Chapter 24 The Colony of Cyrenaica (II)

Three months later, the colony of Cyrenaica

After this period of hard work, a small and delicate colonial town has taken shape.

From the rough Mediterranean, looking out over the newly opened land, a white lighthouse stands majestically on a steep cliff dotted with cypress trees and bushes, guiding the way for merchant ships that may come in the future. At the bottom of the cliffs, on the terraces near the coastal beaches, the Japanese immigrants have worked tirelessly to cultivate corn, rice, wheat, barley, potatoes, zucchini, peppers, sweet potatoes, onions, turnips, cabbage, greens, watermelons, eggplants, sugar cane, cucumbers, grapes, and other crops.

Streams of clear spring water cascade down from the foothills and flow happily in the dense cobweb-like irrigation canals, nourishing this dry land. Thanks to abundant irrigation and scorching sunshine, the crops are growing very well and are ready to be harvested.

Hundreds of mushroom-shaped metal huts are scattered among these lush green fields, decorated with colorful polka dots, making it look like a fairytale land. But in fact, because the wind and sand in Cyrenaica are too strong and the sun is too fierce, these metal mushroom houses are sunburned like steamers during the day, making people feel like taking a sauna in them, so most people abandon them and live in several huge caves underground, which are safe and shady, and can also share a set of toilets and bathing facilities, eliminating the trouble of installing sewers in every house.

However, they did not shrink into a hole in the ground all day to be otaku for the sake of shade, but actively worked every day.

For example, Officer Miyamoto's son-in-law and judo master Hiroshi I, with a hunting team and a three-eight canopy, tirelessly wandered around this barren mountain and wilderness, chasing all kinds of birds and beasts -- although the results of these laymen were really quite dismal......

"Bang Bang"

With the green smoke slowly rising from the muzzle of more than a dozen "38 big covers", a wild goat on the cliff in front finally fell in response. It also made all the young people in the Japanese cities who were already lacking in exercise and not working hard, and now they are already exhausted, give a burst of cheers of relief.

“…… Oh oh hooray, I finally hit a prey, this time I finally didn't have to go back empty-handed, and I was laughed at by those women."

“…… However, the goat was still on the opposite cliff, across a valley, and there was no way to go, so how could he get it back? ”

So, in the face of the shining star eyes of a group of "amateur hunters", Jing Haoyong suddenly felt a huge pressure, and had to find a [bamboo dragonfly] and stick it in his head, then took off into the air, flew over cautiously, and carried the carcass of the wild goat.

Then, on the way to "return with a full load" (in fact, it took a day of tossing and being tired like a dead dog to hit a sheep), everyone appeared a fox again, and they were immediately overjoyed, and immediately "crackled" a burst of random shots, and they didn't care if they would hurt the fur...... When the smoke cleared, the fox was still unharmed, wagging its tail at them as if mocking, and then walked away in style......

- Well, it seems that the marksmanship of these amateur hunters obviously needs to be improved......

After all, it's much harder to wander the mountains with a shotgun on your back in search of prey than to yell and hit someone with a bat.

At the same time, Jing Haoyong's future wife, the "princess" Miyamoto Li here, is also working hard with a group of women for life.

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In the cloudless clear sky, I saw flocks of foraging seagulls gliding at low altitude.

And under this clear blue sky, rows of fine white waves, like galloping horses, swept across the vast sea, and like the fists of giants, slammed into the reef by the sea, making a sound of the sky falling and the earth cracking, splashing countless snow-white foam.

Sea crabs and unknown crustaceans of all sizes make their way through the crevices of these reefs, barnacles and oysters are densely packed on the cratered rock faces, and sea cucumbers wriggle in the clear waters, spitting milky white slime.

A group of girls of all ethnic groups wearing straw hats and white labor clothes, with bamboo baskets hanging from their waists and small shovels and hoes in their hands, are taking advantage of the low tide to shuttle through this paradise of shallow sea creatures, collecting seaweed, oysters, scallops attached to the reef, turtles and sea crabs on the beach, and small fish scattered on the shallow waters at low tide...... On this smooth and sharp reef, they would occasionally break their heads and bleed due to accidental falls, leaving a few bloody wounds on their bodies, but they still gritted their teeth and continued to work with their heads.

In the nightmare life of more than a month in the zombie apocalypse, the most squeamish Japanese girl has already learned what it means to be strong.

As for the slave girls bought in Crete, most of them were from a hard background, and they were just collecting shellfish from the sea, which was really not a heavy job.

In between digging for shells, Miyamoto, who has been tanned and has sunburn, occasionally looks greedily at the deep sea not far away, where there are more valuable lobsters, abalones and pearl oysters, but in the absence of professional skills, they really dare not dive into the fish like the professional ama of Kagoshima and Jeju - because they are bare-handed dives and rely only on oxygen stored in their lungs, they need to be in excellent physical condition, as well as good swimming skills and breath-holding ability. What's more, because of the complex underwater environment, it is even possible to be attacked by sharks and other predatory fish, and the work is extremely risky. Therefore, the ama must also have calm judgment and a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

Obviously, they don't have any of the above harsh conditions, and many of them have just learned to swim. In fact, until now, they have not even mastered the skills of casting nets to catch fish, and they can only fish with a fishing rod, and they cannot catch a single one for several hours.

Of course, compared to the men who carry guns in the mountains all day long, boasting that they have "samurai blood" on their bodies, but they can't even bring back a rabbit, the harvest of these women who rush to the sea every day to collect shellfish is already rich...... Recalling the red and ashamed face when her boyfriend returned empty-handed yesterday, Miyamoto Li couldn't help but laugh, and at the same time raised the tool in his hand and chiseled the oyster again.

However, although the shellfish, seaweed, shrimp and crabs that these girls picked up on the beach every day could be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the [automatic pawn machine], it was not a small supplement to the financial situation of the colony. But it was nothing compared to another major gain from Cyrenaica.

That's oil

Well, Cyrenaica, or Benghazi in the future, is where the main oil fields in Libya are located......

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Under the scorching sun, in the gravel desert south of the Cyrenaica settlement, stood a tall drilling well, rumbling constantly. Scattered around it are swarthy oil extraction machinery, huge spherical oil storage tanks, and a large circle of Japanese immigrants wearing sunglasses and hard hats. Right now, they're talking to each other and whispering as they wait for some exciting moment.

“…… Five, four, three, two, one...... Everyone, pay attention to digging through."

With a shout from Doraemon from the console, everyone held their breath for a while.

It's only a few seconds of lag, but it's as long as a day.

After a while, under the gaze of dozens of eyes, the conduit connected to the wellhead suddenly raised its head like a cannon, and a stream of black oil with gray mud sprayed out of the ground in an instant, and the splashed oil passed the height of the derrick for a while

“…… Long live the oil, finally the oil, now you don't have to worry about the money anymore."

The "First Lady" of the Cyrenaica colony, Madame Miyamoto Takariko, suddenly jumped up like a child, as excited as if she had just cleared a difficult game. Everyone else cheered and even burst into tears.

“…… Alas, at such an age, I don't know how to be stable. Kiriko is really ......."

Mr. Miyamoto said with a pretended complaint, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "... What do you think? How much revenue does this well generate? ”

“…… Are you asking about the amount of oil produced from this well? Well...... Initially, it will be a little more, but in the future, it should be able to stabilize at about 300 to 400 barrels per day, and at the price of 100 US dollars per barrel, even if you have to apply a certain amount of discount when using the [automatic pawn machine], it should be no problem to ensure an income of 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars per day, or two or three million yen. ”

Wang Qiu looked at the number on the monitoring computer, and after a little calculation in his heart, he replied.

“…… What the? It's only two or three million? Isn't that a little too little? Miyamoto smacked his lips with some dissatisfaction.

“…… It's good to have this amount of money, Mr. Miyamoto's future Libya is indeed an important oil exporter, and Cyrenaica is also a famous oil field in North Africa. But most of the oil wells in Cyrenaica are located in the Inner 6 desert area far from the coast, at least three or four hundred kilometers away, and the environment is as terrifying as an oven. If you can get this oil out of the sea, you're already lucky."

Wang Qiu snorted and replied with some displeasure, "...... Doraemon has prepared a small, fully automated oil refinery for you, and all kinds of refining and production procedures are set up with artificial intelligence. Once you've got the pipes connected, you'll have fuel for your cars, tanks, fishing boats, and planes. You can even synthesize all kinds of plastic products and use them to sell and feed them, don't take it seriously, Mr. Miyamoto, again, the bargains you get from the [Age Vending Machine] can only be used for your own use or given to others, and cannot be used for trading, otherwise you will encounter a very terrible punishment - Nobita was so killed that he almost had to cut off his kidney to pay off his debts, do you want to try it yourself? ”

Then, after beating away the greedy Japanese immigrants, Wang Qiu took out the "Book of Travel" and looked at the new handwriting on it:

“…… The plot changes, the Nile daughter gets pregnant for the second time, and she gets 1o6 bonus points ......"

- As a result, their total points in the plot space of "Daughter of the Nile" reached 486o points, which is not far from the 50,000 points of "ganpVe". But Mr. Zhang Daniu, the unlucky time-traveler who was lost in this world, still doesn't know where he is...... The only thing that is certain is that he should still be alive, otherwise it would be impossible for Wang Qiu and the others to stay in this world safely......

“…… Looks like I'm going to have to make a trip to Egypt recently to see if they have found out about that Mr. Zhang Daniu......"

After a moment of silence, Wang Qiu put away the Book of Crossing and muttered in a low voice.

In the early morning of the next day, after saying goodbye to the Japanese immigrants temporarily, Ma Tong, Wang Qiu, Doraemon, Minami Rika and Jukawa Shizuka each inserted [bamboo dragonflies] above their heads, and slowly flew east along the coastline towards Egypt in the distance.

And just three days after Doraemon and the others left, the first Cretan merchant ship to arrive in Cyrenaica slowly approached the reinforced concrete pier of the newly built colonial city under the guidance of the lighthouse and the cheers of Japanese immigrants.

Then, these merchants of the Minoan Kingdom unloaded from the hold a large number of Lebanese cedar wood, Aegean fish, Egyptian dates, alabaster and other miscellaneous goods, in exchange for sweet sweets, snow-white refined salt, silky cotton cloth, convenient matches, fine porcelain, mellow soju, silver glittering stainless steel and aluminum alloy tableware, and splendid modern ornaments, as well as sharp steel knives (all of which were left by Wang Qiu and his family in advance). In addition, the first plastic utensils made by Japanese immigrants in the Cyrenaica colony from local crude oil and 3 printers were also popular with these merchants...... Of course, if it weren't for the deterrence of the huge airship that preceded it, and the friendship between the inhabitants of this place and the "godsmen", these Minoan merchants, who often worked part-time as pirates, would not have traded so properly, instead of trying to grab a handful and leave.

Either way, Yiqiē's career seems to be on the right track, and the city's future is full of hope.

Unbeknownst to all of them, however, to the south of Cyrenaica, a group of undesirable guests was quietly approaching......

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