The day after Ji Chen finished his three-day training, the fleet returning from Fenglin Harbor arrived at the port slowly, but they were all stunned by the ruins and construction sites of the Crown of the Sea.

Especially those steel battleships that were fierce at the first sight of firepower, made the eyes of the fellow dwarf Tomodo widen.

"Good boy, how did you get to write a few good ships?"

As soon as he got off the boat, he galloped over on his short legs and asked anxiously.

"Where did this come from the Kingdom of Bath...", Ji Chen didn't explain too much, "Let's go back first, and tell you what happened in the past few days on the way." ”

"Okay." Tomodo looked at the pieces of rubble that had not yet had time to be cleared, but were clearly destroyed by explosives, vaguely guessed something, and nodded.

After some explanation, Tomodo finally understood the crown of the sea, the feud between the Kingdom of Bath and the Duchy of Inhardt, and what happened a few days ago, "So, you are against the Kingdom of Bath?" Is it possible that they will send more fleets in the future? ”

Ji Chen nodded, it could not be denied.

"Yes, this raid was certainly due to the emptiness of defense, but it also exposed the lack of adequate defenses in the crown of the sea."

"Lord Tomodo, this may need to be asked of you."

Tomodor patted his chest, "Leave this matter to me, I am not idle on the way back, and I have prepared several defenses suitable for your use here." ”

Ji Chen said with a little gratitude: "Then thank you first, oh yes, I don't know if these materials are helpful to you?" ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a stack of drawings with a large number of characters with the same words and numbers - this was another support sent by the task force of the Duchy of Inhardt, and according to the young general, these were three copies of military alchemy technology, which could be made according to the above data.

This is not the usual architectural drawings that can be built or generated with a single click, which means that it takes someone who can read them to make them.

Obviously, as a legendary dwarven blacksmith, Tomodo, who is highly skilled in alchemy and blacksmithing, is the best candidate.

Tomodo took it and looked at it, and soon had a clear answer, "No problem, I fully understand this level of technology, and I will be able to fix it for you soon." ”

"But you'll have to give me a group of apprentices, or I'll be too slow to build on my own."

Ji Chen said very happily: "No problem, I'll let Willus select fifty apprentices to come over." ”

"If you have any needs, you can just talk to him, and I will try to meet your needs."

Tomodo was very satisfied with Ji Chen's attitude towards him, and it was precisely because of this that he felt that this was a good place.

"Boy, you've gained the favor of the great legendary dwarven blacksmith Tomodo!"

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The return of the fleet brought with it nearly 3,000 displaced people who were willing to come to the crown of the sea, and who, like the inhabitants who had come here before, were as alien and uneasy as the land.

Ji Chen gave them a speech as usual to initially calm their emotions, and then asked Willus to arrange for them to move into the house and assign work.

After so many population imports, the crown of the sea has a lot of experience in pacifying displaced people.

Allocate housing, provide food and clothing, put into work, hold regular banquets, concentrate on studying and listening to lectures, etc.

These are good means of reassuring them to dispel their insecurity and integrate into territorial life, and to get them to work as quickly as possible, turning the population into a workforce.

Castle of the Lords.

Ji Chen stood by the window, looking at the undulating sea in the distance, with a look of worry on his face.

When he returned from the Northern Continent, he asked Rushing Erba to take a group of dragonblood fishmen to explore the secret gate in the ocean.

But now seven or eight days have passed, and they have not returned, which makes him wonder if there was some accident on the way.

But when he opened the territory panel, it showed that Rushing Erba was not dead, otherwise he would have already set off for the gate of the secret realm.

"Wait two more days, and if you haven't come back yet, you'll leave immediately."

Ji Chen thought secretly.

The return of the fleet did not bring much turmoil to the Crown of the Seas, because with the exception of a small number of indigenous people, the vast majority of the residents of the Crown of the Seas came here from the outside world, that is, as displaced people.

Since everyone is from outside, there is nothing to reject, so most of the inhabitants welcome the newcomers to the realm.

As a result, these displaced people, who are equivalent to the number of original inhabitants, have been integrated into the crown of the sea at a very rapid pace, providing a great boost to the post-war reconstruction.

In less than a week, brand new houses have been erected, and roads damaged by artillery fire have been repaired and even widened.

Bodies and wreckage floating offshore were collected, and the devastated port resumed normal operations.

Under Ji Chen's order, based on the cemetery where the orc warriors were buried, a large cemetery was divided around the area dedicated to burying soldiers who died in battle, the Heroic Cemetery.

Ji Chen felt that this was an excellent means to provide territorial cohesion.

After all, in addition to recruiting battalion troops, the crown of the sea also has lizardmen, kobolds, and orcs, all of which have made indelible contributions to the territory, and it is impossible for him to ignore these.

In addition, a cemetery was set aside next to it to bury ordinary residents.

When the news spread from the Lord's Castle, the supreme ruling body that symbolizes the crown of the sea, to the entire realm.

All the inhabitants could not believe it.

The lord said that he would set up a special cemetery for the inhabitants and the dead warriors!?

Is this true?

When the news came out of the mouth of the Supreme Interior Officer, Willus, all the inhabitants and fighters boiled.

Such an approach... They have never heard of it.

According to the usual practice of the nobles on the mainland, ordinary residents could only be buried in the traditional burial cemeteries far away from the settlements after death—most of them were mass graves, with no fixed boundaries and no long-term protection, which meant that the graves could be opened by wandering wild monsters and exposed to the wilderness.

Some landlords or businessmen with strong family backgrounds can only build a small cemetery in the field at most, and maintain it according to whether the family is prosperous or not.

And those dead soldiers are more direct, if they have time to collect the corpses, then take them back and send them back to their families, if they can't bring them back, then they will be directly burned by a fire, and then the ashes will be fluttered in the wind.

Only those native-born nobles were able to repair the cemetery in the city, which was not only extremely extensive, more luxurious than the living people, but also had special soldiers to patrol and guard the tomb.

Therefore, for these residents, who had already been mixed into displaced people earlier, it was the greatest hope that they would not be dug up after death, and there was no expectation that there would be a cemetery to bury them.

So as soon as this news came out, most people's first reaction was not to believe it.

Until someone took advantage of their free time to visit the cemetery location.

"What the lord said is true, someone has already started to build a wall in that place!"

"That's right, my former friend in the mine was sent to build a cemetery, so I can't fake it."

"Long live the lord!

”

The alien warriors were also quite excited about it.

The lizardmen, in particular, almost didn't kneel on the ground to thank Lord Long.

Due to the particularity of the terrain of the underground lizardman world, most of the underground is rock and magma, and the soil is very limited, which is used to grow various crops.

Therefore, anything that can be buried in the earth is a lizardman who has made a great contribution.

The lord said that they could be buried in the earth after death, didn't what they had done already been recognized?

Invisibly.

Whether it is a human inhabitant, or an alien inhabitant and warrior, their sense of belonging and identification with the crown of the sea is slowly increasing.

That's exactly what he's trying to achieve.

"Ding~ Due to your policies and actions, the people's morale has increased by 4 points, and the current people's morale is 91 points."

"If the people's hearts in the territory are higher than 91 points, the efficiency of the people's work will be greatly improved, the learning speed will be increased, and the probability of hero output will increase."

When the system prompt came, Ji Chen was stunned for a moment and then smiled.

Good guys, the people's hearts have finally risen above 90.

No matter how much he repaired the luxury house and provided delicious food, the people's hearts were always stuck between 87~89, which made him think that it was impossible for the people's hearts to reach 90 points and above.

But now it seems that it is not impossible to achieve, but it needs to be done in a special way.

The benefits of improving people's morale are also significant, not only in terms of work efficiency, but also in terms of the speed of learning.

The former is beneficial to the reconstruction work, while the latter is of great benefit to the ongoing implementation of the Ocean Crown Resident Technology Learning Program, which can be said to be timely and rainy.

And the most eye-catching thing is to increase the chance of hero output, which can be very exciting.

Heroes, there's not too much of this thing, combat heroes, life heroes, internal affairs heroes, especially the latter two, the crown of the ocean is scarce.

If you can cultivate a few heroes like Laisha who know how to make wine, or heroes like Tomodo who can forge them, then you can make a lot of money.

Heroes are above ordinary people and have superhuman talents and abilities.

Another day passed.

Just as Ji Chen was thinking about leading his troops to the battle, there was news of the return of the rushing Erba.

When he got the news, he immediately changed his clothes and went to the port, and at a glance he saw the Rushing Erba and the Dragonblood Fishman, they were covered in scaly wounds, more or less wounded.

Ben Bo Erba's injuries were even more serious, and the originally neatly arranged scales under the mountain all over his body were shattered in all directions as if they had been cut by dozens of steel knives, revealing the flesh and blood below, and the trident in his hand was broken.

Apparently they were under heavy attack from the enemy, and although many were seriously wounded, fortunately they were not killed.

"My lord, I..."

Rushing Erba limped forward with a trident, his face a little panicked.

The Lord asked him to lead a group of dragonblood fishmen to explore the gate of the secret realm, and what it only took five days to complete was now almost delayed to ten days, which made it a little frightened.

Ji Chen waved his hand and interrupted it.

"Let's not talk about this for now, you drink the potion to recover first, your safety is the most important thing."

Rushing Erba's eyes flashed with a little emotion, and he nodded lightly.

took the healing potion handed over by Yin Luona, drank it all, the complexion on his face was obviously better, and his breath was not so weak.

Seeing this, Ji Chen asked him to start telling what happened on the road.

"At that time, I was ordered by you to go to the gate of the secret realm to investigate, and we arrived at that place without any problems..."

"There is indeed a secret gate there, and the types and numbers of monsters outside the door are roughly the same as you said, we observed them from a distance, and after confirming that they were correct, we left silently without alarming them."

"Then how did you come to be like this? Did you encounter a powerful enemy on the way back? Ji Chen frowned and said.

Although Rush is not too eye-catching among many heroes, it is only compared to top heroes such as Alice, Anina, and Verena.

Its purple rare-level strength, coupled with hundreds of dragonblood fishmen with similar hearts, is not small.

Besides, can't they run away with their mobility and speed if they can't beat them?

Rushing Erba smiled bitterly: "We did encounter the enemy, but the enemy is a little weird..."

"Weird?"

"Yes, it's an extremely weird ship."

Ji Chen's expression froze, and a little interest appeared in his eyes, "Go on." ”

"Yes, we set off and returned immediately after exploring the gate of the secret realm, but it didn't take long to find a thick fog on the sea, and a very dilapidated wooden warship suddenly appeared in the thick fog."

"Originally, my subordinates thought it was a pirate ship or something, and they didn't care about it because they were in a hurry to return, but continued to hurry, but the strange thing is that this ship seems to be tracking, no matter how we deflect the direction and dive into the sea, we can't get rid of it..."

"Considering that such an unknown ship cannot be brought back, all subordinates have decided to deal with it first and then continue to return..."

"But when we boarded the ship, we found that there were no living creatures on it.... Just as we were thinking about leaving, a large group of transparent soldiers suddenly appeared, attacking us with equally transparent weapons, but our counterattack passed directly from them, unable to do a single damage..."

"As a last resort, my subordinates could only flee with their clansmen, but fortunately, this time I dived deep into the sea, and after I surfaced, the ship did not follow behind..."

Ji Chen's eyebrows were deeply squeezed together.

How does this sound so much like the sea monster on the blue star, ghost ship!?

The world has something similar?

But on second thought, this is a fantasy world, and it's not unusual for there to be any gods and ghosts.

But the question is, why did this ghost ship set its sights on his hero?

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