Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Shock of the Clergy

After resting, the priests continued on their way and soon entered the forest.

As soon as they entered the forest, several of the veterans in the team immediately frowned.

"Something is wrong!" said the veteran, who was the captain, "and the road in this grove has been recently repaired. ”

"Is there anything wrong with repairing the road?" asked the young crusader, who was in the same car with him, curiously.

The veteran nodded, pointing to the ground nearby: "You can see obvious traces of new soil on the ground here, but you can't hide the potholes in the shape of tree roots. It was supposed to have a tree, but it was cut down, the roots were dug up, and the road was repaired. ”

"Isn't that what road building is all about?"

Facing the inquiry of the juniors, the veteran sighed and pointed forward: "Look ahead, how many traces of this are there along the way?"

The young crusader looked forward and gasped.

Along the straight road, there were traces on both sides, except for the narrow section in the middle of the road.

It looks like there were a lot of trees here not so long ago, but in a short period of time, all of them were cut down, even the roots were dug up, and the road was filled with dirt and gravel.

This is not a small project, the road is not visible at all glances, and it is not known how many trees will be dug up during the renovation process.

"Hamlet Town...... Is there so many men?" another veteran asked suspiciously, "I'm afraid it will take thousands of people to do this, right?"

"Maybe more than a thousand. The veteran who served as the captain looked like water, "To be able to dispatch so many people to build roads, the scale of this 'town' is beyond our imagination!"

He uses the word "small town" slowly and heavily, and the irony is overflowing.

In this world, the so-called "small town" generally has a population of a few hundred, and a town with a population of thousands is not small - the average family is calculated according to five people, and a thousand people is 200 households and 200 houses...... It's a big scale.

Moreover, if thousands of young and strong workers can be dispatched to work, there will be at least the same number of women and the same number of old people and children behind them. In other words, if Hamlet really sent thousands of people to repair the road, it means that they have at least 3,000 people.

A population of 3,000 is no joke! Not to mention a down-and-out earl who is so dilapidated that there is only one town and a few villages left, even those nobles with real power do not have such a large population under their command.

Three thousand men meant that at least fifty or sixty full-time soldiers could be supported, and if necessary, the army could be temporarily expanded to three or five hundred. Although this military strength is not a powerful earl, it can definitely not be regarded as "down".

But in the information obtained by the "Shield of the Heavenly Father", the nobleman of Count Hamlet has indeed fallen a long time ago!

The former Earl of Hamlet was indeed very strong, and even the dukes had to woo him at that time. But that was more than a hundred or even two hundred years ago, since there was an earl with a brain problem, a puzzle operation, the county of Hamlet has gone downhill, and now it has long since lost its prosperity.

The current Hamlet county, not to mention that it is not enough for the grade of "earl", even if it is the grade of "baron", it is a little bit worse.

At least, judging from the intelligence on the "Shield of the Heavenly Father", it should be.

But now it seems that ...... information about the "Heavenly Father's Shield" is probably wrong.

"Count Hamlet has only been in the realm for about half a year, right?" said an old crusader with a shield painted with a bat impaled by a sword—which means he had fought against vampires—"It takes half a year to complete such a big project, and the strength of the Count of Hamlet cannot be underestimated!"

Everyone nodded, and some of the contempt for Count Hamlet in their hearts was completely gone.

Before, they all felt that it was a shame that the dignified earl was so mixed up that he wanted to ask for help.

Right now...... But they were all a little skeptical.

The Earl of Hamlet was able to complete the repair of such a road in just half a year, and its strength was not trivial. Not to mention their small detachment, even if all the forces of the "Heavenly Father's Shield" in this area are gathered, they may not be able to do similar things.

Even such a powerful county, Count Hamlet has to ask them for help, how bad is the situation in this county?

"I have a question. "They told us that there were all sorts of demons and monsters around the town. But along the way, we didn't see the demons and monsters, but we saw a road that had not been repaired for a long time...... If there are really a lot of demons and monsters nearby, how do they free up their hands to repair this road?"

"Maybe those demons don't show up during the day?" one soldier guessed.

"Even if the demons and monsters don't appear during the day, they always have to work and rest during the day to prepare for the night to resist the attacks of these monsters. ”

They are all experts in fighting monsters and have a lot of experience. Naturally, he could understand how difficult it was to fight against monsters.

Just as the young man wondered, Hamlet Town is capable of completing such a road in just half a year, and there are really many demons and monsters in their vicinity?

...... That's not right!

Everyone discussed and cautiously moved forward.

After walking for a while, the jealousy in the eyes of several veterans became more obvious.

They found that the road under their feet had not only been repaired, but also quite well-repaired.

The road is first made of earth, then rammed earth, sprinkled with gravel, and then tamped with earth. The twice-tamped gravel floor became much stronger, and even if a horse-drawn cart drove over it, it would not crush the road.

It is much more difficult to build such a road than to build a simple dirt road in the countryside.

The manpower required to tamp the ground can be several times more than that of ordinary filling!

...... Unbeknownst to them, of course, that while the work of carrying dirt and rocks was indeed done by the townspeople and hired adventurers, the work of tamping the ground was done by Pan Long.

In the imagination of the veterans, dozens of people need to be busy for a day or two of the journey, and he only needs to jump into the air and slap the ground to be done.

And he should also be careful not to push too hard, otherwise the ground may be pressed too deeply, and the road surface will accumulate water when it rains in the future......

In the world of Pan Long's previous life, science and technology were the primary productive forces, and the explosion of science and technology brought about a substantial increase in productivity, and after the change of the global pattern, this improvement will benefit all mankind, opening a new page in human history.

In Pan Long's modern life, science and technology are naturally still productive forces, but the title of "primary productive force" may not be able to be worn.

A master like Pan Long, who returns to the basics, is worthy of a large construction group by himself, and it is not an ordinary construction team, but a mechanized construction team with complete construction machinery and can open roads in the mountains and build bridges in the water.

For example, if he wants to build a railway, if he is given enough materials, he can start the construction single-handedly, and maybe several engineering teams will not be able to repair it as fast as him......

If it weren't for the fact that he needed to avoid people's eyes and ears when he was ramming the ground, and it was not good to directly stage the mythical scene of flying in front of everyone, where would this road need to be repaired for a month!

In three to five days at most, he will be able to complete the project.

On the first day, the tree is pulled, the second day is carried with soil, and on the third day, it is tamped. At most, the soil will be tamped again, and it will take five days to finish the work.

If it was replaced by his teacher Bi Lingkong, it would be even faster. It is estimated that as long as Bi Lingkong waves his hand, there will be an extra road in the woods, and with one more grab, the entire road will be tamped and hardened.

The whole process may not even take ten minutes.

Pan Long sometimes muttered: If you travel back again, you can make a monopoly even if you just work hard.

A project with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan can be completed single-handedly, and the construction period may be shorter, and the construction process is safer.

If you don't get rich, what is the reason?

If the teacher also travels back together, the two of them can even contract large-scale projects all over the earth. Whether it's digging mountains and roads or digging ditches to divert water, there's nothing they can't do.

Even...... Teacher, she can also fly directly to the moon, without any protection, she can work in a vacuum environment, and dig a large underground city directly on the side of the moon facing the earth.

Really, he believes that the teacher can definitely do it.

As long as the conditions offered by the big federal government are generous enough, the teacher may even build a Mars base together......

The people of Hamlet were at first shocked, then puzzled, and then ...... about the strange situation where the ground would be tamped the next day. Gradually, I got used to it.

Anyway, that's it, it's all a good thing.

Among the adventurers, a story began to circulate, a story about "Mr. Dragon is actually a giant dragon".

At first, the legend seems to be that "Mr. Ryu has the power of a dragon", but it soon evolved into "Mr. Ryu can control a dragon", and then "Mr. Ryu himself is a dragon...... When Pan Long, who was busy with work, realized that the adventurers in the town were already looking at him with awe.

It's just that behind the scenes, I often hear people muttering, "Why did the dragon come to Count Hamlet's aid?" Could it be that the ancestor of the Hamlet family was a princess who was snatched away by the dragon, and the count was actually his descendant?"

In this regard, Pan Long could only shake his head.

But the earl was very open-minded, and he smiled and persuaded Pan Long: "Isn't that good?"

"Where's the matter?"

"People think you're a dragon, but they don't think you're a bad person. A good dragon...... This is a mythical god who can protect the country. ”

"I don't want to protect any country!"

The Count laughed.

The clergy can't laugh at it right now.

They had been walking through the woods for most of the day, and as it was getting late, they suddenly saw a tall outpost in the distance ahead.

This made them very surprised and wondered - Hamlet Town has been almost semi-isolated from the world for hundreds of years, and even this road is newly built, where did this outpost come from?

They hurried to their way, and finally arrived at the outpost shortly after it was completely dark, and settled down in the outpost.

A post capable of stationing twenty soldiers, of course, was enough for them to rest. As soon as they settled in, they realized that the outpost was also newly built.

This made them more and more surprised and suspicious.

The construction of such a post also requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Count Hamlet has only been in office for more than half a year, so why have the roads been repaired and the outposts built?

Moreover, there are obvious traces of human life inside the outpost. Judging from the still warm hearth, the soldiers who were on duty here were still there even during the day, but they had just left at night.

The clergy opened the map and saw that the post was about fifteen kilometers from the town. In general parlance, it's almost a wilderness.

Hamlet can build a post in this wilderness, how many soldiers do they have?

In the living room of the outpost, twenty bunk beds were placed. This means that the standing strength of this post is twenty men.

There is a standing army of twenty men at a single outpost, how many such outposts are there around this town, and how many are there in total?

Unconsciously, several veterans of the "Heavenly Father's Shield" team frowned, and their hearts were full of worry.

Such a Hamlet town, really need to ask them for help?

If even such a Hamlet town needs help, how big of a crisis should it be?

With just a dozen of them, can they really solve this crisis?

After the young people had rested, the veterans were sitting by the fire in the living room, drinking hot drinks and discussing them, and everyone was worried.

Some people even suggested that they should return and go home.

"They are so powerful, even they can't solve the problem, I'm afraid they have to pull the entire 'Heavenly Father's Shield' over. The veteran said, "With our team, we used to die!"

This proposal made many people excited, but everyone finally had to reject it.

They are the priesthood, soldiers of God who fight to spread and preserve the glory of the Father. They can fail, they can die in battle, they can retire, they can even resign, but they must not back down, they cannot flee without a fight.

The glory of God is not to be blasphemed!

Take the issue to this level and things won't have to be discussed.

The veterans discussed it again, but in the end they could not come to any valuable conclusions.

The final result of their discussion was to move on, go to Hamlet Town first, and then see.

Yes, let's see. As for what exactly they will see, and what will they do when they see it? They can only hide their heads in the sand like the ostriches in the desert in the legend, and if they can't see the danger, the danger will not exist......