Chapter 2050 - 2043: No Money for Renovation
"Brother Menglong, is this the Yan Huang City you were talking about?" Po Jun looked incredulously at the small city in front of him.
Putting aside the city’s size, as a survival base it naturally wouldn’t have many people, and having too much land would be a waste, but the city’s standard made him feel puzzled. He vaguely sensed that the value of Yan Huang City was no less than the Great City of Aiville!
A few days ago, Zhang Menglong discovered a very interesting feature: every city has a place similar to a courier station, where adventurers can circulate their goods among different survival bases, cities, and even races.
During the first insect clan siege that Zhang Menglong orchestrated himself, he obtained tens of billions of Supreme Crystals. He directly sent a portion of these Supreme Crystals back to Yan Huang City and asked Ying Zheng to revamp the city.
Not only that, but Zhang Menglong also sent back many valuable items he obtained from the Great City of Aiville and Ice Demon City. These items could greatly enhance Yan Huang City’s defensive power, making it more than capable of fending off invasions.
This huge investment couldn’t even be dreamed of by the Great City of Aiville!
On the city walls, there were turrets every hundred meters. Although these turrets appeared somewhat rustic, could they be more rustic than the Super Divine Cannon? That weapon nearly took out the Ice Wing Dragon Bat with one shot!
Of course, these turrets aren’t as powerful as the Super Divine Cannon. They are formidable weapons created by a technological race. Although they can’t harm creatures like Guardian Beasts, they are almost as powerful as one third of an Ultimate Bomb against Dao Realm warriors!
However, the craft of making Ultimate Bombs has been lost. These city defense cannons can be mass-produced, and their shells can also be produced on a large scale. As long as you pay, you can get them!
In every giant city, there’s an online trading market where each race brings out their unique offerings to sell. Generally, these items are highly valuable and are typically traded with Supreme Crystals.
For example, the highly popular products of the human race are the elixirs they concoct!
Some races are skilled in crafting weapons, and they can make weapons with a third of the power of a Supreme Weapon, which are also very popular.
As for these turrets, they were invented by a technological civilization specifically to protect cities.
Of course, the price isn’t something ordinary people can afford. A turret costs as much as 2,000 Supreme Crystals, and having just one or two doesn’t do much. They need to be connected in series to unleash their full attack potential!
Zhang Menglong waved his hand and directly acquired 10,000 turrets, shipped by another race. This deal made that race treat Zhang Menglong as a God of Wealth.
"Are these Odin’s defensive cannons?"
"As expected from the City Lord, you can recognize them right away!"
"How many do you have in total?" Po Jun had considered equipping his Great City of Aiville with a batch of these turrets, but their individual price was too high, and the matched shells were also expensive—a single turret costs 2,000 Supreme Crystals, and a shell 10 Supreme Crystals each. Can ordinary people afford this?
Before Zhang Menglong came here, even if the entire City Lord’s Mansion was emptied, it wouldn’t necessarily gather 1 million Supreme Crystals worth of goods!
"Ten thousand!" Zhang Menglong said, "Each turret comes with 1,000 shells, which should be enough for the short term!"
"Ten thousand? A thousand shells each?" Po Jun gasped. With this scale of attack, even if Yan Huang City faced attacks from all directions with no blind spots, these turrets alone could annihilate over a billion enemies! And we’re talking about Dao Realm extremes here!
If Ice Demon City had ten thousand such turrets when attacked by the insect clan army, those Warcraft wouldn’t have been able to approach Ice Demon City!
"What a treasure!" Po Jun was envious, "You’re really going all out!"
"This is nothing," Zhang Menglong gestured toward the hundreds of golden Crystals floating in the city, "these things are the real expense!"
"This... this is the Main City Crystal!" Po Jun’s jaw dropped.
What is a Main City Crystal? It’s the most important, core energy source of a main city! When Zhang Menglong was in Ice Demon City, that one blue Crystal was the Main City Crystal of Ice Demon City.
Every Main City Crystal has strong energy absorption and storage capabilities, equipped with various functions and skills, some for defense, some for attack. When a race enters this world, the rules establish a city for them and gift them a Main City Crystal.
This Main City Crystal arises with the birth of the race but does not perish with its extinction. If a race is annihilated, their Main City Crystal continues to exist and can be embedded into one’s own main city through special craftsmanship.
This craftsmanship is costly and can only be done by the rule-makers, requiring 1 million Supreme Crystals to embed just one! So even if many races acquire a Main City Crystal, they might not have the funds to embed it, and thus it gradually circulates into the market.
As far as he knows, the race that currently owns the most Main City Crystals only has 7 pieces. To embed these seven Main City Crystals, that race practically used all its power and exhausted its resources!
However, it was undoubtedly worth it. During a massive war back then, this main city stood firm against a multitude of races’ attacks, relying on the alternating use of 7 Main City Crystals, their protective shield alone was impregnable, with enough lethal abilities to become a nightmare for any invader.
And in Zhang Menglong’s Yan Huang City, at a glance, it was full of Main City Crystals!
"Yes, I bought them from a middleman, a total of 171 pieces," Zhang Menglong said, "2 million Supreme Crystals each, shouldn’t have been overpriced, right?"
"The price isn’t overpriced..." Po Jun didn’t know how to describe it. Purchasing one Main City Crystal plus the embedding cost was already 3 million Supreme Crystals. For 171 pieces, that’s over 500 million Supreme Crystals! Where did he get so many Supreme Crystals?
Po Jun was almost in tears. If all these resources had been used on their Great City of Aiville, from then on, Aiville would be the safest city in the world. How he hated it! This damned prodigal!
"Oh, right!" Zhang Menglong suddenly remembered something, "I thought these things might also be useful to Aiville. Since I’m part of the human race, I should contribute to our human race. These 10 Main City Crystals, I will provide to the Great City of Aiville at no cost!"
The city looked at these Main City Crystals, but did not reach out to catch them.
"What’s wrong? City Lord? Won’t you take them?"
Po Jun’s face twitched. Of course he wanted them, but what good would it do? An installation fee of 1 million per piece, he couldn’t even afford to install one!
"Well..." Po Jun blushed, "It’s not that I don’t want them, but I can’t afford to install them!"