Chapter 140: The most important (1)
Translator: 549690339
Just as Zhao Hai and Clint were putting the worms into the ground, the magicians and soldiers from the Versailles family had arrived at the area under the jurisdiction of Nat.
The Versailles family kept a record of the people in charge of every station. So, when Nat came to report, the Versailles family immediately knew that something had happened in that area.
This time, the five magicians and the one-hundred cavalrymen didn’t bring nete with them. Nete’s cultivation wasn’t strong enough, and bringing him with them would only slow down their speed. Thus, he was left at the galloping bull Castle.
The Versailles family placed great importance on this insect disaster. Otherwise, they would not have sent five mages to observe the situation. Although mages were not weak in individual combat, their group attack ability was stronger. If an ordinary insect disaster really happened, mages could use a few spells to extinguish the insect disaster in an instant.
However, when they arrived at the area under Nat King’s jurisdiction, they were stunned. They were still in a wheat field. It was as if a war between humans and insects had broken out. Although the people involved in the war were only slaves, the intensity of the battle was beyond their imagination.
On the wheat field, there were bugs eating the wheat seedlings everywhere. The slaves were trying their best to beat the bugs to the ground and stomp them to death. Not far away, there were many slaves lying on the ground. These slaves were lying there straight, their chests and abdomens rising and falling slightly. However, their faces were pale and their eyes were closed. They were obviously exhausted and had fainted.
The scene in the distance made the mages and the 100 soldiers gasp. Other than the area under Nat’s jurisdiction, other places had also been affected by the insects. The scale of the disaster was beyond the imagination of the mages.
One of the leading Fire Mages saw this and immediately turned to a soldier beside him and said, ” “Return to the galloping bull Castle immediately and report to the elders that the situation here is beyond our imagination. Ask the family to escalate this crisis to a level 1 strategic crisis. It would be best to ask the family to send reinforcements immediately, otherwise, the ika Plains will face a crisis of extinction today.”
That soldier was the leader of this small team. He was a Grade 6 warrior. Upon hearing the mage’s words, he did not dare to dally. He turned his horse around and rushed towards the bullrush Castle.
The leading mage did not immediately go to exterminate the bugs. Instead, he turned to the soldiers and said, ” &Quot; everyone, move back 50 meters and clear the wheat seedlings there. Build a 10-meter long and wide insect-proof zone and pull the slaves over. Wenger, treat these slaves and ask them to help build the insect-proof zone immediately. Send someone to inform the other places that all the insect disaster areas should do the same. &Quot;
A few Warriors on the horses responded and rode around to inform the others. The other Warriors immediately went to the fields and carried out the slaves who had fainted from exhaustion. They were then treated by Wenger, a water mage. The fire mage in the lead took his magic staff and chanted a spell in a low voice. A fire snake appeared in front of him. He pointed at it, and the fire snake immediately flew towards the fields. A barrier that was nearly a hundred meters long was created. The power of his move could be seen.
The other mages also used their own magical powers to set up a barrier between the wheat fields that had been eaten by the insects and the ones that had not been affected by the insects.
The mage was obviously very experienced in dealing with insect disasters. At this time, the best way to deal with these crawling meat worms was to set up an isolation zone.
The soldiers also took out their weapons and began to set up the isolation belt according to the mage’s request. The isolation belt was nearly ten meters wide. It could be said that a lot of wheat fields would be wasted just by setting up the isolation belt.
These mages had never thought that the insect disaster this time was man-made, so they just treated it as an ordinary insect disaster. The method they were using now was indeed very effective against an ordinary insect disaster, but it was useless against man-made insect disasters.
Zhao Hai and green weren’t tired today. After entering the space, they paid close attention to the situation outside. However, in order to avoid being discovered by the other party, they only entered the space after they reached the windbreak. Now, they could only see things within a 500-meter radius of Fang Yuan.
Now, they really couldn’t see anything. They could only see the big bugs gnawing the wheat seedlings into light rods in a very short time. This speed was really beyond their imagination.
The two of them let out a sigh of relief when they saw the bugs moving back into the wheat field after gnawing on the seedlings. Grimm smiled and said, ” “Now I know why the Versailles family is so lively. The insects we released yesterday and today are enough to make them suffer.”
Zhao Hai nodded and leaned back on the sofa. He let out a long sigh, ” “Let’s rest for two days and see what the ika Plains is like. If those guys really exterminate those bugs, then we’ll go out and release them. If their losses are huge, then we don’t have to release them anymore. After a while, Grandpa Grimm will go to the Versailles family to end the engagement.”
Ge Lin nodded. &Quot; young master, why don’t we return to the messy Stone Manor first? we’ll come back to see the results in two days. There shouldn’t be anything to do in these two days. &Quot;
Zhao Hai shook his head and said, ” let’s not go back to Rocky Mountain for now. We’ll go to Iron Mountain fortress first and take out the fruit Oil. Then, we’ll send it to Casar city and let Lola try it out. At the same time, we’ll buy some cloth bags that can be used to store food. Now that the corn has been produced, we need something to pack. We’ll transfer a few people back from Rocky Mountain and have them continue to extract the oil. This time, we can’t count on the corn to make money. Let’s just take it as an apology to the ordinary people of the Versailles Duchy. &Quot;
Green nodded his head. Although his heart was tougher than Zhao Hai’s, he didn’t want too many innocent people to die because of their operation.
The people on the ark continent believed in God. They believed in the existence of the gods. Except for those who believed in the dark god, most people still had restrictions on their actions. They were afraid that if they did too many bad things, God would punish them one day.
After the discussion, they returned to the iron Mountain castle, which had become a huge processing plant that was processing corn.
There were also two ways to process corn. One was to peel and remove the navel, and process it into edible corn. The Northerners called it cornmeal dregs. The other method was to process it into cornmeal. Cornmeal was more troublesome than cornmeal dregs, but it was not too troublesome with grinding.
In order to process the corn, Zhao Hai had to transfer a large number of undead creatures back from Rocky Mountain to help process the corn. After all, they had a lot of corn. If they wanted to process all the corn, they had to keep drying it. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to use the corn in times of emergency.
Humans had limited energy. Although the slaves could also push a roller, their physical strength was limited. For jobs that didn’t require much skill like processing, it was left to the undead creatures.
For this reason, Zhao Hai had to keep 100 scaled-horned horses in the medium. He left 10 to pull the carriage and turned the rest into zombies to pull the mill. This way, the processing speed would be faster.
Currently, Zhao Hai had 10 completed millstones and 20 millstones. There weren’t a lot of them and their processing capacity was limited. In the end, Zhao Hai had no choice but to let all the male slaves help Ann with the millstones and grinding. The rest of the processing work was left to the undead creatures.
Due to his duties, Zhao Hai didn’t have time to go to ika plain to see the results. He didn’t have many people with him at the moment. He had to protect both Iron Mountain fortress and Rocky Mountain. In the end, he had no choice but to transfer half of the 100 underlings back to Iron Mountain fortress. In addition to Zhao Jia and a few other underlings, he transferred all the ordinary mercenaries who had turned into undead creatures back to Rocky Mountain.
For this reason, Zhao Hai even contacted Zhao Zui and the others who were in the carrion swamp. He wanted to see how they were doing.
Zhao Zui’s report was pretty good. It turned out that the rotten corpse swamp was not entirely a swamp. There were some places that looked like small islands. There were trees and some magical beasts living there. They looked like small islands on the sea.
Zhao Zui and the others had already occupied a small island and used it as their base. They were hunting for low-level magical beasts and looking for the seeds of some plants.
However, Zhao Zui and the others had already ventured a few hundred miles into the swamp. Moreover, the road was difficult to traverse. Hence, they were prepared to collect more items before returning.
Zhao Hai did not rush Zhao Zui and the others. Compared to the Versailles family, the rotten corpse swamp posed a greater threat to them. After all, the Versailles family could not possibly station themselves here for a long time. Even if they really came to kill Zhao Hai and the others, they would only need to hide in the medium for a while before they retreated. However, the rotten corpse swamp was different.
The rotten corpse swamp was too close to the blackdirt wastelands. If they wanted to use the blackdirt wastelands as their base, they had to solve the problem at the rotten corpse swamp.
It was precisely because of this thought that Zhao Hai did not allow Zhao Zui and the others to return even though he was short on manpower. No matter what, the corpse swamp was of utmost importance.