Liu Lei and the three of them walked towards the location of the cottage little by little in the dark woods.

"Stop"

Li Tianlong, who was suddenly walking in the front, whispered, I jumped down with Liu Lei and Xiaocui in the back.

"What's wrong? Uncle Li"

Liu Lei asked him in a low voice.

"Hey, hey, it's okay, this group of guys has learned well" Li Tianlong, a small wooden stick on the ground, gently pulled out the grass in front of the three people, a person the size of a basin is not thin, and the housekeeper is shining silver in the moonlight, which makes people feel chills unconsciously when they look at it.

The trap is made of stainless steel, which is clearly not the average hunter can have, and it also has a hidden symbol on it, which is the mark of a cottage.

In order to prevent being discovered, the cottage set up a lot of traps and traps within a radius of several miles, and the one Liu Lei and they encountered was one of them.

Li Tianlong did not lift this trap, but carefully took Liu Lei and Xiaocui to bypass, more and more traps for the rest of the journey, were discovered by Li Tianlong, it can be seen that the people in the cottage are not lazy, if there is no Li Tianlong to lead the way, Liu Lei estimates that he will not be able to pass, and now the safest road in the entire cottage is the path connected to Qingfeng Town.

"Stand Somebody"

Suddenly, a voice came from the front, and not far away, a man with plants on his body stood up, holding a weapon in his hand and facing Liu Lei and the three of them, blowing the whistle in his mouth.

Li Tianlong had actually discovered him a long time ago, but it didn't stop him from ventilating the news.

As the whistle sounded, a few more people came out of the woods not far away, surrounding Liu Lei and the others in the middle.

The person who appeared first was also confident, took two steps forward, and asked in an unkind tone, "What are you doing?" Say it? ”

Li Tianlong was very satisfied, and the vigilance of these people nodded and said, "Go and report it, the eldest young master is here."

It's not that Li Tianlong is afraid of these people, the key is that he saw that each of these people was wearing a Zhuge crossbow, if there was a misunderstanding. It is likely to hurt Liu Lei, so he hurriedly identified himself.

"Young Master?" The man was obviously stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and took two steps forward to lean over and look carefully, only then did he recognize the tears, and he was almost so frightened that he threw the weapons in his hand on the ground, and hurriedly said in a panic: "The villain should be damned, it's okay if no one comes out of the eldest young master, the eldest young master doesn't need to be surprised."

Liu Lei waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay, take me to see your manager."

In order to allow the blacksmith to better coordinate his work, Liu Lei handed over the cottage to him to be in charge, and appointed him as the head of the secret base some time ago.

recognized Liu Lei, don't these people dare to bring it? The golden retriever brought the three of them to the cottage, which is the gate of the cottage has already been renewed, it is covered with iron logs, and the wall is more than ten meters high.

The person who led the team blew a specific code with a whistle, and after a while, the door of the cottage was slowly opened, thinking that everyone was resting after dark, but I didn't expect that as soon as the door was opened, it was in full swing.

Originally, the houses of the bandits had all been demolished, and four tall furnaces had been built in the middle of the valley, at this time there was still a raging flame burning in the furnace, and next to it was a simple small shed, a group of people were shirtless under the light of the fire, constantly forging with iron hammers, and the sound of striking iron without the barrier of the gate suddenly reached Liu Lei's ears.

The leader of the team hurriedly trotted all the way to the big iron shed next to him, and called the blacksmith who was sweating with his upper body bare, and the blacksmith who was striking iron heard that Liu Lei was coming, so he hurriedly ran over, and suddenly stood back after a few steps, dragged the clothes on the side and draped them on his body, and then hurriedly ran over.

"Blacksmith, why haven't you rested after dark?" Liu Lei asked suspiciously.

The blacksmith smiled shyly and said to Liu Lei: "The weapon you want is more urgent, young master, in order not to delay your plan, take the slave blacksmith to work day and night, the current refined red crystal iron is already three hundred catties, red crystal iron ore is three thousand catties, and ordinary iron ore is about ten thousand catties."

Liu Lei asked in surprise: "So many?" How do you do that? ”

You must know that at the beginning, Liu Lei felt that providing Liu Tianzheng with 1,000 catties of red police iron ore every month was already the limit, but he didn't expect that under the leadership of the blacksmith, they not only mined 3,000 catties of ore in more than a month, but also refined 300 catties of pure red crystal iron.

The blacksmith had already guessed that Liu Lei would ask like this, and said with a smile: "This is thanks to you, if you didn't let us treat these slaves under us well, let them be fed and clothed every day, they would not have burst out with such great enthusiasm, now all the slaves feel that you are a god who came down to save them, these people have never lived a human life before, so now they are all very energetic, and they all want to repay you!" ”

Liu Lei sighed when he heard this, and couldn't help but feel that his cheeks were a little hot, a simple and kind person, under the devastation of slavery, even if he received a trace of favor, he would feel great happiness.

"Let's take a look first," Liu Lei said with some embarrassment.

The current cottage has completely changed from two months ago, and the blacksmith made a temporary cameo as a tour guide and took the three of them around the cottage.

The first thing to visit is naturally the four furnaces in the center of the furnace, the charcoal is burning violently under the furnace, and there are more than a dozen slaves next to each furnace who are constantly adding ore, and after the red crystal iron is completely melted, the molten iron is collected and poured into a special mold and cooled into iron ingots.

And the slave blacksmiths bought from the nearby shed were constantly swinging their hammers and striking the red ingots.

The blacksmith pointed to what they were building and said, "Young Master, the weapon money you want is in our full swing, but the requirements for the production of red crystal iron are relatively high, so we have only created 128 war knives and 20 pieces of iron armor so far, but according to your requirements, we have plated a layer of iron on the outside of each weapon to ensure that it will not be seen."

Well, Liu Lei nodded and said affirmatively: "It's okay to be slower, but the quality must be guaranteed." ”

The blacksmith hurriedly patted his chest to reassure Liu Lei

Then passing by the simple house, behind it is the warehouse where iron ingots are stored, and when the door of the warehouse is opened, black iron ingots are neatly stacked, especially a pile of red crystal iron ingots placed separately are emitting a dark red light.

Liu Lei saw that it was full of iron ingots, his eyes glowed hot, and he muttered in his heart that it was all money.

After visiting the warehouse, Liu Lei, who was still in shock, was taken by the blacksmith to the front of the mine behind the mountain, and the two black and secluded caves seemed to be the giant mouths of monsters.

For reasons of secrecy, although this red crystal mine can also be mined in the open pit, but for reasons of secrecy, only the most secure method of mining can be used at present, so that it will not be excavated outside, and in order to protect these slave miners, a large amount of wood is used to support it.

Wherever Liu Lei's group went, the nearby slaves would fall to their knees and look at Liu Lei with hot eyes. This scene was seen by Liu Lei, he nodded and lowered his head to think for a while, and said to the blacksmith: "You should also know that the slaves who participated in the battle to defend the city some time ago have been released from slavery by me, right?" ”

The blacksmith nodded

Liu Lei opened his mouth again and said: "Well, the efforts to fight on the front line have paid a lot of sacrifices, and they deserve it, and you have also made great efforts here, so you tell them, the slave blacksmiths who are building weapons, from today onwards, officially resume their civilian status, in two days I will have people remove their slaves, and I will give you ten places every month in the future, you choose ten people from these well-behaved miners, I will release them from slavery"

The blacksmith listened to Liu Lei's words, his eyes flashed, and he thanked Liu Lei excitedly, then turned his head and repeated Liu Lei's words loudly to the slaves who knelt on the ground.

All the slaves heard his words, and after a moment of stunned cheers, they all cheered wildly, although they had also fantasized about being able to free themselves from slavery and restore their status as commoners, and no longer be cattle and horses, but when this event really became a reality, they were still very excited.

Especially the blacksmiths who had just been taken as an example to remove their slavery were even more excited, and since then, ten places per month have also made all the hard-working craftsmen and miners see great hope, and all the slaves looked at Liu Lei's eyes with a scorching light, and began to shout Liu Lei's name loudly.

From this day on, in the hearts of these slaves, Liu Lei is their reborn parents, and they will defend Liu Lei with their lives.