Chapter 164: Hope
Ellanster listened, smiled and nodded.
But Bufax seemed to be thoughtful, and after thinking about it, he asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”
Liu Ergou raised his hand, pointed to the refugees on the construction site in the distance, and said, "Unlike you, they are fleeing." ”
"Whether it's Ellanster or you, you've been living hard in this wasteland with your people all year round, and you've long been accustomed to living on your own."
"But they're different. These people had previously been Fermu's lords, in other words, they were accustomed to living under the protection of Devenston. ”
"For them, the mighty earl of Devenston is the heaven of the whole of Fermo, the cornerstone of their survival."
"And now, the foundation stone has collapsed."
"For them now, what they need is not respect or friendship, which is what decent big people need. They now need a strong new lord to be their new backer. ”
"The reason why I follow Drissy is because although Drissy herself is difficult to keep it safe, in the eyes of these people, she is still a powerful 'Baron Master'."
"And it is precisely because of this that I, the 'lord', must show some majesty and build confidence in them, so that they can feel that they have something to rely on."
"So......" Buffex's expression grew serious, "you also want to be a 'lord lord'?" ”
"How so?!" Liu Ergou couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and the laughing Bufax was a little confused.
After calming down his emotions, Liu Ergou said to Bufax Zhengse: "Do you see me like this, like the kind of person who on other people's heads?" ”
"It's ..... too," Buffex's expression softened a lot.
Looking at the town under his feet, Liu Ergou said slowly: "I'm just doing this to give them a little 'hope'." ”
"Hope?"
"Yes, 'hope,' that's what they need most right now." Liu Ergou nodded. "It's like rescuing a man who is half starving, and you can't let him eat right away, but you have to drink porridge first; For these people, too, this little but vital hope must be given first. ”
"You have to give them hope before they want to live; Only those who want to live will have the possibility of change. ”
After Liu Ergou finished speaking, he turned around, looked directly into Bufax's eyes, and said word by word
"I told you, I'm your boss."
"What the boss means is that no matter what happens, I will rush up with you, not watch you rush up."
"I don't care what empire, Asahid...... Or some other kind of mess. All I know is that since I'm your boss, I have to be responsible for you. ”
"My North Plains City will give a place for all those who are willing to recognize me as their boss. In this northern plain city, there is only me, my 'friends', and there is no 'lord'. ”
"So now, just trust me, just as you believed in me before."
After Liu Ergou finished speaking, he turned around again and stared at the sunset in the distance.
Bufax was completely stunned. He didn't expect that Liu Ergou, who was usually very arrogant, would say such a thing now!
"You, after all these years, you're still the same stupid." Ellanst, who was on the side, smiled and poked Buffex with his cane.
"Stupid? You old immortal, where am I stupid? Buffax immediately glared at Elanst, and then said hesitantly, "I'm a warrior, just like you mages, I have some ideas in my head!" ”
"Battle...... Warrior's Dumb ...... Can you call it stupid? Bufax stalked his neck, his face red-faced, and he pleaded.
"Yes, it's not stupid, it's cute." But he didn't expect Liu Ergou to suddenly turn around and pat Buffex seriously.
"Poof... Hahahaha... Lovely? Hahahahaha! Elantst couldn't hold back any longer, and the tears of laughter were about to come out.
Liu Ergou on the side also leaned back with a smile, leaving only Bufax himself messy in the wind.
"It's beautiful." After laughing for a while, Elantst also stared into the distance and said with a slight distraction.
"yes, the sunset is beautiful." Bufax muttered as he looked at the sunset, which almost dyed the entire wasteland golden.
"I said the town is beautiful!" Ellanster gave Bufax a blank look.
"I'm talking about the beautiful town under the sun!" But he didn't want to be a rare clever figure of Bufax, and choked Elanster instead.
"I won't tell you, I still have to go to the gate and set up a boundary marker. That kid in Abel has grown a lot of flesh, and he can't even carve a 'North Plains Town'! "Make an excuse, and Ellanster is about to slip away.
"Wait!" Liu Ergou stopped Erantst.
"Make the monument at the door bigger and more conspicuous." Liu Ergou thought for a while and instructed Elantst, "In addition, don't engrave any Beiyuan Town, if you want to engrave, engrave Beiyuan City!" Anyway, sooner or later, this place will have to become a city, and it will have to be carved again in the future. ”
"Phew, you're talking about lightweight, so effortless? It's quite a toss-up, boss! Ellanster emphasized the word "boss" and went on and on.
Where does Liu Ergou's cheeky face like the corner of the city wall care about this? Not only that, but he even leaned out half of his body and greeted Ellanst, who was gradually moving away downstairs, "Those who can work harder, those who can work harder!" ”
Bufax shook his head on the side, his boss is good at everything, but he is not in a proper position, and he laughs all day long.
"Let's go, Bufax, and we'll go down too. It's going to be windy at night."
"Yes, Boss."
......
Returning from the Sunset Mountains, Dries pulls Avril with her, and after requisitioning a large house, she doesn't know what to do in it all day.
So today, our Great Lord Liu couldn't resist his curiosity and knocked on Drissy's door.
As soon as the door opened, it was Bert who came out.
"Ah, it's the boss!" As soon as Bert opened the door, he hurriedly greeted Liu Ergou.
"Bert? Didn't you go with Hoffman to find honey? How did it get here? Liu Ergou was also quite curious.
"Yes, I went with Boss Hoffman to look for honey, and I got stung by a bee several times, and I came to get some medicine from Dries." After Bert finished speaking, he raised a hand and stretched it out to Liu Ergou to see.
Sure enough, on the back of the thick bear paw, a layer of jelly-like green ointment has now been applied, and it still smells a little fragrant.
"Hey! Boss Hoffman is still waiting for me, Boss I'll go first," Bert said hello and hurried out.
"Go, go, go!" Waving goodbye to Bert, Liu Ergou pushed the door, planning to go in and find out by himself.
But he didn't want to open the door, and a large puff of smoke suddenly gushed out in front of him, choking Liu Ergou and coughing a few times.
And in the thick smoke, Dries and Avril were wrapped up and down like two mummies, tears in their eyes beside a cauldron, constantly stirring something. "Ahem, ahem...... What are you two doing here? Liu Ergou also choked a few puffs of the smoke and asked loudly at the two.
"****......*" Mummy No. 1 raised his head, waved the long-handled spoon in his hand a few times at Liu Ergou, and then lowered his head and continued to stir.
"What do you say? Smoke...... Ahem, ahem...... The smoke is too loud for me to hear! Liu Ergou felt that if he continued to be so drunk, he would be drunk into turtle jerky.
Seeing this, the mummy No. 2 put down the spoon in his hand and walked straight to Liu Ergou. Judging by the two tightly wrapped sticks on her head, this should be Avril.
As soon as she pulled the mask on her face, Avril was also choked and coughed a few times, and then urged Liu Ergou: "You go out and wait first, and I'll tell you later!" ”
After speaking, he blew Liu Ergou out and closed the door.
"Bang!"
Looking at the closed door in front of him, Liu Ergou couldn't figure it out at all.
"What are these two girls doing in there?" Bufax, who had just returned from the forward base, happened to pass by here, and he was also very curious when he saw this.
Liu Ergou spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "How do I know?" The two girls were all chattering and didn't say anything...... Ahem...... Just blasted it out for me. ”
"But just now, I seem to have seen them cooking in a big cauldron?" After thinking about it, Liu Ergou added.
"Oh, that's Drissy and Avril making healing ointments." The wild Elantst refreshed beside Liu Ergou and explained to Liu Ergou.
"You're scared me to death!" Liu Ergou had just finished coughing and had not yet poured out his breath, and was frightened by Elanster, and suddenly coughed again.
This old guy is like an elite wild monster all day long, elusive!
Finally calmed down, Liu Ergou remembered what Elanster had just said, "What healing ointment?" Why haven't I heard? ”
"It's literal healing ointment, an ointment for treating trauma." Ellanster spread his hands.
"They came to me last week to apply for a big house to do research. Their plan was very detailed and the content was very feasible, so I approved it. ”
"Oh, it turned out that you approved it...... Oh no, I don't even know about this, why did you approve it? My boss or your boss? Liu Ergou feigned anger and reached out to poke Elantst.
"Those who can work harder, this is what you said!" But he didn't want Ellanster to see through his meaning a long time ago, so he gave Liu Ergou a slap back with a few words.
"Besides, you get up every day and run to the furnace until dinner. I haven't seen anyone all day, and they can't find anyone even if they ask you for approval. ”
At the end, Ellanster squeezed Liu Ergou with his elbow again, and said to him in a very subtle voice: "No matter what, can I still trick you?" ”
Of course, Liu Ergou knew what he meant, and replied in the same subtle voice: "Of course I know." But there are so many people, why don't you give me some face as the boss? ”
Seeing Liu Ergou and Elantst frowning on the side, Bufax also looked helpless. Neither of the old nor the young is a fuel-efficient lamp, and he is an honest man who is kept in the dark.
Bufax immediately decided that he would stay away from them in the future, and he didn't know when he was sold by the two of them, and he had to help them count the money.
At this moment, with a loud bang, the door finally opened.
Amid the billowing smoke, Avril stood on the steps, her hands raised in the air, chanting aloud to the crowd below
"Rejoice, devout believers! Ahem, ahem...... Thanks to the blessing of the god of war, our ointment No. 1 has finally been developed...... Huh! Who tugged me by the tail! Don't drag..... Pine..... Help......"
Before Avril could finish her nerves, a hand reached out in the smoke and dragged Avril back.
Then there was an angry voice: "Don't be nervous there!" Get back and pack up! You just knocked down an entire shelf, you know! ”
Looking at the messy scene in front of him, Liu Ergou couldn't help laughing, turned his head and greeted the others: "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." ”
Bufax nodded, waved his wings, and a gust of wind blew the smoke out of the doorway.
Without the cover of thick smoke, Liu Ergou saw the situation in the house clearly.
Like the other reserved functional areas, the house is divided into two floors. And now, this floor of the ground floor is filled with workbenches and shelves along the walls. There are even closets on the walls filled with bottles and jars of different colors.
Almost all of the workbenches are filled with oddly shaped instruments. It's just that Liu Ergou looked around for a week, only to find that most of the instruments were made by hand from rudimentary materials, except for a few instruments that looked exceptionally sophisticated.
On the floor in the middle of the first floor, a large square stone slab is inlaid with it. A magic array was laid out on the stone slab by pouring it, and the cauldron before was in the center of this magic array.
In addition, on the floor next to the door, there is a small shelf lying down, and there are various pots and pans scattered next to it, presumably the one that Avril knocked down.
Avril was next to this small shelf at the moment, dejectedly tidying up.
"Eh" Liu Ergou stepped forward and patted Avril, "What kind of stimulation did you get just now?" ”
But I didn't expect Avril to turn red from her neck to the tips of her ears in an instant, and she couldn't wait to find a mouse hole to get into! After holding back for a long time, he said to Liu Ergou in a soft voice: "I just want to learn from Sister Seattle......"
"Oh......" Liu Ergou deliberately lengthened his voice, but Avril's face turned even redder.
However, looking at the layout in the hall, Liu Ergou always felt a little familiar?
"That's right, I set it up with reference to the experimental hall in the ruins." Drissy walked over and affirmed Liu Ergou's idea.
He pointed to the magic array on the ground, "This magic array is also the one I refer to the recycling center, and it was processed from the batch of materials we brought back." Although it is much less efficient than the original made by the Silver Elf, it is at least much better than the hand-carved one. ”
"Which batch of materials? Oh, you mean the rails that were replaced? Isn't that scrap? Liu Ergou thought for a moment and asked Drissy.
"It's a good scrap, and I don't have the same skills as the Silver Elves. But even if the structure is scrapped, the material is still a magic guide material, and it is better to melt it down and pour it into a magic array than to carve it in stone. ”
"Besides, I'll make a fire element enchantment and use it for refining medicine, it doesn't have much output, so it's enough to use this."
After Delisi finished speaking, she picked up a small pot on the ground, walked to the side of the cauldron, filled some ointment, and handed it to Liu Ergou.
Liu Ergou looked at the pot in his hand, the milky white ointment in it was now close to cooling, and it was no longer gurgling with bubbles. On the contrary, it looks smooth and delicate, and it smells faintly sweet.
No matter how you look at it, Liu Ergou feels that he is holding a pot of cream in his hand.