On this day, Meng Chen finally received a report from Alfred, and Lin Rufeng led a convoy to wait outside the parapet.

Meng Chen immediately ordered dozens of coachmen to transport 100,000 units of grain (gray) to the northern mountain pass.

After introducing Lin Rufeng's convoy into Dilong Valley, Meng Chen pointed to the mountains of grain and arched his hand towards Lin Rufeng: "Senior Lin, a thousand stones of grain are here. As long as the news is worth the money, this thousand stone grain can be taken away immediately! ”

Lin Rufeng nodded, handed a map to Meng Chen, and then said: "This is the map from Dilong Valley to Wumeng City, there are three routes, and the villages and beast territories on the way are marked in detail. As for the news, Boss Meng, please listen to Lin and say slowly......"

Four days ago, in the Blood Refining Sect's sect mission, a new mission about Earth Dragon Valley appeared.

The introduction of this sect's quest is very simple, kill the leader, commander and Meng Chen of the Oseril people in the Earth Dragon Valley, and you can receive the task reward with the human head as evidence.

Kill the leader of the Othariels and get a reward of 100 gold knives and 100 sect contributions.

Kill the leader of the Othariels and get 50 gold sword coins and 50 sect contributions.

Kill Mengchen of Earth Dragon Valley, and the reward is ten gold sword coins and ten sect contributions.

For the disciples of the Blood Refining Sect, the Golden Sword Coin was nothing, but the sect's contribution was very important.

As long as there are enough sect contributions, they can not only exchange for cultivation resources, but also for the position of the Blood Refining Sect.

Niu Ao's position as a deacon of the Blood Refining Sect was obtained through sect contributions.

After listening to Lin Rufeng's story, Meng Chen was surprised: "I was also rewarded?" How can it be? ”

Lin Rufeng looked at Meng Chen with a sympathetic expression and said, "Boss Meng may have inadvertently offended Niu Ao of Manniu Village. Because of this sect's task, Niu Ao, the deacon of the Blood Refining Sect, used the sect's contribution to release it. ”

"Isn't it just fooling him? The deacon of the Blood Refining Sect, how could he be so small-minded? Meng Chen scolded in his heart.

Meng Chen thought for a moment and asked, "Since Senior Lin can learn the details of this task, can you know that there are disciples of the Blood Refining Sect who have taken over this task?" ”

Lin Rufeng replied: "Lin can only guarantee that two days ago, this task has not been accepted. After that, Lin didn't dare to guarantee it. ”

Then, Lin Rufeng said with relief: "The reward given by Niu Ao is not very rich, most of the people who are willing to accept this task are inner disciples, and there should not be too many elite disciples." However, Boss Meng still notified the leader as soon as possible and hid in the refuge place in advance. ”

"Hiding in a place of refuge? What about my city? Meng Chen said helplessly.

Facing Lin Rufeng's kindness, Meng Chen could only smile and said, "Thank you Senior Lin for reminding me, I will inform the leader in the future!" ”

After the transaction was over, Lin Rufeng immediately got up and said goodbye, obviously unwilling to stay in Dilong Valley for a long time.

After seeing Lin Rufeng's convoy leave, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "The mission of the Blood Refining Sect is ...... It's a big problem! How do you survive the period before the Evil Moon comes? ”

It's the beginning of August, and there's still a month and a half left before the evil moon comes.

Before the construction of the moat was completed, Meng Chen had no way to shrink his defenses, so he could only stubbornly prevent the disciples of the Blood Refining Sect from entering the Earth Dragon Valley.

Otherwise, if the disciples of the Blood Refining Sect discover the abnormality and send the news back to the Blood Refining Sect, then the Blood Refining Sect is likely to pour out.

Thinking of this, Meng Chen immediately ordered: "Alfred, immediately replace the garrison troops in the northern mountain pass with sword and shield warriors and sharpshooters. And from today onwards, your mission is to guard the northern mountain pass and strictly prohibit anyone from breaking into the Earth Dragon Valley! ”

"Yes! Your Lord! Alfred bowed in response.

For a period of time that followed, Meng Chen was worried all day long, lest a large number of Quenching Body Realm martial artists break into the Earth Dragon Valley and completely spread the secrets of the City of Hope.

By this time, all the grain had been harvested from the forty plantations, and the farmers had prepared enough forage for the livestock to survive the winter.

In the future, the role of farmers became smaller and smaller, and Meng Chen planned to train all the farmers into soldiers in batches.

In addition to farmers, the population of the City of Hope is also very large.

Although the investment of resources in the moat has ended, Meng Chen has no intention of curtailing the quarryman.

Because Meng Chen plans to start the infrastructure construction of the inner city after the construction of the moat is completed.

This infrastructure includes ground hardening, urban road works, and ditch pipes.

Through the light curtain in his mind, Meng Chen learned that this infrastructure construction would cost 24,000 gold coins, 480 units of metal (gray), and 48,000 units of stone (gray).

Based on the current stone reserves in the warehouse, it is expected that it will take another month and a half to mine enough stone.

When this infrastructure is completed, the inner city of the City of Hope will be considered a city, even though the city is only 160,000 square meters.

It was almost mid-August, and there were still six or seven days left before the moat was completed.

On this day, Meng Chen received a report from the soldiers that ten Blood Refining Sect disciples had appeared outside the northern parapet wall, and they were confronting the garrison troops at this moment.

"Is the disciple of the Blood Refining Sect finally here?" Meng Chen said secretly.

According to the detection map, two of the ten Blood Refining Sect disciples were red points of light, which should be Quenching Body Realm martial artists, and the other eight were yellow light spots, which should be Body Forging Realm martial artists.

Meng Chen led Ellie and the support troops and quickly rushed towards the mountain pass to the north.

When Meng Chen arrived at the northern mountain pass, there was no formal clash between the two sides.

At this time, the northern pass had 150 sword and shield warriors, 150 marksmen, 200 elite swordsmen, 200 elite marksmen, and twenty three-bow bed crossbows.

With these seven hundred Rank 2 and 3 soldiers, as well as Alfred and Ellie, the ten Blood Refining Sect disciples outside the parapet would definitely let them have no way back if they dared to trespass into the Earth Dragon Valley without permission.

The only thing that worries Meng Chen is the casualty issue.

After all, the white-haired old man and Niu Hao brought a great shock to Meng Chen.

For a martial artist in the Quenching Body Realm in the state of blood flame, cutting down a third-order soldier is as easy as cutting melons and vegetables, and it is simply a bug-like existence.

After ascending the guard tower, Meng Chen asked Alfred, "Did they say anything?" ”

Alfred shook his head and replied, "Not yet!" They seemed to be waiting for the lord to show up. ”

Meng Chen nodded and said secretly: "If you can't leave all the disciples of the Blood Refining Sect behind, the best way is to fool them over." ”

Afterwards, Meng Chen stood on the lookout platform and looked at the Blood Refining Sect disciples outside the parapet wall.

Among the ten Blood Refining Sect disciples, two of them wearing blood-patterned robes with a white background should be elite disciples, and the other eight wearing blood-patterned robes with a gray background should be inner disciples.