Only a canopy of trees was almost rotten, and most of the scattered ironwood branches were buried in the earth.

Now the old ironwood, covered with green moss, had been dug up by the cavalry, each weighing as a golden stone, and then sorted and bundled into bundles and loaded into the shelves of the Thunder Rhino.

In the past, it would have been difficult for a thunderrhino of this size to navigate such a dense forest.

But now it's different, the ghost red ants have cleaned the forest, and almost all the leaves of the trees have been gnawed clean.

After the ant tide, some trees sprout again, while others die completely.

The forest is full of these dead trees, and it is because of this dead trees that these thunder rhinos can pass through the crevices between the trees.

The bulky thunder rhino is covered with thick armor, and it is not afraid of these dead branches cutting through the skin, and every time the thunder rhino leading the way at the front takes a step forward, there will be countless dead branches, and eighteen thunder rhinos are lined up and walk through the forest, even if there is a loose road in the woods.

The only downside to this forest road is that it is not accessible to horse-drawn carriages.

Due to its proximity to the edge of the Dark Worm Valley, the Ghost Ant is extremely active in this area, and even the indigenous tribes rarely move in this area.

Even so, Surdak was still worried that the abandoned wilderness, covered with a thick layer of moss, would be discovered by the other adventurers, and in addition to enclosing the place with boundary monuments, he also wrote warning signs around it, which was nothing more than 'Private territory, enter with caution!' ''This place is dangerous, and there are often ghost-striped red ants!'' Hopefully it will be useful to those lawless adventure groups.

After all, a few pieces of ironwood that had collapsed deep in the woods were selling for almost as much as magical red copper per pound.

In fact, Surdak also knew that he didn't need to worry too much, this place was not only located in a remote mountain gorge, but also on the southern slope of the dense forest, which was difficult for horses and vehicles to enter in normal times, and it was difficult to transport this large ironwood even if it was found, unless it was chopped here, it was possible to transport it.

Before Surdak transported these ironwoods to Dodan Town, all the ironwood was wrapped in linen, and after arriving in Dodan Town, he moved into the warehouse as soon as he arrived, without leaking any information to the outside at all, and even the warehouse keeper only knew that these materials were specially pulled back with the Thunder Rhinoceros, which was very heavy, and that's all.

Surdak was going to move the ironwood directly to Pusbag Mountain, and then sell it from the village of Wall to the city of Highlandsa, where the ironwood was used to make hardwood bows, and the price of ironwood in the magic market remained high, almost the same as the price of magical copper per pound.

After the beast tide, the soldiers in the garrison camp were a little worried that Surdak would lose the income of the ghost-patterned red ants, and the commander of Surdak built a large number of rows of buildings and temples in Dodan Town, once the capital chain was broken, the barracks merit exchange list would not be maintained.

The fifth exchange of magic weapons on the merit list is once again swarming.

In fact, the value of this batch of ironwood that arrived in the town of Dodan was much higher than that of the soldier ants.

……

There was no way to write to Hathaway and Beatrice in Invercargill Forest, and by the time he returned to Dodan Town from Invercargill Forest with his cavalry and Thunder Rhinoarcher battalion, he already had three letters from Bednar City on the table in his study.

Looking for the one that came from the three letters, I read them one after another, and the faint sweetness in my thoughts was like a glass of sweet fruit wine with ice.

Surdak hurriedly wrote a reply letter and asked his guards to send it to the town's carriage shop to send it back to Bena City.

This time, he brought back one of the most detailed hand-drawn maps from the Invercargill Forest, which showed Surdak's application to the Wilkes Territorial Authority.

In mid-August, a surveyor and two law clerks who had arrived in the town of Dodan from the Wilkes Territorial Administration had been staying in a hotel in the town of Dodan for three weeks.

During Surdak's absence in Dodan Town, the three of them also wandered around the town all day with nothing to do.

Their job is specialized in border land surveying, and they have naturally been to many small towns.

There is no slum like Dodan Town, where the aborigines live in small townhouses, and even the homeless people in the town eat baked wheat cakes every day.

However, there were not many homeless people in the town, and once the town's security team found such people as homeless and beggars, they would send them to the town's shelter, unless they were truly physically handicapped, and the able-bodied people were all to join the labor group, and they had to work in exchange for food and shelter.

The town is crowded with all kinds of adventure groups and mercenary groups, after they entered the hills and mountains along the Dodan Gorge, they first hunted the ghost-patterned red ants in the mountains, and now the ghost-patterned red ants are almost extinct, and many adventure groups have gone deep into the Invercargill Warcraft Forest to hunt those returning Warcraft.

The group seems to have gotten used to living in the town of Dodan.

There are many merchant groups here, and they buy almost all types of Warcraft materials, and all the materials brought back by the adventure group and mercenary group from outside can be sold in Dodan Town.

The corresponding supporting blacksmith shops, leather shops, hotels, and grocery stores are relatively complete.

These shops have been opened in recent months due to the increasing number of adventure groups, but now they are the main reason why they are the main attraction for adventure groups to base themselves here.

At first, the officials of the Territorial Administration were a little surprised by the astonishing changes in the town of Dodan, and they became accustomed to it after living for a long time.

When they finally saw Surdak return from Invercargill Forest, they almost dropped their jaws when they saw the black-and-white cow-like pattern of the territory...... This is simply deliberately making things difficult for people, how can this be measured!

The conundrum for the three officers of the Territorial Administration is:

It is impossible to calculate exactly whether the land framed on Surdak's map occupies two-fifths of the total area of the newly opened territory......

Looking at the map of the territory of the Warcraft Forest in Invercargill in front of him, it was like a black and white cow standing in front of him.

"Lord Viscount, do you really want to make your territory so complicated?" With wrinkles on his forehead, the surveyor smiled very reluctantly at Surdak and said, "Such a scattered territory means that there will be many scattered small lords around you, and the nobles who occupy the common lands are usually some magician nobles, and you are destined to have many new neighbors." ”

If it weren't for the fact that the thirty-seven indigenous tribes were so scattered, Surdak would not have planned his territory in this way, and there was no way to do it.

"Of course, I've gone through all of the land, and the land that has been carved out is all high-quality territory, and the boundary markers are all buried, so it's okay to scatter them......" Surdak said with a smile to the surveyor.

The surveyor could only nod with a bitter face, and said respectfully to Surdak:

"If the scale of these maps is roughly correct, we will put the seal of the Bureau of Land Management on this map, and the territory of the Warcraft Forest in Invercargill will be officially included in the territory of the Empire, and this territory will be officially effective."

The young clerk standing beside him was almost crying, for this was the first time he had encountered such trouble.

He quietly tugged at the placket of the surveyor's shirt and whispered, "Chief, how do we calculate the area of these lands?" ”

The surveyor whispered, "All you need to do is help me calculate the total area!" Actually, it's not that difficult, and our predecessors have already come up with a lot of ways to do this......"

"Go outside and bring me ......that fish skin," the surveyor commanded.

A young clerk went outside to find a piece of soft translucent leather, and directly rubbed the map brought by Surdak on this piece of leather, and finally the map was perfectly rubbed, and then cut the thin fish skin.

Transfer these patterns to a delicate, soft hide, and cut out the outer outline of all the territories in the map.

Weigh the whole piece of leather, and it's exactly seven pounds.

Then the surveyor took out the dagger and followed the lines of the rubbing, and the leather of the Surdak territory was cut perfectly, and the area occupied by the territory was directly weighed.

The surveyor said to Surdak as he weighed it, "Lord Viscount, the whole piece of territory leather weighs 7 pounds, and according to the 433 Territorial Allocation Law, the weight of the territory you will have ...... 2.7 lbs. ”

Surveyor Ma Li took the scale, took the weight of the same weight from the weight tray and placed it at one end of the scale, and at the other end of the scale, these scattered pieces of monster leather were placed on top of it, until all the shaded leather was pressed, and it was not able to balance the 2.7-pound scale.

The surveyor raised his head and said with a serious face: "Lord Viscount Surdak, the territory you have chosen is not enough, and you need to add two more pieces!" ”

"Okay!" Surdak felt that this was what he liked to hear the most.

He found a few small pieces of land in the scattered area, put them in the scales, and did not stop until they were level.

The surveyor nodded in satisfaction, and marked the few pieces of leather that had been added later.

"Now that the extent of these territories has been roughly finalized, the authenticity of the size of this map will be determined below......"

"After that, we will enter the Invercargill Forest to check the map, and when the time comes, I hope Viscount Surdak can get your army to give us some help."

The surveyor said about Surdak's disappearance.

"Of course, that's what I'm supposed to do."

Surdak readily agreed.