At dawn, John wrapped up his clothes and went out. When the adults left a few days ago, they left him a few beef patties, which he treasured. He mixed them in a little at a time, seasoned them with seasoning and dipped them in some oil, and ate them with the crumbs until yesterday. .
This kind of treatment is already one of the best in the entire slum area. Many people have already run out of food. Yesterday morning, two starved corpses were carried out. If this continues, many people will starve to death.
There is grain for sale on the black market, but the price has increased sixfold, wiping out everyone's last copper. Damn Count Gula, his Grain Merchant Guild controls the grain trade in the entire city, and keeps increasing prices on the pretext that trade routes are interrupted. price.
I heard that it was for the position of city lord. John didn't understand and didn't want to understand these high-level power struggles. He just hoped that the market would recover quickly and food prices would return to normal.
He has hands and feet, and even if he does odd jobs carrying big bags, he can always make ends meet. Unlike the ghost he is now, he doesn't even know where to beg.
The market is getting more and more chaotic. From time to time, I see some ghostly people who look like a slave-catching team. Is it possible that there are still people who dare to catch people as slaves in the city?
He didn't know whether the slave-catching team dared to capture free people as slaves, but he knew that the slave traders were starting to make plans for the ghetto. In the past two days, some people had been poking around, probably waiting for an opportunity.
There were two women in John's family, who were the key targets of the slave traders. The only advantage of the slave traders over the slave catching teams was that they rarely used force and would not break into your home and kidnap you.
But when you are dying of hunger, they come to your door again. Not to mention giving you money, a few pieces of cake can make you 'voluntarily' sign a contract of sale.
Thinking of this, John couldn't help but worry about the two women at home, and couldn't help but want to go back, but his empty stomach reminded him that if he didn't go out to find food, the family would run out of food. .
Stepping out of the block in the black and smelly dirty water, John unexpectedly discovered that there were many more people on the street outside, and there were some gray skeletons on the street corners.
John's heart was shocked and he became excited instantly. He quickly ran over to watch.
He had not had a good impression of these skeletons before because the sight of them reminded him of death. But now, no matter how you look at it, these skeletons reveal one word - kindness.
The appearance of the skeleton guard represents the return of order.
If you have never experienced chaos, it is difficult to understand the value of order. Now that he understands it, the people around him also understand it, and everyone has an expression of relief on their faces.
John recognized several slave traders, and even their faces had kind smiles on them. The daggers that were usually exposed on their waists to scare people were now tightly covered.
Look, order is back, the ghosts have become humans.
There was a commotion in the street, and a brass dragon flew past, followed by a group of skeletons.
John shouted excitedly: "Lord Naig!"
Meeting an acquaintance, a special brass dragon with so many skeletons behind him, John immediately connected the return of order with people like Ange.
Naig turned his head and saw John, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed with his short paw: "Okay, so, you have been requisitioned, and now you are appointed as the Sheriff, leading the guards to maintain the security of this area."
He flew over without any explanation and slapped a badge on his hand. The skeletons behind Naige immediately turned their attention to him.
John held up the badge, a little confused, and pointed to his nose: "Me? Sheriff?"
"Yes, yes, Sheriff, we don't have enough manpower. You are here to take charge. You are familiar with this place. If anyone dares to cause trouble, you will arrest them."
At this point, Nigris leaned into his ear and continued to whisper: "If you can't beat him, just press here on the badge. Hold the badge, these skeleton guards will listen to you, don't let anyone take the badge away."
"But..." John was embarrassed, but his tone was a little excited and eager to try.
"Nothing but, the mission of saving the city is left to you, go quickly." Nigris said shirking the responsibility.
It wasn't that they were short of manpower, but that they were short of people who could lead the team. Except for the little angels and little zombies, the rest of the people were scattered, but for a city, it was still a drop in the bucket.
As for the people of the Rhine family, they have already taken over key places such as city defense, municipal administration, and grain depots, and they cannot spare anyone to maintain public order.
It is a god of knowledge, but it can only lead the skeleton guards to patrol the streets, and has no energy to penetrate into every block.
And even if it has the energy, it doesn't know where to start. If you are not familiar with the place, only a devil can know where the dirt is.
I didn't expect to meet John. Isn't this the person who is most familiar with the local environment?
"By the way, ask your wife and daughter to come over. We will build a stall for free food distribution later and let them distribute food. I will have people come to protect them and appoint them as city officials." Nigris said casually. The appointment of an official does not matter what level the municipal official is.
John was trembling all over: "Is this...is this okay?" Is this the rhythm of having the whole family become officials?
"What's wrong? Go quickly and find more people you know to come over. At least you can have enough to eat." Nigris urged him impatiently as he saw his ink stains.
Not long after, John brought over his wife, daughter, and a bunch of people he knew. Everyone was very enthusiastic when they heard that they had plenty to eat.
Not long after, Ange came over to deliver food. He reached out and found a large bag of food, as if it had been taken out of the storage space.
"Where did the food come from?" asked Negris.
Ange pointed in the direction of the Grain Chamber of Commerce, the same chamber of commerce where they met John when they first went to the city to sell vegetables: "They robbed it."
The trade routes were interrupted, and there was only one way left to solve the food crisis in the city - expropriation.
Collecting the excess grain from those noble companies and making a reasonable allocation, of course, the process is not very peaceful. In Ange's eyes, it is understood as a 'rob', and he is still the one who does it.
A bunch of skeletons surrounded the Chamber of Commerce and Food. Ange used magic to blast open the door of the Chamber of Commerce. The little zombie angel screamed and led the skeletons to rush in. The arrogant mercenaries quickly squatted down and surrendered.
Count Gula ran away, but all the food he had hoarded fell into Ange's hands. In order to train the city lord, Count Gula made a lot of preparations and hoarded enough food to deal with the aftermath. As long as he got the position of city lord, he would be able to start. Put grain in the warehouse and the market will stabilize immediately.
Of course Yin Coin did as he was told, opened the warehouse door, distributed grain at a fair price, and also built dozens of food distribution points to allow the poor to receive free food.
There were a large number of skeletons maintaining order, and no one dared to jump in line to fight. If they were human soldiers, they would warn them several times or drag them away, but the skeleton guards would not do that and just cut them off with their swords.
No one will try to reason with the Skeleton Guard.
The crisis in Beifeng City was completely resolved overnight. Now only the trade routes need to be opened up, Beifeng City can regain its previous vitality.
"We have already visited the place where the road is blocked. The mountains have isolated the entire Beifeng City from the desert, leaving only a pass. At that time, we heard that a huge boulder rolled down from the pass and blocked the pass. Now we have passed there. Look, the entire pass collapsed. It must have been that Gula who was unwilling to fail, so he blew up the pass." Feiwo said bitterly.
To clean up the completely collapsed pass, the amount of work would be too great. The forced food import temporarily solved the food crisis in Beifeng City, but the roads are impassable, and Beifeng City will eventually run out of food. what to do?
When he mentioned that the amount of work was too large, Duroken looked around and asked, "Where is your Excellency?"
The amount of work is large for ordinary people, but for Ange, it may only take more than half a month.
Yin Coin saw through what Du Luoken meant at a glance, and shook his head as he said: "Your Excellency has gone back to open up wasteland. We can't trouble you anymore. We can't even handle a trade route, and we always ask Your Excellency for help, so why do we need this city?" Assets that cannot generate income but become a burden are negative assets and should be discarded as soon as possible.”
Feiwo was shocked, what? Negative equity? Throw it away? Why did you just talk about giving up? He had just become the city lord, and his butt was still hot, so why did he become a negative asset?
Durokan asked: "What should we do?"
Silver Coin turned to Favor and asked, "Is there another way to the outside?"
Feworth asked for a while and said: "Yes, there is. There is a big rift valley along the mountains to the south. Someone built a cableway there. You can go to the other side of the rift valley through the cableway, and then follow the rift valley. We can cross the mountains and reach Stromgarde on the other side, which is a city larger than North Wind City, but the ropeway cannot transport food."
"How wide is the rift?" Duroken asked with his heart moving.
"It's about fifty meters, but it's very deep. If you fall, you'll be shattered into pieces," Fewer said.
"Has no one ever thought of building a bridge over it?" Durokan asked.
"Build a bridge?" Feiwo was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: "I heard someone from the Beifeng family say before that what geological conditions should be considered when building a bridge over the rift valley, and what kind of mechanics, stress, etc. are required for the bridge body? There are a lot of them. At least a master-level engineer is required to build a bridge. What does an engineer mean? I have never heard of it."
"Ahem!" Du Luoken took a step forward and said, "It shouldn't be difficult. I'll go take a look. But I still want someone to help me and give me a look. Otherwise, we'll measure it slowly. I don't know. How long can our food supply last?"
"Three months." Yin Coin knew exactly how much money he had in his pocket.
"Then please come and take a look, sir. Let's prepare some gifts, such as all the seeds we can find in the city, and ask for your help. Isn't this considered a negative asset?" Duroken suggested.
"Good idea." Yin Coin's eyes lit up.
Feiwo was confused. Didn't he just say that he wanted a 'master-level' engineering warlock? Why did you turn to collecting seeds again? Isn’t this topic jumping too much?
Yin Coin explained with a smile: "If the warlock's level is only the master level, then someone higher than the master can be regarded as the king level, right? Then, this is the king of alchemy and the king of engineering warlocks."
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After the dam was built and after several days of water storage, the water level of the Shah River has risen. As long as horizontal canals are dug, large tracts of land on both sides of the river can be irrigated.
After Ange finished his work in the city, he couldn't wait to run back to work on his fields. This time, the area that needed to be reclaimed at once was too large, and the four of them couldn't handle it.
As a last resort, he selected a group of 'smart' gray skeletons to help.
When he was in Desert Town, Ange discovered a problem. The gray skeletons here were smarter than those of the same level in the main plane. They had at least the intelligence of silver skeletons, and a small number of silver skeletons could even possess the intelligence of gold skeletons. It can barely be regarded as an intelligent skeleton.
The skeleton is smart, and it is much easier for Ange to summon it. At least it is capable of digging trenches, ridges, and canals.
"These gray bones are so smart. It hurts my heart. It was originally my aura of enlightenment, but it was snatched away by that dead bone. I'm so angry." Nigris commanded the gray bones and cursed.
No one paid any attention to it.
Nigris didn't care and continued: "Should we go find it? Find my enlightenment halo. Then we can make these skeletons smarter."
Still no one paid attention to it.
"Your Majesty doesn't know how much land he has left. Let's go out and look around. Maybe we can find a larger piece of fertile land than here, which is much better than this kind of desert."
There was no sound at all.
I muttered in different ways for a long time, but no one paid any attention to it.
Realizing that Ange was determined to farm, Nigris shut up.
The ditch is dug, the gate is opened and water is released to soak the land, and then the gate is opened to spread the seeds.
Ange selected Elaeagnus elegans, which is most suitable for growing in the desert. The roots of each Elaeagnus tree are pre-buried with insect ash.
Ange catches a handful of these insect ashes every ten minutes. With hard work, a little adds up.
With the growth of his soul, Ange's grabbing interval has now been shortened to once every sixteen minutes. He can grab a handful each time, but he cannot grab space items.
He tried grabbing a storage bag or a ring, but as long as there was something inside, he couldn't grab it unless the storage space was emptied. He didn't know what the mechanism was.
Instead, his consciousness returned to his true body, and then he transformed into Locke and stuffed things over here, so that he could stuff the storage accessories containing the things over.
But there are only those small storage spaces, a large space of several hundred cubic meters like the one cut by the big cat, which can't be filled.
Ange only stuffed it once, stuffing six storage bags of about two cubic meters, two of which were filled with seeds, and the other four bags were filled with soul crystals, the number of which was at least several million.
This time, if he needs money for anything, he can just hit people with soul crystals.
The jujube tree grew rapidly. When it reached waist height, Ange paused the quick-death aura.
Then interplant the sweet potato at intervals between the jujube trees. In this way, the jujube trees block the intense sunlight and the sweet potato can grow more stably.
Everything was in order, and soon a lot of green appeared on both sides of the sand river.
Du Luoken and Yin Coin drove the carriage all the way over and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so strange. You are obviously an undead creature. Why doesn't you bring death with you wherever you go? Instead, you bring endless vitality."
"Isn't this good? Life is more interesting than death. There are too few seeds in Beifeng City. I haven't found any new seeds. I don't know if adults will like these things." Duroken said, looking back There were bundles of translucent things stacked in the carriage carriage behind him.
