For the residents of Winterville, a lot has changed in the past two years or so, but most of the time, it's a subtle change. For example, many people suddenly find that they haven't been hungry for a long time, but they can't figure out exactly when it started.

Recently, however, the whole city seems to have woken up after a long sleep.

In addition to being lively, it is even a little noisy.

The hardened road, which had been paved only on the main road leading to the fortress, began to penetrate into the streets.

Roads, large and small, are being constructed almost day and night.

Often residents wake up to find that a road has been paved in front of the door.

Not only is the speed astonishing, but even the materials used to pave the road seem so unfamiliar.

The most common hardened floors in this world are bricks and bluestone, but roads paved with stones are costly and labor-intensive, and on the other hand, they become uneven over time.

The road used by the Twilight construction team was not bluestone or bricks.

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At one point, Daeron Knight felt that these days were the darkest time of his life.

First, as a high-ranking knight, he was killed in a single move, and he didn't even have a chance to fight back, and then he was sent to the Twilight Construction Team to be a glorious construction worker—he couldn't believe that this was the lord's so-called important job. Fortunately, the new allegiance finally considered his previous identity and made him one of the leaders of the construction team.

Dylan's only job now is to build roads.

Build roads everywhere!

Endless road repairs.

Fix here and fix there.

Wherever there are people walking, the road must be repaired.

He sometimes wondered why a place with only a few houses on the side of the city wall needed to be crossed by a road that looked so delicate.

Fortunately, the speed of road construction in Twilight City is much faster than in other places.

A certain powdery material that is constantly transported from the alchemy workshop, with a certain proportion of water and ordinary gravel, is laid on the ground, and it is basically set in 1 hour, and it can be extremely hard in 10 hours. Even if the carriage walked by, it would not leave a trace.

It is said that this material, called "stucco", was dug up by thousands of kobolds from the mines and then processed in the alchemy workshops.

Mr. Wald also said that this material is not very good for road construction, and it will be easy to crack after a long time, and when the workshop researches better anti-compression and anti-cracking materials, as well as the corresponding equipment, and the latest magic energy device, the same number of people will not be a problem to repair more than ten miles a day.

Darren was initially attracted by these novel building materials, and gradually forgot about his previous unhappiness.

A few days later, he suddenly found himself in love with road building.

Watching the clean and tidy roads slowly pave the whole city, this sense of accomplishment is indescribable.

As if some kind of blood in his body had been awakened, Daren now found that he could not leave the road, and he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't build the road for a day.

"Mr. Darlan."

Colin couldn't help but be a little amused when he watched the former chief knight of Count Frank in full swing directing a group of people to set the line, sprinkle water, level the field, and even sometimes do it himself when he was not satisfied.

He only goes back to the castle once in four or five days now, after all, the cost is too high, and his salary in the academy for a year is not enough for him to teleport once.

But if you don't show up for a long time, it will cause suspicion and uneasiness among everyone.

"Your Excellency."

Daeron turned around and wiped away the sweat that wasn't there.

"How?" Colin looked at him with a smile.

"It's done quickly, and after a while, there is probably no place to build roads in the city."

Colin originally wanted to ask him how he was doing, but the knight was so focused on building the road, and when he said that there was almost no place to repair, he showed a look of regret.

After all, Twilight City is too small, and even if all the ground is laid over, it won't take long with the current construction efficiency.

"Don't worry."

Colin smiled, "The roads can't be built, Winterfell is still expanding, new residents, new houses are being built, and naturally more roads are needed." ”

With the recovery of all the territories, the population of Twilight City is also increasing, whether it is the alchemy workshop, the construction team, or the logging team have added many manpower, except for the number of magic apprentices cannot be increased all at once, the shortage of personnel in various departments has improved, and the defenders of the fortress have also increased from the original 3,000 to 6,000 people.

The training of recruits took up almost all of Roderick's time, and Wald and the others were also busy because of the sudden addition of many new recruits, so Colin did not bother them much when he returned, but found Knight Daeron, who had just joined the fortress.

The team led by this high-ranking knight only works to build roads and do nothing else.

"My lord, if there is no new place to build a road, I can go and help Lord Matthew build the city wall."

After Jennifer went out, Matthew is now the head of the entire construction team, so even though this teenager who was an orphan in Thunder City a few years ago didn't have any force value, Daeron, as a high-ranking knight, still called Master Matthew repeatedly, making Matthew very embarrassed every time.

Colin asked Daren to be in charge of building the road at the beginning, purely to find something for him to do, after all, he was still a little uneasy to let him enter the fortress army when he first came.

But now it seems that this position is really suitable for this high-ranking knight.

He could tell that Dylan really liked the job of building roads.

Matthew often said that Lord Lords love to build roads, while Knight Daeron is obsessed with building roads.

Colin smiled: "Because Winterfell is getting bigger and bigger, the city walls have been repaired and demolished several times in a row, now stop for the time being, and wait until the plan is ready, I actually have something else for you to do." ”

"Something else?" Daren was even a little worried in his doubts, worried that the lord would not let him continue to build the road.

"Don't worry, it's better to build roads." Colin smiled: "But it's not in the city, it's outside." ”

"Outside?" Daren was stunned.

"Building roads is a never-ending thing, after Winterfell is completed, and the whole of Xiaya, after Xiaya is finished, we can even build roads to other people's territory."

"Huh?"

"Don't think about that just yet."

Colin said: "But there is indeed one thing that you need to do at the moment, you should know that since the Earl of Frank's territory has been recovered, a large number of people and materials need to come and go, and the ordinary traffic and transportation are extremely inconvenient, so the next step, I still need to build a road." ”

"We're going to build the road down to the Earl...... Oh no, the former earl's domain? ”

Hearing that the road was going to be repaired to his original owner's territory, Daren was inexplicably excited.

(End of chapter)