In the morning, thick fog floods mountains, rivers and roads.

The fresh, natural air of the mountains became muddy and dirty like spring water trampled by a galloping horse.

In the haze, there seemed to be a whirlpool forming, countless pairs of eyes wanted to tear them apart, and the caravan was bathed in sunlight again, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The behemoth is regaining its strength and is ready to cull its next target.

Adam frowned and stood silently, put away the letterhead sent from Taeganda, and gently clenched his fist to feel the presence of the ring, and the uneasiness resurfaced.

"My lord, are you alright? If you have other requirements for the color scheme of the pattern, we can readjust it. ”

The apprentice is a down-to-earth and hard-working girl.

She had been in awe of Adam since the mountains, and at this point she seemed cramped and uneasy, and the slightest frown of the lord would frighten her.

"Be quiet! Don't bother Mr. to think. You go to trim the patches, and the basket in the back is almost full, and you're still hanging around here. ”

Mrs. Copper reprimanded sharply, and the girl ran away as if relieved, and wiped her cold sweat.

Adam raised his eyebrows and was silent, but in his heart he kept recalling:

What did she do, did she leave any psychological shadows, or did her expression lose control, is it so scary?

The tailor's house was cleaned and tidy.

A steaming cup of dandelion tea sits on the table.

This is a defective product that the textile apprentices received from the processing office - after all, the base is rushing for the first orders, so it cannot supply the boutique.

Mrs. Cooper's eyes narrowed, she was sketching a subtle pattern with a skip stitch technique.

The entire flag was divided into sections by thin lines, and a wooden frame held up an area before she finished working on the draft before it was handed over to someone else.

"There are only four apprentices, should I arrange for some more needlework to help?"

Adam asked, the envelope clipped to his fingertips.

"Don't worry, the pattern is already very streamlined, it will definitely be officially completed before the banquet, and this flag hanging in front of the main building must be very magnificent."

Mrs. Cooper replied, and she finished the last stitch.

The wooden chair babbled, the axles turned, the rest of the area turned around, and she continued to work on the new fabric.

The colony is unusually busy right now.

When the workload is doubled, if someone comes to help, it will hurt the self-esteem of the female embroiderer.

Adam didn't force it, and after a little discussion of the composition, he got up and left, and he asked the guard on duty to fetch some of the best dandelion products and send them here.

[There is some movement in the forest area, like a sword hanging above your head, uneasiness rises and falls in the bottom of your heart, you have to do something to prepare. 】

Lukka rushed back from the camp and reported the results of the survey.

He has been able to protect himself in training in the past few days, some old injuries are slowly recovering, and the whole person has become more burly and strong.

"The mountain fog is very weird, it spreads from the direction of Taigangda, and the concentration and water vapor composition are not very natural. You know, I used to plow the land, and I know a lot about the mountain season, but the forest is very evil anyway. ”

"Is there a report of a caravan attack?"

Adam asked, frowning, and began to think of fortifications in his head.

"In fact, it's ...... the opposite"

Lukka untied his belt pouch and poured out the items he had retrieved from the scene.

"I led the team for a long time, and the areas that had not been cleaned seemed to have been looted by some livestock, and they were a little scaryly quiet."

【Biting off sideburns leg bones】

[Damaged Bear Skin Fragment (Brown)]

【Ghoul Severed Limbs】

……

Adam had scrutinized the stubble sections, and the perpetrators were undoubtedly some kind of ferocious beast, and they were infested in groups.

The strange thing is that they didn't attack the caravan.

That is, these creatures follow a certain pattern, or obey a certain leader, and may even aim for a fixed goal.

There was tingling from the fingertips, and the lord's warning warnings became more and more frequent.

"The scope of field mining must be reduced, and it is necessary to be within the sentry area of the camp, the night shutdown time must be advanced, and the traps and obstacle fences in the barracks must be prepared."

Adam carefully instructed that these basic fortifications had already been prepared in the storehouse.

At the beginning, the ambush bandit team in the mountain range basically relied on these things, so it was quite handy to prepare and operate.

The wooden cones resemble improvised walls, roughly enclosing the stronghold.

The banks of the river are open farmland, which is huge and has no crops, so it would not be a pity to destroy them if the people were evacuated.

Behind the lumber yard is the barracks, and even if troops come in from the newly opened road, they will be the first to block it.

The focus of defense is in the direction of the forest, and countless traps have been placed.

This slightly tense preparation for the war cooled down the atmosphere of the stronghold a lot, and many people always felt trembling in their hearts when they recalled the days of running away to survive.

The more people are impregnated with hope, the more they panic about loss and death.

Adam was a frequent haunt in the open field, and many of his jobs were interviewed, and he was seen as often as possible so that the residents could see him from any place they wanted.

The inhabitants of the colony trust their lords, and if you close your eyes, you can hear them whispering your name. 】

Maybe it's some kind of after-effect of a previous experience.

"Hey, wait, I remembered."

"My lord, is there something going on?"

Adam patted Lukka on the shoulder and laughed:

"Remember when you were looking for homeless people in the valleys? At that time, in order to prevent a few clever ghosts from being lazy, I may have been a little cruel to the village women who picked herbs.

One of them, a girl who was currently working as an apprentice in a tailor's house, was still trembling at the sight of me. ”

Lukka frowned and nodded, waiting for the lord to continue his orders.

Whether it's what to do to remedy it or what to distribute, the people under your command can do it quickly.

Because he is the ruler of the stronghold.

The mood of an ordinary resident is simply insignificant.

It was because Adam understood these thoughts that he felt a little sad, and if his respect was unbalanced, he would be imprisoned in an "island of kingship".

He made a decision on the spot: when this stage was over, he would go on a long trip to the southern ports to earn resources.

"So, girl, what are you going to do?"

"Shut your mouth, Luca, and forget all the speculation in your head."

Although this episode ended, because of this incident, he also suddenly thought of some preparations that he had neglected.

Adam and Lukka leave the gravel pavement and walk towards this single-family hut in the middle of nowhere—the final piece of the puzzle for the colony's defenses.

【Secret Art Room LV1】

【Boilers, herbs, greases. 】

[All the advanced formulas that have been enshrined in the royal classics, and the research full of experimentation and exploration, almost all start from simple and dilapidated houses. 】

Wild camps are often surrounded by danger.

The potions used to repel poisonous insects, the sword oil applied to the edges of weapons, the fertilization of ridges, and the catalytic reagents used to treat tree stumps......

It's all boiled in this well-ventilated wooden house.