"Lord, you are here." The winged kobold Chester, the chief engineer here, came out in the rain to greet Gavin.
"The security work is well done." Gavin praised, "The progress is faster than I expected. Has the heavy rain in the past few days delayed your construction?"
"It's a little bit, but the impact is not big. After it was inconvenient to work on the ground, I asked all the construction teams to go underground." Chester said a little worried, "I just heard from the locals that this kind of heavy rain It will last for more than a month. If this is the case, it will indeed seriously delay the construction period and we will not be able to build enough resettlement houses within the time required by the lord. In addition, our demand for bitter leaf oil has also increased significantly. Many kobolds are a little uncomfortable with the relatively warm and humid environment here."
"Ultimately, this is a problem, and I'm here to completely solve it for you."
While talking, the two of them had arrived at the middle and highest point of Weizemei New Village. From here, they could overlook the somewhat stepped new village.
Without waiting for Chester to ask, Gavin directly took out a crystal ball the size of a head from the convenience bag, closed his eyes to synchronize with it, and an invisible wind surrounded them, like an invisible shield. All rainwater is kept out.
Wisps of wind turned into invisible tentacles, stretching out from the crystal ball and sinking into the surrounding air.
The pouring rain soon turned into a sporadic moderate rain, then slowly turned into a continuous drizzle, and finally became a drizzle, until it stopped completely, leaving only a layer of dark clouds, but within a few minutes, this layer of dark clouds also It began to gradually fade until it completely disappeared, revealing the bright sunshine.
The whole process takes less than ten minutes.
People who came out of the house after hearing the news saw a magical scene. Looking up, they seemed to be in a huge circular well, surrounded by dark clouds. It can be imagined that there was still heavy rain over there.
Only here.
With Weizemei New Village as the center and a radius of five kilometers, it is under the scorching sun.
The clouds in the sky did not dissipate very cleanly, and the surrounding area was covered by heavy rain. Therefore, the temperature was not particularly high, which was about 26 or 7 degrees. This temperature is the most suitable temperature for people.
Gavin's synchronization is also coming to an end.
The crystal ball has escaped from the palm of his hand and is floating in mid-air, flowing slowly, and wisps of wind will blow out of it from time to time.
Gavin said to the others who came after hearing the news: "This crystal ball is called the Huifeng Ball. Its effect is very similar to the good weather in the vineyard. However, it does not adjust the rain according to the growth needs of the plants, but adjusts it according to the comfort level of the people. This place is always in the most pleasant state, Chester, you send people to build a stone castle here, seal it up, and send troops to guard this thing to prevent it from being stolen."
"As you command." Chester bowed and obeyed.
"Captain Craigie, are you adapting to life here?" Gavin turned his eyes to the strong, dark-faced Tethyr young man.
Called a young man, he was at least ten years older than Gavin, almost thirty years old.
He is the son of Copperfield. He had been staying in the Tessel refugee camp to guard the unharvested grain there. Half a month ago, the grain had been successfully harvested and all was packed and transported back to the Land of Three Rivers. It brought a complete end to that refugee camp.
"Thank you Lord for your concern. Life here is much better than we imagined." Craigie looked at Gavin with admiration. Every time the other party made a move, they completely broke their understanding. .
It was like this in the refugee camp before, and it was like this with the Hui Feng Ball just now.
"Is it possible to sail on the Asaba River in such weather?" Gavin asked.
Craigie replied without thinking: "Rain or wind, as long as each ship can be equipped with thirty sailors, it will be smooth sailing."
"That's good, I'll give you a new mission." Gavin took out a thick notebook and five bulky currency boxes from the portable dimension hole. However, this time, they were not all filled with gold coins. Three of the boxes were Silver and copper coins.
After handing the notebook to Craigie, he explained in detail: "According to the address above, all the salaries recorded above will be delivered to me as promised. They will be delivered to me door to door. After delivery, please leave the corresponding receipt. Or if the letter is not delivered, please find out the reason for it, whether it is false information or something happened to the people there."
"As ordered, I promise to complete the task." Craigie knelt down on one knee and took the notebook solemnly. When he heard it, he knew what was going on.
This was to pay the salaries of the mercenaries who were surrendered. He had always regretted that he was in the refugee camp and could not participate in this grand event. Now that he had the opportunity to do so, it would be good.
"When the time comes, you will transfer the mercenary named Aqil as your deputy to assist you in this matter. You can choose the remaining personnel by yourself." Gavin warned, "Don't do this in this matter. Hidden and tucked in, it must be carried out with great fanfare."
"A big fanfare? How to make a big fanfare?" Craigie didn't understand the real meaning of Gavin asking him to do this.
"How about I tell you a story about a horse bone bought for a thousand gold." Gavin did not answer Craigie directly, but told him a story.
Craigie was not really stupid. Before he finished listening to the story, he suddenly realized: "The salary of the lord is to buy horse bones. You are so generous and trustworthy in treating these prisoners, let alone those normal employees. I Now that I know what to do, when the time comes, I will definitely play a war drum at the bow and stern of the boat to let all the residents along the Asaba River know what we are going to do, and I will definitely make the ceremony complete."
"You have to be careful yourselves. There is no guarantee that the merchants in Sambia will not have any bad intentions. Once you find that something is wrong and you cannot escape, you can go ashore on the north bank. I will arrange for Andrew to guard you along the way." Gavin decided to do it for you. They added a layer of insurance and let the dog demon lead his own wolf regiment to guard along the way.
Although the merchants of Sambia have not taken any big actions recently, they have never stopped taking small actions. A mercenary organization named Silver Raven has been infiltrating into the Three Rivers Land either overtly or covertly.
Gavin paid the highest level of attention to this mercenary organization, which was not very famous.
Because he knows that the masters behind this mercenary organization will occupy a prominent position in Sambia in the future. They are likely to be his main opponents from Sambia in the future.
Gavin has no intention of uprooting them yet.
Now the people who come forward are all small fish and shrimps. Even if they are killed, it will not hurt them. On the contrary, it will make their whereabouts more secretive and difficult to trace.
Coupled with the arrival of the Komanso rainy season, the water level of the Asaba River has risen significantly, making floods in the middle reaches extremely prone to occur, and most of them tend to be in the Sambia region.
The first is natural reasons. Once you pass the Don Hills of the Taser Valley, there is a large, relatively low-lying, flat and unobstructed area before arriving at the Scarface Gorge. If the rain is too heavy and exceeds the load of the Scarface Gorge, this section will The area can easily become a flood discharge area.
The second is man-made disaster. The Sambia area was originally part of the Cosoman Forest. It was once covered by dense virgin forest. However, it only took a few hundred years since humans, especially greedy businessmen, occupied it. , all the remaining forests were cut down, and now they have to reap the consequences, facing increasingly serious soil erosion and the wrath of nature.
The third one is of the nature of natural punishment, and there are some extreme natural gods that will promote this matter intentionally or unintentionally later.
In the past ten years, floods have occurred in Sambia for eight out of ten years, and the worst one was last year.
The terrifying flood peak, said to be more than ten meters high, directly submerged a large area of Sambia between Taser Valley and Scar Valley. The floodwaters spread all the way to the base of the Aldulin city wall. When they got there, there was still half a meter left. How high.
At that time, many people mistakenly believed that the Asaba River would take the opportunity to change its course. Unexpectedly, Eddas, the goddess of water springs and peace, could not sit back and watch so many civilians being harmed, so she personally took action as a saint and turned it back.
Taking a lesson from last year, those Sambian businessmen were naturally facing a formidable enemy this year. For the first time, they took the initiative to dig into their pockets and hired a large number of construction workers and mages to strengthen the river section in the Sambian direction in advance.
However, compared with the power of nature, human power is sometimes not enough. Therefore, from top to bottom, everyone felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, staring closely at the Asaba River, and had no energy to entangle Gavin for the time being.
Gavin was happy to take the opportunity to promote his own affairs and would not take the initiative to provoke them.
It was three days after we returned to Anfield Village again. The owners of the racecourse had already drawn up a detailed sales contract. Gavin led people to go through it from beginning to end. In this regard, he had a professional ——The dog demon.
Although he is not the kind of devil who specializes in fraud, he is still a devil after all. Many things are innate, such as finding loopholes in contracts, contracts, and agreements and taking advantage of them. They have always used this aspect. Able to deceive others, it is too difficult for others to deceive them in this regard.
He quickly discovered the cleverness of the racecourse owners one by one. After revising it, Gavin formally signed the contract with them.
With this matter finalized, Gavin's trip to Amphir Village was almost complete, and there was only one thing left - to kill the flying roc.
After hearing from Gowther's mother that Ji Peng had a large number of kobold servants under his command, he had already begun to plan this matter.
"How do you do things? I told you to lock the door at night, lock the door, lock the door. How many times have I told you, but you don't have a long memory, do you?"
"I locked the door, but it seems that some of them have learned how to pick locks and pried it open by themselves..."
"You still dare to quibble. Whether you left the door unlocked or picked the lock and left, this is a serious dereliction of duty on your part."
An angry roar of rebuke came from the Stone Pony Hotel.
The villagers in Anfeier Village stopped one after another and whispered to each other.
"What's going on? It's so early in the morning, and Mr. Gavin is so angry."
"I don't know. I just came here. I just heard Mr. Gavin scolding Miss Anna. Hey, Miss Anna is so pitiful. She helps to repair the hotel every day, purchases food and wood, and serves those kobolds. , she gave us free medical treatment when she was free. Now if she makes a small mistake, she will be scolded in front of her. If it were me, I would have quit long ago. She is a powerful priest and is a big shot everywhere."
"I heard that Miss Anna followed Mr. Gavin out of necessity."
"Oh? What's the reason? Tell me?"
"I don't know, I heard it from someone else, because whenever this issue is discussed, Miss Anna looks a little sad. Oh, it's really pitiful..."
"Are you mistaken? Mr. Gavin should not be that kind of vicious person."
"People should not be judged by their appearance. Many businessmen are good at pretending. They are one thing in front of others and another in front of others. What we see now is just the one Mr. Gavin has in front of others."
"The topic has gone off topic. What I'm asking is, what is happening now? Isn't the repair process of the hotel quite fast? Isn't Mr. Gavin still not satisfied?"
"It's not a matter of repairing the hotel. It seems that there was something wrong with the group of kobolds he brought. From what he said, it seemed that a small group of kobolds broke open the door and escaped last night."
"Huh? The kobold slaves have escaped? Those kobolds usually look very docile and obedient. I have never seen them whipped with leather whips or locked in shackles."
"Mr. Gavin did not use whips or shackles on those kobolds. Even the food was good, which is enviable. But you have also seen with your own eyes how long those kobolds have to work all day long. The sun had just turned west, and I was busy until the sun rose high the next morning. All in all, it would definitely be no less than thirteen or four hours, and I would never leave the hotel. If it were you, could you bear it?"
"One or two days is okay, but if it lasts for a long time, I will definitely not be able to bear it. No matter how good the food is, I will still find a way to run away."
"That's it. I guess those kobolds think the same way. After all, they are a race of monsters. It is their nature to want to escape back to the wilderness."
"That's right, I've only heard of kobolds being loyal to dragons, but never heard of being loyal to humans."
Those in the Amphile Village were discussing the situation and soon figured out the ins and outs of the whole matter.
There are many who take pleasure in others' misfortune.
As the saying goes, jealousy distorts people's appearance.
The strength and convenience of Gavin's kobold construction team is obvious to everyone.
In just ten days, a large hotel that looked like a ruin was brought back to life. It was incredibly fast.
The most important thing is that these kobolds are almost like slaves and do not need to be paid for work.
It's no wonder that Gavin became a millionaire at a young age, ignored the threat of the Weeping Witch of this hotel, and even boasted that he would build roads for free in Amphail Village.
He does have this unique advantage and capital.
After scolding Anna a few more words, Gavin angrily walked out of the Stone Pony Hotel and shouted to the crowd: "I am willing to offer a large reward to those kobolds who escaped. One thousand gold coins for each living person, and one thousand gold coins for each dead person." of ten gold coins.”
"A thousand gold coins? Since when did kobolds become so valuable? This money is enough to buy two heavy war horses!"
"Mr. Gavin is indeed very wealthy. He can buy and sell tens of thousands of gold coins with just one mouthful."
"Haha... What are you waiting for? Bring your best horses and hounds, and let's go catch the kobolds. They can't run very far on foot."
Gavin's words immediately caused a huge commotion among the villagers.
This is not something that has nothing to do with him, but a deal that makes people jealous.
As for danger, haha, those are a group of kobolds.
Even though the kobolds Gavin brought were taller and stronger than the wild ones in the wilderness, and had unique spell-like abilities, they were still a group of kobolds, two heads shorter than humans.
Not to mention one-on-one, even if it is one-on-two, many villagers are confident.
Not to mention, they won't go out alone, they must be in groups, with bows and arrows, horses and hounds, they are all available. How can they be afraid of a group of kobolds?
"Are you crazy? They are just a group of kobolds. If they run away, they will run away. Do you need to spend tens of thousands of gold coins to catch them back?" After hearing the news, Gao Se's mother rushed over and angrily scolded Gavin for his prodigal behavior.
Gavin said angrily: "I've trained these scoundrels for so long. As soon as they heard there was a dragon nearby, they turned around and ran away. Not only did they escape on their own, but they also moved the nearly 20,000 people I prepared." All funds are packed and taken away.
This kind of precedent must not be set. Even if it costs ten times the price, I will capture them.
As long as I capture those kobolds alive, the rest will belong to the captors. I want the living ones, and the dead ones have no value to me. "
"Mr. Gavin, just wait and see, haha... We are all good horsemen. Chasing a group of kobolds is not an easy task."
"Stop being so nagging, go quickly, go quickly. If you fall behind others, nothing will happen to us."
"The dragon Mr. Gavin mentioned is not the flying roc, right?"
"Besides it, I haven't heard of any dragons nearby."
"Does it also deserve to be called a dragon?"
"Everyone with dragon bloodline, no matter how thin, is considered a dragon in the eyes of these kobolds."
"In this way, we will have a direction for our pursuit later. The group of kobolds must have run towards the Krept Garden Forest."
"Then we have to hurry up. The Garden Forest is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from us. Once they escape into the forest, there will be nothing we can do."
Gavin's words were like adding fuel to the fire, and all the enthusiasm of the villagers in Amphail Village was activated.
Anyone who has the ability can't help but gather friends and prepare to go out to try their luck to see if they can find these gold-plated kobolds in the wilderness and tie them back.
When the kobolds escaped, they were obviously very panicked and did not clean up their footprints at all. Their tails were quickly bitten by the villagers' hunting dogs.
The scattered currency found along the way proved that Gavin was not lying.
Not only did the kobolds escape, they stole his money and escaped.
Even 20,000 gold coins are not light in weight, let alone loose coins such as silver coins and copper coins, which are naturally even more astonishing.
They severely slowed down the group of kobolds.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even have to waste any effort and wouldn't be able to catch up. Before they could catch up, the group of kobolds would have entered the garden forest.
No one dared to go into the dense forest and chase a group of kobolds.
Especially when this forest is occupied by an arrogant and ferocious flying roc.
With a little carelessness, it becomes its dinner.
(End of chapter)
