Chapter 131 Human Traces
After a whole night of practice and study, Wang Lang has initially mastered the spell Firestorm.
However, if you want to achieve maximum damage, you need to practice more until you master it.
After eating and drinking in the morning, Wang Lang planned to lead King Kong, Xiaoyu, Xiaoxue, Dululu and thirty-five elves to start today's adventure.
As usual, Wang Lang jumped onto Xiaoyu's back and then let it fly into the air.
He wanted to take a look at the general topography and conditions of the area he was going to venture into today.
If there are no major problems, then you can just line up like you did a few days ago, and go on an adventure, explore, collect, and mine resources.
Xiaoyu carried Wang Lang on her back and ran in the air, and they slowly flew towards the east.
During this period, Wang Lang carefully observed the general situation around him and in the east direction.
In this way, Xiaoyu carried Wang Lang and flew for nearly five or six kilometers.
After understanding the general situation, Wang Lang patted Xiaoyu on the back and said, "Okay, Xiaoyu, turn around, let's go back."
"From here, go straight east all the way to the sea. The overall terrain is relatively flat. There haven't been any major wars in this large area. We can start working now."
ooh ooh...
Xiaoyu howled twice, then turned around and rushed in the direction the bird was coming from.
At this moment, Wang Lang looked to his right, which was due north.
Looking at the desert about twenty kilometers away in the north direction, Wang Lang muttered to himself.
"Yesterday it was a bit far away, so I couldn't see it clearly. Now I can see it clearly, it is indeed a desert. And the area of this desert seems to be quite large. Judging from the appearance, it is estimated to be at least 10,000 or 20,000 square kilometers."
"This area is really not small. You have to know that the entire Dongshan area is only about 300,000 square kilometers."
While Wang Lang was muttering to himself, Xiaoyu was already carrying him and was about to fly back to the original place.
Just as Xiaoyu was about to fall, Wang Lang shouted.
"Xiaoyu, don't fly down yet. Let's fly over there and take a look at the desert. I always feel like there's something strange there."
ooh ooh...
Xiaoyu shouted in response, then turned and flew due north.
This vast desert looks like a not very regular rectangle.
It is wide from east to west and long from north to south.
Starting from the east coastline and extending to the west, the overall width varies, being slightly narrower in the south and getting wider towards the north. The average width is estimated to be about 60 to 70 kilometers.
As for the north-south length, it doesn't look particularly clear because it is too long.
However, according to a rough estimate, the length of this desert from north to south is at least about 200 kilometers.
The strange place in the desert that Wang Lang mentioned should be the southwest corner of the entire desert.
There is a small river there.
The river meanders from the mountains and forests in the southwest into the desert.
At the beginning, the river was very wide, and it looked like it was at least thirty or forty meters wide.
However, after winding into the desert, the river becomes narrower and narrower.
After going about 20 kilometers deep into the desert, the river becomes only a few meters wide.
Xiaoyu was extremely fast. It soon carried Wang Lang for more than 20 kilometers and arrived at the edge of the desert just south of the desert.
Wang Lang looked towards the northwest, his gaze spanning a distance of dozens of kilometers and fell on a giant stone pillar about thirty meters high in the desert.
This stone pillar is located on top of a huge sand dune.
After taking a closer look, Wang Lang shouted in surprise.
"Damn, there are indeed traces of human activity on that thick and tall stone pillar. I was wondering, how could wind and sand erosion make this stone pillar so straight?"
Toot-tut ...
Dululu, who was flying nearby, cried out softly.
Just now it had flown up to the sky to greet Wang Lang, but after it discovered that Wang Lang and Xiaoyu had changed direction and were flying towards due north, it flew over with them.
Dululu called out softly.
"Brother, it's just a big rock, what's so strange about it?"
After hearing Dululu's shout, Wang Lang turned his head and looked at it, and then said directly: "That big rock is different from the other big rocks. There are traces of human beings on it. This means that there are other people in this world. Oh, no, there were other humans in the past."
After taming King Kong, Xiaoxue, Dululu, and Xiaoyu more than 20 days ago, Wang Lang would ask them if they had seen humans like themselves.
The answer we got from them was that they had never seen humans before.
Therefore, Wang Lang has always believed that humans may never have appeared in this vast world of mountains and seas.
But now there are traces of human activity on the stone pillar, which directly overturns the previous conclusion.
Xiaoyu said that it has lived in Dongshan for more than four or five thousand years. It has been to many places in Dongshan, but it has never seen humans.
This means that no human beings have appeared in Dongshan in the past four or five thousand years.
Therefore, the human traces that appear now must have been from four or five thousand years ago, or even tens of thousands of years ago.
But Wang Lang doesn't care whether it was from four or five thousand years ago, tens of thousands of years ago, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Now that he has discovered traces of human activity, he will naturally study it carefully.
Turning his head, he took another look at the stone pillar full of traces of human activity, and then Wang Lang said to Dululu: "Dululu, fly back now and call King Kong, Xiaoxue and the other elves over. Let's explore the situation there today."
Toot-tut ...
Dululu called out softly.
"Okay, brother, go call them over."
After shouting, Dululu turned around and flew rapidly towards the south.
After Dululu flew away, Wang Lang patted Xiaoyu on the back and said directly: "Xiaoyu, let's go and fly over to take a look."
Wang Lang couldn't wait any longer.
He wanted to see if the thick, tall, and straight stone pillar was built by humans. If it was, he also wanted to see what secrets were nearby.
Xiaoyu flew up at a very fast speed and rushed straight towards the northwest.
The huge stone pillar was located at the edge of the desert and the forest, about fifty or sixty kilometers away from where Wang Lang was now.
Xiaoyu exerted its speed to the maximum, and soon it carried Wang Lang to fly above the stone pillar.
At this time, Wang Lang was 100% sure.
This pillar, about 30 meters high and about 5 meters in diameter, deeply embedded in the sand dune below, was indeed man-made. And it was not a stone pillar, but a metal pillar.
It's just that its surface is covered with a layer of sand and has been severely eroded, so it looks like a stone pillar.
Sitting on Xiaoyu's back, Wang Lang looked down at the metal pillar and then looked at the surrounding situation.
However, he didn't see anything special.
"It's unlikely that there is only one metal pillar here. It's possible that this was a human settlement in the past. If that's the case, there must be some building ruins around the metal pillar."
Muttering to this, Wang Lang patted Xiaoyu on the back and then said directly: "Xiaoyu, let's fly down."
ooh ooh...
Xiaoyu cried out twice and then fell directly down.
It didn't take long for it to land steadily next to the metal pillar.
There was a huge sand dune under my feet, at least six or seven kilometers long from east to west, and about three or four kilometers wide from north to south. The metal pillar appeared at the center and highest point of the sand dune.
The height difference between the highest point of the sand dune and the desert at the edge of the dune is at least a hundred meters.
This means that the overall height of this metal pillar is likely to be more than 130 meters, and there is a great probability that it will be higher.
Jumping off Xiaoyu's back, Wang Lang walked to the metal pillar, clenched his fist, and punched it directly.
boom……
There was a loud bang, and a large piece of sand and rust fell off, revealing the original color of the metal pillar.
"Haha, yes, this is indeed a metal pillar."
After having fun, Wang Lang squatted down and touched the yellow sand under his feet, then communicated with the Shennong Ding space and collected the yellow sand.
Wang Lang collected large pieces of yellow sand around the metal pillars into the space of Shennong Ding. A sand pit appeared and gradually became larger and larger.
Looking at the newly exposed section of the metal pillar, Wang Lang muttered, "Sure enough, a lot of the metal rods are covered by this sand dune."
"Let's continue to clear the sand. Once we clear the sand dunes and find the bottom of the metal pillar, we may even be able to find the remains of a human city here."
After muttering, Wang Lang continued to work.
He had the infinite space of the Shennong Ding, so it was very simple to clean up the yellow sand. He just needed to collect it directly, and he only needed to be careful not to be buried by the collapsed yellow sand.
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