baby was still under care, and the unexpected discovery made him give up this path.
Because on this day, the population suddenly increased by one.
He checked all the survivors through magic and finally discovered that one of the survivors was pregnant with a baby.
Although she was just pregnant, the population still increased by one.
On the other hand, as the first test-tube baby he tried, he did not increase any population at all.
Li Mu thought about it for two days before he gradually figured out a possibility.
From the beginning, he may have underestimated the city-building task.
This city-building task is not something that can be easily completed in a short time. Even if he is so fast, he can only rescue 6,700 people. Those reserve city owners who are not rescue fast enough will not be able to accumulate a population of 10,000 in seven or eight years.
Don't think about it.
But according to what he learned on the Internet, those Fire City owners did not waste so many years to complete the task of building the city.
So there is only one possibility: the time flow rate of city building dungeon is different from the outside world.
It takes several years here, but maybe only one month outside.
He was not just making a guess, he conducted certain verifications on his guess.
He tried to carry out alchemical enchantment on the time level, but the result was very unsuccessful and caused great rejection.
Based on the analysis of the repulsion results, the time flow rate in the replica world is at least a hundred times faster.
Knowing this, Li Mu's restless heart calmed down.
He began to try to spread the advanced civilization knowledge he had to the survivors, began to try to help the 11 orange fire owners develop their fire, and began to go all out to build this surviving base inhabited by 6,700 people.
His efforts have paid off, and at least 90% of people recognize him more and more.
As for the remaining 10%, there were a very few who were jealous and dissatisfied with him. Some of the rest were selfish and thought that he should pay for them. Some were born to hold grudges but not gratitude. Li Mu didn't care about these. After all, people's hearts are unpredictable.
It doesn’t mean that if you pay, you will definitely get something in return.
Li Mu is very satisfied and proud to be recognized by 90% of the survivors.
It will take at least three years for the population to exceed 10,000.
After such a long time, Li Mu had to prepare for the second phase of the city-building task.
Taking out the magic stone, Li Mu began to strengthen it.
After consuming 195,000 cards of fire source power, he successfully strengthened the magic stone to LV15.
[Magic Stone: Fire Rare Item]
[Level: LV15]
[Quality: blue sky grade]
[Attributes: Consuming fire energy can convert low-quality metals into high-quality metals. Consuming fire source power can generate longevity substances without side effects. Limited by the enhancement level of fire wonders, the lowest quality longevity substances can extend the natural life by up to 1500 years.
life】
[Tip: The converted metal level cannot exceed the enhanced level]
[Tip: The longevity substance can only take effect once regardless of its quality]
[Strengthening requirements: 60,000 calories of fire source power]
Although the consumption was huge, Li Mu didn't feel distressed at all.
First of all, the living substance produced by the current magic stone is enough to increase the life span by 1500 years.
It is not a problem to put such a living substance on the Tinder network and sell it for thousands of Tinder source coins, not to mention that the magic stone can also convert low-quality metals into LV15 level metals.
In the Tinder world, it is LV15.
Since strengthening the magic stone, Li Mu has only one main task every day.
Take out the high-strength special steel prepared in advance, and then use the magic stone to consume the fire energy and convert it into the core light iron.
The metal materials required to build a Titan Mechanical City are terrifying.
For example, a basic Titan Mechanical City with a diameter of 1,000 meters and a height of 500 meters requires tens of millions of cubic meters of metal. Because too much metal is needed, the Titan Mechanical City will be very heavy, and it will be too heavy to move.
will be affected.
In order to reduce weight, the best way is to use metal with high strength and light weight as much as possible.
Ordinary steel weighs 7.8 tons per cubic meter, but Yunnan Steel, which is several times stronger, weighs less than a ton. However, the price of Yunnan Steel is hundreds of times that of ordinary steel. Tens of millions of cubic meters of Yunnan Steel are worth astronomical figures.
Therefore, most Titan mechanical cities need to be equipped with various anti-gravity devices.
The reason why Titan Sky City is difficult to build is because the cheapest metal used in Titan Sky City is Yungang. Therefore, Li Mu doesn’t dare to think about Titan Sky City now. At most, he can upgrade Golden Crow City from Titan Mechanical City to Titan Sky City when conditions permit.
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Although there was a magic stone, Li Mu never thought that the entire city was made of earth core light iron.
After all, fire energy also costs money, and the transformation of magic stones into metals also requires a process.
As time goes by, days and years pass.
Three years later, the population of the surviving base finally exceeded 10,000.
A dialog box appeared in front of Li Mu again, with the option of whether to submit the first phase of the city construction task.
After some consideration, Li Mu chose no without hesitation.
Because after three years, he found that he had only aged for less than eleven days.
This also means that this city-building dungeon is indeed a hundred times different in time flow rate from the Fire World, and it experiences a hundred times time acceleration here, but the reduced lifespan is calculated according to the normal time flow rate in the Fire World.
Anyone who doesn't seize such a good opportunity is a fool.
If this were in the world of fire, how could he be willing to waste three years using magic stones to transform metals every day, and how could he have so much free time to practice his magic spells. In the past three years, he has raised all commonly used magic spells to the upper limit of LV10
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In addition to these, Li Mu did not submit the task immediately because the current population is too insecure.
He has never underestimated those white goats. Even if he built a fire city, he could not guarantee that none of the population would die. If the number of people killed by the white goats fell to 10,000, even if the city-building task of hell difficulty did not fail, the final evaluation
And the harvest will definitely be reduced.
Besides, if he delays for a few more years, he can convert more metals and biomass.
It takes almost a year to produce a copy of the longevity substance that extends life by 1,500 years.
If he stayed here for a few more decades, he would be able to earn back the fire energy he spent to strengthen the magic stone.
At this time, Li Mu still didn't know what it means to be quiet but the wind is still blowing.
On this day, Li Mu transformed metal as usual.
Dong Dong Dong Dong!
There was a rapid knock on the door, and the door was shaken with such force that it was shaking.
Li Mu put away the magic stone and opened the door automatically with a thought. When he saw Song Lei knocking on the door, his face was full of panic. He suddenly realized that Song Lei might have discovered a danger that could endanger the surviving base, so he was so nervous.
Fear.
"What happened?"
Li Mu asked directly.
"There are at least one hundred thousand demonized sparrows approaching here."
Song Lei said nervously.
"hiss!"
Li Mu felt like his breath was cold. No wonder Song Lei was afraid of being so nervous.
Demonized sparrows are fire creatures located on the other side of the forest. They were formerly protective animal sparrows. After incorporating the power of fire, these sparrows become very dangerous. A large number of demonized sparrows can set off an extremely terrifying demonized storm.
Fortunately for fire professionals, ordinary people will turn into murderous lunatics within a few seconds after being exposed to the demonic storm.
The demonized sparrow does not like to leave the forest sea, and there is no food for the demonized sparrow in the sky here in the wilderness.
In the past three years, both sides have been keeping their peace. Now, just a few days after the population reached 10,000, the demonized sparrows suddenly rushed out of their nests and rushed towards the surviving base. This obviously went against common sense. Li Mu suddenly thought of something and summoned the Brilliant Scepter.
The Brilliant Scepter is a sacred object of fire, capable of condensing the civilizational destiny of the humans under its command.
Even in the Fire dungeon, he could feel the civilizational luck coming from the Phoenix Empires from two different universes. However, in the surviving base, there was no trace of civilizational luck in the past three years. It was only in the past few days that the population exceeded 10,000.
A trace of civilized luck.
"Song Lei, look at Lin Hai with all your strength."
Li Mu said without any doubt.
Although Song Lei was frightened, he still looked towards Lin Hai and activated his clairvoyance with all his strength.
After three years, he was able to see three thousand miles away under normal circumstances with the help of clairvoyance. If he unleashed all his mental power and fire energy, it would not be a problem to see four to five thousand miles away in a short time. Song Lei, who went all out, quickly saw
A scene that made him unbelievable.
Through Legilimency, Li Mu also saw what he wanted to see.
Sure enough, the LV50 White Goat leader was now deep in the forest.
Because the white goat is always the biggest threat, Song Lei monitors the movements of all white goats every day. If the leader of the white goat goes to Linhai, he will definitely find out immediately. And just now, Song Lei saw the leader of the white goat in the wilderness.
Eat grass.
Song Lei saw it right, so there is only one truth.
Because of the convergence of civilization's fortunes, and because the White Goat has not found a human on the surface or underground in the past three years, the leader of the White Goat, who is very intelligent, has long analyzed that humans are hiding in the sky, but the sky is too vast and the White Goat cannot fly. He survived.
The base is also hidden by a magic circle so it can't be found at all.
However, due to the convergence of civilization and luck, the leader of the White Goat successfully locked down the surviving base.
This left a clone-like stand-in to confuse Song Lei, and the real body quietly sneaked into the forest, forcing the demonized sparrows to attack the surviving base. If the white goat leader was not eliminated, these demonized sparrows would be just an appetizer, and the main meal would be carefully prepared later.
With.
"This is no longer ordinary cleverness."
Li Mu exclaimed.
Although the White Goat leader cannot fly, with his LV50 strength, he can easily attack this surviving base while standing on the ground.
However, the White Goat Leader did not attack the surviving base, but instead drove the demonized sparrows to attack the surviving base. This seemed a bit unnecessary, but in fact it showed the White Goat Leader's intelligence and that it had broken away from the instinct and impulse of the beast.
That's why, without knowing the depth and strength of human beings, we resorted to the tactic of killing people with borrowed knives to test the truth.
"The demonized sparrow is attacking, everyone should evacuate to the safe house according to the drill."
Li Mu added a loudspeaker spell to himself and the sound spread throughout the surviving base.
Within a moment, survivors emerged one after another from each house in the survival base. They all gathered in front of a metal ball suspended in the air in the middle of the survival base, then lined up and reached out to press the metal ball before disappearing.
As early as three years ago, Li Mu began to think about various backup measures.
The safe house was built to be used at such moments. It was built using wind tunnel iron, and the interior was expanded by a traceless expansion spell. It has enough space for 10,000 people to live for several years and enough food for 10,000 people to eat for several years.
In order to build this safe house for three years, he spent half of his free time on it.
Although it is a Fire dungeon, the space intensity is not much different from that of the Fire world. It is difficult to use the Traceless Stretch Spell to expand the space here. You can't even think about casually opening up a small world that can exist for hundreds of years like a different universe.
Even though this safe house has limited space, the space inside will collapse after a few years at most after it is activated.