That would explain why the population of Upper Ink City was 1/1600000, and why Yang Rui had never seen any NPCs in Upper Ink City. Yang Rui reckoned that the "1" referred to the Mechanical Behemoth that was a combination of human and mechanical parts.
"My Lord, other than the ruins of the Castellan's Mansion, everything in the inner city has been cleared. Due to the distribution of the buildings, the fire affected a total of 109 carpentry workshops. Among them, there are more than 80 special-class carpentry workshops and more than 20 high-class carpentry workshops. Currently, there are 15 carpentry workshops that can still be used and 170 high-class carpentry workshops …"
While Yang Rui was flipping through Juzi's notes, Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Mancheng, and Guo Jia had led their men to more or less clear out the inner city. Under Yang Rui's instructions, they focused on the damage of the carpentry workshops.
Carpentry workshops could be said to be a specialty of Upper Ink City. Yang Rui also intended to restore Upper Ink City's carpentry production capacity. After all, the name of Divine Machinery City was not given for nothing. It had a significant boost to carpentry and carpentry production.
Yang Rui had already expected the extent of the damage to the carpentry workshops. Yang Rui had already discovered it. Perhaps because of the importance of the fire, the large number of special-class carpentry workshops near the Castellan's Mansion were the buildings that suffered the most damage.
Now, there were only 25 special-class carpentry workshops and 170 high-class carpentry workshops that could be used. Yang Rui felt very lucky.
What made Yang Rui the happiest was that there were different grades of wood stored in each of these carpentry workshops. Moreover, the Mohist's method of preserving wood seemed to be very effective. These low-grade wood had been stored for a long time, but they could still be used!
Close to 200 special-class and high-class carpentry workshops in the inner city were cleared out. In total, they obtained more than 600,000 units of Grade 9 to Grade 4 wood.
Among them, there were more than 200,000 units of Grade 9 wood. It accounted for more than a third of the total. There were more than 100,000 units of Grade 8 wood. It accounted for more than 20% of the total. There were nearly 100,000 units of seventh-grade wood, which accounted for more than 10% of the total.
There were more than 50,000 units of grade 6 wood, 50,000 units of grade 5 wood, and about 50,000 units of grade 4 wood. The difference in quantity was not too big. If they were only comparing the high grade wood, Yang Rui's harvest was actually more than the batch of wood that Yang Rui bought from the Han Dynasty!
This was the first time Yang Rui had received such a large quantity of Grade 4 wood. At that time, Zhang Rang had only sold Yang Rui wood below Grade 5.
This made Yang Rui feel even more regretful. If the fire hadn't destroyed the 40 million tons of wood in the City Lord's Mansion's warehouse, who knew how much more high-quality wood there would be!?
Other than that, the various woodworking workshops had quite a number of mechanical dolls, mechanical beasts, mechanical props, and semi-finished mechanical parts. If one were to count them all together, who knew how many tens of thousands of them. They were all processed from high grade wood, which was also a considerable amount of wealth.
These semi-finished parts were not useful at the moment, but since Yang Rui intended to make various mechanical items, they might be useful in the future. Yang Rui also ordered people to collect them and store them in the storage ring.
"Continue to clear out the outer city. Pay attention to the possible counterattack of the mechanical dolls and mechanical beasts that escaped … "
After that, Yang Rui spent about half a day to organize the entire Upper Ink City.
The situation in the outer city was not much different from the inner city. It was mainly made up of intermediate and low-class carpentry workshops, and there were very few living buildings. Yang Rui's subordinates also obtained a lot of wood, but there were only 40,000 to 50,000 units of high grade wood, and most of them were Grade 8 and Grade 9 wood.
After clearing out the outer city of Upper Ink City, Yang Rui now had complete control over the entire city.
However, due to the large number of mechanical dolls and mechanical beasts outside the city, most of Yang Rui's forces were still stationed on the inner city walls. Yang Rui only sent a few thousand Fourth Grade Yellow Turban Soldiers to guard the city gates and serve as a warning.
After a night of rest for Yang Rui and the others, Yang Rui placed Zhang Ning, Zhang Mancheng, and Guo Jia in the Castle in the Sky the next morning. He then rode the Flying Carpet to the depths of Mount Tai in search of the teleportation array. Only Gao Shun and his soldiers were left behind in Upper Ink City to guard against any escaping mechanical dolls and mechanical beasts.
The location of the teleportation array was only mentioned briefly in Juzi's notes, but Yang Rui didn't have to spend much time to find it.
The Mount Tai map was originally a large valley. Juzi's notes mentioned that the teleportation array was located in the deepest part of the map. Yang Rui followed the instructions and went all the way to the deepest part of the valley to find the teleportation array.
This teleportation array was more than twice the size of the teleportation arrays in the other cities in the game. The interface of the teleportation array looked like the Eight Trigrams, with many small runes in the middle. There was also a pair of yin and yang fish spinning in the center. The runes on the outside could also spin. It was different from all the teleportation arrays Yang Rui had seen before.
"Feng Xiao, you are familiar with arrays. What advice do you have for this teleportation array?"
Yang Rui didn't rashly step into the teleportation array. Instead, he transferred Guo Jia, Zhang Ning, and Zhang Mancheng out and observed the teleportation array.
"Lord Prefecture Overseer, if Guo Jia isn't wrong, this teleportation array is a very ancient directional teleportation array. It can only be used with one other teleportation array. At the same time, it can be closed by adjusting the Eight Trigrams position. Right now, the teleportation array is in a closed state."
Guo Jia lived up to his reputation as a great talent. After observing the teleportation array once, he figured out the origin of this teleportation array.
"Oh? Feng Xiao, can you reactivate this teleportation array? "Yang Rui asked with great concern.
The teleportation array in front of him would determine the quality of the wood resources in Yang Rui's hands. The other side of the teleportation array should be a place rich in wood resources. Therefore, if he could reactivate the teleportation array, it would be of great significance to Yang Rui.
"The opening and closing of the teleportation array here should be achieved through the changes in the Eight Trigrams position. Although Guo Jia is not completely confident, if he carefully thinks about it, he can try to restart it without worrying about damaging the teleportation array."
Guo Jia was a person who knew his limits. For him to be able to answer in such a way, Yang Rui felt relieved. He reckoned that with Guo Jia's help, the possibility of the teleportation array being restored was very high.
Following that, Guo Jia began to carefully observe the various runes on the periphery of the teleportation array. His hands would occasionally gesture at the yin-yang fish in the center, as if he was trying to find a connection between the two.
After an hour had passed, Guo Jia gently extended his hands and pressed on the runes around the teleportation array. He slowly rotated them until the position of Qian was aligned with the intersection of the yin-yang fish. A blue light shot out from the yin-yang fish in the center of the teleportation array.
"Lord Prefecture Overseer, the teleportation array can be used now. Furthermore, the teleportation array that it points to is also complete. It can be used for normal teleportation." The moment the blue light appeared, Guo Jia also revealed a look of joy as he spoke to Yang Rui.
"Feng Xiao is indeed a great talent. Everyone, why don't you follow me to investigate?"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
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After Yang Rui praised Guo Jia, he eagerly led the three of them into the teleportation array. Zhang Ning and the others were also very interested in this.
"System Notice: Esteemed player Blazing Sun, this teleportation is a super long-distance teleportation. Each person will have to pay 100 gold coins as the teleportation fee. Please select whether you wish to teleport or not."
As soon as they stepped into the teleportation array, Yang Rui received a system notice that Yang Rui had to pay the teleportation fee.
Yang Rui did not hesitate. He directly took out 400 gold coins and chose to teleport.
Originally, Yang Rui could have placed Zhang Ning, Zhang Mancheng, and Guo Jia in Sky City or his storage ring. However, he did not know what they would face after teleporting. Thus, Yang Rui decided to keep them by his side to deal with any accidents that might happen.
400 gold coins was not a small amount when converted to real money. Whether it was in the game or in reality, it was already a considerable amount. However, compared to Yang Rui's current wealth, it was not much.
The teleportation process that followed was nothing special. It just took a little longer than normal teleportation. However, after the teleportation ended, Yang Rui immediately received another system notice, causing Yang Rui's eyes to light up.
"System Notice: Congratulations player Blazing Sun for arriving at the Japanese Civilization Area's affiliated area — Shrimp Barbarian Land. As you are the first player to successfully cross the country's barrier, you are specially rewarded with 1000 Reputation Points. A Civilization Area System Announcement will be made shortly. Do you wish to sign? Please make your choice! "
Yang Rui had already imagined the location of the teleportation. From the mention of "Extreme North" in Juzi's notes, as well as the words "Ultra-Long Distance Teleportation", Yang Rui had already guessed that this time, there was a possibility that he would be teleported outside of the Three Kingdoms Civilization Area.
However, Yang Rui had never thought that he would be teleported to the Japanese Civilization Area. "Shrimp Barbarian Land" should be Hokkaido in reality?
The so-called "Civilization Area's affiliated area" had actually appeared on the forum a long time ago. It referred to a main civilization that was connected to other civilizations around it. However, it could not independently form a national civilization. For example, the Xiongnu Land around the Three Kingdoms Civilization Area belonged to this category.
Therefore, there were no national barriers between the affiliated civilization area and the corresponding main civilization area. There were only some restrictions on the division of forces. There was basically little communication between the affiliated civilization area and the corresponding main civilization area. Of course, there were no teleportation portals between the affiliated civilization area and the main civilization area.
However, as long as there was a suitable means of transportation, it was not very difficult to reach each other's boundary. In other words, after Yang Rui arrived at Shrimp Barbarian Land, it was not difficult to go to the hinterland of the Japanese Civilization Area!
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