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Chapter 117 You are awake at 1 o'clock!

A circle of walls is the "country", then, does it count if walls are also built on both sides of the road?

This is not uncommon, there have been soundproof walls on both sides of the highway in the city.

It is not difficult to think of this idea, why is it not implemented in this place?

Cecil is now accustomed to this kind of comparison, which is beneficial to increase his sober understanding of the local world. After thinking about it, he thinks it is "unnecessary" in the final analysis.

Might and Magic and magic carriages do not rely on fire, and ordinary people can ride horses, cows and other animals. In this way, there is no need to spend a lot of effort to build a "highway country".

Besides, judging from the large and small countries and cities that Cecil traveled, excluding magical infrastructure, ordinary infrastructure is mostly stone plus the most primitive mud, not even rammed earth, and there are no convenient and cheap infrastructure tools and materials It is simply a dream to build city walls along all the roads by manpower alone, and the huge investment is completely out of proportion to the benefits.

Even now, the rammed earth road built by Cecil has surprised many newcomers, and the road construction has not brought obvious benefits, but it has made infrastructure more convenient.Even so, Oakes and Russell would probably have opposed most of Cecil's proposals, and would have received the majority's support, were it not for Langdon's full support.

To put it bluntly, Cecil and Langdon are the minority in this world.

"Why do you want to do this?" Sure enough, when Cecil told others about the idea of ​​establishing a "highway country", Oakes first raised the question.

Cecil was not affected at all, and said happily: "In this case, the highway is also a country! There is fire!"

"So what?" Oakes didn't mean to be arguing, but really didn't understand.

"It's on fire!" Cecil emphasized.

Oakes frowned and remained silent for a while, then exchanged glances with Russell: "Is that the puppet you mentioned that can run away by lighting a fire?"

"Almost." Cecil was in a good mood at the moment, and explained patiently, "You can understand this thing as a steel snake, which will automatically run away when it is burned. It has a huge carrying capacity and can be used for both people and goods."

The knights were all bewildered, but Cecil seemed to see in the eyes of Cecil that on the vast plain, the steam train spewed out thick black smoke, sounded the melodious whistle, and galloped forward amidst the roar of machinery.

Think about it, the train is indeed a very suitable means of travel here. It already needs a fixed route, and building walls along the way will not add much cost.

However, the premise of this idea is that the "highway country" is indeed feasible.

Cecil asked the Roman cement site to bring enough cement blocks, all of which were put into molds and taken off.

The only advantage here is that there are too many wild lands, and no one will take care of them casually.The area occupied by the cement construction site is good for everything but poisonous seaweed that is never clean, which also keeps the cost of hiring a healer on the construction site high.

"Now you know that magic coins are also useful?" Russell, who came to test and test with him, said quietly, "Those magicians don't accept metal coins."

Cecil said blankly: "Didn't I replace all the magic coins? Besides, tanned leather shoes have started to be promoted on the construction site. It's a bit boring, but it can completely protect against seaweed. I'll find a way to clean it up later." Just clean."

Russell said disdainfully: "It still depends on magic."

Cecil pretended not to hear, and enthusiastically directed the workers to build the fence.

For the construction of the second ring road of Yuecheng and the connection with roads in the future, the city wall of Yuecheng not only set up a gate in the direction of Ebo and Toto Port, but also built two more gates at the opposite corners, and the four gates are in the shape of a cross.At this time, the test was set at a newly punched gate that had not yet been officially put into use, and walls were built along both sides of a small section of road extending from the gate.

The workers first built up huge cement bricks, and the bricks must be pasted with rammed earth. Now, Cecil asked the workers not to build them up, but after laying them into a closed small siege with only a few square meters, he never Holding a burning log inside the city wall of Yuecheng, he walked out nervously—the flame would go out as soon as it crossed the wall.

Cecil was not particularly disappointed, and said to the workers: "Let's glue up the city wall."

This tossing is troublesome but necessary, and the experience of failure is also very important.

The workers are all familiar with their hands, and quickly moved down the huge cement bricks, spread rammed earth between the bricks, placed the cement bricks, and then carefully filled the joints.

Cecil guessed that these workers must not be pure human beings. The Roman cement bricks are half a meter high and at least [-] centimeters wide. He tried to move them, but it was very difficult. These workers can easily lift one piece with one hand. This is also a local convenience. place.

Soon, another wall appeared outside the city gate.

Cecil took a deep breath, went back inside the city wall and lit the torch again, and quickly walked out of the city wall, the flame was still burning, although it was not hot, it was as bright as fireworks at night in his eyes.

"Oh--" Cecil threw away the torch, jumped and cheered on the spot, and after jumping and jumping for a long time to calm down, he found that other people looked at him with strange expressions, "Haha, you guys I don't understand! You don't understand!"

How much change this discovery can bring, even Langdon can't imagine, the train between cities will greatly change the logistics and the flow of people, and the bottom line of local industrialization has been pushed forward by a big step!

Langdon came over and touched Cecil's head: "Very happy?"

"Yes!" Cecil clenched his fist and felt full of strength, "I'm so happy!"

"As long as you are happy." Langdon's words were not sarcastic, but with unresolved emotion, "You... just keep being happy."

Cecil yelled for a while, but after calming down a little, he was still unwilling to stop there.For the sake of the experiment, the outer city wall was of course closed. He asked the workers to tear down the brick wall across the road and replace it with a wooden gate. Unfortunately, this did not work.

He thought for a while, and extended the siege forward, but the expanded part was no longer a dense city wall, but closely arranged columns. The columns were 1.5 meters high, and the spaces between the columns were empty. Surprisingly, this The design actually worked!

"Isn't that ridiculous?" Oakes frowned, "I've never seen a country with such walls."

"The needs are different. Anyway, no one can figure out the fence standards for founding a nation." Langdon offered to help Cecil speak, "That's why trial and error is required."

"That's right." It's nice to have someone help to speak, and Cecil's tone is full of smiles that cannot be concealed, "However, I guess it's still not possible to take the train, and the train still needs a solid wall, but it's different now, I just Just need a little light."

Cecil asked the workers to continue to move forward, and gradually increased the distance between the columns. When the distance increased to more than three meters, the flames failed again, and then filled the gap with a lot of gravel, even if it was not as high as the columns, it could still Creates the effect of a fence.

Maybe there is another way?

Cecil wanted to do everything possible to reduce the construction cost of the road wall. Although cement was extremely convenient, the manufacture of Roman cement was still very troublesome before gypsum was found.

"Aside from stones, is there anything else that can only be used as a material for the wall?" Cecil turned to the natives for help.

"I heard that someone used human bones as a city wall." Moyer's statement is very personal, "The effect is very good."

"We don't even have enough animal bones." Cecil was no longer a stunned young man who had just crossed over, so he continued his speech calmly, "We need something else."

After staring at the pillar for a long time, Langdon said, "Why don't you try plants?"

Cecil's eyes lit up, yes, the green belt!

Immediately, he arrested a knight who was good at plant magic, and moved several scattered trees on the grassland, but unfortunately this was not possible.

"Try it with hardwood." Cecil did not give up.

"That will have to wait until tomorrow." Russell said, "Let's eat."

Cecil didn't sleep well that night, tossing and turning even Langdon woke up, standing on the head of the bed with a pair of bright eyes, and said in an unprecedented cold tone: "If you can't sleep, go out and run around, don't roll around anymore. Go, or I'll hang you upside down under the eaves."

Cecil: "..."

Cats still get angry?Isn't it a nocturnal animal?

The next day, Langdon had a gentle and nonchalant attitude again, as if nothing happened last night.To be honest, during this period of "cohabitation" career, Cecil felt that Langdon was quite easy to get along with. After all, he had "cohabited" with many strange colleagues, Chinese, foreign, male, female, and more. There are transgender people, anyway, he has enough samples here, Langdon is definitely the type that everyone is happy to live with.

Not noisy, hygienic, soft-spoken, and simple in life, what a good roommate... It would be even better if I could be upgraded to a boyfriend.

Someone with a serious heart but no guts had to put all his energy into the experiment. The live hardwood had been dug up and planted between the concrete columns with the help of plant magic.The shape of hardwood is similar to that of sycamore trees. Since there is no pruning, they will start to branch at a very low place, and then grow wildly into a balloon shape tied with a rope. After side by side cultivation, the upper half is airtight, and the lower half is only bare. tree trunk.

Test result: No fire.

Cecil pondered for a while, then dug another bunch of shrubs and planted them under the hardwood, filling almost all the gaps.

Test result: There is fire.

Cecil was in a beautiful mood, so that the cost of the road wall would be greatly reduced, and it would be enough to remove the tree and fill in the wall when there was a train in the future.

Soon, the construction team of Yuetuo Avenue received a notice that the road would not only be more than doubled in width, but also strange pillars should be erected on both sides, and hardwoods and shrubs should be replanted between the pillars.Three roads were drawn with white paint on the road, and this road was renamed "Yuetuo Expressway".

"Why are you tossing about this?" Langdon was also a little curious.

"You'll know when the time comes!" Cecil said confidently, "Trust me!"

"I have always believed in you." Langdon said with a smile, "You are my dear Cecil."

As soon as he said this, Cecil froze as if touched by an electric wire, and then said eagerly, "Langdon."

"Ok?"

"Then what...cough, let's have dinner together tonight?"

Langdon looked back and said, "What's your new dish?"

"No, no." Cecil felt very guilty for a while, watching Langdon's eyes gradually approaching cat pupils, knowing that the other party was probably thinking about something, he immediately panicked, "Just go to the cafeteria together, we I haven’t been there for a long time, and I want to see what it’s like.”

Because he was too busy, Cecil didn't even have time to cook for himself. Most of the time, he would let people bring a piece of bread and beef from the cafeteria to deal with it. Sometimes he was so busy that he would ask for it directly from Langdon. Magic bread, eat once a day without hunger, an artifact that saves time.

As for the taste, I don't have the energy to care about it.

Cecil's little Slandon didn't seem to think about it at all, and he said "yes" casually and went to work on other things. As the highest leader of the entire Moon City, he is also very busy.

So, after a night of tossing and turning, Cecil ushered in another day of fidgeting, running around in various workshops, accompanied by sleepwalking movements, such as staring at the pulp pool without saying a word. Half an hour later, two "hey hey" sounds suddenly came out, scaring all the workers in the paper mill to hide in the distance and dare not approach.

With the rapid influx of population, Moon City is renovating and building new buildings every day, most of which are public buildings, because the scale is not enough.Cecil does not allow and does not want the knights to do small business and steal the livelihood of the common people. Fortunately, the knights have no interest or time. Currently, most of the businessmen in the city are Ebo people and a few clever and courageous Secil Lin Ren, the business projects are concentrated in the leather, catering and service industries, but the largest catering industry is still the canteen.

The cafeteria in Moon City belongs to the Gay Knights of course. It was originally worked by the knights, but it was too busy and expanded again and again. At this time, there is already a special "Moon City Food and Beverage Committee". , the other employees are all ordinary people.

Currently, there are three canteens in Moon City, one of which is larger than the other, and the latest one is not only four floors high, but Cecil has also been specially consulted for interior decoration suggestions.He had already forgotten all about this matter, so when he stepped into the fourth canteen, he thought he had returned to the earth in a trance.

The canteen is made of frame structures, too big to be entirely made of magic, only the frame structures are made of housecraft, and the rest are made of bricks.

The weather was quite hot, all the wooden windows were open, mosquitoes were flying around in groups, and there were many small platforms built beside the pillars to place candles, and low screams filled the huge space.A wooden table is flanked by two wooden benches, and there are some two-seaters to fill in the odd spaces.Looking around, many people are eating, like a university cafeteria.

Faced with this situation, Cecil's nervousness vanished, and he didn't wait long to sit on the seat when he saw Langdon striding into the door. Just as he was about to wave, a knight he didn't know suddenly approached him, probably in front of him. Talk about work, and leave after a few words.

"Why do you suddenly want to come to the cafeteria to eat?" Langdon sat down with a smile, "Is my magic bread not delicious?"

To be honest, it's not bad, but it's not delicious either. As expected of a super-legendary mage reserve, the magic bread can be made tasteless, which is really extraordinary!

Cecil smiled and said, "There is no magic bread that tastes better than you." After he finished speaking, he was taken aback for a second, this sentence sounded a bit...

"Of course, I'm so handsome." The two of them have "lived together" for so long, Langdon said without hesitation, "Who doesn't want to eat?"

Cecil: "..."

God, I'm really scared when you talk like that!

The menu of the cafeteria has been greatly improved. In addition to the previous series of beef products, skewers, fish dishes, rabbits and chicken, the newly added steamed bun series, Cecil also saw stewed snake and fried snake slices. He brought I ordered a bowl out of curiosity, and found that the snake was super delicious, not fishy or greasy, and it melted in the mouth, just like ice cream.

"This snake is so delicious!" Cecil couldn't help sighing, "Can it be bred? I have thought of several ways to make snakes!"

Langdon glanced at Cecil's bowl and said, "No, this is a purgatory snake. It's very fierce. Didn't Moyer pull a purgatory three-headed dog last time when he opened the door? This thing is a symbiotic creature of that dog, probably Maybe it ran away when it was pulled out. A while ago, O’Casey went out and said that he felt the breath of purgatory, so he caught this thing by the way and used it for cooking.”

Cecil chewed more and more slowly, and finally stopped his chopsticks in discomfort, staring at the snake slices with strange patterns in the bowl, worrying: "Is this thing edible?"

"I can eat it, I've eaten it." Langdon said considerately, "Don't worry, it's fine."

"It's been so long and you haven't finished eating?" Cecil recalled the incident of Moyer's "opening the door", which happened a few months ago.

"This thing can grow on carrion." Langdon took a piece of snake meat from Cecil's bowl and ate it. "As long as it is placed in the corpse, it will continue to proliferate."

Cecil lost his appetite even more: "So the snake is actually alive?"

"If you're dead, the guild grows pieces of meat." Langdon whispered, "I know your moral standards are relatively high, so it doesn't matter, this is a creature of purgatory."

It is because of the purgatory creatures that people are worried!

Cecil ate the meal with fear. Although the taste of the snake slices was indeed unforgettable, after listening to the explanation, there would be no desire to talk about love.

"Oh, by the way, this snake tablet has a side effect." Before the end, Langdon added, "But it's not serious, and it doesn't last long. Just keep calm."

Cecil experienced the "side effects" of snake meat in the middle of the night. He woke up suddenly from a dream, and the urge to think of Randall almost exploded from his head, but his mind was very clear, and he knew that this was absolutely inappropriate. It's also impossible, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides is like that of a baby and a strong wrestler, and he didn't dare to roll over on the bed, so he just got up and rushed out and started running along the roads in the city.

After such a long period of construction, Moon City looks like a small eighth-tier county on the earth. The roads are not particularly clean, and some stains can still be seen in some corners. The last batch of hired workers had just gotten used to the rules of going to the toilet at designated places, and the next batch of hired workers came again and needed to be trained from scratch.

Since most workshops work in three shifts, there are still many people walking on the road in the middle of the night. Without lighting, the environment can barely be seen by moonlight. From time to time, local residents come out to serve food at night The stalls make money, and most of the products sold are rabbit and chicken products.

The current Ebo yak industry is dominated by the Gay Knights. It used to belong to several nobles and Bills. Cecil set a decent price. At the same time, the income of the whole city has increased and consumption is affordable. Yes, but, after all, it is secondary consumption. Many small stall owners are not willing to choose beef, but use cheaper rabbit chicken. These two kinds of livestock mainly have a short growth cycle and fast reproduction, and the price is naturally low.

Cecil ran to the prairie outside Moon City and howled for a long time before dispelling the impulse in his heart. The strangest thing is that it was just impulse, and his "little brother" didn't respond at all. The separation of the mental and the physical is particularly distressing.

At the gate of the Moon City wall, Ange said to Langdon who appeared at some unknown time: "Is this really all right?"

"It's okay, let him run away." Langdon said with a smile, "He ate the purgatory snake at night."

"Hey, there are still purgatory snakes? Didn't you say that there will be no more supplies in the future?" Angra raised her voice, "Didn't he jump on you?"

"You know, Cecil has a relatively high moral standard." Langdon blinked, "I guess you don't want to do this."

An Ge was silent for a while, and said, "Isn't this just cowardice?"

Langdon laughed, "Don't say that in front of him."

Ange moved his gaze and whispered, "Didn't you have a good time..."

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing."

Cecil showed up at the paper mill the next day with heavy dark circles under his eyes. Thanks to the discovery of bamboo, paper has been greatly improved. He was very happy to see the thick, tough and soft paper, but he wanted to try it. Found nothing to write on.

"This...uh, do you know if there is anything that can write?" Cecil asked Langdon.

"Ink?" Langdon replied, "if you were to ask about all the non-magical types of ink, there would be cuttlefish ink, an ocean fish."

"Where's Songmo?"

"never heard of that."

The printing workshop started construction after deciding to be involved in the war of gods. However, there was no clue. It was an old problem. Cecil knew the general principle but didn't know how to do it.For example, woodblock printing, what materials are used to make it?

The characters must be small enough, and the hardness must be maintained even when the strokes are very thin. Ceramic plates are not good, because they cannot make such thin convex and concave lines. If they are thin enough, they are easy to break. Metal simply cannot be made so thin. .Making the characters bigger can solve this problem, but if the characters are bigger, the thickness of each book will increase, and it will become unsolvable again.

"Hehe." Cecil said a little proudly, "Come on, I can make smoke ink."

The raw material of smoke ink is the product of grease or wood incomplete combustion smoke mixed with glue. Now, tung oil is ready, and glue can be tested with various animal skins. It can be said that everything is ready.

On the way to the printing workshop, Langdon said, "You never back down from these things."

"What?" Cecil replied absent-mindedly, still recalling the museum's introduction to Mo.

"Invent new technology."

"Of course, this is the foundation of one's life."

"Then you can be bolder in other things." Langdon put his arm around Cecil's shoulders and whispered in his ear, "Sometimes being bold pays off, isn't it?"

"Oh, good." Cecil said casually, "What do you think if the smoke ink doesn't color?"

Langdon: "..."

Would a hair pull help wake one up, Langdon wondered.