Chapter 51: A Man's Promise
[Divine power 31.2/30, meet the conditions for the Warlock profession upgrade, is it upgraded?] 】
“…… Forget it, let's save the divine power first, and don't upgrade it for the time being! Shen Yan was a little entangled, but he still resolutely rejected the suggestion to upgrade now.
He had leveled up too fast before, causing his foundation to be unstable. Now that you have settled down with the convoy, of course you have to plant the fields for a while. Shen Yan also has plenty of time to exercise, so he is not in a hurry to upgrade! Fortunately, he is not as good as he was now, and he almost exploded when he received a little divine power. Shen Yan's current body will not have a problem temporarily storing more than the limit of sub-divine power.
"Penny, what do you think?" Shen Yan discussed with Penny.
"It's good to think like this, Xiao Yanyan is really not like a child of your age, mature and reliable, and actually very stable!" Penny boasted.
"The children of poor families are in charge of the family early, they are not old when they have a car, and they are 100 years old if they have no car."
"Then as a reward for Xiao Yanyan, I will carefully prepare a gift in the evening, so stay tuned, my Xiao Yanyan!" Penny said with a smile.
Her thoughts were the same as Shen Yan's - now that she had settled down, the most important thing next was of course to enhance Shen Yan's true strength! Relying on the means of abduction and deception, the fifty chapters of water are almost the same, and the man still has to be able to face it head-on!
Speaking of Shen Yan's reaction after the incident at night, Penicole is very much looking forward to it.
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"Knock knock~" There was a knock at the door.
Shen ...... Brother Shen, Milton informed you to go to that ...... The meeting was held in the conference hall. After finishing speaking, the stumbling child probably felt embarrassed and ran away.
Last night's attack finally made it clear to everyone that Green Horn is not a paradise, and there are also many unknown dangers. No wonder this place is so good, and it seems that there should be a reason why no one has settled here after so many years...... It's not just about being in the middle of nowhere.
So don't think about the "Lizardhead's Peeping Cabin Project", and live in the camp honestly for the time being! I'll wait until I understand the surroundings. At least there is a wooden wall outside the camp to protect it, and it has an extra layer of psychological security.
Like the swamp lions that attacked last night, they threw stones with the aim of driving their prey from the "hard shell" to the empty river beach. Otherwise, just by throwing stones, even if the four swamp lions were thrown into the camp together, they would not be able to kill a few people. Originally, this was a camp with a legion of 2,000 people, and the interior was huge!
When the camp was almost cleared, the convoy was assigned huts on a family basis.
Several giants even have their own independent rooms - Shen Yan's cottage covers an area of twenty square meters, don't look small, it's free! "Settle down and send a house, work and send a wife", the policy couldn't be better!
When he walked into the "chamber", almost all the people who attended the meeting had already arrived—the "Big Five" Milton, Catherine, Tiger, Ozmat, and Eller Curtis; the idler Shen Yan and the former old village chief Vader; and the half-elf shooters Garlan and Amagill (both male) who were officially accepted into the core layer due to their good performance along the way, a total of nine.
"Then, our first meeting in Green Horn Bay has officially begun." Milton took the manuscript that Shen Yan had forced to write, and read it with a twist - only the part that Shen Yan could see had a series of typos...... But it doesn't matter, it's the haves and the nots that matter.
That's right, what "conference hall", what "first meeting", all of them were requested by Shen Yan.
One might feel that this is all unnecessary formalism. But when everything is difficult at the beginning, formalism is actually very important! Because common formalism is the only way to speed up the integration of groups and accelerate the formalization of groups!
Why do cults engage in a whole bunch of complicated rituals? It is not because the completion of these rituals can greatly increase the sense of identification with the cult.
Milton spoke, and Shen Yan and the others listened attentively.
Many of the things Milton said, including Shen Yan, were heard for the first time - he confirmed that Milton was a careless guy! Although he spoke very incoherently and did things in a messy manner, it was because Milton lacked experience in this area.
It can be seen that he has indeed done a lot of preparatory work for the establishment of this village!
For example, most of the dozens of children adopted by the convoy are girls. Although there are patriarchal customs in the peninsula. But the main reason for such a huge disparity between men and women is that Milton has to help the bachelors in the army find wives - yes, jobs give wives ......
No family is a prodigal son at the end of the world, and the one who has a family is a generous farmer.
Form a stable family and no longer have to be displaced. Even though they are more than a decade apart, the homeless girls don't have any grievances - besides, the army is full of strong guys! As for love...... Don't be funny, you're a nobleman?
Along the way, so many things have happened, and some of them must have a crush on a little fresh meat. That can continue to have a crush after marriage, and it should be a flirtatious, and their husbands won't care about it - as for stealing food? Hehe~ No chance! Everyone can see the current situation as if it were a mirror...... Who can steal Catherine?
In addition to family problems, Milton also prepared a truckload of wheat seeds, a dozen fishing nets, several large bundles of rope that could be used as traps, and a pile of scrap metal! As long as you return to the furnace, you can make a farm tool! It can be said that in order to collect these materials, especially the pile of iron tools, the dwarf giants really wasted their old nose energy!
And what he said about prospecting - although there were no professionals, there were several dwarven children adopted in the convoy. Anyway, it's all about catching ducks on the shelves, let's believe that the dwarves have a good bloodline talent...... So there was a prospecting team.
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The last remaining and the most important part of the conference - who should go to the South with precious stones and valuable things to buy supplies?
For this purchase, Shen Yan not only took out the element crystals, but even handed over the flashlight and lighter! And the fifty or so gold coins that the baron had gotten. Except for the damaged pulley bow, the dead mobile phone and the pistol, the chocolate had already been divided on the road, and Shen Yan left nothing.
The same goes for everyone else, everyone who tries to get as much of a value as possible! Because those four valuable elemental crystals gave them hope, now they not only want to buy a large number of supplies, but also want to buy a ship in the south that can sail in the coastal and inland waterways!
Tomorrow another team will explore south along the river, looking for the estuary of the Blue Water River (the river where Green Horn Bay Lake flows downstream) and then build an outpost there. The boats bought in the south can directly carry supplies along the coast to the north, turn into the Blue Water River after arriving at the outpost, and go straight to the Green Horn Bay Lake against the current!
It's going to be an exciting journey!
But now the question is, who should go south with such a large sum of money...... This person must be sociable and be able to sell those crystals, flashlights and other things for a good price; secondly, you must be flexible, don't buy a ship and expose the base; Last but not least, loyalty, of course! He had to conscientiously sell, buy boats, and purchase supplies, instead of running away with his sister-in-law with the money.
Everyone fell silent, everyone hesitated.
In the end, it was Shen Yan who stood up first, and he came to the bard and asked very seriously, "Curtis, can we trust you?!" ”
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Elle Curtis departed, taking with his chosen apprentices of poets and almost everything of value in Green Horn...... Until he left, he couldn't answer Shen Yan's question. Shen Yan didn't ask tirelessly.
So much so that in the next few days, the entire Green Horn Bay was busy, and it was still depressed! Even before they left, several people's emotions went from regret to despair, from doubt to confirmation, from loss to panic...... I've asked if I want to chase Curtis now!
No way, the time we spent together was too short, and we really didn't establish any decent trust relationship. On the most critical night of the battle, Curtis hid like an ostrich.
Everyone knows that Elle Curtis has a dream of blending into the aristocracy, has a theater on the verge of closure, has a pocket of wonderful plays that Shen Yan has given him - and now he has a lot of money! Even buy Karma! It seems, as if, as if...... If it were me, I would have taken the money and run away!
And sister-in-law!
If you don't run, you're not a peninsular!
How can this be good?!
In this regard, Shen Yan chose not to say a word, he still had a lot of his own things to do.
It wasn't until Ozmat, who had explored the estuary of the Blue Water River, returned with the team, and after hearing the news, he said something like this: "The so-called all the property that everyone put together, isn't in fact the most valuable thing contributed by Shen Yan?" Did Shen Yan say anything? Since there isn't, then what are you panicking about? Even if you can't trust Eller Curtis, at least please believe Shen Yan! ”
The effect of these words is unknown, and no one knows whether they played a role; Maybe it was another private remark from Omar that soothed the anxiety in everyone's hearts.
"If it were me, even if I died, I would ask someone to bring back the money and a letter explaining the reason! Debt to Shen Yan? I didn't even dare to think about it when I was drunk! ”
Yes, a mystic sorcerer with a noble status and a bright future, his name is a guarantee.
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Time passed.
Gradually, summer came to an end.
The leaves fell, the grasslands withered and yellowed, and a small amount of grain was collected in the barns before winter.
Gradually, the surface of the lake near the mountain shade formed a crescent-shaped ice surface.
The children climbed thousands of meters of snow-capped mountains just to have a snowball fight.
Gradually, the green grass sprouts spread all over the sunny hillside, and the stream murmured.
Spring is coming, and people have forgotten that there is still procurement, and they forget that there is also the outside world. The fast horses galloped from the southern outpost monitoring the estuary, and they brought back the shocking news that the ship had returned......