novelraw Chapter 522: Development Is Going Pretty Well
Chapter 522: Development Is Going Pretty Well
The point-to-surface method was indeed suitable for the post-ice-spirit era.
Over the next six months, the Church of Technology gradually established 500 settlements north of the watch wall.
These settlements all had one thing in common—they were all related to mines.
Some were built on top of mines. Others were on the transportation routes from mines to south of the watch wall.
These settlements mainly had two purposes. One was to provide security, playing a key role in mining and transporting from the mines. The other was to use points to cover surfaces, clearing out remaining ice spirits in the surrounding area.
The Church of Technology itself had extremely strong combat power, plus detection equipment that could directly detect whether enemies existed within a certain range. Naturally, they could guarantee absolutely zero risk.
In this post-ice-spirit era, they basically never encountered a single case of ice spirits hurting people. Everything went super smoothly.
Maybe precisely because of these results, more and more people entered this region.
After all, the wages here were way too high—basically 2-3 times the average wage in Roster territory.
Of course, compared to that, there were some difficulties here too. Even though basic safety could be guaranteed, there was basically no entertainment. The only entertainment methods to rely on were the Magic Net and a scattered handful of small shops.
But for people living in this era, that didn't seem like a problem at all.
Especially for those who'd been slaves before and had just been freed.
Their survival was already pretty tough. Finding a decent job was really hard too.
Coming here, they could easily earn several times the wage. Work here for a few years, then go out and find a good place, open a shop or something—easy as pie.
A lot of people were even thinking that if everything developed well here, they wouldn't mind settling down here at all.
After all, the Church of Technology was transforming this region. Besides being a bit cold, there really weren't any problems.
Resources? Check. Jobs? Check. Seemed like everything was available.
In the future, if the Church of Technology built more greenhouses and stuff, locally produced vegetables would be enough for them to eat.
Plus, the ultra-high-speed rail transit system was under construction. Once transportation became convenient, all kinds of supplies would increase too.
Actually, the earliest people who came here had already felt it—as time passed, more and more merchants were showing up here.
The number of merchants, to some extent, also represented economic prosperity.
These merchants came here to buy stuff, which meant they needed to spend money. When they spent money, local people had money. When local people had money, they'd consume other things.
To earn the money in locals' hands, more merchants would come.
A simple positive cycle just appeared like that.
And during this positive cycle, to meet the needs of merchants coming over, all kinds of shops would naturally appear. And as locals' pockets started filling up, these shops would start seeing local customers too.
In this process, the economy would continuously develop.
Even if the ceiling here definitely wasn't as high as warm regions—after all, this place wasn't as suitable for human survival—the profits were right here. There'd always be some people.
People who'd live pretty decent lives.
As for whether the profits would disappear... With their excavation abilities, these mines could easily be dug for another thousand or eight hundred years. Who's gonna think about stuff a thousand years from now?
You gotta know, in this era, most people's lifespans were only around 30 years.
Even though under the Church of Technology's guidance, people's lifespans had already started extending, their mindset hadn't changed yet.
A thousand years was enough for them to create 30, 50 generations, maybe even more.
In any place, no one can guarantee what'll happen 30, 50 generations later, right?
Even those noble lords—30, 50 generations later, they'd probably mostly be dead.
Who thinks that far ahead?
In this atmosphere, north of the watch wall actually seemed pretty thriving.
Worth mentioning—during this period, it wasn't just north of the watch wall that developed most rapidly. Wolf General's territory had somehow also become prosperous.
Even more prosperous than the Northern Grand Duke's Winter Fort.
The reason for this was simple—before all the ice spirits were confirmed eliminated, the watch wall would definitely stick around.
Even after eliminating all the ice spirits, the watch wall would remain as a historical landmark. At most, they'd just open a few more gates.
Right now, the only gate was in Wolf General's territory.
So many settlements north of the watch wall needed construction, which required massive resources and talent. And so many mines producing north of the watch wall needed to be transported south.
This became the most important trade point.
Naturally, tons of people gathered here.
Especially since a lot of merchants didn't dare go north of the watch wall, this became like a really public trading venue.
People with money who didn't dare go north would give tasks to people brave enough to go north and earn that money. Then they'd complete very smooth transactions.
People south of the watch wall could take the ultra-high-speed rail train directly from here to further south, meeting trade needs everywhere.
Maybe precisely because of this, Phase 3 construction of the ultra-high-speed rail transit system started changing. They began building from existing rail systems.
Using this method, they could use the rail system to quickly transport construction materials to designated locations, saving massive amounts of time and shipping capacity.
Because of this, everything got a lot faster.
Maybe also because everywhere was thriving, with all kinds of factories everywhere, population numbers started climbing. Same with Magic Net user numbers.
At some point, Magic Net users had actually broken through 300 million. And the total population of this continent? Even the gods couldn't figure it out now.
But one thing was certain—the numbers kept climbing.
And the faith every god received seemed to be climbing too.
Almost every god could feel themselves getting stronger every single day.
In the blink of an eye, several years passed.
On this day, an alarm suddenly sounded in the Tulip Kingdom's core region.
Wolf General quickly walked out of her room. "What happened?"
"The aerial reconnaissance squad—five Dragon Knight Type 3 aircraft were suddenly attacked. The attack came from the rift. We still don't know the situation. Medical personnel are conducting rescue operations."
"Lava General is calling a combat meeting. We don't know the purpose yet, but it's probably related to this."
Hearing this, Wolf General's face immediately became serious. She walked quickly toward the conference hall.