Chapter 10

Sandbox No. 1 finally produced Ether.

…

This discovery made Lin Tuo very excited. This is why he created the sandbox.

And as the time flowed quickly in the sand table, Lin Tuo found that a little green and white aura gradually appeared in the midair. It was very light and thin but it existed.

‘I’d like to take a mouthful! Just a mouthful!‘ Lin Tuo struggled for a few seconds, still standing up, overlooking the sand table continent and silently operating the breating method.

However, what surprised him was that the Ether in the sandbox was not moved by him.

[The current environment ether concentration is too low to collect.]

Information emerged in his mind.

Lin Tuo had no choice but to sit down again. He didn’t want to play with his mobile phone anymore, so he held his cheek and waited.

The evolution in the sand table continued.

The climate was generally stable. Occasional droughts and floods flash past in a fast-forward manner as time accelerated on.

[The era of law lasted for a full 800 years. On the mainland, the population grew rapidly. The original social structure was finally unsustainable. So, war broke out.]

[The continent was suddenly chaotic. Heroes rose together, the princes became numerous, the concept of a country emerged, the original order was broken. At the peak of this warring period, the whole continent was shattered into 82 vassal states. They fought endlessly with each other. The law era ended and the Warring States era began.]

Lin Tuo could see the beacons of smoke everywhere on the sand table. Although he couldn’t see the exact details, only from the glimpses of light he got it was enough to experience the cruelty of the Warring States era.

‘A total of less than 300,000 square kilometers of land, yet so many forces have formed…‘ Lin Tuo couldn’t help being a little stunned.

[At the beginning of the Warring States Period, the power dynamic was chaotic. However, as the princes annexed and expanded each other, a pattern of coexistence of thirteen countries gradually formed. The Warring States entered a short period of peace. However, this situation did not last long.]

[After 744 thousand years, the Chi Dynasty formed, and the power of the Chi Dynasty grew rapidly, warring the neighboring countries in the top valley. After 21 years, the Chi Dynasty gradually expanded and finally the countries were annexed and unified.]

[The monarch was enthroned. He gave a sacrifice to the heavens and worshipped the gods and proclaimed himself emperor. Ever since then, the Warring States era ended and the Dynasty era began.]

‘So fast?‘ Lin Tuo was taken aback when he saw this log. He couldn’t help but glance at the dark night outside the window.

At this time, just over three at night, he originally expected that the sandbox world might enter the age of feudal empire before dawn, but now, it seemed that it was a lot earlier than anticipated.

‘Perhaps, I can try to absorb the Ether before dawn.‘ Lin Tuo got up, went to the next door and got out a package of instant noodles, cooked it, and then silently waited for the change of the mainland dynasty.

During the Warring States era, the arrow behind the Ether concentration showed a downward trend, but Lin Tuo understood that this kind of war was inevitable in the development of civilization.

It was from natural disasters.

Therefore, he did not stop or change it.

When the instant noodles were cooked, the arrow turned into a rising arrow again and showed a faint green.

Slurp

Holding the bucket of noodles, Lin Tuo ate and watched. He found that the flow of time in the sand table had slowed down and the distribution of the entire dynasty had begun to show a state of prospering from the capital outwards.

The most eye-catching thing was not the large-scale cities, but patches of farmland. Advances in farming increased food production and the population was rapidly recovering after the war.

And soon it exceeded the population size of the early Warring States era.

He noticed that this seemed to reflect what would happen on Earth. Even the architectural style in the sandbox world had gradually turned into the style of Han and Tang dynasties.

Lin Tuo thought that this dynasty would be overthrown soon and then replaced with a new ruler and country name, but he was slightly surprised.

The unified dynasty in the sand table showed amazing longevity.

[The number of humans on the mainland officially exceeded 5 million.]

Soon after this line of text appeared on the virtual panel, Lin Tuo discovered that the environmental Ether concentration finally changed.

‘Ether can be absorbed!‘ Seeing this change, Lin Tuo abruptly got up and saw that the sky was already turning blue outside the window and the night was about to pass.

Who would have thought that the transition from a tribal society to a feudal unified dynasty was completed on the sandbox continent just overnight?

‘I wonder how much Ether value can be collected.‘ Lin Tuo suppressed the joy in his hear. He tried again to use the breathing method, this time it was successful.

The green and white qi floating above the sand table slowly gathered in the isolation cover and turned into a thin aura. It was then absorbed into the body by Lin Tuo.

It’s just that compared to the first time he absorbed Ether, Lin Tuo only felt relieved this time. He didn’t have the same reaction as he did before.

The Ether on nearly 300,000 square kilometers of land was absorbed in one go.

Lin Tuo let out a sigh of relief, opened his eyes, and asked:

‘How much Ether do I have now?‘

[The host currently has 124 ether points]

In his mind, the Evolving Sandbox Table immediately gave feedback.

‘So little?‘ Lin Tuo stunned, very surprised. There was only 124 points in total. If he had eliminated the 93 points he originally had, that is to say…

He only absorbed 31 points of Ether from the sandbox?

This result made him confused. The area of this continent was way larger than Yangcheng.

[The quality of smart life in Sandbox No. 1 is low…]

It seems that his inquiry triggered an answer, and the relevant explanations were poured into his consciousness when he transformed the sand table.

Lin Tuo’s eyes opened and closed, and it suddenly dawned on him.

The problem lied mainly in two aspects.

The first was to collect Ether in the Creative Mode, the cost itself would be higher than in the Observation Mode.

In other words, for the same Ether points, in Creative Mode, the sand table itself took more.

Second, the human dynasty in the sandbox did not provide much Ether in the first place.

Although the land area was large, the total population was not more than that of Yangcheng.

Modern cities are extremely densely populated. Although Yangcheng is not a provincial capital, it was not small, with a population of about six million.

In addition, the more important thing is the quality of human life.

The average life expectancy, health level, mental outlook, etc. of modern people far exceed those of human beings under the rule of feudal dynasties.

Among other things, in the Chi Dynasty, a large number of people died of freezing and starvation every year. In this case, individuals produced very little Ether.

So basically all Lin Tuo absorbed was the results of that.

‘This is way different from what I thought.‘ In the old house, Lin Tuo had a headache and smiled bitterly.

Of course, the situation wasn’t too bad. After all, the sand table is different from the real time flow, and the Ether would recover faster.

Visible to the naked eye, the blue and white Ether above the sand table had recovered a lot within a few minutes.

He believed that after a while, the second collection could be carried out.

If the quality was not enough, use the numbers to make it up…

But…

Could he think of a way to change this situation?

Lin Tuo leaned back in the chair and couldn’t help but fall into thinking.

‘If I want to solve the problem of lack of Ether, I must start from the source. Either increase the population or improve the quality of the population.‘

‘The population is difficult to increase. The production level in the sandbox world is too low. The food produced can’t even fill the millions of people today, let alone more…‘

‘As for the quality of the population…it is also limited by the current level of productivity. If the production structure of this feudal society did not change, the quality of life couldn’t be improved…‘

In this era of technology, Lin Tuo could easily determine the crux of the problem.

‘So, what do I do? Wait for the dynasty in the sand table to continue to evolve?’ Lin Tuo leaned in his chair, putting one hand on the edge of the sand table, knocking softly.

His eyes were full of thought.

‘…No, I can’t sit and wait. If I look at reality, if there were no changes, the dynasty was very likely to solidify and stagnate. It would be maintaining the current trend for god knows how long.‘

‘Well… if it was not realistic to rely on its own to improve, then… what if I push it by external force?‘

Thinking of this, Lin Tuo suddenly had a stroke of inspiration.