Compared with other intelligent races in this world, human beings are not the strongest in strength, nor are they the strongest in reproductive ability, nor are they the strongest in wisdom and longevity, and the reason why human beings can build their own kingdoms depends on is the ability to build cities.

Tall and strong walls, castles, and fortresses protected humanity from other powerful races, allowing humanity to thrive behind these fortifications, thus creating a brilliant civilization.

If knights are the core of human territory, then castles are the core of human territory. As a result, the construction of castles on the territory has gradually become a prerequisite for lords to control the territory and assert their sovereignty for thousands of years.

The Kingdom of Gambis follows this tradition, and the Kingdom Exploitation Decree stipulates that the Kingdom will only recognize the lord's legal ownership of the Pioneer Territory if the Pioneer Lord has built a castle on the Pioneer Land, and the Kingdom has clear requirements for the specifications of the castle according to the lord's title.

The castle was very expensive, and Sophia spent 70,000 gold soles on the castle built for Victor in the pioneer territory, but unfortunately Victor was captured by the Blood Fox thieves on the way before he could set foot in the castle.

The House of York used this territory to sign a trade agreement with Victor, on the condition that they must also build a castle on this land, otherwise the exchange agreement is invalid, because without a castle there is no sovereignty.

The castle in front of Victor is completely in accordance with the requirements of the Kingdom of Gambis, consisting of fortresses, walls, arrow towers, moats, drawbridges, and gates, and the castle is built with very solid limestone, which can at least resist the attack of the Silver Knight.

But for the meow is only 6 meters tall?

6 meters high is actually as high as a two-story building, which means that this castle is equivalent to a two-story farm yard on the earth, but the style is imitation of a European-style ancient castle.

Looking at this miniature castle and the stunned people, Victor's heart was broken at the moment.

The Black Castle of the House of York can accommodate 5,000 people at a time, Eskerry's Castle can also accommodate 500 people, and the one in front of Victor can accommodate 20 people。。。。。。

This is a false project! This is a fraudulent project aimed at the Senate and its victims, which is of an extremely bad nature in collusion between the local nobles and the royal nobles!

Glancing hatefully at the Yorkie family who were pretending to be deaf and dumb, Victor said to the onlookers: "Everyone has seen the castle, and now it seems that it is uninhabitable, so we still have to find a suitable camp today, and we need to build a strong camp in the next few days, and settle down for the time being." ”

Before he could finish speaking, Victor heard someone in the crowd muttering in a low voice.

"What's the difference between this and a freedman?"

Indeed, without the protection of castles and walls, these ordinary people could not sleep at ease.

Victor could only pretend that he hadn't heard, and was ready to arrange for people to find the campsite.

"Victor, I know a good place to camp. Nicole walked up to Victor and whispered.

Seeing that Victor didn't say anything with a straight face, Nicole had to continue: "From here to the southwest, half a day's journey, there is a place that is very suitable for building a camp. As she spoke, the midship-cadet took out a parchment map.

Victor thought about it for a moment, and suddenly realized that the York family had surveyed and mapped the place, and it must have been Sylvia who gave it to Nicole in advance and told her to do so.

Seeing that Nicole looked like she was about to cry, Victor's heart softened, took the map, patted her little hand and comforted: "It's okay, it's not your fault." ”

However, when he thought of Sylvia, Victor's teeth itched with hatred, and he secretly decided that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely clean her up fiercely.

Victor didn't delay and led everyone to the location of the campsite marked on the map.

may feel that the family's approach is really unkind, Bruce uncharacteristically led his subordinates to open the way in front, and the road was calm and uneventful.

When he arrived at his destination, Victor observed the terrain and was very satisfied with the camp marked by the York family.

This is a hill with a height of more than 400 meters, although this hill is not high, but the area is very large, different from other hills is that this hill is gentle on one side and steep on three sides, and the gentle side of the hill is also very peculiar, the whole slope is relatively narrow, barely able to pass the appearance of two carriages, the two sides of the ramp are steep slopes, without using some tools, ordinary people can not stand firm.

When they walked up the mountain, people were pleasantly surprised to find that there was actually a flat land here.

Victor visually inspected the flat land to 1.5 square kilometers, and then looked back at the narrow and curved slope, he suddenly understood what it meant to be a husband and a man. It is indeed a natural camp that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, the Ed literary scholar on the side said: "This is not like a naturally formed flat land, it must have been artificially reconstructed." ”

"We also think it's artificial. A year ago, the family's guards also found a lot of low shacks on this flat land, which was supposed to be a gathering place for halflings, but unfortunately the contents of the shacks were emptied, and then our people demolished them. Bruce confirmed the conjectures of the old scholars.

"Halfling's village?!Oh my God, what have you all done?" Edwin rolled his eyes in anger when he heard that the Yorks had razed the halfling's village, and he cut off a few whiskers.

Halflings are a rare race of intelligence, they are short, adult halflings are only 120 centimeters in appearance, slightly shorter than dwarves, but their body size is not as thick and fat as dwarves, but is as well-proportioned as humans, like shrunken humans.

Halflings do not have great strength and are not good at fighting, and in order to survive they tend to cling to powerful races, such as forest centaurs.

Halflings are very dexterous, they are good at crafting all kinds of tools, crafting all kinds of equipment, this ability is especially useful for the less dexterous Centaurs, so the Forester tribe welcomes Halflings to join them, and spares no effort to protect Halflings. In return, the halflings also help the Centaurs build equipment, maintain weapons, and provide medical care to injured Centaurs. This close cooperation has led to a solid symbiotic relationship between the two races.

It is also rumored that halflings are very good at cooking, and that the food they cook is unique and delicious, and many of the great nobles of humanity want to get their hands on a copy of the recipe for halflings.

Victor felt that this might be the reason for Edwin's anger.

"My lord, there is something strange ahead, we have not found any traces left by goblins, kobolds, or gnolls, but we have found some human footprints, probably left two days ago. ”

Just as Edwin was in his grief, Nelson walked over and reported their findings to Victor.

"It should be some free people, these lowly outcasts may want to come here and set up camp. Hearing Nelson's report, Bruce said coldly.

"How did they survive on this land?" Victor was a little surprised, it was difficult for the freedmen to survive in the wilderness without the protection of strong force.

"A year ago, the family's guards cleaned the territory of monsters, and found some freedmen operating in the territory, but the soldiers ignored them. After our men had built the castle, they left the temporary station. Those homeless people probably saw that no one had come to take over this place for so long, and they may have moved their minds to camp here. Bruce explained with a somewhat embarrassed look at the mention of the castle.

The York family had built the miniature castle here a year earlier, and it seems that Sylvia should have done it purely for the sake of enclosure, rather than a deliberate trap for herself. Thinking of this, Victor's heart was inexplicably relaxed.

"The problem of the displaced people can be solved in a few days, and there is a smaller flat land up there, and there is a very wonderful place there, and now I can take you to see it. Bruce said to the crowd with some cryptism.

After following Bruce up for a while, we saw a flat land with an area of about 0.7 square kilometers, and on the mountain wall next to the flat land, there was a hole that was one person high.

Bruce took the torch and led his midshipmen into the cave first, while Victor and Edwin followed in with Nelson and Nicole.

The entrance of this cave is not big, but the inside is very spacious, and the strange thing is that the air inside the cave is very smooth, people do not feel stuffy inside, and the temperature is also very moderate, not as cold as outside.

The cave has obvious signs of being excavated, the ground is level, and there are pedestals for placing torches on the stone walls of the cave.

A midshipman inserted the lighted torches one by one into these seats, and under the light of the fire, the whole cave gradually became clear.

"It's a natural cave, but it's obviously been modified by a halfling, you can see the steps on the ground, these steps are a little lower and narrower for us, plus these seats placed on the stone wall, this shows that this is a halfling's storeroom, but unfortunately there is nothing left in it. Edwin gestured with his hand to the torch seat, which was only as high as his chest, and said with some regret.

"But these halflings are very clever, they have carved a few eye holes in the mountain wall to keep the cave ventilated, if they seal the mouth of the cave, the whole cave will become their castle against foreign enemies, but for us humans, this place is still a little smaller, at most 40 people. ”

"Master, there's a smaller cave in there. Bruce said to the Edman and led the group into a nearby corridor that was only 3 meters long.

Passing through this corridor, everyone came to a spacious place again, with the same level ground as before, the eye of the wind, the torch seat on the stone wall, the difference is that there is a spring on the ground here.

The clear spring water flows into a three-metre-square pool, and the water that overflows the pond flows down a ditch through a dug hole to the outside of the cave.

"This is amazing!" Seeing this scene, Nelson, who was still worried about how to solve the problem of water in the camp, couldn't help but admire.

"This spring is full of water all year round, enough to supply the entire camp, but I don't know what this platform is for?" Bruce patted a table-sized stone platform on the edge of the pool.

"It is carved with a pattern, and it is supposed to be an altar for a halfling. Edwin took a closer look at the stone platform by the light of the torches.

Just when everyone was amazed by this wonderful scene, Nicole noticed that Victor was a little shaky and hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

"Victor, what's wrong with you?" asked Nicole worriedly seeing Victor's pale face.

"It's nothing, it's just a little tired, and I want to rest here for a while. Victor grinned at Nicole, and with that he fell backwards.

Before Victor lost consciousness, a few Chinese characters kept flashing in his mind.

"New Hardware Activating!"