Ground floor......

"Juston!" Thunder himself was startled by the sudden thought, and his eyes caught Juston rubbing his hands together and talking happily to a few of the guards, so he called his name.

Jaston's chubby figure ran flexibly, while Thunder was still squatting by the lake, many thoughts turned through his mind, he was about to order everyone to flee the canyon, but he felt that something was wrong, if there was really an underground race living under the canyon, it was impossible for him to walk such a long way without finding any clues, and the rabbits that were almost flooded in the canyon seemed to tell Thunder that things might not be as bad as he imagined.

"Your Excellency Lord, do you have any instructions for calling on me, who is humble?" Perhaps because Thunder discovered this canyon with excellent conditions, and in Juston's eyes, Thunder Thunder was bullish, so he spoke more respectfully, even with some flattery.

"Juston, you clean up now and find out the situation around the canyon, I want to know the distribution around the canyon, and you can retreat in case of danger. Thunder rubbed his temples and changed his mind for a moment, he wasn't ready to tell anyone about his conjectures for the time being, the attraction of this canyon to him outweighed the possible dangers of the canyon.

"Okay, I'll go. After saying that, Jaston ran back to the caravan, changed a set of clothes in the blink of an eye, and then specially arranged for a few people to go in different directions to inquire about the situation, but he ordered these people not to go deeper, after all, he is now the only one left in the entire caravan, and others are not as advantageous as his profession when they inquire about the situation, and the survival rate is far less than him if he accidentally encounters any danger, so Jaston now musters up the courage to prepare to investigate the more dangerous areas by himself, this is the first thing Lei Ming commanded, and he is ready to behave。

Lei Ming glanced at the calm lake with some silence, and then threw a small stone down, Qi Lin regained his smile after seeing Lei Ming throw the small stone down, to be honest, Lei Ming's serious expression just now almost didn't frighten him, he was afraid that Lei Ming would find out what disaster suddenly befell their heads, at this time seeing Lei Ming smile, he also breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense muscles in his body relaxed again.

Lei Ming easily announced that the lake was not dangerous, that the water was sweet, and that there were many fish in the lake that could be caught for food. At that moment, the people who kept their distance from the lake let go of their fears, fetched water, washed and washed, and the tips of Lei Ming's ears also heard two little girls coming together whispering and excitedly saying that they could take a bath at night.

The experienced farmer had cut the grass without stopping, and by this time he had cut no less than two acres of land, and most of the young men had now harvested, and the meat of the roast rabbit in the evening must have been settled.

"Qilin, go, gather some strong people and start cutting down trees, choose trees close to the canyon, cut down the trees directly down the canyon, we need a lot of wood to rebuild our homes. Seeing that everyone had rested and relaxed for a while and had recovered their spirits, Lei Ming told Qi Lin to gather his men, and he was going to build a wall and a watchtower first, and then build their own wooden houses, no matter what happened here, it was always not wrong to build a wall first.

"Brother, brother, catch fish!" Alice happily held a small net and ran towards Thunder Kick, Thunder looked at it, it was the kind of net like a small mat, but it was not as dense as a mat, revealing a dense small space, the four corners were hung up with a rope, just find a wooden stick and insert it into the button eye of the rope knot, hang the net down, and wait for the fish to swim to the "small mat" Of course, this kind of fishing net is too simple, basically only some relatively small fish can be caught, and in such a little time, those women can weave such a small net out of grass, which is really ingenious.

"Who gave this to Alice?" Lei Ming did not have a cold face at this time, but asked his sister with a warm smile, and when he spoke, he went to get a small piece of black bread, and with a little force in his hand, he divided the hard black bread into small pieces and threw it into the fishing net as bait, and then took the long bloody spear as a wooden stick, and stretched out to put this simple little fishing net into the lake.

Alice came to Lei Ming's side, and looked at the fishing net with bright eyes, so that the catch could be clearly seen, which was very attractive to children, and in the face of her brother's question, Alice said happily: "It was given to Alice by Aunt Mary, and Alice promised Aunt Mary that she would give her the biggest fish she caught." ”

Lei Ming smiled and didn't speak, although he knew that Aunt Mary would give Alice a small fishing net, mostly for the sake of his face, but he would not discourage Alice's enthusiasm, speaking of which he was sorry for Alice, because of the difficulties in life, Alice has suffered a lot with him since she was a child, and even Alice has a headache every week or so, he has no money to treat her, and when he mixes up in the game, Alice's headache has not been cured, in order to save all this, he resolutely took Alice to this world。

"Brother, pull it up, there are fish, there are fish!"

Alice finally saw a fish half an arm's length swim up to peck the small bread cube, and immediately shook Lei Ming's arm lightly with excitement, Lei Ming smiled, and pulled up the small fishing net with a slight effort in his hand, with his control of strength, the fish naturally would not escape, as soon as the spear was collected, the small fishing net reached the shore, the fish was still struggling, and the tail was slapping the fishing net hard, Alice was so excited that she wanted to catch the fish, but she was a little afraid of the fish's resistance, and the tangled expression on her face made Lei Ming happy again.

"Be honest!" Lei Ming stretched out two fingers and flicked it on the fish's head, and the fish twitched and didn't make a big move.

Alice didn't care about getting her clothes dirty, and happily picked up the fish and ran to the aunts and aunts who were really cleaning up the weeds. Lei Ming put down the fishing net again, and when he lifted it up just now, there were still a few fish fry in the net that were only a little bigger, and they swam away immediately when they returned to the water.

Qi Lin organized the manpower, collected the axes and knives in the team, and prepared to do a big job before dinner, Lei Ming followed to give them courage, even the outer part of the jungle, it was a little frightening, it would take them a long time to cut down trees, and it would be bold to do it a few more times.

The tax collector Shaktor also came with the sixteen slaves, who were now strung together by a rope, all around their waists, and it would have been difficult to escape in this jungle area. This cutting down trees is a real hard work, Xia Keduo's idea is to wait for others to cut and rest, let these slaves work hard, try to finish the work as quickly as possible, he also knows in his heart, whether a gathering place has a wall or not, these protections are definitely different, just like a storm caravan attacked in the middle of the night, if they also have a wall, those robbers will not have the slightest chance.

......The sound of axes and firewood knives chopping on the trees came and went, these tools were not very sharp, and the quality was not very good, and they could not use dead force, so each time they only cut a trace, and they had to cut at least a few hundred times to cut into half the depth of the tree, which was not an easy job.

"Push hard, one, two, three!" Chilling instructed them to knock down the half-deep tree, and then quickly had the branches cut off, dragging the whole piece of wood to the side and pushing it down from above, without worrying about hitting people.

Lei Ming looked and nodded, he didn't make any suggestions, let them do everything by themselves, and let them think about what optimizations there were, he just stared at the interior of the dark forest, and if there was danger, he could warn in time.

When the iron pot in the canyon was set up, and the smell of the hare being roasted wafted up, they stopped, packed up their things and went to dinner, no one complained, and all the men had a smile of satisfaction and longing on their faces.

At dinner, Lei Ming ate the same as everyone else, black bread and fresh soup, as well as half a roast rabbit, and the other half was given to Alice, looking at his sister's dirty but very happy appearance, Lei Ming's heart was also warm, the lively and lovely Alice had made friends, Lei Ming just saw her and children of the same age holding the small fishing net to catch fish and catch the ground.

A lewd figure took advantage of the night to touch Lei Ming's side, Lei Ming's eyelids raised, it was indeed Jaston, he ripped off one of the legs of the roast rabbit and threw it to Jaston, Jaston thanked him, with a little emptiness in his tone.

"What's wrong? Did you find any monsters?" Thunder quipped Juston, there was nothing to worry about, if he really found a terrible monster, Juston wouldn't be able to come back.

"I found a monster nest, their skin was dark green, and there were black spots, they were twice my height, and they were surrounded by thick white bones, and they were a bunch of carnivores, not far from us......" The more he said, the more worried Juston became, and from time to time he glanced in that direction.

"Tell me more about it, what else do you see?How many of them are??," Thunder Ming's tone was a little heavier, and he asked three questions in a row, and a race that was relatively powerful in the forest had already appeared in his mind, the forest trolls!

"I, I also saw that they had built houses out of stones, there were about ten of them, and the tools didn't seem to see anything, oh, they had three huge stone pots!" Juston recalled, with great difficulty, as he didn't dare approach because of his nervousness, but just climbed up the tree and glanced at it from afar.

"Whew. Lei Ming exhaled lightly, the tension in his heart eased a lot, and he said calmly, "Go and pick a piece of salt of better quality, put it in a box, and I'll visit them tomorrow." ”