October 19th, the eleventh day after the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and the National Day holiday, and also the fifth day after Zhang Yanhang left the main world, at 11:59 pm, hematite vein, small hematite ant nest Dala
Ancient, peripheral area, C-shaped passage.
Zhang Yanhang stood deep in the C-shaped passage, staring at the time on his watch and waiting for the time pause to come.
When the time on the watch turned to eleven fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds, the familiar time pause appeared accurately inside the small red iron ant nest Daragu. At the same time, a corresponding message appeared in front of Zhang Yanhang.
text option box, he immediately began to check the specific content of this option.
【Do you want to return to the main world?】
[Option 1: Yes (The last time you came to the small hematite ant nest Daragu, after a simple exploration, you formulated a simple hematite ant nest cleaning plan based on the specific internal conditions. This time you
When he came to the small red iron ant nest Daragu, he improved it again and prepared to strictly implement the plan.
Because this was the second time you entered the small hematite ant nest Daragu, you simply set a small goal for yourself, to clear out the entire small hematite ant nest Daragu at once. Not surprisingly, this small goal was indeed eliminated.
You completed it easily. Therefore, now that you have completed your small goal, you feel that you should go home and take a rest.)]
[Option 2: Go home (Originally, you thought that this time you should be able to clear out the entire small hematite ant nest by accurately executing your plan like in Raccoon City before), but you didn’t expect that the plan could not keep up with the changes. After the entire cleanup plan was implemented,
Halfway through, the red iron ant queen suddenly and inexplicably summoned all the red iron ants together.
The unusual behavior of the red iron ant queen caused you to complete the plan ahead of schedule, which gave you more time to dig a passage to the new area. In the remaining time, you have been working non-stop but still haven't finished it.
The tunnel is being dug and the transmission channel is about to be closed. You have no choice but to go home for the time being.)]
[Option 3: No (After spending a day clearing out the entire small red iron ant nest Daragu, you devoted all your time to digging tunnels leading to the new area. Seeing that the tunnel is not even close to the end)
A few kilometers are about to be completed and you really don't want to interrupt the tunneling work here.
So, even though you already knew that the transmission channel was about to be closed, you still chose to stay here and dig the tunnel to the new area. Because you have been working non-stop for four days, the remaining part of the tunnel will soon be completed.
I got through directly to you who has become extremely proficient in excavation work.)]
"I can finally go home, and two of the three options this time are asking me to go home. It seems that I really should go home and have a good rest. Although compared to going home, I
Actually, I do want to continue digging the tunnel, but if I think about it carefully, I might as well forget it."
Calculated based on the scale marks, Zhang Yanhang had dug 72 kilometers underground last time. Logically speaking, he should have dug about two thousand meters again after filling his pockets and storage boxes this time. Therefore,
, he has actually dug to a depth of about 74 kilometers underground.
The completed depth of the entire channel is 77 kilometers, so Zhang Yanhang has actually
There was only the last three thousand meters to open the entire channel, but due to lack of time, we had no choice but to return to the C-shaped channel early.
Under normal circumstances, it would actually take Zhang Yanhang less than half an hour at most to dig out the remaining part of the tunnel, but this is just a normal situation. With the increase in excavation depth, the overall excavation work is very fast.
It became abnormal.
Specifically, as the depth increases, the density and quality of the raw hematite stones increase the further Zhang Yanhang digs them, and correspondingly, the speed at which Zhang Yanhang separates the raw hematite pillars decreases due to the increase in the density and quality of the raw hematite stones.
After all, although alchemy is indeed quite versatile, it will inevitably cause the melting speed to decrease when facing higher quality objects. To give a specific example, green quality materials will definitely melt slower than white quality materials.
, this is a quite logical rule.
Due to the characteristics related to the Ash World, although hematite rough stones tens of kilometers underground and hematite rough stones at ordinary depths are gray-quality items that cannot be taken out, there is indeed some essential strength gap between the two.
When digging hematite rough stones at ordinary depths, Zhang Yanhang can use alchemy to advance an average of two meters per second, which is four times faster than using his fists.
But as the depth increases, especially when the excavation depth reaches 70 kilometers underground, the speed of alchemy has become not as fast as the original fist, and it is difficult to even advance half a meter per second.
It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Yanhang spent four days digging the passage without sleep, and only dug a total depth of 74 kilometers. Originally calculated based on the normal depth of two meters per second.
, it will only take him more than a day at most to dig the entire tunnel.
It must be mentioned that Zhang Yanhang actually dug to a depth of 70 kilometers underground at noon today, but the subsequent excavation of 4 kilometers took him a full ten hours. The difficulty of tunnel excavation can be said to be
Sudden improvement.
Of course, compared to the time spent digging, Zhang Yanhang actually spends more time restoring energy. He usually spends four and a half hours restoring energy for every two and a half hours of digging.
In addition, it takes an hour to climb the hematite chain, which led Zhang Yanhang to implement an eight-hour work system since he entered the underground at a depth of about 60 kilometers, that is, he completes one cycle every eight hours and starts the next one immediately.
Cycle, each cycle can allow Zhang Yanhang to advance a distance of about two thousand meters.
Calculating at this speed, if Zhang Yanhang can omit the energy recovery stage next time he digs a tunnel in the small hematite ant nest Dalagu, then he might be able to complete the entire tunnel within the time it takes for the teleportation channel to open.
of excavation.
After all, when the transmission channel is opened next time, the opening time should be advanced by half an hour again, and accordingly the maintenance time of the transmission channel will be increased to seven hours. If seven hours are simply used to dig the channel, it is indeed enough.
Already.
"So, I choose option one, return to the main world." Zhang Yanhang made his choice immediately after checking the contents of the options.
