At four o'clock in the afternoon, the four Jones brothers walked out of the cave.
Stones and soil were piled outside the cave. Lu Li had other uses for these things.
Because they had to continue digging tomorrow, they left behind tools such as pickaxes and baskets. They used hand towels made from torn old clothes to wet them, wipe away the odor caused by sweat, and returned to the carriage.
The excavation is progressing very smoothly. Most of the cave has been dug. Because only one person can dig the cellar for the time being, the depth of the shaft is only less than one meter, which is still short of the one-meter depth requirement. However, as the shaft is dug,
Start expanding the cellar space and it will speed up a lot.
They still have a whole day tomorrow, so they have plenty of time.
After returning to the carriage and sitting down, the carriage headed towards Belfast. The eldest of the four Jones brothers felt something strange.
That strangeness did not come from the despair in the surrounding woods, but from Lu Li holding the reins in front of him.
The boss who has been with him for a short time can notice it, and Anna naturally feels it more clearly.
After more than a month of getting along, she could feel the subtle changes in Lu Li's temperament as time went by. For example, he gradually began to look like an ordinary person. Although he still didn't have much expression and calmness, he no longer subconsciously rejected people around him at first.
Be wary of everything.
It's as if he is not from this world.
But now, that sense of vigilance that ignored everything reappeared in him.
"What happened...?" Anna felt a little frightened and asked in a worried voice.
Lu Li didn't say anything, he just put his finger down and tapped the newspaper beside him.
Anna's eyes then fell on Lu Li's side. As the carriage shook and the light and shadow of the oil lamp swayed, she saw the clear title on the newspaper.
"They actually..."
Anna, who relies on Lu Li, doesn't like to think, but it doesn't mean that she can't think, especially because of the subtle interaction between her and Lu Li, she has been contaminated by part of Lu Li's thinking logic.
She knew exactly what it meant when this kind of news appeared in the newspaper.
"How dare they...?"
Anna's subtle murmur emerged in the void.
The four Jones brothers were leaning in the innermost compartment, dozing off after a long day's work.
"Perhaps something more troublesome happened that we don't know about." Lu Li looked at the rugged and muddy mountain road ahead and said calmly, "This forces them to reveal part of the truth."
Only a small part of the iceberg will emerge from the sea.
The bad thing about this matter is not only the news itself, the real trouble is the purpose behind their doing this-the Council of Elders cannot allow the newspapers to publish news that causes riots.
The more troublesome thing may be what the terrifying faceless giant of Zernst did again, or other things, such as the truth about the missing contact in the farmland.
"Our speed is already very fast..." Anna said softly.
Lu Li and the others were already fast enough. They had done all this in less than two months after arriving here.
This rush makes him look like a patient with persecutory delusions, but the reality is always more unexpected than planned.
Fortunately, although they were not fully prepared for all countermeasures, they had completed a large part of it.
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At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the carriage drove out of the elm forest filled with negative emotions and returned to Elm Street.
The infected houses have been demolished, leaving a pile of ruins, which are being hauled away one by one. Some residents gathered around, watching the alliance personnel deal with the debris.
They gathered together and whispered something, looking a little weird.
This scene intensified as the carriage entered Belfast. People on the streets were whispering to each other, with uneasiness and fear written on everyone's faces, and the noise spread one after another.
Unlike the lost connection with the Farmland Garden, most people think it is a wild land with no civilization and no cities.
Moreover, the Cultivated Garden is too far away from them, so far away that it is impossible for almost anyone to go there.
But this time, Port Zernst is on the Allen Peninsula, in the northwest of the peninsula about three hundred miles away from them, and it has been confirmed that the entire city has been attacked by strange attacks, with very few survivors.
That is a seaport city with a population of hundreds of thousands!
Some cries sounded from time to time on the street corners, and their relatives were in Zernst.
Lu Li knew that this was just a prelude.
For humans, for weirdness.
As time goes by, weird things will appear more frequently and attack towns where humans gather. And as people are panicked, the order that has been maintained will inevitably be broken.
It is foreseeable that the city will fall into a state of disorder for a long time to come. Soaring prices and breakdown of public security are just the most basic.
Now we can only rely on the Council of Elders to have strong enough control over the city.
The four Jones brothers woke up one after another, and the noisy crying outside the carriage made them a little uneasy.
"What happened in the city?" It was still the boss who asked.
"The newspapers will tell you the answer." Lu Li did not directly tell the answer. It would be troublesome to explain, and they would definitely have a lot of questions after answering.
The boss suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask any more questions. He just observed the streets with his brothers.
After a while, the carriage arrived at their residence. The four Jones brothers got off the carriage. The eldest brother stopped in front of the carriage and said, "I'll call the person you need."
He hadn't forgotten Lu Li's search for a craftsman.
"I'll go there." Lu Li held an umbrella and stepped out of the carriage.
"Oh," the boss responded, leading Lu Li to a dilapidated wooden house not far away.
Two buildings on the left and right squeezed the space of the wooden house. It looked really small, especially when the boss brought him into the wooden house and there were piles of spare parts, tools and debris everywhere.
Only the bed and the path leading to the door are free of debris.
The old man introduced by the boss was squatting among the debris, holding an alarm clock in his hand, clicking through the garbage, looking for replaceable parts.
The boss first introduced Lu Li to the old man, and then said to Lu Li: "He can make anything you say."
Lu Li was noncommittal and said nothing.
After the introduction, the boss voluntarily left the cabin, leaving Lu Li and the old man behind.
The old man couldn't find the parts, so he temporarily put the alarm clock on the table that was also piled with miscellaneous tools, and asked Lu Li what he wanted to say.
Lu Li told him about the seawater distillation equipment.
"Burning sea water?"
Of course, this world has the technology to distill water, which is usually used for drinking by a group of nobles who think they are superior.
Although it was strange, the old man still replied: "Of course, what do you want to do?"
“It’s sturdy and durable enough to be used with a fireplace.”
The old man pondered for a while, then nodded and told Lu Li: "Come and get it in three days. I won't charge you a deposit because you were recommended by Big Jones."
"But it's urgent."
"when?"
"No later than tomorrow."
The old man frowned, and before he was about to say anything, Lu Li added: "An extra double payment."
"You'll see the finished product when you come tomorrow morning."
Lu Li nodded and left the hut.
After solving the water problem, Lu Li went to the carriage shop to return the carriage and returned to the detective agency.
