Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 193: Exploring the Mystery

Suman Islands, Inner Circle, Suman City.

This is a huge city built on six islands. Between the islands, the magic bridge constructed by rock and soil magic acts as a connection.

The whole city is divided into islands.

Six islands correspond to six regions.

Four of these areas are living areas where commercial and residential functions are mixed.

The other two areas are the port area and the trading area.

Relying on Suman Port, the port area is full of large and small docks and warehouses. It connects the core circle, inner circle and outer circle of the Suman Islands, and connects the south coast of Cahill Continent in the north and the north coast of Whirling Continent in the south.

The trading area is the destination of Li Nuo's trip.

It is close to the port area, separated from Suman Port by a line, and in the middle is a sea with a width of more than 7,000 meters. There are countless ships coming and going.

Here in Suman City, wizards can only cast specific spells-shield spells and camouflage spells to prevent theft and robbery, but still cannot use flying spells and offensive spells.

But after leaving the range of Suman City and entering other areas in the inner circle, wizards can use flying spells.

It is now the third day of arriving at the Suman Islands, early in the morning.

Li Nuo and Dynas took the flying disc of the inner circle to the edge of the inner circle and landed on the special berth of the public magic vehicle. Not far away was a magic taxi waiting to provide travel services.

Thanks to the extremely strong magical atmosphere here in the Suman Islands, all magic taxis have achieved unmanned driving and automatic navigation. If you want to enjoy the service of a special car pick-up, you have to go to the magic car rental company to customize it.

Since you don't have to face the driver, why not do it. Li Nuo took Dinas into the magic taxi and announced the place name in Unas ring language.

The magic taxi started steadily, hovered half a meter above the ground, and moved forward smoothly along the designated driving passage on the ground.

The architectural style of the inner ring of the Suman Islands is inherited from the Unas Ring. There are many stone houses with pointed roofs, arched doors and windows, dark red wooden beams, and gray tiled stone walls.

The magic taxi drove Li Nuo and his wife through the bustling streets, and within 20 minutes of departure, they arrived at the trade center of the Suman Islands.

This place was placed in the world before Li Nuo traveled, which was equivalent to the central business district of a provincial capital city. There are high-rise buildings everywhere, and the streets between the buildings are crowded with people.

Passers-by on the street basically wore magic robes, but that didn't mean they were all wizards. Because the magic robe has the magical property of "constant body temperature", ordinary people will also buy a set for themselves in the hot Suman Islands.

Li Nuo led Denise to avoid the crowd, walked up the steps, and stepped into the island exchange that specializes in trading islands.

The Suman Islands generally present an east-west orientation, consisting of 120,000 islands with an area of ​​more than 15 million square kilometers, extending about 8,000 kilometers along the equator, and a maximum width of more than 4,000 kilometers from south to north.

The core circle of the Suman Islands is located on the westernmost side of the archipelago, occupying more than 300 islands in the westernmost part of the entire archipelago. The Inner Circle is completely controlled by Hortams. Any islands in the inner circle are not for sale.

The inner circle of the Suman Islands, on the outskirts of the core circle, occupies about 1,000 islands to the east of the core circle.

Further east of the inner circle is the outer circle of the endless archipelago. There are more than 118,000 islands in total, all of which are within the outer circle.

The staggering number of islands in the outer ring does not mean that they are uninhabited.

The Unas Ring discovered the Suman Islands more than 500 years ago. Today, all islands are owned. Most of them were controlled by the wizarding forces and ancient families who built the core circle and inner circle back then.

These ancient forces have opened magical ecological farms, magic workshops, colleges, trading posts, ports and other magical facilities in the inner and outer circles.

The entire Suman Islands starts from the westernmost core circle, and the further east, the lower the population density.

When Li Nuo bought the island, he was doing business with this group of forces with a long history.

In the hall of the Island Exchange, the bright and clean marble floor reflected the skylight. Under the guidance of the magic servants, Li Nuo and his wife entered the reception room where they discussed the purchase of the island.

Sitting for a while in the softly carpeted reception room, the wizard who assumed the role of a salesperson pushed the door open.

"Good day, sir and madam."

The salesperson is a witch, a four-ringed deep-sea wizard, and a non-combat wizard.

From the breastplate on her aqua-blue magic robe, her name was Nellie.

After Nelly entered the room, she briefly introduced herself, and then used deep sea magic to summon a liquid sand table, simulating the island distribution map of the outer ring of the Suman Islands.

On this three-dimensional simulated distribution map, islands that have been sold or cannot be sold will be marked in light gray.

Islands that are for sale are marked in green.

The difference in color made Li and Nuo intuitively feel how popular the Suman Islands are.

The islands being sold accounted for only one-twentieth of the total number of the archipelago, and most of the islands have ceased circulation.

Nelly said that there are about 5,000 islands currently listed for trading.

The islands being sold are basically distributed on the easternmost side of the Suman Islands, which is the place farthest from the core circle.

The east-west span of the Suman Islands has reached a staggering 8,000 kilometers. Going from the core circle to the easternmost side, even if you try your best to use flying spells to make the journey, it will take dozens of hours.

If you don't want to put down roots that far, there is only one way: find an island near the west side of the archipelago and lease it long-term.

Due to the relatively long lifespan of wizards, the lease period of the islands in this world can be extended to 50 years, or even 100 years.

If Li Nuo and Denise don't plan to live here for the rest of their lives, then renting the island is the best choice.

Nelly, the salesperson, introduced the rental status of the island by the way.

Starting from the inner circle, the island rent starts at 300,000 gold coins per year. The farther east you go, the lower the island rental fee. About 3,000 kilometers east of the inner circle, the rental fee was reduced to 2,000 gp a year.

Simple calculations show that the 150,000 gold coins that Li Nuo and Denise planned to use to buy the island are enough to rent the cheap island for 75 years.

Is to buy, or to rent?

The point is not how much you spend.

money is not a problem.

What Li Nuo really cares about is "commuting" time.

Opportunities to make money abound in the inner circle. At the moment when gold coins are equal to basic attributes, Li Nuo probably needs to go back and forth frequently between the inner circle and the island. The time he spends on the road can be reduced by using the 100-level flying spell.

But no matter how to reduce the "commuting" time, he will need to spend at least 20 hours flying over half of the Suman Islands.

Moreover, the energy consumption of the flying spell is calculated according to the mileage, which is fixed at 1 point of death energy + 1 point of energy per kilometer.

Flying a few more times, the tens of thousands of death energy and stamina will be gone.

Thinking about it this way, perhaps it would be better to lease the island.

"Nellie, is there any way to quickly get from the east side of the archipelago to the west side?" Li Nuo asked.

"Yes." Nelly reached out and brushed the model of the islands on the table, outlining a circle of glowing strips around the islands.

Many tributaries branched out from this circle of light, extending toward the depths of the archipelago, eventually forming a network hidden under the seawater of the archipelago.

Basically, next to every twenty or thirty islands, there will be a tributary of the light belt passing by.

"The Deep Sea Branch is located near the seabed of the Suman Islands, building a magical ocean current that connects the entire archipelago. Those glowing lines on the three-dimensional model are where the magic ocean current is located."

Nelly took out two magic props in the appearance of spar from her magic pocket, and stuffed one for each of Li Nuo and Denise:

"After you reach the sea above the magic ocean current, hold the "ocean current spar" tightly and you can take the underwater ocean current to pass quickly. In this way, it only takes 3 seconds from the easternmost side of the archipelago to the inner circle. "

"3 seconds?" Li Nuo raised his eyebrows, "So fast?"

"Well, yes. The magic ocean current is actually a plane channel built by the Deep Sea Branch. Taking the magic ocean current is similar to teleporting with the help of a sub-plane. However, the magic ocean current is not free."

Nelly said:

"The price of ocean spar is 50 gold coins each. Each ride consumes 1 ocean spar. Traveling back and forth between the east and west sides of the archipelago requires two spars. If you buy more than 100 spars at one time, you can get a 5% discount .”

Li Nuo looked at the spar in his hand and asked:

"Does it need to consume an ocean current spar in any section of the magic ocean current?"

"That's right. It's most cost-effective to take the current from the westernmost and easternmost sides of the archipelago." Nelly responded.

Li Nuo nodded and said:

"So, for people living on the east side of the archipelago, access is a small problem. The most troublesome thing is the natural environment on the east side of the archipelago."

Nelly says:

"That's right, sir. When the Unas Ring discovered the Suman Islands, they did a detailed environmental investigation. The west side of the islands is calm, and most of the islands are relatively flat, and the seawater pollution is relatively slight. But on the east side of the archipelago, there The frequency of strong winds and waves is relatively high, and most of the islands are too steep. The three equatorial snow-capped mountains in the Suman Islands are all distributed on the easternmost side of the archipelago. The islands where these three equatorial snow-capped mountains are located are basically cliffs. An island is a snow-capped mountain, and a snow-capped mountain is an island. Because of this, it is difficult to sell the island where the equatorial snow-capped mountain is located, and its price is also the cheapest."

"Hmm..." Li Nuo snorted softly while thinking, "Nellie, how much is the snow mountain island?"

Nelly made gestures on the magic model, zoomed in on the three snow-capped islands for sale, and marked the basic information and selling price of each island with magic words.

Li Nuo glanced, a little surprised:

"No. 2 Snow Mountain Island and No. 3 Snow Mountain Island cost 3.5 million gold coins, but No. 1 Snow Mountain Island only costs 130,000 gold coins. How can it be so cheap?"

Denise was also surprised by the price. From the information she knew, she had never mentioned such a low price.

Nelly hurriedly explained:

"Sir, the price of the island you learned may have expired. The high-value mineral resources on No. 1 Snow Mountain Island have been collected by the Pangula family. Except for the forest at the foot of the mountain, only the rocks of the Snow Mountain remain on the island." With ice and snow. These three islands have no natural ports, and the terrain is not suitable for the development of magic agriculture and magic manufacturing industries. Their actual economic value is very, very low.

"Before the Pangula family collected the mineral resources on the No. 1 Snow Mountain island, these three islands had been put on the market for more than 50 years, and they had not been sold. The Pangula family may have recovered their previous investment, so they passed Part of the loss can be recovered by mining the mineral resources of No. 1 Snow Mountain Island.”

"The mineral resources of No. 1 Snow Mountain Island have been harvested, no wonder..." Li Nuo now understood why the price was so low.

There are a group of people here in the Suman Islands who specialize in buying islands to gamble on mineral resources. This routine is the same as the well-known leak-picking before crossing, requiring precise eyesight and superb magic exploration skills.

If the island you bought happens to be extremely valuable, but there are no mineral resources discovered by the original island owner, then you can make a lot of money. Many gossip protagonists made their fortunes in this way.

"If you plan to buy No. 1 Snow Mountain Island, please be cautious. After all, there is nothing there except rocks, ice and snow, and a piece of woodland at the foot of the mountain." Seeing that Li Nuo was silent, Nelly couldn't help but said.

Denise blinked her eyes and looked at Li Nuo.

She has always been based on Li Nuo, and she has no brains to support any decision of the other party, and it is the same at this time.

Even if Li Nuo bought all the No. 1 snow mountain islands without saying a word, Danas would readily take out the coin bag and pay for it.

Li Nuo broke away from his thoughts, clenched his fist and lightly beat his palm and asked:

"Nellie, is it convenient for you to take us to the east of the archipelago for a field trip? Besides these three snow-capped islands, I have several other islands to visit."

"No problem." Nelly stood up. "Follow me, please."

Li Nuo and Li Nuo left the reception room with Nelly, and boarded the magic car to the beach accompanied by the other party.

9 am on the same day.

On the east side of the Suman Islands, in the northern waters.

The three figures flew out of the sea under the wrapping of the water-blue light, and suspended in the air.

These are the three Li Nuo who just arrived here from the west side of the archipelago through the magic ocean current.

With the protection of the ocean spar, this fast and short underwater journey did not make the clothes of Li Nuo and the others soaked.

Li Nuo and Denise entered the flying state in the air, and under the leadership of Nelly, they flew towards the three equatorial snow-capped mountains that pierced into the sky.

These three islands with snow-capped mountains are distributed on the sea surface on the easternmost side of the archipelago, separated by several kilometers from each other.

Just like Nelly showed on the magic model, the maximum width of the snow mountain island is about 28 kilometers, but in such a small place, there are snow mountains with a height of more than 5,000 meters rising from the ground.

The towering and steep snow-capped mountains stand like sharp cones on the sea. Only at the foot of the mountain, there are pitifully few flat lands and forests, and all other places are bare dark gray rocks.

The owner of the island, the Pangula family, used some kind of magic to pinpoint the mineral resources in the mountain. They dug circular passages all over the mountain, dug away the mineral resources deep in the mountain, and did not seal the circular passage before leaving.

When Li Nuo arrived at No. 1 snow mountain island, he immediately noticed the cave entrance on the mountain.

With the mining efficiency of the Pangula family, the mineral resources on this snow mountain island have been completely emptied...

Um…

Will there be hidden resources that the Pangula family failed to discover?

Li Nuo thought so, aiming at the island and throwing Deconstruction.

【system information:】

[You are about to use deconstruction on "No. 1 Snow Mountain Island". 】

[Estimated consumption of 13.3 billion energy points can increase the completion of deconstruction to 100%]

13.3 billion…

It takes 13.3 billion to fully deconstruct an island that has been hollowed out of resources…

Li Nuo turned his gaze to an island next to him.

The island maintains its original ecological environment, and there are no traces of excavated resources.

Nelly followed Li Nuo's gaze, and took the initiative to introduce:

"Sir, that is the island numbered 113456. The Pangula family discovered through exploration that there are two underground deposits on the island, with reserves of about 2,400 tons of blue steel ore, but mining is very difficult and the ore grade is low, so the island The selling price is only 250,000 gold coins. The Pangula family promises to provide their own exploration report with the island. If you plan to mine minerals on the island, you may wish to cooperate with the Pangula family. This family is rooted in the metal system and geotechnical system The field of magic is one of the most well-known goldstone magic families in the Unas ring."

"I've heard of the great name of the Pangula family. They are indeed one of the best experts in prospecting and excavating minerals."

Li Nuo said a few words, and threw the deconstruction technique towards the island.

【system information:】

[You are about to use the deconstruction technique on "Island No. 113456". 】

[Estimated consumption of 1.2 billion energy points can make the deconstruction complete to 100%]

1.2 billion?

Li Nuo blinked.

How can it be so low? ?

Could it be that the island's deconstruction consumption has little to do with the island's mineral resources, but the island's water volume has a greater impact?

Li Nuo nodded secretly, thinking that it should be like this.

He clicked on the personal panel and looked, and the energy value inventory was about 46,000 points.

Using deconstruction to analyze the value of the island is undoubtedly more convenient than the magical exploration of the Pangula family.

But…

This is the first time for Li Nuo to deconstruct something as huge as an island, and he always feels powerless, like a toothpick stirring a big vat...

Ten to twenty thousand deconstruction value is sprinkled, and maybe not even a splash can be seen...

Li Nuo thought about it for a while and came to a conclusion.

No matter so much, let's try to deconstruct it first.

Li Nuo looked at the No. 1 snow mountain island, consumed 10,000 energy points, and activated the deconstruction technique.

[Successful deconstruction! 】

[Your completion of the deconstruction of "No. 1 Snow Mountain Island" has increased to 0.0075 per ten thousand. 】

[You get very little panel information:]

[Name] No. 1 Snow Mountain Island (temporary name)

【characteristic】

Outlet of Longya Reservoir:

The snow mountain in your eyes is actually one of the outlets of the Longya Reservoir that has long been forgotten by the world.

When certain conditions are met, the water outlet will automatically open and deliver seawater to the entire world.

The builder of the reservoir is a giant dragon, so it is a mystery whether the "sea water" output by the reservoir is the "sea water" in human cognition.

(The deconstruction is not complete enough to obtain more information.)

…

Faced with the deconstruction results in his mind, Li Nuo was stunned for a while.

Nelly and Denise thought he was thinking about something, so they chose to keep silent and didn't disturb him.

Only Li Nuo himself knew that he was losing his mind about the "water outlet of Longya Reservoir" mentioned in the deconstruction result.

Is the snow mountain the outlet of the reservoir?

How big should the entire reservoir be...

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