"Lord, I'm here." The winged kobold Chester, the chief engineer here, came out in the rain to greet Gavin.
"The security work was done well." Gavin praised, "The progress was faster than he expected. Did the heavy rain in those few days delay our construction?"
"A little bit, but the impact is not big. After the ground became inconvenient for construction, he asked all the construction teams to move to the east of the ground." Chester said a little worried, "Just listen to what the locals said,
That kind of heavy rain needs to last for more than a month. If it does, it will seriously delay the construction period and make it impossible to build enough resettlement houses outside the time requested by the lord. In addition, they misunderstood the demand for bitter leaf oil and also
It has grown significantly, and many kobolds are a little uncomfortable with the warm and humid environment there."
"In the final analysis, if there is a problem, he will come and completely solve it for us."
In the blink of an eye, the two of them had arrived at the very middle of Weizemei New Village, or the very top. From there, they could overlook the somewhat stepped new village.
Without waiting for Chester to ask, Gavin directly took out a crystal ball the size of a head from the convenience bag, closed his eyes to synchronize with it, and an invisible wind surrounded them, like an invisible shield.
All rainwater is kept out.
Wisps of wind turned into invisible legs, stretched out from the crystal ball, and disappeared into the surrounding air.
The pouring rain soon turned into a sporadic moderate rain, and then slowly turned into a continuous drizzle. At first it became a drizzle, until it stopped completely, leaving only a layer of dark clouds in the east, but within a few minutes, that layer of dark clouds
It also began to gradually fade, until it completely disappeared, revealing the bright sunshine.
The whole process takes less than ten minutes.
People who came out of the house after hearing the news saw a magical scene. Looking up, they seemed to be in a huge circular well, surrounded by dark clouds. You can imagine whether it was still raining continuously over there.
There it is.
With Weizemei New Village as the center and a radius of five kilometers, it is located in the east of the scorching moon.
The clouds in the sky have dissipated very cleanly, and the surrounding area is shrouded in heavy rain. Therefore, the temperature is not particularly high, it is only about 26 or 7 degrees. This temperature is not the most suitable for people.
temperature.
Gavin's synchronization is also coming to an end.
The crystal ball has separated from the palm of his leg and is floating in mid-air, flowing slowly. From time to time, wisps of wind will blow out of it.
Gavin mistakenly heard other people who came here after hearing the news: "The crystal ball is called the Hui Feng Ball. Its function is very similar to the good weather in the vineyard. However, it does not adjust the rain according to the growth needs of the plants, but adjusts it according to the comfort level of the people.
, to keep it in the most pleasant state, Chester, I will send people to build a stone castle there, seal it up, and send troops to guard it to prevent it from being stolen."
"Zuo Ming." Chester bowed and obeyed.
"Captain Craigie, are you adapting to life there?" Gavin turned his eyes to the sturdy, dark-faced Tethyr young man.
Speaking of being a young man, he wanted to be at least ten years older than Gavin, almost thirty years old.
He was Copperfield's son. He had been staying in the Tessel refugee camp to guard the unharvested grain there. Half a month ago, the grain had been successfully harvested and all was packed and transported back to the Land of Three Rivers.
It brought an end to that refugee camp.
"Thank you Lord for your concern. The life there is much better than they imagined." Craigie looked at Gavin with admiration. Every time the wrong side made a move, their relationship was completely broken.
Cognition.
It was like this in the refugee camp before, but it was not the same with the Hui Feng Ball just now.
"Is it possible to sail on the Asaba River in such weather?" Gavin asked.
Craigie replied without thinking: "If it rains or winds, each boat can be equipped with thirty water legs, so that it can sail smoothly."
"That's good, give me a new mission." Gavin took out a thick notebook and five bulky currency boxes from the portable dimension hole. That time, not all of them contained gold coins, and three of them were
No silver and copper coins.
After handing the notebook to Craigie, he explained in detail: "According to the address here, all the salary recorded here will be delivered to him as promised. Deliver it to him door to door. After delivery, ask them to leave something in return.
If the receipt or letter is not delivered, find out the reason for it, whether it is false information or whether something happened to the person there."
"Zuo Ming, promise to complete the mission." Craigie knelt down on one knee and took the notebook solemnly. When he heard it, he knew what was going on.
How about paying the salaries of the captured mercenaries? He had always regretted that he was in the refugee camp and could not participate in that grand event. Now that he had the opportunity to do so, it would be good.
"When the time comes, I will transfer the mercenary named Aqil as my deputy to assist me in this matter. I will choose the remaining personnel myself." Gavin warned, "That matter,
Don’t try to hide it, but do it in a big way.”
"A big fanfare? How to make a big fanfare?" Craigie didn't understand the real meaning of Gavin asking him to do that thing.
"How about he tell me a story about how he bought a horse bone for a thousand gold." Gavin did not answer Craigie directly, but instead told him a story.
Craigie was really stupid. Before he finished listening to the story, he suddenly realized: "My lord's salary is to buy horse bones. How can you be so generous and trustworthy to the captives you treat so wrongly, let alone the normal employees?"
Or, he knows what to do. When the time comes, he will definitely beat a war drum at the bow and stern of the boat to let all the residents along the Asaba River know what they want to do. He will definitely use the sense of ritual to do it.
foot."
"We ourselves have to be careful. There is no guarantee that the businessmen in Sambia will not have any bad intentions. Once we find that the situation is good and we cannot escape, we will stay on the north shore, and he will arrange for Andrew to guard us along the way." Gavin decided.
Add a layer of insurance for them and let the dog demon lead his own wolf regiment to protect them along the way.
Although the merchants of Sambia have not taken any big actions recently, they have not stopped taking small actions. A mercenary organization named Silver Raven has been infiltrating into the Three Rivers Land either overtly or covertly.
Could Gavin have given the highest level of attention to that mercenary organization that is not very famous?
Because he knew that the master behind that mercenary organization would occupy a prominent position in Sambia in a few months, and they would probably be able to find a master from Sambia in the future.
Gavin has no intention of uprooting them yet.
Those who come forward now are all small fish and shrimps. Even if they are eliminated, it will not hurt them. On the contrary, it will make their whereabouts more secretive and difficult to trace.
In addition, with the onset of the Komanso rainy season, the water level of the Asaba River is rising significantly, making floods in the middle reaches very easy to occur, and most of them are in the Sambia region.
Whether due to natural reasons, once you pass the Don Hills of the Taser Valley, before arriving at the Scarface Gorge, there is a large area with low terrain, flat and unobstructed areas. If the rain is too heavy and exceeds the load of the Scarface Gorge,
That area can easily become a flood discharge area.
Second, whether it is a man-made disaster or not, the Sambia area was originally part of the Kosoman Forest. It was once covered by dense virgin forest. However, since those humans, especially greedy businessmen, occupied it, it only took a few years.
Within a hundred years, all the remaining forests were cut down, and now they are seeking to reap the consequences, facing increasingly serious soil erosion and the wrath of nature.
The third one is of the nature of natural punishment, and there are some extreme natural gods that will promote this matter intentionally or unintentionally later.
In the past ten years, floods have occurred in Sambia for eight out of every ten years, and the worst one was last year.
The terrifying flood peak, said to be more than ten meters high, directly submerged a large area of Sambia between Taser Valley and Scar Valley. The floodwaters spread all the way to the east of the Aldulin City Wall. Once there, there was still only half a meter to the east.
How high.
At that time, many people mistakenly believed that the Asaba River had taken the opportunity to change its course. Unexpectedly, Edas, the goddess of water springs and peace, could not see so many civilians being harmed, so she personally stepped in as a saint and reversed it.
return.
Taking a lesson from last year, those Sambian businessmen will naturally face a formidable enemy next year. For the first time, they took the initiative to dig into their pockets, hire a large number of construction workers and mages, and strengthen the river section in the direction of Sambia in advance.
However, compared with the power of nature, human power is sometimes a bit insignificant. Therefore, from here to the east, we felt like we were facing a formidable enemy, staring closely at the Asaba River, and we had no energy to entangle Gavin for the time being.
Gavin was happy to take the opportunity to promote his own affairs and would not take the initiative to provoke them.
Returning to Anfield Village again, three days later, the racecourse owners had already drawn up a detailed sales contract. Gavin led people to go through it from beginning to end. In this regard, he had a professional
Person - Dog Demon.
Although he is not the kind of devil who specializes in fraud, he is not a devil after all. Many things are innate, such as finding loopholes in contracts, contracts, and agreements and exploiting them. They have never been able to use that.
On the one hand, it is possible to trick them, but it is too difficult for them to trick them on that aspect.
He quickly uncovered the cleverness of the racecourse owners one by one. After revising it, Gavin formally signed the contract with them.
With that matter finalized, Gavin's trip to Anfield Village was almost complete, and there was only one thing left - to kill the Ji Peng.
That matter, after hearing from Gowther's mother that there were a large number of kobold servants under the command of Ji Peng, he had already started to make plans.
"How do I do things? He told me to lock the door in the morning, lock the door, lock the door. How many times has he told me, so I don't have a long memory?"
"He has locked the door, but it seems that some of them have learned how to pick locks and pried it open by themselves..."
"I dare to quibble. Regardless of whether I left the door unlocked or picked the lock, it was a serious dereliction of duty on my part."
An angry roar of rebuke came from the Stone Pony Hotel.
This attracted the villagers of Anfeier Village to stop and whisper to each other.
"What's going on? It's so early in the morning, and Mr. Gavin is so angry."
"He didn't know if he had just arrived and heard Mr. Gavin scolding Miss Anna. Hey, Miss Anna is so pitiful. She doesn't help repair the hotel every day, buy food, wood, and serve those people.
The kobolds give them free medical treatment when they have time. Now if they make a small mistake, they will be scolded. If it were not him, she would have quit long ago. Can she be a powerful priest and be a big shot wherever she goes?
"
"I heard that Miss Anna followed Mr. Gavin out of necessity."
"Oh? What's the reason? Tell me about it?"
"He doesn't know whether he listened to what others said, because whenever this issue is discussed, Miss Anna's expression becomes a little sad. Oh, it's really pitiful..."
"Have we made a mistake? Mr. Gavin should not be such a vicious person."
"People should not be judged by their appearance. Many businessmen are good at pretending. They think one thing in front of others and another in front of others. What they see now is not the same thing as Mr. Gavin in front of others."
"The topic has become a hot topic. He asked, "What happened now? Isn't the restoration process of the hotel quite fast? Isn't Mr. Gavin very dissatisfied?"
"It's not about the hotel's repairs, but there seems to be something wrong with the group of kobolds he brought. According to what he said, yesterday morning, it seemed that a small group of kobolds broke open the door and escaped."
"Huh? The kobold slaves have escaped? Those kobolds usually look very docile and obedient. I have never seen them whipped with leather whips or locked in shackles."
"Mr. Gavin is indeed wrong that those kobolds neither use whips nor shackles, and even the food is good, which is enviable, but we have also seen with our own eyes how long those kobolds have to work all day long.
Starting from when the sun just turned west, and going all the way until the sun rose high in the morning the next morning, all these factors added up, it was definitely no more than thirteen, four hours, never leaving the hotel. If it were me, I could bear it.
?”
"Two days a day is fine, but if it lasts for a long time, it will definitely be unbearable. No matter how good the food is, he will still find a way to escape."
"That's not the case. I guess that group of kobolds don't think so either. After all, they are not a race of monsters. It's not in their nature to want to escape back to the wilderness."
"Yes, I've heard of kobolds being loyal to dragons, but I've never heard of kobolds being loyal to humans."
Those in the Amphile Village were discussing it all, and soon the cause and effect of the whole matter were clear.
Among them, there are many who died by misfortune.
As the saying goes, jealousy distorts people's appearance.
The strength and convenience of Gavin's kobold construction team is obvious to everyone.
In just one month of October, a large hotel that was in ruins was brought back to life. It was incredible how fast it was.
The most important thing is that those kobolds are almost like slaves and do not need to be paid for work.
It's no wonder that Gavin became a millionaire at a young age, ignored the threat of the crying witch in the hotel, and even boasted about East Haikou and asked for free road construction for Amphier Village.
He does have that unique advantage and capital.
After scolding Anna a few more words, Gavin walked out of the Stone Pony Hotel angrily and loudly shouted to the crowd: "He is willing to pay a large reward for those kobolds who escaped. A thousand gold coins for each living person, and a thousand gold coins for each dead person."
of ten gold coins.”
"A thousand gold coins? Since when did kobolds become so valuable? That money is enough to buy two heavy war horses!"
"Mr. Gavin is indeed very wealthy. He can buy and sell tens of thousands of gold coins with just one mouthful."
"Haha... What are we waiting for? Bring the best war horses and hounds, and they will go catch the kobolds. If they walk, they can't run very far."
Gavin's words immediately caused a huge commotion among the villagers.
That is not something that has nothing to do with you, but a deal that makes people jealous.
As for danger, haha, what about a group of kobolds?
Even if the kobolds brought by Gavin are taller and stronger than the wild ones in the wilderness, and have unique spell-like abilities, a group of kobolds are rarely two heads shorter than humans.
Don't say one is wrong, even if it is one versus two, many villagers are still confident.
Not to mention, they won't go out alone, must they be in groups, have bows and arrows, horses and hounds, and will they be afraid of a group of kobolds?
"Am I crazy? They are just a bunch of kobolds. They just ran away. Do you need to spend tens of thousands of gold coins to catch them back?" After hearing the news, Gowther's mother rushed over and angrily scolded Gavin for his prodigal behavior.
Gavin said angrily: "Those gnawing things, thanks to him cultivating them for so long, when he heard there was a dragon nearby, he turned around and ran away. Not only did he escape by himself, but he also moved the nearly 20,000 people he prepared
All funds are packed and taken away.
That kind of precedent was absolutely wrong. Even if he had to pay ten times the price, he still wanted to capture them.
He just asked for those kobolds to be captured alive, and the rest would belong to the captors. The ones he wanted alive and dead were of no value to him."
"Mr. Gavin, I'll just wait and see, haha... whether they can ride horses well enough to chase a group of kobolds, it's no longer a simple matter."
"Stop being so nagging, walk quickly, walk quickly. If you don't fall behind them, nothing will happen to them."
"The dragon that Mr. Gavin mentioned is not a dragon, right?"
"Besides it, I haven't heard of any dragons nearby."
"Does it also deserve to be called a dragon?"
"Anyone with dragon blood, no matter how rare, is not a dragon in the eyes of these kobolds."
"That way, their pursuit in Yidong will have a direction. The group of kobolds must have run towards the Krept Garden Forest."
"Then they have to hurry up. The Garden Forest is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from them. Once they escape into the forest, there will be nothing they can do."
Gavin's words were like adding fuel to the fire, and all the enthusiasm of the villagers in Amphail Village was activated.
Anyone who has the ability can't help but call friends and prepare to go out to try their luck to see if they can find those gold-plated kobolds in the wilderness and tie them back.
When the kobolds fled, they were obviously very panicked and did not clean up their footprints at all. Their tails were quickly bitten by the villagers' hunting dogs.
The scattered currencies found along the way proved that Gavin was not lying.
Not only did the kobolds escape, they also stole his money and escaped.
Even if it is 20,000 gold coins, it is not light in weight, let alone silver coins, copper coins and loose coins are naturally even more astonishing.
They severely slowed down the group of kobolds.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even have to waste any effort and they wouldn't be able to catch up. Before they could catch up, the group of kobolds would have entered the garden forest.
No one dares to go into the dense forest and chase a group of kobolds.
Especially when the forest was occupied by an arrogant and ferocious roc.