During this time, Surdak has been staying in Wall Village.
The young magician Lance and two colleagues came to Wall Village again and visited Surdak.
It is said that the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Group has recently been looking for magic members of the Dark Moon Gate organization.
Carl is also very busy during this time.
The Green Empire rebels' infiltration into Bena Province made the High Council very angry. This group of rebels organized a home invasion and assassination operation in Bena City. It was said that they stole a very precious treasure from a noble's home, and
The rebels broke up and escaped from the city of Bena.
Although some rebels have been captured back to Bena City, and some rebels died during the capture, the noble Lord's most precious treasure has never been recovered.
The High Council of Bena Province believes that the exposed rebels are just the tip of the iceberg.
This matter involves the interests and safety of the nobles and should be taken more seriously. Therefore, the security battalions and city defense battalions throughout Bena Province are extremely busy.
Carl and the knights from the support squadron traveled around the countryside throughout the spring.
In contrast, the daily life of the security team in the deserted land outside the Paglos Pass is much easier. Andrew likes to ride horses around in the wasteland. There are flat Gobi deserts and wasteland everywhere.
There is very little green to be seen on the mountains, and only patches of barren wheat fields are exposed around some small mountain villages in the valleys.
As the old village chief Bright said, there is not much water left in the first-level reservoir upstream of the village. Although spring water is continuously injected into the reservoir every day, it is still unable to make ends meet. Currently, there is
The stored water can only be used to irrigate wheat fields on the edge of rivers and streams.
The main dam of the secondary reservoir has been completed, and the three gates of the secondary reservoir are currently being built. As for the bottom of the third-level reservoir, most of it has been paved. In the future, volcanic ash and lime powder will need to be continuously transported in to complete the construction.
Further, the ground at the bottom of the reservoir will be treated to prevent water seepage.
After the river tidal flats were cleared, no crops have been planted yet.
You may have to wait until the rainy season arrives before you can plant some crops such as onions, tomatoes and cabbage.
Surdak has prepared the seeds.
Tapioca starch has appeared on the free market in Helensa City. The current sales of this starch are pretty good, and it is still very cost-effective to exchange it for whole wheat flour.
The formula of gunpowder has always been in Surdak's hand. He only said that the second-level earth-type magic scroll 'Earth Fissure' that Surdak bought from the magic shop in Helensa City shattered the limestone in the river.
Celia Cooper came up with this idea for Suldak.
According to Celia Cooper, the magical effect of 'earth cracking' is very similar to the effect caused by this explosive.
Under the auspices of the old village chief Bright, the children's home has been built in an open space fifty meters away from the kobold slave shed at the entrance of the village. The children's home is adjacent to the creek flowing out of the village. The main body of the house is made of oak frames.
, a layer of exquisite reed mats is spread outside. What the villagers are most concerned about is the stove built outside the welfare home, because the children's home provides three meals to the children for free, and this is the most attractive place.
Except for Wall Village, Selena is currently responsible for the daily work of the children's home.
It’s chestnut porridge in the morning, oatmeal porridge for lunch, and occasionally a fried stew. In the evening, it’s broth and wheat cakes. It’s not a lot, but at least it’s enough for the children. Except in the village
In addition to the children in the village, the children's home also takes in children from other villages passing through the village. When women who go to Oak Ridge to dig wild vegetables pass by Wall Village, those carrying children will be invited by Old Sheila to persuade them.
Leave the child in a children's home.
At the beginning, some people were still skeptical about this matter. Only the villagers of Wall Village happily sent their children to a children's home.
There are only twenty-three children in Wall Village who meet this age limit.
A week later, those poor people who went to the oak forest to dig wild vegetables in the mountain pass really understood what the children's home was about. The number of children in the children's home instantly increased by more than a hundred, and the number of women who helped Selina take care of these children also increased to
six people.
This move of Wall Village immediately made Wall Village the most famous village in the deserted land.
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Suldak sat at his desk, wrote a reply to Hathaway, put the letter paper into an envelope in a brown paper bag, and glued the envelope with melted gum.
I'm just waiting for the coachman from the carriage house in Helensa City to come to Wall Village to deliver cassava, and entrust them to take them to Helensa City. The carriage house has a mailing service for letters, but the postage is much higher than Surdak thought.
It is much more expensive. A letter sent to Bena City actually costs one silver coin and fifty-three copper plates.
"Dak, we have to go..."
Luke's shout echoed outside the courtyard.
Suldak stuck his head out of the window, waved to Luke outside the wall, and promised: "Come right away!"
He handed the written letter to Natasha and asked her to give it to the coachman at the carriage shop. Then with Natasha's help, he put on the magic pattern structure of the 'Earth Shield' and rode Gubo.
The horse walks out of the yard.
Luke was already waiting at the door with his team of people riding ancient Bolai horses. When they saw Suldak coming out on horseback, several young people behind Luke straightened their waists unconsciously. I don't know why.
From then on, he already had some prestige in Wall Village.
The team walked along the village road towards the village entrance, and the villagers they met along the way moved to both sides of the road.
When passing by the temporary residence of the security team, Surdak called out to the ogre Gulitem and the indigenous warrior Andrew outside the yard. Both of them were waiting at the door obediently. When they saw Surdak appearing, they hurriedly joined in.
to the team.
Ogres rarely have the opportunity to leave Wall Village, so this time they followed Suldak into the Pussy Mountains area of the desolate land, and they seemed particularly excited.
The night before his departure, he asked a woman in the village to sew him a face towel, which almost covered his big face below the eyes. He couldn't wait to put it on his face before leaving Wall Village.
The ogre treats every trip as a picnic, thinking about how to catch the gray rock iguanas hiding deep in the rock crevices.
Andrew happened to be returning from patrol outside this time, and caught up with Suldak who was about to enter the knight territory of Pudu Mountain. He planned to follow Suldak into the area of Pudu Mountain. He rarely came to this area, mainly because of Pudu.
The area within a few dozen kilometers of the mountain was shrouded in thick volcanic ash. The volcanic ash fell from the sky, almost turning this area into a dead land.
Not only the villagers in the deserted land will not enter this area, but also the bandit groups that are rampant in the desert will not enter here without permission.
After all, Pussy Mountain is the knight territory of Surdak. Andrew wanted to get familiar with the surrounding environment, at least familiar with the locations of the various boundary monuments, so he followed Surdak into Pussy Mountain.
When Samira was not in Wall Village, a highly aggressive black panther appeared in Oak Ridge. Within three days, it bit several villagers who were digging wild vegetables in Oak Ridge. Most of them were women and half-year-old children. Samira
After Mila heard the news, she entered Oak Ridge almost overnight, probably preparing to hunt the leopard.
The succubus Aphrodite has no interest in the lava land. She can be found everywhere in the flaming hell in places more dangerous than the Pussy Mountains. She finally left the hell. Now the last thing she wants to smell is the smell of sulfur. How can she go to the Pussy Mountains?
Suffer.
Surdak and his party met at the entrance of the village with a carriage convoy heading to the mines in the rocky area to transport sulfur ore, and walked into the deserted land.
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It is already the end of June, and the monsoon blowing from the southeast these past few days already has a moist smell.
When passing by Beigou Grassland, Suldak actually saw a group of villagers from Wall Village building a reservoir at the bottom of a dry pool in Beigou Grassland.
The four-wheeled carriage that drove out from the depths of the desolate land was filled with volcanic ash. When it passed by Surdak's convoy, everyone greeted them familiarly.
Entering the land covered with volcanic ash, the world here is almost a dead land, with all plants and animals cut off from life.
Under Suldak's strict request, even the horses wore masks.
The four-wheeled carriages were loaded with daily necessities. The road had already been carved with two clear ruts. It was almost unnecessary to identify the direction. As long as you kept walking along this road, you would reach the sulfur mine at the foot of Pudu Mountain.
When Surdak arrived at the sulfur mine, the two hundred kobold slaves were still alive and kicking.
Judging from their condition, they are far more alive than the kobolds in the slave camp in Wall Village. Obviously, they are more adaptable to the harsh environment here than humans. Surdak discovered that the noses of the kobolds have a special structure that can block the noise here.
of volcanic ash.
Apart from the lack of food and water, there is nothing bad about this group of kobold slaves.
The level of mining in the sulfur mine in the rocky area is far more thorough than Suldak thought.
All the protruding rocks in the rocky area have been dug over by these kobold slaves. They even dug out this underground river of cooled lava. The hot lava gurgled out from a slope and reached the lowest point in the rocky area.
In places, they accumulated into large black magma rocks.
Suldak rushed to the sulfur mine with supplies, and Charlie was already waiting at the mine.
Half a month ago, Charlie took two young people from the village on horseback and rode around Pudong Mountain, trying to find a new open-pit sulfur mine. No sign of a sulfur mine was found at the foot of the mountain within a dozen kilometers.
.
Charlie told Suldak that they followed a cooled lava river to the mountainside of Pussy Mountain and saw some sulfur deposits beside a lava river flowing with hot magma. These sulfur deposits were attached to some
On the raised rock wall, it is like stalagmites growing against the rock wall. The sulfur ore reserves there are almost ten times that of the sulfur mines in the rocky area. This is the reserve estimated conservatively during the first exploration.
"Then move the sulfur mine over there. Four-wheel trucks can transport the materials there. Except for the sulfur mine, all other materials should be transported over there," Surdak said.
After hearing what Suldak said, Luke immediately arranged for people to collect all the reed mats and dust-proof gauze from the mine shed and load them onto the four-wheeled carriage.
The faces of Charlie and the other two young men were so roasted that a layer of skin exploded, and the new skin exposed inside became obviously much redder.
In just one month, Charlie became black and thin. Suldak asked Charlie: "Is this time very hard? Not only do you have to manage two hundred kobold slaves, but you also have to ride a horse around.
Running around looking for sulfur deposits.”
Charlie smiled, showing a row of neat white teeth, and replied to Suldak: "Actually, it's not bad, just walking all the way up the river of lava, it's simply more scorching than the vicious scorching sun."
Then he looked at the pile of sulfur mines nearby and added: "As long as there is a harvest, any effort is worth it."
"How is the situation in the village? Counting the days, it's almost time to rain!" Charlie asked Luke who was walking over.
"We haven't set off before we set off. This time Duck..." Luke told Charlie about Suldak's establishment of a children's home in Wall Village.
In this regard, Charlie turned out to be more far-sighted than the old village chief.
Two hundred kobold slaves lined up in a neat line and headed towards the new mining area.
Three four-wheeled carriages filled with supplies followed the team. All the mined sulfur ore was left here, just waiting for the four-wheeled carriages to return here and load the carriages again.
Charlie rode a horse and followed Suldak, and after a long time he said:
"It's okay for us to have a hard time. Life has always been like this, and we haven't survived it the same way."
"But our children must not live such a hard life in the future. I have been thinking about how to let them enter the Zhan Zhan College before they are sixteen years old. Now this goal seems to have been achieved suddenly.
And we can actually do better, life is really good now.”
Hearing what Charlie said, expectations for the future also appeared on the faces of Luke and other young people.
The mining conditions in the new mining area are even worse than the conditions in the sulfur mine in the rocky area. The entire new mining area is located on the hillside of Puyubao Mountain. There is a meandering lava river flowing down from the top of the mountain, and the magma rocks accumulate to form a high path.
In the river, the sulfur is on the stone walls on both sides of the lava river. If you want to mine these sulfur mines, you have to get close to the hot lava river. It looks very dangerous. Fortunately, there are kobold slaves...
According to Luke's plan, the mining camp was originally planned to be built halfway up the mountain, but this matter was vetoed by Surdak.
Suldak set up the mining camp at the foot of the mountain. Every time he entered the open-pit mine, he had to walk on the mountain road for at least an hour. In addition, Suldak also asked Luke to ride a horse every time he went out. He was worried that this would
A restless river of lava erupts and will swallow up a large area of surrounding mountains. The bed of this river of lava is too high, two or three meters higher than other places. If the magma in a river overflows, it will
Spreading along the high slope in all directions.
To everyone's surprise, the kobold slaves could actually walk quickly on the hot rocks. They didn't seem to be afraid of the heat.
While Suldak, Charlie, and Luke were standing on the edge of the lava river halfway up the mountain, exploring for sulfur ore reserves, a salamander just showed its head in the lava river below, and its red body was actually soaked in
In the lava, and actually swimming in the lava, this rare sight made the three of them a little stunned.
The ogre Gulitem also noticed something unusual here in the distance. He rushed over and found that Surdak was not in any danger. Instead, a salamander was swinging in the lava river under his feet.
Big tail, swimming in the river, spitting out hot lava from time to time...