The focus now is still on city defense construction and food storage, so I need to make good arrangements for these.

There are a total of twenty-three available hyena laborers, of which three female hyenas need to stay to look after the little hyenas, so there are only twenty laborers. Although there are a lot of worker ants, a total of thirty-four are available, but they can only perform transportation tasks and cannot do other things for the time being, so I also need to consider this.

So I arranged for the two female hyena people who were setting up the stalls to continue selling the accessories designed by Yunwen and placed on the iron models, and arranged two more female hyena people to specialize in currency exchange. Yunwen's maids, Xiaoying and Xiaochun, were responsible for helping me supervise the work. There were also two female hyena people who worked with Bailu to organize the goods in the kitchen, help with pickling food, farming, and arranging the storage of all food.

Finally, the two remaining female hyenas followed the men to do the city construction work, and in this way the female hyenas were properly settled.

As for the male hyenas, a total of five people were required for blacksmithing and ore transporting, leaving only five people, who were all used for the bricklaying work of expanding the city wall. Among them, I tried to give two copper coins to the two hyenas who were responsible for running up the mountain to transport ore, and pointed at the copper coins and the fish that were specially brought. They must have understood something, so I asked them to go to the other side of the cave where the Sea Monster was before, and exchange some fish for the mermaid dock. This should be something ambiguous about kerosene.

Regarding the hyenas in the city construction team, I made the following arrangements. There were a total of seven male and female hyenas, two men and two women who were specifically responsible for the process of mixing mud and making adobe bricks, including fetching water, mixing mud, putting them into molds, and placing them in a place to dry or baking them over a fire. The remaining three stayed near the city wall, waiting for the worker ants to transport the prepared adobe bricks over, and then they would immediately start laying bricks to raise and thicken the city wall and repair any gaps.

The worker ants, on the other hand, followed the instructions left by Yunwen. I touched the left antennae of five of them and they followed me, waiting for my orders and for the formed adobes on the ground. I taught the hyenas to put the adobes on the raised hands of the worker ants. Then I took the worker ants to the vicinity of the city wall and taught the hyenas on this side to take the adobes. Then I patted their right antennae, and they understood the operation process and transported the adobes back and forth between the two ends.

Using the same method, I also arranged three hyenas to stay beside the bricklaying ants. When they want to climb high, they just need to sit on the backs of the worker ants, and they will use the hooks on their feet to carry the hyenas to climb up, making it easier to climb up the wall and cut bricks. Among them, I also arranged a worker ant who specializes in pushing a cart to transport cement. The same principle applies. After teaching it the process, as long as the hyena ant pats its back, it will transport the cart full of cement to where there are people on the city wall. After they are done using it, they will pat its back again, and it will push the cart back to where the cement is loaded.

Thus, the nine worker ants were arranged properly. As for the remaining twenty-six, I rode Sanfu and took them up the Diaolou Mountain to move back many tables, chairs and iron beds in the dormitory of the Tuolou. There were also many wardrobes and clothes left behind. I certainly didn't dare to take them by myself, so I took them all away now. They were useless anyway.

I got about thirteen bunk beds, four desks, four wardrobes, and took away the facilities and equipment from the playground. Since they live in the cave, it is too troublesome to summon them together, and once danger comes, they cannot be dispatched immediately. Therefore, my idea is to let them live in a place like a dormitory as much as possible, and respond at the foot of the mountain at the same time.

As for the other side of the hillside, I plan to use it specifically for blacksmithing and storing goods in the future, which will be much more useful than using it for living. So after bringing these back, except for the desk and the wardrobe, we kept two, and I placed the rest in the large area inside the wall.

Finally, I took the worker ants with me to the castle area again. One reason was to check on Mei Sanniang, and the other was to get something. Yunwen's letter said that she had seen them here, but now I took a peek and found nothing. So I hurriedly asked the ants to help me pick up the broken Zhuge Crossbow. Some of them carried the large crossbow cart, and some carried small parts. It took about four or five worker ants to get them all.

As for the rest, I quickly asked them to pick up the huge "Transformer" that Yingchun had made before using the iron sheet of a broken airplane. It was a giant metal ornament more than two meters high. It looked like a giant version of an ugly mermaid. It was extremely heavy, at least ten tons, but for ants who could lift five hundred times their own weight, it was not a big problem.

Especially since there are still twenty-three ants left to lift the weight together, if we multiply it by twenty-three, it will not be a problem at all. These ants weigh about 10 to 15 kg. Even if it is only 10 kg, then the weight they can lift is almost 5,000 kg, or five tons. Taking into account the possible conceptual deviation and other errors, four tons of stuff is definitely no problem. In this way, three ants can almost lift the ten tons of stuff. However, to be on the safe side, and the area required to lift the stuff is quite large, three ants have to lift it and drag it, so I arranged for him to lift the rest.

It's basically a waste of talent.

Although I don't know what the use of this giant tin man is, I can't let it fall into the hands of the enemy. There are too many bizarre things on this island. If Mei Sanniang can find some way to control this behemoth, it will be a terrible threat to us. So the first thing I thought of was to take it back as soon as possible, even if I had to dismantle it and smelt iron again.

"What is Mei Sanniang doing now? Yunwen said she was around the castle, but now she has disappeared. What is she doing? The gray hair did appear here just now, and it is obvious that the ratmen have appeared, which means the information is accurate, but what is her purpose in coming here? Could it be that she just passed by in a hurry? Besides, seven days is not a long time, but also not a short time. In such an urgent matter, doesn't she plan to make some plans for herself?" I couldn't help but mutter.

There were many things to do today, and when we returned to the post station, it was already midnight. I asked them to put the Tin Man and Zhuge Crossbow behind the hillside of the blockhouse, and then I clapped my hands at all the worker ants, and they all gathered around. Then I stomped my feet at them three times in a row to indicate that all tasks should be stopped. They understood, and soon they all began to retreat.

Only one of them did not leave, but walked towards me. It was the worker ant with red spots on its body who exchanged letters with Yunwen and me. I read Yunwen's reply: "Sister Lingshang will never betray, Zhou Bo, don't think too much, she is only trying to protect her own people. The poor red foxes have sacrificed too much for us, you should understand. I eat well, there are underground springs, a kind of honey juice used by the queen ant, and wild mushrooms, fruits and the like, don't worry."

I thought about it. It is well known that ants love sweet food. They can't eat those things every day. Wouldn't they be too sweet to hurt their teeth? So I thought I should get some lunch boxes for Yunwen.

The red-spotted worker ant would not go back immediately because it did not receive the reply, so I found a basket, put some dried fruits, dried fish, a bowl of fish paste, a few steamed buns that Bai Lu made for me, pickles, and a jar of dry ingredients, wrapped them all in lotus leaves, and put the stone with the reply letter written on it in the basket, and then let the red-spotted worker ant take it back.

This was just an attempt, because they were afraid that the food would be eaten by the ants when it reached the ant hole. If it could be delivered successfully, then in the future, the meals cooked by Bai Lu could be left for her through the ants.

This letter also contained some caring words and did not refute her opinions. However, I was thinking that since I did not see Mei Sanniang in the Castle District today, it was obvious that she might have gone out to do something. And since she did not come to us immediately, there was only one possibility, that is, she went to another place.

And that place is most likely Xiying City, where Lingshang is located, so Yunwen's opinion is still too optimistic.