While Wang Qi was planting big trees on the central island, Akeem led another team of inner court guards to plant small trees next door.
This is still an island now, but when the water level continues to rise, only a reef of more than 200 square meters will be left on the water surface.
The island is unremarkable, but its position when viewed from the air is very special. It is exactly northwest of the central island and at an angle of 45 degrees to due north.
Planting small trees here is also a reference for the development of giant sacred trees.
A tree with a height of thirty to fifty meters is actually not that small, but compared to something that needs to be supported by a metal layer, it is about the same as a grasshopper.
The distance between the two islands is only 1.5 kilometers, and the trees can be seen visually. Using the collective effect of the Solaris core, the aquatic roots can go straight to the small trees with the least amount of energy.
For the aquatic root system, Wang Qi referred to a type of Utricularia algae.
Utricularia is a genus of organisms with many species that prey on water fleas or slightly larger insects. One of the underwater trap structures is useful for giant structures.
This insect sac has a hollow structure and is triggered when a small animal touches the bristles near the opening. When the lid is opened, the negative pressure generated in the internal cavity will instantly suck in water and food.
Utricularia preys on things as small as millimeters or even smaller, and the sacred tree naturally eats fish. The phosphorus concentration of fish is only worse than that of struvite, and it can also supplement nitrogen and carbon.
It is difficult for organisms in water bodies that lack light to reproduce. However, in the early stage, the sacred tree will not affect the overall lighting at all, and it will last for a long time. If you can eat fish, there is no need to limit the biomass filling point. The natural ecological chain will automatically The biomass at the lake is converted into fish and shrimp.
After Wang Qi planted the tree, he didn't look much and went back directly. Li Xiang would check in every now and then, help draw a sketch and go back to confirm the progress.
Similar to the development of Phoenix, the total amount of biomass used in the early stage was limited, and it seemed to develop very quickly. It only took twenty days to complete the docking with the first small tree.
You can't use swallowing, because the two are one, but they were planted with different seeds.
Taking this very positive southwest and northeast line as the benchmark, and then connecting to the third point, we also use small trees as signal sources for orientation.
It's just that the island cannot have a regular shape depending on the will of nature.
But the problem is not big. Wang Qi can come and help with the calculations.
After the three-point docking, there is no biomass landfill in the reservoir area. The closest one is on the shore, and it is on the north shore, about 5 kilometers away.
There is no island in the middle for transfer, so it is a bit difficult to fight against the waves of the lake over such a long distance.
At this time, manpower is needed to intervene, and floating platforms are built manually on the way to the north shore.
The floating platform was implemented according to the map of the reservoir area before flooding. Piles were placed in some places that had been submerged but the actual depth was limited to form a fixed platform that would not swing with the waves.
It took more than two months since the tree was planted to take root in the water and successfully climb to the north bank.
There is already a mountain climbing road on the north bank. The road standard is not high. It is mainly used to facilitate the access of people and vehicles who previously worked in the north of the reservoir area.
After landing, it was connected to another small tree planted by Akeem in advance to complete the wiring work.
So far, the sacred tree is just a vine-like object mostly floating on the water, and there is no structure at all.
The first small tree provides direction information. The information provided by the tree on the north bank to the sacred tree is "height", which is the reference ground height of the future city.
If you grow directly on the urban ground, the height difference from the existing water level is slightly larger, which wastes nutrients, and it is better to lay the foundation.
After being connected to the shore, the biomass is relatively abundant. According to the height line, roots grow around the reservoir area below and eat up the landfill points along the line.
This process can be said to be completed in the blink of an eye for the sacred tree. From landing to completing the encirclement of the south bank, it only took five days in total.
Of course, you can’t see the thickness, which is the size of an ordinary tree root.
At the same time, the part in the water also relied on the small islands on the growth line to climb down, trying to collect more nutrients and loosen the soil for aquatic creatures.
The reservoir area was washed by heavy rains before the construction of artificial glaciers. There is a very thick volcanic ash lake bed underwater. This stuff has been deposited in the water for a long time. It is similar to mudstone and cannot be chewed by ordinary small things. It takes a long time for microorganisms to replace it. Its siltification provides a new ecological environment.
After confirming the news of the encirclement of the reservoir area, Li Xiang stopped running here. What followed was a long nutritional preparation phase. The construction phase would only begin when the water level was high enough to provide buoyancy for the city.
According to the current rate of water level increase, it will take about twenty months.
There was a lot of manual work during this period, such as building roads in all directions and carrying out manual reinforcements in necessary areas.
The final water surface position of the central reservoir area is 100 meters higher than the super-flat area where Phoenix City is located, and 80 meters higher than New City. Its location is in Phoenix City, Nanzhen, New City, Yinghuo City, and New Pet In the middle of Sri Lanka, the edge is only fifteen kilometers away from several cities. It can be said that once it collapses, none of the surrounding cities will be spared.
Although the underwater part of the giant city can be reinforced through magic arrays and the like in the later stage, we don’t know when that will happen, and it is also necessary to be prepared for the enemy to break into the reservoir area and use magic attacks such as earthquakes.
The giant sacred tree will begin to build the city core twenty months later, but the related work cannot be arranged according to this time. It is still a matter of manpower.
The population of Firefly City is still in the process of increasing, but a large proportion must be incorporated into the slime mold army. As the population increases, it also needs its own various administrative and living facilities, which can be squeezed out to serve the reservoir area for a long time. There were only about 5,000 people, and there might be more in the back.
There are too many key industries in the new city, and it is difficult to squeeze even a hundred of them into one house.
New Pettus... This city was originally formed by a few thousand people who escaped from the collapse of Pettus City in the northeast. Moreover, this group of people had a relatively high hatred towards the demons and were relatively enthusiastic about joining the army. They did not have a large population. The remaining balance is now responsible for the mining of gold and red mines to the east. There is also no one available to serve the reservoir area.
Not to mention Nan Town, most of the people who work in Blue Sky Heavy Industry are people from Phoenix City. The so-called people with registered residence in Nan Town total less than 3,000, and most of them are engaged in wood processing and mining.
Phoenix city.
As the capital of a small kingdom, Phoenix City now has more than 200,000 people. However, if you exclude the military, administration, education, railway shipping management, and infrastructure, almost one-third of the population is gone. Many people do not work in Phoenix City. , just back from vacation.
Then there are various small and medium-sized industries and agriculture, civilian metal product production, salt production, printing, board game production, textiles, animal husbandry (Xiaoqiang), etc. Strange industries such as magic workshops do not require manpower.
Although no one usually pays attention to these small and medium-sized enterprises, the actual industry in Phoenix City is almost a replica of the pre-industrial period of Elena's hometown, which truly reflects the difference in living standards between the small kingdom and the outside world.
The main reason is that there are a lot of administrative staff here, so it is easy to go around and know where to buy things, how to make money more stably, etc.
The situation in other places is quite different in this regard. Although many things can be consulted at the administrative center, most people still grew up in a different kind of social relationship. Many people are afraid of approaching the yamen, let alone going in to ask. .
All in all, this group of people makes up the majority of the population in Phoenix City. Together with the previous ones, there are hundreds of thousands. In terms of normal daily life, various storefronts and transportation personnel, they consume almost the same amount of the remaining population.
Let’s put a thousand places first and see if they can be filled.
Calculated, there are about 6,000 people, and it is necessary to build and maintain more than 40 kilometers of Huanku line, with an average of only more than 100 people per kilometer.
The environmental reservoir project is not just a road construction project, it is also a facade project, and the construction work requires an additional training period. Even if it is outsourced to construction companies or even railway construction departments, they still have normal business and cannot focus entirely on the construction of the reservoir area.
Regardless, 20 months is definitely not enough.
We can only do selective construction, taking care of the north side of the airport first, which is also halfway between Phoenix and New Pettus. In addition, it is of course the academy side... To enter and exit the reservoir area from Yinghuo City, you have to pass by the academy.
