Sighing, Bane stood up, hoping that Thorin would go with him to take refuge in Carl's base.

Thorin nodded, said nothing more, and turned to pack his luggage.

Bane and his men are not good people in the true sense, they are just ordinary people with a sense of justice.

They are willing to help to the best of their ability, but they will not do anything that may endanger themselves or even their friends and family.

The attempts of the past few days were the biggest concession they had made to their conscience, otherwise they would have gone to Carl's base long ago.

Soon, Thorin packed up his belongings and left the blacksmith shop with Baine and Scorpion.

Along the way, there would always be inexplicable roars from time to time, followed by a chaotic sound of smashing and begging.

But eventually, the noises fade away and everything returns to calm.

Listening to these sounds, the three of them continued forward and soon arrived at the entrance to the underground ruins.

Following the tunnel that had been repaired and expanded by the engineering construct, the three of them successfully arrived at the base and followed the Moon Spirit maid into it.

Seeing that the maids seemed to be cleaning the square outside the base, Bain asked V curiously:

"Did anything happen while we were gone?"

V truthfully recounted how the adventure group attempted to seize the base and were then wiped out by Carl.

"The forest is so big that there are really all kinds of birds."

Although he considered himself knowledgeable, Bane didn't often encounter such strange guys.

Bain was speechless for a moment when he heard that Carl not only killed those troublemakers, but also killed a druid who was at least level 11.

If it were their adventuring team, they should have spared the druid's life.

After all, he was able to raise the druid's level to level 11, so who knows who might be behind him.

Even if you really want to kill, at least do it in secret!

Just as I was thinking this, someone came to visit the base again.

The visitors were Joanna and her friend, both of whom looked quite tired.

"Good afternoon, seniors. I'm sorry to come visit you again so late. It's really because we didn't complete the homework very smoothly some time ago, so..."

Since you are a student, you naturally have homework.

Joanna and her friends stayed in the adventure area longer than expected, so the time they had to complete their assignments was naturally reduced a lot.

In the past few days, Joanna and the others have been trying their best to catch up with the progress.

"Hahaha, make up homework before the holiday ends! I did this before, too. It was so thrilling. I finished the last few questions almost at the last second before the teacher started class."

Recalling the painful memories of his first grade, Carl covered his heart with his hands, looking like he could empathize with the person.

Joanna and Hope nodded subconsciously.

Then Hope realized that he had been in Xen'drick for such a long time, but he seemed to have not started doing his homework yet.

Unlike professions such as artificer and wizard, druid's theoretical knowledge tends to be biology and herbalism.

And this is exactly Hope's shortcoming.

Being able to transform into a brown bear is the result of Carl's aunt's extremely intensive training.

Hope actually didn't want to walk on the street as a tiefling. At least, she thought she could try to change her skin color to that of a normal person.

"By the way, Senior Carl, regarding the recent situation in Storm Bay..."

After chatting for a few more sentences, Joanna suddenly seemed to have just remembered something and began to change the subject abruptly.

But before she could continue, Karl waved his hand and interrupted her.

"Are you saying that something is going to happen in Storm Bay recently? I already know that a while ago, the Druid of the Son of Winter and his men came here."

Joanna was a little confused when she heard that there was even the radical druid Son of Winter involved.

She originally wanted to tell Carl that the chaos in Storm Bay was the result of deliberate indulgence by the Dragonmark Family and other large forces.

But as a well-educated and intelligent child of the nobility, Joanna did not interrupt Carl, but listened to him continue.

"Those people wanted my base, but I refused and killed them all. Look, the bodies that the Moon Spirit Construct is cleaning up outside are their bodies."

After hearing Karl's words, Joanna's forehead was slightly sweaty.

"There really is something even scarier hidden here. I wonder if the teachers know about it. They should know about it. The teacher hesitated when we asked him about it, and he didn't seem to know anything at all."

Joanna was secretly worried about the ordinary people in Storm Bay.

What’s a little funny is that the Storm Council is the one that is most concerned about controlling the infection right now.

The reason is very simple.

Without those ordinary people, the Storm Council has a hard time controlling the adventurers in Storm Bay.

Joanna's family was once a noble family of Cyre, but they moved to Throne Castle due to the royal order during the Galifar period.

Who would have thought that the end of the Last War would end with the destruction of Celestial Beings?

Her family was able to survive because of this.

"So what does Senior Karl think about this matter?"

Subconsciously, Joanna tried to find out what Karl was thinking.

"I?"

Pointing at himself, Carl looked confused.

His ability to influence the whole thing is limited. Even if he goes to the streets to help with free medical treatment, if there is no follow-up treatment, those people will be infected again, and it will be difficult to really save a few people.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to use engineering structures to open up a place in this underground ruins for ordinary people who have fled here to live.

Of course, the materials used cannot be made of glutinous rice paste mixed with mortar. At most, it is ordinary version of mortar, using local materials.

The idea flashed through his mind, and Carl just said the decision directly.

Anyway, he had already checked with the secret eye mechanism and found that all the people in the Kowloon Walled City were dead. It would not be difficult to directly use the land there to build a place for people to live.

"Won't that lead to another concentrated infection?"

Looking at Karl with flickering eyes, Joanna was not optimistic about Karl's method.

"That's their own business. I will only do what I can. After all, I don't have much to do with them. If you insist, we are all human beings?"

But looking around, apart from Carl, who was not sure whether he could be considered a purebred human, his teammates were tieflings, drow, orcs, and an extra dwarf.

The composition of the team seems to fully demonstrate that Carl is not a human supremacist.

Compared to race, he values ​​things like character more.

After all, the human race is too complicated.

In this world with other intelligent life forms, it might be a bit narrow-minded to divide camps simply by race.

Especially since this world does not have a clear racial bias like Faerun.

But even among the humans of Faerun, there are quite a few abstract individuals.

Joanna gave a somewhat forced smile and sighed inwardly with a sense of loss.

As a disciple of Du Hal (the god of honor and justice) (the name that believers of the gods of destiny call themselves), she still hopes that Carl can make a more selfless decision.

However, she soon realized that asking others to sacrifice themselves for others was not in line with Du Hala's teachings, and that her idea was a bit bad.

After silently apologizing to Karl in her heart, Joanna’s smile returned to its sincerity.

"If I rescue healthy ordinary people outside, can I bring them to you, Senior?"

Although Joanna wanted to bring people into the Kolan Castle base, this was obviously impossible. Even her classmates might not agree to it.

"Of course, but I just made the decision, and the groundbreaking will only begin in the next few days. If you want to send people here, you'll have to wait for a while."

With four V-amplified engineering constructs, a total of six machines can actually build a camp that can accommodate many people in just a few days.

However, Carl also planned to explore what the thing was that allowed the wild beasts to bypass the Kowloon Walled City during this period.

Although he had previously felt that it was the core of a large construct, after having the experience of finding legendary equipment, he couldn't help but fantasize about it.

He had already caught the pie in the sky once, so why couldn't he catch it the second time? After chatting for a while, Joanna and her bestie decided to say goodbye and leave.

Her best friend is the girl who made dragon salmon before, and the taste was similar to that of the chef of the Tower of Wonders.

Considering their walking speed, Carl gave them two magic motorcycles for transportation.

Unlike the portable off-road motorcycle that Carl and his companions used in the wilderness, this magic motorcycle is closer to Carl's original design, similar to Batman's Batbike in the movie "The Dark Knight".

After briefly introducing the functions of the magic motorcycle to the two of them, Carl watched them practice for a while in the square in front of the base and then let them leave.

"That's so nice. You're giving me something after just meeting me for so short a time!"

As soon as he returned to the base, Carl saw Hope with a pout on her face.

The image was of her following Hope like a maid, and now she was standing on the same front with Hope, sharing the same hatred with the enemy, staring at Carl.

"Please, isn't this my way of opening up the market? The motor vehicle business between the Tongxing Dragon Pattern Family and me is still in the preparation stage. I don't know what their plans are, but I plan to test the waters with the magic motorcycle first.

Those students in Kolanburg are either rich or noble. If we give them two as bait, others will soon take the bait."

After staring at Carl for a few minutes, Hope finally let go of the jealousy in her heart.

With Ying, they hugged Carl on the left and right, and the two girls rubbed Carl's chin, looking like coquettish cats.

(End of this chapter)