Chapter 6: The Prairie and the Hidden Crisis
By the time all the loot had been processed, it was already evening.
Walking on the avenue of the castle, Tang Ruiyi felt that the militiamen standing guard on both sides looked at him with respect and gratitude, although he knew that this was only brought by the status of the king, but it still made him very, very satisfied.
Especially Martin's expression of dying for the king without regrets really greatly satisfied his dream of being an emperor, hehe.
The blacksmith shop had already been built by him, and it cost thirty gold coins, which was really a hemorrhage, and the gold coins that he had finally obtained were gone before they could be warmed up, but because there were no suitable forging materials, he could not produce equipment yet
(The equipment or curiosities in this book are divided into eight levels: light blue, dark blue, black iron, silver, gold, dark gold, holy weapons, and artifacts)
And then there's the new mill design drawing.
The nature of the drawings is as follows: [Plant-shaped mill: a place for the production of fragrant soft bread and tax revenues. Cost: 50 gold. Construction time: three days. Special: Attract Weak Monsters to Attackγ
[New Hint: The Mill is producing a lot of food that will attract monsters to attack]
The icon representing the mill depicts a well made of stone bricks, six fields of 100Γ100 with six crops of pumpkin, wheat, okra, corn, raspberries and peppers, and two windmill mills near the fields, where old farmers have disappeared.
Tang Ruiyi's saliva was about to flow out when he saw this scene, he didn't think that he didn't even look at the various vegetables that his mother cooked for him, and he was not happy with meat for a while, after eating greasy big fish and meat for a few days, green plants are simply synonymous with gold.
It's a pity that he doesn't have any money! It's not just a penny to be a hero, the price of a mill is almost worth the militia training camp, this feeling of quenching thirst is really maddening!
Thinking of this, Tang Ruiyi couldn't help but feel a little depressed, hey! I don't know when I will be able to return to the original world, my parents, relatives and friends must be in a hurry to die! He now regrets that he didn't honor his parents much at the beginning, and now that he has fallen into such a situation, he really can't regret it.
But Tang Ruiyi quickly adjusted his mentality, he is not a person who likes to complain, he is better at finding solutions in difficult situations, he remembers that in "Kingdom Defense 2: Frontline" there is a monster called the Migrant, who has the power to travel through time and space.
If the principle of this ability can be analyzed, there may still be hope to return to Earth, and his parents are in good health, there is nothing to worry about, and more importantly, his desire for transcendent ambition has become more and more inflated, and it has reached the point where it is irrepressible, as a mortal to live a mediocre life? Or do you have the supreme power to conquer everything? Is this still a choice?
Cheering up, Tang Ruiyi handed over the wolf skin to the militia Goer to cut carefully, and told him to handle it carefully, knowing that in order to kill this two-person tall "giant wolf", he paid the price of several militia injuries, and even one militia died on the spot.
After half an afternoon of busy work, he almost collapsed from exhaustion, but Ge'er lived up to expectations and finally made a set of heavy leather armor named "The Cruelty of the Giant Wolf".
Unexpectedly, there was a small probability event during the production process, and the unwilling wolf soul traced back to this set of leather armor, which made his life bonus reach a good 65 points, as well as an additional 1% critical hit bonus, which is much more advanced than the original set of 25 miscellaneous cards.
However, the side effects have also decreased to a certain speed, Tang Ruiyi thought, it should be too much wolf fur caused by too much heavy weight, it seems that to get real high-end equipment, you have to find the best materials for regular tailors.
Wearing this set of leather armor, Tang Ruiyi felt that his body was full of inexhaustible strength, and his confidence doubled.
With the new equipment, in line with the principle of not wasting resources, the previous set of "leather inner armor" was handed over to a militia who performed bravely, and it can be regarded as making the best use of it.
In fact, he made this equipment mainly to prepare for the construction of the mill gold coins, after all, the surrounding monsters and beasts have been almost killed, if you want to get more gold coins, you need to go farther away to hunt, he will never take risks without counting hole cards.
Because of the special attribute of "priceless", he has the ability to be similar to "humanoid bait", generally speaking, as long as he is present, the monster will list him as an attack target as soon as possible, which makes him grit his teeth with hatred, but there is no way at all.
There was no such thing as a specific population in the game he used to play, but the system gave him a rough list of statistics: population 11, agriculture 0, hunting 1, aquatic 0, mineral 2, force 30, food 8, finance 1, magic 1, technology 1
Tang Ruiyi pondered carefully, the population of 11 needless to say is the number of militias in the territory plus the wandering merchants, agriculture is still 0 because there is no money to build mills, not to mention aquatic products and hunting, the only thing to pay attention to should be food, because there is wolf meat and berries to supplement, so food 8 should be a reserve for everyone to eat for 8 days.
The food is not enough to eat, Tang Ruiyi is very sad about this, and he has not come up with any good way.
Most of the newly recruited militiamen were ordinary soldiers without any skills, and only two militiamen who had been fishermen knew a little about fishing skills, so he simply gave them the task of going fishing on the banks of the Twin Rivers every day, so that they could harvest some food to improve their food and alleviate the food crisis by the way.
Fortunately, a well-informed wandering merchant advised him to expand to the wide grasslands to the north, where there were not only abundant livestock resources, but also many special resources that were urgently needed by the swamps.
In addition, he also recruited a militia born of Orion, and he usually hunts, and a little hunting value is provided by him, as if he can use primary archery and primary tracing skills.
Tang Ruiyi walked out of the castle to learn shooting skills like that Orion, but at this moment, an unexpected news interrupted him.
I saw Martin running in front of him in a panic, and there were many wounds on his body: "Oh no, my lord, there are a large number of enemies invading!
Tang Ruiyi raised his eyebrows, ten heavily armed militiamen, three scouts who can be called jungle killers, plus good equipment and sophisticated weapons, there are still people to send them to death?
He helped Martin to his feet and asked with murderous eyes, "Who did that?"
As soon as the words fell, Martin told him the matter as if pouring beans, and one news fell into Tang Ruiyi's ears, and his heart gradually sank.
"You're saying that the goblins attacked you, and instead of going to them, they came to their own deaths?"
"No, it's different, they're completely different from the goblins in the swamp!" Martin gestured for a long time, but didn't explain the difference.
Tang Ruiyi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and couldn't help but mutter, "They won't evolve wisdom, right?"
Martin paused for a moment and patted his head: "By the way, they have sophisticated weapons, and it seems that they also have a very strict class system." β
Hearing these words, Tang Ruiyi's hair exploded, the beast is not terrible, why? Because the beast can never resist the human beings rely on wisdom to build a brilliant civilization, but if the beast has wisdom, then everything will be different, he still remembers watching a movie called "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" before the crossing, which tells the story of the orangutan with the wisdom comparable to that of humans and the use of firearms to fight against humans.
If...... If the goblins had wisdom, things would be bad!
"Go wake up the others. Tang Ruiyi said in a serious tone: "Hurry up!"
"Good. Martin seemed to feel his nervousness, and was equally solemn, and immediately ran in the direction of the castle!
Trotting all the way back to the castle, Tang Ruiyi couldn't help but take a breath when he arrived at the city wall, because at the end of his sight, at the far end of the swamp, countless human-like creatures slowly advanced, like the living dead in "Resident Evil", nothing could stop them.
Through the bright daylight, he could clearly see countless goblins in beast leather shoes neatly arranged, an old goblin with red mane and hair in a bun sitting on a sedan chair with his eyes closed, and behind him was a huge engineering machine.
His head slammed, how could he not understand now that the goblins, who had always been looked down upon by him, really had good wisdom and the rudiments of feudal society.
His brain spun rapidly in an instant, first of all, the first battle in the real game can be regarded as a beginner's tutorial, and you can clear the level by making something casually, but real life is different, so far he only has a militia training camp.
The enemies in the game are mainly goblins, mixed with some other mobs.
In addition, he remembered that in the first battle there would be a monster called the Shaman, which should be shaped like a red-maned guy on a palanquin, this monster is proficient in magic and can heal other allies, and the general militia is simply delivering food in front of it.
Tang Ruiyi paced silently, his palms and backs were full of sweat.
If he had calculated correctly, the Goblin army was almost twelve hours away from reaching the banks of the Twin Rivers, and it would take at least twice as long to cross the river and attack the castle.
Martin's diligent investigation revealed that the goblins around the castle were not just primitive creatures, they had begun to take shape, becoming a goblin-like race, and now their large armies were eyeing the castle.
Fortifications must be made before they launch a massacle, and their living force must be weakened!
Just as he was racking his brains for what to do, Martin knocked lightly on the door and told him that the soldiers had been assembled.
Suppressing their worries for a moment, the two hurried across the stone staircase, where they could see militiamen hurrying to put on their armor and weapons, and they were hurrying towards the castle hall.
Soon ten militiamen, three scouts, all armed with their own weapons, assembled in the Consulate.
The neat queue was a little less lazy and more solemn, and even the most obedient soldiers were sweating nervously at the moment.
They were all waiting for the king's final orders.
Backstage, Tang Ruiyi was trying to calm down his nervous mood.
"My lord, do you need my help?" he raised his head when he heard the sound and saw that the wandering merchant was still staying here, because of the advice he gave before, so Tang Ruiyi still had a good impression of him.
"Why don't you run away?" he asked curiously.
"Why did you run away?" the wandering merchant asked rhetorically.
"Aren't you afraid that monsters will break through the castle and kill you?"
He shook his head and said, "In terms of birth, your status is not much higher than mine, and you are so young that you can even be my son." If adults are not afraid, why should I be afraid?"
When Tang Ruiyi heard the merchant's words, his heart was moved, but on the surface, he muttered: "I don't have any extra gold coins. β
"No, I can pay on credit in the event of a life or death. β
"In that case. Tang Ruiyi smiled and stretched out his right hand, ten Molotov cocktails, seven crossbows and ten bundles of crossbow arrows.
Then the wandering merchant took out something like an abacus and fiddled with it twice, "A total of 75 gold coins, I just hope that I won't be in debt later." β
After transferring the materials, under the gaze of thirteen pairs and twenty-six eyes, Tang Ruiyi slowly walked onto the temporary high platform.
Facing the crowd of people under his feet, he lied to himself if he said that he was not nervous. In the past, the audience of his speech was mostly his classmates, and even when he had a meeting, he only had to applaud from the audience, and this was the first time he had encountered such a big scene that required him to go into battle in person.
But he couldn't care so much anymore, and if he wanted to win the upcoming war, he would have to have a general mobilization.
Tang Ruiyi waved his hand, making everyone quiet, looking at the immature or old faces, he suddenly had an incomparably sacred sense of mission, yes, every grass and tree here is the foundation of his foothold, and it is all he wants to protect!
Finally he spoke:
"Actually, I used to be just an ordinary person who didn't learn and didn't know how to eat and die all day long, and I never thought that one day I would become the king of a group of people. β
As soon as Tang Ruiyi came on the stage, he said such a paragraph, which caused a commotion in the audience, and the militiamen stared at each other, completely not understanding what their king meant.
But Tang Ruiyi didn't seem to see it, and he went on to say to himself: "But once people are driven by a sense of responsibility, they can create miracles! If the smallest person in this world has the same responsibility as the greatest person, that is, to move towards the best future! I often ask myself, what is the meaning of life? I know ----- now?"
He suddenly raised his head and said in an extremely firm tone:
"I feel more peaceful and tranquil than I've ever felt before, and I don't want anyone to destroy it!
"No one is born a hero, the tempering of fire and blood is essential, now tell me out loud what you will do!"
"Defend your homeland to the death!" I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and then it was out of control.
"Kill them without leaving a piece of armor!!" John slammed his chest and roared!
"The kingdom will win!" Martin's eyes filled with the flames of revenge.
"Kill the beasts, and drive them back into the jungle!"
All the soldiers raised their weapons and collided together, making a sound of gold and iron, and at the same time roaring loudly, unabashedly venting the battle intent in their hearts.
At this moment, their morale was bursting, with extreme excitement and the spirit of seeing death in their eyes, even Ge'er silently put down the needle and thread in his hand, picked up the iron sword and looked at Tang Ruiyi on the high platform.
Their only thought now is to prove their bravery and loyalty with a bloody battle.
The kingdom is not afraid of war, it just lacks an enemy worth fighting!
Seeing this scene, Tang Ruiyi nodded excitedly, and he patted Martin's shoulder encouragingly. The raised corners of his mouth revealed his incomparably high morale, he took a step forward, drew the iron sword at his waist, and shouted: "Then, soldiers, charge with me!"
Just as Tang Ruiyi was giving a mobilization speech, in the jungle in the distance, scattered blackness began to move.
Some of the birds flying high in the air could clearly see that the dwarf humanoid black ground was overwhelming, pushing and shoving, and surging in the direction of the castle.
They're coming!
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