Lin Jia was not very good at negotiation and bargaining, so he used his Motorola watch to ask XP to summon Peter Pan, a businessman from the vassal plane under his command.
Although the people of Ice City were once again frightened by the appearance of the skinny, tall, blue-skinned, clearly non-human plane merchant, the strange thing was that they were just surprised rather than surprised.
After secretly asking old mage Kaka, I learned that although the main material plane has been sealed for more than ten thousand years, like the gods who suddenly disappeared, plane merchants also have very detailed information in myths and stories. This strange, elegant creature wearing a long robe also left a very important mark in the War of the Gods.
The emergence of plane merchants not only increased the feasibility of cooperation between the two parties, but also made the Ice City Council really pay attention to Lin Jia, an Easterner who calls himself the "Lava Lord".
Everyone knows what plane merchants do, but what is Bingcheng lacking now? And how important a role will a plane merchant be willing to trust and grant him trade agency rights in future cooperation?
It is undeniable that this strange oriental man will become a character that all the coalition forces in the Ice City must look up to.
Lin Jia did not disclose that he had inherited the identity of the Lord of the Material Plane. Instead, he attributed his ability to survive in the barbaric continent and become the Lord of the Lava Lord to the help of plane merchants, which not only saved him a lot of trouble. . And it will also facilitate future transactions between the two parties. After all, these people on the Star Continent know about plane merchants, but they do not know about the so-called plane lords.
Therefore, it is ideal to push Peter Pan to the front desk and act as a trade agent.
Although plane merchants are not gods. But as a living creature that appeared in the same era as the gods. It is very satisfying for Peter Pan to be respected in this world. This can be seen from Peter Pan's proud expression. As a small plane businessman, he can be respected like this in a certain main material plane. , even in the Ethereal Plane Chamber of Commerce, it is extremely rare.
The negotiations between the two parties were very successful. Lava Territory promises to allow Ice City personnel to move to Lava Territory for temporary refuge when necessary. And provide the supplies needed by Bingcheng. Ice City must sell the magical beast materials and mineral deposits harvested from the cold wasteland to the Lava Territory at a very cheap price, and send combatants to support the Lava Territory when the Lava Territory requires it.
At this point, both parties have reached a consensus, considering the current situation of Bingcheng. Even if the magical beast materials and mineral deposits were transferred to the Lava Territory at the same price as the Karatu Empire that occupied the Ice Floe Castle, it was a dream. At least they got a promise that all personnel could be transferred to the Lava Territory for refuge in times of danger. .
The requirements of the Lava Territory are almost insignificant to Ice City. Because only by protecting the foothold established by merchants in this plane, the Lava Territory, will they be able to trade with each other.
Bingcheng Fang¡¯s request is very simple. The first is food, enough to feed 300,000 people. This request is both simple and painful for Liu Yi, because now his lava territory is also facing famine.
Secondly, it requires a large amount of materials and supplies. With the Lava Territory as the rear, they were originally just living with humiliation. Ice City, which was waiting for rescue from the Star Continent, was no longer willing to sit still and wait for death. With the spell casters and combat workers among their 300,000 people occupying With the vast majority of strength, it is not impossible to compete with the Karatu Empire who occupied the Ice Floe Castle. Now with the logistical supplies, it can become a quite terrifying force and give the Karatu Empire a headache for a while. If there is Perhaps, there is even hope of retaking the Ice Floe Castle. Even if they are unable to return to the Star Continent, it is not impossible for so many people to regenerate a civilization on the barbaric continent.
After roughly discussing the direction of future cooperation, Lin Jia hurriedly returned to the Lava Territory with the plane merchants, while President Texas and Master Kaka stayed in Ice City before the gathering. The old branch of the Adventure Guild is preparing to rebuild the only Adventurer Guild allowed to go to the Lava Territory to establish its headquarters.
As for the Ice City, the whole front is under martial law and they are always on guard against attacks from the floating ice castle. It is impossible that there are no spies from the Karatu Empire in the huge Ice City, and there is no news that the Easterners have appeared in the Ice City with plane merchants. Perhaps it was concealed, and even if it was not discovered by the Karatu Empire, Ice City, which had stopped paying tribute to magical beast materials and mineral resources to the Ice Floe Castle, would sooner or later face the day when it would meet the Ice Floe Castle's swordsmen.
However, no one seems to be in a hurry at this point, because the Karatu Empire, which has to deal with threats from various countries in the Star Continent, is unlikely to place too many troops in the floating ice castle. In addition to relying on its control of the supply routes to control the Ice City Council, The subordinates drove out the floating ice castle, and they were unable to conquer several places.??An ice city without any defensive measures.
Now that the Lava Territory is used as a logistics base, as long as the magical beast materials and mineral deposits from the wild continent are not paid tribute to the Karatu Empire, this is already a victory for Ice City.
Regardless of how the dignitaries and adventurers from all over the world in Ice City cheered for the moment, Lin Jia, who brought Peter Pan back to the Lava Territory, was a little gloomy. Although he raised a banner in Ice City, he still had to supply 300,000 people. Is the food consumed so easy to obtain? If it were that simple, he wouldn't have to worry about the lava collar's fat-bellied citizens before.
Although Peter Pan can get him a large amount of food through plane trade, the price is relatively expensive. After all, opening a plane passage to the etheric plane requires 25 units of energy, which is 5,000 gold coins, plus At the price of purchasing food, the amount of food transported within the limit of the energy of the plane channel is not even a fraction.
Although the food itself is not expensive, it is large in size and heavy in weight. If you use the plane channel for trade, you will not be able to do it unless you have a large-capacity high-level dimensional bag like that of a large plane merchant. Otherwise, you can only rely on Peter Pan. The level 1 dimensional bag of a small plane merchant, even if the energy consumed by the plane channel is not taken into account, it can be exhausted just by transporting food back and forth.
How much food do 300,000 people need? Assuming that an average adventurer needs 1.5 kilograms of food a day, then Ice City will consume 450 tons of food a day, which is 13,500 tons a month! Of course, certain species with black hole stomachs like lava collar beasts must be excluded from this.
Lin Jia felt a little dizzy. He was not very good at mathematics. He couldn't figure out how much food could be accommodated in an I-level dimensional bag with 3 cubic meters of space like Peter Pan based on the density and volume of food. It could transport enough to consume 300,000 people in a day. How many i-level dimensional bags are needed for the food? ps: [If you are interested, you can calculate it. ]
But even if the headache continued, there was nothing we could do. We could only let Peter Pan return to the etheric plane to think of a solution, while he himself inspected the lava territory and returned to the base.
At present, there is no big problem with the self-protection of the Lava Territory. The only worries are the threats from the grassland and the war between the two indigenous tribes whose war has been spreading to the territory of the Lava Territory. Before Lin Jia left the lava territory, XP informed him that the base had been completed, and he rushed back just to check the situation of the base.
At present, the Lava Territory already has the prototype of a forest city. It is quite difficult to form such a benign autonomous operation mode under Lin Jia's rough management methods. Now with the help of several partners in the adventure team, Lin Jia You can leave your hands free to handle more things.
Lin Jia returned to the Lord's Mansion at the foot of Jiansun Mountain and saw the completed base at a glance, and couldn't help being dumbfounded.
If the previous balance cabin was like a big coffin, the current base is like a bloated mutant spider. The mother body expanded based on the original balance cabin body not only has a fat warehouse-shaped body, but also comes from all directions. A large number of mechanical arms stretched out, and the mechanical parts scattered around should be supporting facilities for various functions, and they were humming at the moment.
"Sir! The basic functions of the base have been fully activated. Please issue mission orders: gathering raw materials, gathering energy, manufacturing, expanding construction" The XP prompts made Lin Jia slowly understand the various functions of the base, but when Lin Jia was overjoyed, When he frantically tried his best to make various types of Zhuge Crossbows, he was poured a ladle of cold water on his head.
"Insufficient energy and raw materials, please replenish base energy first, or issue a collection task."
Although the base has been built, it has not yet replenished enough energy. If it wants to operate, it must rely on the only collector currently in the base to collect energy and raw materials and create more collectors.
"At the current speed, according to calculations, it will take 120 days to maintain the normal energy operation of the base." He sighed. Since the stocks of various resource mines in the abyss forest are too small and are extremely scattered, the distance between resource-rich resource mines is too long. It was too far, even out of the scope of the Abyss Forest. It would be too slow to rely entirely on the mechanical ant-like collector. Lin Jia had to order XP to mark various resource points in the Abyss Forest, and then send a large number of The kobolds assisted in the excavation in an attempt to speed up the progress.