Chapter 249 102. The Plague in the South
The Annan holding the festering man is mottled, faded, and solidified on the magic newspaper.
“Remember, this is Xingyue Bay, you don’t need to fear anything except the law——” Annan’s words that day were also narrated by Evelin.
“You even published this?”
Annan was soaked in a bucket filled with potion, holding a magic newspaper and said to Ingrid.
"It helps to increase residents' cohesion and bring more residents, don't you like it?"
"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't notice that the reporter was right next to me."
It feels like a bubble. When the time was almost up, Annan climbed out of the bucket, took the towel handed by Abby and wiped his black hair, using a cleaning technique to dry the mage's robe.
“You shouldn’t touch them directly,” said Ingrid.
Because he came into contact with the new people in Annan, he contracted the disease not long after. Invite a mage who knows healing skills to help eliminate the disease, and take medicinal baths on time every day.
"Is there anything else?"
Annan asked Ingrid who had not yet left.
"A personal question." Ingrid asked hesitantly: "Why do you accept these poor people who can't do anything?"
Annan fell into silence, recalling what he saw in Louis City The tragic scenes we saw: dying people exposed to the scorching sun, seagulls biting the bellies of pregnant women in damp alleys, dozens of rats dragging children to the sewers, homeless people almost mummified by the swarms of blood-sucking insects lying on their bodies. , hearingless boys were sold to pagans for sacrifice...
"I can't accept their death..."
Even for this world, death is normal.
Annan can accept their existence, but he cannot accept ignoring them after seeing them.
As for why these people can't be seen in the north... it's not because Breeze City is well managed and the environment in the north is comfortable. On the contrary, the environment in the north is harsh, and if they cannot survive the cold winter, they will not suffer so much. All deaths here will turn into ice sculptures on the roadside.
If Xingyue Bay cannot make ends meet, Ingrid will say that Annan is a good person but not a qualified lord. But today, when Xingyue Bay is prosperous, she will say: Annan is a good lord.
The New Initial Headed to the South at full speed, and the Skaven Clan heading north made Xingyue Bay regain its tension after a short period of relaxation.
A few months later, Annan contacted the centurion again, whom she had almost forgotten. She replied with an ambiguous "be prepared"...should it mean "the rat men may come, they may not come"?
Under the new crisis, the 100 guards in Xingyue Bay are not enough. So Annan asked the guard captain to expand the number of soldiers to 500, and specially hired a group of four scavengers as instructors.
After all, their next enemy is likely to be the Skaven.
Annan participated once and got full marks easily, and then zero points were deducted.
The title is that Violet Si Eudora arranged several straw ratmen: reckless rat, elite ratman, champion ratman and a little girl. The newcomers chose the Rang Rat and the Champion Rat Man who seemed to be the toughest to offend, but Annan stabbed the girl Straw to the core with a spear.
Villitus Eudora praised Annan and said that three wererats were guarding the girl, so the girl was actually a special wererat being protected.
Zero points were deducted because Annan attacked other ratmen instead after knowing what happened.
In the following time, the Seahawks did not come, the Louis City merchant ship did not come, and May was about to end. Good news finally came from Michael - he had made gunpowder through alchemy.
……
“What is this?”
"Gunpowder."
Michael put a bunch of flames close to the "gunpowder", and the "gunpowder" burned violently. Then the sealed jar containing the "gunpowder" was ignited and thrown into the corner, where it exploded with burning debris flying everywhere.
There was no alarm outside the alchemy room, as if they were used to it.
"Burning and explosion, all meet your requirements." "But the gunpowder I proposed is... powder."
Michael seriously pointed out Annan's mistake: "You shouldn't solidify your thinking. There are many paths for mages. It doesn't matter which way you use to achieve it!"
"In short, it shouldn't be called gunpowder..."< br>
"What's that called?"
"Oil."
Annan said looking at the black viscous liquid next to Michael.
"Oil? It doesn't sound as good as gunpowder."
"How did you discover it?"
Annan asked, and the result was astonishing: This is Michael using a complex set of steps to make gold. came out.
Oil is of great use, but it does not include Xingyue Bay where industry has not yet sprouted. Only the by-product bitumen is of some use, and it's hard to find anything that burns more violently than petroleum.
Oil-roasted mouse sounds very satisfying.
But the thing is, this is alchemy and not from the ground. A rough estimate is that the cost of refining one pound of oil is about one gold coin.
"Sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. The gunpowder I need must use these three as the main raw materials..."
Annan gave Michael 100 gold coins again and took him away to refine the gold. pounds of oil.
“Don’t spend months!”
He ran to the blacksmith’s shop with the oil in hand and showed it to Bronzebeard. The dwarves had never seen such a thing, so Annan had to store it temporarily.
May passed and warm June came.
The second rainy season experienced by Annan is approaching.
The big ship named Xingyue Bay sailed forward. Merchant ships from Louis City arrived full of goods and left full of goods. Sea Eagle disappeared without a trace.
Louis City is just a small city, but Olmedo is quite satisfied because Louis City is still connected to surrounding city-states. She has ordered that Breeze City be prohibited from selling demonic iron at low prices, and that all demonic iron be supplied to Xingyue Bay. Businessman wants to buy? It's okay, but you have to buy it at twice the official selling price.
A sunflower field opened outside the Lord's Mansion, and it was even published in the next issue of "Xingyue Bay News", and the crew members also changed batch after batch.
West, who ran to the City of Plenty, sent the first letter. He was not very lucky. "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and "Betal's Redemption" were already popular there - of course without copyright.
West's letter stated that he only sold a few magic stones because of his status as "Annan's subordinate".
In his reply, Annan asked West to find creatures over three meters tall. As long as the portal is formed, Xingyue Bay can seize the market with magic newspapers.
Every moment, dream-seeking humans and aliens come to Xingyue Bay. The population of Xingyue Bay has exceeded 10,000 and has been shortened from next year to this cold winter.
The finances that have been decreasing have finally achieved a surplus - so there is no news about the third Magic Image.
When Xingyue Bay was prosperous, bad news came from the New Initial...
More than a month of sailing made the New Initial go through a lot. Pirates, pagans, traps disguised as harbors, but this time it's nothing like before.
“Plague,” Francois said.
“A terrible plague is spreading through animals and food...”
(End of Chapter)