Arcane Universe

Everyone walked along the road between these strange plants. After turning over a small slope, an underground lake with an area of ​​about several square kilometers appeared in front of everyone.

The large tracts of land around this lake have been cultivated into farmland. A kind of fungus with a height of one foot and a blue canopy is planted in patches in the farmland, and many slaves are in the fields. busy.

This blue fungus is the most important crop in the Nether Darkness Region, and they are called blue cap fungi.

The spores of blue cap fungus are rich in starch and protein. After being collected, dried and milled, they are high-quality flour, even better than surface wheat, but the yield of blue cap fungus spores is not high.

After planting, the blue cap fungus can mature and produce spores in one month. After that, the spores can be harvested basically once a month. After three times, the blue cap fungus begins to age and the spore yield is greatly reduced. , So blue cap bacteria are generally only harvested three times.

The total amount of these three harvests together is only about half of the flour produced per mu of wheat.

Blue cap fungus can be planted three seasons a year, and the flour produced is not worse than the land on the surface of the world. However, the arable land in the underground world is too scarce. The arable land owned by the entire city of Thorne adds up to only more than 10,000 mu.

In Drow city, the spore flour of blue cap fungus is something that only Drow can eat, and the slaves eat the blue cap fungus itself.

The canopy and stem of blue cap fungus are rich in starch, but they also contain a lot of crude fiber. The content of crude fiber in the canopy is less than that of the stem.

The slaves will separate the canopy and stalk of the blue cap fungus and transport them to the cave in the south of the city. There is a huge lava lake in the cave. The temperature in the cave is very high and the air is extremely high. Drying, the blue cap fungi and their spores will soon dry there, and then sent to a mill not far away for grinding.

Spore powder is of course Drow’s delicious meal, umbrella cover powder is the food of the slaves, and the worst quality stem powder is the food of domestic animals.

The yield of blue cap fungus spore powder is not high, but the yield of canopy powder is quite large, and the cost of feeding slaves is quite cheap.

Simon walked all the way, while quietly introducing some common sense to Leo.

He pointed to the lake in the middle of the cave and said, “Don’t look down on this lake, but it is very deep. Even Drow doesn’t know how deep they are. This kind of lake is sometimes dangerous. There may be dangerous aquatic magical beasts hidden inside.”

“This is a freshwater lake. In the Nether Darkness Region, freshwater lakes are relatively safe, while saltwater lakes are even more dangerous. It is said that some saltwater lakes even There are terrible benthic magic fish.”

“In the Nether Darkness Region, both freshwater lakes and saltwater lakes can nourish such a vibrant underground jungle, except for the plants nurtured by freshwater lakes and saltwater lakes. The types are a little different…”

Feng Chou listened with interest to Simon’s introduction, unconsciously following the slave team to the field by the lake.

Their arrival replaced a batch of exhausted human slaves. After the patrol team responsible for guarding them and the patrol team escorting Feng Chou, they escorted this team of exhausted slaves to the city.

Feng Chou Their task today is to water. Everyone received two wooden buckets made of giant tans. They went to the lake to fetch water and water the land.

After a day of hard physical work, let alone ordinary slaves, even Leo, who has a strong physique, feels quite exhausted.

Feng Chou found that the labor density required for the blue cap mushroom field is much greater than that of the wheat field on the ground.

Feng Chou also worked in farming since he was a little boy in his previous life. With his current body, Leo, as a son who pioneered Knight, learned agricultural management knowledge from an early age. This knowledge tells Feng Chou that the labor required to serve blue cap mushroom fields is at least four or five times that of surface farmland.

Of course, this is also related to the lack of water conservancy facilities in Drow’s farmland and the lack of animal power. It’s no wonder that one or two thousand human slaves in Thorne are so strenuous to serve more than ten thousand acres of land.

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In the next few days, Feng Chou and Simon used their rest time to dive out of the city several times, climbing from caves to high places, and observing the population flow in the city. They found that everyday all had a large number of slaves brought into an unremarkable cave in the west of the city.

The slaves brought into that cave are all caveman and goblins, not at all human slaves.

This is related to the positioning of different slaves in Drow City. In Drow City, human slaves are used to grow mushroom fields, and goblins and caveman people are used to mine. Obviously miners are used to build roads. Be more professional.

In desperation, the two can only continue to forbear lurking and wait for the opportunity.

After spending some time in the slave, Feng Chou couldn’t help but ask Simon a question, “Simon, I don’t seem to see a powerhouse above level 5 in the slave area?”

Simon took a look at Feng Chou and explained: “Drow will not allow mid-level professionals to appear in the slave. For them, the mid-level professionals are already dangerous enough to cause great damage in the slave area. Chaos, there is also the ability to escape, so there is only one place for the intermediate professionals who fall into Drow’s hands, and that is the arena in the inner city…”

Feng Chou hearing this suddenly, no wonder this guy is dead and alive. Unwilling to expose the strength of his sixth-level fighter.

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The two of them have tolerated and lurked for more than a month.

More than a month later, the Drow elves began to transfer human slaves into the cave, and the two immediately mixed into the transferred slave team without the slightest hesitation.

The slave who was transferred to the cave was treated differently from the slave who went to work in Mushroom Field. The slave who was escorted to Mushroom Field, a team of hundreds of people, was escorted by only one patrol.

The same number of slave teams who were transferred to the cave were escorted by two patrols.

Not only that, when the slave team walked to the entrance of the cave, two more patrols joined the escort.

The ratio of the number of the escort team and the slave team almost reached 1:2, which made Feng Chou and Simon nervous.

Of course, such military force equipment is not to prevent slaves from escaping.

After entering the cave, the escorted Drow brought a long rope to string the slaves together.

In this cave, Feng Chou saw a wide road.

It is strange that this path is very flat, but there is no trace of who was excavated, just like a natural formation.

What’s even more surprising is that caveman’s footprints can be seen from time to time on the smooth stone road!

This makes people think of the concrete floor, when it is not solidified, the scene of being trampled on.

Is this road paved with cement?

In fact, it is not. The scan result of Universe Pagoda also told him that the ground is stone.

Feng Chou quickly found the reason from Leo’s memory.

There are two quite famous spells in the intermediate spells of the entire world “change system”, that is, “fossils into mud” and “mud into rocks”. The former of these two spells can transform Several cubic stones are turned into soil, and the latter can turn as much soil into stone.

Obviously, the power of a mage was involved in the construction of this path. Otherwise, it would be a sky-high price to build a road in the Nether Darkness Region where there are hard rocks everywhere.

Just think about the mage tower, Feng Chou is not surprised. In addition to its powerful battle strength, the mage tower is also a mage training center, a production base for alchemy items and spell scrolls.

This city has a mage tower. There must be a group of mage. Any mage who masters these two spells can extract the power of the mage tower after obtaining the permission of the master of the mage tower. Mass production of these two spell reels, without worrying about the problem of the spell position.

As the team went deep into the cave, the light became darker and darker. At the beginning, there were newly transplanted fluorescent bacteria barely providing a little light, but as the team progressed, even the fluorescent bacteria disappeared, and the cave became I can’t see my fingers.

The human visual ability lost its effect, and the slaves unconsciously grasped the rope in their hands.

Soon, even Feng Chou’s dim vision lost its effect, which shows that the cave has almost completely lost light.