Chapter 401: Searching for the Beaver Fairy
[System prompt: Player Qi Ge receives an additional reward: Swamp Seed]
Swamp Seed
Special Items
Prerequisites: Swampy terrain, capital city
Effect:
After being planted in the capital and consuming a large amount of resources for irrigation, the capital gains a growing natural wonder: the young swamp rafflesia.
Young Swamp Rafflesia: Increases the gold production of all fortress cities belonging to the faction by 50%, the troop production by 50%, and provides 10 attack and 10 defense for all heroes stationed in the fortress cities.
Childhood - Growth - Maturity - Perfection - Ultimate.
It can grow into a mythical wonder: the Ultimate Swamp Rafflesia. 】
[System prompt: Congratulations to the player for triggering the True God-level branch mission: Titania's Future]
The Future of Titania
True God-level branch tasks
Task requirements:
Option 1: Give the Swamp Seed to a Legendary or higher hero belonging to Titania.
Mission Reward: Determined by the hero you gift.
Option 2: Capture the capital of Titania, seize the Tears of Titania Yasha, and plant the swamp seeds yourself.
Mission Reward: Once the Swamp Rafflesia is successfully hatched, it will enter maturity.
Explanation: For many years, Titania has been at a disadvantage among the nine major forces.
Titania has many powerful heroes and many powerful troops. In terms of military strength, it is not inferior to any force.
However, Titania's harsh natural conditions and scarce gold resources have always restricted Titania's development.
But the swamp rafflesia can change all that.
Now, the future of Titania is in your hands.
How to choose is entirely up to you. 】
"Hiss~" *5
When Qi Ge posted the attributes of the Swamp Seed on the team channel, five inhalations were heard at the same time.
Zhang Fuyou suddenly screamed: "Fuck, this is too exciting."
Li Xiaobai blinked his eyes and asked blankly:
"Boss, if the gold production increases by 50%, and the military production increases by 50%, doesn't that mean the national strength will increase by 50%?
If the NPC heroes in the fortress saw this, they would be drooling with envy. "
After hearing what Li Xiaobai said, Qi Ge instantly woke up!
He took a look at the beam of light rising into the sky and immediately gave the order:
"We can't stay here for long! Brothers, retreat quickly!"
Zhang Fuyou and his companions, who had been following Qi Ge for a long time and were well-trained, reacted immediately and got on their mounts.
Upon seeing this, Mixue Bingtang immediately summoned [Ding Dong].
"Ding Dong reminder, transformation in progress!"
Ding Dong made an electronic sound, and it transformed from a palm-sized ball into a jewel dragon.
This jewel dragon is so dazzling and stunning that it is almost as cool as Shion's true form.
Seven Pigeons: !!!
Zhang Fuyou: "Fuck! Miss Bingtang, you have such a cool mount?!"
Mixue Bingtang blinked her eyes, turned over and rode on Dingdong while saying:
“This is Ding Dong’s true form, a level 6 troop, the Gem Dragon.
Ding Dong is the original race of the Goddess of Wealth."
Qi Ge: "You are too conspicuous, can you disguise yourself?"
"Ah! Yes!" Mixue Bingtang patted Dingdong, and after a flash of light, Dingdong turned into a silver Pegasus like Ziyuan.
Qi Ge rode on Ziyuan who had turned into a silver Pegasus, and Mixue Bingtang rode on Dingdong who had turned into a silver Pegasus.
Two silver Pegasus, a purple dragon, and a ruby dragon stared at each other.
"Rich Little White Lin Xi, let's disperse and retreat.
If you see an NPC coming and you don't have time to run away, just commit suicide and go back to the city.
The wind is blowing hard, run fast. "
"Okay, Boss!" *3
Qi Ge looked at Mixue Bingtang and said, "Bingtang, follow me."
"Uh-huh!"
Qi Ge and Mixue Bingtang flew wildly towards the wild monster area. Before they flew far, a beam of light behind them exploded in the sky!
Layers of air waves carrying the moist and warm smell of the swamp were chasing after Seventh Brother and the others at an extremely fast speed.
Where the air wave passed through the swamp, the plants in the swamp began to grow rapidly!
Qi Ge looked back and saw colorful colors shining in the swamp, with emerald green vines growing and some huge tropical flowers blooming on the vines.
The entire swamp seems full of vitality.
In that case, there's no need to run.
Qi Ge quickly called out, "Bingtang, let's go down!"
"good!"
Qi Ge and Mixue Bingtang hid together in the rainforest vines in the swamp, using the dense vines to cover themselves.
Qi Ge took out a telescope and checked the situation from a distance.
Not long after, many NPCs appeared one after another where the light column burst out.
The first to feel it were the lizard people of the Devon tribe.
They were fully armed and approached cautiously.
The leading lizardmen rode on wild bulls and kept looking around.
The crazy growth of swamp plants makes the lizard people very careful.
When they arrived at the river where the treasure house in the swamp camp was located, they saw a huge fountain!
The original river channel had exploded from the ground, and the entire underground cave had been completely shattered.
As the underground caves shattered, underground rivers gushed out onto the surface.
I don’t know if it’s because of the disappearance of the Chaos Treasure House or the underground water pressure, but the water column gushing out from the surface of the river is unexpectedly more than ten meters high.
The lizardmen were surprised at first, and then began to discuss something loudly.
After a moment of chaos, many lizardmen walked out of the group and worshiped the fountain.
"Captain, are they thinking the fountain is a miracle?"
"It seems so. But they are not wrong.
The rapid growth of swamp plants is a manifestation of miracle.”
Soon, more and more tribes arrived.
The lizardmen tribe riding flying dragons, the werewolf tribe taming giant lizards...
The native inhabitants of the swamp soon joined the ranks of worshippers.
Not long after, the heavyweights arrived.
Taizer and Gwulf.
Once, during a six-month border war with Krullod, a small force led by Taizer stationed at a Taytalia outpost held off a Krullod army five times their size for eight days until reinforcements arrived.
Taizer is Titania's strongest shield, specializing in defensive techniques.
Gwulf brought the chariot to Titania.
It was the spoils he obtained when he captured a bandit stronghold on the border of Krurod when he was young.
Soon after, he became Titania's number one chariot expert, a position he still holds today.
Gwuft Ballista.
Different from other heroes who are good at ballistae, Gwuf takes a different approach and is best at city defense ballistae.
The crossbow he developed basically lost its maneuverability, and instead had a heavy and stable structure and enormous power.
If a city is guarded by both Taizé and Gwulf at the same time, even if the attacker is a demigod hero, he will be afraid.
Seeing the two of them arrive, Qi Ge put down the telescope and said, "Okay, let's go."
"Captain? Aren't you afraid of being discovered if you leave now?"
“No. Taizé and Gwuf have similar personalities. They are both calm players.
They will not send troops for a large-scale search until they ensure the surrounding area is safe.
If it's Bluefield or Kobas who comes, be careful.
Both of them were scouts.
One will send dragonfly scouting troops everywhere, and the other will ride a flying dragon to search everywhere."
"Oh, I see." Mixue Bingtang then asked, "Captain, where are we going now?"
Qi Ge smiled mysteriously and said softly:
“Xiaobai and the others also managed to escape.
We will meet them later and then go find the beaver. I think I already know where the beaver has gone.
If only beavers hadn’t gone extinct.”
Mixue Bingtang blinked in surprise.
…
…
The sky was clear with only a few very thin clouds in the sky.
Qi Ge took Lin Xi and the others for a stroll in the mudflats and swamps.
Li Xiaobai looked at Qige.
Qi Ge held the map in his hand, looking down at it from time to time, then looking up and walking forward a few steps, as if looking for something.
Finally, Li Xiaobai couldn't hold back any longer. Encouraged by Lin Xi and the others, Li Xiaobai approached Qi Ge and asked cautiously:
"Boss, we've been looking for a long time. Can we find the beaver fairy?"
Qi Ge gently put down the map, nodded vigorously, and said:
“I can’t be sure but the chances are very high.
I didn't notice this at first, but after defeating the swamp camp, I realized something was wrong.
Now, we already know that the birth of the swamp depends on the mother of the swamp - the swamp rafflesia.
Before we freed the Swamp Rafflesia, it had been swallowed by Chaos.
But, since there are no more Rafflesias, why are there still swamps in Titania?"
Qi Ge found a stone and sat down.
He placed the map on the stone and waved his hand to everyone, "Come, come, come and take a look."
After everyone gathered around Qi Ge in a circle, Qi Ge began to explain his ideas.
"Look, including the tidal flat swamp we are in now and the muddy swamp we visited before, a total of seven swamps have been created in the past hundred years."
Qi Ge used red circles to circle all the swamps that had been created in the past hundred years.
"Looking at it this way, doesn't it seem that there is no pattern to the birth of these swamps?"
Then, Qi Ge took out another map.
“This is a map of the water distribution of the Yama River in Taitalia.
Now, let’s combine these two maps together, what can you find?”
After a careful comparison, I suddenly realized:
“Ah, Qi Ge, these seven red circles you drew are all near the large tributaries of the Yama River!”
Qi Ge nodded approvingly and said:
"Yes! In recent years, all the swamps where birth took place have large tributaries of the Yama River near them.
Our real beavers have the ability to transform their own habitat.
They are always working tirelessly to build dams with branches, stones and mud to block the flow of streams.
Small ones may merge into ponds, while large ones may become lakes covering several hectares.
If the terrain is right and there is enough water, beavers can even slowly transform their homes into wetlands.
I was just wondering, is it possible that the beavers in the Yasa world are not only highly similar to the beavers in our reality in appearance, but also have similar habits?
It's just that beavers in reality mostly transform wetlands and lakes, while beavers in the Yasha world transform swamps?"
After hearing Qi Ge's words, Li Xiaobai and the others all had expressions of sudden enlightenment on their faces.
"Hearing what you said, Boss, the possibility is really high!"
"Yeah."
Qi Ge smiled slightly and continued:
“There is another reason why I make this judgment.
Do you remember the abilities of the fairies? "
Seeing Qi Ge staring at him, Lin Xi immediately replied:
“Of course I remember.
The goblins in the tower can absorb the negative emotions of other lives around them.
They are a strange race born from emotions.”
Qi Ge nodded and continued:
“I guess the fairy tribe is a patch that Mother Goddess Yasha put on the world.
Previously, I discovered in the time segments of the Slime World and the Source Dragon World that the erosion of the world by chaos would make the native life of the world more prone to negative emotions and even fall into madness.
The fairy race is just the right race to restrain the power of chaos.
Chaos makes life in the Yasa world more prone to negative emotions.
With more negative emotions, the fairy tribe will be born faster, and the negative emotions will decrease accordingly.
In this way, we can maintain the emotional balance of all races and bring more powerful combat power to the Yasha world."
Qi Ge sighed:
"If I'm guessing correctly.
Then the response of the Yasha world to the erosion of chaos can be said to be very clever. "
Zhang Fuyou agreed thoughtfully:
"Instead of confronting it head-on, we use the power of chaos to defeat it, and use the erosion of the world by chaos to strengthen ourselves in turn.
That's wonderful.
Why does it feel a bit like Tai Chi in our world? "
Qi Ge raised the corner of his mouth and said:
"right.
Judging from the history of the Yasha world, the Yasha world has always found various ways to fight back when facing the invasion of chaos.
Chaos will also continue to strengthen its invasion methods as the Yasa world confronts it.
The Fortress Force is one of the nine major forces in the Yasha world and is also the backbone of the direct confrontation with Chaos.
Unfortunately, swamp terrain is extremely important to fortress forces.
Many buildings of the fortress forces, even NPC breeding buildings, require swamps.
If the Swamp Mother is robbed, the swamp cannot be born and the fortress will become weaker and weaker.
Therefore, I think that the beaver fairy is Yasa's means of compensation.
It is just like when an organ in our human body has a problem, other organs will take over to protect the normal functioning of the body.
Now that the Swamp Mother is gone, the Yasha world is likely to have used the Beaver Fairy as compensation."
Mixue Bingtang's eyes lit up: "Wow, Captain, you are so smart."
Qi Ge smiled slightly and said, "I also found evidence."
Qi Ge took out a piece of architectural blueprint from his backpack.
【Fairy Dam Construction Drawings
Neutral faction hidden building blueprints
Terrain requirements: Need to be built near a river
Resource requirements: 2000 gold coins, 20 wood, 40 ore, hidden unit: Beaver Elf * 10
Effect:
It can intercept rivers and raise river water levels.
When the river water level rises, the gold output of the Fairy Waterwheel can be greatly increased.
At the same time, the land on both sides of the river will be slowly transformed into wetland terrain.
Note: The beaver fairy is not a fairy that looks like a beaver, but a fairy that can tame beavers.
The beaver goblin has disappeared into history.
However, it is said that beaver fairies still exist in some corner of Titania. 】
Qi Ge continued, “From the effect of the [Fairy Dam], its function is to change the surrounding terrain into wetlands.
Wetland is a general term for naturally or artificially formed lakes, swamps, marshes, peatlands or water areas, coastal mudflats, etc.
A swamp refers specifically to a mountainous landform where swamp plants grow because the surface is too wet, and where peat is formed and accumulated.
Wetlands include swamps.
In other words, beavers and beaver elves can transform into many different types of wetland terrains.
However, in order to make up for the absence of the Swamp Mother, they were transferred to Titania by the Mother Goddess Asa.
I guess, perhaps for the sake of protecting the beaver fairies, beavers and beaver fairies are extremely rare in the Yasha world."
Qi Ge turned to Mi Xue Bing Tang and continued:
As for the beaver that Bingtang saw last time.
I guess that the Chaos House was created near their habitat, and they are fleeing."
Li Xiaobai looked at Qi Ge with admiration and said:
"Boss! You are so awesome!
Your guess forms a complete logical loop, and it makes sense to me.”
When Mixue Bingtang heard this, she also nodded frantically.
Qi Ge smiled and continued:
"In short, if my guess is correct, as long as you follow the large tributaries of the Maya River and find swamps that have just been born or are in the process of being born, you can find traces of beavers.
The tidal flat swamp is the swamp that is closest to the present time of its birth that I can find.
I walked back and forth along the river all the way.
In real life, if beavers want to transform terrain into wetlands, they need to build dams to block the river.
Combined with the ability of the fairy dam, I guess the beavers in the Yasa world should use the same principle to create wetlands.
So wherever we can find a makeshift dam made of sticks and mud on a riverbed, we can find beavers.”
"Okay! We understand, Boss, let's split up and look for it!"
Li Xiaobai suggested.
The Seven Pigeons flatly refused:
"Need not.
The tidal flat swamp is a high-level wild monster area, higher level than the area near our God's Chosen City.
There are often 7 teams of two or three hundred level 6 wild monsters.
If we all walk together, we can take care of each other and it will be safer.
Please help me keep an eye on the river."
"Okay, boss!"
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As a newly formed swamp, the tidal flat swamp has not yet completely turned into stagnant water/mud like a mud swamp.
The tidal flat swamp, which is originally close to the sea, has a much larger water area than the mud pot swamp, and the water level is much deeper than that of the mud pot swamp.
There is not a large amount of mud deposited on the tidal flats and swamps, so you can see a lot of lush green low grass floating on the river.
The roots of these turfs also float on the river surface, and the roots are entangled with each other.
When Qi Ge stepped on it, he could clearly feel the grass sinking.
So Qi Ge led everyone to walk more carefully.
He knew very well that the seemingly calm grass actually had many weak spots.
Once you step on the grass and break it, you will sink into the pool of water under the grass.
As he walked, he observed the speed of the river.
Since entering the tidal flat swamp, he has been looking for slower-flowing rivers among the tributaries.
He found that the closer to the south of the tidal flats, the slower the river flow.
When we reached the southernmost river channel, the river was almost still.
This probably means that the dam is nearby.
"Plop! Plop! Plop!"
Suddenly, there were several sounds of something falling into the water coming from the front.
Qi Ge looked up quickly and just saw a brown and black furry tail flash across the river!
beaver?!
Is it a beaver?!
"Boss! What a huge beaver! I got a picture of it!"
At this moment, Li Xiaobai, who had been in charge of recording the video, exclaimed.
"Boss is awesome! I really made you guess it!"
Zhang Fuyou gave a thumbs up vigorously.
The conjecture was confirmed.
At this time, Qi Ge was exceptionally calm.
“Don’t be in a hurry. Finding the beaver doesn’t mean finding the beaver goblin.
Come on, let’s go over and take a look.”
Qi Ge walked slowly on the grass while using his [Magic Eye] to scout the road. He led everyone to the end of the grass at a leisurely pace.
At the end of the grassland, there is a small lake.
The front end of the lake was blocked tightly by a dam made of branches and weeds.
"Dyke! Wow! The captain is really amazing. He guessed it all!"
Mixue Bingtang appropriately cast an admiring look at Qi Ge.
Qi Ge poked his head out and looked at the lake.
The lake water is dark green, with a dense layer of aquatic plants floating on the surface.
From the surface of the lake, you can't see clearly what's under the water.
The calm lake surface is like a piece of emerald green jade. Nothing can be seen except some dragonflies flying on the lake.
If Qi Ge had not just seen the beavers with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to believe that beneath the calm surface of the lake there were "engineers" who created the swamp.
Zhang Fuyou volunteered: "Boss, how about I go in and take a look ?"
"No need for now, let me try first." Qi Ge walked to the edge of the grass, half squatted down, and said to the river:
“Fairies, I am Qi Ge, a chosen one of the Asa who is happy to help fairies.
I built a city on the shore of the Golden Sea.
In my city, the goblins live and work in peace and contentment, without any worries.
Together we built a salvage waterwheel that belongs only to the fairies, and many fairies have advanced to become waterwheel fairies.
In my territory, there is also a miraculous river called Lun River.
The Lun River once gave birth to the brave and strong forest centaurs, and also gave birth to the boundless Lun River Forest.
I can guarantee that Lun River is the most suitable river for beavers that you have ever seen.
There are an endless supply of small fish and shrimps, which can fill your bellies with both you and the beavers, and an endless supply of high-quality wood, which can serve as teeth for your beavers.
Even if the wood in Lunhe Forest is not enough, I still have a timber forest!
Not only that, you live in my territory, and I will pay you wages just like I do other fairies.
For every dam you build for me, I will give you 5,000 gold coins as construction fees.
My God-chosen City is the utopia for you, the fairy people.
How about it?
Are you excited?
Goblins, come out and see me, I mean no harm to you."
When Zhang Fuyou heard Qi Ge's words, his mind suddenly emerged with the various days and nights on the fairy water wheel, and the fairy logistics academy's triple inspector set meal of forest moss + magic bread + skeleton soldiers.
Even though Qi Ge was his boss, his only conscience couldn't help but cry out silently:
"Goblins, the boss is absolutely right. Our territory is picturesque, full of vitality, and full of gold. Come quickly!"