Lord Highlander

   Chapter 566 555. Followers of the Dark Goddess

Although I still don't know the purpose of the magician from the Dark Moon Gate flying over Wall Village, what can be felt is that this magician has brought an invisible force to Wall Village. The pressure seems to have spread to the hearts of every villager.

  Some villagers in the village have begun to secretly talk about the magician who can fly around on a magic scorpion. Seeing the magicians in the adventure group at the entrance of the village, the eyes of the villagers are also strange.

  Suldak has nothing to do about it. Although the crystal key has been sent out, the magician of the Dark Moon Gate does not seem to have forgotten the village of Vol.

  Suldak and the old village chief first walked around the construction site of the reservoir.

As the Harvest Festival approaches, the grouting of the main body of the fourth-level reservoir dam on the reservoir construction site will be carried out after the Harvest Festival. Now the steel bars and plywood of the dam are ready, and the volcanic ash is piled up like a hill on the construction site. Quietly, those bricklayers returned to their respective villages two days ago, and they will return one after another after the harvest festival.

  The old village chief stroked the plywood of the main body of the dam with one hand, and tapped the plywood with his knuckles from time to time to check whether the plywood was tied firmly.

A bundle of steel bars was exposed where the plywood was not enclosed. This kind of steel bars with the thickness of a small finger was transported from the blacksmith workshop in Bena City. Up to now, the reservoir project has only purchased these steel bars. Nearly 500 gold coins have been taken out.

The head of Brett said to Surdak: "After the harvest festival, we will start pouring the main body of the dam of the fourth-level reservoir. By the way, Darke, is the design height of the fifth-level dam a bit short? It's all repaired." , why not build it higher?"

The fifth-level cistern occupies the largest area, and the fifth-level cistern is not a huge overall pool, but is composed of thirteen pools interlocking at different heights. The dam height of these pools is only one Mi, the old village chief knew what Suldak was thinking, but he hoped that this large dam could store more water.

The old village chief wants to do two things most in his life: one is to make the village no longer lack water, and the other is to reclaim the fields that can feed the villagers. Now both of these things have been realized, but He is still habitually wanting to store more water and reclaim more land...

  Surdak stood on the large area of ​​the fifth-level reservoir that had not been completely leveled, and said to the old village chief:

"I'm going to turn this first-level pool into a large bathing place, spread a layer of fine sand on the side of the pool, and plant some willow trees, so that in summer, the children in the village can cool off here without worrying about the water being too hot." deep and in danger."

The old village head was unwilling, so he smacked his lips, took out a walnut pipe from his arms, filled the pipe with shredded tobacco, and without lighting it, he put it in his mouth and took two puffs dryly, his brows furrowed. Sichuan character.

Suldak continued to explain: "According to the original design, only the first three levels of water storage tanks in this large dam can actually store water, and the fourth level of storage tanks is to ensure the buffer storage of mountain torrents in the rainy season. The mountain spring is surrounded, and there must be a place for everyone to draw water. In the future, I plan to connect some copper pipes to the pool from a certain pool in the fifth-level reservoir, so that the mountain spring can be directly sent to everyone. Every household."

"The project is about to be completed, of course I understand this. But the more I understand, the more I can't figure it out. The total cost of the latter two stages of storage tanks is nearly twice as expensive as the first three stages, and the investment in manpower and material resources is huge. , In the end, the effect is actually useless, and I always feel that the construction of these two-level reservoirs is a bit of a loss!" said the head of Bright Village earnestly.

   "If there is no loss, you will know the benefits in the future." Suldak said with a "hehe" smile.

The central square of the village is still very lively. The villagers are used to eating big pot meals here. When the old village head and Suerdak passed by the square in the village, the villagers stood up and greeted them. The old village head said hello to them. These villagers who are eating and drinking with big wooden bowls have never had a good face.

At this moment, he yelled at a group of young people squatting in the corner eating with a straight face: "Those of you who have not participated in the construction of the townhouse, don't come here to eat here every day. The cafeteria here is a townhouse. Building craftsmen are ready."

  A group of young people in the village said ‘hee hee haha’: “Uncle Brett, we are all working on the construction site of the townhouse.”

  The village head Brett immediately scolded: "Get out of the way, you kid thinks I'm a fool, I don't know that you are driving a carriage at the reservoir construction site?"

  He picked up the crutch in his hand, and limped towards the young men.

  The other young people in the village immediately panicked and explained while running, "Uncle Brett, we just drink porridge..."

"Ha ha…"

  Women in the village sat on the stone strips beside the square to watch the excitement. The originally serious topic was full of laughter.

The head of Brett walked to the big iron pot where the porridge was cooking with an angry look on his face, and told the cook who was cooking the porridge: "Take care of the bag of grains. I will run out of grains before the end of the day. I want to Replacement."

   The cook was so frightened that she hurriedly scooped two more scoops of water into the cauldron...

Village head Suerdak and Brett walked into the carpenter's workshop. Due to the completion of the small townhouses, the triangular wooden frames on the roof of the carpenter's workshop have all been built. At present, wooden window frames are being manufactured in large quantities. The frame is hung on the open space next to the carpenter’s workshop, where a large pergola was built with shade cloth, and all the varnished windows are dried here, and a strong smell of paint can be smelled near here .

  It was very late, and the lights were still on in the carpenter's workshop, and a group of carpenters were rushing to make the last batch of window frames.

  The carpenter's workshop has always been the busiest place in Wall Village. Stacks of wood are piled up in the warehouse and will be consumed soon.

Suldak followed the old village head to the rowhouses in front of the village. Most of the rowhouses at the entrance of the village have been rented by merchants and turned into temporary residences and warehouses. Due to the influx of adventure groups in the barren land, the village entrance The market is getting more and more prosperous, attracting many merchants during this period, and the townhouses at the entrance of the village have been fully utilized.

  A large row house near the river became a kobold slave camp, and six hundred kobold slaves have been living here.

Suldak and the old village head Brett walked towards the kobold slave camp. From a distance, they heard a burst of yelling from the overseers in the village, accompanied by the kobold slaves praying in a low voice, and the sound of quarreling came out in the silent night. so far.

  The old village chief didn't feel surprised when he heard the quarrel. He only said that these kobold slaves have been restless recently.

  When the two walked to the kobold slave camp, they saw the village supervisor yelling at a group of kobolds. The leader of the kobolds had a candle on his head, and it obeyed the supervisor's scolding. A group of kobolds whimpered in protest behind the kobold leader.

   Before Suldak could figure out what was going on, Village Chief Brett explained the cause and effect of this incident.

The reason is that Suldak is a little dumbfounded. The kobold slaves are protesting to the overseers. They think that even as slaves, they will not be able to live in such a dishonorable way in the future. Living separately, they need two slave camps. The old village head thinks it's nothing, just divide the slave camp into two and separate them from the middle.

But the next request of the kobold slaves is a bit over the line. The kobold slaves hope that their daily labor can be converted into contribution points. As long as the contribution points are sufficient, the village will allow the kobold slaves to form families, and the newly formed families must There are separate rooms to ensure privacy and so on.

  These kobold slaves began to protest to fight for some benefits for themselves.

  However, they just make noise after dinner and before going to bed. They still work honestly during the day, and when it’s time to sleep, they will obediently return to the camp to rest.

Village Chief Brett felt very troubled by this, and felt that it was necessary to discuss this matter with Suldak. Seek benefits yourself.

  The old village head had already planned to separate the slave camp after the harvest festival, but prepared a single gun house for dogs and men—this request the old village head did not agree to.

  Suldak couldn’t figure out why this group of submissive kobold slaves had always been honest, so they made so many demands recently…

But then he discovered the problem. He saw the necklace on the neck of the kobold leader at a glance. It was a necklace made of stones. Unusually, the pendant is a stone in the shape of a crescent moon.

At this time, Suldak suddenly remembered that more than a month ago, Selena put her arms around herself and said that she wanted to try to develop followers of the Goddess of Darkness among this group of kobold slaves. The kobold leader has become a follower of the Goddess of Darkness, and even wears a necklace representing Moonlight around his neck...

  He even suspected that the kobold slaves were fighting for their rights this time because they were instructed by Selina.

After this entire summer, the kobold slaves have proved their worth to the villagers of Wall. From the beginning of digging the river channel to the later digging of stones in the quarry, they have always worked hard and borne most of the hardest work. The most tiring work, so that now they are making some demands, and the old village chief feels that he can satisfy them as much as possible.

Seeing the old village chief and Suldak rushing over so late, the supervisor thought they had rushed here because they heard that the kobold slaves were making a camp. He whipped the kobold leader hard.

  The kobold leader was prostrate on the ground, facing the supervisor's whip, with a candle on his head, and he was meditating silently while crawling on the ground.

   "Val, who gave you permission to whip them..."

  The old village chief walked over quickly, grabbed the whip from the village supervisor, and angrily said.

  (end of this chapter)