Lord Helanza

There are gravel everywhere...

When a horse’s hoof steps on the ground, it will immediately pick up a piece of dust.

The dry wind blowing from the Desert took away the last bit of water on the Desolate Land Gobi Desert. The Water Element in the air is very thin.

The guide of Wuta Village wrapped himself in rough linen, showing only one pair of eyes. He rode a Gubolai horse to the front, only willing to eat some food and water before dawn. , No longer eat all day, in this dry spring, many villagers are like this in order to save food.

Recently, a group of robbers came up in the Gobi. In the past, when there was a food shortage every spring, the robbers would venture across Desert and run to this area to rob houses. Of course, this group of robbers also knew that they could not force the villagers into it. There is no way, otherwise they will find nothing next spring, but the appearance of these bandits often makes the villagers who are already struggling with food and clothing to live more difficult.

A week ago, a group of robbers were hunted down in the Gobi by Andrew and Samira for three days. Finally, the soldiers returned to Desert in embarrassment. The dead robbers now have their bodies hanging in Paglos. On the wooden cross of the mountain pass, dozens of vultures hovered back and forth over the mountain pass.

The reputation of the Desolate Land security team outside the Paglos Pass has now spread throughout the villages.

The investigation team entered the depths of Desolate Land. In addition to Viscount Frank and two assistants, there were also two magicians, Karl and nine Knights from platoon, Surdak’s security team, and Uta Village. Of a guide.

It's not the first time for Karl to enter Desolate Land. The entire group of guards rode horses and looked at the Knight collar of Surdak from the highest point of the rock slope. Pustule Mountain is at least fifty-sixty kilometers away. Far away, only in clear weather can you see the pustule mountain hidden under the billowing smoke.

Now, in the eyes of everyone, only the gray clouds piled up in the distant sky can be seen, like a majestic mountain.

Only in windy weather, the volcanic ash from Pustule Mountain can blow here.

In the dry season at the turn of spring and summer, there has not been a single drop of rain here for two consecutive months.

The entire group came to the scene where Surdak fought two rebels, and found some residual black blood on some gravel.

ogre hundreds of meters away, I saw the stone he threw away, shook off the bigfoot and ran a few steps over, picked up the stone, and told Viscount Frank about the fierceness at the time. Battle scenes.

Viscount Frank squinted his eyes and looked at this barren land, as if he was reminiscent of the fighting scene in his mind.

Two magicians who had hardly said anything along the way jumped off their horses, took out a few magic crystals from the magic pockets, and placed an array of magic patterns on the stone floor, and then put those pieces The hexagonal magic crystal is placed in the center of the magic array. Two magicians stand on both sides of the array and input a little magic power to the array. The entire magic array starts to run. The magic crystals in the center of the array are filled with magic of various colors. element.

Although I don’t know what these two magicians are doing, I can guess that they are performing some kind of magic detection.

The two assistants of the Viscount Frank began to collect some bloody stones on the scene, and also surveyed the approximate area of ​​the fighting field. The entire group stayed here for most of the day, and the two magicians only counted as a face. After finishing the magic test exhaustedly, the two magicians told Viscount Frank very positively that no abnormal state of magic elements was found here.

Viscount Frank lowered his head and thought for a while, everyone waited aside, no one interrupted his thinking.

When he lifted the head again, Viscount Frank's face eased a lot. At least when he looked at the security team, he no longer had that cold look. He said to the security team in Surdak: "Thank you Everyone, you can cooperate in these two days!"

Then he turned his head and said to Karl next to him: "Then Karl Platoon, let's go to the next survey point!"

"Okay, Frank Viscount!" Carl agreed readily.

The investigation team then left the Desolate Land non-stop.

Knowing that these people had crossed the Paglos Pass in the distance, Surdak let out a sigh of relief. After all, there is not only a dark Goddess messenger in the village, but also a charm from the flame hell. Mo, no matter who these two are exposed, it will be a disaster for Surdak.

……

Surdak waited for nearly a month, and Baixiang Trading Company finally sent the second batch of steel and a large bucket of saltpeter powder to Wall Village.

The old village chief Bright directed a group of villagers to unload a bundle of thumb-thick steel bars from the four-wheel carriage. These steels will be used on the main dam of the Level 2 reservoir.

The foundation of the Level 2 reservoir and dam has been formally poured a week ago. Rebars stick out from the cement foundation. A group of bricklayers use iron wires to weave a dam on the thick bars of the thumb. Carpenters put up long planks on both sides of the net, the front and back of the embankment. After the foundation of the embankment is firmer, the embankment of the Level 2 reservoir will be further poured.

Thirteen four-wheel carriages were filled with this kind of steel and drove into the village. The old village chief learned that Surdak had invested a lot of money in this reservoir.

"Duck, can the sulfur produced by the open sulphur mine on your territory be exchanged for these steels?"

"Of course!" Surdak said confidently to the old man The village chief said.

The old village chief watched a group of villagers move the steel out of the car in a rush, and said with a gloomy expression: "I heard Charlie said that the sulfur mines in the rocky area are about to be mined. It's empty..."

As a large number of sulfur mines are transported to Helanza City and sold, no one knows the value of this yellow crystal mixed in the rock better than the old village chief Bright.

Surdak faintly smiled and said, "No problem, but the pustule mountain is not the only river of lava. When the sulfur mines in this rocky area are exhausted, I will take them to another place. The pustule mountain is so big, there will be no shortage of sulfur mines."

He is not considering the Level 2 reservoir, and even Surdak has already included the steel of the third level reservoir in this transaction. I ordered it. What he has to consider is the Level 4 cistern which is at least twenty times larger than the Level 2 cistern and the larger Level 5 cistern. Now look at the planning drawing of Surdak, the entire water storage The pond occupies almost a large area of ​​the upper reaches of the valley.

Once this reservoir is completed, it will become a huge artificial lake hanging above the villagers’ heads.

"That’s good. Actually, I want to say that this reservoir is already very good now. As long as the reservoir is filled with water in the summer, it will definitely survive the next spring. In the dry season, we don’t need a bigger reservoir, let me tell you! If we level this land, we should build a lavish Knight Manor. You have now become the official Knight of the Grimm Empire. Pay attention to your decency." The old village chief Bright said to Surdak earnestly.

But Surdak shook the head said: "This is far from enough. By this time next year, there will be at least a few hundred acres of land on the river beach that need to be irrigated, and Wall Village will also It won’t be so poor all the time, here will become a little bit prosperous, and more people will be willing to move to Wall Village to live."

See, I can’t say Surdak, the old village chief Bright I can only shut up and stand on the dam and watch the lively scene of the Level 2 reservoir construction site.

"Surdak Knight, the batch of magic materials you specially ordered from Dalle magician has arrived." A White Elephant Trading Company Chief-In-Charge who is responsible for delivery came to Surdak, respectfully He saluted him and said.

Then he beckoned behind him, and the two trading company clerk carried an oak barrel wrapped with straw ropes, cautiously placed it in front of Surdak, and then pried open the oak barrel. Picked up a little white powder from the cork, and handed it to Surdak.

This Trading Company Chief-In-Charge tried his best to squeeze a smile and continued:

"Dal’s magician asked me to tell you that I must use it carefully. It’s not safe. For those who are not familiar with it, it’s very dangerous."

Surdak nodded, gently replied:

"Know it, give Dalla for me Magician conveyed my thanks!"

After speaking, he took out two Silver Coins from his arms and stuffed them into the Trading Company Chief-In-Charge.

The Trading Company Chief-In-Charge eyes shined quickly took it in his hand and humbly praised Surdak:

"You are really a generous Knight!"

...

For the next few days, Surdak went to the foothills of the village to set up a marching tent.

Then immediately drove everyone away, even he blessed himself with the body of God blessing.

The most indispensable thing here in Wall Village is charcoal and sulfur. After preparing the toner and sulfur powder, Surdak started to make black powder outside the marching tent. It looks like a lonely person, in fact Not so, he still had the magic notebook with him, Celia Cooper was with Surdak all the way, introducing him to the uses of various glassware and the basic knowledge of potions.

Surdak began to pour some charcoal into the cup, and filled it with sulfur while stirring it, until the last step was filled with a certain proportion of nitrocellulose.

Surdak has done this kind of modulation process more than dozens of times.

In fact, even if you understand a little bit of black powder formula, it is only when you actually start to make it. It is not as simple as imagined. The gunpowder is debugged and it is more like a ball that can be violent. Even if the fireworks with strong flames are tightly tied into a cylinder with parchment and blocked with yellow mud at both ends, this large firecracker still does not have any formidable power.

"Are you sure you still want to match it like this?" Celia Cooper saw Surdak repeating what he did before, and couldn't help but stand on the page of the book and complain to him.

Surdak wiped his hand on the apron, and said to Celia Cooper seriously:

"I don’t know what’s wrong, but I know it should be almost fine. Success, this thing is not magic, this thing is more like Hex Technology, if it is really to be classified academically, it should be physics and chemistry."

He said to Celia Cooper Still full of good feelings.

No matter what aspect of knowledge, as long as Surdak asks, you can always hear Celia Cooper's suggestions.

Celia Cooper showed a strange color in her eyes, with one hand propped her chin, whispered behind the black fence on the page: "I find I can't understand you more and more."

Surdak stopped what was in his hands and said to Celia Cooper: "What's wrong? I make black powder because... I got the formula for black powder! I just don't know one of the subtleties. The details, I didn’t make this thing the most mighty thing."

Celia Cooper curl one's lip, said to Surdak: "I’m not referring to this, Great Demon Pharmacist, I’ve also seen it. Okay, I’m not interested in potions. I’m talking about some of your practices. You built such a large reservoir in Wall Village and didn’t designate the land here as the Knight’s collar. This is not as simple as building a house. With such a large investment, what do you want to achieve?"

Surdak lowered his head again, stirring the gunpowder in his hand, and said: "I'm just fulfilling my promise..."

When Rita delivered food to Surdak in the evening, Surdak had already discovered a small drawback and made some improvements.

Just outside the tent, Surdak gave Rita a gorgeous fireworks display.

Rita was speechless for a while, but she kept repenting in her mouth: "It's a pity that Natasha and Peter are not here..."

...

'Boom'

With a loud noise, the limestone blocking the up ahead of the river was blown up and all split up and in pieces.

A group of kobolds stood on the embankment of the artificial water canal, looking with horror at the cracked limestone in the river, the huge limestone did not all split up and in pieces, and It is a huge bulge from the grave, and the bulge is covered with dense cracks.

It is also the amount of black powder tested by Surdak after dozens of experiments.

The explosion ended, a group of kobolds slave trembling with fear went down the river bed, they picked up their pickaxes to dig up the loose stones, and the two kobolds used a wooden stick to lift these rocks to the shore. On the side dyke, several bricklayers are using these stones to build a low flood control dam, and filling the gaps in the stone walls with volcanic ash slurry.

With gunpowder to open the way, the two biggest roadblocks on this river were finally levelled by explosives.

The eight hundred kobold slaves rushed down the river bank at the same time, and the sound of footsteps on this land was like a silent drum. After nearly a month of captivity, these kobold slaves everyday all can After eating two full meals, although the labor intensity on the artificial drainage site was a bit high, it did not affect the body of these kobold slaves to recover a little bit, and their bodies became very strong.

A lot of rubble came up from the bottom of the river, and the kobold slave did not need to rest, in a spurt of energy, clean up this section of the river.

They are just a little afraid of the loud noise, but the past few days are almost all familiar...