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Chapter 114 Under the Covered Nest

Cecil sat on the back of the griffin, surrounded by hot smoke and dust. If it weren't for Langdon's protective magic, no one could survive in this environment. Below, the bright crater of the volcano was shining. Strangely, these The magma did not flow, and the outside of the crater was still calm. Inside the crater, something like a chocolate chip was gradually being swallowed by the magma.

"Fly up!" Cecil had to shout at the top of his voice, "Fly above the cloud of smoke and dust!"

Langdon's voice was a little muffled: "Is it too hot?"

"Yes!" Cecil felt a little uncomfortable with the male god's knowingly asking.

The Griffin did not go up but began to descend. Cecil asked several times but did not respond. Soon after, he was surprised to find that the temperature had dropped. When he reached the side of the crater, the magma was emitting light and heat a few meters away. Where he was standing, not a single drop of magma flowed out.

Cecil didn't understand, so he said: "What's going on?"

"The country of Lomasu Volcano is not because someone established a country here. There is a 'country' here, and they are the latecomers." Langdon smiled and said, "Do you remember that Moyer said that his hometown is everywhere?" Is it magma? The dwarves use geothermal forging, which shows that there is a combustion reaction in the underground. In the past, people mistakenly thought that it was because the underground was completely surrounded, until a mage specializing in electricity doubted this statement. He believed that there is heat when there is light. Lightning has light, but once the heat of the lightning is conducted to the ground, especially those wild lands that have not been established, it will disappear. So, he did an experiment, flying in mid-air on a thunderstorm day and touching the lightning. He fell down like a stone, Smiling and leaving a last word 'that's hot' and died."

No matter in which world, the exploration of truth by intelligent life is always the same.

Cecil sighed: "So, in fact, this law of no fire only applies to the ground?"

"There used to be a 'mulch theory', which believed that there was an invisible film covering the earth to prevent flames from being produced." Langdon pointed to the sky, "As the mages explored the sky, the 'mulch theory' was deciphered, If heat gushes out from the ground, it will quickly cool down, but if this thing rises gradually, it will not be subject to the no-fire rule after reaching a certain height, and it will retain heat even if it floats to an area outside the country.”

Cecil found that there was indeed no hot gas outside the crater. The hot magma immediately cooled as soon as it gushed out of the ring edge, and piled up in the crater. The magma is very similar, which is supposed to be the reason for the formation of volcanoes.

Inside the crater, high temperature, steam, and volcanic ash were wrapped in the blue clouds and went straight up without any obstacles. Some high-temperature substances escaped from the circular area of ​​the crater, and the steam instantly turned into water as if it had encountered ice, forming an extremely unscientific light rain in mid-air .

Cecil and Langdon took the griffin to the port of Toto, and took the griffin to Algis through the Might and Magic Gate. They saved the time of flying across the bay and arrived in Lomasu in just one day and one night. scene.

"Is there someone over there?" Cecil squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, the smoky vision was too bad, "I heard voices."

"It's someone." Langdon's eyesight and hearing are amazing, especially for dynamic objects, he can only be called a cat, "And you've seen it before."

When Cecil saw a few young mages again, the children were in even more embarrassing condition. Not only were their heads in disgrace, but many of them had tear stains on their faces, and the black smoke was washed out into white streaks, which looked quite ridiculous.

No one can laugh, and a fierce conflict is in progress.

"Go down! Go down!" Prince Bellamy put both hands on the blond girl's head, riding on her body and shouted wildly, "You are a citizen of Lomasu! Down below is your hometown! Go down!"

Her golden hair had been roasted black by the high heat of the magma, and there were large and small blisters on half of the girl's cheeks. She let out a shrill cry and kicked her legs wildly trying to throw Prince Bellamy off, but her strength was too strong. Weak and weak, I have already tried my best to support my body, and it is only a matter of time before I fall.

At this time, there were five people left in the group of seven, the girl with the ponytail and the boy with the earrings disappeared, and the remaining three boys stood aside, dumbfounded by the atrocities of Prince Bemila.

Cecil ran away, and before the girl's screams gradually subsided, he flew up and kicked Prince Bemila's head accurately!

Prince Bemila rushed forward unexpectedly, his whole body turned over, and he fell down yelling!

Cecil quickly stepped on the blond girl's legs, preventing her from falling. When he pulled the poor girl up, only half of her face was scorched, and her beautiful and youthful face was covered by great fear. Rolling and crawling, he ran to the outside of the crater, fell down almost like rolling, shrank into a ball and cried until he died.

"You just stand by and watch?!" Cecil yelled at the three boys.

"He, he is a prince..." A boy responded reflexively.

"He's nothing now." Cecil endured the heat radiated from the magma, and his tone was unprecedentedly cold, "You are the same."

The youngest boy burst into tears, watching the lava and repeating: "The prince killed my sister... my sister...he killed my sister!"

If I had come sooner...if I had stopped these kids...if...

Cecil was full of regret, and was relieved when Langdon hugged him, leading a few small survivors to a safe place.

"Anyone else?" Cecil asked.

"No more." The youngest child wiped a big face with his sleeve. "When we came, there was nothing here. Prince Bellamy said that we will all return to Lomasu...that is our hometown."

"Crazy!" Cecil spat on the ground bitterly. He wanted to curse a few words, but he couldn't curse when he saw the terrified eyes of the children. "Tell me about your identities."

"The duke's eldest son, Warwick Carter."

"The duke's second son, Louis Warren."

"Earl's eldest son, Trollope Green."

Trollope, the youngest, pointed to the semi-conscious blond girl in the distance and said, "That's the seventh princess, Helen Shima Raphael."

Cecil was stunned for a little bit: "Is he born to the same mother as that Prince Bellamy?"

"Yes." Trollope nodded, with tears in his eyes, "They are all the Queen's children."

Cecil sighed, what is this called, a cult has killed a family.

"From today onwards, you are nothing." Langdon added the knife mercilessly, "You are wild people."

After the children looked at each other, there was no response for a while.

"What's it like being a Wildling?" asked Warwick, the oldest.

"It's scary, my father always said that." Louis said blankly.

"Papa says the Wild Folk have no toys," said Trollope earnestly, "and no servants."

Cecil couldn't bear to listen, he could imagine how miserable it would be for these three pampered noble sons to become wild people.

"Can they live like Luther?" Cecil approached Langdon and whispered.

"They? They are far worse than Luther." Langdon stated the facts calmly, "It is estimated that there are at most two magic slots for one person, the lowest level of magic. After eating and drinking, there is nothing left. Luther's three little ones The cubs can tear them apart and eat their faces."

After Luther left, the three wild children were adopted by Madam Klass. Cecil wanted to teach them Chinese, but he was too busy.Fortunately, Mrs. Klass, who has raised two children, is very experienced. The three children are not only in good health, but also Ebo can speak well and behave much more normally.

However, the three children who have experienced the life of the wild people are still very powerful in combat. They can follow Karohe and the baby to hunt in the grassland barefoot, and they move silently like beasts.

Three descendants of nobles are indeed not enough for three wild cubs.

When Cecil was about to ask these foolish sons of noble families if they had gone somewhere, there was a humming sound in the sky. He raised his head, and was surprised to see some diamond-shaped cubes flying over, a large number and arranged Formed into a neat formation.

For a moment, Cecil thought of the cubes that destroyed the old city of Highgarden, but these diamond-shaped cubes were too shiny, and obvious metal texture and connection traces could be seen, more like industrial products.

"The swarms of Gretel's Kingdom of Honor," Langdon said. "Remember the hanging gardens at Tambunita? It's all the same air power."

Cecil asked suspiciously: "What? Do magicians pay much attention to the sky?"

"If you want to control the land, you must occupy the sky. Magic countries generally think so." Langdon said, "It's just that each country has a different style. Tambunita is more romantic. Even the sky fortress has to be built like a garden. Rhett is more practical."

Air supremacy is not difficult to understand.

"And as long as it reaches a certain height, it will not be affected by the law of no fire." Cecil sighed, "That's great."

Langdon smiled: "Then it must be able to reach that height."

The rhomboids flew over the crater, spread out in a tight formation, and descended to a height only a few meters away from the magma.Cecil was able to observe the smooth, mirror-like surfaces of these objects, as well as the tiny movements of apparent repositioning.

"There's no one inside this thing, right?" Cecil asked suspiciously.

"Mages are required to operate them." Langdon said, "These mages connect their minds through magic, and can control these aircraft like a person."

"Then why is it called a bee swarm?" Cecil wondered, "Shouldn't it be called a swarm?" Seeing Langdon's puzzled expression, he hurriedly said, "Don't worry, it's a matter of translation."

Two stick-like things protruded from the rhomboid body, bent three joints, went down to pick up a large amount of magma, and then quickly left the range of the crater. The magma instantly turned into hard volcanic rock, even if thrown Also stays solid on the ground.

"Great Glory Kingdom is a big buyer of Lomasu magma." Langdon said with disdain, "This is great, and you don't need to spend money to buy it from now on."

Compared with the Gerrits' looting by fire, the sons of the Lomasu nobles were heartbroken.

Warwick yelled at the lozenge, "Thief! Bandit! I won't let you! Put it down! Put it down! It's a Lomasu thing! It's ours! Ours!"

The rhomboid didn't react at all, just diligently moving the magma.

Warwick gradually went mad, roaring, pulling his hair, and scratching his face. He seemed to finally understand what the so-called "wild people" represented, and also understood that the destruction of Lomasu not only meant that their noble titles had become A piece of nonsense, but also means more.

Seeing the wailing Warwick, Cecil couldn't help but feel a little sad. After the collapse of a country without civilization, there is really nothing. In contrast, Serling, who is vigorously developing technology, is the most "lucky". , The Sirin people also paid a heavy price in their lives.

The ending of the Lomasu Volcanic Kingdom is written by the sky garden of Tambuni Tower. After the Gerrits finished catching the magma, as if they had made an appointment, this beautiful sky garden slowly opened, sprayed from the sky. Numerous petals fell, slowly forming a layer of colorful flower cover, like an upside-down bowl just covering the crater, the high temperature, steam and volcanic ash erupted changed direction and overflowed into the crater In addition, it instantly turns into a harmless cold substance.

Cecil and his party standing on the edge of the crater were sprayed with ash and rain, and the mixed black mud caused them a lot of harm.

"Tambunita has a state. The things that fall are still very hot. Even if you have the ability to clean it, it is still very troublesome. If the monsoon is not blowing northward, the Tambuneta people will not come at all." Langdon cast it angrily. Cleaning magic, "These magicians don't think about others at all, don't you see people standing beside them?!"

Cecil looked at the direction in which the Hanging Garden left, and said angrily, "They are magicians."

"So you have to work hard." Langdon also gave Cecil a cleaning magic.

The Hanging Garden and the Rhombus completed their mission and left without even looking at the ground.

The idiot sons of the noble family were in extreme depression, as if they had lost their souls. Cecil did what Cecil asked them to do. Princess Helen finally woke up after Langdon's simple healing magic, but the complete cure can only be done by someone like Owen. The master healer made a move, and he didn't say a word after arriving at Moon City.

"I guess it will take some time for these children to get better." Cecil said sympathetically, "Is the youngest one ten years old?"

"It can't be better." Russell said after listening to the whole process, "In short, this is not our responsibility, Cecil, you are too kind, this is not a good thing."

Knowing that Russell also had good intentions, Cecil said helplessly, "I promise I won't do this in the future."

"Then, hurry up and talk to Gray and ask the Sirin to drag the volcanic ash for us. Don't you want the concrete road? Time can't be delayed!"

That's the only happy thing.

Gray still welcomed Cecil's visit very much. Regarding this attitude, Cecil wanted to make a one-time end. This time, he got Russell's guidance.

"I need you to help me transport the volcanic ash." Cecil said straight to the point.

"No problem." Gray agreed, "In this case..."

"Free shipping." Cecil added.

Gray froze for a moment, showing an unnatural smile: "However, most of our boats need to fish to maintain rations."

"It's not my problem." Cecil was still a little unnatural, but after thinking about what Russell said, he was right. He couldn't look at this matter with a standard of "earth fairness", "I will lay a new The road is harder, smoother and more durable, I need the Sirin to deliver the volcanic ash for me for free, I took you in and prevented you from becoming wild people, didn't I?"

Gray's smile disappeared completely: "I helped you too."

"Nothing is more important than the future." Cecil stood up. "You should understand that I have always treated you well. I think it's time for a fair deal."

Gray didn't say any more nonsense. After a moment of silence, he had a long negotiation with Cecil on the delivery cycle, the number of ships, the number of people, and the itinerary of each ship. Fortunately, Russell and Oakes are very good at this aspect. An acceptable solution was finally negotiated.

When leaving, Cecil glanced at Gray, the king no longer had the intimacy and enthusiasm before, and bid him farewell politely.

Sure enough, there is no emotion in front of interests.

Cecil's mood was a bit complicated, but it made him feel a lot better that Gray had finally recovered a normal kingly posture.

The Serlings were very efficient. Three days later, 37 ships gathered at Toto Port and set off for the ruins of the Lomasu Volcanic Country.The eruption of Lomasu has ended, and the air shield has been removed from Tambunita, where only small earthquakes are left here and there.

The Serlings collected all the leased boats this time, because Cecil asked them to send out as many ships as possible, and at the same time clearly told the Serlings that they would enjoy a [-]% discount on cement for any future infrastructure projects.

Ships will successively transport [-] hired workers to compact the volcanic ash in Lomasu to form something similar to tuff. After moving back, Moon City will establish a temporary kingdom by the seaside, dedicated to the production of Roman cement: lime, clay After crushing and firing, the obtained powder is mixed with stones and tuff, stuffed into a mold and then poured with sea water. After a three-month drying period, Roman cement can be obtained, which can resist the corrosion of thousands of years.

The solidification period is too long, Cecil sighed, there is no way, why did he not find the plaster.

Roman cement pavement can be made directly on the ground near the sea, but not far away. It must be made into cement bricks first, and then transported to the designated location for laying.Therefore, Cecil arranged for a team of men to dig the roadbed, a certain distance below the surrounding road surface, and dig out the drainage ditch along the way.He specifically asked the flame goblins—these little things have not produced any results so far. Their reason is that there are too many chores, and this reason cannot be refuted—to make a lot of iron rulers, make them by the meter, engrave the scale, and distribute them to Engineering Team.

The problem is that Cecil can't determine the distance in meters. At the time when Emperor Shihuang might despise him, he was lucky to find that there was a label on the back of the MP3 left by Dongfeng Express, which stated the product size, and he was able to deduce the approximate standard.

Anyway, so be it, I didn't measure by my height, Cecil gave himself a nod.

The picture of 37 giant ships setting sail is quite magnificent. Cecil stands on the shore and watches the white sails gradually disappear below the sea level.The Port of Toto has already negotiated that the world's first Roman concrete road will be the "Yuetuo Avenue", which will bring the four-wheeled carriage and the Moon City into a new era.

Time flies into midsummer, and Cecil heard the Ebo people lament that the grassland is much cooler this summer.

Can it be cooler?The air conditioner is off!Originally, this place shouldn't be hot in summer, but the ultraviolet rays can't stand it!

Dragon Heart is still emitting heat from the broken white pagoda, and the wheat fields are blowing up waves in the breeze. All feel happy."Gundam stands at the end of the wheat field, quietly watching the thriving wheat field.

Cecil was also very happy about another harvest of potatoes. More than 20 potatoes got more than 100 fruits.

All was well, except for worrying about the delivery of the carriage in October.

"Do you think you can make it?" Cecil said while shredding the potatoes, "Yuetolu seems to be a little bit behind."

"Mrs. Xiangqi said that if you continue to hire people like this, she will go to the slave trader to buy people." Langdon laughed, "Moon City is no longer able to live, didn't you find it? You can sleep in the grass outside the city in summer." Come on, what about winter?"

"So, I plan to start making cement bricks and building the second ring road after Yuetuo Road is paved!" Cecil said firmly, "The scale of Yuecheng is not enough, and we must also prevent the city wall from failing again!"

"It's not enough, there are too many industries." Russell muttered as he entered the door, "Did you know that the paper mill and the soap mill have sued me?"

Cecil was startled, almost cut his hand, and hurriedly said, "What's the matter?"

"The paper factory said that the soap factory robbed employees, and the soap factory said that the paper factory drained sewage into their pools." Oakes said angrily, "These people have become lawless, because they are short of people and even said they want to attack the small country on the other side. Some savages came out."

There is a large small country to the north of Tabunita, with different civilizations and races, occupying the entire plain dotted with dots, and some wild people will appear from time to time. They used to be the existence that everyone avoided, but now they have become sweets. cake.

Langdon couldn't see Cecil's knife skills—mainly the dagger here, which was not strong enough—and took over Cecil's job and started shredding potatoes.

"Is it possible that because our side is doing well, they took the initiative to join us?" Unlike the natives, Cecil still prefers a "peaceful" way.

"How do you tell them we're doing well?" Russell asked, "Abduct them?"

Cecil said confidently: "Humans, the most intuitive thing is food, clothing, housing and transportation! I can show at least a few things now. Look at this!"