Chapter 67 First exploration! Spectacular saltpeter mine!
"Speed 45"
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"Speed 23"
The road to the kobold saltpeter mine collection site is not easy to walk. The stumbling stones made it difficult to pick up the speed.
After walking for about 40 to 50 minutes, Somo drove less than 30 kilometers.
The kobold behind him had obviously never seen such a fast and ferocious artifact. He was wandering around the world and was thinking about something.
Seeing the car slow down, the kobold immediately continued to point the direction.
"Well, it seems that the kobold camp and the saltpeter mine are to the west."
The car continued to move forward along the direction pointed by the kobold, and walked for more than 20 kilometers before crossing again. A high slope that blocks the view.
Seeing the kobold's gesture, Somo subconsciously raised his head and looked in the direction of the kobold's finger.
The pupils shrank suddenly!
On the ground in the distance, there is a piece of silk-like ice crystals, spread on the tops of hills, stretching for several miles.
At this time, we were still about ten kilometers away from the saltpeter mine, and Sumo could clearly see this large area of naturally formed saltpeter veins.
Not to mention, when you get closer and are under the mine veins, you will get an even more terrifying and shocking feeling!
"Such a huge saltpeter mine? How on earth was it formed?"
Sumo looked surprised. He quickly got out of the car, took out the five-fold telescope in the storage space, and looked at the saltpeter mine. .
With the bonus of the telescope, the whole picture of the saltpeter mine becomes clear.
You have mines in your hands, so don’t panic.
The reason why Gustav II, known as the Lion of Northern Europe at that time, was able to lead the Protestant Alliance to defeat the Catholic Alliance several times was because of the muskets in his hands and the saltpeter mines in his hometown of Sweden.
However, most European countries do not produce saltpeter, and the source of saltpeter has always been a big problem.
It's better in peacetime, but once a war breaks out and trade routes are cut off, there will be a big problem.
When King Charles I of England went to war with opposition forces at home and abroad, he was always troubled by the problem of gunpowder.
For this!
The dignified King of England had to look at the smelly and filthy place - the latrine.
In order to ensure the production of gunpowder, the king specially appointed officials to dig away the topsoil (nitrate) from toilets and stables in his territory.
Using nitrate to refine nitrate, it was even ordered that no stone slabs or wooden boards be laid on the floors of toilets and stables across the country to avoid affecting the collection of nitrate.
The cobblers and cobblers who used saltpeter even lost their jobs.
At that time, the distinguished priests of each church were given an honorable task, which was to call on the citizens who came to worship to urinate collectively. From then on, peeing was no longer an embarrassing or dirty thing, but a blessing. country to contribute.
Among them, church chairs are particularly valued, because people cannot leave their seats during worship, but people have three urgent needs, so church chairs have been severely damaged, and people can scrape high quality from the chairs. of nitrate soil.
The British at the time believed that women's urine contained particularly high levels of nitrate.
Even the slogan "Please contribute your strength to your husband who is fighting on the front line" was shouted.
But now!
Sumo looked at the huge saltpeter mine in front of him and couldn't imagine the reason why such a huge mineral vein could be born.
“If you came and told me that a towering monster went to the toilet here and formed such a large-scale saltpeter mine, I would believe it!”
"However, the kobolds should value the saltpeter mine very much. There are actually at least a hundred kobolds who have set up a camp here."
"Huh? This is??"
"Humans! !”
With the help of the telescope, Somo clearly saw an upright creature that was completely different from a kobold.
The distance of ten kilometers is still too far, and the image presented by the five-fold telescope cast a shadow on Sumo's heart.
Returning to the car, Somo picked up Oreo, which was still sniffing on the ground, and re-ignited the car and hit the road.
This time, he will venture to a distance of five kilometers.
The speed of Bengbeng's car was not very fast, but after about ten minutes, he still successfully entered the position Sumo had envisioned.
This time, even without the help of a telescope, Sumo could clearly see a large number of wooden houses in the distance.
Besides this house, Sumo even saw a house built with safe house cores!
I got out of the car again and took out the telescope and saw the scene in the telescope.
Sumo is hard, his fist is hard!
On the stretch of mines, dozens of people are hard at work mining. However, these people are not kobolds!
But humans! ! !
Around the mineral veins, there were scattered kobold warriors. Sumo counted them roughly in his mind.
At this time, there are no less than two hundred kobold warriors in sight.
And the most terrifying thing is that there are as many as fifty kobold warlocks sitting and having fun in the middle of the camp!
This is what can be observed in the current field of vision!
I am afraid that including those who have not seen it, there are more than three hundred people in this kobold saltpeter mining camp!
Three hundred kobolds supervising dozens of human mining?
Under the telescope, Sumo had a sudden realization.
“I thought everyone near the place where I dropped it was taken care of by Huang Biao. Now it seems that the remaining people have been caught by the kobolds to mine here”
“ Fortunately, my shelter is a full sixty kilometers away from here, otherwise I would have faced this kind of monster in the first two days!"
"I'll tell you why the Chinese shelter is open to outsiders! Civilization is secretive, I am afraid that countless humans have been enslaved by this monster in other places, but are these people’s chats restricted? Otherwise, why haven’t I seen any such news on the world channel?”
While Sumo was observing, he secretly guessed.
There are so many kobolds, let alone the equipment he has now, unless he is given a Gatling and an unlimited supply of bullets today.
Only in this way can we try to attack the base and save humanity.
With the current equipment, at least before there is no gunpowder, it will definitely not be easy to capture this base.
“I didn’t expect this saltpeter mine to be so difficult”
"I'm afraid there will be many more of these monsters in the kobold camp than here!"
"Thousands of kobolds!"
When I think of people like me around me, like this Once you meet a "enthusiastic" neighbor, he will invite you to his house to mine. Sumo's head suddenly floated:
Safety - 10000!
"No, I have to go find out about the situation in the kobold camp. If there are more people than I expected, that would be bad!"
Turning back to the trampoline, Somo looked serious, and Oreo on the side quickly jumped on.
"Oreo, let him show the way, let's go to their camp"
After the words fell, Oreo began to communicate with the kobold.
After a while, the bouncing car drove away, heading north of the saltpeter mine.
The terrain near the saltpeter mine is all stepped and high. Although the speed cannot go up, measured by the speed of the vehicle, the distance between the saltpeter mine and the kobold camp is not far.
I heard the kobold signal that he was almost there.
Sumo parked the car in the shadow of a bush and put it away. He pulled the kobold out of the seat, held it in his hand and walked forward.
After walking about five or six hundred meters, Somo finally saw the kobold camp after climbing over a high slope again.
“This…”
“Can this be called a kobold camp? Maybe it’s called a castle! Isn’t it more appropriate?!”
Standing on the high slope, Sumo looked at the behemoth in front of him, his eyes full of shock.
If the saltpeter mine is a miracle of nature.
Then the kobold castle in front of you is an unparalleled architectural power.
The castle in front of me has a diameter of more than 500 meters according to visual inspection!
There are round towers, narrow windows, semicircular arches, low domes, and door frames that are raised layer by layer, which look beautiful.
In terms of style, a large number of columns and vaults of various shapes are used to achieve an aesthetic effect of solidity, weight, balance, stability, and strength.
The narrow windows form a strong contrast with the vast space inside, making the interior of the castle dim and deep, giving people a sense of mystery and darkness.
On the four corners of the castle, there are four pointed towers. With the help of a telescope, Sumo saw the kobolds patrolling in the towers.
Looking down, apart from the warlocks and warriors, Sumo saw a kobold wearing a white robe with sharp eyes.
“This is the third type of kobold. I don’t know what the characteristics of this kind of kobold are.”
This kobold's figure was not very tall, but as he walked on the city wall, he was followed by four or five warlock kobolds who followed him very respectfully and honestly.
The distance between the city walls is not long.
The white-robed kobold kept walking as he talked.
Gradually, a group of people disappeared at the end of the city wall.
Before Sumo could continue to observe, the small door under the kobold castle suddenly opened, and a group of kobolds came out, heading towards Somo.
"Oops! Did you find me?"
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