Chapter 6613
: Buying Land and Magnetic Mountain Array
Alcohol is a relaxing medicine that can help people relax their minds and express the sorrow hidden deep in their hearts.
When the man woke up, it was already noon the next day.
Tang Zhen had already left and headed for the government office in the city.
The wind and sand stopped in the morning, and the streets were filled with piled sand and dust, and passers-by all looked dusty.
There was no light in their eyes, and they did not pay more attention to Tang Zhen, a foreigner.
After arriving at the yamen, Tang Zhen first found a runner and used magic to confuse and control him.
The police took Tang Zhen to find the official in charge and told him that he was a distant relative of his.
Now he has come to the town and wants to buy a piece of land to build a dyeing workshop.
In the nearby desert, there grows a kind of bitter ginger grass. When crushed, the juice is gray-blue, making it a good material for dyeing cloth.
There were dyeing factories in the city in the early years, but they moved away due to environmental deterioration.
With a senior official acting as guarantor, the officials did not make it difficult and were eager to sell the useless land in the city for money.
Today, the population of towns is less than one-tenth of its original number, and collapsed houses and vacant lots can be seen everywhere.
The government can take back these ownerless lands and make transactions, and the money from the sales can go into personal pockets.
However, over the past years, the amount of vacant land has increased, the number of residents has decreased, and no one has come to buy houses or land.
Buyers like Tang Zhen are quite rare, and we must keep him.
When you develop in the future, if you blackmail them appropriately, you will definitely have many opportunities to eat meat and drink soup.
After paying a sum of money and signing a deed, Tang Zhen became a legal resident of this desert town.
Owning legal land is equivalent to obtaining permission from the rules of this world, and then construction can begin.
Tang Zhen came alone, so he tried to keep a low profile and not reveal his true purpose easily.
If there were any powerful cultivators in this world who were proficient in the art of divination, they might have already noticed the abnormality.
It is estimated that at this moment, he is looking for something unusual, trying to find Tang Zhen.
However, the content of similar divinations is often chaotic and unclear, and it is difficult to determine the specific situation.
One thing is certain, this is a disaster rather than a blessing.
It would take Tang Zhen neither too long nor too short a time to build the teleportation array. Once it was exposed, it would be enough for the elders of the sect to react.
Before the teleportation array was operational, targeted attacks and sabotage were carried out, including killing Tang Zhen, the advance monk.
Tang Zhen was alone, facing countless practitioners in a world, and there was no possibility of winning at all.
Small hermits hide in the mountains, great hermits hide in the city. Tang Zhen has to build an anchor point for the teleportation array and hide himself perfectly.
Half an hour later, Qi Laosan, who had been drinking with Tang Zhen, got a new job.
He was responsible for recruiting people and clearing out a ruined residential area in the city in preparation for building a new dyeing house.
It is difficult to find a suitable job in this remote town and everyone is struggling to survive.
If there is a job, even if the salary is only one-fifth of the normal salary, there will be a large number of small town residents competing for it.
Qi Laosan never dreamed that when he woke up, he would become a contractor.
Thinking of Tang Zhen's identity, Qi Laosan's heart trembled and he reminded himself to work hard.
You must not be careless and fail to live up to the trust of the Immortal Master. Otherwise, not only will you feel guilty, but you may also be severely punished.
With the money given by Tang Zhen, Qi Laosan first went to find the residents he knew and asked them to work with him to earn money.
When it comes to money-making opportunities like this, you must give priority to your own people.
The town residents he knew were all down-to-earth, simple and honest people, and they were definitely worth the wages.
Not long after, news spread in the city that a stranger was going to set up a dyeing room.
Bought a piece of land in the city and hired a large number of people to work.
Town residents received the news and came one after another, all wanting to get a job opportunity. Tang Zhen had previously specifically instructed that more people could be recruited to speed up the construction progress.
Those who were too young were not accepted, and those who were too old were not wanted. Qi Laosan recruited more than 70 workers in total, and they started working on the land that Tang Zhen bought.
During this period, yamen runners arrived and many city residents watched curiously. It was a rare and lively scene.
The people in the city were talking about this rich outsider, but they didn't think the dyeing factory could stay open for long.
Running a dye house requires a lot of water, but since the curse, the rivers outside the city have gradually dried up, the area of the lake has become smaller and smaller, and now it has become increasingly difficult to use water.
The dye houses that had previously been opened in the town were eventually forced to move to other places because the plant raw materials withered and water became increasingly difficult to obtain.
It is estimated that this newly opened dyeing house will not last long and may move out within two years.
Some people are full of worries, while others are dismissive. They think that it is urgent to take care of the present, and why bother worrying about things that will happen a few years later.
Everyone hopes that their hometown will be prosperous so that they can have more opportunities to make money, but the harsh natural environment is forcing more and more people to move away.
If they can't survive after holding on for a while, they will find a way to escape.
It is better to run away to other places and hide in the mountains as a savage than to stay here and starve to death.
Someone asked Qi Laosan where the owner of the dyeing house was and why he was nowhere to be seen.
Qi Laosan shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
Before leaving, Tang Zhen did not tell Qi Laosan where he was going, and told him to just focus on his work.
Knowing that Tang Zhen was an immortal master, Qi Lao San certainly wouldn't dare to ask random questions for fear of getting himself into trouble.
While the people in the city were talking about this matter and paying attention to the progress of the project, Tang Zhen had already appeared in the desert.
He walked in the desert, feeling the breath brought by the wind, and finally came to a strange place.
This is a giant stone mountain, more than 300 meters high. Perhaps due to the polishing of wind and sand, the surface of the stone is very smooth, making it difficult to climb to the top of the mountain.
The stone mountain is not a whole, but is divided into two in the middle, as if it was split in half by a sword of some powerful monk.
If you carry metal objects, once you get close to this stone mountain, they will be sucked directly over.
Once it's sucked in, it can't be taken off. It's slowly corroded by wind and rain, and finally turns into a pile of rotten iron slag.
If you look closely, you can see traces of rusted metal on the stone, and I don't know how many years it has been adsorbed.
This split stone mountain is actually a giant magnet, and can also be used as the basis for a natural formation.
Tang Zhen discovered a set of opposing rune arrays at the gap in the stone mountain. Whenever the wind and sand blow, the rune array of this magnetic mountain will take effect, causing the damage caused by the wind and sand to increase exponentially.
The magnetic force controls the iron-containing sand, causing it to fly farther, just enough to cover the entire town.
Under the influence of the rune array, the breeze turned into a strong wind, and the strong wind turned into a storm, carrying countless sand and dust in the process.
This is a perfect design that utilizes the natural terrain and combines it with rune arrays. After seeing it, Tang Zhen couldn't help but admire it inwardly.
The monk who set up the rune array was indeed no simple person, but I don't know why he made things difficult for a group of ordinary people.
There must be something fishy about this matter, or perhaps there are secrets that I am unaware of, but the town residents do not know about it, or perhaps those who know the truth have deliberately concealed it, resulting in no one ever knowing the truth.
Tang Zhen was not interested in finding out what was going on. His purpose of coming here today was to destroy the formation.
Otherwise, the constant wind and sand will inevitably affect the construction of the teleportation array, and even abnormalities will occur during its operation.
This giant magnetic mountain is more than 90% meteorites from outer space, and contains unstable space energy.
Once encountering strong spatial fluctuations, it may be induced and released, eventually causing very serious damage.
The anchor point of the teleportation array built by Tang Zhen is not so fragile, but in order to avoid accidents, all known hidden dangers must be resolved.
It is not easy to build a rune array, and it is equally difficult to destroy it. It is like dismantling a bomb. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by backlash.
For Tang Zhen, it was very easy. He just waved his hand and wiped it out.
At the same time as the rune array was destroyed, a sandstorm that was about to form disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
(End of this chapter)