Lord Helanza

After the sulphur on the stone walls on both sides of the lower reaches of the Lava River was mined by the kobold slaves, it became imperative to open up new mining areas.

The Lava River Waterfall is located on the southern slope of Pyobao Mountain about five kilometers away from the foot of the mountainside. The area at the foot of Pyobao Mountain has a gentle slope. It follows the lava river upstream, and only reaches the lava waterfall. Nearby, the slope of the mountain suddenly became steep, and a cliff nearly seventy-eighty meters high was formed at the lava waterfall. The billowing lava flows down the lava river from the top of the cliff, and the Fire Mountain Cliff took the opportunity to come out. The river bed on this cliff looks like an elephant in front of a giant elephant. The lava flows down the top of the elephant. As the lava gradually cools, the river is piled higher and higher.

There is an umbrella-shaped platform fifty meters away from the waterfall. Standing on the platform, you can still feel the billowing heat waves from the river of lava. The sulfur smell here is a bit pungent, dry and hot. But for kobold slaves, it is an excellent camping place. The environment here will not affect their lives.

Especially in winter like this, the volcanic ash near Pustule Mountain is still flying all over the sky.

For the kobold slaves here, it is a rare good season, when the north wind on the icy tundra passes over the purple mountains, along the blazing plains over the Mazzaro Mountains, and along Paglos The mountain range has been blown to Pena Province, and the volcanic ash mixed with heavy snow falls down, which can completely cool down the temperature here.

It's very simple to build a shed in Pyobao Mountain. You can carry some shale fragments to pile up the wall. If you are worried about not being strong, you can fill the gaps between the shale with volcanic ash cement, and you don’t need a roof. The simplest temporary work shed can be built as long as a few round logs are placed on the work shed that is built up the wall, and then the dust-proof cloth is spread on the top of the work shed.

These woods and dust cloths are all transported from the sulfur mine at the foot of the mountain. In addition to piles of sulfur ore, there are also bags of grains and a few cigarettes. Smoked pork leg, every week kobold slaves can eat a meal of diced ham and stewed pumpkin with multigrain pie, which is almost the best reward for kobold slaves.

Surdak and a few villagers supervised the business, and they couldn’t give any good ideas, but the leader of the kobold slave suggested to Surdak that it could lead the kobolds to dig a stone platform on the cliff. Steps, this rock wall stepped back and forth seven times is completely embedded in the cliff.

The kobold slave leader’s face is full of folds, looking like a sand skin from the front, with a half-burning candle on top of his head. He can speak a lot of simple imperial words, Although the tone is a bit special, it does not affect communication at all.

He used a burnt wooden stick to draw confusing sketches on the rocky ground.

Surdak and five village overseers squatted aside and listened carefully to the introduction of the leader of the kobold slave. Several villagers in Wall Village have been serving in the military for a few years. They have lived in Desolate. Living in Land, they have limited knowledge. When they hear the leader of the kobold slave come up with such a feasible solution, they think they can try it. After all, digging the rock is not a difficult task for the kobold slave.

It’s just that Surdak thinks this kind of project is a bit big. A rock tunnel that turns back seven times may take many days to dig, and it will inevitably require hard work. At present, the Kobold slave wants to dig the sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the lava river. He can only go around from the side of the cliff and walk an extra seven or eight kilometers to climb to the top of the lava waterfall and collect sulfur mines on both sides of the river.

Surdak was sitting on the boulder outside the temporary camp, frowns looked towards the red lava river in the distance, some volcanic ash mixed with snow grits fell into the lava, suddenly turned into a strand of black gas, and drifted away with the wind .

The head of the kobold and five village overseers stood aside. The dark nose opened and closed with breathing. It lowered its eyelids, and took out a piece of eggplant stem from its arms, steaming against the one. The dark river ignited the eggplant stalk, put it in his mouth, smashed it, and the pungent smoke came out of the stalk, which seemed to be the best enjoyment for the leader of the kobold.

Surdak wants to build a steel rope on the cliff so that the sulfur mine and the kobold slave can quickly slide down the ropeway, but if you want to find a qualified steel rope, you must go to the blacksmith in Pena City Ordering from the workshop simply cannot solve the current problem.

"Duck, Duck!"

There was a man's cry from afar...

Before Surdak stood up, stood aside The village overseers were all excitedly moved towards the bank of the lava river, and the leader of the kobold slave also moved towards and looked over there. Luke was standing on a piece of Fire Mountain Cliff in the distance, waving his hand towards this side.

Then strode across the black smoky rock, and ran towards the platform quickly.

"Oh, Luke, why are you here?"

Surdak walked up to Luke, banged his fist with him, and asked with a smile.

Before, Luke and Charlie took turns to manage the sulfur mine. Charlie led the craftsmen to build a villa for Carl’s manor. Luke has always been in charge of the mine. Surdak came to Pustule. After the mountain, Luke was given a long vacation. The youngster in the village took advantage of the fall and many people married their brides. There is no reason why Luke would eat volcanic ash at the sulfur mine.

Luke tugged the mask on his face, chuckled and said: "After returning to the village for a few days, he followed the road repair team in the village to build the cement road along the direction of Pustule Mountain. Until today, the cement road was built. Caixiu is here at the foot of the mountain, of course I have to come and see you, look over there..."

Luke pointed his finger at a fine black line on the distant horizon...

Obviously, there is at least a dozen kilometers away from the concrete road built by Luke.

Surdak is halfway up the mountain. Although the field of vision is wide here, if you want to see the kobold slaves who are building roads in the distance, you have to distinguish them carefully.

"How many kobold slaves did you bring to build this road?" Surdak chanted a rune, and his eyes became clearer before he could barely see it.

Luke Haha smiled and said, "Almost all the kobold slaves in the village have been dispatched! With this flat concrete road, now it takes only two days to take a four-wheeled truck from Wall Village. Can rush to Pustule Mountain."

"You did good, it will be much easier to transport sulfur mines in the future." Surdak looked back from a distance and jumped off the huge Fire Mountain Cliff. "We will not only build the road from Wall Village to the side of the volcano, but we will also build this kind of cement road between the various natural villages of Desolate Land."

In Desolate, which is covered with volcanic ash. It is very easy to build such a cement road in the northern part of Land. As long as the volcanic ash scattered in the wilderness is gathered together to build a roadbed, a layer of volcanic ash is sprinkled with a layer of water, and then the pavement is compacted with stone rollers, even without other treatment. There is volcanic ash everywhere here, and road construction is as simple as repairing a pond stem in a rice field.

This place is close to the pustule volcano. The volcanic ash covers a large area of ​​land. If you want to build such a cement road in the southern area of ​​Desolate Land, you will inevitably use a large number of four-wheel carriages to transport the volcanic ash. The volcanic ash is mixed with some lime powder to ensure that the rainwater can quickly solidify into a firm concrete.

After Luke came, Surdak finally had someone to discuss. For the stone cliff of the lava river waterfall, Luke suggested using ropes to build a solid rope ladder with a tie on top Layers of hard oak boards, so that the road to the top of the cliff can be quickly repaired.

But such a rope ladder can only be regarded as a temporary plan at best, and a permanent passage will be built later. Since the pustule mountain has now become the territory of Surdak, Surdak feels it is necessary to be in the lava river A road was built on the shore. As for the stone cliff of the waterfall, Surdak finally decided to rely on the rock wall and build a wooden trestle path with oak, leading to the top of the cliff on the waterfall.

"I took some kobolds to cut down oak trees on the side of Paglos Mountain. We can also repair the cement road over there, as long as the pustule Mountain and the southern foot of Paglos Mountain are used as a cement road. Connected together, we can have continuously free wood in the future, so we don't have to go to Oak Ridge to chop down the miscellaneous wood over there every time we use wood." Luke offered to share some tasks, and said to Surdak.

"Also," Surdak said.

More than a thousand kobold slaves gathered on the side of the sulfur mine, which put a lot of pressure on the entire supply line of Wall Village.

It takes at least fifteen bags of miscellaneous grains every day to fill the belly of these kobold slaves. The sulfur mine currently cannot accommodate so many kobold slaves. Luke takes this team of kobold slaves and continues to cement The road is repaired towards the southern foot of Mount Pablos. Otherwise, there is no flat concrete road, and it is not easy to transport the timber from the southern foot of Pagros Mountain to Pustule Mountain. With the current road conditions, it is not easy.

However, the Lava River needs ropes to build a rope ladder and ropeway for the time being.

Surdak has been busy for two days in the sulphur mine before he built a simple linen rope ladder. The kobold slaves lined up to the top of the cliff, and the upper reaches of the lava river congealed. The sulfur in the river is several times more than that in the downstream river. The temporary ropeway that was originally built has become the most convenient way to transport sulfur ore down the mountain from the middle of the mountain. This is what Surdak originally didn't expect.

...

Aphrodite is still on the mountain road between Constantinople and Helanza, enjoying the snowy scenery of the mountains along the way.

Surdak is going to leave Pustule Mountain temporarily and return to Wall Village to take a look. In order to prevent the red dragon Ithir from starving, Surdak transported nearly ten boxes of red crystals to the treasure secret room and told the red dragon Yi Thrall himself intends to leave for a while.

Looking at the red dragon's reluctant eyes, he put his huge head on the platform, looked at Surdak pitifully, and was about to close the door of the treasure chamber. Sudak suddenly felt unfathomable mystery in his heart. , But he immediately realized that the other party was a young red dragon, not any cat or dog that he just kept, it was a dragon.

Surdak rode back to Wall Village on horseback. It was already the seventh day after he left Constantinople. On this day, Aphrodite also entered the city of Helanza with the carriage.

Riding a horse into the village of Wall, the market at the entrance of the village seemed a bit sluggish, but there were still villagers who came to this training stall. In addition to a few villagers in the village of Wall, there were also Several merchants, Boss, a grocery store that sells groceries, a Tavern Boss, which built a simple open-air tavern, and an adventure group temporarily stayed here in Wall Village.

Several villagers of Wall Village saw Surdak walking in from outside on horseback, and stood up to greet Surdak.

Surdak just waved his hand casually, and crossed the sluggish market at the entrance of the village and entered the village of Wall.

Looking at the small townhouses in the village, on the flat steps in front of the small buildings, there are always some elderly people in the village sitting on deck chairs, basking in the warm sun in this winter. Covered with a thick felt blanket, squinted and looked at the blue sky and white clouds comfortably in the distance. This is the first time that I don’t need to worry about the winter storage of food enough to eat, and I no longer need to go to the snow to look for it. Those sea-buckthorn berries buried under the snow do not have to worry that the blizzard will be too big and the roof will collapse. There is no need to worry about these, not at all.

The upstream reservoir is still storing water, and the stream in the village has been dry for a long time. Is it one month, two months... or three months? In short, after the harvest festival, there is not much water in that creek, and all the spring water is accumulated in the reservoir.

Nowadays, no matter whether the villagers wash clothes or draw drinking water from life, they will all run to the village square. There are five taps here, all of which lead to the cleanest and clearest spring water on the mountain. Women I still used to squat in a row under the faucet, and chat loudly while washing clothes in the cold weather. The little children also gathered in the village square to play games of hiding cats. The village square seemed very lively.

Next to the carpentry workshop was originally a house in the children’s home, but now there are several brand new four-wheel carriages outside.

But what I care more about is the yellow sheep pen near the stream in the lower reaches of the village. In addition to a large plot of land next to the sheep pen, there is another pen that houses nearly seventy-eighty horses. There are more than fifty dromedaries in there.

The last time Surdak intercepted desert bandits, he captured a lot of camels, but not so many.

The group of women finally saw Surdak, and their hehe haha ​​voice became louder. Natasha, who was mixed in the crowd, stood out from the crowd under the run of the village women. His face was flushed with shame, but he walked up to Surdak bravely, looking at Surdak with large eyes, watery tenderness in his eyes.

Surdak didn’t speak, and looked at Natasha intently. When she approached, he bent down and stretched out a strong arm to grab Natasha in his arms and let her sit in front of the saddle. Holding her soft waist with both hands, the horse moved towards the upstream home and ran.

There was a roar of laughter and loud whistle in the square behind him, and a group of children chased behind the horses until they saw the gate of Surdak's house from a distance.

Surdak held Natasha's slender waist with one hand, jumped off from the horse, let Natasha lean against the wall at the door, holding her beautiful flowery face, lightly licking Holding her soft lips.

Natasha also responded very enthusiastically at this moment...

Until Peter’s voice sounded at the feet of the two: "Mother, what are you doing?"

Natasha is like a rabbit that loses one's head out of fear, struggling to leave Surdak's arms.

Surdak wiped his mouth, bent over and hugged Little Peter in his arms, and took Gubrima with the other hand and walked into the yard.