Struggle in the Steam Age

No matter how you looked at it before, this gem was just a gem full of life force. When Lawrence and the others read the information from it, it also changed. At first he thought it was a manifestation of the exhaustion of the internal magic power, but later discovered that This gem is not a gem at all, but a seed of the world tree.

Although it sounds very tall, the seeds of the world tree are not as precious as imagined. For the elves, any settlement of more than 50,000 people or an independent elf clan settlement will have a symbol of the city or elf clan.

The World Tree that grew up got such a name purely because of its huge size, and it didn't represent the whole world as Lawrence imagined in the legend of his previous life. However, as the core of the elves' settlement, the world tree can provide a series of protection and regulation functions for the surrounding environment, and it can also be said to be an extremely rare magical plant.

More importantly, the attributes of the World Tree itself are very consistent with this astral plane and Nora. Therefore, if the world tree is downloaded in this plane, it is a very beneficial thing for the world tree itself, the astral plane, and the little puppet Nora herself. According to Lawrence's later generations, this It's a triple win.

"Then let's plant this tree in this place." After looking around at the surrounding environment, Nora said, "At least from various perspectives, this place should be the most suitable place to plant this tree in the whole space." The place of the World Tree. Then I can take this opportunity to build a new city in this place."

"I thought you would plant this tree in the capital of this plane. After all, this world tree is more suitable to be planted near the settlements of intelligent creatures." Hearing what the little doll said, Lawrence turned his head and asked a little strangely road. "What do you think is wrong with the old city?"

"There have been problems since the site selection." Nora said and waved her hand, and soon, a sand table model of the city appeared on the ground. In addition to the city itself, there are a series of terrains around the city. In order to allow viewers to understand the specific situation of the city more intuitively, Nora also made the model appear with grass to replace vegetation and a small area of ​​water to replace the river flowing by the city.

"Look, this city is located on a high ground near the water. The surrounding area is relatively convenient for transportation, and there is enough farmland area. It can indeed be regarded as a suitable environment for the jackals to live in." At this time, Nora landed on the edge of the sand table. , and then pointed a small stick that came out of nowhere in his hand and said. "However, with the development of the jackal civilization in this space, this place has gradually lost its development potential."

"For example, the foundation of this area." Nora said with the small stick in her hand to draw a circle with the location of the city and the surrounding area. "Except that the foundation of the temple is a stone hill, the entire city is built on the silted land created by the flooding of ancient rivers, which makes it impossible to build large buildings in this area."

"And before we came, the local people didn't know how to compost at all, so that all kinds of sewage kept seeping down. As a result, after thousands of years, the groundwater under the entire city was completely polluted, and Due to the huge sand content during the flooding period of several months every year, the river water can only be drunk periodically.”

"Urban groundwater pollution!" After Nora said this, Lawrence also realized this serious problem. Even before the industrial age, urban groundwater pollution was very serious. For example, the reason why the Han Chang'an City in his hometown in the previous life was abandoned in the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Daxing City was built in the southeast of the former site, that is, a very important issue in the Tang Chang'an City is that the Han Chang'an City has undergone hundreds of years of human activities The groundwater was seriously polluted.

And in a place where jackals have lived in that city for thousands of years, the groundwater situation is even worse. The entire city has built many canals and reservoirs to draw relatively clean river water from the upper reaches of the river for drinking. But because of various problems, this city has caused a large number of patients every year due to water pollution.

The only good thing is that because this world lacks supernatural power, diseases do not contain supernatural power. The physical fitness of the jackals is far better than that of humans. So to be able to persevere in this terrible environment.

"And purely from the perspective of urban development, this city doesn't have much room for development." Nora said and pointed to the slopes around the city. "At the beginning, the jackals chose this place to avoid the attack of wild beasts, and they could use the ground to defend with the help of terrain, but now it also prevents the expansion of the city."

"I can understand why a new city should be built." Seeing Nora began to adjust the leylines of the entire astral plane to gather magic power and even the purified power of faith, Lawrence took the opportunity to observe the surroundings, and probably guessed Why did you choose this place as the new core city.

Because according to the current development speed of this plane, the old city will soon be unable to accommodate the new population. Instead of rushing to rebuild a new city when the time comes, it is better to make comprehensive preparations now. On the other hand, this Gobi Desert is indeed suitable for building a city.

Not to mention that this place is located in the geometric center of the entire plane, and at the same time, it is close to the river that runs through the entire astral plane to facilitate the transportation of people and materials around. This solid and flat ground alone can greatly reduce the construction cost. The cost required by the time is already covered, and the large amount of open space around also reserves enough space for the future development of the city.

While Lawrence was thinking about these issues, Nora's work was coming to an end. Under the command of the puppet, the silver liquid condensed by the pure power of faith began to gather on the ground to form a small pool with a diameter of two or three meters. According to the amount of this group of power of faith, even for the gods It is said that the amount is not cheap.

"Stand back a little bit, brother and lord." After making all the preparations, Nora reminded Lawrence, who was still thinking, to lean back. Then he threw the seed in his hand into the silver pool in front of him.

When that seed was just thrown into the pool, nothing changed in the pool. After the sound of falling into the water, Lawrence and the others only saw circles of ripples on the pool. But soon, the ground shook slightly, and then a green thing rushed out of the pool quickly.

At first, Lawrence thought it was a cane that rushed out. But soon he discovered that it was actually a tree with emerald green bark growing rapidly, and the whole scene was like a video tape in a documentary.

In the beginning, the tree was only as thick as Lawrence's thumb and as long as the palm of his hand. But after the silver pool emerged from the tip of the tree, it never stopped growing taller and thicker. Just one minute later, the tree became a big tree with a diameter of one meter at breast height and a height of five or six stories, and it continued to grow taller and thicker.

"How big will this thing grow?" Lawrence looked at the rapidly growing tree and asked Nora beside him. "If I remember correctly, the size of this tree is basically equivalent to a normal world tree that has grown for three or four years."

"I don't know either." Nora also looked at the fast-growing tree in front of her in shock. "I only know that the world tree blessed by the gods on the elves can grow very fast, so I want to try it with pure power of faith. I really didn't expect the effect to be so good."

Fortunately, after about half an hour, the growth rate of the trees finally slowed down. But at this time, the whole tree has become a behemoth with a diameter of seven or eight meters at breast height and a height of about ten stories.