Wolf King

Xiao Yun ignored Evelyn, and the moment he finished flipping through the meeting minutes, he stood up blankly.

Others thought he was going to do something, and at the same time moved their eyes away.

Then I saw Xiao Yun move out of the seat sideways, and rushed out of the door with a "swish" expressionless face.

Mr. Sean & Evelyn: "??"

Although I couldn't see it, Hodgson was really taken aback: "??"

At this moment, Patriarch Huoyan seemed to finally understand what Mr. Sean said a few minutes ago, and stared at Sean with a serious face and concentration: "Aren't necromancers evil undead creatures? I heard Balk say it."

Four people in the house: "..."

"Uh... Patriarch Huoyan, don't pay attention to that guy... If you want to talk about evil, the dragon clan is much more evil than undead creatures." Mr. Xiao En said calmly.

Patriarch Huoyan reacted quickly this time, and nodded clearly: "Balke was pretty bad when he first came here."

That winter, Patriarch Huoyan will remember Balk for a lifetime...

"Evil dragons can become good, and undead creatures naturally have no reason to be evil from head to toe. Besides, since I turned into undead creatures, Patriarch Huoyan should have more confidence in me." Mr. Xiao En smiled land.

Patriarch Huoyan showed a dazed expression, clenched his right hand and punched the palm of his left hand, and said with a relaxed smile, "How can Mr. Xiao En be evil!"

Then the old patriarch, who had been worrying silently for a long time, was relieved, said goodbye to the few people happily, and went to help on the construction site...

"..." Snow Flower and Evelyn watched silently as Patriarch Huoyan left briskly.

Mr. Sean drank tea calmly.

Although he couldn't see it, Hodgson, who was surprised by Mr. Sean's coaxing scene: "..."

After being interrupted by Patriarch Huoyan, Evelyn came back to her senses at this moment: "Xuehua, what's the matter, teacher?"

"Big River." Snow Flower said concisely.

"Oh~~" Evelyn understood.

Xiao Yun rushed out of the activity room and headed all the way to the Welfare Department.

The tribe is busy rebuilding after the disaster. The little wolf cubs have all gone to the construction site, and Evelyn has just returned from disinfection on the ground. He ran wild all the way and saw no one at all.

But when Xiao Yun arrived in front of the square of the Welfare Department... He actually saw several kittens playing in front of the main entrance of the Welfare Department.

Xiao Yun's heart immediately rang the alarm bell, Dahe is not someone who can help take care of children, and cat cubs are not necessarily much better than wolf cubs, so he immediately raised his finger to those kittens: "Don't make a sound!"

The kittens who were about to meow kept their mouths shut.

But the cats who were chasing and fighting suddenly became quiet, which seemed to be a reminder - Xiao Yun reacted and cursed secretly, instead of entering the Welfare Department through the main entrance, he went around and rushed to the back door.

When he walked around to the back door of the Welfare Department, he only saw the back of someone leaving...

"You have the guts to never let me catch you—!!" Xiao Yun pinched his thigh in hatred.

Before Mr. Xiao En left, he made a plan that he would not come back, and secretly handed over his laboratory workshop to Adrian's disciple.Although he didn't come back alive this time...he came back anyway, so he naturally had to take over the work in the laboratory by himself. After a break and afternoon tea, Mr. Xiao En brought Hodgson to his place.

The "Mr. Sean's Laboratory", which was converted from two adjacent warehouses, is a super-large workshop full of various materials, parts, semi-finished equipment, test tools and other objects. As soon as Hodgson entered the door, he was caught The mountain of parts piled up like a hill, which looked messy and seemed to be carefully sorted, was startling.

On his wrist, Hodgson was wearing the Snow Wolf Clan Magic Amplifier 1.0 that Xiao Yun and Balk had tossed and tossed secretly. Every year, the Ministry of Fire and Flame will still produce hundreds of them, mix them in vermicelli barbecue sauce and smuggle them to St. Bridge, and then transfer them to the central part secretly by Prince Carlisle, and appear on the underground black market... Cough cough.

The reason for selling them secretly is because magic tools have never been a business that ordinary people can open their doors to do. They are restricted by the ivory tower (the headquarters of the Spellcasters Association)—just like the alchemy materials that are publicly circulated on the market or the producers. It is the same as the Alchemist Association, or the seller has paid protection fees to the Alchemist Association.

Although spellcasters are respectable, regardless of the Spellcasters Association or the Alchemists Association, as long as they collect a certain amount of donations in the name of "regulatory review", they can also allow small businessmen to enter this market to pan for gold; The money is absolutely worthless", Xiao Yun said, he only spends this money when he eats too much...

Hodgson has just arrived, Mr. Sean will naturally not tell others that we have secretly plucked the wool of the ivory tower in private, and there are still some problems between him and the Vengeful Moon that need to be resolved——Introduce the workshop to Hodgson ("J" coolies), Mr. Sean took Hodgson to his cubicle and showed him various models of pneumatic engines.

Hodgson was fascinated by the pneumatic motor, which does not need magic power injected by the caster, and can generate power by burning coal powder in a closed combustion boiler. The charm of "boiling water" has fascinated people on earth for hundreds of years And until Xiao Yun crossed over, he continued to be addicted, and evolved from burning coal to burning various fuels and changing patterns of boiling water. As an intelligent creature interested in creation and mechanical creation, who can escape the claws of boiling water? ?

nonexistent!

"Why didn't such a fascinating creation be published in the travel notes of "The Elven Ranger?" Hodgson couldn't help asking curiously after touching several types of pneumatic motors fondly.

"It's not promotional." Mr. Xiao En said frankly, "Although the agricultural machinery disclosed in "Elf Ranger" is tailor-made for the orcs, it is not impossible for the human race. Three adult farmers push the walking agricultural machinery, and the efficiency is also high. It is definitely higher than using traditional agricultural tools. Walk-behind cart type harvesters do not need such precise internal parts as pneumatic motors. They can be manufactured as long as they have the level of craftsmanship of ordinary armor casting and smelting. However, Ayun made the blueprint of this convenient tool It’s been almost ten months since it was announced, how many places can we see harvesters?”

"..." Hodgson was silent.

Mr. Xiao En patted the latest generation of pneumatic model and said with emotion: "Agricultural machinery is manufactured to enable farmers to work more efficiently and with less effort. The work efficiency of howing with a wooden hoe is different from that of an iron hoe. Yes, using two arms to hold a hoe to hoe the ground is completely different from the work efficiency of a walk-behind tiller that replaces a shovel with a coulter, and driving a pneumatic tractor to plow the land. The same farmer family only has a hoe , It’s good to be able to plant ten acres of land, with a tiller, tens of acres is fine. With a tractor, hundreds of acres are fine.”

Hodgson nodded silently. Although he had never farmed the land himself, he had seen how farmers farmed. He knew how hard it was for farmers to farm. Otherwise, he would not have transformed the walking harvester suitable for the orcs into humans. family applicable ideas.

Mr. Xiao En smiled slightly, and changed the topic: "If farmers can use more convenient tools to cultivate, each family can sow more fields, increase food production, and naturally pay more agricultural taxes to the lord. It stands to reason that the lord should wish that every farmer can do the work of ten people... Then why are there so many farsighted nobles and royal families in the human race, but they are not willing to invest in agricultural machinery? Hodgson, have you ever wondered? Have you ever had this problem?"

Hodgson opened his mouth to answer, but suddenly felt something was wrong, and frowned.

Small landowners and country nobles are stupid, short-sighted, and stingy. Hodgson has always despised those idiots for this before; but Sean is right, the big nobles and the royal family cannot all be as sightless as the country nobles.

"I once assisted King Cronin, and I have some guesses about the considerations of these rulers." Mr. Xiao En narrowed his eyes, "All nobles and royal families are very disgusted with peasants, thinking that these things cannot always be handed over People who tax enough to satisfy them are stupid and lazy."

Just as Hodgson frowned, Mr. Sean chuckled again: "But, the nobles and the royal family really need these stupid and lazy farmers. They don't need the people under their rule to be too smart and hardworking. Their territories The best of them all are idiots and slobs who are honestly doing their best to pay their taxes..."

Hodgson's eyes widened in shock.

"If farmers can easily cultivate a large area of ​​land and produce more than enough food to feed them, then a considerable number of farmers can be liberated from labor and learn writing and fighting skills based on the instinct of human beings to climb up. Have time to think about whether the lords who ride on their heads and collect taxes are worthy of respect."

"A farmer who can only produce [-] catties of grain a year being confiscated of [-] catties is completely different from a farmer who can produce [-] catties of grain a year being confiscated of [-] catties." Mr. Xiao En said Facing the pupils that have lost their luster after becoming an undead, they are as deep as a pool, exuding a penetrating coldness, "The latter can fill the whole family with food, and they have the strength to resist!"

"The lords who want to lie down and rule, how can they tolerate those peasants who have an absolute advantage in numbers, can eat well, and have free time to think about things?"

"So not only will they not solve the difficult problem of farmers' survival by themselves, if there are farmers in the territory who form an alliance and smelt and cast agricultural machinery for farming, they will clean and suppress them on the grounds of black magic and evil sects, etc. Or claim that these smart farmers who refuse to be honest and lazy will produce too much food, resulting in low food prices in the territory, making it impossible for farmers in other places to survive, and mobilizing farmers to fight farmers!"

Hodgson shook his body slightly, and his face turned pale—he had planned to pay for the production of agricultural machinery for the villagers around the mage tower, but he had never thought about this problem!

Spellcasters who are full of curiosity have never been a group that refuses to accept new knowledge. Hodgson, who has never heard of this kind of argument, will not immediately feel disgusted or resistant to Sean's conclusion. After a little thought, he must admit... Sean That's right!

If he really did this, he might not only fail to help the villagers who have always maintained respect and friendship with him, but might even harm them!

Hodgson just thought about it, and his heart felt a little cold...

"So that's how it is... That's why you supported 'J' to obtain territory from your hometown, Cronin." Hodgson smiled wryly, and the expression of rigidity that had remained unchanged for thousands of years showed obvious emotional changes, "I thought..."

"It's normal for you to have misunderstandings. If I wasn't Sean himself, I would also wonder if Sean was bewitched by the snow wolf tribe Ayun and 'J' to help outsiders seize his own country." Xiao Mr. En said with a smile, Moon of Vengeance is a very difficult person to see through, but he was also a legendary magician during his lifetime, so he couldn't even see the other party's faint doubts - since Arman and Adrian came to the knight After the lead, the black magician looked at him with deeper eyes than before.

"When I was young, I always wanted to get full-fledged and get away from my hometown to see the scenery outside; but when I reached a certain age, I couldn't help being nostalgic for my hometown." Mr. Xiao En sighed, "Cronin is my How I wish this country could be like my childhood memory, full of laughter, happiness and abundance... Unfortunately, in my beautified memory, there has never been only one person who can laugh happily Just a small number of people."

Hodgson understood what Sean wanted to say. The former illusionist wanted to express that his attitude had never changed. Everything he did was for Cronin and his hometown.

Moon of Vengeance can understand this kind of emotion, and the Moon City that disappeared in the fire is an eternal pain in his heart.Mr. Xiao En still has the opportunity and is willing to do his best for his hometown. Out of his heart, he is willing to support it.

The black mage stretched out his left hand, trying to make a sincere expression: "Maybe it's a little late, Sean, you are a person worth getting acquainted with."

Mr. Sean smiled and reached out to shake hands with Hodgson.

Primo wandered around the Beastman Empire with wool and rosemary for half a year. It was not until the grassland was dyed golden by the autumn wind that he returned leisurely with his two children.

Disembark at the Elven Port, go to A Shu's food store to eat at Lihai, and then go to the Snake Department for a meal, and then take the boat that transports sweet potatoes from the Snake Department to the Fire Department and return to the tribe.

As soon as they disembarked from the canal pier, the weather-stained three opened their mouths in surprise——

In the triangular field where alfalfa was replanted and harvested before winter, in the vast fields, human women workers from countless textile factories were busy harvesting alfalfa in groups of two, pushing a particularly small walk-behind harvester.

"Sure enough, Ah Yun attacked the female workers!" Rosemary said bitterly and bitterly.

"Is there any big project again, and even the female workers have to do harvesting work?" Wool looked confused. You must know that the female workers in the textile factory are weaker than Saar, and even if Saar participates in the autumn harvest, they only do light work.

"Huh?" Primo, with the best eyes, found his old friend Sean and several robes walking in the triangle, seeming to be talking to the harvest girls, and immediately threw the bag to Rosemary, everyone He rushed over, "Sean!"

"You're back, Primo!" Sean waved his hand casually.

"Won't your heart ache just watching the women work so leisurely?" Primo joked casually with a smile. When he got closer, he noticed Xiao En's strangeness, and jumped more than one meter high on the spot. , "Sean?! You fell??"

"What are you talking about!" Sean scolded, turning his head to Hodgson and said, "This is my old friend Primo, he is usually a bit informal."

"Huh? Moon of Vengeance!" Primo jumped more than one meter high again.

The slightly tanned Hodgson nodded reservedly to Primo: "Good day."

Primo stared wide-eyed, stared at the black magician for two seconds, then turned to Xiao En who had turned into an undead, and said thousands of words into one sentence: "Where is Ayun?"

It can make the proud legendary illusionist degenerate into an undead to continue his life, and the master who did it is still standing beside him. If he said that this has nothing to do with Ayun, Primo would not believe it!

"I haven't met him for a while... Maybe he took Dahe to the Qiuling New District to find Hongye?" Mr. Xiao En said while looking at Hodgson.

"Yes." Hodgson was concise.

Primo: "..."

This black magician actually knows Ayun's whereabouts better than Sean? !

During the six months he was away, how many things happened!

If Mr. Sean knew what Primo was thinking, he might just rant: This is not nonsense, he has become an undead, can he still live in the same room with Ayun?

Of course it is Balkra, who is not afraid of the cold body of the undead! (Balk: Bah!)