After the sulfur on the stone walls on both sides of the lower reaches of the lava river was mined by kobold slaves, it became imperative to open up new mining areas.
The Lava River Falls is located on the southern slope of Pudu Mountain, about five kilometers from the foot of the mountain. The slope of the area at the foot of Pudu Mountain is gentle. Follow the lava river upstream. Only when you reach the vicinity of the Lava Falls, the slope of the mountain suddenly becomes steeper.
It becomes steeper, and a cliff nearly seventy or eighty meters high is formed at the lava waterfall. The rolling magma flows downward from the top of the cliff along the lava river. The volcanic rock river bed that takes the opportunity to emerge looks like this on this cliff.
Like the elephant in front of a giant elephant, magma flows down the top of the elephant. As the magma gradually cools, the river piles up higher and higher.
There is an umbrella-shaped platform fifty meters away next to the waterfall. Standing on the platform, you can still feel the rolling heat waves coming from the lava river. The smell of sulfur here is a bit pungent, dry and hot, but for kobold slaves
, but it is an excellent campsite, and the environment here will not affect their lives.
Especially in winter like this, the volcanic ash near Mount Pudu is still flying all over the sky.
For the kobold slaves here, it is a rare good season. The north wind coming from the ice and snow tundra blows over the Ziqing Mountains, along the Blazing Plains, over the Mazaro Mountains, and along the Paglos Mountains to the Bena Province.
, the heavy snow mixed with the volcanic ash falls down, which can completely cool down the temperature here.
It is very simple to build a work shed in Pudu Mountain. You can transport some shale fragments and pile up the wall. If you are worried about it not being strong, you can fill the gaps between the shale with volcanic ash cement. There is no need for a roof, just build the walled work shed.
The simplest temporary work shed can be built by putting a few logs on it and spreading dustproof cloth on the top of the work shed.
These wood and dust-proof cloth were all transported from the sulfur mine at the foot of the mountain. In addition to piles of sulfur ore, there were also bags of grains and several smoked pig legs. Every week
All kobold slaves can eat a meal of diced ham, stewed pumpkin and multigrain cakes, which is almost the best reward for kobold slaves.
Surdak discussed with several village supervisors, but they couldn't give any good ideas. Instead, the kobold slave leader suggested to Surdak that he could lead the kobolds to dig a rock step on the cliff.
A rock wall step that goes up and down seven times is completely embedded in the cliff.
The kobold slave leader's face is full of wrinkles. From the front, he looks like a sharpei, with a half-burned candle on his head. He knows many simple imperial dialects. Although his intonation is a bit special, it is completely
Does not affect communication.
He used a stick burned black to draw confusing sketches on the rocky ground.
Surdak and five village supervisors squatted aside, listening carefully to the kobold slave leader's introduction. Apart from the few years of military service, several villagers in Wall Village have lived in the desolate land their entire lives.
, they had limited knowledge, and when they heard that the kobold slave leader had come up with such a feasible plan, they all felt that they could give it a try. After all, it was not difficult for the kobold slaves to dig into the rock.
It’s just that Surdak thinks that such a project is a bit too big. A rock wall tunnel that turns back seven times will probably take many days to dig, and it will inevitably require a lot of hard work. Currently, the kobold slaves want to dig the sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the lava river.
If you can go around the side of the cliff and walk an extra seven or eight kilometers, you can climb to the lava waterfall and collect sulfur ore on both sides of the river.
Surdak sat on the boulder outside the temporary camp, frowning and looking at the red river of lava in the distance. Some volcanic ash mixed with snow particles fell into the magma, and suddenly turned into wisps of black gas and dispersed in the wind.
The kobold leader and five village supervisors stood aside. His dark nose opened and closed with his breathing. He lowered his eyelids, took out a piece of eggplant stem from his arms, and lit it against the steaming underground river.
, put it in your mouth and smash it, the spicy smoke comes out of the eggplant stem, but it seems to be the best enjoyment for the kobold leader.
Surdak wants to build a steel cable on the cliff so that the sulfur mines and kobold slaves can quickly slide down the ropeway. However, if you want to find a qualified steel cable, you must go to the blacksmith workshop in Bena City to order it.
, cannot solve the current problem at all.
"Dak, Duck!"
A man's shout came from a distance...
Before Surdak could stand up, the village supervisors standing aside were excitedly running towards the bank of the lava river. The kobold slave leader also looked over there and saw Luke standing on a piece of volcanic rock in the distance.
Go up, waving towards this side.
Then he strode across the black smoking rocks and ran towards the platform quickly.
"Oh, Luke, why are you here?"
Suldak walked up to Luke, bumped him with his fist, and asked with a smile.
Luke and Charlie had been taking turns managing the sulfur mine before. Charlie led the craftsmen to build a villa for Carl's manor. Luke had always been in charge of the mine. After Suldak came to Pussy Mountain, he
Luke was given a long holiday, and many young people in the village took advantage of the fall to get married. There was no reason for Luke to have to eat volcanic ash in the sulfur mine.
Luke pulled the mask on his face and said with a smile: "After returning to the village for a few days, I followed the village's road construction team to build a cement road along the direction of Pussy Mountain. Today, the cement road has been repaired to the foot of the mountain here.
, of course I want to come over and see you, look over there..."
Luke pointed at a thin black line on the distant horizon...
Obviously, this place is still at least ten kilometers away from the cement road built by Luke.
Surdak is halfway up the mountain. Although the view here is wide, if you want to see the kobold slaves building roads in the distance, you have to distinguish them carefully.
"How many kobold slaves did you bring to build this road?" Surdak recited a runic language, and his eyes became clearer before he could barely see clearly.
Luke laughed and said: "Almost all the kobold slaves in the village are out! With this smooth cement road, it now takes only two days to reach Pussy Mountain from Wall Village by a four-wheel truck."
"Well done, it will be much more convenient to transport sulfur ore in the future." Suldak withdrew his gaze from a distance and jumped down from the huge volcanic rock. "We not only need to build the road from Wall Village to the volcano, but also
In the future, cement roads like this will be built between various natural villages in the deserted land."
It is very easy to build such a cement road in the northern part of the barren land covered with volcanic ash. You only need to gather the volcanic ash scattered in the wilderness to build a roadbed, spread a layer of volcanic ash and sprinkle a layer of water, and then use stone rollers to compact the road surface.
, no other treatment is even needed, there is volcanic ash everywhere, and repairing roads is as simple as repairing pond stems in rice fields.
This place is close to the Pussy Volcano, and volcanic ash covers a large area of land. If you want to build such a cement road in the southern area of the desolate land, you will inevitably use a large number of four-wheeled carriages to transport the volcanic ash, and mix some lime into the volcanic ash.
powder to ensure that rainwater can quickly condense into solid concrete.
After Luke arrived, Surdak finally had someone he could discuss with. For the rock cliff of Lava River Falls, Luke suggested building a solid rope ladder with ropes and tying a layer of hard oak to it.
boards, so that the road to the top of the cliff can be quickly built.
However, such a rope ladder can only be regarded as a temporary solution at best, and a permanent passage will be built later. Since Pussy Mountain has now become Surdak's territory, Surdak feels it is necessary to build a rope ladder on the bank of the lava river.
While building a road out, as for the cliff side of the waterfall, Suldak finally decided to rely on the rock wall and use oak to build a plank road with wooden supports leading to the top of the cliff above the waterfall.
"I took some kobolds to cut down oak trees on the side of Pagolos Mountain. We can also build a cement road there. As long as we connect Pussy Mountain and the southern foot of Pagolos Mountain with a cement road, we can build a concrete road there in the future.
There is a steady stream of free wood, so we don’t have to go to Oak Ridge to cut down the miscellaneous trees there every time we use wood." Luke offered to share some tasks and said to Suldak.
"That's fine." Suldak said.
Nearly a thousand kobold slaves gathered at the sulfur mine, putting considerable pressure on the entire supply line of Wall Village.
At least fifteen bags of miscellaneous grains must be consumed every day to fill the bellies of these kobold slaves. The sulfur mine currently cannot accommodate so many kobold slaves. Luke led this team of kobold slaves to continue building the cement road towards Paglos Mountain.
The southern foot. Otherwise, there is no flat cement road. It is not easy to transport the wood from the southern foot of Pagros Mountain to Pudu Mountain. Given the current road conditions, it is not easy.
However, for the time being, the lava river still needs to use ropes to build a rope ladder and ropeway.
Surdak had been busy in the sulfur mine for two days before finally setting up a simple linen rope ladder. The kobold slaves lined up neatly on the top of the cliff. The sulfur condensed in the upper reaches of the lava river was larger than
There are several times more rivers downstream, and the temporary ropeway originally erected has become the most convenient way to transport sulfur ore down the mountainside. This is something Surdak did not expect.
…
Aphrodite was still on the mountain road between Constantinople and Heranza, admiring the snowy scenery among the mountains along the way.
Surdak was going to leave Pussy Mountain temporarily and return to Wall Village to take a look. In order to prevent the red dragon Iser from starving, Suldak transported nearly ten boxes of red crystals to the treasure secret room and told the red dragon Iser
I myself plan to leave for a while.
Seeing the red dragon's reluctant eyes, he put his huge head on the platform and looked at Suldak pitifully. Surdak, who was about to close the door to the treasure room, suddenly felt some inexplicable emotions in his heart, but
He immediately realized that the other person was a young red dragon, not just a cat or a dog that he kept casually, but a dragon.
It was already the seventh day after Suldak rode back to the village of Vol that he left Constantinople. On this day, Aphrodite also entered the territory of the city of Hiranza along with the carriage team.
Riding a horse into Wall Village, the market at the entrance of the village seemed a bit depressed, but there were still villagers running here to practice stalls. In addition to a few villagers from Wall Village, there were also several merchants selling groceries in the market at the entrance of the village.
The grocery store owner, the tavern owner who built a simple open-air tavern, and an adventure group also temporarily stayed in Wall Village.
Several villagers from Wall Village saw Surdak coming in from outside on horseback and stood up to say hello to Surdak.
Surdak just waved his hand casually, then crossed the depressed market at the entrance of the village and entered Wall Village.
Looking at the well-organized rows of small buildings in the village, there are always some elderly people in the village sitting on deck chairs on the flat steps in front of the small buildings, basking in the warm sun in this winter, covered with thick blankets
Blankets, squinting, looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance comfortably, it is the first time that I don’t have to worry about not having enough food stored in the winter, and I no longer need to run into the snow to find those sea buckthorn fruits buried under the snow.
There is no need to worry about a heavy snowstorm that will collapse the roof. There is no need to worry about this at all.
The reservoir upstream is still storing water. I don’t know how long the creek in the village has been dry. Is it one month, two months... or three months? In short, after the Harvest Festival, there is no water in the creek.
Here, all spring water is stored in cisterns.
Nowadays, whether the villagers are washing clothes or drinking drinking water, they will go to the village square. There are five faucets here, all of which draw the cleanest and clearest spring water on the mountain. Women are still used to squatting under the faucets.
People were lining up, washing clothes in the cold weather, chatting loudly, and children gathered in the village square to play hide and seek, making the village square very lively.
The house next to the carpentry shop was originally a children's home, but now there are several brand-new four-wheel carriages outside.
But what I am more concerned about is the yellow sheep pen near the stream downstream of the village. In addition to a large piece of land next to the sheep pen, which houses nearly 70 or 80 horses, there are actually more than 50 horses in another pen.
Head dromedary camel.
The last time Surdak intercepted the desert bandits, he captured a lot of camels, but not this many.
Finally someone in the group of women saw Surdak, and their voices became louder. Natasha, who was mixed in the crowd, stood up from the crowd under the crowd of village women, her face flushed with shame.
, but still walked up to Suldak very bravely, looking at Suldak with big watery eyes, with watery tenderness in his eyes.
Surdak didn't say anything, and looked at Natasha intently. When she came closer, he bent down and stretched out his strong arms to pick Natasha up in his arms, sitting her in front of the saddle, holding her softly with both hands.
He raised his waist and galloped towards his home upstream.
There was laughter and loud whistles from the square behind them, and a group of children chased after the horses. They did not stop until they saw the door of Suldak's house in the distance.
Suldak held Natasha's slender waist with one hand, jumped off the horse, let Natasha lean against the wall at the door, held her pretty face, and licked her gently
Soft lips.
Natasha also responded very enthusiastically at this moment...
Until little Peter's voice sounded from below the two of them: "Mom, what are you doing?"
Natasha was like a panicked rabbit, struggling to leave Suldak's arms.
Suldak wiped his mouth, bent down and held little Peter in his arms, and led Gubolama into the yard with his other hand.