Chapter 80 Investigation

Although there are no satellites or mobile phone signals here, drones can still fly, but functions such as flight distance and automatic return are somewhat limited.

Fang Yu has already rooted this drone and removed the 120-meter flight altitude limit. Now the wind speed is only level one to level two, which is perfect for drone exploration.

"Buzz~" The rapidly rotating blades churned the surrounding fine grass into pieces, flying all over the sky.

The Phantom 3 quickly climbed to an altitude of 500 meters, completely invisible to the naked eye, and the sound of the rotating blades became smaller and smaller until it disappeared.

Fang Yu controlled the drone to fly towards the direction of the smoke. After flying a few hundred meters, he could vaguely see the village in the distance on the iPad mini screen under the sunshade.

Continuing to fly forward, Fang Yu discovered that even beyond the control range of 1,200 meters, the signal strength was still very strong, with no signs of signal loss at all.

It seems that this world has not developed modern technology.

The electromagnetic environment is too clean.

After flying for more than five kilometers, the 2.4GHz signal transmission began to show signs of attenuation, and the village below became clearly visible.

This is a village that looks quite large, probably less than half a square kilometer. Most of the houses in the village are made of stone, and a small part are built with a mixture of mud and hay. Judging from the number of houses, the population is at least two or three hundred people.

Surrounding the village is a wall at least two meters high made of logs. At the four corners of the wall, there are four wooden watchtowers or arrow platforms.

Outside the wall is a trench about two meters wide, with countless sharp wooden stakes made from thick branches placed upside down in it.

It's clear that the world doesn't seem to be very peaceful.

Not far outside the trench are patches of lush green farmland, which don’t seem to be ripe yet.

A small river, not too wide, runs through the farmland, leading to several ditches, one of which leads into the village, and the flowing water gathers in a pond in the center of the village.

The drone descended to a height of about 300 meters and zoomed in on the image, where the faces of people were clearly visible.

"It seems like life is not so good." Fang Yu touched his chin and lowered the drone a little more.

The people in the picture, both men and women, are dressed very simply, even a little... tattered?

The clothes of the people here are also divided into upper and lower garments. The outer clothes look dry and hard, and seem to be made of linen. The clothes worn inside do not look like cotton fabrics, but may be finer linen fabrics.

Most people's clothes were not clean, and had many stains and patches on them.

Judging from the screen, the people here are not much different in size from the people on Blue Star, maybe a little shorter, with distinct facial contours and rough skin. Due to long-term exposure to sunlight, everyone's skin appears a little dark red.

Most of the people who stayed in the village were women and children, and most of the men were working in the fields.

Everyone's hair is a dry flaxen color. Some younger children have darker hair and fairer skin. Judging from their appearance alone, these people are obviously of the same race.

It was almost noon when strong women came through the gate in the wall to deliver food to the men who were still in the fields. It was unclear what they were delivering, but it was probably some cereal product like bread and a dish of boiled sauce.

It looks like curry.

I just don’t know if it tastes good.

Fang Yu raised the drone and looked at the surrounding scenery again. There were two roads to the west and north of the village, and it was unknown where they led. Some buildings could be vaguely seen a few kilometers away, which should be other villages.

"What on earth happened? How did the main plane become like this? Even the Emerald Mountains, thousands of miles away from Ceres, shouldn't be so backward..."

Youzi, who was also paying attention to the screen on the pad, had more questions in her mind than Fang Yu.

Nasri brought it to the Lorin Tower only after he was promoted to a level 17 arcane mage and became a senator of the Layton Plane. It only spent a total of fifteen years in the Lorin Tower.

In the past few hundred years, Professor Jorz spent most of his time in the main plane.

It is a magic item and has no homeworld.

It has long regarded this place as its hometown.

Fang Yu flew the drone back. It had been flying for more than ten minutes and the battery was almost out of power.

Two giant wolves in the distance were always patrolling nearby, half-crouching in the grass and staring at the human who crawled out of the black monster's belly.

What a big piece of meat! It’s enough to last for at least three days.

The giant wolf's saliva wet the hair at the corners of its mouth.

Youzi had previously told Fang Yu that giant wolves are not social creatures and have a strong sense of territory. Usually, males and females work together to hunt and take care of their cubs.

Giant wolves are cautious by nature, but very brutal and fast. If an ordinary person encounters two giant wolves, he will not be able to win the fight with the cooperation of the two giant wolves, let alone outrun the giant wolves, and will basically be treated as food.

After putting away the drone, Fang Yu looked at the two gray-white giant wolves, gave himself another shot to increase his resistance, and held five silver-white palm-length darts in his right hand.

This was made by him at a hardware store these days, using 7075 aluminum alloy. The improved magic stone trick can only be used for solids with a density between 0.5-3.5. The density of 7075 aluminum alloy is about 2.8, which is just right.

Huh? As soon as the magic power entered the resistance-enhancing rune, the cube didn't respond immediately as before. Instead, all twelve vertices flickered several times before returning to normal.

The magic power was injected into the runes of the magic stone again, and this time it was no different from before.

Seeing Fang Yu's actions, Youzi dodged twice: "Master... did you feel it... Uh, forget it."

"If you have something to say, say it quickly!" Fang Yu stared at the two giant wolves and waved at them provocatively.

I'm not afraid of anything. If nothing works, I can go back to the car. If that doesn't work, I can just turn on the Rubik's Cube and run away.

Professor Yorz hesitated and said, "I don't know if it's an illusion, but I feel like there's something wrong with the main plane's magic network right now. Just now, when I cast the identification spell, I felt that the feedback delay of the magic network nodes was very serious. It was even more serious than when the Supreme Mage was performing spell experiments in the tower."

As the Supreme Mage, Estre Lorraine can even completely block and control some of the nodes of the magic network. When he has some important experiments to do, the nodes of the entire Lorraine Tower demiplane will be mobilized to reduce the response to links with other mages.

Fang Yu had an idea and was about to say something when he saw the two giant wolves howling and splitting into two groups. The smaller female wolf went around to the other side and responded with the male wolf, attacking Fang Yu from two directions, one from the front and one from the back.

What? How can you tell the difference between male and female? Wolves aren't wearing any clothes, so how can you not tell? There's a whole bunch of them clanking right behind them.

The giant wolf was very fast. It rushed to a position less than 30 meters away from Fang Yu in just a few seconds, less than 200 meters away.

The male giant wolf kicked the ground with its hind legs and just as it jumped up, it saw two silver lights rushing towards its eyes.

The male wolf was startled and tilted his head. One of the silver darts flew out past the corner of the giant wolf's eye. Several hairs fell off and red blood gradually seeped out of the corner of the eye.

(End of this chapter)