Chapter 241 241. The prototype of the City of Ships, innocent Jamie
Outside the Gray Desert City.
Miffin came here instead of Croya to inspect and accept the first phase of the project and negotiate with the Lord of Gray Sand.
The two of them have now arrived outside the city. The time at this time is just when the night is about to end and the sun is about to rise.
Jamie has been waiting here for a long time.
He looked a little excited, and there were many young people wearing uniforms produced by Hanjiao Island standing beside him, waiting here, ready to introduce the bridge to the two of them.
Under their feet was a long metal road with a width of about five meters. The silver-blue metal was particularly dazzling at night, and there were even street lights on both sides of the road.
Looking up, the silver-blue road is particularly dazzling in the gray desert, just like a road in myths and legends, appearing at night, full of regular beauty.
The sudden appearance of such a bridge and road from the disorderly and chaotic desert is really shocking.
Lord Gray Sand stopped and watched for a while before speaking:
"It's about ten meters high."
He looked at the pillars below: "Can these purple duckweeds bear the weight of these pillars?"
Although he I have paid attention to it, but I have some expectations in my heart, so I don’t have a particularly detailed understanding, just so that I can personally feel the novel experience brought by this silver-blue bridge and the house boats.
“Of course!”
Jamie immediately replied: “According to our many tests, this bridge can carry a maximum load of about ten tons. You can do it now. Test."
Having worked in the desert every day, Jamie grinned and turned two shades darker, leaving only one white tooth that was particularly dazzling.
This honest and courteous look surprisingly makes people feel very trusting.
Looking at him like this, Mifein couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you using the sunscreen potions distributed to you on the island?"
Hearing this, Jamie and others The man scratched his hair awkwardly.
They are really useless. That thing was made by a group of female apprentices using materials such as pearls and flower dew in seawater.
It is quite popular among some ladies and young masters in the royal capital. It has a very good whitening effect. It is said that even Vice President Estner and Archmage Celesti admire it very much.
But, that kind of Pearl Cream is so fragrant.
Every time you apply it, it becomes an artificial fragrance. The fragrance is fragrant within three or four meters around you. If it is mixed with the smell of sweat... they find it a bit inconvenient and pungent, so they No smearing.
Then I darkened two shades in just one month.
Seeing this, Mifein immediately understood and said helplessly: "Then I will make a batch of products specifically for you when I get back.
Kloya pays close attention to you. "
Miffy's casual tone made Lord Gray Sand laugh a little - it seems that they are really confident in their project, otherwise they would not be so calm.
But he still has to do the acceptance inspection.
We must know that the most basic function of bridges and roads is to pass traffic. Stability and load-bearing are the most important, especially in floods in the future. If they are unstable, it will be very dangerous.
“Then let me try to see if it is stable or not.”
Immediately, he released a huge black fish with hard scales on its body, spikes on its abdomen, and sharp teeth in its mouth.
The black fish was like a tank, squirming and sliding on the bridge, very fast, and soon disappeared from sight.
“…”
Miffin, who witnessed the black fish disappearing, clenched the wheat ear bracelet in his hand and whispered: “Leviathan fish.”
The apprentices were also silent. They all felt the deep and evil magic power emanating from this black fish, as deep and evil as the abyss or the sea.
Obviously, not a kind person.
“Haha.” Lord Gray Sand waved his hand quite casually: “It’s just a fish, don’t worry about it.”
He looked at Mifein and invited: “I’ll be there soon. Use this fish to reward the children for their hard work, and I would also like to ask you to use sacred magic power to purify the evil power in its body."
"..." Mifein was silent for a short time, and then nodded.
That fish was a dependent of the Abyss Lord Leviathan. He had originally doubted how much the Gray Sand Lord had used Leviathan's power, but now it seemed that it was really beyond imagination.
Generally speaking, the guy who borrows the power of the Abyss Lord is the disadvantaged party, but this guy actually opened his mouth to eat Leviathan's family members...
'This guy probably showed off his ability like this for the sake of Will you prove to me and Croya that you are capable of stabilizing the situation here? ’ Miffy thought.
He accepted Croya's mission and came here not only to follow the acceptance and negotiate a formal contract, but also to see if the situation here was stable.
For infrastructure work, if the local lords cannot stabilize the situation, it will be very, very troublesome.
Kloya, who was protecting his shortcomings, did not want his apprentices to be disturbed and affected by external factors when they were building bridges and houseboats every day.
From what I can see now, Lord Gray Sand, the God's Favorite, is really not an ordinary God's Favorite. At least in this gray desert, he should be able to suppress some troublesome things.
Miffin knew it well.
For the next part of the journey, they did not communicate again.
They walked along the bridge that had been run over by the Leviathan fish, observing whether the bridge was deformed or unstable. After walking about a kilometer, they saw the first houseboat.
This houseboat looks like a fortress. The visual area should be about two hundred square meters, and the overall appearance is in the shape of a bird's nest.
There are fluffy and soft dandelions growing on the surface of the houseboat, and vines are intertwined, completely hiding the magic pattern deep in the dandelions and vines.
“This building looks good, what’s inside?”
Lord Gray Sand looked up at the houseboat with interest, and glanced at Jamie next to him.
Jamie introduced: "Sir, every two kilometers away, we will build a house boat like this.
The size will vary, but they can all accommodate people living here. "Please follow me and I'll introduce you to the contents inside."
He took two quick steps forward, and the closed door of the house sensed someone's arrival. , immediately opened slowly, and bright light spilled from the door.
Hui Sha, Mifein and several other apprentices followed into the houseboat. The first thing they saw when they entered was the spacious and bright hall.
This time the decoration design of the hall does not follow the usual exquisite style of Hanjiao Island, but is very simple - bright white floors, walls and ceilings, with some sofas, chairs and other furniture, that's all That’s all.
Although it is not particularly refined, this crisp style is suitable for the aesthetics of most people.
Besides... being clean is a miracle in itself.
Lord Gray Sand just glanced at it and felt quite satisfied.
“This place is expected to be able to accommodate 300 people for temporary evacuation.” Jamie introduced: “A basic life-support array is installed in the houseboat. Even in a flood, there will be no shortage of air.
And there are magic plants and magic flowers here that can produce air."
He pointed to some very inconspicuous flowers that looked like balloons in the corner: "If there are flowers here. If the air is too turbid, they will bloom and effectively purify the air here."
"This is..."
Afterwards, he took everyone to visit the accommodation. There are sleeping rooms, bathrooms, and even shared kitchen facilities for more than a hundred people.
The decorations in these facilities are all in an extremely simple style, and were drawn by Cloya when he had nothing to do.
To be honest, according to the standards of Hanjiao Island, this houseboat is really just a very simple one. But in the gray desert, it is really not easy to have a place to take shelter when the flood hits.
After the visit, Lord Gray Sand could no longer hide the smile on his face and praised: "I didn't expect it to be so special, but it must have cost a lot of resources to build the house ships and those bridges, right?"< br>
Whether he is a mage or a lord, he knows how much effort such a place requires - special materials, intelligently controlled magic pattern arrays, and life-sustaining magic patterns... It is estimated that each one requires tens of thousands of magic crystals. Let’s start?
He still has the resources to build dozens of them, but if he wants to cover the gray desert with such houseboats and bridges on a wider scale, the price is simply unimaginable.
But seeing such a good thing, it was really hard for him to refuse.
Hearing this, Miffy took out a list, cleared his throat and began to read aloud:
“The basic material of the house boat is the floating moon alloy developed by Hanjiao Island. Using the unique life-sustaining array and intelligent control array of the Orpheus family in the Elf Kingdom, each house ship requires at least a hundred fluttering dandelions and a sufficient number of evil sea purple magic pills. "
He. The exact price of these materials was not stated.
However, whether it is the floating moon alloy forged by the mage, the life-sustaining array and intelligent array of the Orpheus family, or the specially modified magic plant, these unheard-of things make the Gray Sand Lord murmur in his heart. .
The unknown and high-end-sounding object gave him the impression that it was very expensive.
After being silent for a while, he asked: "Have you found the mineral deposits?"
According to the verbal agreement between him and Croya, all the mineral deposits and magic plants along the project belong to Croya , which can be mined at will.
Originally, he was quite confident that the price of these mineral deposits should be enough, but now he is suddenly not sure. Is this really enough?
Jamie continued: "So far, a vein of first-class magic material gold sand mine has been discovered."
"..." Lord Gray Sand couldn't help but frown. This gold sand mine was actually the first meeting gift he gave to Croya. It was a special ore with more decorative significance than practical significance.
Except for making some decorations and planting earth element magic plants, it has almost no function.
The price is naturally very worrying.
To be honest, he is even a little worried that Croya will suddenly evacuate - there is no money to make and no resources to take, why should people bother to carry out infrastructure work for him?
Although he did agree to Croya that no matter what kind of mineral deposit it is, it cannot be discovered in the short term. How much investment does it take to get benefits?
They are all smart people, and there is not much friendship, but more of an exchange of interests. He knows this, and he also believes that Croya knows the same.
While he was thinking, the lights on the side suddenly began to flash, accompanied by a serious tone: "Warning, warning, the flood is expected to hit within twenty minutes!
Please evacuate to the nearest shelter immediately! ”
This sound not only sounded inside the houseboat, but the street lights standing on both sides of the road outside were also playing in a loop, accompanied by increasingly rapid red light flashes.
This atmosphere makes people feel that the situation is very urgent.
Of course, there is no one on the road now, and the only few people are staying in the houseboat.
Jamie. Said: "The flood is coming, it's time for you to see how to respond to the flood. "
"Okay. "Lord Gray Sand temporarily put aside his thoughts and looked up out of the window - the flood has come.
They suddenly appeared from the sand, and when they gathered together, they turned into a huge flood that covered the sky and the sun. It roared towards this direction.
In just a few minutes, the silver-blue bridges and roads were completely submerged.
Those bridges still stood upright in the flood. br>
As time went by, the inside of the flood gradually became stable, and the evil sea purple magic apple at the bottom of the bridge suddenly pulled out its roots and lifted the bridge toward the water surface
The whole process was extremely stable. The few people staying in the houseboat did not even feel any shaking or bumps, and they rose directly to the water.
After arriving at the surface of the water, the roots of the evil sea purple devils intertwined and gathered together, and at the same time they sprayed out some strange magic power, turning the water into ice cubes to surround them.
The bottom of this bridge, which stretches for dozens of kilometers, is wrapped in ice, so it is not afraid of the impact of floods.
In this way, the whole thing is completely stable.
The road formed by the bridge and the houseboat floated quietly on the water. No matter how the surrounding floods washed and surged, it did not shake, just like on flat ground.
The morning light falls on these silver-blue bridges. The golden light interweaves with the silver-blue brilliance reflected by the magic alloy. They stand upright in the gray flood and are extremely beautiful.
The voice sounded again:
"The bridge stabilization work has been completed. Please leave in an orderly manner and try not to extend your body outside the bridge railings."
Hear this voice Lord Gray Sand, relying on his skill and courage, ran directly outside the houseboat and walked back and forth on the bridge, facing the morning light and hot wind - no matter how he bounced, the bridge did not shake, and he even released a Leviathan fish again , the bridge is still strong.
“It’s unimaginable!”
During the day, you can come and go freely on the flood water like this!
This is something he never thought about!
In his original thought, Cloya was powerful enough if he could build a bridge on the quicksand. However, he did not expect that this bridge would also be effective when the flood came.
If more such bridges could be built to connect various cities and gathering points, wouldn't it mean that the impact of the chaotic magic in the Gray Desert would be minimized?
——People can freely travel through the Gray Desert, a feat that was not accomplished even before the Gray Desert was invaded by the magic power of Leviathan!
When he thought of that scene, he felt that every cell in his body was excited. He had already caused irreversible impact on his hometown because of his wrong decision.
Now there is room for recovery, and the construction team of Hanjiao Island cannot be allowed to leave under any circumstances!
The current situation no longer allows for reservation.
Lord Gray Sand took out a map from his pocket, and then said to Mifein: "Let's sign a formal contract. This map is the mine map I surveyed."
< br>Ore vein map of Gray Desert!
You must know that a chaotic magical environment can produce some extremely rare minerals after a long period of gestation, let alone a special area like the Gray Desert.
It is no exaggeration to say that the most valuable thing in Gray Desert now is its mineral deposits.
Miffin took a glance and saw a series of precious mineral deposits such as Desert Heart Mine, Leviathan Iron, Howling Gems, etc.
Of course, there is a magical cover on it, and you can only see the name of the mineral deposit but not the specific location - after all, for extraordinary people, they can basically remember it at a glance.
Lord Gray Sand pointed at the map: "From Gray Sand City to Sandcastle Territory, there are three mineral veins along the way, namely quicksand iron, topaz and whistling gem.
I will give you the specific details. The position will be given to you in exchange for building two bridges and house ships with a length of about one hundred kilometers."
Mifein pretended to calculate and nodded: "Okay"
After the signing was completed, Jamie suddenly said: "Lord Huisha, have you ever thought about letting us take over the construction of the entire city?
We can build a city composed of bridges and houses. The fortress formed by the boat can float directly with the flood when it comes, and can be deployed in place when the flood ends
In this case, the location of Gray Sand City will not be fixed, and you can go wherever you want. "
This guy was obviously prepared. He took out a blueprint and showed it to Lord Gray Sand - this blueprint was actually the advanced version he showed to Croya.
Lord Gray Sand could certainly see the subtlety of this drawing at a glance, but he was stunned for a moment and then shook his head with difficulty
“Not now. "
He refused and said: "When the contents of this contract are completed, I will hand over the construction rights of a small city to you.
Huisha City has a special status and cannot be extensively renovated yet. "
Hearing this, Jamie nodded and was not very disappointed.
The apprentice changed the topic and made a wish to Lord Huisha: "Lord Huisha, can you Are the slaves recruited in the name of the city lord? I need them to help us complete some basic construction. "
The eyes of Lord Gray Sand suddenly became sharp, and he looked at Jamie: "You want to give them a way out? ”
Although it is a question, the tone is extremely determined.
Everything in Gray Sand City cannot be hidden from his eyes. Of course, he also knows that Jamie has purchased many slaves and trained them, and there are even some overly obvious acts of kindness.
"Yes." Jamie nodded, and the apprentices behind him also nodded - Jamie had discussed this matter with them.
Faced with Jamie’s insistence, Lord Gray Sand nodded noncommittally: “For Croya’s sake, I promise you.”
He agreed and walked outside, When he was about to enter the flood, he suddenly turned around and said to Jamie: "You have to understand the reason for the slave trade, otherwise how many people can you save?"
After saying that, he jumped directly into the water and disappeared. .
Only Miffyin patted Jamie on the shoulder who was in a daze: "Sometimes being naive is not a bad thing, but naivety may lead to some bad results."
This one The former bishop of Mother Earth knows all too well about the slave trade. In the final analysis... there will be slave trade only when there is a demand for buying and selling.
If Jamie cannot clearly understand this and think of a way to deal with it, the slave trade in Gray Sand City will only increase.
But he was not prepared to make it clear directly.
Because...
Being naive is not a bad thing sometimes. What if it can have good results?
He and Croya have very similar views on this. Change is a good thing, and they can help when you hit a wall.
He looked at the apprentices who were deep in thought, clapped his hands and said loudly: "The competition on the other side of the island will be over soon. Croya said that I will give you a holiday.
Don't think about that. Now, come with me to Hanjiao Island for vacation. All expenses during the vacation will be free.
Let’s continue working after the vacation. ”
Vacation!
These two words instantly made the apprentices forget everything, and their eyes all lit up.
After staying in the desert for more than two months, they did feel a little homesick, and more importantly...everything was free of charge!
There is no doubt that this must be the reward and benefit Croya gave them.
“Great!”
"Oh! Thank you Master Croa!"
"I want to go home and soak in the hot springs!"
Even Jamie put down the slave issue he was thinking about just now and cheered.
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