Douluo starts with the Pea Shooter

Clockwork technology is a very special technology tree for this world. It has a very high efficiency in energy utilization, especially in energy storage. Compared with energy storage devices such as batteries used by humans on Earth, it has better storage effects and more stable output, and there is almost no loss during storage.

The most important thing is that this energy is very stable. As long as the insurance is installed, it will hardly cause any catastrophic consequences. It is suitable for long-distance transportation and is also a renewable energy source.

With the support of this almost endless energy, the construction of the Bright Empire has also become very fast. With the development of transportation, the logistics network throughout the empire has also begun to be laid. The biggest change is probably the railway network that runs through the entire continent from north to south and east to west.

The construction of railways originally requires considerable costs and high technology. But in front of the extraordinary strongmen in this world, these technical thresholds have all been lowered. For example, the most expensive rails in the construction of railways have become the cheapest part during the construction process.

The strongmen with the ability to manipulate metals have extremely powerful abilities in mining and smelting metals. It may be difficult to make them into artifacts, but if they are just made into rails, it will not be much more difficult for them than making ramen.

Each extraordinary person can produce thousands of meters of rails a day, and there are so many extraordinary people that it is possible to produce rails that can be laid across the entire continent.

As for the roadbed and sleepers of the rails, it is not difficult to deal with them. The roadbed is the strong point of the strong people with the image attribute. They manipulate the earth to gather the soil to form a roadbed above the ground, and then lay rocks in the soil to make this layer of foundation strong enough.

The sleepers carrying the rails can be transformed by the strong people with the wood attribute to stimulate the growth of plants on the spot. Their power can not only make plants grow quickly, but also be good at cutting and trimming plants, trimming the wood into the shape they need, and then laying them under the rails.

In this way, the speed of building railways is even faster than that of highways. After all, the construction of highways can only rely on the strong people with the earth attribute, and the hardening of roads also requires the strong people with the image attribute to perform certain operations on the road surface. Although turning mud into stone is a relatively simple five-element spell, it still has certain requirements for the strength of the operator.

It takes time to harden the road surface, and the highway is usually much wider than the railway, requiring a larger hardened area, so it takes a lot longer to build.

When the first clockwork train started, no one realized how much change it could bring to the continent. It was not until this train carried a large amount of supplies back and forth between the Southern Fire Empire and the Northern Water Empire, almost every day, transporting a large amount of originally precious supplies, that the extraordinary people realized that long-distance material transportation could finally get rid of space devices.

Although space props can also be produced, these things are undoubtedly very expensive. Although the effect of carrying props is very good, it can easily carry supplies and cross a considerable distance without consuming too much physical strength, but the carrying capacity is still too limited.

All the space props on the continent are sandwiched together, and the space contained in them may not be much larger than a fully loaded train.

While such trains are being built rapidly, a large number of rail trains have begun to serve to transport various materials to various parts of the continent.

This also provides sufficient resources for the establishment of supernatural academies around the world. Supernatural cultivation also requires resources, and many things are expensive not because they are really rare, but because they are too remote and difficult to transport to prosperous cities.

With the establishment of the transportation system, many precious supernatural materials have also reduced their prices in this process, and the cultivation speed of practitioners has been greatly improved. Under the effective guidance of the academy, many supernaturals who explore on their own have also taken fewer detours.

In addition to some mineral resources, the most in-demand resource for supernaturalism may be magic crystals, or magic cores, which are the essence of magic beasts, just like human crystal crowns. Whether it is making supernatural props or practicing, or using some one-time powerful abilities, this resource is needed.

Originally, people only captured wild magic beasts in the wild jungle and obtained their magic crystals, but this was inefficient on the one hand and extremely destructive to nature on the other. After long-term hunting, the number of magic beasts will drop significantly.

This is similar to the soul beasts above Douluo. Tens of thousands of years of hunting have caused the number of soul beasts to drop significantly. With the development of human beings, in order to obtain a large number of magic crystals more cheaply, people began to try to breed magic beasts.

The magic beasts on the Five Elements Continent are better than soul beasts in that they practice faster. Although their lifespan is much shorter, they do not need tens of thousands of years to practice to the top level.

As long as they are provided with enough food and enough spiritual herbs, they can practice quite quickly. After reaching a sufficient level of cultivation, they can condense the most basic magic crystals, which can be used for cultivation.

It was difficult for humans to breed these monsters on a large scale. On the one hand, it was difficult to capture them. If they only captured one or two pairs, they would need to breed them for generations, which would take dozens or hundreds of years to develop into large-scale breeding.

Before the five empires united, they did not have enough power to capture monsters, and they were not enough to gather enough monsters at the beginning.

On the other hand, the cost of breeding was very high, especially the cost of preventing these monsters from destroying them. These powerful monsters were not as quiet as ordinary livestock, and they would riot from time to time. They had mastered extraordinary powers, and ordinary cages could not hold them.

But after the five empires united to form the Empire of Light, the cost of this kind of breeding has also been reduced to a considerable extent. With the cooperation of strong men of various attributes, the cages made are very solid. The strong men of earth attribute make thick walls. The strong men of gold attribute insert metal into the walls to form a structure like reinforced concrete. The strong men of wood attribute plant plants on the earth wall. The roots of these plants will be entangled on the metal inside, making this wall stronger. Even if it is broken somewhere, it will be connected because of these plants, making it impossible for the monsters inside to escape.

Under this kind of union, it is difficult for the captive monsters to cause any trouble, and before they grow strong enough, they have been caught and slaughtered.

In this process, the most docile part of them will be selected, one part will be used as the contracted monsters of the extraordinary, and the other part will be used to pull the cart, or to pull the spring to be precise.

With the gradual popularization of clockwork technology, clockwork energy has become more and more important. Ordinary deeps can be used for charging, and so can Warcraft. The power of Warcraft itself is much greater than that of ordinary livestock, so it is more suitable for this kind of work, but ordinary Warcraft is unruly and will not obey human orders. The Warcraft that the extraordinary person has signed a contract with is the sweetheart of the extraordinary person and will not be used to perform such a hard task.

Only those with a docile personality and not selected by the extraordinary person can be selected from the Warcraft to do this kind of hard work.

As this kind of Warcraft that powers the clockwork, humans also have some selection. Not all Warcraft are suitable for this kind of work. Although many Warcraft have strong combat power, they may be good at spells or speed, and they lack strength and endurance, and are not much stronger than ordinary livestock.

But some Warcraft are not very strong in combat power, and the extraordinary people don’t look down on them, but they are very strong in strength and endurance, and can continuously charge the clockwork for days and nights.

These originally despised monsters have become extremely popular with the changes of the times, and large-scale breeding has begun.

Many people even found that the value they bring to the clockwork is much greater than the value of killing them to take out the magic crystal, and they are raised like treasures, and are reluctant to kill them.

In fact, this is a very normal situation. Those creatures with strong combat power in nature often do not have strong endurance. The creatures with strong endurance and can travel long distances are actually herbivores. They are often docile and do not have strong combat power. In order to survive, their reproductive ability is usually strong, and their number in nature is quite large.

The monsters that the extraordinary people cultivate to charge the clockwork are basically of this type. Most of their prototypes are herbivores, such as cows or horses. Of course, there are some special ones, such as giant turtles, or giant beetles.

They don't have such giant individuals in nature, but there are beetles of huge size and great strength among Warcraft. As combat pets, their strength is very ordinary, but they have the huge power of insects and can drive the torque of very large springs.

And the reproduction speed of these beetle-type Warcraft is usually very fast. If they are in the wild, after they lay eggs, a large number of young individuals will die, because these insects will not take care of their young, most of the fragile larvae will be eaten, and some will be killed by each other, but if their eggs are collected and artificially cultivated, hundreds of larvae can be bred at a time. In nature, the survival rate of these larvae may be less than 1%, but in the process of artificial cultivation, their survival rate must be more than 80%.

And this is not a little bit of improvement in reproduction efficiency. As long as a few of these beetles are caught and cultivated for one or two years, a large army of beetles can be obtained.

Originally, even if such a large army of beetles was obtained, it was actually not very useful. Whether they could defeat the army of ordinary people on the battlefield was questionable. Even because of their low IQ and lack of knowledge of formations, they would most likely be slaughtered when encountering an army of ordinary people. But now they have shown their great value. After being cultivated, their own strong strength and endurance have made them the main force for charging the clockwork.

Especially in those remote areas far away from water conservancy facilities, most of the energy there is provided by these insects.

Every village will raise a few to charge the clockwork in the village. Although it is still not comparable to the abundant energy in big cities, it is enough to meet the basic needs of this new era.

With the rapid development of the Bright Five Elements Continent, the Dark Five Elements Continent has actually gradually learned their development direction. These things are actually very easy to learn and do not have much technical content. It is just that the predecessor did not think of it. After seeing it, , it is not difficult to imitate.

Through the space system, the exchanges between the Dark Five Elements Continent and the Light Five Elements Continent are very frequent, and both parties have become accustomed to the transaction of crown crystals. Originally, the Dark Five Elements Continent wanted to destroy all its crown crystals and weaken the Light Five Elements Continent. The strength of the mainland side, but the feudal era government's ability to control the local area was limited after all. A large number of tomb robbers dug out the crown crystals they had buried and unlocked the seal.

In the end, the officials saw that they could no longer control this kind of thing, so they started official excavations. They dug out all the crown crystals that had been gathered together and sealed them together, and then sold them through official designated channels.

It has indeed created a considerable advantage for the Dark Five Elements Continent, because all other channels have been merged by the official channels. Anyone who dares to sell this kind of thing privately will be severely hit. As a result, the official website of the Dark Five Elements Continent can If you raise the price of your own crown crystals to a certain extent, for a long period of time, the price of dark crown crystals will be about half of that of light crown crystals.

However, things changed slightly after the unification war of the Guangming Five Elements Continent. As the Guangming Five Elements Continent also unified its own crown crystal sales channels, both parties could engage in price wars. After a period of scolding, they finally had to compromise. , the two parties chose to exchange in equal amounts, one for the other, so that there was no need to trade money.

The advantage that Dark Five Elements Continent had finally gained before was also regained in the process.

As time goes by, the gap between the two Heavenly and Five Elements Continents will probably become smaller and smaller. Lan Nuo's plan is finally gradually becoming successful. With the technological exchanges and material trade between the two Five Elements Continents, at least the two Mutual understanding has emerged among the ordinary residents of the Five Elements Continent. As long as this continues for a while, the war may not break out.

[To be continued]

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