A horse made of oak was erected at the pass of Paglos, and the knights of the supporting squadron of the guard battalion stood guard at the pass.

Under the scorching sun, the armor of the knights was hot, and some knights poured water on the armor, and the knights hung their helmets next to their saddles, their faces flushed from the sun, and they let out a curse or two from time to time in the face of the several adventuring groups waiting in line to pass through the pass.

Guarding the mountain pass for a temporary inspection in such a hot weather is indeed a mental breakdown.

Captain Sauron scolded the supporting squadron six times in a row in this month, and almost all the knights of the supporting squadron were holding a sulk in their hearts.

Last year, there was only a bandit group wreaking havoc on the outskirts of Highlandsa, but this year, it was a rebel army that ran outside the city of Highlandsa, and the knights of the supporting squadron were almost crumbling in their hearts.

The corpses of the rebels hanging from the wooden crosses on the top of the hill have now turned into a pile of bones.

The knights of the guard battalion were heavily armed at the mountain pass, and some mung bean sweet soup would be delivered every day from the village of Wall in the distance, which was probably the most anticipated thing of the day for the knights.

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Ludwig stood in the middle of the party, carrying a large bag of luggage, his lean body slightly crushed.

He is employed by an adventuring party called Golden Oak Fruit, and as a high-ranking scout for the rebels in charge of gathering intelligence, he has excellent camouflage skills.

In the city of Highlandza, at least eight out of ten adventure parties are named after oak trees.

He wiped his tanned face with a towel and looked up to see a group of adventurers undergoing a raid in front of him.

A shrill whistle sounded from the otherwise quiet Paglos Pass, and a group of knights of the guard battalion quickly rushed towards the warning place.

The four archers stood in all four directions of the pass, their longbows quickly mounted their feathered arrows, and aimed the tips of their arrows at the pass.

Ludwig looked up in panic and saw one of his companions pinned to the ground by a group of guards battalion knights.

It was an old cavalryman from their rebel ranks, he did not die on the battlefield, but when he passed through the Paglos Pass, he was caught by this group of guards battalion knights known as Black Dogs, and seeing his head broken with the hilt of his sword and his head bleeding, and his hands and feet tightly clasped in shackles, Ludwig was eager to rush forward and fight the guards battalion with their vain steps.

The old cavalryman was pressed to the ground in humiliation, and he seemed to see Ludwig through the layers of the crowd, but he turned his face away......

Ludwig clenched his fists, pressed his head very low, and held back without making a move.

Calm finally returned there, and the old cavalry finally resisted explosively, breaking free from the shackles on his hands, but was stabbed into a hedgehog by a group of knights with spears and died on the spot.

The corpse of the old cavalryman was carried to the top of the hill and trapped on a cross.

With the harvest, the knights of the guard battalion finally became a little more energetic, and when it was Ludwig's turn, they also carefully examined his palms, elbows, shoulders and large. The inside of the legs, where the cavalry could easily come out of the calluses, was carefully checked, and this kind of inspection would not involve women.

The commander of the Golden Oak Fruit Adventure Regiment also gave one of the knights of the Guard Battalion a few silver coins, so that the luggage was not opened.

……

After finally passing the checkpoint, Ludwig walked less than a kilometer with a heavy package on his back.

The village of Wolver appeared in front of Ludwig's eyes, and when he saw the new townhouses lined up on the hillside, and the terraced houses at the entrance of the village like low walls, Ludwig knew that those companions had really kicked the hard bones this time.

He had neglected the Deserted Land, which was located in a remote mountainous area where some of the mountain people lived who posed no threat to the rebels, so he did not do any investigation outside the pass.

But now Ludwig found that the place they had neglected was the deadliest.

At least a third of the rebel cavalry who came to the city of Highlanza died in the village.

In just two months, the dilapidated mountain village, which could still be used for war horses to gallop freely, not only built the walls of the terraced houses to resist the raids of the war horses, but also replaced the thatched houses in the village with stronger stone houses.

According to the information investigated, the Surdak knight in the guard camp is a villager in the village, and there is also information that Surdak is currently a baron.

Ludwig was thinking about how to infiltrate the village and investigate on the ground, and he had been staying in the city of Highlandsa for a while to gather information.

Unfortunately, with the death of Wizard Kirdon, the Rebels' connection with the Darkmoon Gate in Highlandsa City has been completely broken, and it is now even more difficult for the Rebels to find that hidden place in the Paglos Mountains.

A small stream flows out of the village, and the terraced houses look like they have just been built, but there are traces of a lot of inhabitation, and there are some multigrain porridge boiling in a large iron pot not far from the door, and several village women have to stir it with spoons from time to time, so as not to paste the bottom of the pot.

An oak board with the words 'Wall Village' hung from the dead tree at the entrance of the village, and a market was formed under the tree, and although there were few stalls, it was quite varied, from grains, vegetables, meat, dried chickens and ducks, and some daily groceries.

Ludwig was carrying a large package, and as he passed by the market, someone approached him to ask what was inside.

The leader of the adventure group immediately explained loudly that the package was only a marching tent, which was what the adventure group usually used, and these people slowly dispersed.

Ludwig sat at the entrance to the village of Wol, sorting out his bags, and every now and then a four-wheeled carriage would pull into the village, filled with powder-fine volcanic ash and a cart of limestone blocks.

Soon in the evening, the Golden Oak Fruit Adventure Group took out the prepared wheat cakes and bought a few tomatoes and shallots at the market to cook a pot of vegetable soup.

Ludwig held the wooden plate in his hand, and while tearing up the scones and putting them in the vegetable soup, he looked at a group of kobold slaves walking in the distance, each of them carrying stone hammers and chisels, covered in dust, and walked to the stream, where they took a bath before returning to the row house wet.

They didn't even have any shackles on them, and the kobold slaves lined up to put their tools in a warehouse, and then took out wooden plates from another room, and began to silently cook next to the big iron pot where the porridge was cooking, and the whole process was so smooth that people couldn't say anything.

Two village women brought a large pot of chopped cabbage, and the kobolds actually ate it very sweetly.

The village of Wall at dusk has a similar, almost decadent aesthetic, with all the construction sites stopped, some concrete pillars and exposed steel bars casting a long shadow in the setting sun, and the upstream reservoir has begun to resume work and the foundation of the third layer of the dam is about to be poured.

The villagers of Wall, along with other village artisans, walk down from the construction site and eat dinner in the village central square, where a variety of dinners are prepared every night, with the occasional lamb soup.

Of course, the matter of drinking the mutton soup depends on the mood of the ogre Gulitam for now, because he is currently in charge of the sheep in the village of Wall.

Three townhouses have been repaired in the village, and the village chief Bright plans to complete all the townhouses in the village by the end of this month.

Ludwig ate the vegetable soup on his plate, put down his plate, and walked slowly upstream along the concrete road in the village, carefully counting the townhouses that had been built in the village, ready to roughly calculate the current population of the village of Wall.

The concrete road is very smooth, with gentle stairs on both sides of the road and a drainage ditch to the periphery.

The village was now full of building materials, and Ludwig crouched next to a wooden box full of volcanic ash, and he reached out and grabbed a handful of volcanic ash, which was so delicate that a gust of wind swept the ash in his hand far away, and he wondered how the people of Vol Village had turned the ash into a house.

Finger-thick round steel bars were piled up haphazardly next to the ash, and these bars could be turned into sharp spears and iron rods, as well as iron cages, but the people of Vol Village seemed to have a different understanding of these iron bars, and they hid them in the ash concrete stone pillars.

Ludwig had just passed by a few townhouses when he saw the steel bars mixed in the concrete.

A group of village women walked to the buildings from the river with buckets and poured water on them with spoons......

Ludwig didn't understand why they were drenching the sun-dried building again, and his gaze fell back on the magical volcanic ash in his palms.

"Would you like to have some of our specialty, the miraculous pozzolana cement?" The old voice sounded from behind him.

“……”

Ludwig was startled and hurriedly put the volcanic ash in his palm back into the wooden box.

Chief Bright came up from behind, stood in front of Ludwig, and said to him with a smile: "Originally, these volcanic ashes were everywhere in the barrens, but now ...... The entire volcano is the domain of Baron Surdak, and the ash also belongs to Baron Surdak, and if you want it, you need to buy it with money. ”

The old village chief said these words were taught by Surdak sentence by sentence, since he was going to do the business of pozzolana cement, he had to determine the ownership of these volcanic ashes first.

Ludwig looked at the volcanic ash in the wooden box, smiled reluctantly, and said, "I'm just curious, how did you come up with the idea of building a house out of volcanic ash, it looks pretty good......"

He's not a fool, can he sell it for money with volcanic ash all over the ground?

"Listen to your accent...... Not a local? Chief Bright had no intention of leaving, and continued to talk to him.

Ludwig said stiffly: "Hehe, I often run outside, I don't even know what my imperial Chinese is like." ”

He didn't want to expose himself for the time being, he just dealt with the old village chief casually and left in a hurry, he knew that there were many mistakes in what he said, and if he let the people of Vol Village know that he was also a rebel, the consequences would be very serious......

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Rita and Natasha cook a big pot of rice every day in the village central square, and old Sheila and little Peter eat there every day.

Surdak came out of the police station, and without hurrying home, he walked towards the square in the center of the village, and saw the old village chief Brett chatting with the stranger from a distance, but the stranger did not talk for long, and left in a hurry.

Surdak walked up to the village chief of Bright and asked him curiously:

"Uncle Bright, who were you talking to?"

When he saw Surdak coming down, the old village chief said, "A stranger seems to be very interested in volcanic ash, so I went over and asked if I could take another order." ”

Speaking of business, Surdak immediately thought of promising Carl to build a villa, and he had been busy with other things for the past few days, so he didn't bother to ask, so he said, "How is Charlie's preparation?" ”

This time he went out to build a villa, Surdak asked Charlie to lead the team, he is more familiar with Carl, he is also smart, and he likes to use his brain.

"Charlie plans to leave the day after tomorrow, but do you think they can really do it?" The old village chief asked with some concern.

Surdak said to the old village chief: "The village of Vol is almost finished, and a villa should not be difficult for them. ”

The village chief of Bright said with some concern: "But this is not Wall Village after all!" We had to prepare more wagons to transport the ash from the depths of the wasteland, and we didn't know how much ash ...... would be needed for a villa. ”

"Then build a few more four-wheeled carriages, and not all the houses will be made of volcanic ash, or bring some kobold slaves over so that the ......rock can be mined on the spot," Surdak said.

The old village chief frowned and said, "We need more coachmen, there are so many people in the village, and those who can drive the cars have been dispatched." ”

Surdak said, "Otherwise, find some people from other villages......

The two stood in front of the townhouse and chatted for a long time before Surdak walked to the village square.

Selena dropped off the last child at the gate of the newly built children's home, and Signa slipped out of her skirt and waved at Surdak.

Surdak stopped and saw that there were a lot of people in the village square, and there was a lot of water vapor on the stove, and the smell of stews wafted far away.

"Are you going to dinner?" Surdak asked Selena and waved at Signa again.

Selena shook her head, she smiled like a blooming tulip, her beautiful eyes were faintly teasing, and she said to Surdak: "You haven't been here since you moved to the new house, do you want to get up and sit at my house?" ”

Surdak wanted to walk over immediately and hold her hot body tightly in his arms.

There were a lot of people in the village square, and he didn't want to become the talking point of the village woman tomorrow morning, so he could only refrain from it.

Selena smiled slightly, took Signa's little hand, and walked up the village.