Chapter 55: Promotion
An hour later, Meng Yang came to his senses, all the lumberjacks gathered around him, Hill looked anxious, saw him wake up, and asked with joy: "Brother, are you okay?
Meng Yang listened in a daze, and then he realized that he had actually cut off the laurel tree that the two of them were hugging together, and the three axes! No wonder all the lumberjacks looked at him with great respect, as if they had seen a god.
Meng Yang signaled to Hill that his body was fine, and then he stood up, only to find that the huge laurel tree, which had already been cleaned by someone who had removed its branches and leaves, was about ten zhang long and more than a meter in diameter, and had been properly placed on the edge of the laurel forest.
To have such a great strength to move the entire laurel tree, it goes without saying that it must be Hill's doing.
Strange to say, the second marshal's order to the lumberjacks was to cut down a laurel tree a month, and if the task was completed when moved back to the camp, according to Mengyang's eye, this tree was no less than 30,000 catties, because its material was too special.
He was still reminiscing about the feeling in Fang Cai's mind, but he heard everyone shouting in unison respectfully: "See the second marshal!"
The second marshal went and returned, still with an incomparably strong fishy wind, and looked at Meng Yang who had just stood up from the ground with a rare smile.
"What's your name?" the second marshal asked Meng Yang in a low voice, since he had taken Meng Yang and Ciel into the forest of Malan Mountain, the second marshal had never looked at the two of them with a straight eye, let alone knew their names.
"Back to the second marshal, the little one's name is Meng Yang, he is my eldest brother Xihu!" Meng Yang felt his energy regain a little, and replied with a perk of energy.
"Haha, I didn't expect Xiao Diao'er to be wise enough to recognize people this time, and he has made a great achievement! Meng Yang and Xihu listened to the order!" the second marshal smiled and suddenly shouted in a deep voice.
Meng Yang tugged at Hill's sleeve, and Hill reluctantly learned from Meng Yang's appearance, and arched his hand: "The little one listens to the orders of the second marshal!"
The second marshal grinned, very satisfied with the performance of the Mengyang brothers, and said loudly: "Everyone has heard me clearly! From now on, our logging workshop will be divided into two groups, each group of twenty-six people, Mengyang and Xihu will serve as the team leaders for the time being, no matter what method you use, just cut down this forest for me this month! If you fail to complete the tasks assigned by the eldest sister, none of you will be able to escape heavy punishment! As for how to distribute the manpower of your two groups and how to divide the tasks, that is the responsibility of the two group leaders! This matter is settled, you behave a little better, and earn face for Ben Shuai, Ben Shuai will not treat you badly! Okay, keep working, don't stand stupid!"
After the second marshal finished shouting, he stepped out of a white stone road and disappeared from people's sight.
Monyan and Hill looked at each other in a way that they couldn't laugh or cry.
Didn't you just work as a lumberjack, and on the first day of work, she was unexpectedly promoted! But Meng Yang and Hilbi knew very well what kind of medicine was sold in the second marshal's gourd.
When joining the team of lumberjacks, the second marshal did not say that he wanted everyone to cut down this laurel tree within a month, but he must have seen Hill's divine power in the dark, and when he saw Meng Yang's miraculous three axes, he put down one of them.
If they don't do their best, then a severe punishment awaits everyone. If you want to get paid and not be tortured, unless the two of them sell their strength to help everyone work together to cut down this laurel tree.
After the first time Monyan and Hill made eye contact, they formed a tacit understanding, and when the second marshal left, they divided the fifty lumberjacks waiting by them into two groups.
The main task of these men was to clean up the fallen laurel branches and leaves, and together they carried the logs back to the camp for placement, and Ciel and Monjan became the only ones in the two groups who actually did the cutting while being "promoted" to the group leader.
Meng Yang unreservedly told Hill of his discovery, and after three days of careful study, Hill had mastered the subtlety of the texture of the laurel tree, which was initially nine axes, and later could cut down a laurel tree with only three axes.
The two groups of lumberjacks secretly laughed from ear to ear.
The two team leaders said that no matter what the final result is, the rewards and salaries will be shared equally by everyone, and if the progress continues, it will not be a problem to cut down this laurel tree for a month. For a time, Hill and Monyan gained the sincere love of fifty lumberjacks, and from their sporadic stories, Monyan also gained more secrets about the Malanshan Mountains.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and this sentence is applicable everywhere.
Shenlong saw that the eldest sister Tou Na was the most capable of the four marshals under the eldest sister, and she valued the four marshals the most, and it was rumored that the other three marshals headed by the second marshal were very dissatisfied with it, whether it was a mining workshop, a cutting workshop or a planting workshop, they were all under the supervision and requirements of their respective marshals, and secretly competed with the four marshals.
This also confirms that after the second marshal found out that Monyan and Hill were "gifted" in cutting laurel trees, he was ecstatic and gave a task that was definitely considered an "impossible task" in the impression of people in the past, perhaps. The second marshal hoped that Hill and Monyan could lead fifty lumberjacks to create a miracle and earn glory for the second marshal, and at the same time, it was a great opportunity to shock the other three marshals and get the eldest sister to look at him differently.
The so-called blockbuster is nothing more than that.
Meng Yang found that under the condition that his mind, physical strength, and spirit were extremely seriously consumed, the extraordinarily bright moonlight automatically diffused into the divine court like a tide, and then gave birth to a pure cool qi, which seeped into the divine soul barrier and was absorbed by the rule tree.
It seems that the rules tree is born like this.
There was no need to use the guidance of any exercises, no need to know whether the spirit played Sanskrit sounds, just what he thought, and the endless moonlight in the forest poured down on his tired body, nourishing his dry and thirsty body like a sweet spring.
Whether it is the mind or the spirit, even the perception that has become extremely weak because of the suppression of the divine soul has begun to become stronger little by little because of the absorption of the rule tree, although every bit of change is very weak, inconspicuous, and not easy to detect, but Meng Yang can sense it clearly and unmistakably.
What's going on?
What kind of energy does this light contain, which is completely different from the moonlight emitted by the crescent moon outside the forest?
This was the thing that made Meng Yang the most happy and shocked.
Every time he cut down a tree, Meng Yang went from taking three hours to recover from the beginning, until now it doesn't take half an hour to recover, and the changes and progress in this are all due to the energy absorbed by the regular tree.
Hill's efficiency is nowhere near his own, but he is also making extremely slow progress.
Meng Yang said in disguise that the felling of the laurel tree was regarded as a means of tempering the soul, and instead of feeling pain, he happily repeated the almost mechanical and boring process of cutting down the tree, meditating to recover, cutting down the tree, and then reverting again.
Ciel's recovery process was much slower, but as a descendant of the dragon, he had endless power in his bloodline, and following Monyan's reminders and his own research on the texture of trees, he gradually figured out a method of cutting trees that suited him to his own use.
Seven days passed, and Hill and Monyan worked an average of ten hours a day, cutting down thirteen trees, and in seven days, like two machines with magic crystal devices, they cut down ninety laurel trees like crazy.
In this area designated by the two marshals to be cut down, only eighteen laurel trees are now left sporadically.
The lumberjacks were also tired enough, and to be honest, picking up the branches and leaves was not tiring at all, and the most tiring thing was carrying the logs back to the camp.
Everyone was in pain and happy, because they had never felt so proud now, the laurel tree, which had been hard for a month and could not be cut down, was now an incomparably docile sheep under the axe of Monyan and Ciel, and the thought that the second marshal would pay him a salary after completing the task ahead of schedule, and perhaps a considerable reward would be issued, or even a release order, allowing everyone to go to Guyue City for a few days to have a good time, and the thought made everyone's blood boil.
People were deeply grateful to the two brothers, Hill and Mengyang, and thanked their group leader, they didn't understand how such gifted brothers could not awaken and obtain the spirit seed, and then be accepted as disciples by the Ancient Moon Sect or the Water Moon Sect, and ascend to heaven one step at a time.
But after seven days of hard work, Monyan and Hill decided to take a day off, and the eighteen remaining laurel trees could be cut down in just two days, and there was no hurry.
No matter how talented they are, they are also flesh and blood, so everyone is closer to Hill and Meng Yang.
Since Monyan and Ciel became the leaders of the Felling Workshop, the Second Marshal has mysteriously disappeared and has never been seen again.
Therefore, the biggest officials in the workshop camp are Meng Yang and Hill, there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is the overlord, Meng Yang and Hill decided to be presumptuous and test the details of the eldest sister Touna.
Meng Yang has not been blindly cutting down trees for the past seven days, he has been analyzing one thing, what is the purpose of these laurel trees that are extremely hard and have a strengthening texture, and what is the purpose of Sister Na's ordering people to cut them down, are these trees useful?
This was one of Monyan's doubts.
The second puzzle was that he noticed that the stumps of the ninety laurel trees that had been cut down so far showed a very complex and mysterious distribution, and it was as if one hundred and eight laurel trees had actually formed a very ancient and magical formation just like the texture of their trees.
This formation, because of the appearance of Meng Yang and Hill, cut down the laurel trees and was broken, this is Meng Yang's biggest doubt, he feels that Sister Na does not need these laurel trees at all, but with the help of their hands, in breaking the formation arranged by the trees in this forest.
If that was the case, he was sure that the Second Marshal would never have arranged for them to cut down just this one laurel tree, there must have been other areas of laurel or other trees that they needed to cut down.
Could it be that this Malan Mountain Great Forest is actually a huge forbidden magic circle conjured up by a capable person with supernatural powers, in order to trap that eldest sister Tou Na Jie?
Judging from the performance of the second marshal and these lumberjacks, it seems that the eldest sister Tou Na can't find a suitable person to help her cut down trees, even if she is as strong as the second marshal.
So, can the talented Meng Yang and Hill take this opportunity to meet Sister Na?
Meng Yang took advantage of the rest of the day to slowly draw up a plan in his heart, and quietly informed Hill in the midst of the drunken noise of everyone.
Perhaps because everyone's performance has made the second marshal very satisfied recently, the person who brought the meal also brought a lot of fine wine, which is said to be brewed by those families in Guyue City, and it is very delicious.
At the instigation of Monyan and Hill, the workers were drunk, and the noise was particularly high-pitched. It sounded in the silence of the camp, and it was heard far away.
Meng Yang has only one purpose, which is to deliberately attract the people under Sister Na who maintain the laws and regulations, give birth to a dispute, test her bottom line, and by the way, test whether her analysis is correct.
Sure enough, three murderous law enforcers soon appeared in the logging camp, and before people could even realize that something was wrong, one of them flew up and kicked a lumberjack and a man with a jar of wine, spitting blood from his mouth, and fainting with a scream.
The other two enforcers were even more ferocious, swinging whips as thick as children's arms in their hands, and constantly pumping them at the lumberjacks who had been euphoric a moment before.
In an instant, more than a dozen of the unprepared lumberjacks were whipped and fainted.
Monyan and Hill stood up in the crowd almost at the same time and shouted, "Stop!"