Chapter 238 238. If roads are hard to build, let’s build ships
The flood that swept across the sky and the earth completely disappeared after half an hour, as if it had never existed. The only evidence of its existence was the water mist that was left behind.
The gray mist blocked the sun and shrouded the desert. It was clearly daytime but the sky could not be seen. It looked even more terrifying than at night.
The gray desert at this moment is somewhat similar to the gray desert simulated by Kloya.
Nilante finally removed the shield of the scepter and told them very carefully: "Don't enter the desert during the day, or you will die!"
Her tone was so solemn, coupled with the same wind blowing back and forth in the desert like a ghost, the apprentices of Hanjiao Island nodded wholeheartedly.
At worst, I can sleep during the day and work at night.
Since we are all extraordinary people, it is easy to accept the reversal of day and night. Safety should be the top priority in everything.
The apprentices immediately dismantled the equipment they were responsible for and returned to the city.
Finally, Jamie looked at the already gray desert, then at the city, and his thoughts became stronger and stronger.
He felt that this place was no longer suitable for building ordinary bridges and passages. Even if they were built, they would definitely be washed away by such a terrible flood. The only way was to take advantage of the flood.
He has already told his companions about the method of making use of the flood, and they will start trying it after they return.
Jamie is now a leader. He doesn’t need to do many things himself. He also knows that he needs to bring out more civil magicians who can stand on their own.
So, he planned to take a walk after entering the city.
Nilant still followed them, and it seemed that her mission was to entertain these guests from afar, both to protect and to monitor them.
The city is much more lively during the day.
People gathered in the streets and markets, casually throwing things on the ground and shouting to sell them.
"Gray sand roots! Five gray sand roots!"
“Fresh sand ray meat!”
"The flour from the Church of Mother Earth is only one kilogram!"
At this moment, the city finally had the meaning of a city - the outside world was filled with gray mist and endless dust, and only here could people live in peace.
"You all go back first, I'll take a look here."
Jamie still remembered what Cloya said, so he simply asked the others to go back and see if the shop was repaired, while he himself wandered around here.
Nilant did not leave with the others, but followed him closely, as if he was more important.
Jamie didn't say anything about this.
He walked in front of the stall without saying a word.
After observation, he found that the people here were almost all naked from the waist up, with scarves on their heads. The various items displayed on the streets made him feel very novel.
There are triangular stone sculptures, colorful oil paintings, and a snake charmer who is playing a flute and controlling a snake.
But most of the stalls sell food.
Whether it is food obtained in the desert or food transported from the outside world, it is hard currency here.
The trading method is basically barter. As for the current situation in the Gray Desert, gold coins and magic crystals are useful, but they are really limited.
And...slaves.
Jamie looked at the almost naked people locked in wooden cages not far away.
Whenever someone showed interest in buying, the slave owner would pull out the slave with a smile on his face, and then, like checking livestock, he would open his lips to check his teeth and carefully examine his body, laughing unabashedly when he saw something wrong.
Looking at these, Jamie felt calm.
Of course there was also slave trade in the North. In many cases, population was the universal currency, but of course it was limited to young and middle-aged people.
Many of his partners and new apprentices are actually teenagers who are not even bought by others. Although there is only one word difference, the gap between them and adults is huge.
Looking at those slaves, he suddenly remembered that before he came out, Mr. Miffin had called him over to chat for a while.
The former bishop of the Church of Mother Earth and the prince of the Kingdom of Norlant said to him: "The Gray Desert is the most remote area of the kingdom, and it is also the microcosm that best represents the vast majority of areas in this world.
Keep a complete record of what you saw and tell your teacher.”
Miphiin's expression was extremely serious when he said these words.
At that time, he didn't quite understand what Mi Feiyin meant, but now he suddenly understood - wasn't this asking him to praise his teacher in disguise?
Able to abolish slavery in his own territory...
Jamie took a deep breath, not realizing until this moment what a difficult decision Chloe had made.
That's a lot of money!
"Why do you keep looking at the slave?"
Nilante didn't speak until this moment: "Do you want to buy slaves? If you do, I can give you a batch."
“Strangers.” The woman said jokingly, “Don’t feel sorry for them. If they were bought, they might still have a chance to survive.
As long as we can live, what is unacceptable? Even if we live in sorrow like dust, we are still alive. "
Jamie didn't respond, but just smiled like Cloya did: "Do you have any specialties here? I want to buy some and bring them back as gifts for the teacher."
Nilant glanced at him, grabbed his hand, and pulled him into a small street.
There were all kinds of magical beasts displayed on both sides of this street. It was obvious that Nilant knew what this friend from Hanjiao Island wanted to buy.
As she walked, she pointed to the stall next to her and introduced:
"Here, this is a jackal. An adult jackal is the best companion in the desert."
"This is a sand ray. It only takes a year for it to grow big enough for two or three people to stand on it and fly close to the ground in the sand."
"Look, this is a desert fire spirit, one of the only remaining elemental creatures..."
With such a guide who is familiar with the Gray Desert, she can basically tell you what is sold on the roadside and evaluate the quality.
The stall owners looked at the golden scale on her chest, angry but not able to say anything.
Just like that, Jamie bought a batch of all the magical beasts that he had never seen on Hanjiao Island without any hesitation, and the gold coins poured out like a flood.
Although Croa ordered these people around, the subsidies were no less, and even more than the resources distributed by the big forces.
So he really has a lot of gold coins and magic crystals on him.
Later on, the stall owners seemed to know that a wealthy man had arrived, and they no longer cared about Nilant's comments. They took out their most lively monsters right away.
They kept buying things as they walked. If Nilant hadn't called for someone to send all the monsters to the Monster Plant and Battle Pet Shop in time, they would probably have been unable to fit them all.
When he reached the deepest part of the alley, Jamie wanted to stop buying, but suddenly he saw the magic plants displayed on a small stall.
It was a...light blue water lily.
It floats quietly in the clean water in the jars that the stall owner sells. It is exquisite and elegant, and has a peaceful beauty.
Jamie was instantly attracted to the water lily. He knew that his teacher had been raising water lilies recently. If he could take the water lily back as a gift, the teacher would definitely be very happy.
Thinking of this, he looked at the stall owner.
The stall owner was resting with his eyes closed behind the stall. His red hair was as dazzling as a flame, but he had a decadent temperament. It was obvious that he was not an ordinary person.
"Are you crazy?"
Nilante saw the water lily and was shocked: "Agathe, that's a blue water lily, are you really going to sell it?"
Obviously she recognized the stall owner.
"Why do you care so much?" Agathe opened his eyes and looked at Nilante. Only then did Jamie realize that the left eye of this tall, red-haired man was gray and lifeless.
But the power he exudes seems to be at least that of a level four or five warrior. Only a warrior can have that kind of vast blood and energy.
You have to know that this is a world with magic and divine arts. Even broken limbs can be regrown. For high-level extraordinary people, physical injuries are nothing.
After being scolded like this, Nilant was immediately speechless and could only shake her head helplessly.
Jamie then stepped forward and asked, "How much do you want to sell this water lily?"
Agathe glanced at him and said, "You are from outside, right? Do you have a way to leave the city during the day?"
"Yes." Jamie said directly: "We came here to achieve this goal. If you want, you can give it a try first."
Agathe's pupils shrank when she heard this. Without saying anything, she thrust the can into Jamie's hands and said, "Let's go now?"
"Can."
Jamie immediately took Agathe back to the already built World of Warcraft, Magic Plants and Battle Pets shop, took him into the operation room at the back and began to work in a mysterious manner.
This busy work lasted for a full ten days.
During this period, apprentices would go in from time to time and take in all the data and the cultivated Evil Sea Purple Demonic Duckweed.
When he and Agate came out, they had some space magic bags containing magic plants on them.
Both of them looked excited.
Especially Jamie, he couldn't wait to say:
"Come on, let's go give it a try."
"Let's go!"
Agate was even more excited than him. Seeing that he was walking slowly, he simply hugged him and rushed out of the store. The speed and endurance of a warrior burst out at this moment.
There was only a "swish" sound.
All that was left in the air was floating dust.
…
The two men came directly to the city gate in broad daylight, and then, led by Jamie, they built a strange small boat on the spot within a safe range.
No, it's not so much a boat as it is a moving house built on the purple devil duckweed in the evil sea.
The bottom of this strange houseboat is covered with flat purple duckweed, whose roots are firmly rooted in the ground, ensuring that the snail-shell-like house above will not shake easily.
The house above is built with Floating Moon Alloy. It is a very common log cabin structure. There are some inconspicuous dandelion-like magical plants growing on the surface, densely covering the entire house.
From a distance, it looks like a house elf wrapped in fluff or something.
The vitality and vigor of the magic plant brings a touch of soft color to this seemingly cold and hard house.
After building this strange house, Jamie climbed up the vines and waved to Agathe:
"Let's give it a try. The flood should be coming soon."
Agathe was actually a little resistant when he saw the finished product. He thought it would be some sophisticated magical creation, but it turned out to be a small house that looked like something from a fairy tale.
He really didn't understand why this happened, but Jamie's confident look reduced his doubts a lot.
The red-haired sturdy man had no choice but to go up to the house covered with dandelions and sit on the sofa behind the clean and bright window.
This house looks small from the outside, but actually it is not that small. It is more than 100 square meters in total, and the interior is fully decorated - dining table, sofa, bench, bookcase, even toilet and shower room are all available.
The two of them sat in such a tidy house and waited quietly. Jamie glanced at the magic reading meter displayed in the corner from time to time.
Although they cannot prevent the arrival of floods, the magic index will change every time a flood comes, which can be regarded as a way of prediction.
At this moment, the magic reading pointer was shaking wildly, gradually changing from a safe green to a dazzling red.
This means...
"The flood is coming!" Agathe was the first to see the raging flood in the distance from the window and tightly grasped the weapon in his hand.
Faced with such a natural disaster, even a fifth-level warrior like him had no way to deal with it. All he could do was hope that this strange ship that had taken a month to build would be effective.
In the distance, a devastating flood was coming.
“Hua La La La—”
When the flood came, the boat was unexpectedly stable - the flood hit the dandelions on the surface of the house, and these dandelions absorbed most of the force, so the impact on the house itself was not very great.
The two people sitting inside the house had serious expressions. The life-sustaining magic patterns carved inside the house had been activated, automatically purifying and filtering the air, and also lighting up warm orange lights.
In the pitch-black flood, the comfort that this light can bring is indescribable. The two of them looked at the turbid flood outside the window and felt a little worried.
At this time, the evil sea purple devil duckweed that had taken deep root at the bottom of the house took advantage of this breathing time to quickly adapt to the impact of the flood and slowly pulled its roots out of the sand.
After all the roots were pulled out, the impact brought by the first wave of the flood had almost disappeared, leaving only the force of the huge water flow itself.
The Purple Demonic Duckweed carried the house slowly towards the top of the flood. Its roots, which originally looked tiny, had all become tangled together, like weights.
Each of them tightly grasped the surrounding water magic and actually stabilized itself.
In this way, the house would not float around, but would float straight towards the water surface, quickly leaving the depths of the flood and reaching the surface of the water.
At this time, the flood was already hundreds of meters high, and naturally had left the range covered by the gray fog below, and the warm light of the sun shone in.
The two people sitting in the house finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially Jamie, he pulled out a crystal screen and muttered: "The impact force on Piao Piao Dandelion can be tolerated... the corrosiveness of the flood here... the duration of the life support array inside the house..."
While recording this rare first-hand information, he instructed Agathe: "Go pull the lever on the left!"
Agate, a fifth-level warrior who would be treated with great courtesy even in the royal family, did not say a word and hurriedly pulled the lever on the wall.
“Crack!”
As the lever was pulled down, the roots of the evil sea purple duckweed at the bottom of the house were impacted by a special magical power and began to stir consciously in a certain direction.
The roots entangled and stirred in the water, and soon a small whirlpool was formed. The magic inside merged with the magic of the surrounding flood.
The dandelions growing on the surface of the house became more fluffy after absorbing the water, and the flowers on the surface rotated like fans, absorbing the hot wind brought by the flood.
The water flow began to push the house, which was tiny in the flood, away into the distance.
Miraculously, it was moving in a straight line in the flood, not affected by the chaotic water flow at all. Its speed was neither fast nor slow, but about 10 kilometers per hour.
The map inside the house showed that the ship was leaving Gray Sand City and heading towards the gathering point closest to Gray Sand City, which was the area that the Gray Sand Lord had asked them to open up a road.
Sitting inside the house, in front of me was a cup of steaming milk tea and snacks, while outside was the bright sunshine, not shaking at all.
It seemed like this was just a very ordinary journey. All I had to do was sit here and wait, and I would reach my destination after a while.
Agathe stared blankly at the scenery outside the window. Although all he could see was the golden and black glow brought by the golden sunlight shining on the dark flood, he still found it incredible.
It’s actually...it’s actually possible for a ship to sail safely in a flood.
Won't it be corroded?
You know, it's not that no one has tried to use ships, but the magic in this flood is extremely terrifying, and ordinary ships can't withstand the corrosiveness of the flood at all.
He realized almost immediately that if this weird and magical house-boat could be mass-produced, then floods would really no longer be an obstacle!
It may even become their source of motivation to go everywhere.
The soldier looked outside in silence.
About an hour later, this magical ship had already stopped at the first gathering point ten kilometers away from Gray Sand City.
You can see the shield still standing firmly in the flood, and you can look down at the city in the flood.
They've arrived!
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