Wolf King

In the underground world, the deepest part is unfathomable.The closest exit to the surface requires more than one day's journey.

In fact, the entire underground world belongs to less than 3% of the actual ruled area of ​​the dark elves, and less than 10% of the area ruled by radiation—the underground world hidden in the belly of the Bloomfield Continent, with exits in the Far East, West Continent, South Continent, and North Continent is too much. The environment in most areas is too harsh and not suitable for building cities.

But the dark elves really only need to rule their territory well - because at least [-]% of the underground world's mineral veins are distributed around the radiation-dominated area of ​​the dungeon, that is, from the middle of the northern continent to the western continent.

The forest of elves is located directly above the dungeon, and some YYs of the human race always tend to compile conflicts and wars between dark elves and forest elves, which is why.

Of course... In fact, the forest elves fight the dark elves to the death because they eat too much. Not to mention that there is no exit at all in the overlapping territories between the two sides. Even if there is an exit, the one-way journey is more than three days. To grab the other party's resources.

As for worrying about when the population of the dark elves and forest elves will explode, that's a watt of the brain... The women of the elves have a high status and have full sexual freedom; A large area of ​​elf women will be turned into furniture and domestic animals for brainwashing, otherwise they will eat too much and turn themselves into reproductive tools.

To the west of the underground city, through the labyrinthine stalagmite caves, across the icy dark underground river, on the north side of the dark forest, on the Nubian ring road composed of countless caves, the smoke of magic has not yet dissipated, a fierce battle The conflict has just ended.

The dwarf king's vanguard army left more than a hundred corpses and exited the Nubian ring road, but the dungeon side also suffered heavy losses.Panting, Yale walked past the horribly dead lizardmen and demon servant corpses, bypassed the dark elf warrior who was hugging his wounded leg and moaning, walked to his fallen companion and knelt down with a sad face.

After a long silence, Yale stretched out his hand and closed the young man's round eyes.

Standing up and waving his hands, the gray dwarf servant who was waiting on the side stepped forward with a nod and bow, and the two of them worked together to carry the tiger warrior's body to the rear.

Along with this young man who always closed his eyes, several dark elf warriors... and a large number of servants of cats, gray dwarves, lizardmen, and devilmen were transported back.

As for the corpses left by the enemy, there is no need to bother transporting them. After cleaning the battlefield, throw them into the dark underground river to feed the fish.

"——It's the third one." Yale looked at the messy battlefield, his tense facial muscles showed no emotion, but his heart felt like a knife was twisted.

Why did the glorious tiger warriors throw their lives on this dark and unfamiliar battlefield?Yale couldn't find the answer, and couldn't convince himself with Tiger King's orders like the others.

But he can't do anything, he's just an account holder.

"Yale." Veteran Harry shouted from a distance, helping his injured companion.

Yale closed his eyes and exhaled silently. When he turned back, he had adjusted his emotions and strode towards his companion.

The Nubian ring road was originally a settlement of kobolds. The dark elves captured all the aborigines and drove them to the dark underground river to pan for gold. The caves opened by the kobolds on both sides of the ring road were left idle.After the goblins opened up these caves, they became the gold panning base for the dark elves—adventurers heading to the dark forest need supplies here, and caravans from the west will also stop here to rest. After hundreds of years of operation, the gold panning base has become Gradually, it was operated as a gold panning camp.

A few years ago, the dwarf king focused on the mineral resources in the underground world, and the gold rush camp on the Nubian Ring Road became a frontline base again.

Yale led the remaining nine soldiers back to the high walls of the base built of mud and stones, and passed by another group of soldiers who had left the base.

The spoils piled up on the west side of the square have yet to be cleared away. The haughty dark elf inspectors are loudly yelling at the gray dwarf servants. The wounded camp on the east side occasionally groans in pain, and is also heard by the loud chatter and laughter from the base hall. cover.

"Yale?" Kun walked out of the base barracks, stopped when he found his old friend, and waved vigorously, "This way, Yale!"

Yale bypassed the surveillance of the captured dark elves, and avoided the servant army of gray dwarves rushing to pack up the spoils, and walked towards his old friend: "Are you here too, Kun."

"We've just arrived." Kunben was smiling excitedly, but when he realized that Yale was not in a good mood, he restrained himself; looking at the soldiers following Yale from the corner of his eyes, Kun quickly understood why Yale's face was so ugly, stretched Putting his hand on Yale's shoulder, he said, "We haven't seen each other for several years, let's have a good chat."

Yale nodded slightly, waved to his soldiers to dismiss them, and walked side by side with Kun to the Dark Elf Quartermaster Tavern on the other side of the base hall.

"Has King Tiger come to the dungeon?" After sitting down, Yale couldn't help asking.

"I came here last month." Kun nodded, "A large tent was left in the dungeon, and the tent I belonged to was assigned to the Nubia side..." After hesitating for a while, Kun asked cautiously, "When I came here I heard that the Dwarf King's vanguard army was repulsed several times, captured more than 2000 Dark Iron dwarves, and even the armory was destroyed, so the situation in Nubia should be good, right?"

"...It's not bad." Yale grabbed the Youlu wine brought by the lizardman waiter, and took a sip, "If you don't care about losing more than 30 Tiger Clan fighters in just two months."

Kun's complexion changed slightly, and the Tiger Clan only had more than 2000 soldiers in a large tent. This battle loss was really unacceptable to the Tiger Clan: "Why is it so high? Could it be that the Dark Elves use our people as cannon fodder?"

"There are more than a hundred dark elf fighters who died in battle." Yale breathed out his alcohol with a complicated expression.

Kun stopped talking. No one cares how many servants such as the cat clan, gray dwarves, lizard people, and demons die, but since the dark elves' own warriors have lost more than twice as much as the tiger clan, the tiger clan really has no position to criticize. .

But the number of people is not counted like this - how many people are there in the whole Tiger Clan?Less than [-]!

The total strength of the king's tent is only six big tents!

Kun's hand trembling when he picked up the wine glass, he came to the frontal battlefield two months late and realized that he was indeed too optimistic before... The population of the dark elves is hundreds of thousands, and the population of the dwarf kingdom is over ten million. The Tiger Clan with a mere 2 population took the lives of their own fighters to compete with others, and the extermination of the Tiger Clan might not be considered a serious injury!

The Youlu wine brewed by the lizard people has a faint muddy smell, and it is very offensive. The only advantage is that the supply is unlimited.Kun shook his beard, put down his wine glass, patted the table and sighed: "It is now... It is impossible for our family to withdraw. You may not know, Yale, the dark elf mistress promised, near the York Mountains The Amanda diamond vein, the Beast Emperor has already received it."

Yale looked up suddenly, his eyes were horrified.

Amanda Diamond is the hardest special metal ore, which can be used to forge the most sophisticated Amanda Armor.But Amanda diamond processing has a very high technical threshold, at least the Tiger Clan has no ability to develop and utilize it-but this mine is on this side of the York Mountains after all, and being accepted by the Beast Emperor, doesn't it mean that the Beast Emperor's hand reached The prairie is coming?

"...As compensation for the Tiger Clan, the mistress and the Beast Emperor promised the Tiger King that after repelling the Dwarf Queen, the Spark Plain will be assigned to our clan." Kun added with a wry smile.

The Tiger Clan was unwilling to be trapped on the barren grassland. The Tiger King devoted himself to the battle between the Dark Elves and the Dark Iron Dwarves in order to find a way out for the Tiger Clan. The plain is an undeveloped wild land, if the Tiger Clan can obtain this land, at least in terms of geographical environment, they can escape the threat of the Elf King and Beast King.

"Heh, heh." Yale sneered self-deprecatingly, "Repelling the dwarf king... how many compatriots can live to that time? I may not even see that day."

Kun saw with his own eyes that three people were missing from Yale's tent, and he would not blame Yale for being discouraged—anything could happen on the battlefield, and who can say that he can walk out alive every time.

"Let's not talk about that." Kun Qiang laughed, "Speaking of which, there is another rare thing. Before we left the dungeon, Tiger King received a letter from a forest elf. Guess whose letter it is ?”

"Didn't you say that it was a letter from the forest elves?" Yale reluctantly agreed.

"No, that's a letter from the Snow Werewolf." Kun was a little dumbfounded, "Ayun, a sage of the Snow Wolf Clan, sent a letter to Tiger King, wanting to exchange wheat flour, soybeans, and vermicelli for centaur slaves."

"Huh?!" Yale was really shocked.

In the past few years, the Tiger Clan was busy pretending to be sharpening their knives to attack the Beast King and paralyzing the Elf King, and had no time to care about the outside world. After the Frank feast, the Tiger Clan discovered that the little brother Snow Wolf Clan on the grassland had also made a lot of noise—— The sage Ayun was invited by the forest elf queen to attend, but he even secretly produced a large amount of food and sold it to various places. The vermicelli sent from the dungeon to the front-line bases were handwritten by the Snow Wolf Clan.

In the war in the underground world, the servants of the dark elves acted as transport troops, and the centaur slaves of the tiger clan were useless. After thinking about it, Yale asked in a complicated way, "Has the tiger king agreed?"

"The Snowwolves offer food that weighs as much as a centaur. There is no reason not to agree." Kun said with emotion, "The Snowwolves in my impression are still poor ghosts who can't eat enough and wander around hungry. So much generosity all of a sudden."

Centaurs are irritable and unruly by nature, they are still big, and they weigh close to a thousand even if they are skinny. It is indeed quite cost-effective to exchange useless centaurs for equal-weight food.

Yale frowned. His attitude towards the Snow Wolf Clan was not as optimistic as Kun, because he had personally seen the soldiers of the Snow Wolf Clan attack the fourth camp to rescue their fellow clan—since the Snow Wolf Clan could show such Large-scale troops rushed thousands of miles to attack the fourth camp, so now that the tiger clan is involved in the dispute between the dark elves and the dwarf king, they can "take it for themselves", so they can exchange food for centaur slaves?

Thinking of this, Yale also brought it up.

"You should think so, Yale." Kun laughed, "Since the Snow Wolf tribe is willing to exchange food, why should the Tiger King refuse such a show of favor?"

Yale suddenly realized.

"This sage, Ayun, courted the dwarf king and the dark elf mistress in "Journey to the Mainland". He also made friends with those proud forest elves and was recommended by the queen. It is indeed interesting enough. But what is the use of this, if it pleases others If we can protect the clansmen, Tiger King doesn’t have to work so hard.” Kun said with emotion, “Of course, this is also a way to fight for peace, and the Snow Wolf clan has their reasons for choosing this way.”

Yale was silent for a moment, picked up the wine glass and drank the remaining Youlu wine in one gulp.

The population of the Snow Wolf Clan is smaller than that of the Tiger Clan, and they are naturally abhorred by magic. They even lost all their inheritance on the other side of the York Mountains in the accident that year... The Tiger Clan still has the strength to fight, but the Snow Wolf Clan can't even fight. There is no chance of this desperate struggle.It is not incomprehensible to bend down to humble ourselves to survive.

On the grassland, the Fire Department.

After hearing Evelyn finish reading the letter, the spokesperson for peace, the sage Ayun, touched his chin and nodded in satisfaction: "The promise is so straightforward, and let us go to the Tauren tribe to trade, the Tiger King is very sincere~"

"They only need vermicelli, and it's easy to transport." Evelyn, who was deeply influenced by the teacher's style unknowingly, agreed, "By the way, teacher, why did you only mention exchanging centaurs? They also caught a lot of cats What about the family, don't you care?"

"Of course I also want to replace the cat clan, but the situation of the cat clan is different from that of the centaur." Xiao Yun sighed, "The centaur has been wiped out by disaster, but the cat clan still has countless tribes scattered everywhere. If a Tiger Clan takes the initiative to attack and catch a Cat Clan to trade with us, then our crime will be aggravated.”

Evelyn felt the same when she thought about it, and she couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic... After living in the tribe for so long, she also developed a relationship with Rosemary and the others. She also felt quite uncomfortable when she thought of cat tribes still living in the Tiger tribe camp .

"The dark elves, the servant army of the underground world, plus the tiger clan, the dwarf kingdom fighting in different places is evenly matched. But compared with the dark elves and dwarves, the tiger clan is the least expensive family. The individual warriors of the tiger clan No matter how strong the combat power is, their population size will not allow them to endure a lot of casualties." Xiao Yun narrowed his eyes, "The Tiger King is a person with political wisdom, and the Tiger Clan's participation in the war is for change, not for death... ...As long as the King Tiger moves, we have a chance to fish out the cat family, it just depends on which direction the King Tiger moves."

Evelyn was taken aback. She really never thought that the teacher would have such a high evaluation of the Tiger King: "Didn't the Tiger King take the initiative to join the Beast King? Where did they come to bargain with the Beast King and Mistress?"

Xiao Yun chuckled: "If I were the King of Tigers, if my race fell to this level, it would be a one-shot to advance and one-shot to retreat, so I might as well find a chance to sell the dungeon to the Dwarf King--the tiger clan is afraid of the Beast King." And the Elf King, selling the dungeon in exchange for the entire Tiger Clan to retreat, what can't be done with such a good business?"

Evelyn: "￣□￣｜｜... Teacher, you..."

"Don't make such a face, I'm just assuming, who knows what the Tiger King thinks." Xiao Yun said indifferently, "In this situation, the Tiger Clan has made it clear that they want to find ways to get rid of the grassland and get out of the beast king and the elf king's noses." Slip away, as for what kind of operation he is doing, we have no information, and we have no place to ask."

"..." Evelyn suddenly wanted to ask the Snow Wolf Clan whether they had any escape thoughts similar to the Tiger Clan, but felt that this question was stupid, so she pursed her lips and said nothing.

"That's all for now. When it's time, let Maomao and the others go and get Saier's people back first." Xiao Yun collected the Tiger King's reply and put it in a box. "Let's continue talking about the phosphate fertilizer factory." , this is the top priority."

"...Okay." Evelyn said reluctantly.

Xiao Yun has been thinking about the production of phosphate fertilizer for several years, and has already successfully produced a small amount through the laboratory. However, the tribe does not have the conditions to produce industrial sulfuric acid, so it has been procrastinating and unable to implement it.

Evelyn's Applied Magic research team has been tossing for almost half a year, and with the help of Sean who is also researching pneumatic cylinder alloys, coupled with the years of experience in mechanical alloys accumulated by the gray dwarves in the hilly new area, they finally put sulfuric acid The preparation equipment was built-with sulfuric acid, the processing of acid phosphate fertilizer can finally be put on the agenda.

Most of the phosphate fertilizers made by decomposing phosphate rock with sulfuric acid are water-soluble phosphate fertilizers, such as superphosphate, which can be used directly or as a compound fertilizer. It is indispensable for the Xuelang family to engage in the chemical fertilizer industry.

With experience in producing sulfuric acid, there is no problem in processing phosphate fertilizer by acid method (the latter process requires less technical content than the former) - ore crushing equipment has been used in cement plants for a long time, and the drying equipment and the machinery used in the milling plant are interoperable. The only problem is that the power used by these machines is manpower. To set up a phosphate fertilizer production plant, a large number (more than a hundred) snowwolves must join in to provide human power. At present, the snowwolves in the Huoyan Department have basically arranged positions... It has to be obtained from various departments. Draw talent.

"There's never enough time for people."

After discussing personnel matters with Evelyn for a long time (Evelyn will serve as a technical guide for the phosphate fertilizer plant for a period of time), Xiao Yun sighed.

Evelyn looked sideways, who came from the person who called out to open another 30 mu of wasteland after the snow melted?Why did you go early?

"Has there been a breakthrough in the research of fiber materials and plant latex?" Xiao Yun asked again.

Evelyn spread her hands together: "Teacher, I only came with two hands."

"Didn't you bring a dozen assistants with you? Don't be polite, just use them as much as possible." Xiao Yun disapproved.

Evelyn got up and got off the kang, opened the curtain in the second half of the laboratory, and motioned Xiao Yun to look at the bottles and jars and hundreds of samples on the three huge display cabinets behind: "I dare not say all, but I asked them to find all the samples that could be found on the grassland and tested them. You only said that you want to find new natural fiber plant latex, but you didn’t say where to look for it. What can I do? I can only do the same. Let's experiment!"

"If I know which direction to look for, why do I need you as a researcher?" Xiao Yun said confidently.

Evelyn immediately threw Xiao Yun out of the laboratory... It's not that she doesn't know how to respect teachers, but that the teacher is really annoying sometimes.

"This little girl is getting more and more tempered!" Xiao Yun muttered, and turned back to the shed area...

Everyone was assigned to work, including Xiao Yun naturally... In addition to presiding over work meetings, he also led an agricultural team. The shed area was his working place during non-winter seasons.

The two greenhouses used to grow sweet potato leaves in winter are now filled with a plant that does not exist on the prairie—succulent berries from St. Bridge, the original place, with bright colors, colorless skin and pink flesh, and high sugar content. , Slightly sour.

That's right, this plant that only grows in the tropics is... the tomato.

The climate on the prairie is not suitable for growing tomatoes. The reason is very simple. The summer on the prairie is too short, only two months (the tomato growth period is about five months), and in spring and autumn, the nighttime temperature often drops to When the temperature is below ten degrees, if this thing is planted in the open air, the cliff will freeze to death...

I have learned the experience of growing tomatoes in St. Bridge. These seeds were soaked in warm water before sowing. They germinated in about five days. After two months of careful service, the greenhouse is now full of thumb-sized plants. green fruit.

"The soil is a bit dry..." After checking the moisture content of the ridge, Xiao Yun lifted the wooden bucket and carefully added water to the ridge with less moisture.

Tomatoes are relatively easy plants to grow, but they also need careful cultivation.First of all, the root system of this thing is relatively developed and requires a thicker soil layer. Before sowing, Xiao Yun led people to add a layer of earthworm soil and a layer of pond mud dug out when cleaning the storage pond last autumn; thirdly, This thing needs a lot of water, but it can't stand waterlogging, so you have to pay attention to "a small amount and many times" in watering to ensure that the ridge soil is slightly moist without soaking the roots.

It was the first time to plant tomatoes in the two sheds, Xiao Yun didn't dare to pretend to be other people's hands, and took good care of them by himself.One of his favorite home-cooked dishes in his previous life was scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Now, after a year of farming in the tribe, there is no shortage of poultry eggs, but tomatoes still need to work harder... The so-called productivity is all driven by demand.

"Ayun!"

After finishing watering, Xiao Yun was still rubbing his waist and gasping for breath, when he saw the bull horns looking for it angrily.

"Someone stole the snacks you hid?" Xiao Yun responded with no surprise.

"Take care of the golden cat brothers!! I buried the snacks under the blessing tree, and they stole them!" Niujiao hopped angrily.

"Who told you to bet with the two of them?" Xiao Yun said cheerfully, "If they want to find something else, they may not be able to find it. If they look for food, they will lose to others? Patriarch Huoyan no longer hides snacks, only money. Only buy when you want to eat…”

"I'm going to stay for supper!" Niu Jiao was very angry.

"Okay, okay, the big deal is that next time you shake the spoon when you serve the Golden Cat Brothers, you know, you can shake whatever they like to eat." Xiao Yun was not stingy... Aunt Cai passed on the magical skills to Niu Jiao.

"Oh? Why are you shaking?" Niujiao's eyes lit up.

Xiao Yun casually picked up the watering ladle, and patiently explained to Niu Jiao the magical skill of cooking...

After the tribal reform, the influence of the cafeteria as a public unit has increased again. Why is it the same as the fact that fast food restaurants are more popular than university cafeterias? Although fast food restaurants are not as delicious, it is a ghost to have to choose between the two. Will go to the university cafeteria.

Niu Jiao is an honest man, and being honest doesn’t mean that he won’t hold back the water. That night, everyone in the cafeteria happily enjoyed the jumping performance of the fat golden cat brothers...

"Why do you still teach Niujiao this!" Qiu Lai went to Xiao Yun to discuss the matter of the wool spinning factory, and when he saw Niujiao and chicken thieves running to thank Xiao Yun, he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Brother Jinmao is almost as fat as the pigs they raised, so it's a good thing to eat less." Xiao Yun chuckled, "Let's not talk about that, Qiuqiu, you're not only looking for me for the woolen mill, right? As soon as you have something in your heart, it will come out on your face, tell me, what happened?"

Qiu groaned for a long time, stumbled: "Ah Yun, I heard... Maomao and the others want to exchange fans for Saier's people?"

"You're wondering why I didn't replace the Cat Clan that was captured by the Tiger Clan, right?" Xiao Yun understood very well, so he explained the reason he told Evelyn, "If the Tiger Clan knew about us If you are so stupid and generous, you will definitely do this. If the cat tribe that was originally fine is attacked by the tiger tribe, then we will be guilty of a big crime."

"..." Qiu looked complicated, "So it's like this... I didn't even think of this. As expected of you, Ayun, no amount of bad thoughts can escape you."

"...Are you complimenting me and hurting me? Don't think that because you are cute, I have no temper." Xiao Yun remained expressionless.

Qiu sighed: "Is there no other way? Most of the people captured by the Tiger Clan can't live for a few years... You know, many people from my original tribe went to join the Tiger Clan. Thinking about their current situation , I often can’t sleep.”

"Qiuqiu, we have known each other for so many years, you know my style." Xiao Yun said earnestly, "I will do anything to the snake clan that we have never met before, let alone the cat clan? If the cat clan is willing, I also hope to organize them and lead them together like helping the snake clan. Anyway, a sheep is herding, and a group of sheep is also herding. But the question is, are the cat clan willing to listen to us? Let alone other places, this place in the southwest corner The tribes who send raw wool here every year keep a distance from us, and being a good person is not so easy."

Qiu was silent for a moment, then raised his head: "I think...they will be wary if we let those cat tribes integrate into us, but if it is arranged like the snake tribe, maybe they won't be so resistant?"

Xiao Yun was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his chin: "It seems... that's okay?"

Not forcing racial integration, but only concentrating the cat clan as a downstream production base for development, the vigilant big cats seem to make sense~!

It is safe to first promote the symbiosis of interests, and then promote the great unity of the grassland people and the community of shared future for the people of the grassland~