area51novel Chapter 133 Land is preserved, but people are lost; both people and land are lost.
Chapter 133 Land is preserved, but people are lost; both people and land are lost.
"I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to manage it all by myself."
Beibei wouldn't mind going out for a flight and doing some intelligence gathering. However, Beibei was well aware of his own limitations in controlling soul tools. Without the help of combat-aid AI, he would find it difficult to operate other soul tools that required precise control while operating his flying soul tool.
The ground-penetrating soul tool that Long You handed over immediately struck Bei Bei as having a multitude of functions or extremely high precision. Therefore, Bei Bei felt that she might not be able to simultaneously control her flying soul tool and precisely operate this ground-penetrating soul tool.
"It's alright. You don't need to operate this ground-targeting soul tool. You just need to keep the scanning port facing the ground and maintain the input of soul power."
This soul tool can indeed scan areas fifty meters underground, or even deeper, with great precision. But essentially, it's just a scanner; all the data is transmitted to my control panel as it's generated. So, you don't need to interpret what this data represents.
Additionally, the data transmission radius is only one kilometer, so don't fly too far.
“Okay, I’ll go now.” Having resolved the operational issue, Beibei readily picked up the rather large earth-penetrating soul-guided device and walked out of the blacksmith’s shop.
After operating the specially made control tablet, the soul probe was successfully activated. Seeing that data was beginning to appear on the tablet in his hand, Long You turned around and went to attend to other matters.
Scanning the map inch by inch is a very time-consuming task, and time is very precious in Panlong Realm. Longyou can't keep staring at the control tablet.
After reviewing the list, Long You began constructing the city defense shield soul tool. The previous makeshift city defense shield soul tool was utterly useless against the giant sandworm. Before tonight, Long You had to ensure that North Frost City could raise a city defense energy membrane constructed from level five city defense shield soul tools.
The level 5 city defense shield soul tool for the first city wall was completed, and Beibei returned with the ground detection soul tool that had completed the mission.
The soul tool was retracted and ceased operation. Long You projected the data fed back from the control tablet, preparing to use it to create an underground map of the area surrounding Beishuang City.
After only glancing at the data twice, Long You's expression immediately changed from relaxed to extremely serious.
"Everyone, please pause for a moment. We need to discuss whether we should change our previous strategy."
Ignoring the fact that everyone else was busy, Long You loudly called out.
"what's the situation?"
The first to respond to Long You was Bei Bei. He had just returned and his soul power was greatly depleted, so he had not yet devoted himself to the new round of work.
The life form of sandworms may be a bit strange. Previously, Huo Yuhao's mental detection soul skill failed to find the giant sandworm that fell below the city. Now, the life detector that Long You installed on the ground detection soul tool has also failed to work.
The integrated underground map of the Beishuang City area completely lacked the red dots representing sandworm life, showing only hollow cavities. However, even from these hollow cavities, Long You could discern the severity of the situation.
Just as Long You suspected, the underground of Beishuang City had indeed been completely hollowed out by sand worms. Long You was certain that if obsidian hadn't been so hard, Beishuang City would have already collapsed entirely.
“We need to persuade the Lord of Northfrost City to break out when reinforcements arrive. The number of sandworms is definitely much greater than we have seen. If we try to save our land, the end result could very well be the loss of both people and land.”
"What are these cavities? Are they all areas hollowed out by sandworms?"
"Yes. That's why I said the number of sandworms is definitely much greater than we imagine."
Moreover, the purpose of the sandworms' attack on the city may not be what the North Frost City had previously imagined: that the sandworms were bloodthirsty and wanted to break through the North Frost City to seize their blood.
Analyzing these cavities beneath Northfrost City, it's clear these sand worms are after the mineral resources nearby. The reason they attack Northfrost City at night is likely simply because they need to be active at night.
This explains why the residents of Northfrost City hadn't seen any giant sandworms before last night. We've all seen them; if those giant sandworms were deployed for the siege, Northfrost City definitely wouldn't have been able to hold out until now.”
"Can you determine how long North Frost City can hold out without collapsing in this hollowed-out geological formation?"
"It's impossible to determine right now. By this afternoon, the soul power stored in the baby bottle should be more sufficient, at which point I will have a large stealth soul-guided reconnaissance drone equipped with a ground-detection soul-guided device conduct another reconnaissance."
"As long as those sandworms aren't idle for a whole morning, the earth-penetrating soul-guided device can definitely determine the speed at which the earth is being eroded."
“Then we’ll make the necessary adjustments here. Once we have more sufficient evidence this afternoon, I’ll go and talk to the Lord of North Frost City about this.”
After Long You solved the technical problem, Bei Bei took the initiative to take on the task of communicating with the city lord of Beishuang City.
"If this conjecture is true, then let's continue to reduce the production of offensive city defense soul tools. Let's focus our efforts on producing vehicle soul tools."
"If the city falls, we absolutely cannot afford a significant reduction in personnel, otherwise our mission will be doomed to failure. For the breakout and evacuation of over eight hundred people, we must ensure the quantity and safety of vehicles."
The matter was crystal clear. As the oldest person present, Lin Zhengze decisively changed the subject, and everyone returned to their busy work.
The production of city defense shield soul tools cannot stop, but the production method needs to be changed. The original city defense shield soul tools were truly only suitable for city defense, possessing great power, but were extremely cumbersome.
Now, Longyou needs to moderately reduce the power of the soul tools that have been expanded to their peak in exchange for a smaller size, so that these soul tools can be directly installed on soul-guided vehicles in addition to their use for city defense.
At lunchtime, the Lord of Northfrost City personally brought a food box to the blacksmith's shop. When Beibei and the others suddenly appeared in Northfrost City before, although the Lord of Northfrost City was very enthusiastic, in his heart he did not really believe that these young people who suddenly appeared in Northfrost City could have a significant impact on the situation in Northfrost City.
However, North Frost City has indeed reached a dead end. Whether for the sake of the city, for the residents of the city, or for himself, the city lord of North Frost City will not neglect the sudden influx of new forces.