When the horse's hooves trample on the ground, they will immediately bring up a cloud of dust.
The dry wind blowing from the desert takes away the last bit of moisture in the deserted Gobi Desert, and the water element in the air is very thin.
The guide of Uta Village wrapped himself in rough linen, leaving only his eyes exposed. He rode an ancient Bo Lai horse and walked in front. He would only eat some food and water before dawn, and would not eat any more throughout the day.
, in this dry spring, many villagers do this in order to save food.
Recently, a group of bandits came to the Gobi. In the past, when there was a food shortage every spring, the bandits would risk crossing the desert and come to this area to rob homes. Of course, this group of bandits also knew not to drive the villagers to desperation, otherwise they would be killed next spring.
You won't be able to find anything, but the appearance of these bandits will often make the lives of the villagers who are already struggling for food and clothing even more difficult.
A week ago, a group of bandits were hunted down in the Gobi for three days by Andrew and Samira. In the end, they retreated into the desert in embarrassment with the loss of their troops. The bodies of the dead bandits were now hanging on the wooden cross at the Paglos Pass.
Dozens of vultures came and circled back and forth over the mountain pass.
The reputation of the vigilantes in the deserted lands outside Paglos Pass has now spread throughout the villages.
The investigation team entered the depths of the deserted land. In addition to Viscount Frank and two assistants, they were accompanied by two magicians, Karl and nine knights from the rescue squadron, Suldak's security team, and a team from Uta Village.
Name guide.
This was not the first time that Karl entered the desolate land. A group of people from the guard battalion rode horses and looked at the Knights of Surdak from the highest point of the rocky slope. Pussy Mountain was at least fifty or sixty kilometers away from here.
Only on a clear day can you see the Pussy Mountain hidden under the billowing smoke.
But now, in everyone's sight, they can only see the gray clouds piled up in the sky in the distance, like a majestic mountain range.
Only in windy weather can the volcanic ash from Mount Pudu be blown here.
During the dry season between spring and summer, not a drop of rain fell here for two consecutive months. Even if you dig three feet into the Gobi, it is difficult to dig out moist water vapor.
The group came to the scene where Surdak fought two rebels and found some residual black blood stains on some gravel.
The ogre saw the stone he threw from a hundred meters away, threw off his big feet and ran over in a few steps, picked up the stone, and told Viscount Frank about the fierce battle scene at that time.
Viscount Frank squinted at the desolate land, as if the battle scene at that time was replaying in his mind.
The two magicians, who had barely said anything along the way, jumped off their horses, took out a few magic crystals from their magic pockets, and placed a magic pattern array on the stone ground. Then they placed the hexagonal magic crystals on the ground.
The crystal was placed in the center of the magic circle. Two magicians stood on both sides of the magic circle and input a little magic power into the magic circle. The entire magic circle began to operate. The magic crystals in the center of the magic circle were filled with magic elements of various colors.
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Although I don't know what the two magicians are doing, I can generally guess that they are conducting some kind of magic detection.
Viscount Frank's two assistants began to collect some bloody stones at the scene, and also surveyed the general scope of the fighting venue. The group stayed here for most of a day, and the two magicians finally completed the magic test with tired faces.
, the two magicians told Viscount Frank with great certainty that no abnormal state of magical elements was found here.
Viscount Frank lowered his head and thought for a while. Everyone waited aside and no one disturbed his thinking.
When he raised his head again, Viscount Frank's expression softened a lot. At least when he looked at the security team, he no longer had the cold eyes. He said to the security team in Suldak: "Thank you for your hard work these two days.
Cooperate!"
Then he turned to Karl next to him and said: "Then Captain Karl, let's go to the next survey point!"
"Okay, Viscount Frank!" Karl agreed readily.
The investigation team then left this desolate land without stopping.
Knowing that this group of people had crossed the Paglos Pass in the distance, Surdak breathed a sigh of relief. After all, there was not only a messenger of the Dark Goddess in the village, but also a succubus from the flaming hell.
No matter who is exposed, it will be a disaster for Surdak.
…
Suldak waited for nearly a month, and the White Elephant Trading Company finally sent the second batch of steel and a large bucket of saltpeter powder to Wall Village.
Old village chief Bright directed a group of villagers to unload bundles of thumb-thick steel bars from the four-wheeled carriage. These steel bars will be used in the main dam of the secondary reservoir.
The foundation of the secondary reservoir embankment was officially poured a week ago. Steel bars protruded from the cement foundation. A group of bricklayers used iron wire to weave a network of embankments on these thumb-thick steel bars. The front and rear sides of the embankment
The long wooden boards were propped up by the carpenters, and only after the foundation of the river embankment was stronger, the embankment of the secondary reservoir would be further poured.
Thirteen four-wheeled carriages were loaded with this kind of steel and drove into the village. Only then did the old village chief know that Suldak had invested a large sum of money in this reservoir.
"Dak, can you exchange the sulfur produced by the open-pit sulfur mine in your territory for these steel materials?"
"Of course!" Suldak said to the old village chief very confidently.
The old village chief watched a group of villagers move the steel materials from the car in a hurry, and said with a melancholy face: "I heard from Charlie that the sulfur mines in the rocky area are almost exhausted..."
As a large amount of sulfur ore was transported to Helensa City for sale, no one knew the value of this yellow crystal mixed in the rock better than the old village chief Brett.
Surdak smiled faintly and said: "No problem, Pudu Mountain is not just a river of lava. When the sulfur mines in this rocky area are mined out, I will take them to another place. Pudu Mountain is as big as
, there will definitely be no shortage of sulfur ore.”
What he is considering now is not the secondary reservoir. In this transaction, Surdak has even ordered the steel for the third-level reservoir. What he wants to consider is that it is at least larger than the secondary reservoir. Twenty times the size of the fourth-level reservoir and the even larger fifth-level reservoir, looking at Surdak's plan now, the entire reservoir occupies almost a large area of the entire upper reaches of the valley.
Once this reservoir is completed, it will become a huge artificial lake hanging above the villagers' heads.
"That's good. In fact, let me say that this reservoir is already very good. As long as the reservoir is filled with water in the summer, it will definitely survive the dry season in the following spring. We don't need to make it bigger. The reservoir, let me tell you! When we level this land, we should build a luxurious knight's manor. Now that you have become a knight officially canonized by the Green Empire, you should also pay attention to your own dignity." Old man. Village chief Bright said to Suldak in a serious tone.
But Suldak shook his head and said: "This is not enough. By this time next year, there will be at least several hundred acres of land in the river bend tidal flat that need irrigation, and Wall Village will not always be able to irrigate." With such poverty, this place will become richer little by little, and more people will be willing to move to Wall Village."
Seeing that he could not say anything about Suldak, the old village chief Bright could only shut up and stood on the embankment and watched the lively scene at the secondary reservoir construction site.
"Knight Surdak, the batch of magic materials you specially ordered from Magician Dale has arrived." A person in charge of the White Elephant Trading Company who was responsible for the delivery came to Surdak and saluted him respectfully. and said.
Then he waved behind him, and two store clerks carried an oak barrel wrapped with straw ropes, carefully placed it in front of Suldak, and then pried open the cork on the oak barrel, and removed the cork from the barrel. He picked up a little white powder and handed it to Suldak.
The person in charge of the commercial bank tried his best to smile and continued:
"Magic Daler asked me to tell you that you must use it with caution. This thing is not safe. It is very dangerous for people who are not familiar with it."
Surdak nodded and replied gently:
"I understand, please convey my gratitude to Magician Dale for me!"
After saying that, he took out two silver coins from his arms and gave a silver coin to the person in charge of the trading bank.
The person in charge of the trading company's eyes lit up, he quickly took it in his hand, and praised Suldak very humbly:
"You are such a generous knight!"
…
In the next few days, Suldak went to the foot of the mountain outside the village to set up a marching tent.
Then he drove everyone away, and even he blessed himself with the Divine Blessing Body.
The most indispensable thing in Wall Village is charcoal and sulfur. After preparing the carbon powder and sulfur powder, Suldak started mixing black powder outside the marching tent. He seemed to be alone, but in fact he was not. Still carrying the magic notebook with her, Celia Cooper stayed with Suldak throughout the process, introducing him to the uses of various glassware and basic knowledge of potions.
Surdak began to pour some charcoal into the cup, filling it with sulfur while stirring it. In the last step, he filled in a certain proportion of nitre powder.
Suldak has done this modulation process dozens of times.
In fact, even if you know a little about the formula of black gunpowder, you will find that it is not as simple as you imagined when you actually start making it. After the gunpowder is debugged, it is more like a firework that can explode with strong flames.
Tie the parchment paper tightly into a cylinder and seal both ends with yellow mud, but this large firecracker still has no power.
"Are you sure you still want to match it like this?" When Celia Cooper saw Suldak repeating the previous method, she couldn't help but complain to him from the page.
Suldak wiped his hands on his apron and said seriously to Celia Cooper:
"I don't know what's wrong, but I know that this should be almost successful. This thing is not considered magic. This thing is more like Hex Technology. If we really want to classify it academically, it should be physics and chemistry."
He still has a good impression of Celia Cooper.
No matter what aspect of knowledge, whenever Suldak asked, he would always hear some advice from Celia Cooper.
Celia Cooper had a strange look in her eyes, supported her chin with one hand, and muttered behind the black fence of the book page: "I find that I can't understand you more and more."
Suldak stopped what he was doing and said to Celia Cooper: "What's wrong? The reason why I can make black gunpowder is because... I got the formula for making black gunpowder! I just don't know some subtle details in it.
The details just failed to bring out the maximum power of this thing."
Celia Cooper curled her lips and said to Suldak: "That's not what I'm referring to. I've seen many great potions masters. I'm not interested in potions. I'm talking about some of your practices. What are you doing?"
Building such a large reservoir in Wall Village, and not classifying the land here as knight territory, is not as simple as building a house, with such a large investment, what exactly do you want to get?"
Surdak lowered his head again, stirring the gunpowder in his hand, and said: "I am just fulfilling my promise..."
By the time Rita delivered food to Surdak in the evening, Surdak had already discovered a small flaw and made some improvements.
Just outside the tent, Suldak put on a gorgeous fireworks show for Rita.
Rita was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a while, but she kept regretting: "It's a pity that Natasha and little Peter are not here..."
…
'boom'
There was a loud noise, and the limestone blocking the river channel was blown to pieces.
A group of kobolds stood on the embankment of the artificial water channel, looking at the cracked limestone in the river with horrified expressions. The huge limestone did not explode into pieces, but instead formed huge bulges, which were covered with cracks.
Dense cracks.
It was also the amount of black gunpowder that Suldak tested after dozens of experiments.
After the explosion, a group of kobold slaves walked down the river bed tremblingly. They used pickaxes to dig out the loose rocks. Two kobolds worked together to use a wooden stick to lift the rocks to the embankment on the shore. Several bricklayers were working on it.
Use these stones to build a low flood control dam, and fill the gaps in the stone wall with volcanic ash mud.
With the help of gunpowder to open the way, the two biggest roadblocks on the river were finally eliminated by explosives.
Eight hundred kobold slaves poured down the river embankment at the same time, and their footsteps sounded like a silent drum on this land. After nearly a month of captivity, these kobold slaves were able to eat two full meals every day.
Although the labor intensity at the artificial ditch construction site was a bit high, it did not affect the physical recovery of these kobold slaves, and they became very strong.
A large amount of gravel was carried up from the bottom of the river, and the kobold slaves did not need to rest as they worked hard to clean up this section of the river.
They are just a little afraid of the loud noise, but they are almost familiar with it these days...