Chapter 71
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The loud noise woke up the residents of the town. Everyone was forced to get up early, put on their clothes, and ran out of the house to follow the sound.
There was no blazing fire as everyone had imagined. The sun had just shone a little, and the desert morning had not yet lost the slight coolness brought by the night.
In the silence, everyone heard the long-lost sound of flowing water.
The place where the loud noise just came from is the mouth of the spring.
The dug river channel has now been filled with water, and water is gushing out of the spring mouth, quickly filling the river channel.
"Is this... done?"
Everyone was stunned. Before they could even start, the semi-finished product was completed by itself?
"Sister, look inside!" Lina's guardian bird flew around her, while Lina lay by the river, pointing inside.
Lian Yun looked in the direction she pointed, and saw several black shadows running through the rippling and slightly blue river water.
At Lina's command, a guardian bird immediately rushed into the river and within a few breaths, it carried the black shadow to the shore.
It brought the black shadow to Lina, and then pounced on the blanket Lina had prepared and rubbed it as if to ask for credit.
When everyone got closer to take a look, they found that there was a silver-white fish the size of a palm on the ground.
Although we have lived in the desert for a long time, we have seen this creature in books.
Aibei walked forward and stared at the jumping fish: "Is this edible?"
"Yes!" Lian Yun said firmly, "We'll have another dish on our town's menu."
But... Lian Yun squatted down and took a closer look, and found that this silvery-white little fish had no eyes.
"It must be because of living in the underground river for a long time that his eyes have degenerated." Lanna explained.
Just like the five limbs of a snake or turtle.
It shouldn't affect the taste.
Lian Yun nodded with satisfaction.
"Let's raise them for a while to see if they can adapt to life on land. If not... we'll have to move them to the pond below the frog farm."
Gary put on his clothes and walked around the river for a while, then looked at Lian Yun: "Sir, are you still digging on the other side?"
The current river channel only forms a semicircle around the west and south. We had planned to continue digging from both ends tomorrow, but the river water burst out early, so we have to start digging from the other side tomorrow.
"I was thinking, maybe this isn't a bad idea," Lian Yun said.
She took out the map and saw that the southern open space and western farmland of the current Bubu Town were surrounded by rivers.
The north is the commercial area and the east is the residential area. These two areas are densely populated. Lian Yun only thought about the convenience last night, but forgot that places with complex populations may cause more or less pollution to the river.
This river was the clearest and purest that Lian Yun had ever seen. Such water was pleasing to the eye just by standing there, not to mention its value in replenishing physical strength.
But all of this is based on the premise that humans have never interfered with nature.
After listening to Lian Yun's idea, Gerry did not reject it. "Your Excellency has a point. Anyway, the water supply problem near the residential area is solved by the canal leading from the well. The river can end here. There is no need to dig further into it."
"However, it won't work if there are no defensive measures on the north and east sides." Lian Yun murmured.
The wooden guardrail is too unreliable and will have to be replaced sooner or later.
"Like Quoge City?" Lanna suggested.
Lian Yun had the idea as early as when he saw the city wall of Kuoge City, to provide Bubu Town with the most basic protection. After all, the protective shield cannot protect the town for a lifetime.
Recently, monsters have reappeared in the surrounding area, and this request seems even more urgent.
Lian Yun immediately made the decision: "Once the mission hall is completed, we will build the city wall!"
Because the completion of the river channel came so suddenly, Bubu Town also started a busy day early.
The orcs went to the quarry to transport stones. Fortunately, Lian Yun had thought of such a transport team in advance. A group of orcs, and Shayu did not dare to show up all day yesterday.
The mission hall is located in the commercial area opposite the altar. It is spacious and elegant. According to Gerry's composition, several windows will be preset to be responsible for task allocation.
Lian Yun took Lina to the sunflowers beside the altar, took out a piece of molten crystal and handed it to her: "Now you can try it."
Lina glanced at her, took the molten crystal, and walked forward surrounded by the guardian birds.
The golden sunflower seeds opened in response, turning into a light and agile elf and drilling into the stone.
"Trainer?" Lina muttered softly, and suddenly her eyes lit up. "Can I choose this?"
This was something she had never come into contact with before, but after experiencing the contract with the guardian bird last night, she seemed to have understood something.
"Of course, if you want."
Lina nodded seriously and chose her career.
At the same time, the task of housing many people was also completed.
[Side Quest: Crowded Houses (Part 2) (Completed): Congratulations, Lord, for giving half of the town's residents jobs!]
[Quest Reward: Larger Sunflower Seed x 1]
Lian Yun then took out the sunflower seeds, which were also golden in color, but indeed three or four times larger than the previous ones.
It was marked with the note: [Task-specific].
Lian Yun understood what it meant instantly and sent someone to bring the sunflower seeds to Meili, and also told her to plant them behind the window after the mission hall was completed. Then she wouldn't have to worry about the staff anymore.
After this matter was arranged, Lian Yun looked at Lina, who had just obtained a profession and seemed very happy. She was sitting by the altar, chatting with the guardian bird while waiting for Lian Yun.
Lian Yun walked up and sat with her.
Last night's [Racial Conflict] mission involved Lina's personal affairs. She didn't find her immediately, but spent the whole night thinking about how to explain it to her.
But after thinking it over, Lian Yun still felt that it would be better to explain the mission to her face to face rather than hiding it from her.
After all, this is still Lina's past.
Lian Yun pondered his words for a moment before softly asking, "Do you...want to know about your own life?"
Lina was obviously stunned when she was suddenly asked about this, and her expression couldn't help but become cautious: "Did something happen?"
Lina rubbed her hands nervously: "Is there any trouble?"
Lian Yun was confused, so he sat down next to her and patiently explained, "No. I just received a mission that is related to your life experience."
Although Lina didn't know why Lian Yun's mission contacted her, she was relieved.
"But why do you think there's trouble?"
Lina pursed her lips and said, "Because Uncle Garlin said that he saved me from a group of monsters near the forest."
Those monsters were of a rare and highly intelligent type. Garin and his team had to spend a lot of effort to rescue her, and were even chased by the monsters.
"Two uncles were injured while saving me."
"Later they took me and hid me. We stayed in the cave for several days before daring to go out."
That kind of monster would hold a grudge and would remember a person's scent even after many years. Because of her background, she hadn't dared to go out in recent years, for fear of encountering those monsters and causing trouble for Garen and the others.
After adopting Lina, Garin never took the caravan near the forest again.
For more than ten years, not everyone has asked her if she wants to find her biological parents. Even many of her friends would talk about this at night: "When I grow up, I must find my biological parents."
But she firmly told herself that she didn't need any so-called background.
She was raised by Gerry and his family, and by the village. This is not something that can be easily replaced by the so-called kinship.
"I don't want to know."
Lina opened her mouth to say this sentence, which she had told herself countless times over the years, but now she suddenly found it difficult to say it.
She...really doesn't want to know?
"Lina," Lian Yun called her name softly, "Humans are born with a desire to explore the origin of life. This is not a fault and there is no need to deliberately hide it."
Lina looked at Lian Yun with a slightly bewildered look.
For the first time, this teenage girl felt confused by her uncontrollable selfishness.
Lian Yun put his arm around her shoulders and let her lean against him. "If you were afraid of getting into trouble before and didn't dare to explore, you don't have to be afraid now. We can protect you. On the contrary, this 'private matter' you are doing will help us and the town."
"Help the town?" Lina repeated softly.
"To put it in a way that's easy for everyone to understand, the missions I can take on are like divine oracles," Lian Yun explained patiently. "Completing them will not only help this small town, but potentially even the entire continent."
Lina stared at her in amazement.
Although I don’t understand how my life experience is connected to the entire continent, it sounds very impressive!
"Sister, you won't lie, right?"
Lian Yun looked at the light rising in Lina's eyes and nodded firmly: "I will never lie to you."
Lina finally smiled and gave Lianyun a big hug.
Lian Yun ruffled her hair. "Actually, you don't need to be bothered by having your own ideas. You are a completely free person. This isn't a small town or a village. Even if you love this home, you can still do what you want."
She will have dreams in the future, meet someone she wants to love, and may even want to travel far away to see the scenery of the mainland.
Don't be confused by having these thoughts because you are free.
As Lian Yun spoke, he couldn't help but think of himself.
When she just left that small mountain village, she was in college. Even though the villagers advised her to choose a major that she really loved, she changed her mind and chose a major that would help the village better at the last moment before handing in her application form.
At that time, she felt that she had received so much kindness from so many people in the village, so as someone who grew up eating at so many people's homes, she must return to the village and her family to prove her gratitude and love to them.
But when everything disappeared, the place she had stubbornly believed to be the origin and end of her life disappeared forever, she felt confused, helpless, and desperate.
Just like when Lina saw the destroyed village that day.
She thought she was born for home.
Home was gone, and her meaning seemed to have vanished with it.
But that is not the case.
When Lian Yun devoted herself to this world and slowly got rid of her previous decadent state, she realized that the meaning of her birth was not just to return to the starting point.
"You just need to be yourself, and they will definitely be proud of you." Lian Yun hugged Lina and said softly.
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The author has something to say:
This chapter opens a new chapter in racial strife!
The good news is that I've adjusted! I also discovered some potential minor issues with the article, which I'll pay attention to in the following chapters!
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