Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 216 New achievements in scientific research

When the Shuangfengling tour group returned to Fenghuang Terrace, it happened to be in time for the groundbreaking ceremony of "Route 66".

This road running through the wilderness from north to south in this plan can be called an incomparably loud salute in the history of infrastructure construction in the empty land of Soulbreaker:
In the past, it was not that there were no local lords who tried to build bridges and roads in this chaotic area, but the final result was that the project was often buried in the sand by the fire of local bandits and the war between humans and demons;
If we go back to the last broad road in the history of the land of broken souls, I am afraid that we will have to find the period of the great elf empire thousands of years ago.

As for the establishment of the Arcane Spire Defense Line and the peace between the human and demon races, the Imperial Southern Army stationed at the Arcane Spire Defense Line also largely relied on the western sea route - the "L"-shaped route on the line of the Twelve Spires to deliver supplies. Therefore, some small roads were simply built in the places of the major minaret outposts, and there was no grand plan to build a road across the wilderness to facilitate business travel.

However, if you really want to build roads, the technical difficulty is actually not that big.

According to the early research conducted by Mr. Donald and others, the highlight of "Route 66" is to set up boundary markers, road signs, plant street trees along the way, and build necessary supporting facilities such as post stations and checkpoints;

As for the pavement of the road, it is not used for running trains and rear eight wheels. It only needs to be paved after the loess is roasted by magic and the grass seeds are removed. At most, a layer of fine stones can be pressed to complete the construction.

—Yes, these days, Lena Leslie has been promoted from brick-burner to earth-roaster, congratulations.

Similarly, in Xia Houyan’s concept, the point of this crude ancient road has never been construction, but maintenance:

Regardless of how luxurious and exquisite these roads were built at the beginning, as long as you don’t worry about them and maintain them well, within ten years, they will be the same as the Qin Zhidao and the Great Wall of Han Dynasty in Chinese history. Sao Ke sighs the hanging ruins.

Therefore, almost at the same time that the construction of Route 66 was put on the agenda, "highway patrol" also became the daily training content of Igor's pioneering army:
Every day, three teams of Frost Maple Ridge infantry and one team of cavalry patrol along Route 66 to guard against possible bandits and herd attacks;
According to Lawrence, the director of the political department, since the victory of the defense of Frost Maple Ridge and the bandit extermination battle, the arrogance and lust in the entire Igor pioneer army has been slightly on the rise—the lord also specially let this group of young masters The soldiers went to the wilderness to eat and eat the soil, and went to the mountains and the countryside to recall the bitterness and sweetness.

As for the future, the main responsibility of the pioneering army is definitely not to look at the streets. After the construction of Route 66 and the rest areas along the way, Xia Houyan still plans to establish a special road law enforcement department;
He even had a name in mind, "Texas Patrolman," whose department head would be honored with the honorable title of "Chuck Norris II."

When Xia Houyan arrived at Phoenix Terrace in a long journey, his good sister Katerina was representing him, the absent lord, to lay the first shovel soil on this wasteland avenue at the "Route 66 Foundation Laying Ceremony".

It is really hard for her to let the pampered noble lady Igor wield a shovel.

After Xia Houyan went over to give his good sister a warm hug, he rolled his eyes and found Juan Clemente standing aside with a cane.

The death knight looked the same as before he was injured. His dark metal armor was shiny black, just like the legendary day when he just left Adrian's laboratory.

However, when moving, Clement still needed the assistance of crutches, and his movements were extremely slow.

"Ju An, are you okay?" Xia Houyan patted the death knight's armor, almost hurting his hand.

"My lord, thanks to your 'Dark Healing', I'm much better now..." Clement laughed and said, "It's just that it's not convenient to move, and I should be back to normal after a while."

Xia Houyan briefly encouraged and rewarded the Death Knight, and promised to give him a "Shuangfengling War Hero Medal".

"Where is this medal in our territory?" Cousins ​​asked cautiously until the group left Clement and went far away.

Xia Houyan rolled his eyes:

"I just set it up. Let Master Kobe take a few gold coins and make a temporary one! What a big deal!"

"Master Kobe, he may not be able to do this job, so I have to hand it over to those apprentices." Mayor Joel came over from a distance, and kindly reminded him. After checking that there were no outsiders around, he pulled the lord by his sleeve Arriving at a dark corner, he said furtively, "Eliott, you have been away for a few days, and something has happened to our artisan team..."

"An accident happened?!" Xia Houyan suddenly bristled, "Didn't I tell them that safety comes first?"

"Cough, it's not a safety accident..." Mayor Joel lowered his voice, "During the defense of Frost Maple Ridge, the leather swordsman sent by Rock Creek City with an expression that looks even bigger than a dragon , do you remember?"

"Remember, didn't the sword man still try to assassinate me, but ended up cutting himself off from the people and being killed by Alice?" Xia Houyan blinked in confusion, and suddenly his eyes widened, "Damn, Mayor Joel, Don't tell me he's resurrected!"

"His people have been burnt to ashes and used as fertilizer for farming..." Mayor Joel gestured for the lord to calm down, "But he still has a sword! ——Using Elven Magic Metal' Tarantino An enchanted rapier forged from mild steel!"

"It seems that there is such a thing..." The lord knocked his head.

Ever since Shuangfengling relied on the elven treasury on Dragon Bone Peak to make a fortune and become well-off, after Eagle's Rest Fort was deprived, the poor spirit cultivated by the people from top to bottom has gradually faded under the corrosion of money.

For example, after the two battles of conquering the Moon God Village and defending against the Pride of the Southern Border's night raids, the captures in the battle of Frost Maple Ridge were all recorded and registered under the supervision of Lord Lord and Mayor Joel:
At that time, the two high-level leaders of the territory were able to memorize what spoils the territory got at that time. There was even a maid who reported that she once saw Mayor Joel sleeping with the account book at night, and ended up laughing out of her nose.

But after the defense of Shuangfengling, Xia Houyan completely became the hands-off shopkeeper in terms of collecting the spoils.

For one thing, the bandit coalition army came in menacingly, and after they left, the ground was in a mess, and the amount of spoils left behind was so huge that it was impossible for Xiahou officials to look at them one by one;

Secondly, Xia Houyan, who is used to fine grains now, really despises the shoddy equipment of the bandits in the Land of Cracking Soul.

So after going back and forth, even Mayor Joel didn't pay too much attention to the matter of loot storage. Basically, after a simple statistics by the business team, the self-defense weapons and clothes that could be used were distributed to the citizens, and the rest was a brainstorm. Finished in the warehouse.

It wasn't until Mayor Joel mentioned it that Xia Houyan remembered that although the bandits were a little poorer, Sirius, a leather swordsman from the big city of Rock Creek, still contributed a good treasure.

Mayor Joel saw that the lord had come to his senses, and hurriedly continued:
"My lord, didn't Master Nicholson say that the material used for that sword is the last swan song "Tarantino Mild Steel" by elf craftsmen—just in time, our territory got it from the Dragon Bone Peak treasure house again." The rubbing master of the "Protection of the Wind" rune... You see, the elf magic metal, the elf magic rune... Master Nicholson and Master Kobe decided to recast the sword and try to make it A runic armor piece made of 'Tarantino Mild Steel'..."

"This idea is okay! Turn the original soup into the original food!" Xia Houyan just let out an admiration, suddenly remembered something, and frowned, "But I remember that Master Laurie told me that the craftsmanship of the elf runes has been lost. No one on the mainland! So how are they going to inscribe runes on 'Tarantino Mild Steel'?"

Mayor Joel smiled bitterly:
"In a sense, the master is right—no one will! But do you still remember that the Belgrade who came to look for Wei Erfu was a young man? Elf Remnants..."

"Day!" Xia Houyan almost bit his tongue.

He realized that his thinking was largely misled by Vilf's uselessness, and he thought for a long time that all elves were waste of food;

But Begrade is a famous elf magister!

Think about it carefully, even a guy like Welf has the address of an elf treasure house hidden in his mind, so if it was replaced by a more powerful descendant of elves, how many priceless ancient secrets should he know?

The elves who have ruled the Haven Continent for thousands of years, their profound accumulation is not comparable to the rising stars of humans and orcs!

"My lord, this Mr. Belgrade really knows how to inscribe elf runes, and he also agreed to help the craftsman team try to inscribe it on Tarantino mild steel!" Mayor Joel whispered.

"What does he want?" Xia Houyan knew well that a dignified magister would definitely not help for free.

"Begrad's condition is that Weierfu must change the [-]D every day within three months!"

"Mother Xipi!" Xia Houyan said angrily, "This guy really dares to open his mouth like a lion? Wouldn't it be the death of the hard-working author?"

"Anyway, the life of a novelist is worthless..." Mayor Joel tugged on the lord's sleeve, "Don't forget, now Vilf doesn't have to write every day, and she is at ease in Phoenix Terrace. Her serialized novels, It’s all the prisoners from ‘Dong Bingku’ who are writing, as long as they starve them for a few days, let alone [-] characters per day, they will do [-] characters per day..."

"So Belgrade agreed to help. What happened?" Xia Houyan didn't care about the living conditions of the bastard writers at all.

"The engraving was successful!" Mayor Joel's old face turned red with excitement, "We at Frost Maple Ridge have successfully created an armor piece based on 'Tarantino Mild Steel'!"

Now even Xia Houyan can't help lowering his voice:

"How is the effect? ​​Is it awesome?"

"Very powerful!" Mayor Joel's expression looked like eight generations of poor peasants who had just welcomed the land reform. It can only be activated once and then it will fall into cooling; but because of its high magic affinity and the nature of intelligently adjusting the output of magic power, 'Tarantino Mild Steel' makes the rune board made of it enough to offset hundreds of times of physical damage. Shock!"

"Hundreds of times?!" Xia Houyan's voice changed, "Isn't that similar to physical immunity?!"

"Almost!" Mayor Joel spoke quickly, "In order to test its upper limit of energy storage, Master Kobe dislocated his arm with a hammer, and now he is recuperating at home!"

"Cough! I said why he can't work now!" Xia Houyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Is this the 'accident' you told me about?"

"If it's just Kobe's arm, that's fine..." Mayor Joel sighed, hesitant to speak.

The distressed expression of the old mayor gave Xia Houyan a strong sense of foreboding about what he was going to say next.

(End of this chapter)