Path of Light.

Chapter 777. The Second Ring of the Plateau City

Roy transferred eight magic airships from Kui Island and set them floating in the air, waiting for the other five magic airships to vacate their berths at the Padstow Airport Terminal. These five magic airships had already filled the cargo holds with apples, and the decks were also piled with wooden barrels that smelled of wine.

These five magic airships will first sail to the temporary prisoner-of-war camp in the suburbs. Each magic airship will carry 800 gray dwarf prisoners and sail to the plateau city.

As for why the gray dwarf prisoners did not leave directly on the magic airship at the airport terminal, it was mainly because they were worried that a large number of gray dwarves would crowd the streets outside the airport terminal, which might easily cause riots. These problems would not occur in the temporary prisoner camp in the suburbs.

A simple platform was also built in the temporary prisoner-of-war camp. The gray dwarf prisoners only needed to climb up a big tree along the wooden ladder, and then they could walk directly onto the deck of the magic airship along the horizontal branches of the tree.

The gray dwarves were very familiar with the magic airships that were converted from three-masted sailing ships. Standing on the deck, they had complicated looks, as these ships were full of traces of the gray dwarves' lives.

The hatch guard, the location of the pulley capstan on the ship, the heavy and short wooden barrels, etc.

"These half-blood elves transformed our three-masted sailing ship into a magic airship, and then drove the magic airship to the island of Que to fight us. They also captured us and took us to the Partington plane to mine. I really want to hammer them into their asses."

When the gray dwarf prisoners saw the various facilities on the ship, their anger was immediately ignited.

"Hey, watch your words. We are prisoners of war. Don't let those half-blood elves on the ship hear what you say."

Those gray dwarves who were still able to retain their sanity immediately alerted their companions.

"What does it matter if I hear it? I'm going to say it out loud even if I die."

"That's right! Do these half-blood elves still want to shut us up?"

The gray dwarf prisoners became a little irritable, and some of the gray dwarves' eyes began to become bloodshot. Many of them had the blood of berserkers, and when they stared at the crew members, their eyes were full of aggression.

At this time, a half-elf crewman carrying a tin bucket came out from the stairs of the ship. He hit the tin bucket with a hammer, making a clanging sound.

In a hoarse voice and clumsy Dwarven language, he shouted to the gray dwarven prisoners crowded on the deck:
"Quiet, everyone please keep quiet!"

The gray dwarf prisoners simply ignored the half-elf crew's shouts, and some even stared at the small hammers in the half-elf crew's hands.

The half-elf crew member paid no attention to the gray dwarf prisoners and went straight to the wine barrels piled up next to the main mast. He placed the iron barrel at his feet and then shouted to the gray dwarf prisoners:
"For this trip, we will issue a badge to everyone when you board the ship. This badge will be your identity on the ship. Please line up to receive it. You will need this badge to receive any supplies on the ship."

The gray dwarf prisoners crowded on the deck, staring coldly at the half-elf crew member.

More and more gray dwarf prisoners boarded the ship, making the already crowded deck even more chaotic.

"Considering that you may get seasick and have various physical discomforts, we have prepared some cider for you. This cider is provided to everyone for free. Each gray dwarf can get a glass based on the number on his card."

"The gray dwarves who have finished drinking will go to the cabin below the deck to rest. Those who have different opinions can stay on the deck first. These license plates will be issued first to the gray dwarves who are willing to cooperate with our work."

"..."

After saying this, the half-elf crewman raised his head. He met the cold gaze of the gray dwarf without fear, but his hands did not stop moving at all.

Pry open the cork of the wine barrel, use a long-handled spoon to scoop out the apple-scented wine, and pour it into a wooden cup.

The rich aroma of wine instantly rushed into the noses of the gray dwarf prisoners. A gray dwarf prisoner standing next to the half-elf crew member immediately received his number plate, took the wooden wine glass from the crew member's hand and drank it all. Then he burped and walked into the cabin below the deck without looking back.

The gray dwarf prisoners quickly lined up in a long queue behind them, and the tense atmosphere immediately disappeared...

At this moment, Leia and the elite team of the Dark Moon Elves were hiding on the roof of the ship, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

If any of the gray dwarf prisoners had dared to provoke trouble, they would probably have been shot to death by the half-elf archers standing on the main mast. Once the gray dwarf prisoners rioted, the entire magic airship might have become a Shura field.

Fortunately, their attention suddenly shifted to the cider, and the atmosphere immediately eased.

The gray dwarf prisoners walked into the cabin below the deck. The first gray dwarf prisoners who entered the cabin directly occupied the beds in the cabin, and the gray dwarfs who came in later could only sit on the floor.

A half-elf crew member stood in the corridor, shouting in an unskilled dwarven language:

"After entering the cabin, please do not make loud noises, do not cause trouble, and do not defecate anywhere in the cabin. Pay attention to keeping the cabin clean. Violators will be punished with ten lashes."

"We will provide two meals a day, morning and evening. When distributing meals, we will select the cleanest cabins. We will reward each of the three cleanest cabin members with a large glass of delicious cider."

"In addition, we provide everyone with breadfruit and dried fish for dinner."

"If there are any dwarven craftsmen among you who are good at metallurgy and forging, you can register with me in advance. As long as you pass our exam, you may be transferred to the forging workshop to work."

"Perhaps you don't understand what a forge is like. I'm here to tell you that it's a large forge that combines smelting and forging." "Currently, there are more than 10,000 gray dwarf craftsmen working there. They work ten hours a day, and are provided with three meals and accommodation for free. They have one day off a week, and can earn ten work points a day. Senior forgers have their work points doubled."

"The gray dwarves who failed to enter the forging workshop will be assigned to various mines in the near future and become miners in the mines..."

The half-elf guard spoke fluent dwarven and kept walking back and forth in the cabin corridor.

It was hard for Leah to believe that this group of gray dwarf prisoners, who were restless, extremely confused about the future and likely to self-destruct at any time, could be calmed down by a glass of cider.

In fact, as early as the previous two times when Roy escorted the gray dwarf prisoners, he found that these gray dwarf prisoners would become more and more irritable in a depressing environment.

And the longer it is suppressed, the stronger the explosion will be.

During the first two times when the gray dwarf prisoners were transported, there were as many as 300 half-elf guards on board. Such a magic airship could only carry 600 gray dwarves, but there were still gray dwarves who were not afraid of death and caused trouble.

The oppressive and narrow cabin at that time caused many gray dwarf prisoners to collapse mentally.

Later, Mulin, who was in charge of managing 60,000 gray dwarves in the Plateau City, discovered that the gray dwarf prisoners had an addiction to alcoholic beverages that was beyond the elves' understanding. As long as they were given some rum regularly, they would become easy to manage.

Originally, those alcoholic beverages were purchased from the Elf Continent, mainly rum, and occasionally some ale, wine and orange wine.

But after the portal on Partington Island was closed, this trade route was cut off.

In order to ensure the dwarves' supply of alcohol, Mulin wrote to Lysander, asking him to arrange for people to brew cider in the orchard outside Padstow.

After all, there are a lot of apple trees on the outskirts of Padstow, and a lot of apples fall to the ground and rot before they can even be picked.

Now it's better to use these bad apples to make cider than to let them rot in the orchard.

This time, Roy transported 40,000 gray dwarf prisoners to the Plateau City, and decided to use cider to soothe the anxious gray dwarf prisoners. Unexpectedly, the effect was better than he expected...

Roy and Great Magician Grams were standing in the captain's room, observing the status of the gray dwarf prisoners on the deck.

Soon the magic airship was filled with gray dwarf prisoners.

As all the gray dwarf prisoners entered the cabin, Captain Rodhart immediately asked the half-elf crew to untie the ropes.

The floating device was fully activated, and the magic airship finally slowly took off, flying over the Collapse Mountains, the mountains on the western foot of the plateau, and the Nicobar Mountains. Soon the magic airship arrived at the Plateau City.

The gray dwarf prisoners only felt that they had taken a nap on the magic airship and unexpectedly arrived at their destination.

……

The prisoner-of-war concentration camp on the Tolai River is going to be expanded again.

Mulin had just replenished the number of elf guards in the mine guard group, but he didn't expect Roy to start another big one right after that.

Mu Lin was a little crazy. Even if she pulled her hair out, she couldn't understand why more than 7,000 elven guards could capture nearly 40,000 gray dwarf prisoners in just two weeks...

Fishing in the ocean isn't that exaggerated.

Were these gray dwarf prisoners really not attracted by the cider?
Mu Lin looked at the small town in front of him with some worry. The small town of 100,000 people was forced to live with 300,000 half-elves. Now the small town was even squeezed to the point of being unable to breathe.

Seeing Roy slowly walking down from the magic airship, Mulin complained to Roy: The small town is about to be overwhelmed by the half-blood elves!

Roy stood in front of the cargo pile at the airport terminal of Plateau City and took out a map of Plateau City from his magic waist bag. He spread the map on a wooden box and took out a charcoal pencil from his pocket.

He casually drew a circle outside the plateau city, and this circle even included the "J"-shaped Tolai River.

Roy said to Mulin casually:
"We will continue to build the city in this area. Well, this can be called the second ring of the plateau city..."

Mu Lin's eyes widened, he pointed at his nose and asked Roy:
"Boss, you don't want me to organize people to expand the Plateau City, do you?"

"Isn't the circle I drew clear enough? That's right, next you have to start planning the main streets of the second ring of Plateau City, and then divide it into several areas around these main streets..."

Roy pointed at the map and talked.

(End of this chapter)