Chapter 386: Savage Heights
"Up a little bit, yes, a little bit higher."
During the day, the construction site is a busy scene. Scaffolding has been set up on the foundation of the steel mill and weapon workshop, and the workers are transporting pieces of polished square stones to the foundation and starting to build the walls. In terms of progress, it was slightly faster than Allen expected, thanks to the high enthusiasm of the workers. Under Allen's governance, job opportunities in Storm City have increased significantly, which is good news for the common people.
Due to the increased workload, Storm City recruited workers from all civilians in the territory, which caused people from several small towns in the territory to flock to Storm City.
In addition to the construction of the steel factory and weapon workshop, in the south of Storm City, a temple that has been abandoned for a long time is being rebuilt. The temple originally enshrined the God of Harvest. However, in the past ten years, because Storm City has focused on military power as the main goal of development, the God of Harvest related to agriculture has been neglected and gradually declined. Up to now, there is only a dilapidated temple and a few old priests left.
After Alan met with them several times, the temple got a chance to rebuild. The rebuilt temple will be turned into a church, where Father Miro preaches. Not long ago, Father Miro also started activities. He played Vera's trump card. After Vera tried her hand and made accurate predictions on several businessmen in Suer City, now even in Storm City, some sporadic rumors about Vera and the Christian sect began to appear.
When the time is right, Alan and Edward will support Father Miro's church as two city lords, thereby expanding the church's initial influence.
After converting the citizens of Sur City and Storm City into Christians, it will be time for the church to infiltrate into other parts of the empire.
"Master Allen, Lord Edward has arrived."
When he returned to the city lord's mansion from the construction site, a guard informed him. After a while, Allen saw Edward in the study. There was also a young man who came with Edward this time. He looked only in his mid-twenties, dressed in appropriate attire, and exuded a strong academic temperament.
"This is Mr. Charlie, my new clerk and assistant." Edward introduced, listening to his tone, it seemed that he intended to train this man, otherwise he would not be brought to see Allen.
"Good afternoon, Master Alan." Charlie saluted Alan, his etiquette was impeccable. This cannot be cultivated overnight, and it can be seen that this Charlie has a good background.
After a few brief conversations, Edward winked at Charlie, and the latter retreated knowingly, leaving room for the two of them. After Charlie left, Edward said directly, "I heard you want to organize an expedition?"
"Your news is well-informed." Alan frowned and said, "You didn't come here specially because of this, did you?"
"It can't be said on purpose.
But besides bringing Charlie to meet you, I do intend to join you on this expedition. "Edward shrugged:" Buried in the files all day, I'm almost rusty. In addition, the affairs of Sur City are not as complicated as before, so I can get away and do other things. "
"It's not good if you leave too. After all, the two city lords are suddenly absent. God knows if there will be any inexplicable ideas in the Black Iron Fort." Allen said.
"It doesn't matter, as long as outsiders don't know that we are not there at the same time. Regarding this point, I can completely take responsibility."
"Well, it seems that you are going to make a decision."
"Of course." Edward gestured: "So, what is our goal?"
"A former base of Star Idahua." Allen walked to the table and handed to Edward the information that Lucy deciphered from the fraud box.
After scanning it, Edward said in surprise: "It turns out that we are not the first batch of visitors to this planet. It seems that this planet used to be the experimental site of Idahua Star."
"And this planet still hides many secrets. For example, human beings. You have been to many planets, and you should know how low the probability of encountering the same kind of life in different star fields in the universe is." Allen said: "And now As far as I know, the advanced intelligent life on this planet is not limited to human beings, there are also some life forms called alien species."
"These secrets don't have much to do with us. Anyway, as we learn more about this planet, some related secrets will be unearthed by us one day. But now, the base of Idahua Star is quite interesting. It is necessary to find out. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the communication system in the base, its value is enough for us to gamble." Edward shook the information in his hand and said: "At least, I see the possibility of re-establishing contact with the earth. hope."
"Lucy said the same thing as you."
"And this so-called queen, assuming it's a biological weapon. If we find a way to control it, our strength will increase by a few points."
Allen said solemnly: "About this, we have to be as cautious as possible. You have already seen the demons in the legends of the Baimeng people. Judging from the ciphertext deciphered by Lucy, the queen is the culprit who caused the life mutation. If its cells have some kind of infectivity, I think it is too difficult to control it. Otherwise, why the power mastered by Idahua Star still ended in failure."
"Furthermore, we don't know how long this base has existed. To be precise, the life named Queen may have died. Even biological weapons have a lifespan limit. That's not Silver Wing. A killer kind of machine."
"No matter what, we will know when we find the base. I doubt whether we will be able to find this base. After all, it has been so long. I believe that the former landscape has also changed, and the probability of finding it is probably not too high."
The two were discussing some details of the expedition, and they split up to prepare. Allen is responsible for selecting candidates for the expedition, while Edward prepares the necessary tools.
In terms of candidates, Allen, Lucy and Edward are naturally on the list. Besides them, Roy and Bloy needed to manage and train the army, so they definitely couldn't spare them. Adele was preparing her private fundraising plan, but she couldn't go there either. So the only ones who could go together were Regis, Belmode and Tang Ji and Tang Mo brothers.
After the list was confirmed, Edward spent a day preparing the necessary tools. In the early morning of the second day, a team quietly left Storm City. Allen and others disguised themselves as adventurers, everyone wore a cloak that covered their faces, and carried fire/guns and other common weapons and tools on their backs. There is also a cloth bag tied to Lucy's war horse, which contains dozens of fire mines.
Fire mines are far less powerful than grenades, but in this world that lacks modern weapon production technology, the girl can only make do with it. Everyone had great expectations for the Ida Huaxing base located in the wild highlands. For members of the Hunt, that meant a chance to reconnect with Earth. Once they reconnect with Earth, they don't have to be lost forever among the stars.
For Allen, it means more. Reconnecting with Earth means having the support of your family. In that way, talents, technology, and even magic weapon technology can be introduced to this planet. At that time, Alan's power will advance by leaps and bounds, and the expansion of power will increase exponentially. The ever-expanding territory and influence means that Allen can give back to the family in a certain proportion.
This planet has a vast territory, and the abundance of resources must exceed Allen's expectations. Leaving aside, the Taimes Silver Mine under the control of Storm City will be able to continuously generate income for Bethkind in the next ten years. And this is still the wealth in Allen's territory now. God knows what treasures are waiting for him to dig as his power expands in the future.
So among the crowd, it can be said that Allen looks forward to the base the most. If all goes well, the base will be an important turning point in his entire expedition career.
Walking on the blood rock wasteland, you can see that there are many more business travelers coming and going. With the eradication of Papa Dick and his gang, Black Iron Castle and Storm City began to build military depots on the Blood Rock Wasteland. The small group of bandits on the wasteland had no room to survive, and they had to leave the wasteland to find another place, otherwise they would only be completely wiped out by the two cities that temporarily reached an agreement.
As a result, the wasteland ushered in an unprecedented period of stability. Caravans can travel freely between several cities and Violet Harbor, and with the frequent commercial activities, this border land will prosper step by step. At least until the relationship between Allen and Sharon does not deteriorate, the Borderlands will only become more and more lively.
Passed through the wind-eroded canyon and bypassed Violet Harbor. A week after leaving Storm City, the Wild Highlands were gradually in sight. Riding on the horse, Allen could feel that the terrain was rising upwards, and the horse's walking was no longer as easy and fast as it was a few days ago. In some places with steep slopes, Alan and the others even had to dismount before they could lead the horse across the hillside.
When the yellow-brown rocky land was gradually replaced by towering pines and fir trees, and when the vegetation on the ground became denser and finally entered a large virgin forest, Alan knew that he and his party had entered the wild highland area. The wild highlands are covered with forests, dangerous cliffs, dangerous caves and even bottomless ground fissures. At the same time, this is also a barbaric area where the imperial constitution cannot pass.
There are no roads in the wild highlands, so the merchants in Violet Harbor prefer to take a longer route and go to Ark Harbor by water. Also unwilling to venture into the wild highlands, because this is the world of beasts and thugs. In this lawless zone, no matter what happens, it is not surprising. Even adventurers rarely enter the wild highlands, even though there have been rumors of ancient ruins in this highland since a long time ago.
For Allen and others, this was the first time they had entered the Wild Highlands. Everything was new to them. Here, they saw the more majestic landforms of the Bias Mountains, taller tree species, and countless unnamed creatures.
This highland is like a natural gene bank. Allen even considered that if it is hoped to re-establish contact with the earth, then he can hire a team of hunters to hunt the creatures in the highlands and sell them to the Federal Biological Research Center, which is also a huge fortune!
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