This time, Surdak led the team into Pubao Mountain, and in addition to carrying a large amount of cassava, the carriage also had some reed mats, shade cloths and other materials.

Luke led a few young villagers to build reed mats on a low stone wall, which became the simplest kind of shed, and covered it with a black shade cloth to keep the flying ash out of the shed, but if the lungs inhaled a large amount of ash, they would get a lung disease that was difficult to cure.

Later, Selena came to the sulfur mine in the rocky area and saw that the villagers had to wear scarves over their faces even when they slept, so she suggested to the old village chief that the tent should be covered with a shade cloth that could block the volcanic ash, so that at least she could sleep at night without covering her face.

Later, the villagers built several roofless huts out of stones, and the low tents gradually became unusable.

Surdak led two hundred kobold slaves into the mines of the rocky area, and these sheds could be used with a little tidying, and this time he also brought reed mats and spread them in the sheds, and the living conditions were much better than last autumn.

The most scarce thing on this side of Pusbag Mountain is the water source, but since the introduction of the Water Gathering Magic Scroll, this problem has been solved.

The hardest part is the natural environment, the volcanic ash flying in the sky, the rivers of lava flowing freely, and the occasional encounter with fire-type magical beasts such as salamanders, which make this place full of dangers, and only locals like Luke know that the flames of the crater on the pustule have been burning for nearly a hundred years, but they have never erupted, except for the occasional river of lava flowing from the top of the mountain.

The kobold slaves sat honestly in the shack, and these kobolds had shaggy hair and little communication with each other, sitting silently on the reed mats, and only when they drank water would they go to the bucket at the door of the shed, and when they had drunk it, they would sit back down.

Seeing that the mining area had settled down, and fearing that Luke and the five villagers would not be able to suppress the two hundred kobold slaves, Surdak asked Andrew to stay.

The most scarce thing on this side of the sulphur mine is not food, but water. Surdak handed Luke a Hydromersis Magic Rune Plate, a metal magic rune board that consumes Crystal Fragments when it is running, and can be used as long as they are replaced in time after the mana of the Crystal Fragments is depleted. In addition to this, Surdak also gave Luke two Hydro Gathering Magic Scrolls in case of emergency.

The Magic Metal Rune Plate and the Magic Scroll were bought in the magic shop in Bena City before he went to the maca plane, and it didn't take a few plane wars to end in the maca plane.

With these things dealt with, Surdak left the sulphur mines in the Rocky District with Samira, Gulitham, and Aphrodite.

Looking at the volcano that towers in front of you like a black chimney, the top of the mountain is covered with gray clouds, thick smoke is billowing out, and dark red lava rivers flow down from the mountain, but when you reach the mountainside, the skin slowly cools, forming layers of limestone crust and lava undercurrent.

The surface of this lava river is covered with a layer of black shiny stone shell, which looks very hard, but in some places the hard shell has just formed, and it is very dangerous to crumble and shatter when you step into it, leaving your feet in the lava.

Standing next to a lava river is the sulfur mine of a large rocky area of this diverted lava river.

"Captain, did you choose the knight here?" The elven archer, with a thick scarf covering his face, asked Surdak with some confusion.

"Well, although the land here is barren, there is a large area of open-pit sulfur mines, and if these sulfur mines are transported out of here, they can change the lives of the whole village." Surdak took the horse and walked a few steps forward, pointed to the rocky area that appeared in front of him, and said to the Samira.

Aphrodite stood on a raised black rock, she gently lifted the black veil from her face, and smiled at Surdak:

"If it hadn't been for the hike, I would have thought I would be back in hell."

Surdak put his hand on his forehead and said to his subordinates: "It's not as bad as it seems, these lava rivers can flow into the abandoned land with a little guidance, only the volcanic ash here is more troublesome to deal with......

Surdak and the members of the security team left the sulfur mines in the rocky area, and according to the area marked on the parchment map, it took nearly a week to set up twenty-nine boundary monuments in the edge area of the knight's territory, these boundary monuments are basically taken from local materials, find some eye-catching boulders, draw their eye-catching arrows with white pulp and lime powder on them, and write the words 'Surdak knight's collar' under the boulders.

The northern part of Pubao Mountain is connected to the Paglos Mountains, and part of the area passes through the summit of the volcano, where no boundary monument can be erected for the time being.

But no matter what, the boundary monument of the knight's territory is considered to be a tree, and the boundary monument is all Surdak land, and the canonization of knights is not hereditary, which means that in Surdak's lifetime, this place belongs to Surdak.

Due to the barren land, Surdak's knight leader was much larger than the ordinary knight leader, and after erecting the boundary monument, he suddenly found that he had such a large piece of land, and Surdak's heart was also mixed.

"Let's go, let's go back to the Ranshi Mountain Mining Area!" Surdak said to his men.

"Captain, are we going to patrol here in the future to maintain law and order?" On the way back to the sulphur mines in the Rocky District, the ogre Gulitham asked with some uneasiness.

Surda stopped at the reins of his horse, the ash in this area was almost a foot thick, and it was difficult for both ogres and Guborai horses to walk on it. He even considered whether to buy a few camels.

Surdak thought for a moment and said: "Most of the time no, our main area of responsibility is in more than a dozen natural villages near Vol Village, to prevent the bandit group from plundering and attacking the villagers there, as for my knight leader's side, I don't think there will be a bandit group that can't think of coming here!" ”

The ogre Gulitham was relieved when he heard Surdak say this, patted his chest and said, "Oh, that's good, the environment here is really terrible!" ”

……

When he returned to the sulfur mine again, the second batch of supplies from Wall Village had just arrived at the mine, and Luke was standing in the compartment of a truck, directing dozens of kobold slaves to carry cassava, scones and some dried vegetables to the warehouse.

"Rest when the last cart of cassava is unloaded......," shouted Luke at the top of his voice, "Whoever moves the most will be rewarded with a wheat bran multigrain cake for dinner!" ”

In order to prevent this group of kobold slaves from being lazy, Luke stipulated that these kobold slaves had to dig out a certain amount of sulfur mines before they were eligible for dinner, obviously these kobold slaves had rich mining experience and could complete their daily tasks on time. Even in some of the places where the villagers had dug up, the kobold slaves would re-excavate some of the brimstone mines.

"Duck, I found out that these kobolds are a group of miners by nature, and it won't be long before we can completely hollow out this area." Luke said to Surdak with an excited expression.

He took Surdak to see the recent week's harvest, where a large pile of sulphur was piled up just outside Luke's house, like a hill.

The four-wheeled wagons that had unloaded the supplies had gathered here, and a group of kobold slaves were loading the wagons with sulfur ore, and they looked much more numb, and each kobold slave looked good, at least his numb and empty gaze had regained a glimmer of brilliance.

"When I return to Vol Village, I will return to Highlandsa City to complete the rest of my studies, the kobold here will be handed over to you to manage, be careful, if there is anything wrong, you must decisively give up here, everything will be said when I come back, don't be reckless." Surdak looked at the majestic Pus-Filled Mountain, and he was a little worried about the salamanders that could emerge from the mountain at any moment.

Luke didn't care much, and said to Surdak with confidence, "Yes, I'll take care of this group of kobolds, Dak." ”

When it was time for dinner, Luke and his party became men again, and the two villagers carried a large cauldron and poured the boiled cassava porridge into a large wooden barrel, Luke held a spoon in his hand, standing behind the large wooden barrel, and the group of kobold slaves lined up in a long line, each kobold slave had a large wooden bowl in his hand, Luke put spoonfuls of cassava porridge into the bowl, and the other villager actually grabbed a piece of salted radish from another large wooden basin and distributed it to the kobolds.

Andrew walked up to Surdak at this time, and Surdak asked him, "These kobolds have been so honest these days?" ”

"It's been like this lately." Andrew wore a thick scarf around his neck, no armor on his upper body, a bronzed upper body, and a pair of pants.

Surdak patted Andrew on the shoulder and said, "Tomorrow we will go back to the village of Wall, and you and Samira, and Gulitham will return to the city of Highlandsa with me, and we will have to rush back to the guard camp to report." ”

"And ...... here?" Andrew asked, a little uneasy.

"Leave it to Luke for now." Surdak said categorically.

……

Early the next morning, Surdak and his members of the security team left with a four-wheeled carriage full of sulfur mines, returning to the village of Wall.

When passing through the Beigou pasture, a large area of 'thirst and immortality' has grown on the bank of the last bit of water at the bottom of the ditch, which is the most common kind of wild grass in this barren land, except for the yellow sheep, other animals do not eat this wild grass full of thorns and not many leaves.

Sure enough, on the side of the Beigou grassland, Surdak found a herd of yellow sheep and a half-grown child lying on the sunny dirt slope basking in the sun with his eyes closed.

Aphrodite looked at the meadow with interest, and since she stepped out of the confines of the Pusquid Mountain, her mood had improved again.

In the lower reaches of the river, a large group of kobold slaves are digging a river channel, according to Surdak's concept, to control this large area of tidal flats downstream of the bay, it is necessary to dig an artificial canal next to the tidal flats, and only by diverting the abundant rainwater that collects here from both sides of the valley during the rainy season can the large tidal flats here become fertile land.

At the end of this artificial canal is a large crack formed naturally, more than ten miles away from the village of Wall, and two slopes have to be dug halfway, the old village chief Bright has not thought about treating this tidal flat, but the amount of work has been huge and the waist is bent halfway, and now Surdak suddenly brought back more than a thousand kobold slaves, except for two hundred kobold people sent to the sulfur mine at the foot of Pubao Mountain, the rest of the kobold slaves were all decisively invested in the project of digging the artificial canal by the old village chief.

When Surdak and his party returned to Vol Village, the 800 kobolds had dug out nearly two kilometers of the artificial canal in the river bay section, which was the easiest section to dig because of the large amount of silt and sand gathered in this section, and it would be more difficult to jump to the back, especially the two slopes that they passed through, and the limestone layers were almost all under their feet, and I am afraid that they would have to be dug out little by little with a chisel and a hammer.

In fact, Surdak had some other ideas, he was wondering if he would make black powder, and he still knew the basics of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.

It is said that there was an alchemical potion similar to black powder in the era of Hextech technology, but with the demise of the Goblin Age, black powder has not been passed down, and if this thing blows up the river, it is estimated that it will be much easier to open up the river.

However, although the Grimm Empire does not have black powder, there is another substitute - firescale bullets, when he was defending the city of Warzhmara, Surdak also saw the power of this firescale bullet, that thing is like a Molotov cocktail filled with gasoline, ignited and thrown out, and then 'bang' exploded, flying a huge spark, everything touched by the firescale bullet will burn.

Whether it is the fire scale bomb or the development of black powder, Surdak feels that this kind of professional thing should be done by professionals, and he plans to return to the city of Highlandza, and find an opportunity to meet the scholar of Ferdinand, maybe he will give himself some good advice, maybe he will be inspired by himself to develop black powder directly......

'It's better to have the recipe for this kind of big killer in your own hands. Surdak thought.

The entrance to the village of Vol Village has become a lively bazaar, and some horse-drawn wagons have brought in a lot of cassava, the quantity of which has greatly exceeded Surdak's expectations, and now the old village chief has set up five large warehouses at the entrance of the village, each of which is almost full of cassava, which is probably enough for the kobold slaves to eat for two or three months.

However, there were still a number of horse-drawn wagons laden with cassava at the pass, which kept coming from the city of Hylanza and brought with them a large number of cassava.

The old village chief Bright was sitting on a chair with a sad face, surrounded by a group of merchants, and a dozen wagons around him were still full of cassava......