Chapter 112: Inexplicably Touched (Rewarded with 10,000 Yuan)
After encouraging the five dejected guards, Gervis rode back to the castle again.
Gervis was not planning to eat with these new recruits. If he was inside the castle, he could eat with the guards.
But outside the castle, if the serfs saw it and spread it out to other nobles, they would definitely despise Gervis. As a noble, he actually ate with these lowly people. It was absolutely unworthy of his status as a lord. The noble status of not only Gervis himself, but the noble status of the entire continent would be lowered by Gervis.
After returning to the castle, Gervis enjoyed delicious food in the restaurant and then came to the vestibule and stayed in a wheat mill. It was not that Gervis wanted to experience the hard labor of the people and grind wheat himself, but that he wanted to start preparing black gunpowder.
What happened in the dark forest in the morning made him extremely angry. He, the dignified lord, was robbed by a magical beast, and half of the valuable purple kiwi fruit was taken away. Although Gervis had some guesses about the efficacy of the purple kiwi fruit through the experiments in the morning, it was not enough to make up for his loss.
Gervis thought that this purple kiwi fruit should be used by monsters. After all, it smelled extremely bad to humans. However, birds and the unicorn were flocking to it as if they had seen some treasure.
However, Gervis has no magical beasts to experiment with now, so he can only hide in the panel and wait for a chance to meet a living magical beast in the future to experiment again.
Gervis was also ready to take back the unicorn's territory. After all, it was a great humiliation for him, and Gervis was also coveting the unicorn's body, such as its meat. Gervis estimated that the unicorn was at least two meters tall and had a strong body, and it had at least 1,800 kilograms of meat. That would be golden coins, just enough to make up for some of his losses.
The most precious thing is the unicorn's light blue horn that is like a crystal cone. It is said that the unicorn's horn can cure all kinds of poisons. Although it is impossible to determine whether it is true or not, as long as it is sold, it will definitely be a considerable income. After all, unicorns are extremely rare, even rarer than high-level monsters.
As for subduing the unicorn, with Gervis's level of cultivation, he would not even think of doing that. Even if he called his father and cheap wife to help, given the unicorn's stubborn temper, unless it could be subdued in one move, it would definitely fight to the death.
To catch a unicorn, one needs to tame it slowly, like training an eagle. Gervis believes that he does not have the ability to do so.
At this moment, Gervis couldn't wait to make gunpowder in preparation for defeating the unicorn. Since unicorns like kiwis, after making the gunpowder, Gervis made a simple grenade, smeared kiwi juice on it, waited for the unicorn to take the bait, and then lit the fuse and threw it out. Gervis was excited just thinking about that scene.
"Haha, I told you not to rob me, I told you not to eat my kiwi fruit, now I'm going to blow you up on the spot, is my stuff so easy to steal?"
"Sir, I have brought you everything you requested!"
When Gerves arrived at the mill, two servants had already brought a lot of things, including sulfur and charcoal, as well as seven or eight things such as stones and flour. In order to prevent the formula of gunpowder from being leaked, Gerves deliberately added a few things. The saltpeter was brought by Gerves himself. The saltpeter was the one used to make ice yesterday and could be used again after reprocessing.
"Okay, there's nothing for you to do here, you guys go down first."
"Yes, sir!"
After the two servants left, Gervis began to get busy. He remembered the general process of making black powder clearly. First, mix it according to the proportion, then soak it, compact it, and wait for it to dry before carefully crushing and screening it. Finally, you can get black powder with uniform particle size. Only gunpowder with uniform size can burn fully. Otherwise, the large and small particles will burn unevenly and cannot exert their maximum power at all.
Gervis is not planning to produce large quantities today. Instead, he will first fine-tune the three raw materials and make black powder in different proportions to see which one works best. Only after he achieves the results that satisfy him will he start mass production.
Because the amount of black gunpowder produced was not large, the production process did not take much time. After Gervis made three balls of gunpowder according to different proportions, he took the three balls of gunpowder that had been soaked and compacted outside and found a place where the sun could not directly shine on them to dry. In such hot weather, even if the sun could not shine directly on them, they could be completely dry in an afternoon.
After finishing everything, Gervis washed his hands and then came to the vestibule. Just as Gervis walked through the vestibule, he suddenly felt a faint touch in his heart, which made him a little confused.
"Why do I feel this way? It's not like the fluctuations that Wall-E and Betty gave me?"
Because Gervis was in the castle at the moment, if it was Betty and Wall-E's mental fluctuations, Gervis would definitely be able to feel it very clearly, and Gervis was also familiar with their auras. This weak fluctuation was something he had never felt before.
After stopping to think for a moment, Gervis was still a little worried. After all, no matter how doubtful he was, the two elf bugs were invaluable treasures to Gervis. He did not dare to neglect them, so he changed direction and walked towards the entrance of the inner castle. At this time, he saw Anna who had just finished lunch, so he shouted to Anna: "Anna, you don't have to follow me in the afternoon. Go to the study to accompany Betty and Wall-E and help me take care of them."
There is no running component in this afternoon's recruit training, so it can be completed outside the castle. It is just right for Anna to stay in the study, where she can look after Betty and Wall-E, and prevent the little maid's fair and tender skin from being tanned by the sun.
"Yes, sir!"
Hearing Gervis's call, Anna hurriedly stopped, bowed respectfully, then turned and walked quickly towards the inner castle.
"I hope it's my illusion."
Gervis murmured something only after Anna walked into the door of the inner castle.
This inexplicable feeling of touch was only fleeting, making Gervis feel a little unreal. However, after thinking carefully, he realized that apart from the elf bugs, there should be nothing missing. Moreover, now that the elf bugs were being taken care of by Anna, he was relieved. So Gervis stopped thinking about it and walked towards the castle gate. Now the most important thing was to train his guards well.
Because the training ground was just outside the castle, Gervis did not ride a horse but walked directly out of the castle gate.
…
"grown ups!"
"My Lord!"
"My Lord!"
Gervis had just walked out of the castle gate when he unexpectedly ran into Thomas who had just returned from outside. There were more than 30 people standing behind Thomas, including more than a dozen serfs holding hoes and sticks, which made Gervis a little confused.
Thomas went to the territory in the morning and announced that he knew about what Gervis had told him last night, but he was wondering why so many serfs were brought to the castle, and several serfs around seemed to be about to have a fight. Before kneeling down to salute, they were holding hoes and sticks, as if they were about to start a fight.
"Thomas, what's going on?"
Gervis had the impression that Thomas was cautious and abiding by rules, so he knew that Thomas must have something going on when he brought so many serfs to the castle, so he asked in a casual tone.
"Sir, I went to the town and three villages this morning as ordered by you. When I arrived at the village on the edge of the Dark Forest, I met their village chief. They were escorting more than 20 people to the castle. I heard from the village chief that these people were captured in the forest and farmland last night. When they were caught, some of them were stealing food from the crops."
Thomas quickly stepped forward and reported what had happened to Gervis.
Here it comes! Here it comes! The boss is here! Thanks to the boss "Alwayssr" for the 10,000-yuan reward!!!
(End of this chapter)
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