A barrier made of oak was erected at Paglos Pass, and knights from the Guard Battalion's Relief Squadron were guarding the pass.
Under the scorching sun, the armors on the knights were burning hot. Some knights kept pouring water on the armors. The knights hung their helmets next to their saddles. Their faces were reddened by the sun. They faced several teams waiting in line to pass through the mountain pass.
The adventure group uttered a curse or two from time to time.
Standing on the mountain pass for inspection in such hot weather is indeed a nerve-wracking thing.
Captain Sauron has scolded the support squadron six times in a row this month, and almost all the knights in the support squadron are sulking in their hearts.
Last year, there was just a gang of bandits wreaking havoc on the outskirts of Helensa. This year, it was actually a group of rebels wandering outside Helensa. The knights in the support squadron almost had their last line of defense collapsed.
The rebel corpses hanging on the wooden crosses on the top of the mountain have now turned into a pile of bones.
The knights of the guard battalion are fully armed and guarding the mountain pass. Some mung bean sweet soup is delivered to them from Wall Village in the distance every day. This is probably the most anticipated thing of the day for the knights.
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Ludwig stood in the group of adventurers. He was carrying a large bag of luggage, and his thin body was slightly rickety due to the pressure.
He was employed by an adventure group named Golden Oak. As a senior scout for the rebels responsible for collecting intelligence, he had excellent camouflage skills.
In the city of Helensa, at least eight of the ten adventure groups are named after oak trees.
He wiped his sunburned face with a towel, raised his head and glanced forward. There was an adventure group in front of him undergoing inspection.
A shrill police whistle sounded from the originally quiet Paglos Pass, and a group of knights from the guard camp quickly rushed towards the warning place.
Four archers stood in the four directions of the mountain pass. They quickly set up their long bows with arrows and pointed the arrow tips at the mountain pass.
Ludwig pretended to be panicked and raised his head, just in time to see a companion being pinned to the ground by a group of guard camp knights.
That was an old cavalry member of their rebel army. He did not die on the battlefield, but when he passed through the Paglos Pass, he was caught by a group of knights from the guard camp called Black Dogs, who looked at him.
His head was bruised by the hilt of the sword, and his hands and feet were tightly shackled. Ludwig wanted to rush forward and fight with the guard battalion who were walking in vain.
The old cavalryman was pushed to the ground in humiliation. He seemed to see Ludwig as he passed through the crowds, but at this time he turned his face away...
Ludwig clenched his fists and lowered his head, resisting the urge to take action.
Calm was finally restored over there. The old cavalry resisted explosively in the end and broke free from the shackles on his hands. However, he was stabbed into a hedgehog by a group of knights with their spears and died on the spot.
The old cavalryman's body was carried to the top of the mountain and trapped on a cross.
With the harvest, these guard camp knights finally became more energetic. When it was Ludwig's turn, they also carefully checked his palms, elbows, shoulders and the inside of his thighs, which are places where cavalry can easily develop calluses.
, checked carefully, this kind of check will not involve women.
The leader of the Golden Oak Adventure Group also gave a few silver coins to one of the guard camp knights, so that the luggage was not opened.
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Finally passing the checkpoint, Ludwig carried the heavy package and walked forward for less than a kilometer.
The village of Wall appeared before Ludwig's eyes. When he saw the rows of brand-new townhouses on the hillside and the row houses at the entrance of the village that looked like low city walls, Ludwig knew that his companions had really succeeded this time.
Hard-core.
He had ignored the desolate land before. It was located in a remote mountainous area and the mountain people living here posed no threat to the rebels, so he did not conduct any investigation outside the mountain pass.
But now Ludwig discovered that the place they had ignored was the most deadly.
At least one-third of the rebel cavalry who came to Helensa City this time died in this village.
In just two months, the dilapidated small mountain village that could still be used by war horses to gallop freely not only built the walls of row houses to resist the raids of war horses, but also replaced the thatched houses in the village with stronger stone houses. With this strength alone,
Ludwig was very curious about what kind of people lived in this village.
According to the intelligence investigated, the knight Surdak in the guard camp is a villager in this village, and there is also information that Surdak is currently a baron.
Ludwig was thinking about how to sneak into the village and conduct on-the-spot investigation. He has been staying in Hellanza City to collect intelligence.
Unfortunately, with the news of the death of Magician Gerden, the connection established by the rebels in Helensa City and the Dark Moon Gate was completely interrupted. Now it is even more difficult for the rebels to find the secret place in the Paglos Mountains.
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A small stream flows from the village. This row of row houses looks like they were just built not long ago, but there are traces of many people living there. Some multigrain vegetable porridge is being cooked in a large iron pot not far from the door. Several village women
From time to time, stir with a spoon to prevent the multigrain vegetable porridge from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
An oak board with the word 'Wal Village' hung on a dead tree at the entrance of the village. A market was actually formed under the tree. Although there were only a few stalls, the variety was quite complete, ranging from grains, vegetables, meat, dried
You can find chickens, ducks and some daily groceries. Some adventure groups have set up tents next to this small market, obviously using this place as a supply point.
Ludwig was carrying a large package, and when passing by the market, someone came up to ask what was in the package.
The leader of the adventure group immediately explained loudly that what was in the package was just a marching tent, something that the adventure group would usually use, and then they slowly dispersed.
Ludwig was sitting at the entrance of Wall Village, packing his luggage. From time to time, a four-wheeled carriage would drive into the village. These four-wheeled carriages were filled with volcanic ash as fine as powder. In addition,
There are also carts of limestone blocks.
Soon it was evening. The Golden Oak Adventure Group took out the prepared wheat cakes and bought a few tomatoes and onions from the market to make a pot of vegetable soup.
Ludwig held the wooden plate in his hand, tore up the scones and put them into the vegetable soup while watching a group of kobold slaves walking in the distance. Each kobold slave was carrying a stone hammer and a chisel.
Covered in dust, I walked to the stream and took a bath before returning to the townhouse all wet.
There were no shackles on them. The kobold slaves lined up to put the tools in their hands into a warehouse, took out wooden dinner plates from another room, and began to cook silently next to the large iron pot where vegetable porridge was being cooked.
The whole process was so smooth that I was speechless.
Two village women brought a large pot of chopped cabbage, and these kobolds actually ate it very sweetly.
Wall Village at dusk has another almost decadent aesthetic. All construction sites have stopped. Some cement pillars and exposed steel bars leave long shadows in the sunset. The upstream reservoir has also begun to resume work.
, the foundation for the third layer of the dam will be poured soon.
The villagers of Wall Village and craftsmen from other villages walked down from the construction site and had dinner in the central square of the village. Various dinners were prepared here every night, and occasionally they could have a meal of mutton soup.
Of course, drinking sheep soup currently depends on the mood of the ogre Gulitem, because he is currently managing the sheep flock in Wall Village.
Three townhouses have been repaired in the village, and Mayor Bright plans to have all townhouses in the village completed by the end of this month.
Ludwig ate the vegetable soup on his plate, put down his plate, and walked slowly upstream along the cement road in the village. He carefully counted the townhouses built in the village, preparing to roughly calculate the number of Walls.
The current population of the village.
The cement road is very smooth, with gentle steps on both sides of the road, and a drainage ditch on the outside.
There are all kinds of building materials scattered around the village. Ludwig squatted next to a wooden box filled with volcanic ash. He reached out and grabbed a handful of volcanic ash. The volcanic ash was very fine. A gust of wind rolled up the volcanic ash in his hand.
Far away, he wanted to know how the people of Volcano turned the volcanic ash into houses.
Some finger-thick round steel bars were piled casually next to the volcanic ash. With a little forging, these steel bars can be turned into sharp spears and iron bars, or they can also be made into iron cages. However, the people of Wall Village seem to be concerned about the
These iron bars have different understandings. They hid the steel bars in volcanic ash cement stone pillars.
When Ludwig just passed by several small townhouses, he saw these steel bars mixed with cement.
A group of village women carried buckets from the river and walked to these buildings. They used ladles to pour water on these buildings...
Ludwig didn't understand why they wanted to wet the dried building again, and his eyes fell back on the magical volcanic ash in his hands.
"Do you want some of our specialty magical volcanic ash cement?" an old voice sounded from behind him.
"..."
Ludwig was startled and quickly put the volcanic ash in his hand back into the wooden box.
Village Chief Bright came up from behind, stood in front of Ludwig, and said to him with a smile: "Originally, these volcanic ash were everywhere in the deserted land, but now...the entire volcano is Baron Suldak.
The territory, these volcanic ash also belong to Baron Suldak, if you want these volcanic ash, you need to buy it with money."
What the old village chief said was what Surdak taught him step by step. Since he is going to start a pozzolanic cement business, he must first determine the ownership of the volcanic ash.
Ludwig looked at the volcanic ash in the wooden box, smiled reluctantly and said, "I'm just curious, how did you think of using volcanic ash to build a house? It looks pretty good..."
He is not a fool. Can the volcanic ash all over the ground be sold for money?
"Your accent...isn't it a local?" Village Chief Bright had no intention of leaving and continued talking to him.
Ludwig bit the bullet and said, "Haha, I often run outside and I don't even know what my Imperial dialect is like anymore."
He didn't want to expose himself yet, so he just casually dealt with the old village chief for a few words and left in a hurry. He knew that there were many mistakes in what he said. If the people of Vol Village knew that he was also a rebel, the consequences would be serious...
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Rita and Natasha cook a big pot of rice in the central square of the village every day, and old Sheila and little Peter also eat there every day.
Suldak came out of the police station and walked towards the central square of the village without rushing home. From a distance, he saw the old village chief Bright chatting with a foreigner, but the foreigner did not
After chatting for a long time, they left in a hurry.
Surdak walked to the village chief of Bright and asked him curiously:
"Uncle Brett, who were you chatting with just now?"
Seeing Suldak walking down, the old village chief said: "A foreigner seems to be very interested in volcanic ash, so I went over to ask to see if I could take another business."
Speaking of business, Suldak immediately thought of agreeing to build a villa for Karl. He had been busy with other things these days and didn't bother to ask, so he asked, "How are Charlie's preparations going?"
This time when they went out to build a villa, Suldak asked Charlie to lead the team. He was familiar with Karl, he was also smart, and he liked to use his brain when doing things.
"Charlie plans to leave the day after tomorrow, but do you think they can really do it?" the old village chief asked worriedly.
Surdak said to the old village chief: "The construction of Wall Village is about to be completed. A villa should not be difficult for them."
Chief Bright said with some worry: "But it is not Wall Village after all! We have to prepare more carriages to transport the volcanic ash from the depths of the deserted land. We don't know how much volcanic ash is needed for a villa..."
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"Then build a few more four-wheeled carriages, and not all the houses are piled with volcanic ash. Otherwise, bring some kobold slaves there so that you can mine rocks on the spot..." Surdak said.
The old village chief frowned and said, "We need more carriage drivers. There are only so many people in the village. All the people who can drive the carriages have been sent out."
Suldak said: "Otherwise, we can find some people from other villages..."
The two stood in front of the small townhouse and chatted for a long time before Suldak walked to the village square.
Selina sent away the last child at the door of the newly built children's home. Signa got out of her skirt and waved to Suldak.
Surdak stopped and saw that there were so many people in the village square, there was a lot of steam coming from the stove, and the aroma of stew floated far away.
"Want to go to dinner?" Surdak asked Selina and waved to Signa.
Selena shook her head, her smile was like a blooming tulip, her beautiful eyes were slightly provocative, and she said to Suldak: "After moving to the new house, you haven't even come yet.
Come on, do you want to sit at my house?"
Suldak wanted to walk over immediately and hold her hot body tightly in his arms.
There were many people in the village square. He didn't want to become the talk of the village women tomorrow morning, so he had to restrain himself.
Selena smiled slightly, held Xigna's little hand, and walked towards the upper reaches of the village.