Half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the City of Hope has been developing silently.

During this period, the City of Hope made another trade with the caravans of the surrounding villages.

Now, Ellie is more than capable of doing the job as the head of trade in the City of Hope.

Even Mu Lao complained that Ellie was more shrewd than Meng Chen, and it was even more difficult to take advantage of the transaction than to ascend to the sky.

At this time, the inner wall of the City of Hope is only the last section to be completed.

In another fourteen days, the inner city wall of 1,600 meters long will be completely connected into a single whole.

According to Meng Chen's plan, only two gates were reserved for the inner city wall, facing due north and east.

The main body of the two gates is made of white quality metal three meters high, four meters wide and 20 centimeters thick, and each gate weighs nearly 20 tons.

In addition to the city gate, the inner city wall is equipped with a boss every ten meters, which can be used to install a three-bow bed crossbow.

The entire inner wall was divided into four sides, and a maximum of thirty-two three-bow crossbows could be installed on each side, requiring a total of 128 three-bow bed crossbows.

Now, the Earth Dragons in the central region of the Dragon Valley, as well as all medium-threat creatures, have been slaughtered, and the City of Hope's three-bow bed crossbows have reached one hundred and ninety-eight, which is fully capable of meeting the needs of the inner city walls.

So far, it has been more than seven months since the city of hope was built, and the total population has reached 2,038.

These included 400 Farmers, 20 Lumberjacks, 300 Quarrymen, 60 Coachmen, 50 Miners, 200 Swordsmen, 180 Marksmen, 204 Elite Swordsmen, 218 Elite Marksmen, 136 Sword and Shield Warriors, 168 Marksmen, 10 Instructors, 10 Tailors, 20 Blacksmiths, 10 Carpenters, 10 Leathermen, 5 Cooks, 5 Butchers, 10 Tomb Keepers, 10 Scholars, and 10 Doctors.

Currently, there are 24,510 lumber (grey/white), 14,340 stone (grey), 512 metal (grey/white), and 583,240 grain (grey/white) in the four warehouses in the City of Hope.

As for Meng Chen's resource space, he has 35,420 gold coins, 524 soul power, 7,020/10,000 grain (gray/white), 104/1000 wood (gray/green), 100/1000 stone (gray), and 0/1000 metal (gray).

After checking the resource information, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "In less than a month, forty plantations will enter the harvest season one after another, and the grain in the warehouse will reach millions of units by then!" ”

Meng Chen was already preparing for the arrival of the cold winter season.

As the inner city wall was about to be completed, Meng Chen began to plan the construction of a moat.

According to Meng Chen's idea, a moat with a width of 30 meters and a depth of 10 meters needed to be built outside the inner city wall, which was actually a relatively wide ditch.

Once this moat is built, it will greatly improve the defense of the inner city.

Through the light curtain in his mind, Meng Chen learned that in order to build this moat, he needed to consume 12,000 gold coins and 30,000 units of stone (gray).

Based on the current reserves of stone resources, Meng Chen decided to build this moat in three sections.

Ten meters outside the inner city wall in the south, Meng Chen passed the light curtain in his mind and gave the order to build the first section of the moat.

"Gold - 4000, Stone (Gray) - 10000, start building a ditch (1st tier)! After 480 hours, the construction was complete! ”

On the route planned by the moat, a groove 30 meters wide and 10 meters deep is slowly extruded due to the action of an invisible force field.

A square stone appears out of thin air, is cut into stone slabs, and lays itself on the surface of the groove.

"Does it take twenty days? It's been a long time! However, these three moats should be able to be built before the Evil Moon arrives. Meng Chen said secretly.

After returning to the city hall, Meng Chen found that Ellie had been waiting for a long time.

Aili, who was standing at the wooden table, bowed to Meng Chen and said, "Lord Lord, your customized equipment has been made, please take a look!" ”

There were five or six pieces of weapons and equipment on the wooden table, all of which were of the Refined level.

It includes a portable bow, twenty matching arrows, a set of inner armor, a heart goggle, and two Earth Dragon's Tooth daggers.

The reason why Meng Chen customized these equipment was naturally to prepare for leaving the Earth Dragon Valley.

At that transaction five days ago, Mu Lao told Meng Chen the news that the annual bull taming festival was about to begin.

The Cattle Taming Festival is a unique festival in Manniu Village, and it is also the most important festival of the year in Manniu Village.

Every year in mid-July, Manniu Village invites all villages within a radius of 300 miles to participate in this rare event.

Due to the strength and domineering nature of Manniu Village, most of the surrounding villages will send representatives to participate.

Over time, the festival became a popular bazaar.

Meng Chen always remembered that Manniu Village had pitted himself a few times.

Therefore, this Bull Taming Festival, Meng Chen plans to join in the fun, and by the way, try to see if he can go back to Manniu Village.

Ellie's successful promotion to hero was also an important reason for Meng Chen to leave with confidence.

There were only two people scheduled to travel, Meng Chen and Alfred.

As for ordinary soldiers, bringing too much is too eye-catching, and bringing less is useless, so Meng Chen simply doesn't bring any of them.

After inspecting the customized equipment, Meng Chen nodded and said, "Very good!" I'm satisfied! ”

These pieces of equipment are made from the best materials available, crafted by the craftsmen of the City of Hope, and consume more resources than even ten Tier 3 suits.

However, for Meng Chen at this time, the entire City of Hope was his, and he could proudly say, "We're not short of money!" ”

Suddenly, Meng Chen seemed to think of something, and asked Ellie, "Ellie, how is Alfred's preparation?" ”

Ellie pursed her lips and smiled, "Rest assured, Alfred is ready!" ”

Just then, Alfred walked into the town hall.

I saw that Alfred, who had always been handsome and dashing and full of aristocratic temperament, had completely changed into a different appearance at this moment.

long, pale blonde hair, dyed blackish-gray with dye;

a white aristocratic gown, replaced by a black tattered robe;

Even the fair skin was covered with a sallow yellow dye.

Overall, Alfred's disguise was quite successful, except for the fact that the blue eyes of the lake could not conceal it.

Rubbing his messy black hair and shaking his tattered robes, Alfred smiled bitterly, "My lord, this outfit is really uncomfortable! Can you change it a little bit? Like, wearing a hat instead of dyeing your hair? ”

Meng Chen held back a smile, came to Alfred, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "This is a difficult task, and we must be rigorous and meticulous to ensure that there will be no mistakes. ”

Alfred looked helpless, and could only resign himself to his fate: "Yes! Your Lord! ”

If the hero has a loyalty attribute, if you want to come to Alfred's loyalty, you must be in a crazy drop state at this moment.