Chapter 565: Creating a Landslide
Liduo walked around the area around the hill. This place, like the Lei family's safe house, was a little far from the main street of the South Outer City and close to the outermost mountain area.
Even the small hill where the Doomsday Carnival Cult is located is a little more remote. The houses nearby are built sparsely, and the density is even lower than the dozen or so houses on the hill.
Most of the people living here are poor ordinary people. Lido, who has some strength, can tell at a glance that they are the kind of people who have offended someone and have to hide in such places to avoid disaster. Even half of the houses here are not the stone houses commonly seen in the northern provinces, but wooden houses or earthen brick houses similar to those in ancient Blue Star.
The number of people living in each house here is generally more than twice that of houses in other places. The people living here can be said to be the lowest class in the main city of Tianjing.
That is to say, the natural growth rate and output of plants and grains on the Magic Continent are far superior to those in ancient Blue Star. Due to the threats of demons and monsters, the authorities on the Magic Continent pay far less attention to the mountains and forests than on Blue Star. These lower-class civilians cannot afford the stones made by the elves or mine the rocks themselves to build houses, but they can still cut some wood outside the mountains and forests to build houses.
No one will come to collect fees for cutting wood. On the contrary, those people would rather civilians go into the mountains and forests to cut wood. In this way, the area of the forest will be reduced, which is equivalent to increasing the scope of human control.
In the magical continent, mountains and forests are not a symbol of wealth, but a symbol of danger. In short, the magical continent is probably still a long way from the era where environmental protection is needed.
It is also because of this that these lowest-class civilians will not be left homeless.
However, they lived close to the mountains, had little power of their own, their houses were not sturdy enough, and the population density around them was not high. Although they would not freeze to death or starve to death, they did not have much security.
Whenever there are demons or monsters coming out of the mountains, they will be the first to bear the brunt and their lives will be at the mercy of God. Even if they are just ordinary wild beasts in the mountains and forests, a large number of them will cause heavy casualties.
However, the worse the living environment, the easier it is for crime to occur.
The Lei family set up their safe house in such a place in order to avoid attracting attention. The Doomsday Carnival Cult probably set up its base in such a place not only for the need for secrecy, but also to facilitate their abduction of people.
In a place like this, the silent disappearance of a few people would not attract much attention.
The purpose of Lido's walk around was to find a place to make some noise to attract the attention of the Doomsday Carnival Cult. By then, no matter if someone came out of the stronghold to check the situation or someone from outside went in to report the situation, someone would eventually have to open the mechanism and enter the stronghold. At this time, Lido could find a way to sneak in.
Lido found a huge stone less than a thousand meters away from the hill, located on the top of another low hill connected to the hill.
The part exposed above the ground is already very large, and someone built a house on it using local materials. It is quite spacious, but the part of the stone buried underground is even larger.
But the soil covering the stone is actually quite soft. That is to say, the vegetation on the magical continent is dense, and the weather is always good, so disasters such as landslides and mudslides rarely occur, so this big stone and this mound of earth are safe and sound.
What Lido wanted was to use this big rock to create a landslide. Not only would the mound collapse, but the big rock would also roll down from the top of the slope and hit the hill on the opposite side.
In this way, the vibration caused by the landslide, the rolling of rocks, and the noise of rocks hitting the hill will definitely alarm the people in the stronghold in the mountain.
Obsidian does have strong defensive power. It is hard and can isolate mental power and magical elements, but it cannot block physical vibrations. The people in the stronghold will definitely feel it, and they will have no choice but to come out.
As for the houses built on the stone and the people living in them? Liduo chose this place for her actions because of the location and geological conditions. More importantly, the people living in the houses were a bunch of scumbags, and she had no psychological burden to trick them!
The people inside were a small gang led by three rubbish junior summoners, with more than twenty thugs. They extorted and robbed ordinary people living nearby. They were typical bullies.
Whether they can survive the landslide created by Lido depends on their luck. Lido is too lazy to deal with them specifically, but she will not show mercy to them either.
Anyway, even if they were not here, new gangs would be born and continue to do similar things as them, so Lido couldn't care less.
It is naturally best to do bad things on a dark and windy night, so Lido waited until midnight to do it.
Lido mobilized a large amount of earth energy and injected it into the big rock and the soil beneath it, making the soil looser and the big rock and soil gradually separate. When the big rock loosened and tilted and the soil structure underneath was so loose that it would collapse at the slightest poke, a landslide occurred naturally.
The big rocks, carrying a lot of soil, rumbled towards the hill where the stronghold was located. The shaking was very obvious within a radius of two kilometers, as if a small earthquake had occurred.
As for the house built on the stone, it was quite solid. But when the stone started rolling, no matter how solid it was, it could not withstand such impact. Some of the people inside were crushed to death along with the house, and some were thrown out and hit various places, with their lives or deaths unknown.
Lido was too lazy to care about these people. She just withdrew the remaining earth energy from the boulders and soil to prevent the people of the Doomsday Carnival Cult from sensing any complications. Then she returned to the vicinity of the hill and kept an eye on the movements in the stronghold.
It's no wonder that just to create such a not-so-big landslide, Lido consumed a lot of earth energy and mental power.
In fact, Lido could also wrap her legs with earth energy, and then stomp hard on the location of the big rock. The noise caused would be quite loud, but the energy consumption would be much less.
The force of tens of thousands of kilograms comes with a terrifying acceleration. One kick is enough to break a large rock, but it will still cause a landslide, and the shock will not be less than the previous method.
But the reason why Lido chose the former method is that it is secretive enough. The noise is so small before the landslide occurs that it can be ignored, and after the landslide occurs it looks like a natural geological disaster. Unless someone knows in advance what the soil was like before the landslide, they will find something wrong by comparing before and after.
If the latter method is used, although energy is saved, Lido's body will also have to withstand a huge recoil force, and she will inevitably be injured, and it will leave traces, which can easily be seen as man-made.
So Lido chose to consume more energy to create a landslide, and then waited for the people from the Doomsday Carnival Cult to come out.
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