Chapter 999 New Stage
To say that you will die from climbing a mountain is just an exaggeration.
Even if Locke really wanted to do this, the elf knight next to him would not allow it.
Before setting off, their Majesty specifically instructed them to ensure the safety of Patriarch Locke.
Although Zhou Xu no longer has any expectations for Locke's future, at this stage, Locke's value as an extraordinary wizard cannot be ignored.
Zhou Xu's arrangement for him was more like letting Locke enter a semi-retirement state early than giving up on him.
When the need arises, just let Locke take action and it will be done. There is no need to require him to do any work or practice on a daily basis, after all, he is old.
After estimating the distance and finding that it took Locke almost half a day to climb almost a quarter of the mountain road, the elf knight who had been accompanying him the entire time couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The elven knights who have been here know that the first half of the mountain road is relatively easy to walk on, but the second half is much more difficult.
According to Chief Locke's climbing efficiency, he would not reach the destination by tomorrow, and something could easily happen in the process.
"How about this, Chief Locke, let me carry you up the mountain."
After climbing the mountain for half a day, although Locke did not change his mind, his body had long since calmed down. Now when he heard the elf knight's proposal, he had no intention of refusing at all.
I only heard him cough twice...
"Then I'll trouble you."
As for the old men, they are all elves by bloodline, so Locke didn't feel too embarrassed at the moment.
After hearing this, the elf knight didn't have any other thoughts. He carried Locke on his back and rushed towards the location of the Tree of Life.
Locke's body can only be described as thin, but for an elf knight, he is not heavy. In addition to the results of his martial arts training in the past few years, the elf knight's performance is quite ease as he carries Locke in the mountains and forests.
Compared to when Locke climbed the mountain by himself, the entire movement efficiency was more than twice as fast.
Before dark, Locke finally saw the thousand-year-old life tree in the center of the valley! Although Locke had seen ordinary life trees and even hundred-year-old life trees on the way here, after seeing this thousand-year-old life tree, Locke's emotions were still uncontrollably high.
In the process of casting different spells, the energy converted from the power of truth is also different. The mantra spells of the wood elves tend to convert life energy, which makes Locke, as an extraordinary wizard, particularly sensitive to life energy.
At this moment, he could clearly feel the rich life energy emanating from the thousand-year-old life spirit tree in front of him! "The thousand-year-old life spirit tree is really a thousand-year-old life spirit tree!!"
Locke's mental state at this moment made the elf knight next to him a little worried.
They were afraid that the old patriarch would get too excited and something might go wrong.
But his worries were actually unnecessary. Although Locke's physical fitness was poor, he was nourished by his own life energy all year round, so his body was still very healthy and would not get into trouble if he got excited.
After seeing this thousand-year-old tree of life, it was almost dark. After dark, it would be okay to let the elf knight go down the mountain by himself, but it would undoubtedly be a bit dangerous to carry Locke on his back.
"It's definitely too late to go down the mountain now. We can only rest on the mountain for one night and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning."
Having said that, the Elf Knight turned his head and looked at the small camp nearby.
"There should be tents in the campground for us to spend the night."
There is a small campsite in this valley.
Of course, it’s called a camp, but in reality it’s just a few tents.
The people living here are the staff members who are specifically responsible for looking after this thousand-year-old tree of life.
After all, it is such an important resource, Zhou Xu certainly cannot just fence off the mountain and leave it alone. To be cautious, he must check the condition of this tree of life every day.
They rested well that night. Perhaps it was the life energy emitted by the Tree of Life that moisturized his tired body, but the Elf Knight felt that after this good sleep, his entire condition had basically recovered.
Without hesitation, after waiting for Locke to look at the Tree of Life a few more times, he quickly carried him down the mountain.
At the port at the foot of Qingshui Mountain, the ship they took had been waiting for them.
Take a boat to the port of Green Forest City, get off the boat and take a carriage to go directly to the village of the Wood Elves.
After sending Locke to the village and completing the mission, the Elf Knight secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He did not rest in the village, but rushed back to the Green Forest City Port that day, preparing to take a boat back to Black Moon City to report.
After this, the season changes from summer to autumn.
This autumn, grain production within the Great Zhou increased further.
It’s not because the South Border Farm has expanded in size, but because the farm in the New Taipei City started farming this spring.
Since the reconstruction project began, Xinbei District was finally able to harvest the first batch of grain this autumn.
In fact, compared with the farming environment in the southern region, the farming conditions of crops in both the New South and New North regions can only be considered average.
If Zhou Xu was pursuing an extreme idea, he should demolish all the farms in the New North District and even the New South District and replace them with other industries.
Then all the work of grain production will be pushed to the southern border, and the areas with the best farming conditions will be responsible for all grain output.
But Zhou Xu's idea was obviously not that way.
In his opinion, this idea is somewhat radical.
That’s right, within a region, he would appropriately allow some cities whose environments were not so suitable for farming to give up farming and instead focus on the development of other industries.
But! Every region must have its own independent grain production capacity, this is his bottom line.
Just like Xianyang City, Green Forest City and Black Moon City in the New South District are the best examples.
This arrangement is made on the one hand to take into account transportation costs.
If all the food is produced in the south, then the farther away the area is from the south, the more expensive their food prices will become considering the transportation costs.
On the other hand, it takes into account the ability to deal with unexpected situations.
Food is the most fundamental resource and is directly related to the life and death of the people.
If something unexpected happens one day and food from other areas cannot be transported here, or is not transported here in time, the region itself has a certain grain production capacity, which can save lives at the critical moment!
At the same time, starting from the autumn of this year, the grain reserves in their Great Zhou, which had been tight for several years due to the reconstruction project in the New North District and the war in the southern border, finally began to grow rapidly.
This also indicates that their Great Zhou has finally completely gotten rid of the influence of the previous war and entered a new stage of rapid development! (End of this chapter)
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