In the northwestern part of the western continent, there are many long mountains that act as a natural barrier separating the two countries of Thrace and Leighton.

Adjacent to this mountainous territory, it belongs to the famous Henry family of Thrace, which has a long and powerful history, dating back to before the founding of Thrace, and was a veteran and important minister who followed the Duke of Thrace to fight the world.

The Marquis of Henry's land was large and fertile, and water from the northern mountains nourished the land, so that it was always able to produce good harvests. In the whole of Thrace, it is regarded as a productive area and has the reputation of "the granary of the northwest".

In such a place, of course, there are many underground water veins, they are large and small, the small is just a slow flow of water that penetrates in the soil, and the big one is the rolling underground river channel, these underground water veins and the water veins above the ground are connected to each other, forming a complex water system of the northwest granary.

At this moment, in the suburbs not far from the Marquis's Castle, in a vein of underground water, a traverser with two strange beards on his chin was lying in the flowing water, looking leisurely upward.

The thick earth usually obscures his view, but it was as if it didn't exist to him. The flowing groundwater did not allow his figure to move in the slightest, like a ship at anchor, firmly fixed in place.

"According to the information I heard on the way here, Edward Henry has often passed by the main road above these days, inspecting the manors in various places...... He really can't wait, his brother has only been dead for a few days, and he has put on the posture of an heir, isn't he afraid that the dead ghost Lao Tzu will feel uncomfortable?"

Liu Daoqing snorted coldly, opened the chat channel, and saw that the traversers were shouting in a mess, discussing the matter of chasing and killing Marquis Henry.

"Marquis Henry is indeed a talent, and he runs so decisively that he does not hesitate at all. He was so good at fighting along the way, and he had killed almost thirty people...... It's a good thing I didn't stay there to participate in the battle, otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't have to hang up again!"

He sighed and said to himself, "What a pity! If he is willing to study honestly and do not commit any massacres, he can make friends." ”

"Oh, this friend can't be made, I killed his son......"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Damn, that guy Jacael is really an unlucky ghost! I just collapsed a few mountains, so many people were not crushed to death, why was he crushed to death? What about the legendary powerhouse in the future, he is so weak that he is in a mess!"

After complaining, he shook his head again, not thinking about what had happened, and paying attention to the situation on the ground.

As the sun rose, there were more and more pedestrians on the road. After a while, with the sound of hurried horses' hooves, a well-armed cavalry galloped along the road, and they drove the pedestrians on the road to both sides, allowing the carriages that followed behind to pass without haste, and the momentum was very arrogant.

Liu Daoqing's eyes narrowed, and he looked at the carriage carefully.

On the base of the carriage, he saw the magic circle used to reinforce it, and also saw the thick metal plates. There is no doubt that this carriage seems to be just an ordinary means of transportation, but if it encounters an assassin, it can immediately transform into a strong mobile fortress, not to mention, at least himself, he is not capable of breaking it at once and killing the people inside.

"Damn! Edward is so cautious!" he cursed hatefully, and his body melted into the current, and he quickly left the place.

More than an hour later, in the nearby Tavern of the Twin Cities, there was a strangely long bearded guest, who was a little hunchbacked, unkempt, and looked a little sloppy, but he was dressed in an expensive silk costume that made it difficult for the bartender to tell where he came from.

The guest didn't talk much, and after ordering the food and drinks, he sat in the corner and ate silently alone, obviously unwilling to deal with others. Fortunately, he spoke very clearly, and he did have money, and as soon as he made a move, it was a few gold coins, which made the worried bartender let go of his worries.

Liu Daoqing ate quietly, and had no intention of talking to nearby diners at all. He is actually a very shy person, only in front of acquaintances will become a chatterbox, in front of people who do not know him is a saw-mouthed gourd, can sit there alone for several hours, mouth except for eating and drinking, not a word.

Inexplicably crossing into the world of the game "New World", his heart has always been full of uneasiness, but whenever he goes to an unfamiliar place, he will always pursue the principle that silence is gold - even with his strength, no matter how verbose he is, others will not dare to be dissatisfied.

Liu Daoqing is an otaku, and for a long time, he has been engaged in agriculture in the Tara Khan Territory, mainly researching the technology of artificial cultivation of mushrooms. In addition to that, he spends his "spare time" figuring out artificial coke.

He doesn't have any other hobbies in terms of food, he just likes to drink Coke. There was no coke to drink after the crossing, which made him very unhappy. To solve this problem, he has been looking for suitable materials.

On earth, homemade cola is a very simple thing, brown sugar water with baking soda, shake well, cover tightly, and after refrigeration, it is a simple sweet carbonated drink. If you want to get the unique flavor of Coke, you have to add a few seasonings. As long as you board the almighty Taobao, you can easily buy anything, and you can even buy cola syrup directly, plus an appropriate amount of water, it is a basically qualified cola drink.

But not in this world, at least not in the Western Continent.

Because, there is no brown sugar in the Western Continent.

The raw material of brown sugar is sugarcane juice, which is slowly boiled in a pot at a low temperature to remove the water, and finally this nutritious sweet seasoning can be obtained. But sugar cane is not grown in the Western Continent, and there are no sugar beets in the West, and people here have to rely on honey if they want to eat sweets, except for the scarce and slow-growing sweet trees (similar to the famous sugar maple in Canada on Earth).

There are no sweet trees in the Tara Khan Territory, where the travelers are mainly active, and the only source of sugar here is honey. Liu Daoqing tried to make homemade cola with honey, and it tasted good, but the cost was too high and the output was too low to meet his needs.

So he was looking for something else.

The first thing he looked for was tree sap, and it was said that since there was sugar maple in this world, there should be other sugar-producing trees or vines. In the first winter after the crossing, he led a group of people to search for a long time in the forest of Miscelle, collecting a number of saps of various colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, but there was no other harvest except to poison everyone on their backs.

But Liu Daoqing did not give up, he was still working hard.

Eventually, he chose to boil maltose.

Of course, malt can also be used to make sugar, and the key to this method is to hydrolyze starch using enzymes produced after the wheat has sprouted to obtain sugar. This technology is not difficult to say, but it is actually quite difficult to practice, and the main difficulty is in temperature control. It took Liu Daoqing almost a year and dozens of repeated attempts before and after he basically mastered the key to making maltose and was able to produce maltose stably.

The raw material of maltose is grain, and the yield is quite high. With enough sugar, all that's left is for the druids to find the right herb to reconcile with the coke flavor they remember. Mr. Druid Jeannais, who came from the forest of Miscellelle, was very interested in this, and in addition to studying medicine, he spent his spare time helping Liu Daoqing to blend spices and strive to make the kind of "cola" that he had been boasting about for a long time.

The sugar was there, the spices couldn't help, and the work of cultivating mushrooms was finally over, so Liu Daoqing thought about it quietly and went out to find trouble.

With this search, I found the northern part of Thrace......