While the citizens and big red stone owners were trying to make trouble for outsiders, Wang Qi himself was worried about the situation in the north.
When I came to the dark place, I thought I was in some remote corner, but I never expected that I was actually on the front line.
After the big collision, he began to add points to the expedition, but there was little progress at the beginning. The overall temperature in the north was still too high.
But then something new happened. The lava in the volcanic area to the north stopped flowing out!
It is reasonable to suspect that the formation was penetrated and the lava layer found a pressure relief outlet, so it stopped pushing to higher places. It was just because the lava had poor fluidity that it took more than ten years for the situation to appear.
The lava stopped flowing out. Within a few days, the surface of the active lava turned black and the temperature dropped significantly. An area with a temperature range below 60 degrees appeared and was passable.
However, the progress of the team due north was still slow. The first person to send back effective information was a team detouring from the west.
The volcanic group in the north is already relatively low in activity from the horizontal position of the underground cave group to the west. After the big collision, the temperature in the northwest direction of the underground cave group has stabilized and the average temperature is less than 50 degrees. After traveling for tens of kilometers, you will reach the low temperature. district.
I don’t know what kind of climate environment it is. Anyway, the temperature ten kilometers north of the volcanic belt is generally around 40 degrees, and it will get even lower as you continue to the north.
Later, the expedition team was on a high ground and saw a super lava lake appearing in the north.
There was no particular surprise, because on the day of the big collision, you could see a large amount of red lava falling from the sky to the north from the Wangting Tree, all of which were thrown out of the atmosphere during the impact. The impact crater has a large amount of heat concentration, and the material is too massive to cool down so quickly. It is of course now a piece of lava, or at least incandescent rock.
What forced the expedition team back was not the lava lake, but the appearance of a very aggressive little monster there.
The expedition lost one person, so they killed the little monster and brought it back.
This monster is bipedal and upright, 1.2 meters tall, with reddish-black skin, a huge slit, and sharp teeth. If it gnawed itself, it could probably eat off half of its head in one bite.
It also has wings, which are so small that the proportions are wrong, but it can fly.
It wasn't the claws and teeth that actually took the toll, it was magic, a fireball.
When Wang Qi saw the monster's corpse, he didn't know what it was. He just thought it was a species that is special to the north. After all, south of the Dark Land, there are at least dozens of demihuman species. There are a few in the north that are not available here. It's really normal.
But then it was discovered that there were more and more of these little monsters near the lava lake, and there were so many that the expedition team could not approach the lava area. Only then did they realize that the little monsters emerged directly from the lava area!
What kind of thing can live in lava?
Not needing anyone else to answer, I threw the little monster into the No. 1 furnace of the iron factory and burned it for a while to confirm that it was not resistant to lava at all.
Maybe it could be supported by magic when it was alive, but the body does not have the ability to withstand extreme high temperatures, which means it did not thrive in lava.
This situation also means that the little monster was not produced by the comet impact, but that something happened there that Wang Qi couldn't figure out.
The next expedition retired, and the garrison took over.
Because it involves cluster-type monsters that generally use magic, several young mages were transferred from the Magic Weapon Research Institute to help. Spell abilities are not important. The main requirement is to travel to more places.
The mages in the new city were all slaves, and not everyone was a slave since childhood. Many of them were captured in adolescence. There are relatively few who become slaves as adults. Maybe the probability of dying halfway is greater after the three views are fixed. .
Therefore, they are not all as blind as Wang Qi. Some of them have been exposed to magic knowledge and related history in their youth, and some of them actually know the little monster.
little devil!
After knowing the name and recalling the image, it feels like déjà vu. The bottom-level demons in several games in my memory do have similar images, but the heads in the games are bigger and the wings are smaller, making them look silly, so there is no way to think of them again. Instantly connected.
But even if you know the name, other information is still very vague.
For example, when the young mage who provided his name was called in for questioning, he was completely inexplicable.
"Isn't the little devil supposed to be a creature from hell?"
"Ah? Back to Your Majesty, the little devil is a demon, and I don't know what hell is."
"Why do demons call them devils?"
"...This is the name and image in the books I have seen. I don't know the rest. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Of course Wang Qi won't blame him. If he really wants to pursue it, it will be Solaris' fault entirely!
The Night Clan and Sharp Blade are aliens with basically zero scientific and technological knowledge. They have only seen the remaining traces of the industrial age and can easily adapt to the mechanical development system. Although the Xincheng gang is quite willing to do things, it is a pity that due to their own experiences, they cannot help. It's also very limited. They still have a lot to make up for, and their own magic level also needs to continue to improve.
The few large households in Red Rock City may have a slightly larger amount of knowledge about the local situation, but if you get into a place like Red Rock City, it is probably better but limited.
After all, his power is too young, and the types of talents he can use are too limited.
The prop shop that handles the city defense array business may know more, but Wang Qi did not consult because he had his own concerns.
As a manager, it is very dangerous to become irreplaceably dependent on any of your subordinates. What's more, the group of people in the prop shop were not subordinates at all, they just took a business order. The other party was not even willing to meet him. Wang Qi couldn't trust them at all. He didn't know what would happen if they knew his background.
As for the magic array, once the project is completed, the Magic Weapons Research Institute will take over, trying to reversely decipher the advanced knowledge of magic and adjust the structure.
In short, when faced with the situation where we don’t know whether the enemy is a devil, a devil, or something else, we would rather spend more time on research, or directly pry it out from the mouths of individuals who can communicate with the enemy.
The little devil is only active near the lava lake for the time being. I haven't seen one flying directly over the volcanic area, but I have to be on guard.
Fortunately, the garrison is equipped with magic firearms, which also pose a certain threat to flying creatures.
Wang Qi has thought about getting some magic anti-aircraft guns, but there are still not enough magic talents in the new city. Recently, they have been burdened with heavy equipment. There really is not enough manpower to open another magic production line.
For heavy industry equipment, we first placed our hope on local machinery factories.
It's a pity that the people who founded the machinery factory had too short a vision. For a long time, apart from consuming some iron, there was no output at all in terms of manufacturing capacity. It did little to help the iron factory digest its production capacity, and it was a complete waste.
Through this example, Wang Qi knew that his expectations were still too high. Things like heavy industry, which require large investment and slow return on capital, still had to be run by the government. It would be difficult to achieve success in a short time by relying on small bosses.
The Manufacturing Bureau under the Magic Weapons Research Institute has completed the production of several batches of magic firearms. The daily spare parts production and maintenance tasks are relatively easy. And they already have experience in mass manufacturing. Wang Qi plans to train a batch of them. People will be separated into heavy industry enterprises in the future.
Li Xiang has a very arduous task in it. She is responsible for learning various ghost courses from Wang Qi, and then going to the graduate school to teach.
Fortunately, Wang Qi did not expect Li to change her career as an architect or engineer, and did not ask her to study in depth, as long as she could find the corresponding items when asked questions and follow the instructions. Of course, if you don’t lower your requirements, you will be in trouble in terms of time.
Wang Qi also saw the drawings of the magic forging machine that was built there for the first time.
It's a little tricky. It mainly relies on a forging hammer that is heavy enough to make a free fall. There is basically no mechanical energy to assist the downward pressure. The magic part is mainly used to drag the pulley group to reset the forging hammer.
Therefore, although it is a two-story machine, the actual pressure is still less than thirty tons.
It is two orders of magnitude worse than an electric hydraulic machine, and has no advantage over steam. However, it is indeed possible to make a transition at this stage, because there are not enough corrosion-resistant models on the steel side, and the damage rate of steam engines is indeed a bit high.
The same goes for boiling water to generate electricity. If the problem of corrosion resistance is not solved, the electricity will be intermittent.
In short, there are not enough people, and we have to wait for new magic talents to grow up, or a sufficient number of engineer-level scholars, but the latter cannot be achieved quickly by stacking attributes, and it is obviously more difficult.
