Chapter 70

On the solid wood table in front of Victor, there is a pile of purified crystals. These transparent crystals are stacked together, shining like diamonds, but their value is far more than any kind of diamond.

Victor didn't care about the pile of magic crystals, but stared at two pieces of dry mud with a frown.

On a piece of mud on the left, there is a person's footprints. The footprints are 13cm long and 5cm wide. The soles of the feet are thin and the toes are round. In terms of shape and size, this is the right footprints of personal children.

The mud on the right is several times larger than that on the left. On the mud is a 46cm long and 38cm wide claw print. The claw is printed with four toes. The toe segment is obviously a sharp claw, and there are fins between the claws and toes. This is the claw print of a giant beast, and it is an amphibious giant beast.

"Jack, are you sure this is a human footprint? Not a halfling footprint?" Victor looked up at the alchemist militia opposite.

"My Lord, although halflings are similar to humans in form, they are all descendants of the demon mouse sepsis. Halflings hardly leave footprints. Very few halflings can even walk on water, so this is human footprints!" Jack responded.

Victor nodded. Just yesterday, the alchemical biological team collecting purified crystals returned smoothly and brought back a full 54 purified crystals.

The process of collecting crystals by alchemists is ordinary. With the help of the alchemical crow, they avoided most dangerous creatures and did not encounter the lizard tribe. After reaching their destination, the alchemical humans dived into several pools and collected all the purified crystals inside.

However, they later found a group of strange footprints, which were the footprints of a human child and the claws of a swamp monster. This group of footprints shows that the human child and the swamp beast are close together, and sometimes the child's footprints will disappear, which shows that the child has walked a distance on the beast. Finally, the footprints disappeared into a lake. Jack and they gave up tracking, dug out two pieces of mud covered with footprints and took them back to the assembly point.

"Do you know what animal left this paw print?" Victor pointed to the giant animal's paw print and asked Jack.

"It should be a swamp dragon lizard, but it is three times larger than an ordinary dragon lizard."

Victor took a breath of air-conditioning. The swamp dragon lizard is 5-7 meters long and weighs more than 1 ton. It has sharp teeth and claws. It is powerful and agile. It is a very fierce predator. In particular, its skin is very tough. It is the material for making top leather armor. It is said that the dragon lizard's leather armor is difficult to hurt by sword and can also effectively defend against blunt force attack. It can be seen that the dragon lizard is a beast with high attack and high defense.

This dragon lizard is three times larger than the ordinary dragon lizard, that is to say, this guy is more than 12 meters long and weighs about 3 tons, which is very likely to be an alienated creature!

"Why did you bring these footprints back to me?"

Victor was puzzled. He wanted to find out why the alchemist militia followed these footprints and brought the evidence back.

"Sir, when we perform the three-level collection task, if we find traces of human activities in the dangerous area, we should investigate the relevant information and report to the master. This is the content of our will side."

Jack's answer made Victor silent. It seems that the implementation standard of the three-level task of the alchemy militia is very loose, even with the function of investigation.

"I already know the situation. Let's talk about your next task."

Victor reached out and gently pushed the two clay tiles on the table. The breeze surrounded the dry clay tiles like feathers, which floated back a few meters and landed steadily in the corner of the wall. Victor now has neither the ability nor the mind to meddle in the Everglades, and he is still such a strange business.

"Jack, those four guys should have sneaked into the temporary camp?" Victor touched his chin and asked softly.

Yesterday, Victor ordered four other alchemy militia at the assembly point to sneak into the temporary camp as a free people. The alchemical war mastiff was still lurking at 40 kilometers, and Jack sneaked into the upper camp at night as he ordered.

"Yes, my Lord, I saw them enter the temporary camp with my own eyes." Jack nodded.

"Jack, come and look at this map." Victor stood up. Behind him was a board covered with linen.

Victor lifted the linen cloth, and the whole board suddenly exposed. On the board was painted a huge map, but the map was very simple, and many places were vacant, but there were several points on it, including Hill camp, chebman camp, Pinghu village and the entrance of danoze.

"Jack, two days ago, I ordered Manniu to them. By the way, Manniu, they are the New Alchemy militia."

"I ordered the barbarians to build a free people camp at this location to recruit the scattered mountain people in the territory." Victor points to a location on the map.

"Your first task is to take the five big dogs and two big crows to patrol the whole territory and drive the wild people to this area, but you can't let people find the relationship between the big dog and you. Secondly, I want you to draw a detailed map of the whole territory, including remote areas, and investigate the animal community, monster community, plant distribution and mineral vein distribution of the whole territory. Do you have No problem? " Victor turned his head and asked York.

"Sir, if those wild people don't flee to the designated area, can they be killed?" Asked Jack.

"No, I just want those wild people who can't establish a gathering place. In addition, if those wild people threaten your safety, they can kill you."

For Victor, it doesn't matter whether the wild people take refuge in Pinghu village or Shanmin camp. Sooner or later, it's his dish.

"My Lord, when shall I start?"

"You check your equipment, take your supplies, and you can go."

Jack immediately took action, two short swords, a dagger, a hunting bow, two arrows, equipped with a set of leather armor, without any dry food, walked to the secret door of the restricted area.

Victor looked at Jack's crisp landing action and was secretly proud of his strong melee ability, accurate shooting, a few dogs and two birds. He could perform tasks alone in the field. He would have a lot of powerful soldiers.

When Jack disappears in the dark door, Victor walks to the cave. This time, he goes straight to the core of the alchemy tower - the element extraction platform.

"King, report the current production status and capital reserve of the alchemy tower." Victor connected Tallinn and preached.

"My Lord, at present, No. 7 alchemy tower has produced 7 alchemy militia, 6 alchemy auxiliary soldiers, 15 alchemy crows and 5 alchemy war mastiffs. It consumes 177 soul fire points, the remaining soul fire 4823 points and reserves 11550 gold coins."

This data made Victor smile bitterly. He was really not in charge and didn't know that chaimi was expensive. At the beginning, he had a full 40000 gold sol, but now, with the reserves of the alchemy tower, his money is less than 15000 gold sol.

"King, I need to discuss with you the planning behind the territory, so that I can decide the alchemical life I need to produce." Victor had no staff, and he could only pull Tallinn to help him pick up the missing parts.

"Sir, please introduce your current situation." The king who opened his own wisdom will not refuse Victor's request.

"The population I currently control is about 900, and the food reserves have basically run out. Now the whole camp depends on gathering and hunting." Said Victor with some embarrassment.

Originally, there were only 400 people in the hill camp, which could be self-sufficient by relying on food reserves and hunting. But with more and more people taking refuge in Victor, eating has become a big problem in the camp. In order to fill the stomachs of these people, more and more people were sent out to collect and hunt, and they went farther and farther away. Some teams even didn't return to the camp until the next day.

Victor also found a terrible situation. The renewable resources around the hill camp have been destroyed, that is, the crops that can be collected nearby have been daylighting! This is also the reason why wild boars around began to eat purple sugarcane, while humans can't eat meat alone.

"Now, more and more people go out to collect, go farther and farther away, send more guards and militia, but the collection efficiency is declining." Victor shook his head and sighed.

"The farther the distance, the greater the supply consumption. The gatherers and guards also have to eat." The king replied.

"I'm too anxious. Those free private lands are scattered around the territory for its own reason. The free people can meet their needs by relying on the resources near their camp and a small amount of planting, and the surrounding natural crops will not be destroyed."

"I gathered them before I was ready. At the beginning, I should have sent people to take over the free people's camps, scattered the free people and resettled them. Only in this way can my hill camp develop healthily."

Victor was very upset. Because he was worried about the regrouping of free people, he sent people to demolish the free private land, and even the materials were used to build camps and villages.

"My Lord, at present, you can only rely on buying food to sustain yourself."

"This is inevitable. Barley and beans have been planted in the fields reclaimed by the camp, but they can't be harvested until the wind season, and the offerings in Pinghu village are not enough to feed so many people."

"The problem now is that there are only two places where I can buy food. One is the York family and the other is the chebman family. The chebman family doesn't have to consider it. I can't expose my weaknesses to them anymore. Then there is only one choice for Heibao town. How likely is the York family to control us?"

"One hundred percent." The king replied without hesitation.

In fact, Victor also understood the idea of the big family, but Sylvia supported him 40000 kinsol (50000 was knocked away by the countess) and sold him a batch of equipment at a low price, which made Victor have a little fantasy about the beautiful countess.

"Then we can only speed up the construction of villages and divert the population as soon as possible. But those free people are not fully fed. How can we ensure their control?" Victor asked the king again.

"My Lord, I suggest you temporarily release your control over the people and let them develop freely. At the same time, you can produce enough auxiliary soldiers, set up a secret camp, gather the auxiliary soldiers, let them burn special bricks and quickly build a castle. As long as your castle is built, you can naturally control the whole territory. In addition, the auxiliary soldiers can also build silver equipment to improve the combat effectiveness of your army Fighting power. I think this is the best choice. " The king suggested.

"That's a bad idea!" Said Victor coldly.

"King, I'm afraid you don't know what special bricks mean to the Lords. This kind of brick can change the whole human world. If I expose this technology now, I will soon be destroyed. So is the silver equipment. So I won't take out these sensitive technologies until I have no self-protection ability."

Special bricks can allow the Lord to build more fortresses and castles, so as to control more territories. All lords will be crazy about this technology and do not hesitate to wage war. However, in the king's cognition, special bricks are only the most common technology of the alchemy Empire, which is not worth mentioning, because the alchemy Empire focuses on attack, while the current human world focuses on defense, which is a misjudgment caused by differences in civilizations.

"Moreover, in your eyes, alchemy auxiliary soldiers are only the most basic labor units, but in this era, they are all master talents. It is better to drive ordinary villagers to play a greater role by allowing them to concentrate on low-end work." Victor added in his consciousness.

"However, your suggestion reminds me of a way to control the villages, that is to let those villages develop abnormally!"

"What do you mean, my lord?" Asked the king, puzzled.

"Abnormal development is to let these villages take the road of specialization. For example, build a village specializing in the production of linen in areas rich in Sisal resources, build farms in areas with fertile land, and build villages dominated by iron making near mineral veins. These villages do not have the ability of self-sufficiency. When there are few people, they can collect surrounding crops to supplement the lack of food, but there are few people When the population increases, they will rely on my regulation. " Victor excitedly preached to the king.

The villages under the jurisdiction of ordinary lords are administrative units composed of leaders or vassals. They are loyal to their own lords and have no problem of self-sufficiency. However, Victor's foundation is too shallow, so that the free people who have only been together for a few months to establish self-sufficient villages are likely to get out of control, so they must be allowed to develop abnormally.

"It's a good idea. Specialized villages rely more on advanced technology. Therefore, the alchemy auxiliary soldiers who master advanced technology gain the highest authority. Adults can firmly control those villages by sending a small number of managers." The king recognized Victor's plan.

"King, start the construction task and produce 12 alchemy auxiliary soldiers. Each auxiliary soldier is loaded with monkey secret form and long-range weapon mastery. Then divide these auxiliary soldiers into three groups, and each group is loaded with a different production skill."

Let the alchemy auxiliary also have a certain combat effectiveness, which is more in line with Victor's needs. Long range weapon mastery and monkey secret form are good choices.

"As you wish, sir, this production consumes 84 units of soul fire and 6000 gold coins. There are 4739 remaining soul fire points and 5550 gold coins." The king reported production consumption to victor.

I'm really going bankrupt now. I just don't know how much money Nelson can bring back for me? Victor lamented in his heart.

And Nelson is already on his way back.