According to legend, there is a bird that dies when it hits the ground. It has been flying since it was born and must flap its wings day and night. When it stops its wings, it is death.
Ever since people learned to think, work has always been with them, and a growing and terrifying outcome is deeply engraved in everyone's mind: if you do nothing, you will starve to death.
They were so afraid that this would happen that they even came to the shore of Agate Lake and begged Lu Li on the island in the middle of the lake: "Please, Lord, don't let us rest..."
Their Lord, who is as holy as the Land of Light, the Exorcist "cruelly" rejected their request.
On the seventh day after Lu Li returned to the Land of Light, the first batch of residents were destined to spend their time in fear and confusion.
Porter, Mitra, Gale and others, who seem to be the leaders of the residents, are the second batch of residents. The rest day will not start until next month, but they do not hesitate to understand the rest day and repeatedly tell the leader who is worried about gains and losses.
This group of residents has not been abandoned and will not be abandoned. This is a generous and kind gesture from the lord. You can make friends, spend time with your family, hang out in the camp, do anything during your break, or simply sleep in.
Despite this, many of the first residents were still confused and finally could not bear the sense of emptiness and chose to come to the square to study in the afternoon.
Lu Li did not stop them anymore. The residents needed to learn. As mentioned before, building houses would not allow them to survive.
Returning to the wooden house, Lu Li opened the window and pulled up the brown curtains to block the afternoon sunlight that shone into the cabin. Occasionally, the breeze opened the curtains, and the warm sunlight shone on the tabletop and the slender palms holding the pen and writing.
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The sound of the wooden bridge being stressed drifted into the wooden house with the breeze.
The face in front of the desk, shimmering in the sunlight, raised up and looked out the window at the Swamp Mother and her two maids coming from the wooden bridge.
As they stepped onto the island in the middle of the lake, the door was knocked quickly, and the reserved maid's voice sounded through the door: "Your lord, Princess Roland invites you to an afternoon tea party."
"I'll be there right away."
After quietly writing the last paragraph of the final part of the level 6 occult knowledge, Lu Li capped his pen, pressed the ink bottle and pen on the parchment, waited for it to dry, and walked outside.
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As the door opens, the breeze blowing through the wooden house lifts the curtains, and the pen pressed on the parchment rolls, hitting the ink bottle and stopping. As the figure leaves, the door closes, the curtains fall back, and the cabin returns to peace.
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The Mother of the Swamp is waiting at the folding round table that has been set up. The maid with the parasol up is covering the round table with a floral tablecloth and placing the cutlery.
"Can I borrow your fireplace?" said the Swamp Mother, and the coffee pot she brought was no longer scalding hot.
"Can."
The Swamp Mother let the reserved maid enter Lu Li's wooden house, and then said to Lu Li: "I like them. Although they are young and clumsy, they remind me of the maids I grew up with. Your Excellency, can you give them up to me?"
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"As long as they are willing, it is completely voluntary."
Although as the lord of the Land of Light, Lu Li did not want to force any of the residents.
The mother of the swamp changed the topic like a leisure gathering of princes and ministers, and talked about the island in the middle of the lake: "Your Excellency Lu Li, your garden still needs to be decorated to welcome guests. You cannot always ask guests to prepare these."
"I'll ask someone to prepare it."
After another maid put down the folding chair, Lu Li sat down opposite Swamp Mother. This scene was a bit awkward: Lu Li was half shorter than Swamp Mother, and when viewed from a distance, his silhouette looked like a mother taking her children for afternoon tea.
Then the Swamp Mother spoke of the Joseph Manor: "I am very satisfied with the residence you provided, except that it is not as majestic and vast as my castle."
"You built a castle in the Shadow Forest?"
"...When I was Princess Roland, Your Excellency," the Swamp Mother said after a moment of silence.
The maid brought the boiling coffee pot under the umbrella and poured the fragrant coffee into the teacup.
"I prefer tea, but it's hard to find it outside..."
It is only possible to plant them in the Land of Light, but such luxuries are only valuable among human beings. Weird people don't like them, so planting them has little meaning.
"Your Excellency, can you provide me with some tea trees to plant in the manor?"
"Can."
Then the topic of the Swamp Mother revolved around the manor. It was obvious that she liked it there, and even cleaning the dust and obsolescence did not wipe out this joy. When the topic gradually came to an end, the conversation fell on the residents studying in the square.
The illiteracy rate among the residents of the Agate Lake camp is serious, with the literacy rate being less than 8%. If you don’t count those who can write their own names, only 2% are left. This is a common status quo of mankind in the dark ages.
Talking about the rest day, Swamp Mother approved but disapproved of Lu Li's approach: "You are a lord who shows mercy to your people. But in a dangerous country surrounded by enemies, kindness to your people is tantamount to cruelty."
As a daughter of a subjugated country, she understands this very well. If the Principality of St. Mark had implemented stricter taxation and conscription, perhaps the citizens could have lasted until rescue arrived and the Kingdom of Allen could no longer support it.
But Lu Li's vision is farther than him. It's not about time, but about dimensions.
"People can't live in pigsty shacks forever, people can't be free forever, people can't do the same thing forever."
Lu Li knew that the human heart would never be satisfied.
People look for food in a dangerous world. When they no longer worry about food, they will value safety. When they have a safe and warm place to live, they will begin to long for the release of desires and emotions. When emotional desires are no longer satisfied, they will seek recognition and ideals.
The appearance of human beings usually does not change after adulthood, but the inside is like the annual rings of a tree, which does not change all the time.
And just as important: there is a surplus of labor in the Land of Light.
Even if half of the daily work time is turned into studying, the rest of the work is no longer as busy as in the previous months. Before the sixth batch of residents arrived, the camp was already building shacks for the seventh batch of residents.
They needed so many houses, and there wasn't that much work for them to do. The only Church of Twisted and Vines that needed construction would only build it themselves, and Lu Li was not interested in spectacle-like buildings.
And they are not needed for the upcoming "digging underground" to store supplies and provide refuge in critical moments. One worm is worth all the residents of the camp.
When the elites from the Weiner Refuge Zone arrive, Lu Li will discuss with them how to specifically arrange the residents.
As tea time came to an end, Lu Li hoped that the Swamp Mother could do him a favor: after he finished transcribing the knowledge in a few days, she and the twisted figure would protect him and go to Old Belfast to practice.
"I want to learn to master power." Lu Li said.
Swamp Mother was confused: "You are the lord, you don't need to personally supervise the battle."
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