Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

The maximum speed of the drilling rig on conventional dirt roads is 35 kilometers per hour.

However, on smooth ice and snow roads, this speed can be increased further.

Because the friction coefficient of the current ground is lower, the corresponding driving speed can be faster.

If the drilling rig is driven on rough roads or under high load conditions, the speed will inevitably be affected, and paper data cannot cover all situations.

For example, this was the case with the previous Weight Bearer mecha.

After installing a snow shovel and carrying dozens of people, its subsequent driving speed dropped significantly. Especially when pushing snow, the forward speed lags to a certain threshold.

The return journey of about 20 kilometers took more than an hour.

The real driving speed depends on the actual situation, and paper data can only be used as a reference.

Zong Shen carried Ai Xia and drove the magic drilling machine forward quickly.

Wherever they drive, there will be an ice and snow road more than three meters wide.

About a kilometer behind them, Doris and some men drove a loader mecha from the living area and followed steadily along the ice and snow road that was obviously opened up.

With a drilling rig opening a path through the snow, the loader mecha was finally no longer constrained by the snow.

There were clear golden marks in front of Zong Shen's eyes, guiding him in the direction.

After spending about six or seven minutes, he arrived at the new location of the Winter Treasure Chest.

This is already the edge of the territory. There is a medium-sized territory not far from the small iceberg. If I remember correctly, this should be the territory of a certain legion member.

As the sun enveloped the land, other lords began to tentatively move around and go out.

When Zong Shen arrived here, the lord had already left the territory several hundred meters away.

He led a dozen soldiers to trudge through the snow up to their waists.

Although the sky has cleared and the temperature is gradually rising, it is not easy to completely turn the snow into melted ice. At least this sunny day will need to last for several hours.

When the lord saw the [Magic Energy Drilling Machine] heading towards him, he was stunned.

It wasn't until Zong Shen parked the drilling machine and opened the glass cover of the cockpit, revealing a head, that he realized what he was doing.

He bowed slightly to Zong Shen as a greeting.

"Army...Legion Commander..."

"Nice to see you here."

This is a Southeast Asian lord with dark skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Before his arrival, he came from the Emerald Country. He was young, only in his early 20s.

When he was facing the final boss in the crypt, he responded to Jiang Yi's call and provided support in Zong Shen's territory.

So Zong Shen also had some impression of him.

Zong Shen glanced at this guy's name.

A chuckle followed.

"Ha, Maung Shengwen, do you want this winter treasure chest?"

Hearing Zong Shen's words, the Burmese man named Maung Sheng Win suddenly showed an embarrassed expression on his face.

He wears a square-patterned black iron battle helmet on his head, and wears a similarly black iron-colored battle armor and a [brand-new sheepskin jacket].

The lower body is made of leather trousers. He DIYed it using sheepskin and tied the sheepskin to his two thighs with hemp rope to increase the warmth of the legs.

In this winter challenge, ordinary lords are also doing their best to meet their needs to keep out the cold.

At this time, Maung Shengwen was very conflicted in his heart. Needless to say, Zong Shen was famous in the region, and he was also the commander of his legion. After joining the [Legion of Guides], he enjoyed a lot of favors.

Zong Shen was even willing to sell a batch of cold-proof materials to them at cost price.

But the Winter Treasure Chest is also an irresistible temptation for every lord.

After being silent for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and chose to give up.

"I originally had this plan..."

"But if the Legion Commander is interested, I am willing to give up."

"Thank you, Master Legion, for taking care of me."

As Maang Shengwen spoke, the expression on his face returned to his natural state.

The hardest time to give up is before making a decision.

Now he feels relieved and his mood has recovered a lot.

"Haha, okay Maung Shengwen."

"As the legion commander, how can I snatch the winter treasure chest from you?"

"Be careful, this iceberg is hard to handle."

"The ice and snow monsters among them are also very fierce."

Zong Shen laughed loudly, he didn't want to compete with the legion members for monsters.

Especially for members who are relatively on the road, appropriate generosity is necessary.

For him, traveling is not a problem. At most, it is just a waste of a few minutes. The next destination is due north of here, 3.83 kilometers away.

That place has left the territory, and there should be no more Legion members.

Maung Shengwen's face first showed an expression of disbelief, and then he expressed sincere gratitude.

He bent his body ninety degrees and bowed to Zong Shen.

"Okay, okay, I'm on my way first."

"Please pay attention to your own safety."

Zong Shen waved his hand and gave a casual instruction.

He has already seen a few big ones among the small icebergs.

There are not as many as snow leopards, but they are larger in size. They are also ice beasts.

However, these dozen of handsome and warm warriors plus the arrow tower should be able to solve the problem smoothly.

The location of this small iceberg is exactly within the coverage of the arrow tower in the opponent's territory.

Zong Shen got into the cockpit again and closed the glass cover.

During this time, Doris also arrived in a loader mecha.

Without stopping too much, he set off north again.

The [Magic Drilling Machine] moved smoothly through the ice and snow and quickly left the place.

The [Heavy Bearer Mecha] behind carried several caster warriors following closely behind.

Maung Shengwen watched Zong Shen and the others leave. He was envious of such a bold way of traveling in the snow.

In addition, Zong Shen took the initiative to give up the winter treasure chest to him.

It even made Maung Shengwen feel admiration and gratitude in his heart.

"The legion commander is indeed the strongest man in the region."

"Following in his footsteps, I will definitely be able to survive in this world."

He lamented to himself that when the gap between the two parties reaches a certain level and they receive favors, there will be no room for jealousy and only worship will replace them.

"Keep moving forward, our arrow tower can shoot here!"

“But we must break through this iceberg first!”

Maung Sheng Win raised his right arm and waved it, leading the soldiers to continue setting off.

…

Seven or eight minutes later, Zong Shen came to the north.

It's a vast open area, and as far as the eye can see is the snow-capped land.

The white ice and snow plane even covers the Bone Burial Ground and extends directly into the mountain forests in the north.

Zong Shen had already mastered the experience of breaking ice while driving a drilling rig, and he did not stop this time.

The third gear power of the drilling rig was started directly and pushed forward.

Still the same as before, when there was about half a meter of ice left, the drilling machine was dumped out.

Parked seven or eight meters away from the small iceberg, and took Doris into the small iceberg.

Farvid stood behind with two pups, and several arcane mages stood up from behind the loader's cargo hold and held up their staffs to remain on guard.

Ashiya also leaned out of the cockpit of the drilling machine.

Zong Shen and Doris walked to the inside of the small iceberg. Through the blue and white transparent ice, they could see five snow-white pythons inside.

These large pythons are covered in white scales dotted with sea-blue spots.

Each one is as thick as a thigh. According to this body proportion, it can swallow a prairie sheep in one bite, not to mention humans.

These are the Icefield Snow Pythons. They are also captain-level and slightly stronger than the Icefield Snow Leopards.

It seems that the scales on these snow pythons should be a good material.

In fact, the clothing and armor made from the furs of ice beasts and monsters have better cold resistance and frost resistance.

Taking advantage of this challenge, Zong Shen can collect more materials from ice monsters as a resource reserve for the territory. If he wants to conquer cold areas in the future, he can make better cold-resistant clothing.

His eyes looked at the nearest ice field snow python.

Although captain-level monsters are noobs to him, they still need to be observed.

On the one hand, it can be known in advance, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as increasing the knowledge reserve. In the future, when seeing similar monsters and ethnic groups, you will be able to know it well.

[Level 3 Icefield Snow Python lv20 (Blue)]

[Blue Captain Level]

[Race: Ice Beast]

[Blunt damage: 44~47]

[Bite damage: 23~26]

[Health value: 685]

[Armor value: 35]

[Magic Resistance: 30]

[Speed: 3]

[Passive skill: Ice and Snow Mimicry (can convert the color of the body into the color of nearby ice and snow for visual misdirection)

Suffocation entanglement (Use the body to wrap the prey tightly and restrain its movement. It will not stop, causing 1.2 times of bludgeoning damage every second)]

[Points: 125]

(The ice beast guarding the treasure chest, a captain-level monster, has the hunting instinct of a python)

Zong Shen thought and dispersed its information.

In just a few seconds, these ice pythons were already alarmed.

The scales on their bodies changed rapidly, the blue spots disappeared, and the scales all over their bodies turned blue-white, almost the same color as small icebergs.

At first glance, it seems to be invisible. Only by careful observation can you see some irregular body edges through the ice.

If this ability is placed in the wild, it will definitely be a very powerful hunting ability, but in this case it is a joke.

Excluding the difficulty of breaking the ice, just destroying these captain-level ice beasts is almost not difficult at all, especially for someone like Zong Shen.

"Doris, breathe fire."

"Let's kill these big snakes quickly."

Zong Shen took a few steps back, gave up his position, and signaled Doris to start activating the "fire breathing" skill.

Everything went as smoothly as before. The fire dragon showed its power and opened up a passage less than one meter. These snow pythons were not as manic as the snow leopards.

However, under the stab of Zong Shen's trident, he was still successfully attracted to the hatred value.

He started to crawl out of the "dog hole", and then Zong Shen stepped hard on the back of his head with his foot wearing a [anti-skid chain spike], and hit his head with the trident in his hand.

The snake's head will be inserted until the flesh and blood are blurred. Each puncture damage plus elemental damage can cause 303 points of comprehensive damage. Two to three rounds of attacks can kill a snow python.

At this time, he asked Doris and Farvid to completely drag the snow python's body, which was more than ten meters long, out of the iceberg.

He specifically attacks the head just to keep the snake's skin intact.

Only a complete python carcass can peel off the largest area of ​​python skin, so that its material utilization can be maximized.

Zong Shen's series of operations flowed smoothly, just like the butchers in the slaughterhouse who slaughtered cattle and sheep day and night, without any unnecessary steps.

Slaughtering these ice beasts in a clean and efficient way.

With so many advantages, "dog hole" tactics and his strong single-target combat power, it is naturally easy to deal with these guys.

Under this assembly line-like slaughter, Zong Shen quickly killed the five ice snow pythons.

It brought him a total of 625 challenge points, strength extraction points, and 9,300 experience points.

This increased his strength attribute value again to 153 points, and his health value also increased to 1437 points.

In addition, Zong Shen's level has also been raised to lv27 [Experience Value:].

He asked Favid and the Austrian magicians to take advantage of this free time to simply deal with some snow pythons.

Cut off the head of the snake and feed it to the two-headed dog. The body of the snake is cut open from the abdomen to retain the useful internal organs such as the snake gallbladder. The useless parts are discarded directly. The remaining parts can be flattened in the cargo hold to save loading time. space.

As for himself, he drove the [Magic Drilling Machine] again, broke through the last layer of ice between the winter treasure chests, and after a simple chisel, he took out the treasure chest.

This time he did not choose to open it on the spot. He wanted to simplify the process to increase the efficiency of opening the treasure chest.

He directly put the Winter Treasure Box into the storage compartment, and by the time he was done, all the python corpses had been disposed of.

After driving the drilling machine, Zong Shen was ready to return to the territory as soon as possible.

He is ready to group again!

So far, including the trek, it takes about twenty-five minutes to get a winter treasure chest.

He wants to get as many treasure chests as possible before the climate changes again.

It is already past one o'clock in the afternoon, and the clear and sunny weather will last until 6 o'clock in the evening.

After that, the temperature will gradually drop until two o'clock in the morning, when the temperature will drop to minus 50 degrees Celsius. At the same time, there will also be super-cold water ice rain during this period. In theory, he only needs to maintain the current small-scale team to persist. until early morning.

In fact, Zong Shen did plan to do this.

Before the damn super cold water and icy rain fall, it's a good opportunity to explore the winter treasure chest.

Without the fetters of a large team, he can be more unscrupulous.

Including Favid and the others who were accompanying him, they were just handymen.

It would be a disaster if we missed this precious period of sunny weather.