The elves' pharmacy also talks about the homology of medicine, such as star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, fennel and other spices that are made of braised pork in Charles's hometown, and the medicinal materials here can also be used in cooking.

Anyway, Charles in the pot had already recognized several spices around him that he had on his own.

After an hour of boiling in a pot at the right temperature, Charles found that the aches and stiffness in his body had disappeared without a trace, but he still had no strength to recover, and his whole body felt soft.

According to Sister Mary, who was assigned to the assault detachment as a medical soldier, this pot of brine was prepared by everyone for His Royal Highness, and its effect was to speed up blood circulation and speed up the recovery of tired muscles.

Amid Churchill's shout of "Wait for His Highness to come out of the pot" and the laughter of the elves, Charles crawled out of the cauldron that used to cook horse food in the logistics detachment.

For the next few days, Charles continued to receive Smock's bow and arrow training during the day, and when he returned in the evening, he dragged his tired body to the pot for an hour.

During this time, Charles found that the other comrades in the assault team began to take the initiative to chat with him more frequently.

He thought about it for a while, maybe this was because he was wrapped in a rice dumpling by vines in the forest some time ago, and recently exposed the fact that he was weak in the bow and arrow, and then made those comrades-in-arms who felt that they were too dazzling to approach in the past realize that His Royal Highness Ru is not omnipotent, but also has an approachable side.

Of course, it is also possible that everyone thinks it is interesting to chat with His Highness while adding firewood.

After ten days of training, Charles finally stopped harming the dirt around the target, and the arrow could reach the target at a distance of 50 meters.

Smoker, who was training Charles on the side, nodded with satisfaction, then pointed to a few full quivers on the side, and said, "Your task this morning is to shoot all these arrows at the target, and you can't have lunch until you finish shooting." ”

After a day of non-stop drawing the bow and shooting arrows, Charles's whole body, especially his hands, continued to ache extremely much, and at the same time, the brine in the pot was also changed.

Charles returned to the dormitory after coming out of the pot that day, and found Matthews in the same room sitting at the table, writing something while making an abacus.

Charles didn't bother him, but got into his own bed.

Soon after, Charles, who was lying on the bed reading a book, was startled by a long sigh from Matthews.

"What's wrong?" said Charles, sitting up from the bed.

Matthews realized that Charles had returned, he picked up the water cup on the table, poured a sip of tea, and then asked, "Why didn't Your Highness go to watch the ball game?"

A number of sports and cultural events are regularly organized in the barracks, and a football match is organized in the evening during this time. Except for the fact that the ball is braided with elastic rattan on the inside and coated with slime glue on the outside, and magic is forbidden in the game, the football here is similar to Charles's hometown.

Tonight happened to be the day of their 168th Brigade against the 165th Brigade, and Churchill, the captain of the assault detachment, came on as a meat grinder in midfield, so everyone almost went to watch the game tonight.

"No, I've been tired lately. Charles shook his head, "What were you sighing just now?"

Matthews said very seriously: "Our elven clan is finished. ”

"What?" Charles jumped out of bed and pulled a chair next to Matthews and sat down, "What's the situation?"

Hearing Matthews say it so seriously, Charles couldn't help but pay attention to it.

Matthews took a piece of parchment from the table and said, "I worked in the Bureau of Statistics before I joined the army, and I am quite familiar with some numbers. ”

"Your Highness, you should know that more than a thousand years ago, we elves started the fertility reward program to increase the number of elves. ”

Seeing Charles nodding, Matthews continued: "In the past two days, I first calculated the growth rate of our elf numbers, estimated the number of elves five hundred years from now, and then estimated our annual grain production in the future. Finally, I estimated the amount of food available per capita. ”

Matthews handed the parchment to Charles, "I have found that the number of elves is growing much faster than the production of food, and at some point, we will face a severe food shortage. ”

Charles took the parchment and was surprised that the other party had discovered the "Malthusian Trap".

After holding the parchment for a while, Charles said: "I think that expanding the area of arable land and increasing the yield per unit area can delay the arrival of this problem." ”

"That's just a delay. Matthews said with some concern, "I'm afraid that then we will embark on the road of external expansion." ”

Charles nodded, as he found that there was a good chance that it would happen.

Especially the human society in the north will fight to the death with the demons every few hundred years, and in the end both will lose.

At that time, the elves who had been fishing in the south for thousands of years suddenly went north, and the best outcome for mankind in the future was to retreat to the north of the river.

However, after seeing Matthews' estimated time, Charles was not worried about it.

If his grave had been planted with a banyan tree, by the time that happened would have grown like the one outside, it would have covered the entire mountain.

At this time, Charles sighed and said, "It would be nice if a new continent could be discovered in the open sea." ”

The affairs of the overseas mainland are currently known to a very small number of people, and Victoria has not yet told Charles.

"It's hard. Matthews took the parchment handed back by Charles, "The monsters in the deep sea are too powerful. ”

At this time, Charles thought that he might not make a big plane in the future, and fly out of the sky to explore in a plane.

Charles, yawning, climbed back into bed, and Matthews continued to refine his ideas into a paper that he would submit later.

In his sleep, Charles first logged on to the dream platform on the side of the Rurik Kingdom, only to find that he had just posted a big news.

The Limhai Patrol in the eastern part of the kingdom yesterday arrested a group of humans who had crossed the forest on charges of illegal entry, illegal possession of controlled weapons, intentional wounding and intentional destruction of property.

Charles flipped through it, and then found a familiar name - Hakamitsu Yamada.

He thought about it for a moment, and then he remembered that this was the same traverser he and Diana had met on their escape a year earlier.

It's just that Charles didn't expect that this traverser, who still owed them money, would actually be arrested after crossing the forest sea.

Based on Charles's knowledge of the Rurik Kingdom, it is estimated that these guys will be sentenced to labor camp and then sent to the mines to dig for a few years.

Then the second important piece of news today is the intensification of patrols on the eastern border to prevent more spies from infiltrating.