Path of Light.

Chapter 778 779. Those Gray Dwarf Prisoners
Mu Lin had just completed the construction of a large prisoner-of-war concentration camp on the south bank of the Tolai River. She had not even had time to finish the finishing work in the concentration camp before she had to start preparing for the second phase of construction of the Plateau City.

Although Mu Lin was already very familiar with this routine, she also arranged other things for herself.

She originally planned to build a prisoner-of-war concentration camp on the south bank of the Tolai River and then lead the mine guard regiment to set aside a pasture in the prairie. She planned to graze a herd of one-horned bison in the pasture and drive other predators to the central and southern areas of the grassland.

Once the bison herd is free of natural enemies, the population will expand rapidly.

In this way, the headhunters and gray dwarves in the prisoner-of-war camp will have beef to eat, and there will be no need to organize hunting teams to hunt one-horned bison in the wilderness.

Roy arranged for her to expand the second ring of the Plateau City, so the planning of the ranch would be postponed.

In fact, Mu Lin is really familiar with this kind of urban expansion.

The Plateau City was planned by Roy and built by her personally.

First, the planned land is divided into areas and then the main streets are drawn.

Only later would secondary streets be subdivided, and along these streets drainage channels be dug, the ground compacted, and paved with fine gravel.

With roads, building houses becomes very easy.

The original plateau city was just a mound in the center of the "J"-shaped Tolai River. Now Roy will expand the second ring to completely expand the "J"-shaped Tolai River.

The half-blood elves in the city usually drink water from the Tolai River. The originally planned water supply route was to intercept the water intake points upstream and then divert the water into the city at a high level.

Now that the Tolai River is to be expanded, the water intake point will have to be moved further upstream.

At the same time, the drainage channels in the city are distributed in a network. Due to the terrain, the outlet of the drainage channel is set in the lower reaches of the Tolai River.

Once the plateau city expands outward, the distribution of these pipelines will continue to increase, and even independent water supply pipelines will need to be arranged.

Otherwise, the originally constructed water supply network would simply not be able to meet the needs of the elves after the expansion.

As the town gradually expanded, it not only needed fountains, flower beds and shrub walls, but the elves could not live without trees, so some trees needed to be planted on both sides of the streets.

Mu Lin's headache is that she has to lead her subordinates to complete almost all these trivial tasks, and there are no qualified urban designers in the Plateau City.

In the Elf Continent, this kind of high-end profession has always been occupied by the Silver Moon Elves, and half-blood elves rarely come into contact with this knowledge.

Then Roy and Mulin talked about Kuei Island and the portal on the island...

When Mulin heard that Roy had successfully moved the portal from the Partington plane to Kuei Island, she asked Roy:
"So, we can go directly to Kui Island through the portal?"

Roy knew that Mulin was an elf who was born and raised in the Partington plane, and she was born after her mother came to the Partington plane.

Her mother fled from the Elf Continent, which made her full of fear of the Elf Continent.

She had never left the Partington plane, and now the portal was connected to an island in the Endless Sea, which had a strong attraction to her...

Roy responded:
"Well, the central square of Padstow City is directly connected to Kui Island, but it's a pity that it's not a two-way portal."

Mulin and Roy walked towards a row of houses in front of the airport terminal. The half-blood elves they saw along the way received the letter and saluted them.

"How far is it from Kui Island to the Elf Continent?" Mu Lin asked:
Roy replied: "It would take about a week to sail by three-masted sailing ship."

Mu Lin sighed: "It sounds so far away."

"However, Kui Island still belongs to the coastal area of ​​the Endless Sea close to the Elf Continent. After I defeat the gray dwarf bandits, I will negotiate with the Naga tribe of the Endless Sea and strive to take over the sea area around Kui Island as well."

Roy talked about his future plans for Kui Island.

Mu Lin turned his head to look at Roy and asked him:

"Don't the Naga Sea Tribe still want to take back the Queen Ewenni Islands? Will they be so easy to talk to and give you the sea area near Kui Island?"

Roy chuckled and replied, "I will try to convince them. In fact, the worst result is war. I am not afraid of them."

Mu Lin frowned and said to Roy: "Roy, I suddenly realized that wherever you go, it seems that wars will break out everywhere..."

"Hey, Mulin, don't talk nonsense."

Roy was speechless.

Mulin and Roy came to the warehouse in front of the airport terminal. Mulin stood at the door of the warehouse and asked the warehouse manager to open the door.

The warehouse was filled with wooden boxes containing a large number of Ring-type Siren Armor. Mu Lin introduced them to Roy:
"There are eight thousand sets of Ring Siren Armor stored here. Currently, one thousand sets are shipped over to the forging workshop every week. It is said that 30% of the armor pieces of the Ring Siren Armor no longer need to be forged by hand. These armor pieces are forged by open molds. In the future, we will continue to increase this type of forging molds, and the number of Ring Siren Armor will also increase further."

The entire warehouse was filled with Ring-type Siren armors, and without Roy's orders, these armors had been stored here.

Mu Lin did not let the magic airship transport these ring-type sea monster armors to Sun Island...

This time when Roy came back and stayed in the Plateau City, in addition to settling 40,000 gray dwarf prisoners of war, his main purpose was to take away this batch of ring-type Siren armor.

He had promised the sea beast priests that he would sell these equipment to them. Roy instructed Mu Lin:

"I will load all these Siren armors onto the ship later. I will take them to Sun Island Bay. I will leave this here to you."

Mulin waved his hand casually, and a large group of half-elf guards came over.

Mulin ordered them to move these ring-type Siren armors onto the magic airship. The half-elf guards immediately gathered people and quickly took action.

Mu Lin stood beside Roy and said, "Channing has always wanted to talk to you about developing the Nicobar Mountains mine. You always miss it every time you come to Plateau City. Do you want to take some time to meet her?"

Roy thought of that innocent face and shook his head.

"You don't need to wait for me for things you can decide. Build some mines as soon as possible so that we can disperse the gray dwarf prisoners in the Plateau City." Roy said.

Mu Lin reported to Roy: "Five thousand gray dwarf prisoners have been assigned to the three black iron mines in the Jiaxi Mountains and the two mithril mines in the Sudaso Mountains. As for the spinel mines in the south, the miners there are basically saturated. The silver mines in the Caldeum Mountains also need people to be sent to operate them. I can't appoint the mine owners too, right?"

Roy spread his hands and looked at Mu Lin, as if to say, "Do I have any help now?"

Mu Lin was so angry that she gritted her teeth and asked him, "When will Captain Timothy return? With his assassination regiment in the Nicobar Mountains, the mines there will not be harassed by the remaining highland headhunters."

"Captain Timothy may have to stay on Kuei Island for a while!" Roy said, and then suddenly thought of something, and said to Mu Lin quickly: "Oh, by the way, send me a group of griffin cavalry now, and let them go to Kuei Island to cooperate with Captain Timothy to complete the defense of Kuei Island."

Mu Lin was so angry that she almost jumped up and complained to Roy angrily:

"Where are the Griffin Cavalry here in Plateau City? Didn't you transfer the only 800 Griffin Cavalry back to Sun Island Bay last month?"

Roy slapped his forehead hard and said awkwardly:

"I feel like I have amnesia recently. I always forget some key things."

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At the airport terminal of the Plateau City, the gray dwarf prisoners and all the supplies disembarked one after another.

This group of gray dwarf prisoners acted as porters. They moved whole barrels of cider from the magic airship to the warehouse at the airport terminal, and then lined them up neatly on the dock, comparing them with the numbers on the nameplates, and lined up in order to go to the prisoner-of-war concentration camp outside the city.

At the airport terminal of the Plateau City, these half-elf guards don't care whether the gray dwarf prisoners have temper or not. As long as the gray dwarf prisoners don't follow the rules, they will immediately correct them with whips.

The strong behavior of the half-elf guards at the port terminal once again made the gray dwarf prisoners feel uneasy.

They lined up in a long queue and walked out of the plateau city, moving forward along a riverbank embankment. The half-blood elves around them were no longer surprised to see them, and no elf showed any curiosity at all. Some half-blood elf children even came up to them with baskets to sell them orange wine.

"Go sell your orange wine somewhere else and don't come here again. These gray dwarf prisoners have just arrived at the Plateau City. Their pockets are cleaner than their faces. What can you exchange for your orange wine? Get out of here!"

Those half-elf children were immediately driven away by the elven guards...

When these gray dwarf prisoners arrived at the prisoner-of-war camp, they discovered that there were more gray dwarves imprisoned inside the high walls. These gray dwarves seemed to have become accustomed to life in the camp.

Seeing new people entering the camp, he looked at them indifferently...

The system in the prisoner-of-war camp is already very complete, and the newly arrived gray dwarf prisoners are quickly settled in.

A group of old gray dwarves came up and said to the new gray dwarves:
'Gray dwarves who are proficient in forging can go to the forging workshop to work in advance. If they work there in advance, as long as they work hard, they can drink wine every day.

It used to be very delicious rum, but now you hardly see rum anymore. The forge now supplies a very sour cider.

These wines are almost unavailable in the concentration camp, unless you have made some significant contributions, you will be rewarded with some. I heard that when the mine opens in the future, everyone can use their work points to exchange for wine when they go to the mine to mine...'

The new gray dwarf prisoners asked the old gray dwarf some questions about work points:

"For example, can I save enough to buy my freedom?"

The old gray dwarf's face was full of wrinkles from laughing.

"I heard from the gray dwarf craftsmen in the forge that they exchanged all the work points they earned for fine wine, ham and dried fish."

"Who is really stupid enough to accumulate 50,000 points in one go and regain their freedom?"

'What can I do after regaining my freedom? Leave the forge with nothing and wander around the desolate Pagisto Plateau?'

"In the end, I still returned to the forging workshop as a craftsman, earning work points every day to exchange for fine wine, and having one day off every week to relax."

'How is that different from the life they lead now?'

"Look at the female dwarves in the concentration camp. Who would be willing to follow you and wander around?"

Then the newly arrived gray dwarves also had an epiphany.

When we come here, the first thing we do is to integrate into the life here...

(End of this chapter)