Chapter 8: Exploring the Ruins

The farm is a livestock farm, which can domesticate poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese, as well as cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, and the farm also needs to arrange farmers to produce, and the farmland also needs to be managed by farmers.

Unlike farms, poultry and livestock will reproduce and grow on their own when they mature, but the growth cycle is relatively longer, and they need to be fed with crops during the growth process. For example, it takes 3 hours for a chicken to grow to maturity after hatching, and it takes 50 units of food to convert into wheat, and the exchange price is 1.9-2.1 silver coins. If you are raising cattle, it will take even longer, it will take more than 48 hours to grow to maturity, consume 50 sets of wheat, and each will cost 8-12 gold coins.

The smelting workshop is used to refine metal minerals and make metal products, Lu Cheng has the formula of steel ingots in his hands, each unit of steel ingot needs to consume 5 units of iron ore and 5 units of coal mine, and the cost of materials is 3 silver coins. For every 15 steel ingots, 1 steel sword can be produced, because of the problem of blacksmith level, there is a small probability of producing high-quality steel swords and inferior steel swords, and there is also a very low probability of making excellent steel swords.

The price of an ordinary steel sword on the exchange is 1.5 gold coins, a high-quality steel sword is 3 gold, and the excellent steel sword only sees 1 for 10 gold coins. The smelting workshop also needs a blacksmith to operate, and Lu Cheng transferred 1 junior blacksmith to the smelting workshop to specialize in the production of steel ingots, which can produce 15 steel ingots per hour, which is just enough to produce a steel sword. Because Lu Cheng planned to take the route of elite soldiers, he decisively suspended the production of iron swords and made every effort to make steel swords.

The alchemy workshop is used to produce all kinds of alchemy items, such as fire oil, candles, gunpowder, etc. are all products of the alchemy workshop, there is only 1 alchemist in the camp, Lu Cheng arranged to specialize in the production of fire oil and gunpowder, although the cost of materials is not low, but they are all sharp weapons to enhance the defense force, so a large number of raw materials were purchased to continue production.

After the production tasks were arranged, Lu Cheng calculated that the current income reached more than 7 gold per hour, which can be regarded as a very wealthy group of players, and with the gradual improvement or expansion of farmland, fishing grounds and other facilities, there will be a significant increase in income.

"My lord, Mike has something to see."

When Lu Cheng was doing a lot of construction in the camp, Mike, who had been running outside all day, suddenly ran back in a hurry, and began to shout from a distance.

"Don't panic, what's the matter?" Lu Cheng asked.

"Collar... My lord, the four of us brothers have discovered a relic in the forest 10 kilometers west of your territory. Mike said excitedly.

"Ruins?" Lu Cheng wondered.

Seeing that the lord didn't understand, Mike immediately danced and explained: "Ruins, lord, ancient knowledge and technology may be found in the ruins, which are priceless." ”

Damn, that's money!

"Take me to the ruins at once!" How could Lu Cheng miss this opportunity to make money.

Mike hurriedly asked, "Lord Lord, how many troops do you have now?" ”

Lu Cheng: "155 militiamen, what's wrong?" Are the ruins still in danger? ”

Mike hurriedly explained: "Lord Lord, the ruins are all guarded, the more advanced the ruins guards, the more powerful the guards, this time we found a relatively high-level ruins, there are hundreds of kobolds guarding over there, our brothers 4 fought with them, but there are too many kobolds, we can't beat them at all." ”

That's why you came back to ask for help, or you will swallow it alone, right?

Lu Cheng muttered dissatisfiedly: "That's okay, I'll leave some troops to guard the house, and send 130 militiamen to go to the ruins with you." ”

The militia were all arranged to practice together, and the assembly speed was very fast, and soon Lu Chengcheng led more than 100 militiamen to follow the adventurers who led the way into the depths of the forest, the deeper the forest went, the lower the temperature, the light gradually dimmed, and the sounds of various animals and insects were mixed together, and it was upsetting to hear too much.

Because the terrain was undulating and there were no roads, it was very inconvenient to march, and the speed was not fast, and only one hundred and ten people were paved everywhere, and the formation was completely chaotic.

After 4 hours, he finally arrived near the ruins, and Lu Cheng felt that it was really not easy for adventurers to find this place.

After settling the militiamen, Mike led Lu Cheng to hide behind a moss-covered boulder, and cautiously poked his head out: "Lord, look, there are ruins over there. ”

Lu Cheng looked in the direction of Mike's finger, and saw that there were several stone buildings that had not yet completely collapsed in a clearing in the forest, which was a bit similar to the architectural style of ancient Rome, but what attracted Lu Cheng's attention the most was the hundreds of kobolds next to the ruins, this was the first time he had seen an inhuman race in the game, and he observed it curiously.

Kobolds are humanoid creatures, adult kobolds are a little more than 1 meter tall, with a rickety back, scaly skin, a long canine-like mouth and messy teeth, the whole body is a reddish-brown or black-red color, the limbs do not look strong, and each kobold has a short knife in his hand, considering their short stature, it is actually about the same as a dagger.

Traces of Mike's previous battle could still be seen, and there were patches of radial blood in a clearing, which was obviously another storm of blades from this pit.

Subconsciously glanced at the Xuantie Sword in Mike's hand, fortunately, there was no sign of breakage.

Mike also noticed Lu Cheng's gaze, and said embarrassedly: "Lord Lord, I fought with them before, and the kobolds' combat effectiveness is not strong, and the troops you brought over are enough to destroy them." ”

Brother wants not only victory, but also to reduce losses, I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive!

For the sake of insurance, Lu Cheng didn't rush up rashly, that's what Xiaobai would do, war is about the right time, place and people, and the terrain in the forest is complicated, so why not make good use of it?

Inside the ruins.

Kobold Putt is in a very bad mood today, and he has been urging him to crack the mystery of the ruins as soon as possible, but this thing is not something that he can do with his own hard work, looking at the appearance of those kobold scholars looking around in the ruins, he got angry, saying that this group of rice buckets are "scholars" is simply the funniest joke Putt has ever heard, 3 of these 5 scholars can hold the book upside down in their hands and read it carefully for a long time, and they can pretend to be chattering, although the remaining 2 are literate, but they only know beast language, But this ruin is obviously a dwarf, is it good, you take the beast script to translate the dwarf text can be translated to be a ghost!

It's not that Putt didn't complain to his superiors, but the kobold has a strict social hierarchy, he is just the smallest leader, and the boss doesn't pay attention to his complaints, and after he complains a few more times, the boss thinks he is annoying, so he holds him down and beats him fat, and then arranges for the new leader to come over to manage the ruins investigation team, and Putt is demoted to the deputy of the new leader Andus.

Putt was very depressed to find that Andus was also a complete straw bag, and he didn't know how to command at all, and he had to get together with scholars to decipher the ruins in order to get credit, and Andus and a "scholar" who was holding the book upside down had been seriously "studying" the archaeological guide manual for several hours today, and I don't know if they had found out that the manual was actually about how to deal with weathered orc skulls.

A few hours ago, the ruins suddenly broke into several humans, and the combat effectiveness of those humans should not be underestimated, among them, the human who can play the big windmill is particularly powerful, more than half of the more than ten kobolds who were damaged were lost in his hands, and the number of kobolds in the ruins was obviously more than the humans began to estimate, and they hurriedly retreated after finding that the kobolds were outnumbered.

Putt felt that this was not a good sign and that the humans were likely to make a comeback, and advised Andaus to be careful and request reinforcements from the nearest kobold camp.

However, Andus, the straw bag, felt that Puter's advice was to belittle his merits, and how could Andus, a heroic warrior who had achieved the merit of killing and injuring "dozens" of humans, be scared away by mere humans. Of course, Andaus was actually hiding in the mine at the time of the fight, and he didn't dare to show his head until Putt told him that the humans had withdrawn.

Andaus sent people back to the camp only if we had made a major breakthrough in cracking the ruins, and the valiant warrior Andaus had repelled dozens of humans who coveted the ruins, and the expedition was in good condition at present, without mentioning the damage and possible crises.

"It's more like the humans are going back to the rescuers." Putt muttered to himself.

Although Putt was suppressed, he still had the right to manage as a deputy, especially when the coach was not doing anything, and ordered the kobold to be ready to defend and respond to another attack from humans at any time.

"Bah~ kobold, grandpa is back again, come to fight!"

Just as Putt was worried, the human who had spared the windmill jumped out again.

The nearest kobolds immediately rushed at the human with their short knives in their wahoos, only to be slashed to the ground by the human in a few blows.

"Come on! Don't come to be grandchildren! "A human actually stepped on the corpse of a kobold and made all sorts of provocative movements.

"Brothers, don't be fooled, form a formation to defend!" Putt immediately ordered.

"Hmph~ How can there be a scum like you who is greedy for life and afraid of death among the kobolds, pass on the order of my Andus, and cut down this human at all costs!" At this time, Andors also spoke out, not only laughing at Put's timidity, but also easily biting the bait of humans!

"Andors, are you crazy, it's a trap!" Putt hurriedly shouted.

"What about the trap, our valiant warriors are not afraid of just a few humans!" Andors' muffled voice came.

"Andas, you don't want to hide in the pit and say this!" Putt is going crazy.

The kobolds' procession immediately fell into confusion after receiving the opposite order, and some of the kobolds faithfully rushed forward to chase after Mike according to Andaus's orders, believing that the part of the old boss Putt was staying where they were, and some of the hesitant kobolds were caught in the middle, stopping and going.

The kobold Pute's rescue action was clearly seen by Lu Cheng, but it was too late at this time, the group of kobolds who obeyed Andaus's order rushed through a belt of gravel and found that they were surrounded by nearly a hundred militia regiments, Lu Cheng was not polite, and immediately launched an attack with an order.

The encircled kobolds saw that the situation was not good and wanted to break through, but the kobolds' combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the militia, and they were far inferior to the militia equipped with iron armor and iron swords and even steel swords in terms of attack and defense.

"Storm of Blades!"