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The establishment of a settlement on Wake Reef, which is full of desolation in the Gobi Desert, to sustain the long-term life of human inhabitants is a key point, otherwise it would be a not-so-funny joke for pirates to learn to sleep in tents in the desert by the Bedouins who herd camels. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!)

The climate is very hot and dry all year round, and there is little rain and sand raging, and there is certainly no shortage of stones and sand on Wake Reef, but how to bond the two together is quite difficult, and choosing to use volcanic cement is a more clever method. Although Luo Zhengdao didn't have the heart to promote any industrial mass production in the new world of magic and swords, he still knew some of the necessary skills of the traverser. Just imagine, if you don't even know the basic skills of steelmaking, glass burning, and cement, it will be a waste of time!

The construction that lasted for more than 20 days was a severe test, and according to Luo Zhengdao's physical experience, at noon, the surface temperature of Wake Reef would be at least 70 degrees Celsius, and after sunset, the temperature would drop rapidly, and the minimum temperature at night would often remain at about 10 degrees. Living in this harsh environment of hot and cold, let alone working hard, lying still is an extreme sport that tests the human body's endurance. Luo Zhengdao used all kinds of means to drive the pirates to work hard, one after another stone buildings rose on the Gobi Desert, and the water-soaked grass curtains covered the stone buildings, and the sailors came from the direction of the Mage Tower, carrying buckets to continuously replenish the water for these straw curtains, to ensure that the humidity conditions required for cement hardening were met.

Under the scorching sun, the bare rocks exposed to direct sunlight were so hot that they were scared to death, and the disgusted Luo Zhengdao did an experiment with his own hands, he randomly found a flat rock and brushed it with a layer of oil, put the cut raw meat slices on it, and the meat was cooked thoroughly in less than two minutes.

The daytime of Wake Reef is like a natural oven, so hot that people feel a burning pain in their respiratory tract every time they breathe air, and they are deeply suffering from the local high temperatures. Even not-so-heavy work would have cost far more than normal body and sweat, and if it weren't for the double quota of rum for dinner promised by Luo Zhengdao, and the open supply of beer during breaks, such material incentives would have been tempting enough to keep this group of unruly fellows obedient to work.

As the Wick Reef settlement took shape over time, recruiting residents became the focus of Luo Zhengdao's next phase, and when he saw one ship after another full of new immigrants arriving, he began to get worried again, and complained to Vina Dubov:

"Three thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven people, alas, the number is not too many, but it is necessary to eat a lot of money, and it is not possible to go on like this!"

If there are not so many civilians joining Wake Reef, just relying on those pirates to do their jobs, these rabbit cubs who never work hard will rebel sooner or later, and the cost will inevitably increase if there are more people. For this reason, Luo Zhengdao, who was in pain and happy, complained to the half-elf beauty, and at the same time thought in his heart how long it would be before he could turn the barren Wake Reef into a pirate lair, and he was still fiddling with an architectural drawing, the style of which was a multi-pointed star-shaped fortress that had never been seen before in the New World.

In the military history of the Old World, this kind of fortress with a shape similar to serrations and gears appeared in the Renaissance period, and then became popular in Euro 6 to become the standard fortification of modern warfare, such facilities are collectively called "bastions", and are the most representative 6 defensive structures before World War I.

Compared with the traditional style of linear defensive walls, which are characterized by deep ditches and high ramparts, the shape is uneven, and the low and heavy walls of the fortress have tenacious survival ability in the face of long-range firearms such as artillery. The fortress building system, which consists of multiple trenches, inclined walls, low and thick walls and artillery forts, is not only conducive to the bombardment of solid shells, but also effectively deploys one's own fire to return fire to the enemy. If a sufficient number of artillery pieces are deployed in the fortress to participate in defensive operations, then the enemy army will not be able to find any conventional tactics to break through the fortress defense system except for the impossible method of long-term siege.

The New World is certainly the background of the world of magic and swords, but it is not the background of the high demon era when demigods are all over the streets and there are as many lich as dogs. The era of giants and dragons, and magic card masters has passed, and now it belongs to the relative withering demon period, and the kind of fierce people who ride a thousand are not nothing, but they are not something that can be encountered casually, and the war of ordinary people is still the mainstream mode.

Those who are qualified to mow the grass are mostly in a certain half-plane or in the outer realm and the lower plane, and the chances of seeing them are not much lower than winning the lottery. Similar to the previous Steve Charr, who Luo Zhengdao invited to be responsible for the construction of the Mage Tower, he can also be regarded as a ** master with a head and a face, according to the classification of D&D, this bull-coaxing Charles master is counted as a character between fifteen and eighteen, and there is a gap between the boss and the real twenty-first ** master! Even so, Master Steve Shire is still a part of the spire of the Pyramid of Magical Power, which is determined by the characteristics of the Arcanist's class.

High-level mages who are qualified to play a decisive role in the war have always been rare, and the role of low-level mages appearing on the battlefield is like chicken ribs, and most of the mages who have learned have been studying arcane and alchemy in the mage tower for many years, not a game world that needs to fight monsters and level up, and people are comfortable in the mage tower, and they can still accumulate experience and upgrade all the way. Because of this, a smart person will not lightly participate in activities where the risks and benefits are not proportional, and if he tries to persuade a mage to risk his life to fight a bloody battle, the gain is nothing more than some money and illusory honor, and it is estimated that this crappy lobbyist will definitely be sprayed in the face and sent away by a pile of fireballs.

Seeing that Steve Charles made a special trip to Wake Reef to build the Mage Tower for 20,000 gold coins, he didn't take any risks! Unless Luo Zhengdao intends to turn his face and repay the debt, otherwise, in addition to working hard at the construction site, it is nothing more than paying the cost of time, which is not the same concept as devoting himself to a war that is difficult to predict the good fortune and the bad fortune, and fighting bravely with arrows and stones.

Luo Zhengdao freely imagined the future blueprint of Wake Reef in his mind, and said contentedly:

"Well, the construction of the stronghold is roughly in place, and the rest is to improve all kinds of facilities, the castle walls and moats will take some time, and the most important thing at present is to increase income, and it is difficult to feed when there is a large population!"

Negatively affected by the continuous intensification of the activities of the goblin fleet, those human displaced people who temporarily live in the sea of stars have plans to move away for refuge, once they are captured by the goblins and put into a slave camp, although it cannot be said that they will die, there is no need to doubt that they will live worse than death. There is no need to have any ability to foresee the future, people with a little common sense feel a huge threat coming, so when Luo Zhengdao recruits human refugees in the name of exiled nobles, things are not as difficult as he imagined, and civilians should seek protection from the noble lord, this is the normal way of thinking of humans in the New World, and the rapid increase in the population of Wake Reef is not unrelated to this cultural tradition.

At this moment, Zola, the boatswain who walked into Luo Zhengdao's office, happened to hear Luo Zhengdao's words, he touched his chin and said:

"Your Excellency, are you going to take the rest of you out to work?"

Hearing this, he greeted Zola Hegel warmly, Luo Zhengdao smiled slightly, and said:

"Yes! It's been a hard time, and we don't have much income at Wake Reef, so I'm thinking about where to find the sheep. ”

When it came to the topic of robbing houses, the boatswain, who was definitely a hardcore veteran, immediately came to the desk, he raised his eyes and scanned the chart, pointed to the point above and said:

"Your Excellency, please look here."

"Blood Coral Harbor?"

Looking down and seeing the position pointed by the boatswain, Luo Zhengdao was very surprised and asked rhetorically, could it be that the information provided on this chart is not accurate and detailed?

The charts used by pirates are much more complex than those used by the general merchant fleet, and the charts of merchant ships usually only indicate the main routes and supply points and commercial ports, while pirates need to record a lot of annotated information on the charts to avoid forgetting and omissions, such as a certain remote reef with a freshwater spring, a nameless island with great danger, etc., these information have extremely high practical value. At this moment, on the chart in front of Luo Zhengdao, the word Blood Coral Harbor was circled in red by the drawer, which roughly meant that it was marked as a relatively dangerous and tricky target.

Hearing Luo Zhengdao say this, Zola Hegel laughed and said confidently:

"Yes, Your Excellency, Captain. I received word from an informant that the goblin fleet had captured a group of human exiles and sent them to Blood Coral Harbor, intending to send them back to the city of Lord 6 to be executed to deter the human slaves who tried to rebel against the goblins. ”

Hearing this, he had already developed enough sense of identity with the human race in the new world, Luo Zhengdao couldn't stop his anger, smashed his fist on the table, and scolded loudly:

"Those damn green-skinned brutes, a bunch of beasts."

After calming down, Luo Zhengdao remembered a famous saying from the old world, and suddenly said with a sneer:

"No, the beasts still have a trace of mercy, and the goblins don't even have a trace of mercy, so they are not beasts."

Hearing this cold joke, Zola Hegel was speechless by Luo Zhengdao's complaints, like a fish out of water, and his mouth could not say anything when he opened and closed several times. Seeing this, Luo Zhengdao laughed self-deprecatingly, no matter how sharp the weapon of criticism is, it can't replace the criticism of the weapon, and he can't hurt a single hair of the goblins when he stands in a safe place to satirize them, what a boring move this is!

"Well, I'm not interested in researching what those goblins are. These unlucky bastards should be useful to me, call everyone to a meeting! Call everybody, and we'll discuss what to do with this. ”