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It took a whole day for more than 600 half-blood elves to reach the mine fortress.
The mine fortress was large enough and had enough dormitory rooms to easily accommodate more than six hundred half-blood elves.
They are in very poor physical condition, have been in a state of malnutrition for a long time, and have been in the dark mines for a long time, and their eyes have adapted to the dark environment.
When they came out of the mines, all the half-blood elves had strips of linen over their eyes, and it wasn't until the night that Roy allowed them to untie them......
The first thing the half-blood elf did when they arrived on the ground was naturally to fill their stomachs first.
Because apples and breadfruit are easy to store and transport, they are almost exclusively stored in the warehouses at Mine 2.
Hundreds of half-blood elves sat in the dining room and munched on apples, the kind of eating that seemed to be able to swallow even a plate in their stomachs, leaving a group of onlookers stunned.
Nearly every half-blood elven miner was skinny and skinny, and they were dirty, with nothing more than a rag around them.
The well-fed half-blood elves all walked into the shower room in the mine, brushed them from head to toe with bristle brushes, cleaned all the dead skin on their bodies and the dirt between their fingernails, and then changed into a long linen robe, lying on the dry and soft single bed, the smell of lavender wafted in the air.
These half-blood elves have been tossed and choked enough for the past two days, first frightened, then surprised, and then frightened, their mood has changed from trembling to excited, and they have to wait in line in the mine to be hoisted to the ground, eat, bathe, and wait for them to really lie on the soft bed, and their tense spirits are relaxed, and they soon fall asleep.
These dormitories were originally the dormitories of the mines' private army, with six bunk beds in one dormitory, just enough room for a squad.
Mu Lin arranged for the half-blood elves, and stood in the hallway, holding the railing with both hands, just in time to see Roy sitting next to the edge of the well with the 'Book of Judgment' in his hand, where he was writing and drawing.
If Roy hadn't suggested taking a look in the mines, I don't know how long the suffering of these half-blood elves would have lasted.
She held the hilt of the sword hanging from her waist with one hand, a hint of morning wind blowing on her face, and her broken hair flying in the wind......
……
The harsh sunlight shone into the dormitory, and some half-blood elves were wrapped in blankets and sleeping soundly on their beds.
There were also some half-blood elves who had woken up from their sleep, and everyone walked out of the room and ran out into the courtyard to look at the mine fortress.
It didn't take long for some of the half-blood elves to start to get a little worried......
In this group of half-blood elves, several respected elders stood up together, and they asked Mu Lin about the current situation on the Pagisto Plateau and what to do next!
The question these half-breeds are currently facing is: how will they live after they get out of the mines?
According to Mu Lin's idea, these half-blood elves could go to the Resistance's gathering place.
But life isn't going well at the moment at the gathering place.
The half-blood elves of the entire plateau continued to gather there, and the fruit trees and berry bushes near the gathering place were harvested by the elves almost every few days, and it became more and more difficult to find food for the elves in that large mountain.
Although the headhunters in the southern region of the Pajisto Plateau have been driven to the hinterland of the plateau by the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion, the half-blood elves still dare not return home.
Commander Kepler's suggestion was that these half-blood elves could follow the Silver Pegasus Legion logistics force back to the city of Padstow......
This road is too far, and the current physical condition of the half-blood elf makes it impossible to walk that far.
Roy put down the parchment album he was holding in his arms, and his fingers tapped on the table top, and suddenly a series of rhythmic clicks rang out.
Mu Lin, Captain Kepler, and several half-blood elf elders all set their eyes on Roy.
Roy put down the parchment album in his hand and casually proposed:
"Otherwise, I will live in the mine fortress for a while, and then decide to go and stay when I have recovered my body!"
"This can't be done, the materials that the logistics group transports to the mine are all quotas, what do we use to raise so many half-blood elves?" The head of Kepler immediately objected.
Roy knew that Captain Kepler didn't want these half-blood elves to live in the mines.
His guard group is currently in charge of guarding the mines, and once the half-blood elves settle down, questions about security will ensue......
Roy smiled slightly and said:
"The Earl of Swinburne promised me that during my time in charge of these mines, the logistics department would provide material support for the mines."
“……”
The head of Kepler did not say anything more against it.
Roy clapped his hands, looked at Mu Lin, and turned his head to make a promise to several half-blood elf elders:
"Okay, it's decided, these half-blood elves live in the mine for the time being, of course, I won't keep those who want to leave, in short, they are free now."
Several half-blood elf elders made eye contact with each other in private, and then agreed.
……
In the past two days, the mine has been mined by more than 100 meters of Dark Moon Spirit prisoners, so that the daily output of gem mines has dropped sharply......
The half-blood elves took up residence in the mine forts, and after eating their fill, they took a walk in the courtyard and basked in the sun on the city walls.
Roy would crouch by the mine every day to study the boom......
In addition to this, he also sent several Dark Moon Elves to investigate the situation of the group of gray dwarves.
What can those Dark Moon Elf prisoners do, the real good at mining is the group of gray dwarf bandits hiding in the depths of the caves.
"Lord Roy......"
A voice reached Roy's ears, and Roy looked up to realize that it was actually two half-blood elves, both of whom looked like they wanted to say something.
"What's the matter with me?" Roy asked, putting down the sketchbook in his hand, standing up.
At this time, Roy recognized that they should be two of the half-blood elf elders in the previous meeting.
Roy asked them to sit down on a bench at the edge of the courtyard.
One of the half-blood elf elders spoke:
"Lord Roy, we've seen it for ourselves for the past two days, as you rescued us from the mine, causing the mine's gem mine production to be drastically reduced.
And it's not fair to you, homeless half-breed elves, to live in your house and eat food provided by you.
So we gathered all the half-blood elves, and everyone sat down to discuss, and we volunteered to organize a team of strong elves to go down to the mine every day to mine the gem mines in the mines.
No one is more familiar with the caves than we are, and we evacuated from the mines this time abruptly, many of the gem mines in the mines have not yet been dug up, or even half-exposed on the stone walls, and we should get these gem mines back. ”
Roy didn't expect these half-blood elves to make such a decision......
"Your physical condition...... Are you sure? Roy asked hesitantly.
Then he said lightly: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much about living here, I only provide some food here, and there are orchards all over the suburbs of Padstow, and these fruits are not worth much, but they are a little troublesome to transport." ”
The half-blood elf elder looked at Roy with a determined gaze:
"We'll pick young and strong elves to go down the well."
Roy looked at the two of them, not like he was being polite to himself, and hesitated for a moment before agreeing: "...... Okay, then you can count the numbers and come back to me. ”
"In addition, this boom is a bit too old, and I have recently limited the number of times a day that God Falls, so it is best that the number of miners you provide should not exceed forty!"
Roy added at the end.
Mu Lin, who was sitting on a bench in the cloister on the second floor, saw this scene and couldn't understand why Roy wanted to limit the number of miners......
He was a special half-elf, and it was no wonder that Uncle Reisander and Lambo were always full of praise for him. Mu Lin thought silently in her heart.
In fact, what Roy said is completely true......
This simple boom usually carries a wooden box to transport some food and ore, up and down twice a day, this old boom can barely be used, but a few days ago, after more than 600 half-blood elf mine slaves were hoisted out of the bottom of the well in one go, the problems of this boom continued to be revealed, in short, this boom is too old.
He has been trying to refer to the original boom for the past two days, and build a new boom on this basis, preferably with a mechanical pulley block, and the winch should be replaced with a turbine worm like a stop-back transmission structure, but this thing seems to be very troublesome to build.
Roy's ideas are still only on the drawings.
……
I don't know how these two half-blood elf elders relayed it, making it seem like they were completing a glorious task to go down the mine every day.
A group of young half-blood elves rushed to sign up to go down the well, and finally selected forty young half-blood elves from more than 100 meters, and then divided into four waves to go down the well one after another.
Roy, who was studying the boom at the edge of the mine, couldn't help but complain in his heart: "This group of half-blood elves may be the life of mining underground......
On the first day of mining, Roy found that the situation was even better than expected.
Forty half-blood elves dug up more gem mines in a single day underground than more than a hundred Darkmoon elves.
When they returned to the surface with the gem ore on their backs, Roy arranged for a Silver Moon Elf clerk to write down the names of each young miner on a piece of paper.
Some half-blood elves asked with a puzzled look:
"What's this?"
The clerk glanced at Roy, who was crouching next to the mine, and replied in a low voice, "It was arranged by Lord Roy, let me give you a record of the working hours." ”
The half-blood elves looked confused: "What are working hours?" ”
The clerk lowered his voice: "It's your time working in the mines, and you can get Kohler with these." ”
The half-blood elves finally understood: "In other words, we went down to mine, but in fact, Lord Roy is paying us back wages?" ”
The clerk nodded: "That's it......"
"Wow!"
A group of half-blood elves couldn't help but let out a low cry, it turned out that there was such a good thing.
……
News has come from the mines that the Dark Moon Elves have investigated the cave where the gray dwarves are hiding.
Roy placed the letterhead on the table, closed his eyes, and thought carefully about what to do.
It may be easy to get rid of all the gray dwarves, but it may not be so easy to get those gray dwarves to crawl out of the depths of the cave and mine obediently.
Especially in the depths of the crypt, those gray dwarf robbers don't know how long they have been in business, and with the ability of the dwarven craftsmen, it is likely that they will build a bunker underground.
However, if this group of gray dwarves is abandoned, the second mine will immediately face the dilemma of no one mining......
Roy has been thinking about countermeasures these days.
Now that the gray dwarves have found their hiding place, they must try it anyway.
There was a knock on the door outside, and Roy shouted, "Please come in ......"
The door was pushed open from the outside, and Captain Kepler and Mullin entered the room, one after the other.
Roy motioned for the two of them to sit down, and he pushed the letterhead on the table to Captain Kepler, who leaned over and took the letterhead in his hand and read it quickly.
"You're going to do it to the gray dwarves?" Captain Kepler asked, looking at the details on the letterhead.
Roy nodded and said to the head of Kepler:
"This time I want those gray dwarves to crawl out of the depths of the burrows to work in the mines."
He didn't look surprised, obviously expecting Roy to move the gray dwarves below the mines.
This time, the head of Kepler was also quite positive: "How many Silver Moon Elf warriors do you need me to produce?" ”
Roy shook his head and said casually:
"Not just yet, I want those Dark Moon Elves to give it a try......"
"Then when I go down the well, I will go down with you......" Kepler continued.
Roy shook his head again and said, "I came to you this time just to ask you to help me take care of the mine during the time I went down the mine!" ”
Then Roy turned his face to Mu Lin again, and said to her, "Go down the mine this time, Mu Lin, you go down with me, this time we will bring the Dark Moon Elves and see if we can get the gray dwarves out of the mine......
"Okay!"
Mu Lin's answer was always so cheerful.
……
The next day, Roy took Mu Lin with him, and followed a group of half-blood elf miners to the underground again in the lifting wooden box.
Before these half-blood elf miners went down the mine, they had already determined the mining hole, and as soon as the wooden box landed, these half-blood elf miners quickly drilled into the mine.
"I've rarely seen elves work so actively......"
Mu Lin stood behind these half-blood elf miners and couldn't help but complain to Roy.
Roy smiled and didn't speak, then took a few more steps and commanded a Darkmoon Elf guarding the shaft mine, "Gather all the Darkmoon Elves, we're going to visit these gray dwarves today." Either way, I want to see how nourishing they are in the mines. ”
The Dark Moon Elf didn't dare to hesitate and hurriedly went to inform the other companions.
(End of chapter)