Southeast of the Dinglong Mountains, there is a plain area next to the dense forest area.
In summer, if you go northwest here, it is a swampland with a width of fifty kilometers and a length of three hundred kilometers.
A long time ago, there was a huge lake here. Later, as the lake water gradually dried up, it slowly evolved into a swamp area.
In the summer, if you dig deep into the swamp, you can dig out a lot of water or amphibian monster skeletons in the deep underground. Some powerful monsters, such as guard-level or king-level monster skeletons.
, even if it is soaked in water all year round, it can be stored for a long time.
If you look southwest in the swamp area, you can see some small slopes, which seem to be built by some kind of creature.
If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that these small slopes seem to be very regular.
On one place that looks like a relatively high slope, there is a huge shell covered with it.
The length of this large shell is more than three thousand meters, and the width is the same, showing a hexagonal shape.
Viewed from the side, it looks like a turtle shell, but viewed from the air, it looks a bit like a hexagonal shell creature found in the sea.
No one could have imagined that there would actually be a large human tribe living under this big shell.
The six areas close to the ground are covered with dense buildings on the inside. They are not simple one-story buildings, but multi-story.
Outside the Dinglong Mountains, small tribes with a population of a thousand people need to move around all year round, so the residential houses they build are basically one-story. After they are built in the early winter, they can be directly built in the spring next year.
Abandoned, most of them use ice and snow as raw materials, so there is no need to dismantle them. When the spring season comes, they will melt by themselves.
In summer, with the crazy growth of vegetation on the ground, it will be as if no one has ever been on the ground, and no ecology will be damaged.
The buildings under the big shell are no longer one-story. The taller buildings are as high as a dozen stories.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ye Qiong himself wouldn't have believed that the construction level of the Na Ning tribe was so high.
Maybe it was with the help of forest apes. The stone and wooden buildings under the big shell are very majestic.
When combined with the big shell in the sky, the visual impact is very great for humans.
What's even more surprising is that those buildings that are more than ten meters high can actually be directly connected to each other with vines.
In this case, coupled with the protection of the big shell, ordinary storms and snowstorms will not be able to shake these buildings.
On the vines that link the buildings together, you can see many forest apes floating on them.
This thing is more like a road to them.
The Naning tribe has settled here for who knows how many years. Every summer, in addition to collecting supplies and hunting monsters in the dense forest, they also expand the buildings under their big shells.
Therefore, it is reasonable to be able to build such a volume to a height of more than ten stories.
Through Qing Zhi's translation, Ye Qiong also learned that the elders and senior officials of the Na Ning tribe had gathered together, waiting for Ye Qiong's arrival.
As the young clan leader of the Ye Qiong tribe, Ye Qiong's visit this time is naturally of great significance.
So after the news reached the Na Ning tribe, under the leadership of the current tribe leader, the elders and senior officials of the tribe quickly gathered together.
They gathered at the place where their tribe held daily meetings.
Any social creature will have such a place.
The decision-making of the leader needs to be passed down to the individuals.
Ye Qiong, who is riding the snow-covered demon wolf, does not look as domineering as riding on Dudu's back now, but the aura he naturally reveals still gives people a very different feeling.
Under the big shell, the Na Ning tribe built a city around it, but it was not high.
It is only about three and a half meters tall, and some children with better reach can easily climb up.
It seems that they are not too worried about the attack of the beast tide, or maybe there are no beast tides in the Dinglong Mountains in winter.
Otherwise, this kind of three-and-a-half-meter-high city wall would be a chore for high-level monsters.
The low city wall does not mean that the defense of the Na Ning tribe is low. There are buildings on the big shell at six locations in contact with the ground.
Slowly extending upward, you can see some buildings similar to arrow towers, with warriors from the Na Ning tribe and forest apes standing on them.
Compared with the big shell, the outer wall is actually more like an obstacle. As long as it can slow down, the real lethality comes from the big shell.
Looking at the arched entrance from the outside, it feels a bit dark inside, blocking out the sun.
The big shell looks quite strong, and I don't know how many years it has been standing here.
After Ye Qiong and Qing Zhi followed Na Ning into the tribe, they couldn't help but began to look around curiously.
Very fresh feeling.
When Ye Qiong first entered the tree palace where Qingzhi and Xinka lived together, it felt like he was in another world.
Now if we compare the Tree Palace with the big shell tribe of the Na Ning tribe.
The tree palace can only be said to look warmer.
And what Da Kezi brings to people is shock!
Challenging the limits of human senses.
After entering the big shell, if you look up, you will feel like there is a giant spaceship floating above your head.
It's the kind that as long as you give it some power or wake it up, it can fly in space immediately.
Ye Qiong was a little impatient now, wanting to climb to the top of the big shell to see if there was anything on top, or if there was anything hidden inside the big shell.
Although this giant shell looks a bit thin when viewed from the outside, when you walk up to it, you can immediately see its thickness.
At the points in contact with the ground, the thickness is already more than ten meters.
You know, the city wall outside the Na Ning tribe is only over three meters high.
The large shell is more than ten meters thick. It’s hard to imagine how heavy this thing is!
I'm afraid it can match the weight of a mountain, or even be much larger.
after all……
The density of stones and soil is limited and not very large, but the density of this big shell is hard to say.
Either it's very big, in other words, it's an alien beast or a lord-level monster. It's the shell left after breaking through to the alien beast's level, so it's very reasonable to have a large mass.
But it may also be very small. After all, it is just a shell to a monster, whether it is a lord-level monster or an alien beast.
When it is very young, the purpose of this shell is to protect itself, not to cause trouble for itself, so it is lighter and more reasonable and cannot affect its activities.
Whether it is lighter or heavier is meaningless to the current Ye Qiong and Ye Qiong tribe. After all, this thing...
It seems impossible to move!
It is probably impossible to use ordinary swords to break open the things left behind by alien-level monsters. Otherwise, there is no need to wait for humans to come and build tribes. Those monsters alone can eat them up.
Continuing to walk into the Na Ning tribe, Ye Qiong was still looking left and right.
This tribe has settled under the big shell for who knows how many years. Although it has not developed civilization, it has many small inventions and some strange and unique things that are still very eye-catching.
The buildings of the Na Ning tribe are mainly concentrated in seven areas.
Six of the areas are where the large shell contacts the ground.
Walls and gates were also built at the bottom. If all six gates were closed, the Na Ning tribe could form a closed environment.
Most of the buildings in these six places, close to the entrance gate, are used for defense. They also give people the feeling of being very solid and not suitable for living.
Continuing deeper inside, you will find the two- and three-story wooden houses that look like they are for human habitation.
However, the six concentrated construction areas broke off after extending a hundred meters inward, forming an open area. Then looking inside, there is the seventh construction area, which is also the largest construction area.
The area directly below the center of the big shell is very large.
What Ye Qiong didn't expect was that a city wall was actually built in this area!
Moreover, the city wall inside is not only about 3.5 meters, but has been expanded several times in size, with a height of nearly 20 meters.
In the most central area, Ye Qiong once again saw a magical scene.
I saw that in the center of the big shell, starting from the top and going down, there was actually a huge cylindrical building.
A building that looks like Optimus Prime!
The diameter is visually estimated to be thirty meters, and it is entirely made of wood.
This big pillar seems to be supporting the big shell to prevent it from collapsing. It also seems to be using the support of the big shell to allow the humans inside to live together.
The city wall, which is more than 20 meters high, surrounds the pillar building which is more than 30 meters thick and more than 200 meters high.
Together with the city walls, the central area covers an area as large as two football fields.
Compared to a tribe with a population base of tens of thousands, the area occupied by this kind of residential area is actually not large.
But the height is a bit scary, and it is not something that the small tribes outside the Dinglong Mountains can imagine.
Even compared to the stone city wall of the Ye Qiong tribe, it is not inferior in scale.
Even more spectacular.
What Ye Qiong saw now was the city wall more than twenty meters high, surrounding the giant pillar in the middle.
There is still a distance between the two. Only by entering inside can you know what it is.
But what is certain is that there are no buildings higher than the city wall.
Riding a snowy demon wolf under the big shell is a different feeling.
Ye Qiong looked at the giant pillar in the middle and inevitably thought that if a fire broke out in the summer, it would definitely be a devastating disaster for the Na Ning tribe.
However, after all these years, it is still in good condition. I guess they have some special fire prevention methods.
Soon, Ye Qiong and the others arrived at the city wall around the pillar.
The city wall inside looked much more spectacular when we got closer. A gate opened in the direction Ye Qiong and the others were heading.
The door is open, and looking from the outside, you can already see the giant pillar in the center.
During the day, there is no problem with the light inside. Although the light is not very strong, there is still no problem with the field of vision, but it just gives people an uncomfortable feeling.
If you are not used to it, first-timers like Ye Qiong and Qing Zhi will feel a little bit depressed, but as time goes by, this feeling will gradually diminish.
After walking in from the inner city wall, we finally saw the area blocked by the city wall.
Ye Qiong never imagined that there would be such a scene inside the city wall.
Among the buildings inside, only the area next to the city wall seems to be part of a whole with the city wall. It is surrounded by a whole circle. There must be a lot of people living inside.
In the area between the city wall residential area and the giant pillar, there are rows of white ice. In summer, they are probably used as pits for water storage.
Inside the big shell, the temperature in winter is about the same as outside, so it will still freeze.
From a defensive perspective, this big shell doesn't seem to be afraid of being surrounded by enemies at all.
When supplies, food and water are abundant, it is really not an easy task to take over the Na Ning tribe.
No wonder the Na Ning Tribe and the Red Flame Leopard Tribe have been fighting for so many years and have yet to be conquered.
The big shell building of the Na Ning Tribe is too powerful for defense.
Keep walking forward and you will come under the giant pillar.
When I looked at it from the outside, it was separated by a 20-meter-high city wall, so Ye Qiong roughly estimated that the thickness on it was about 30 meters.
But after entering inside, I also saw that the foundation of this giant pillar was much thicker in the area next to the ground.
The diameter is actually about a hundred meters, and it forms a cone shape upwards. After reaching about twenty meters, it turns into a pillar with a thickness of thirty meters. Then it goes straight up and is directly connected to the large shell at the highest point.
Together.
The senior leaders of the tribe, as well as the elders and clan leaders, have now gathered and arrived at the place where the Na Ning tribe usually holds meetings.
It's the middle of the first floor of the middle pillar.
Humans live below the giant pillars, and forest apes live in some of the upper areas. If you continue to go up, most of the areas are empty, and there are some things that are only known to the tribes of past generations.
This is somewhat similar to the tree house at the top of Xinka's tree palace. Until now, Ye Qiong doesn't know what is in the tree palace...