Chapter 999 New Stage
Climbing mountains and dying is just an exaggeration.
Even if Locke really wanted to do this, the elf knight next to him would not allow it.
Before setting off, His Majesty specially told them to ensure the safety of Chief Locke.
Although Zhou Xu no longer has any expectations for Locke's future, at this stage, as an extraordinary mage, Locke's value cannot be ignored.
Zhou Xu's arrangement for him was not so much giving up, but rather letting Locke enter semi-retirement early.
When necessary, just let Locke take action. There is no need to impose any work or training requirements on him on weekdays. After all, he is old.
After estimating the distance, it took Locke almost half a day to climb almost a quarter of the mountain road. The elf knight who accompanied him the whole way couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The elf knights who have been here know clearly that the first half of the mountain road is relatively easy to walk, but the second half is much more difficult.
According to Patriarch Locke’s climbing efficiency, he would not be able to climb anywhere until tomorrow, and accidents would easily happen in the process.
"Let's do this, Chief Locke, let me carry you up the mountain."
After climbing down the mountain for a long time, Locke has not changed his mind, but his body has long been honest. Now after listening to the elf knight's suggestion , but he had no intention of refusing at all.
I only heard him cough twice...
"Then, I'll trouble you."
Old man, by blood, they are all elves, Locke is I didn’t feel too embarrassed for a while.
After hearing this, the elf knight had no idea. He picked up Locke and rushed towards the location of the Life Spirit Tree.
Locke's body can only be said to be thin. It is not heavy for an elf knight. Coupled with the results of his martial arts training in the past few years, he is now carrying Locke on his back in the mountains and forests. The elf knight's performance was quite skillful.
Compared with when Locke climbed the mountain by himself, the entire movement efficiency was more than twice as fast.
Before it got dark, Locke finally saw with his own eyes the thousand-year life tree located in the center of the mountain col!
Although Locke had already seen ordinary and even century-level life spirit trees on the way here, after seeing this thousand-year-level life spirit tree, Locke’s entire emotion remained the same. It's uncontrollably rising.
In the process of casting different spells, the energy converted by the power of truth is also different. The mantra spells of their wood elves convert life energy, which makes Locke, an extraordinary mage, particularly sensitive to life energy.
At this moment, he could clearly feel the rich life energy radiating from the thousand-year-level life spirit tree in front of him!
"The thousand-year-level life spirit tree is really the thousand-year-level life spirit tree!!"
At this moment, Locke's mental state made the elf knights beside him a little worried.
I was afraid that the old patriarch would get too excited and something would go wrong.
However, his worries are actually unnecessary. Although Locke's physical fitness is poor, he has been nourished by his own life energy all year round. His body is still very healthy, and he is not likely to get into trouble when he gets excited.
After seeing this thousand-year-old life spirit tree, it was almost dark. After dark, it was okay to let the elf knight go down the mountain by himself, but carrying a Locke on his back was undoubtedly a bit dangerous.
"It's definitely too late to go down the mountain now. I can only rest for one night on the mountain and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning."
At this point, the elf knight turned to look at the man standing next to him. Small campsite.
“There should be tents in the campground for us to spend the night.”
There is a small camp at this mountain col. Of course, it's called a camp, but it's actually just a few tents.
The people living here are the staff responsible for taking care of this thousand-year life spirit tree.
After all, with such an important resource, Zhou Xu would definitely not be able to circle the mountain and leave it alone. Out of caution, the status of this life tree must be confirmed every day.
This night, they had a good rest. I wonder if the life energy emitted by the Life Spirit Tree nourished his tired body. The Elf Knight felt that after falling asleep, his entire state was basically the same. Almost recovered.
Without hesitation, after waiting for Locke to look at the Life Spirit Tree a few more times, he quickly carried him down the mountain.
At the port at the foot of Qingshui Mountain, the ship they took has been waiting for them.
Take a boat and arrive at the port of Green Forest City. After getting off the boat, you can take a carriage and go directly to the wood elf village.
Sending Locke to the village, the elf knight who completed the task was secretly relieved and did not rest in the village. He rushed back to the port of Green Forest City that day, preparing to take a boat back to Black Moon City to return to his life.
After this, the season changes from summer to autumn.
This autumn, the grain production within Dazhou has further improved.
It’s not that the southern farm has increased its scale, but that this spring, the farm in the New Taipei District has started farming.
This autumn, New Taipei District was finally able to harvest its first batch of grain since the reconstruction project began.
In fact, compared with the farming environment in the southern region, whether it is the New South District or the New Taipei District, the farming conditions for their crops can only be regarded as average.
If Zhou Xu was pursuing an extreme idea, he should demolish all the farms in New Taipei District and even New South District and replace them with other industries.
Then all the work on grain production will be moved to the south, and the areas with the best farming conditions will be responsible for all grain output.
But Zhou Xu’s thinking is obviously not like this.
In his opinion, this idea is somewhat extreme.
Yes, within a region, he will appropriately let some cities whose environment is not suitable for farming give up farming and focus on the development of other industries.
But! Each region must have its own independent grain production capacity. This is his bottom line.
Xianyang City, Green Forest City, and Black Moon City in Xinnan District are the best examples.
This arrangement, on the one hand, takes into account a transportation cost.
If all food is produced in the south, then the farther away from the south, the more expensive the food will be, taking into account transportation costs.
On the other hand, it takes into account the ability to deal with unexpected situations.
Food is the most fundamental resource, directly related to the life and death of the people.
If something unexpected happens one day and food from other regions cannot be transported, or there is no time to transport it, the region itself has a certain grain production capacity and can survive at critical moments!
At the same time, starting from the autumn of this year, their grain reserves in Dazhou, which had been tense for several years due to the reconstruction project of the New Taipei District and the war in the southern border, finally began to grow rapidly.
This also indicates that they have finally gotten rid of the influence of the previous war and entered a new stage of rapid development!
(End of this chapter)