Hull leaned on the window of the carriage with a sad face, looked at the deserted shops on one side of the street, and sighed dissatisfiedly: "It's really not a sunset city, a poor rural country, the streets are potholes, and the shops are so deserted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" She turned her head to look at her father. "Daddy, do we have to stay here permanently?"

Hull's father, Bart Hunt, sat across from Hull, and he said in an affirmative tone, "At least for a while, of course." ”

"I want to go back to the Golden City—" begged her daughter.

Bart had a sad expression on his face, and said helplessly: "Qianjin City has been crushed by the plague, do you want to go back and find death?"

Qianjin City is the richest city in the west, where gold is abundant, so it is named Qianjin City. After the outbreak of the plague, Qianjin City was the first city in the west to be infected, when Bart led his people out of Qianjin City, it was already a hell on earth, full of poor people killed by the plague, pedestrians would suddenly fall down while walking on the street, the family all died in bed overnight, and when others found out, their corpses began to stink, rats and bugs were burrowing around in the unclaimed corpses, those black rats as big as puppies were scurrying around the streets, and they were not even afraid of people, the cemetery outside the city was already full, and people who had nowhere to bury could only be thrown outside the city gate casually, and over time, the corpses were piled up like a hill, the capable people have long since run away, and even the city lord has abandoned the city, and all that remains is to wait for death in silence.

Bart was originally a well-known figure in the Golden City, and he owned a private gold mine in the south of the city, and his family was very wealthy. However, a plague caused Bart's business to suffer a heavy loss, and the city could no longer be inhabited, so in desperation, Bart had to come to Sunset City to join his distant nephew, Lorraine Hunter.

Hull is nineteen years old, she was born very beautiful, her beautiful long blonde hair shines like the sun, and her facial features and figure are impeccable. Born beautiful and born in a wealthy family, Hull has been pampered in every way since she was a child, and it has also created her pretentious and arrogant character. She didn't want to come to Sunset City, she felt that Sunset City was a big countryside, far worse than Qianjin City. But when she thought of the terrible scene she had seen before leaving, she swallowed the words of protest alive as soon as they reached her lips.

"Daddy, do I have to marry that Rollin Hunter? I haven't even met him. Hull asked, she felt very uncomfortable at the thought that she was about to marry a stranger, if it was a noble knight, it was fine, but it was a distant relative in such a poor place, Hull couldn't see this Luo Lin clearly in his heart.

"I haven't seen him either. Bart said.

"You haven't seen him either!" Hull opened his mouth in surprise. "Then you still dare me to marry him? ”

Bart frustrated his hands: "We have no choice, Hull. This plague has taken everything from our family, and it is a problem for us to even survive now. I haven't seen Rollin himself, but I've seen a portrait of him, and Rollin is twenty years old and quite handsome. On top of that, the Hunter family in Sunset City is no longer what it used to be, and I've heard that they've recruited an apothecary master, and the family's strength has skyrocketed. Today, Rollin is a pivotal figure in Sunset City. ”

Speaking of this, Bart couldn't help but sigh with emotion. "I used to look down on the Hunter family in Sunset City, but who would have thought that I would come to join them today, it's really unpredictable. ”

With a disdainful expression, Hull muttered in a low voice, "Hmph, what's the use of being so important in such a poor and dilapidated place? At best, he is a rich man in the countryside, far worse than those noble young masters in Qianjin City." ”

At noon, Ander finished his work in the herbal medicine laboratory and sat under a big tree in the courtyard to cool off. Then he saw several carriages coming in from the gate of Hunt's house, the first carriage being the most luxurious, and when the carriage was opened, first a middle-aged man came down, and then a beautiful young woman.

There's a new guest?, Ender thought. But he didn't care, Hunter's house always had guests visiting, and Eliman was busy every day, and Ender was used to it. He squinted at a room on the third floor, which had now been turned into a classroom, where Murphy was teaching Emma about culture, and if she wanted to be a competent son, she couldn't do without culture. To Ander's relief, Emma is very knowledgeable and smart, even Murphy praised her for being "diligent and hardworking", it is not easy to get a compliment from Murphy, you can imagine how hard Emma works.

Ender's herbal lab has been doing well lately, and the Flame Fruit has finally blossomed, and although it is still producing small fruits, it has finally taken the first step. In the next step, Ander plans to expand production, and try to make simple explosive packs with flame fruit, recently the entire Ottoman Empire is not peaceful, Ander always has a premonition of "going to war", so he must plan early, Flame Fruit, a herb that can be turned into military supplies, is naturally more and better.

In the evening, Luo Lin came to the herbal medicine laboratory with a bitter gourd face, and as soon as he entered the door, Ande saw that he looked like he had seen a ghost, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What's wrong with you?"

Rollin sighed sentimentally: "Mr. Ender, Uncle Eliman has found me a wife, and I am getting married." ”

Ander didn't come up in shock: "What?!You're going to get married!"

Luo Lin nodded: "It's a distant sister of mine, and she doesn't usually move around at all." ”

"Inbred married!" Ander was taken aback again.

Luo Lin was stunned: "What kind of close relatives get married?"

Ande then remembered that in ancient times, it was very normal for relatives to intermarry, and Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu still had relatives. "Oh, nothing, I'll just say it. He stepped forward and patted Rollin on the shoulder. "Congratulations, brother. ”

Rollin sighed again: "I haven't seen her before, and Uncle Eliman doesn't know what to think about asking me to marry a stranger I met for the first time." ”

"Naturally, Eliman has his own considerations, and whatever he does, it's for your own good. Tell me, is your future wife pretty?"

Rollin couldn't help blushing: "Pretty, but not as beautiful as Miss Murphy." ”

Ander slapped Rollin on the back: "That's not it!"

Sending Rollin away, Ender began working on his "dynamite package plan". Because Ander appropriately changed the temperature and humidity in the herbal medicine laboratory, the growth rate of the flame fruit was several times faster than normal growth, and now the first batch of flame fruits has ripened and produced small red fruits.

Ender collects these fruits together, first cuts the fruits and takes out the flower seeds inside, and can continue to grow them in the future to achieve sustainable development. Then use the magic flame to bake out the moisture inside the fruit, note that there must be no water at all, otherwise it will not ignite. Finally, the fruit is ground into powder, and a "plant dynamite" is ready. Now, Ender's question is how to turn explosives into explosives packets.

In fact, this problem is not a problem, because there have been attempts to make weapons from the flame fruit for a long time, the flame fruit is not a particularly valuable herb, many pharmacists know its explosive properties, and the army certainly knows it, but these attempts ultimately failed, only for one reason: the economy is too poor to produce in large quantities.

Because the Flame Fruit grows in high-temperature areas, usually near the crater, not to mention that there are not many active volcanoes on the Continent of the Gods, even if there is really an active volcano next to it, the Flame Fruit growing on it is definitely not enough to support a battle, and it is estimated that it is enough to listen to it when it is just fought, and the pharmacist will not use much Flame Fruit to configure the potion, but the consumption of the war must be very huge. But now Ander has solved this problem perfectly, using magic elements to artificially cultivate flame fruits, as long as the production capacity can keep up. You can have as much as you want

Ander had seen the "Flame Fruit Bomb" made by humans in the "library" left by Gilgalot before, and it has to be said that in terms of invention and creation, humans have always been superior to other races, and the makers grinded the flame fruit into powder and put it in a clay pot, using oil-soaked hemp rope as a fuse, and threw it directly into the opponent's camp with a trebuchet during the war. However, the power of this bomb is too small, and the damage range is not large, and the damage in the face of hoplites or hoplites with stronger mobility is very limited, and the most important thing is that it cannot be mass-produced because there are too few flame fruits, and it is useless for any standard weapon used by the army if it cannot be mass-produced.

Now, there is no problem with mass production of the Flame Fruit, the problem is that Ender wants to increase the power of this clay pot bomb.

Ander pondered all night, and the next morning Ander came out with two panda eyes, and although he had hardly slept all night, Ander was unexpectedly energetic because he had a good idea.