Lord Helanza

During this period, Surdak has been nesting in Wall Village.

The young magician Lance came to Wall Village with two colleagues and visited Surdak.

It is said that the Enforcement Group of the Magic Guild is looking for the magic members of the Dark Moon Gate organization recently.

Carl is also very busy this time.

The infiltration of the Grimm imperial rebels into Pena province has annoyed the high-level council. This group of rebels organized an assassination operation in Pena. A precious treasure, and these rebels escaped from Pena City separately.

Although some of the rebels have been captured back to Pena City, and some of the rebels died during the capture, the most precious treasure of the nobleman has never been recovered.

The high level council of Pena province believes that the exposed rebels are only a tip of the iceberg.

This matter involves the interests and safety of the nobles and should be paid more attention to. Therefore, the entire Pena province guard camp and city defense battalion are very busy.

Carl took platoon's Knight to run around the suburbs all spring.

In contrast, the security team in Desolate Land outside the Paglos Pass has a much easier daily routine. Andrew likes to ride a horse around the wasteland. There are everywhere here. It is the Gobi of Mapingchuan, where green is rarely seen on the wasteland ridge, and only a few barren wheat fields are exposed around the small villages in some ravines.

As the old village chief Bright said, there is not much water left in the Level 1 reservoir in the upper reaches of the village. Although every day all continuously injects a stream of spring water into the reservoir, it is still unable to make ends meet. At present, the water stored in the reservoir can only be used to irrigate the wheat fields at the edge of the river.

The main dam of the Level 2 reservoir has been completed, and three gates of the Level 2 reservoir are currently under construction. As for the bottom of the Level 3 reservoir, more than half of it has been paved. Afterwards, volcanic ash and lime powder need to be continuously transported in to further treat the ground at the bottom of the reservoir.

After the reclamation of river beaches, no crops have been planted yet.

You may have to wait for the rainy season before you can plant some crops such as onions, tomatoes, and cabbage.

Surdak has prepared the seeds.

Tapioca starch has appeared on the free market in Helanza City. The current sales of this starch are pretty good, and it is a good deal to exchange it for whole wheat flour.

The formula of gunpowder has been held by Surdak all the time, only that it was the Earth Element Level 2 magic scroll that Surdak bought from the magic store in Helanza City. The "Earth Splitting Technique" shattered the limestone in the river. This Celia Cooper thought of Surdak.

According to Celia Cooper, the magical effect of the'Earth Splitting Technique' happens to be very similar to the effect caused by this explosive.

Under the auspices of the old village mayor Bright, the children’s home has been built on an open space 50 meters away from the village’s kobold slave shed. The children’s home is adjacent to the stream flowing out of the village. It is built with an oak frame and is covered with a layer of exquisite reed mats. What the villagers are most concerned about is the stove built outside the orphanage, because the children’s home provides children with three meals for free, which is the most attractive The place.

Except for the village of Wall, the daily work of the children's home is temporarily in charge of Selena.

In the morning, there is chestnut rice porridge, lunch oatmeal porridge, and occasionally a meal of fried stew. In the evening, there is broth and oatmeal. The amount is not too much, but at least it can be eaten by children. Full. In addition to the little children in the village, the children’s home also accommodates children from other villages who pass by the entrance of the village. When the women who enter Oak Ridge to dig wild vegetables pass by Wall Village, those who carry the children will be invited by Old Sheila. Advise them to keep their children in the children's home.

At the beginning, some people were still skeptical about this matter. Only the villagers of Wall Village elated sent their young children into the children's home.

The village of Wall meets this age limit and only has twenty-three children.

One week later, those poor people who went to the oak forest in the mountain pass to dig wild vegetables really understood what the children’s home was. The number of children in the children’s home suddenly increased by more than 100, helping Selena to take care of them together. The number of women of these children also increased to six.

Wal Village’s move immediately made Wall Village the most famous village on Desolate Land.

……

Surdak sat at the desk and wrote a reply to Hathaway, put the letter paper into the envelope in the kraft paper bag, and used the melted gum The envelope is glued.

When the driver from the carriage line of Helanza City came to Wall Village to deliver the cassava, he entrusted them to bring the cassava to Helanza City. There is a mailing service at the carriage line, but the postage is far more than Surdak thought. It is much more expensive. A letter to Pena City actually requires a Silver Coin and fifty-three copper plates.

"Duck, we have to go..."

Luke's shout sounded outside the courtyard.

Surdak poked his head out of the window, waved to Luke outside the wall, and promised: "I'm coming soon!"

Give the letterhead to Nata Sha, asked her to give the letterhead to the carriage driver. With the help of Natasha, she put on the magic pattern of the'Earth Shield' and rode out of the yard on a Gubrai horse.

Luke has taken his group of people to wait at the door on a Gubolai horse. Seeing Surdak riding out, the youngsters behind Luke unconsciously straightened their waists. , I don't know when it started, he already has some prestige in Wall Village.

The team walked along the village road to the village entrance, and the villagers encountered along the way avoided to both sides of the road.

When passing by the temporary residence of the security team, Surdak shouted ogre Gulitum and the indigenous warrior Andrew from outside the yard. These two people waited honestly at the door and saw Surdak appear, so he hurriedly joined In the team.

Ogre seldom has the opportunity to leave Wall Village, so this time I am very excited to enter the pustule mountain area of ​​Desolate Land with Surdak.

On the night before departure, he also asked the women in the village to sew a face towel for him, almost covering the big face under his eyes, and he couldn’t wait to wear it before leaving the village of Wall. on the face.

ogre regards every trip as an outing and picnic. Along the way, he is thinking about how to catch the limestone iguanas hidden deep in the cracks.

Andrew happened to return from patrol outside this time, catching up with the Knight collar of Surdak who was about to enter Pustule Mountain, he planned to follow Surdak into the area of ​​Pustule Mountain. He rarely came in this area, mainly because Within a few tens of kilometers, the pustule mountain was covered by thick volcanic ash, and the volcanic ash fell from in the sky, almost forming a dead place in this area.

Not only the villagers of Desolate Land will not enter this area, even the bandit bands that are rampant in Desert will not enter this area.

Pustule Mountain is Surdak's Knight leader after all. Andrew wants to get familiar with the surrounding environment, at least familiar with the location of the boundary markers, and then follows Surdak into Pustule Mountain.

Samira is not in Wall Village. An offensive black panther appeared in Oak Ridge. In three days, he bit several villagers who were digging wild vegetables in the oak tree. Most of them were women. With the half-year-old child, Samira entered Oak Ridge almost overnight after hearing the news, probably preparing to hunt the leopard.

The succubus Aphrodite has no interest in the land of lava. It can be seen everywhere in the hell of flames, which is more sinister than the mountain of pustules, and finally left the hell. Now she is the least willing to smell It's the smell of sulfur, how can you go to the pustule mountain to suffer?

At the entrance of the village, the Surdak entire group meets with the carriage team going to the mines in the chaotic area to transport sulfur ore, and walks into Desolate Land.

……

It is the end of June, and the monsoon blowing from the southeast in the past few days has a humid smell.

While passing by Beigou Pasture, Surdak unexpectedly saw a group of villagers from Wall Village repairing a cistern at the bottom of the dry water pool in Beigou Pasture.

The four-wheeled carriage that drove from the depths of Desolate Land was filled with volcanic ash. When passing by the Surdak team, everyone greeted them intimately.

Entering the land full of volcanic ash, the world here is almost a dead place, where all plants and animals are cut off from life.

At Surdak's strict request, even the horses put on masks.

The four-wheel carriage is full of living supplies. This road has been pressed out of two clear ruts, and there is almost no need to identify the direction. As long as you keep walking along this road, you can reach the foot of the pustule mountain. Sulfur mines.

When Surdak rushed to the sulfur mine, the two hundred kobold slaves were still alive and kicking.

Looking at their condition, they are far more moisturized than the kobolds in the slave camp of Wall Village. Obviously they are more adapted to the harsh environment here than humans. Surdak found that the kobolds have a special nose structure. Block the volcanic ash sprinkled here.

Except for the lack of food and water, there is nothing wrong with this group of kobold slaves.

The extent of mining in the sulfur mines in the chaotic area is far more thorough than Surdak thought.

All the raised rocks in the rocky area were turned over by these kobold slaves. They even dug up this cooled lava river, and hot lava gurgled out of a slope. , In the lowest part of the rocky area, it has piled up into large black lava rocks.

Surdak rushed to the sulfur mine with supplies, and Charlie was already waiting at the mine.

Before half a month, Charlie took two youngsters from the village on horseback riding around the pustule mountain, trying to find a new open-air sulphur mine. There were none at the foot of the mountain within more than ten kilometers. Find any signs of sulfur ore.

Charlie told Surdak that they climbed a section of the road to the side of the pustule mountain along a cooling lava river, and they saw some sulfur ore beside a lava river flowing with hot lava. These sulfur mines are attached to some raised rock walls, like stalagmites growing against the stone wall. The reserves of sulfur mines there are almost ten times that of sulfur mines in the rocky area. This is still a conservative forecast for the first exploration. Estimated reserves.

"Then transfer the sulfur mine over there. It happens that four-wheel trucks can transport the materials from this side. Except for the sulfur mine, all the other materials will be transported there." Surdak said.

Listening to Surdak's words, Luke immediately arranged for manpower to put away all the reed mats and dust-proof gauze of the mine shed, and put them on the four-wheel carriage.

The faces of Charlie and the other two youngsters were burnt to a burst of skin, and the new skin exposed inside was obviously reddened.

In just one month, Charlie became dark and thin. Surdak asked Charlie, "Is this time very hard? Not only has to manage two hundred kobold slaves, but also Riding around looking for sulfur mines on horseback."

Charlie laughed, showing a neat row of white teeth, and replied to Surdak, "It’s okay, just walking up the lava river. This It’s better than the vicious scorching sun."

Then he looked at the sulphur ore pile on the side and added: "As long as there is a harvest, any effort is worth it."

"How's the situation in the village? If you count the days, it's almost time to rain!" Charlie asked Luke who was walking over.

"We haven't gotten down before we set off, this time Dak..." Luke told Charlie about Surdak's establishment of a children's home in Wall Village.

In this regard, Charlie turned out to be more foresighted than the old village chief.

Two hundred kobold slaves lined up in a neat line and marched towards the new mining area.

Three four-wheeled carriages filled with supplies followed the team, all the sulphur ore mined was left here, just waiting for the four-wheeled carriage to return, and then come back here to install the carriage .

Charlie rode a horse, followed behind Surdak, and said for a long time:

"It’s really nothing that we’ve had a bit of hardship. We’ve always been like this. We’re not the same. I survived."

"But our children will never have this kind of hardship in the future. I have been thinking about how to let them enter the War Academy before they turn sixteen. Now this The goal seems to have been achieved all of a sudden, and we can actually do better. Today’s days are really good."

I heard Charlie say that, Luke and other youngsters Expectations for the future also appeared on his face.

The mining conditions in the new mining area are worse than those in the sulphur mines in the chaotic rock area. The entire new mining area is located on the halfway of the pustule mountain. From the top of the mountain there is a winding river of lava, lava The rock accumulates a high river. The sulfur is on the stone walls on both sides of the lava river. If you want to mine these sulfur mines, you must approach the hot lava river. It looks very dangerous. Fortunately, there are kobold slaves... …

According to Luke’s plan, the mine camp was originally planned to be built on the mountainside, but this was rejected by Surdak.

Surdak sets the mine camp at the foot of the mountain. Every time you enter the open-pit mine, you have to walk the mountain road for at least one hour. Apart from this, Surdak also requires Luke to ride a horse every time he goes out. He is worried about this. An eruption of a restless lava river will engulf a large area of ​​the surrounding mountains. The bed of this lava river is too high, two or three meters higher than other places. The lava in a river will overflow and it will go smoothly. The high slope spreads all around.

When everyone didn't expect, kobold slaves could walk like flying on the hot rocks. They didn't seem to be afraid of the heat.

While Surdak, Charlie and Luke were standing on the edge of the lava river halfway to explore the sulfur deposits, a salamander just exposed its head in the lava river below, its red body All of them were soaked in the lava, and they could still swim in the lava. This rarely seen scene made the three of them dumbfounded.

ogre Guliterm also found the anomaly here in the distance. He rushed over and found that Surdak was not in danger, but a salamander in the lava river below his feet. Flicking his big tail, swimming in the river, hot lava spewed out of his mouth from time to time...

Guliterm’s eyes lit up.