Zhou Qingfeng entered the village and met Dahong, the current CEO of Ant Express in Harmony Village, in the government affairs center. It did not meet outsiders directly, and was guarded by more than a dozen strong soldier ants to ensure safety.
Compared to the previous one, this queen ant is a little fatter. But compared to the rapidly expanding body of the previous acidophilic queen, she is much slimmer.
Seeing Zhou Qingfeng, 'Big Red' let out a cry of 'ah oh oh', as if a puppy was happy when it saw its owner. When Uncle Zhou reached out to scratch its head, it opened its mouth and took a bite, sucking a few mouthfuls of blood.
,Fell asleep.
This is really..., very speechless. This queen ant grew up drinking Zhou Qingfeng's blood, and now she has retained this habit. But judging from the current ability of the ant colony, this little
Hobbies are nothing.
It is often too wasteful to use horses for short-distance transportation within the village, and it is much more cost-effective to use worker ants. In Harmony Village, which has a large floating population, there is always someone who needs to deliver small items within a dozen kilometers, so just use ant guards.
More than ten kilometers have covered all the current human settlements in the Black Forest, with a population of two to three thousand scattered among them. As long as they are given some food, more than fifty ant guards work tirelessly to serve. Is there any better courier than this?
"Human development is the driving force, the progress of information and logistics." Zhou Qingfeng felt that he should be very satisfied. Within the small sphere of influence he controlled, he had lived a very 'modern' life.
There is wind, there is the 'holy light', and now there are ants. Compared with those nobles who stayed in the castle and waited to die, Zhou Qingfeng's territory has made 'epoch-making' progress.
"But no matter how good it is, it must develop outward." Facing the Black Forest map hanging on the wall, Zhou Qingfeng was very unfamiliar with the outside environment. No matter how he collected information, he could only add a few more uncertain locations on the map.
Place name.
In the real world, a map can be spread out to see the entire earth. But Zhou Qingfeng's understanding of the Faerun continent comes more from the 'Gate of True Knowledge' that he acquired not long ago, but the knowledge in this strange object is gathered in a thousand
years ago.
In the past thousand years, the successive city lords of Silverleaf City have developed in this small area of Northland. The elves have never added new information to the 'Gate of True Knowledge' - perhaps they feel that they already have enough.
Already.
But in a thousand years of vicissitudes, not to mention the country's race, even the mountains and rivers have changed a lot. At least a thousand years ago, there was no such thing as the Iron Curtain. The Northland was a sunny green field, not the cold and biting black forest now.
.
"Inisha, I'm leaving Harmony Village for a while." Zhou Qingfeng walked into the office where his woman handled government affairs. This sentence was equivalent to leaving his nest to be managed by a female knight just a month after he came back.
Inisa sat behind the large wooden table and pinched her head with a wry smile. She was once a princess of a country who was displaced to the Black Forest and always wanted to return for revenge. She had no idea how to take revenge, but she always had a strong army.
needs.
Zhou Qingfeng developed very quickly, beyond the imagination of the female knight. But this old man ran around and left all government affairs behind. Only then did Inisha realize how tiring it is to manage a village of more than 2,000 people.
If Zhou Qingfeng wants to go out to investigate the actual situation in the North, Inisha has no objection. Step by step, expansion step by step, this is the development strategy that the two have set long ago.
But the female knight hopes that the man can stay with her and help her - she knows very well that the big boy in front of her is very talented in handling government affairs. The "Holy Light" is also very important to the development of the force.
But..., the high level of information blockage forced Uncle Zhou to investigate it himself. He understood Inisa's wry smile and said, "I'll leave Xili to help you."
"You're not taking your personal maid with you?" Inisa asked in surprise. Sometimes she was jealous that Xili could be with Zhou Qingfeng every day. Where were the master and servant when they were so intimate? They were clearly lovers.
"Xili's appearance is so special that others can recognize her at a glance." Zhou Qingfeng replied, "I don't even bring 'Quick Shadow'. I just bring Seth and ride any horse." , it’s more low-key this way.”
Inisa cursed in her heart, "You bastard has the nerve to talk about Hilly's appearance. Isn't that your fault?" But letting Hilly stay would really make her feel much more relaxed. But...
"If you don't even bring 'Shiying' with you, wouldn't it be unsafe?"
"The skeleton of 'Shiying' makes it really unsafe to ride on it."
"So where do you plan to go?"
"According to Marbury, preparations are already underway for the Battle of the Royal Power of the North. There are a total of seventeen cities. If I have time, I would like to go around and see the various forces, inspect the mountains and terrain, and estimate the direction of the war. .”
Hearing that Zhou Qingfeng actually wanted to visit seventeen cities, Inisa's face immediately collapsed, "Do you want to go out and fool around for several years? I will give you two months at most to inspect, and you must come back quickly after you have wandered around for a while. .”
Running all over the Northland in two months is simply impossible. Zhou Qingfeng also knew that he really couldn't leave his nest for too long, and two months was the limit. He nodded, "Then I can only focus on inspecting the Banshee Castle. This It should be the strongest enemy."
The Fels family of Banshee Castle is the current ‘King of the North’. They have held royal power for more than ten years and are obviously much more powerful than other lords. But how strong they are requires quantitative estimation.
Considering that Zhou Qingfeng only brought an ordinary servant and a horse, Inisa suggested: "Victor, I think you should have a guide. Adrian, who went to explore the elven ruins with you before, is a good candidate."
Adrian is a "clown" who has been wandering in the North for many years. He used to make a living by stealing and performing comedy. His rich survival experience can indeed make up for many of Zhou Qingfeng's shortcomings.
"Okay, I'll take Adrian with me." Zhou Qingfeng agreed. But as soon as he nodded, a loud "Wait, I object" sounded outside the window of Inisa's office.
The "Dark Sun" electorate who never works hard to preach, the halfling wanderer who always looks for trouble, the eldest sister who has a strange power that can beat Zhou Qingfeng to the head with bruises, and the "number one tyrant" of Harmony Village, Kelly, jumps out from outside Come in.
"I object, unless you take me with you too." Kelly rushed in angrily, put her hands on her hips and shouted unconvincingly: "This woman is so boring, I want to go out for a walk."
Zhou Qingfeng frowned and asked Cyric in his mind: "Did you inform her?"
"No, I didn't ask her to come." Cyric sighed: "If the church's power was not still too weak, I would have deprived this halfling of her elector qualifications. She did not obey my oracle at all and had no regard for faith and believers. Not interested."
"Nonsense, who told Cyric to find a halfling as a voter? Halflings are just ridiculous!" Zhou Qingfeng mocked.
Cyric was even more crazy, "Isn't this just to take care of your taste? I finally picked someone with good looks and a good figure and delivered it to my door, but you didn't stop."
It sounds like this damn Cyric is up to something again.
Zhou Qingfeng frowned and said to the halfling girl: "Kelly, why are you following me?"
"Everyone in this village behaves well now. No one asks me to whip the whip anymore. I heard your conversation just now. If you don't let me follow, I will object." The halfling girl has been too idle recently.
She felt uncomfortable all over when she was idle.
Zhou Qingfeng thought for a while but still shook his head and said: "I want to go out for a private inspection. You are too conspicuous and can be easily recognized. In fact, if you want to go out to play, no one will stop you?"
Ah..., Kelly looked shocked and muttered to herself: "Yeah, why do I have to stay in this village? Why do I have to follow this fool? I can go on my own.
.”
After saying that, the halfling girl laughed a few times, jumped out of the window again, and shouted, "I'm free, I want to go out and have a good time."
Zhou Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief, but not long after, Kelly came back with a slumped head, "My master said that I am not free at all, and he wants me to be with you, lest you, a fool, kill yourself.
Am I going to be married to you for the rest of my life? Oh my God..., marriage is a grave, this life is like going to jail, I am against it!"