Chapter 329: The Twelfth Floor of the Ancient Waterway
The chess players in the sky are fighting each other, and the players on the ground are equally competitive.
The ceiling realm soon ceased to be the strongest and was divided into new levels of three, six, and nine.
Roughly speaking, the ground is the ceiling, then the first to second floors are called the second floor, the second to third floors are called the third floor... and so on.
As for the little emperor who is number one in the world, he naturally started on the twelfth floor.
As the number of eliminated people increases, resources become more concentrated, power becomes more concentrated, and those left behind become stronger and stronger. Most people are on the second floor, and a small number of people have even reached the third floor.
At the same time, the entire chess game is changing rapidly.
The magnetic field acceleration allows qualified players to rush into the ceiling one after another, making the game rhythm extremely fast. With the adjustment of the bonus of generals, technicians and division skills, the rhythm becomes even faster!
According to the original plot, many demon stars in troubled times appeared in advance in the later period; many quest lines in the later period were revealed in advance; and many border battlefields were opened up, such as the battlefield outside the Great Wall in northern Xinjiang, the Fubo battlefield in the East China Sea, and the battlefield in southern Xinjiang.
Baiyue battlefield, Yinshan battlefield in the west...
They all have a lot of tasks and a lot of benefits.
Many players decisively chose to travel far away from the frontier after measuring their own strength and comparing their cultivation speed with others.
If you can't beat him, just stay away from the head office.
Where is the task not to be done? Where is the loess that does not bury people?
As for those with high spirits, good talents, and confidence in themselves, they continued to stay on the battlefield in the Central Plains and fight with others.
After all, the literary style here is the most prosperous, the most popular, and the most inherited. Whether it is practicing martial arts or honing military skills, the rate of progress will definitely exceed that of the frontier. As long as they are not eliminated.
Not only do you have to stay, but you also have to travel around the world, ask for swords from time to time, and it is best to win, so that you can constantly refresh your popularity, spread your reputation, and assist in the cultivation of military commanders and military masters.
In short, the competition has become more intense.
Not only are there constant frictions between the various forces that are encircling the territory, and they often fight each other with weapons, but they also often have to imitate the style of single-handedly fighting between the two armies. Before the two armies confront each other, the generals will catch each other and fight, and then the battle situation will be quickly spread throughout the world.
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He also said that he was not allowed to walk on the street and accidentally looked at someone, and then a sword light came over him: "What are you looking at!"
So today we have a sword debate at Mount Huashan, tomorrow the Three Heroes will fight Lu Bu, the day after tomorrow they will enter and leave Changbanpo seven times, and the day after tomorrow they will have a decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City...
No matter how ostentatious you are, how you want to be in the limelight.
But after all, these are just scraps from the general trend, bits and pieces outside the main line.
With the chaos in the world and the chaos in the world, the main line that will surely affect the entire game process is finally slowly started...
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The spring of the fifth year of the game, the twelfth round.
The dragon boat team of the Little Emperor was sailed out of the Imperial City in a mighty manner.
The Imperial Dragon Ship is huge in size, with six floors above and below, and is extremely luxurious. White jade is used to make horses, and pearls are like earth and silver are like iron...
It is obviously an ancient-style wooden boat, but when it sails under the sun and splits the water waves, the hull is made of colorful glaze, golden and magnificent, shining and eye-catching, as if it is a modern boat with special lighting effects on at night!
Speaking of majesty, it is really majestic!
To say it's a waste is really a waste.
I don’t know what the Imperial Guards, who were not well-received, and the officials who owed several percent of their salaries, would think when they saw this scene.
In short, the Dragon Boat is just like Dior.
The top floor is for dining and entertainment, just like the open-air deck of a modern yacht; the lower two floors are for living and guarding; the next two floors are for meetings, decorated and carved like the interior of a palace; the bottom floor is for the guards and sailors to live.
Later, there was the Queen's Phoenix Ship, whose regulations were only slightly worse than those of the Imperial Ship.
Then came the harem, the kings, princesses, officials and their families, the pleasure boats of monks and nuns, and the cargo ships carrying royal expenses and tributes.
The number of accompanying ships alone reached nearly a thousand, and of course there were nearly two thousand escort and escort warships.
A total of 60,000 officials and family members of the government and the public were loaded. The Royal Forest Army and the garrison force of the capital exceeded 160,000! Even at the time of departure, nearly 200,000 trackers were needed to pull the boats! Half of the imperial capital was moved away.
At the time of departure, there was an endless stream of people. From the time they set off at the auspicious hour to the time when the sun set, the second half of the fleet was not finished. It was not until the afternoon of the next day that the fleet finally arrived. All left the Imperial Capital Tianzi Pool.
Originally, the little emperor's trip would not be so fast because there was one biggest obstacle, called Qinshan Lake.
Qinshan Lake is not a name for a person, but a place. It is a large lake in the heart of the Central Plains, known as Qinshan Lake Three Thousand Miles Away.
There are more than a dozen rivers flowing into the west of Qinshan Lake, and they are divided into north and south. The north river is called Qianjiang, and after hundreds of miles northeast it merges into the Zuhe River. The south river is called Xialingjiang, and after thousands of miles south it merges into the Tianhe River.
Such a lake, connecting the north and the south, was the most important waterway in the Dahuang Dynasty.
If a boat from the north wants to go to the south of the Yangtze River, it needs to go backward to the lake area, and then go south to enter the Xialing River; the same goes for the boat from the south, it has to go back to the lake area, and then go north to enter the Qianjiang River.
It can be said that the Qinshan Lake District is equivalent to a natural waterway hub, just like the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal on earth.
It was fine in peacetime, but in the troubled times of the dynasty, due to the complex terrain and dangerous lakes and mountains, the so-called danger means danger and the so-called importance. It soon became a battleground for military strategists, with several forces fighting here, fighting, and separation. north and south.
Until last winter, General Chushan, who was stationed on the east bank of Qinshan Lake, was angered by the continuous wars and provocations. In a rage, he used new weapons and explosives to blow up the Hudong Dam.
The water in Qinshan Lake surged down from the third opening, covering the mountains and plains, flooding the seven armies, and turning the land thousands of miles east of Qinshan Lake into a quagmire.
Winter is the dry season, and with such heavy flooding, the area of Qinshan Lake has shrunk rapidly. Originally, navigation was intermittent, and there were often ships that could pass by smoothly. But now that the water level has dropped significantly, it is completely out of control.
The roads were blocked, so it was obviously impossible for the little emperor to go to Jiangnan.
Are you going to fly there in a hot air balloon?
Although the hot air balloon was indeed invented, how many people could it hold...
Or take the overland route?
Leading a large army of charioteers on a personal expedition, building formations all the way from the imperial capital city to the Jinling Mausoleum?
Even more impossible!
Sending other troops to Jinling to seize power will also fail.
After all, Su Xingmou's power and status are there! No one can truly seize power except the little emperor.
But "I never expected" that the waterway of Qinshan Lake was indeed broken, but after the water overflowed through the thousands of miles of fertile fields to the east of Qinshan Lake, it gathered in some waterways downstream of the fertile fields, and finally opened up an artificial canal and ancient waterway.
This ancient waterway happened to be mostly within the sphere of influence of the imperial court, and unlike the Qinshan Lake Waterway, which had twists and turns and had to go backwards from time to time, it was smooth and smooth all the way.
Suddenly, there was a powerful material channel in the area controlled by the imperial court, which made the connection closer and the deployment of troops easier.
All of a sudden, many voices in the court who had organized the little emperor's trip were quietly silenced.
The opening of this ancient waterway is like a good omen from heaven. Tell the emperor and courtiers, go ahead, go ahead. If you follow this road, there will be a strategy to save the Yellow Dynasty at the end - such as the Jinling Mausoleum.
Of course, this is a game, and such a coincidence cannot happen in reality.
When floods pass through, the ancient waterway can be reopened unintentionally.
There must be a reason why the waterway was abandoned. I don’t know how many years it has been unused. Even if water is stored in it, it is impossible to go from south to north without blockage.
If that were the case, it wouldn't be abandoned...
In addition to the game settings, there are also players' efforts in it.
Players along the ancient waterway often did the task of blasting mountains, cutting rocks, and dredging ravines when the waterway was still dry. The main players were birdmen, monks, and gray-robed players.
And the Chushan general was able to successfully blow up the dam and flood thousands of miles, all thanks to the help of the players under Big Cat's command.
Anyway, the flooded area is the control area of the other three players shrouded in Yunshan mist. They don't care about the life and death of the people under their command. They deliberately leave loopholes for General Chushan to blow up the dam and rely on a flood to clear the ancient waterways and people's hearts. The big cat doesn't care either.
Just go with the flow and let them go.
In addition to the harvest from the dam bombing mission, an ancient Mohist city was unearthed in Qinshan Lake after the floods dried up. It was full of mechanisms and treasures, which was an unexpected surprise.