Chapter 164: Entering the Wilderness
The caravan used a carriage as big as a bus, with two floors and external facilities on the left and right. It was filled with packages, and in front were large beasts that were nearly ten .
However, the carriage prepared for them was indeed a carriage, not a cargo carriage, so it was no problem for them to carry several people.
The roads near Savage City are wide and flat, and the road conditions are very good.
But as we slowly moved away from the Savage City, the road became bumpy and uneven, and the wheels of passing transport vehicles would occasionally fall into deep pits.
Fortunately, the giant beast pulling the cart was strong enough to pull up the transport truck that was full of cargo and had its wheels stuck.
There was basically no danger in the first section of the road, and there was no place where they needed to take action, but as they slowly moved away from the Savage City, the sides of the road gradually became deserted.
The grass on both sides of the road became more and more lush, the trees became more and more sturdy, and gradually, the chirping of insects could be heard coming from the grass.
The air was filled with fog, and one could not see far away. Even though Xie Heng had just been promoted to a hero, he could only see two to three hundred meters away. Li Qing had the Eye of Truth, so he could ignore the wild fog.
The Savage City is located in the east of the Savage Plane. The location of the Savage City is East District 1. It has expanded outward one by one. The total area of each district is about one million square kilometers. It has now been developed to East District 10, which means that more than 10 million square kilometers of redundant areas have been developed and need to be removed.
If on Earth in the past, there already was an area as large as China.
But in the wild plane, it is only a few tenths of the area.
The convoy was moving slowly, with the Qiufeng Squad 's carriage following behind the team, between two transport vehicles. Li Qing pulled open the curtain and could hear a woman's soft and melodious singing coming from the front.
I don’t know if it was the singing and dancing troupe hired by the caravan, or some other team of adventurers singing.
Li Qing jumped onto the roof of the car and looked around. The jungle was too dense and blocked his view, so he couldn't see too far.
But even though the vision is blocked, you can still see a few ancient trees occasionally appearing in the distance, as well as some black shadows surrounding the ancient trees.
This primitive and wild jungle has extremely rich animal and plant resources, including some extraordinary magical plants. If you are lucky enough to encounter them, you can transplant them into the divine realm.
There was no demand for plants in the past, but when the area of the divine domain is large enough, the problem of the internal ecology of the divine domain must be considered.
Li Qing now found that the divine domain was completely barren. Apart from the central city, the surrounding area was barren and there was nothing.
There is no problem for now, but it will definitely not work for a long time.
Whether it is farming or planting cash crops, various fruit trees and the like are better than leaving the fields empty.
But Li Qing really wanted to plant some magic plants, because magic plants would emit a faint magical radiation. If magic plants were planted on a piece of land for a long time and some magical beasts were raised, over time, the land would slowly improve and become a magical land.
Then you can slowly expand the scope until it extends to the entire divine realm.
The benefit of doing this is that it can increase the magic content in the divine realm, slightly increase the sensitivity of intelligent creatures in the divine realm to magic, and slightly improve their talent for magic.
This wild plane is so large and has so many species, there must be a large number of magical plants.
Li Qing planned to let his subordinates search for more during the one or two years he was staying here, and then transplant them into the divine realm.
The days of long-distance travel were very boring. With such a large caravan, most monsters did not dare to attack the team. Even if there were occasional attacks, he did not need to take action. An Erqiu and Long Fa could handle them easily. Li Qing spent most of his time sleeping in the carriage.
Only when the team stopped to camp at night could he take time to meditate, sinking his consciousness into the space in his palm to study the magic runes.
Time passed, and four days later, they arrived at the base of East District 2, a fortress built with the war lord's domain as its core.
The caravan stopped here to replenish supplies.
But Li Qing asked An Erqiu to find the caravan owner and ask him to leave the caravan.
He felt the caravan was moving too slowly.
They were hitchhiking and had agreed that they could leave at any time, and the boss readily agreed.
The group walked around the city, visited the market unique to the Savage Plane, and bought some miscellaneous items.
Unknown seeds, eggs of various ferocious beasts, and some unknown miscellaneous things. Just buy whatever you are interested in. It’s not expensive anyway.
After staying in the town for a day, Li Qing took his men out of the town and headed towards the third district along the main road.
Some distance away from the town, Li Qing directly opened the door to the divine realm and summoned the lava crystal dragon out of it.
A lava crystal dragon that was stronger than before emerged from the gate of the divine realm, pressing its huge claws on the ground. Apart from emitting a faint smoke, it did not catch fire.
Now, "He" has already adapted to the blood of the superior dragon and can control the opening and closing of the fiery aura so that he will not catch fire easily.
The five of them jumped onto the back of the lava crystal dragon. Before they took a step, they heard a cry of surprise from behind:
"Oh my god, is this a dragon?"
Looking back, they saw a small caravan turning the corner and the lava crystal dragon that was as big as a hill. They were all shocked.
Li Qing waved to them and gently patted the red dragon scales under his body. Sparks spewed out of the nostrils of the huge lava crystal dragon. He took heavy steps forward under the shocked and envious eyes of a group of people behind him.
The lava crystal dragon is about thirty-five meters long from head to tail, and it has grown a lot recently.
It is more than ten meters high. Sitting on it, you can look down and see far away through the weeds on both sides of the road.
Similarly, with the strength of the Lava Crystal Dragon, basically no blind beast would dare to attack them.
It was safe, he could enjoy the view, and the speed was fast. Li Qing lay on the dragon's back with his hands behind his head, feeling quite comfortable.
The pace of the lava crystal dragon was not fast, but each step was more than ten meters, so its speed was still very fast. It would speed up when it was far away from the town. In just less than ten days, it had crossed eight districts in succession and arrived at the junction of East District 9 and District 10.
This is the edge of the Savage City's reclamation area, representing the influence of human civilization that has radiated here.
The further out you go, the fewer people there are, and even the number of adventurer teams is much smaller. After crossing the fifth area, he saw two caravans passing by in seven or eight days.
Starting from the ninth district, there is no so-called main road, only a small path that has been trampled for a long time. The weeds on the road are simply cleared, but because they have not been cleared for a long time, many weeds have grown on the road surface.
Here, ferocious beasts are rampant. Sitting on the back of a lava crystal dragon that is more than ten meters high, from time to time you can see a dark shadow passing through the dense forest shrouded in gray fog. From time to time, you can see unknown birds and ferocious beasts that are affected by the dragon power of the lava crystal dragon and rush out from the weeds in panic.
Sometimes when passing through a wasteland, you can see large groups of ferocious beasts roaming on the grassland in the distance.
Without the protection of a strong enough force, it would be impossible for an ordinary caravan to travel thousands of kilometers to get here.
The team continued to move forward and after running about a hundred kilometers, they suddenly saw a huge black shadow flying across the sky.
But after waiting for a while, the black shadow suddenly made a turn and flew towards this side.
Li Qing stood up, signaled the lava crystal dragon to stop, and looked up at the sky.
As the distance got closer, the black shadow became clearer. It was a blue wind god pterosaur with a wingspan of more than 30 meters and its body wrapped in a whirlwind.
Quetzalcoatlus is a species of dinosaur that looks like a combination of a flying dragon and a bat. It has no dragon scales, and its wings are large, broad but thin. It has the ability to control the wind.
The Wind God Pterosaur circled above him. As the Lava Crystal Dragon raised its head and a vortex of flames appeared in its throat, it quickly poked its head out from its back and stretched out its hand, shouting:
"Brother, don't do it."
Li Qing patted the lava crystal dragon, and the dragon closed its mouth and stopped breathing.
Then the Quetzalcoatl circled around them again, flew to a place more than a hundred meters away from them and slowly landed. Soon two young men in special clothes jumped down from it.
Two people came running over, looking at the Lava Crystal Dragon with envy. One of them bowed to Li Qing and said:
"We are the patrol team of District 10. We were just patrolling and saw your mount, so we came over to ask about it."
At this time, the other man also came back to his senses and said apologetically:
"We wanted to land directly, but our mounts didn't dare to get close."
Li Qing nodded, accepting their explanation, and asked:
"Then why are you looking for me?"
The man on the left immediately said:
"Nothing, I just want to ask you if you are going to the main city of District 10 ?"
"If so, then you've taken the wrong road. This road leads to another divine base."
"Wrong way?"
Li Qing looked back in surprise, then looked at the road under his feet, and said curiously:
"I have been following the only main road all the way, and I didn't see any forks along the way. How could I have gone the wrong way?"
The man on the left smiled bitterly and replied:
"Because the original main city was attacked by a legendary beast two years ago, it is now being rebuilt. The original road has been abandoned for a long time and has been covered by overgrown weeds."
"During this period, the caravans have been gathering at another private divine base, but the location of the new main city has been determined some time ago, but the main road has not been built yet."
"Originally you would know the way when you go to that private divine domain, but now that we have the good fortune to meet you, I will show you the way."
He finished the conversation, but Li Qing only remembered the first sentence. When he finished, he immediately asked:
"You said that the original main city of District 10 was attacked by a legendary beast?"
"What legendary beast?"
The man on the left immediately replied:
"I heard that someone stole the dragon egg of a legendary Steel Tyrannosaurus Rex, which led to a riot among the Steel Tyrannosaurus Rex, which led a large number of dragon beasts to destroy the main city."
Li Qing...
"Are there many legendary beasts in this plane?"
Both men shook their heads.
"That's not something we can know, but we have served in Savage City for more than ten years, and we have only seen two legendary beasts with our own eyes, but we have heard of more than a dozen legendary beasts from other areas."
"Well!"
“That’s a lot!”
"Yes, if there weren't many, we wouldn't have taken two or three hundred years to open up only a few tenths of the area. Now most of the areas in the Savage Plane have never been visited, and we don't know what terrifying creatures are hidden in them."
Li Qing smacked his lips and asked:
"Do you have a map? Give me a map and I'll go there myself."
The two nodded repeatedly and took out a map and handed it over.
Li Qing took the map, thanked him, and unfolded it to look at it.
The map was a rough topographic map of Districts 9 and 10. District 11, which was being developed, only had an outpost marked on the edge, and the rest was completely dark with nothing there.
Adjusting its direction according to the map, the Lava Crystal Dragon took another step forward.
The two sentinels got back on the Quetzinus and looked down from the sky. Wherever the lava crystal dragon went, there seemed to be an invisible force in the dense forest within a few hundred meters around it. Wherever it went, creatures were affected by the dragon's might and escaped from their hiding places and fled into the distance.
"Where did this big guy come from to open up new land? I don't know if he was invited by the government, but it was a private act."
"Who cares? Just go back and report to the boss."
"That's right, this has nothing to do with us."
With the help of a map, it took only half a day to reach the official main city area. When crossing a certain boundary, Li Qing suddenly found that he could open his personal panel and communication panel, and immediately realized that he had entered the divine domain of a certain official war lord.
After the War Lord's apprentice's divine domain is deployed, the communication radiation range is only ten kilometers in radius. After the official War Lord's divine domain is deployed, the radiation radius is at least one hundred kilometers.
The higher the level of the divine domain, the greater the radiation range.
If it is some micro plane, some high-level war lords can directly cover the entire plane.
As soon as he connected to the Divine Realm communication, Li Qing received a letter prompt:
"Welcome to the main city of Savage No. 10!"
There was also a more accurate color map, with the terrain depicted more clearly than those previously received.
The lava crystal dragon passed through the jungle and carved out a path. Li Qing did not see any of the common insects and poisonous snakes in the jungle along the way.
Occasionally, tiny mosquitoes were unable to dodge and fell stiffly when the lava crystal dragon passed by.
The dragon's might only strike fear into the hearts of powerful creatures, but to these ordinary insects it is like lightning, scaring them to death instantly.
In less than half an hour, the lava crystal dragon had crossed hundreds of kilometers and arrived at a river that was thousands of meters wide.
The river bends in the shape of a "几" (Chinese character for "J"). A huge city is built in the concave part of the "几" (Chinese character for "J").
This is a typical divine fortress, built very neatly. Some sections of the city wall have even entered the river but are still standing firmly.
The defensive facilities on the city wall are complete. There are only a few catapults, but all kinds of fixed crossbows, gun carts, and magic cannons. A wizard tower stands inside the city wall, and the surging magic light can be felt more than ten kilometers away.
All the trees within a few kilometers around the fortress had been cut down. The lava crystal dragon was discovered as soon as it emerged from the jungle, and was soon greeted by a small group of cavalry patrolling under the city wall.
After a simple identity confirmation, they were released.
Arriving at the city gate, Li Qing opened the door to the divine realm and took back the lava crystal dragon.
The city gate opened and a hero named Lin Zhengxiong, the city's security chief, received them.
