industrial lord

Chapter 294 In order to survive

When Frederick woke up, he saw himself lying in a wooden house, and the sky outside the window was bright.

The wooden house is very simple, the only decoration is the wood engravings hanging on the wall, the bed is made of soft hay piled up with a layer of cloth, and the pillow is also a roll of cloth wrapped with hay.

He moved his body, barely able to control it.

The wind blowing outside the window carried moisture, and the storm that had been raining for days and nights had just stopped.

During these days, Frederick's soul has been working hard to reintegrate with his body. During this period, his body retained basic functions, he could breathe independently, swallow and digest food, and soon after, his sense of hearing and touch were also restored, but Only the input signal, the output signal is now restored.

Perhaps it was because he moved his body just now, the girls who were sleeping beside him woke up and exclaimed when they saw him open their eyes.

The girls were sent by the queen here—the queen mother now—to take care of him, and these days Frederick relied on them for water, food, excrement and urine, and for wiping his body.

Not long after, the country's queen mother Ellie and queen Bili, who had just ascended the throne for two days, came to the room, and the queen who followed behind was still carrying a bowl of porridge.

The small country was brutally attacked by monsters, and most of the young and middle-aged were slaughtered. Under the heavy pressure, Ellie turned white overnight. The fist that seemed to be able to kill a bear in the past can only crush a chicken now.

Ellie sat by the hay bed, with a rare smile on her face, looked at Frederick's slightly tired eyes and said, "Just wake up, if you don't wake up again, I don't even know what to do."

When Frederick was in a coma, he heard this voice sighing at the side several times, and replied with a smile: "Thank you, Your Highness, for taking care of me these days."

"Don't dare." Ellie waved her hand hurriedly and said, "You saved our lives, and this is nothing."

The place where this country is located looks like a huge crater, surrounded by impassable mountains, the flowing river is fast and there are many hidden reefs, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but at the same time it is difficult to escape. Frederick found a suspected man walking Came here only after coming out of the mountain road.

Ellie continued: "Are you hungry, let's have some porridge first."

After speaking, Bi Li sat next to Frederick with a wooden bowl to feed him.

Frederick quickly refused, and Ellie said: "Let her feed you, you saved us, you can stay and be king, so what if you feed you?"

Now Frederick has nothing to say, he can't stay and be the king of the mountain, he can only let Bi Li quietly feed him the bowl of rice porridge cooked with milk.

After finishing his breakfast, Frederick saw what it means that life must continue as soon as the disaster is over.

After eating something, he could get out of bed and move around, so he went outside for a walk with Mint, the girl who had been taking care of him for the past few days.

Mint is one or two years older than Frederick. He used to be a hunter. He was injured in a hunt last year. He lost three fingers on his left hand, leaving only his thumb and index finger. Now he can only do some relatively light work.

It is surrounded by mountains and has abundant water sources. Most of the farmland has been reclaimed into paddy fields for rice cultivation. Except for the current rainy season, it can be planted three seasons a year.Other fields were planted with beans and other vegetables, and the slopes at the foot of the hill were also planted with pumpkins.

In addition, there is also a kind of potato planted here. This white potato is the staple food of most people. The rice harvested is mainly used to exchange materials with the outside world after making wine.

The rice was just harvested here not long ago, and today is a rare sunny day. The rice drying field was dried up shortly after the sun came out. Now the surviving young and middle-aged people, old and weak women and children of the whole country are taking out the rice in the warehouse to dry.

Frederick and Mint sat on top of the wooden city wall, looking at the busy drying field not far away, where the Queen and Queen Mother were also busy.

Mint said to Frederick in a hoarse voice: "The Queen and Queen Mother have decided that we are going to close the country."

Frederick was taken aback for a moment, and soon understood what she meant.

Now the country has almost no defense force. If other places find out, they will only end up being robbed. If they want to survive, they have to close themselves and wait for the next generation to grow up.

Frederick asked, "What about materials such as salt and iron?"

Mint replied: "There is a little rock salt in the mountain that is enough for us to eat, and there is also some iron ore nearby."

Frederick nodded, somewhat understanding their confidence in closing the country.

In the current agricultural society, self-sufficiency and being closed for 20 years does not seem to be a big problem.

It’s just that the level of productivity here is too low. Frederick and Mint walked for a day and found that the plow was still a straight shaft plow. There are obviously many small rivers and streams but no waterwheels, and other tools are so primitive that Frederick was worried. Can they survive.

When night fell and everyone was preparing to eat the second meal of the day, Ellie said to Frederick helplessly: "We have only been here for 30 years, and we have learned how to farm with difficulty. Good carpenters, good carpenters outside are not willing to come.”

Frederick understood a little, and said, "I want to live here for a while, and teach you how to make some tools."

After he was struck by lightning a while ago, he felt as if he had acquired some new abilities, so he planned to familiarize himself here before leaving.

Ellie immediately laughed when she heard it: "Oh, thank you so much, you are really the messenger sent by the Mushroom God!"

Frederick just smiled on the surface, thinking that a mushroom god appeared out of nowhere, it must be some evil religious organization.

He looked at the big mouse boiled with mushrooms in the bowl the mint had just arrived in and wondered if this could be communion.

Allie said again: "I have an unfeeling request, and I hope you can agree."

Frederick asked, "What is it?"

"Alas..." Ellie sighed deeply, "What we lack now is population. We can't survive without enough people. If we don't get captured by outsiders and become slaves, we will also be eaten by new monsters."

"I want you to leave some descendants here. If you are so strong, the descendants must be very strong, so that we can survive."

The corner of Frederick's mouth twitched. He ran away because he didn't want to leave an illegitimate child.

Ellie noticed that he seemed unwilling, and said, "Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to, we won't do anything to the savior."

Frederick said through her words: "Sorry, I can't do this."

Ellie smiled and said, "It's okay, I was the one who was abrupt, so just pretend I didn't say it."

"Hey, in order to keep everyone alive, my hair has turned white in two days. It's hard."

Frederick didn't have much to do about it, he could only teach them how to increase crop yields.

"Mint!" Allie suddenly turned her head and shouted towards the door, "Is the soup ready? Hurry up and serve it up, don't let the benefactor starve!"

She then said to Frederick: "They caught a bird in the drying field this afternoon. It's quite fat."

Frederick just smiled and didn't say much.

This "royal palace" is only a three-story wooden building, not as good as the small villa in the Wessen state manor, so we can't be too demanding.

Mint soon came over with a pot of soup. It was inconvenient for her left hand to hold the bottom of the bowl, and Ellie helped her put it on the table.

Except for a cooked bird, there were only a few vegetable leaves in the clay pot. Ellie didn't eat them, and only distributed them to Frederick and Billie, who was sitting by the side and looked shy.

"You young people, eat more." Ellie said while sharing the soup, "I'm getting old, I just need to live without starving to death."

Frederick tried it and felt that the soup was quite fragrant and suited his own taste.

There is no nightlife here. After dinner, Mint opened a bucket of water to wipe his body, and then it was time for bed.

As soon as Frederick lay down, a girl who had heard voices in the past few days came in with a smoking clay pot, saying that it was smoke to repel mosquitoes at night.

There are a lot of mosquitoes here at night, and the spider webs outside the window are full of prey.

Frederick felt very tired, thinking it was the aftereffect of the battle, and fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.

In another room, there were several young girls standing in front of Ellie. She said solemnly: "You guys happen to be the days when you are easy to get pregnant these days. Whether we can survive or not, our future depends on you." .”

After speaking, Ellie gave each of these girls a cup of potion, and asked them to go to Frederick's room after they drank it.

Then Ellie picked up a long list and put a mark behind the names of these girls.

Overnight, the book will not repeat.

The next morning, when Frederick woke up, it was already bright. He felt that he slept very soundly last night, and he woke up until dawn.

He lay on the bed thinking, let's get Qu Yuanli out first today.

Until Frederick left the country, he didn't know what happened every night in those days. Hundreds of years later, when the world opened gene sequencing, no one found a clue.

(End of this chapter)