Chapter 1017 The Pros and Cons of Volcanoes
In an instant, a bolt of lightning burst out from Zhou Xu's fingertips, hitting Yotaro Tanaka who was kneeling in front of him with lightning speed.
It all happened so fast.
One moment Zhou Xu was talking nicely, but the next moment he suddenly took action.
At this moment, the distance between them is less than three meters. Let alone Tanaka Yotaro, no one else would be able to react.
A powerful electric current instantly spread all over Tanaka Yotaro's body and took his life!
“You don’t cherish the opportunity given to you.”
At this moment, even Silk, who was standing on the side, was a little confused and didn’t know what was going on.
It wasn’t until their majesty stood up and walked to the body of Tanaka Yotaro without haste, and then raised his hand to suck out the light ball that symbolized the mantra, that Hilke suddenly realized.
【Good guy, I have hidden the truth! 】
To be more serious about this matter, it would be an understatement to say that it was harboring evil intentions.
Bai Tu only has the 'Eye of Insight' and does not have the 'Pull of Secrets', so he cannot see whether the other party has the truth on his body.
Previously, this guy handed over two mantras that did not fit with him, but he kept the mantra that could be absorbed by him and had a certain degree of fit.
[System prompt: Congratulations to ‘Zhou Xu’ for obtaining the mantra ‘Sheng’. 】
[System prompt: Congratulations to ‘Zhou Xu’ for obtaining the mantra ‘Calling’. 】
Zhang Xuemei actually did similar things before.
However, Zhang Xuemei is a three-star talent with professional abilities. Over the years, she has been exploring geology and searching for ores for them, which is a great achievement. How can Tanaka Yotaro, a dead guy with no skills, do it? Compare with her?
It can only be said that he does not know how to live or die and has not positioned himself correctly.
Zhou Xu is still very interested in the two mantra characters he just obtained. At this time, he already has several ideas in his mind.
However, considering that he would have to question the islanders next, Zhou Xu suppressed this idea for the time being.
Let Hilke simply dispose of Tanaka Yotaro's body, and the islander Bai Tu found will arrive soon.
That was a little old man with rough skin like old tree bark, and his whole body was tanned.
Zhou Xu habitually glanced at it with the ‘Eye of Peeping Secrets’.
An ordinary two-star character should be an old fisherman based on his talent.
"See your majesty, little one!"
Tanaka Yotaro's situation is quite special. He made all his plans and did not stay on this island for a few years.
But the old fisherman in front of me was different.
After he discovered this island during the reign of the first emperor, he came here with the first batch of immigrants. He was only sixteen years old at the time, and now he has lived on this island for several years. It has been ten years, and I know this island far better than Yotaro Tanaka.
Zhou Xu did not ask the other party if he had been to that mountain. Judging from the situation in the villages and towns here, it was most likely that he had not been there. There was no need to ask this question again.
So he has now changed his question.
"Do you know volcanoes?"
"Volcano."
Muttering this word, the old fisherman was confused at first, and then nodded quickly.
“I know! When I came to this island with my parents, the emperor at that time told us that the big mountain deep in the island might be a volcano, and it might erupt a volcano. This thing called magma is very dangerous, so let them not get too close to that mountain.”
The emperor in the old fisherman’s mouth undoubtedly refers to the first-generation emperor, who is a time traveler like them.
Obviously, the other party looked at the mountain and thought of the same question.
It is not difficult to tell from the words of the old fisherman that this mountain should not have erupted in the past few decades.
Under this premise, Zhou Xu asked another question. "When you first arrived, were the trees on this island already very lush?"
"Yes."
The old fisherman nodded quickly.
Once a volcano erupts, the surrounding environment will inevitably turn into scorched earth. After that, without human intervention, it will take a long time to restore the natural ecology.
Through this information, Zhou Xu can boldly guess that there has not been a volcanic eruption on this island in the past hundred years.
"Have there been any earthquakes on this island in recent years? The ground suddenly began to shake violently."
"No."
The old fisherman shook his head sharply.
Following the train of thought, he asked a few more questions.
After some questioning, Zhou Xu had a rough idea. After signaling to his subordinates to send the person back, he turned around and called Zhang Xuemei over, and informed the other party of the intelligence he had obtained and what he had done. Related speculations.
After listening, Zhang Xuemei pondered for two seconds, and then slowly spoke...
"Your Majesty, your speculation is correct, but we assume that the mountain is a volcano. There has been no such thing in the past hundred years. Just because it has erupted does not mean it is an extinct volcano.”
"Take the Futu Mountain in the Japanese country in our original world. The last eruption was three hundred years ago."
"The current one on the island may also be a dormant volcano, or there is a high probability that it is "
When Zhang Xuemei said the words 'high probability', it meant that she must have discovered something.
Zhou Xu quickly asked her to explain in detail.
In this regard, Zhang Xuemei didn’t hold back and spoke directly.
"Since your Majesty mentioned this matter on the ship, I have been observing the mountain, and just now I found that the mountain was smoking."
When Zhang Xuemei said these words By the time, it was almost certain that it was a volcano.
This also made Zhou Xu's mood a little complicated.
"Is it a dormant volcano? In other words, it doesn't know when it will erupt?"
Zhang Xuemei nodded and then added.
"But it is also possible that there will be no eruption for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years."
This matter gave Zhou Xu a headache.
It is the instinct of living things to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Zhou Xu obviously does not like this volcano that may erupt at any time.
After all, once the volcano erupts, it may cause him considerable losses that cannot be ignored.
You have worked so hard for development, but when the volcano erupts and everything is gone, how can you not have an explosive mentality?
Zhang Xuemei undoubtedly saw Zhou Xu's dilemma, so she quickly spoke out...
"Your Majesty, actually you shouldn't just look at the disadvantages, you can also look at the benefits that the volcano can bring to us."
While talking, Zhang Xuemei began to detail the advantages of the volcano.
“For example, volcanic ash is a very good fertilizer, which makes the soil in the area fertile and very suitable for farming. At the same time, volcanic areas are often accompanied by strong geothermal energy. With the development of the area in the future, The energy problem can be easily solved."
"In addition, there are often some related resources produced in the volcanic area."
"For example, brimstone!"
(End of Chapter)