Urban Sims

From that beautiful and noble bird with a clear and high-pitched cry, like the legendary "Phoenix".

Zhou Ming immediately knew that this was a brand new land that no one had ever set foot on, a completely different continent from the one he had lived in before!

The towering Ural Snow Mountains geographically isolated a complete continent. Even though the two continents are still tightly stuck together, the two independent ecosystems have experienced hundreds of millions of years of species evolution. , the differences and changes produced are even greater than the differences between Asia and America, which are two spheres floating on the earth and separated by thousands of miles of ocean.

In the western continent, because the crustal plates are relatively strong and the overall structure is relatively stable, there are many flat landforms such as plains, grasslands, forests, and swamps. In addition, the Ural Snow Mountains block the invasion of the eastern monsoon to a certain extent. The overall climate is relatively comfortable, mild, and differentiated. There are not many larger species of animals and plants, and the most common species number probably in the thousands.

On the eastern continent, the crustal plate structure is fragile and many of the surfaces are fragmented. In addition to some of the flat terrain on the western continent, there are numerous volcanoes, mountains, hills, deserts, basins and other complex landforms on this continent. Many areas, even A complex of diverse landforms.

There is also the karst landform formed by the dissolution of limestone by underground soluble water, which is also extremely common in this continent.

Therefore, on this continent with countless types of landforms, the number of active plant and animal species is almost impossible to count.

Zhou Ming, who wanted to find several resources he wanted, soon made huge gains.

After descending from the pass and walking less than a hundred kilometers eastward, Zhou Ming found the sulfur he had dreamed of finding by the side of an underground magma river flowing with fiery red lava - so much that it could be used for decades. as long as.

After walking down the higher plateau and heading eastward into the grasslands and forests at mid- to low-altitudes, Zhou Ming was delighted with the large number of new discoveries he made every day.

There are countless towering and strong trees, some of which can be used as spices, some of which can be used to make high-end furniture, some of which have medicinal value, and some of which bear fruits that are delicious and nutritious and can be eaten directly.

There are countless lively animals, big and small, some of which can provide meat, some of which can provide fur, and some of which can be domesticated and raised to serve as livestock mounts.

There are countless mineral resources on the surface and underground. Some are exposed on the surface and are easy to mine, some are of extremely high grade and do not need to be selected, and some are so beautiful that they can be called rare treasures.

But these trees, animals, and mineral resources could not stop Zhou Ming, even for a short stay of one or two days. He even asked the expedition members to throw away a few pieces they picked up on the road. A huge gold nugget and a few dazzling gems - these things are too bulky and will affect the speed of subsequent explorations.

Entering the low-altitude plains and winding down a long river, the group traveled thousands of kilometers eastward and discovered countless more valuable animal, plant and mineral resources.

Although some of these resources are not necessary, their potential value cannot be underestimated.

For example, if there is a watermelon-like fruit that grows on vines, the giant watermelons that grow are just like the space watermelons on Earth. Each one weighs hundreds of kilograms. If you kill one, it will be enough for dozens of people to eat.

For example, there are grape fruits that grow on trees and hang in bunches on the tree. They are similar to grapes on the earth, but they are larger and sweeter. There can be hundreds of bunches on one grapevine.

For example, there is a plant similar to sugar cane. Its diameter is thicker than an adult's arm and it grows seven or eight meters high. It is a bit hard to chew, but the juice inside is sweeter than ever before.

There are also some wild rice-like crops and bamboo-like plants, which are of great help to agriculture and the construction and furniture industry. Once introduced to the western continent, they will inevitably bring huge changes to people's diet structure and living environment.

In the end, Zhou Ming got a small amount of giant watermelon, grapevine and wild rice seeds and put them in his backpack. As for plants such as sugar cane and bamboo that were not easy to carry, he gave up for the time being.

In addition to plants, Zhou Ming also discovered a large number of valuable livestock resources, such as a huge bison, which is terrifying in size and bigger than a car, but has a very docile personality and does not actively attack non-threatening creatures. Just know that it eats all kinds of grass, which is obviously a good livestock target for domestication into domestic cattle.

There are also wild horses that are fast and can run faster than leopards in the forest, and small but very clever wild donkeys, wild deer, wild sheep, wild boars, wild dogs and other animals, all of which have good potential to be tamed and kept in captivity.

Of course, there are also some large carnivorous animals that are highly aggressive, such as tigers with fangs in their mouths, ferocious lions with a body length of three meters, crocodiles in the water, and some giant pythons, etc., for the members of the expedition team , bringing greater life threats at all times.

However, since everyone carried sharp and non-rusting alloy swords, these aggressive carnivorous beasts could not benefit from them. The only time they were more dangerous was when they were attacked by hundreds of wolves. It's just that a few players suffered a little skin trauma.

The real reasons for the attrition of the expedition team were mostly inadvertent bites from various poisonous snakes, centipedes, ants, spiders and other poisonous insects that were difficult to guard against. After poisoning two team members to death, Zhou Ming asked everyone to put on a suit. The protective clothing with extremely fine mesh can only be opened in places where no poisonous insects gather.

After walking eastward along the river for more than three months, after arriving at a large swamp filled with what looked like floating black tree stumps, but actually numerous crocodiles, Zhou Ming had no choice but to continue walking eastward and turned to the south. Heading towards the southern part of the continent.

After walking less than a thousand kilometers to the south, a pyramid-shaped building with a height of 100 meters and a unique shape that could only be built by an intelligent civilization appeared in front of Zhou Ming and others.

There are people in this new world!

A group of indigenous people with yellow skin, black eyes, brown hair, flat face, and high nose bridge.

These natives were naked from the waist up, with their lower bodies wrapped in several circles of white cloth, with oil paint on their faces and bird feather hats on their heads. Most of them had wooden spears and stone weapons in their hands. Some of the natives also had They were holding bows and arrows with rough craftsmanship, or blowing arrows from bamboo tubes. After using arrows and needles dipped in poison, their lethality to human and prey should not be underestimated.

Looking at the Muzha villages and domed thatched houses where these indigenous people live, Zhou Ming estimated that the level of civilization development of these indigenous people should be at the end of the Stone Age, but not yet into the Bronze Age.

However, there was a discovery that made Zhou Ming feel a little strange at first. In this aboriginal village, except for some aboriginal women who were taking care of livestock and were busy working, the other male aborigines seemed to have nothing to do, either lying there comfortably and basking in the sun. , or they played the game of shooting wooden targets with blow darts, and very few went out hunting or working in the fields with tools and weapons.

It was lunch time, and when Zhou Ming saw the "lunch" those indigenous people had for lunch, he almost jumped up with excitement.

Corn is so thick and long that you can eat enough with just one stick.

There are also sweet potatoes, which are rich in sugar and starch. They are huge and weigh more than ten kilograms each. It takes at least three or four natives to eat each one to finish them all.

There is also a kind of breadfruit that looks like bread, about the size of a hamburger. Zhou Ming doesn't know how it tastes. Judging from the way the natives eat it with gusto, the taste is definitely not that bad.

In order to observe what the parent plants of these three foods looked like, Zhou Ming took a few people and quietly followed an indigenous woman picking fruits to their food collection area.

Shocked!

On the yellow plant with stalks more than three meters high, six long stalks of corn suddenly grew.

The sweet potatoes dug out from the relatively barren slopes are each as big as a football.

There are also breadfruit trees that are more than ten meters high and have a canopy-like crown. There are at least thousands of breadfruits on the lush branches.

Scanning his eyes again, he accidentally spotted the isolated plant that was more than six meters high and had large "white clouds" sprouting from the branches beside the bread tree. Zhou Ming couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh my god." , you’re not cheating on these indigenous people, are you?”

It turns out that this tree with blossoming "white clouds" is a "cotton tree" that is more than ten times larger than the plant that grows cotton in Zhou Ming's impression.

On the cotton tree, each flower has pure white "cotton" as big as a marshmallow. There are hundreds of flowers on a tree, enough to weave several pieces of clothing.

Zhou Ming, who discovered corn, sweet potatoes, breadfruit trees, and cotton trees, were four crops of great strategic value at once. He was envious and jealous of these natives. These natives must be the illegitimate children left by God in the world, otherwise how could they be so lucky? , and enjoyed VIP treatment that even he could not match if he used a cheat.

Secretly collecting the seeds of these four plants at night, Zhou Ming led the expedition team and continued walking south for more than a thousand kilometers. They unexpectedly entered an indigenous empire. This indigenous empire was at war with the giant savages in the west. These The giant savages are all like Tarzan. The adults are all over three meters tall. They have rough skin and thick flesh. They have amazing strength. There seem to be quite a few of them.

As a result, in a battle between 5,000 indigenous people and 300 giant savages, the skinny indigenous people actually won a complete victory. The giant savage tribe suffered heavy losses and fled in panic.

It turns out that the key to the indigenous people's victory in the war was that they tamed a giant mount named "Kodo" by Zhou Ming. "Kodo" is a herbivorous animal, shaped like a large rhinoceros, with a body It is more than 10 meters long and weighs more than five tons. The spine on its back is like a broad sword. The spines on both sides can carry a large amount of cargo. Because of its short limbs, Kodo can transport a lot of things, but it cannot walk too fast... ...But if it is used to charge with a mount, the sharp horn on the head of the Kodo beast will be a weapon for charging into battle.

I’ve been coding this chapter all night, but I still haven’t saved it. I’ll try to do another chapter tonight. Please vote for me!