Chapter 765: Avalon's Troll Construction Team
After a long time, Aleister's spirit gradually stabilized again.
Just like red-hot metal, its hardness increases after being quenched.
After this hearty cry, Aleister felt that his spirit had become much calmer and stronger, and his brain became clearer after cooling down.
Although Isabel wanted Aleister to just lie in her arms and have a good rest for the night, to completely relax her spirit. After all, she didn't really need such a night...
After all, it was already late at night when Aleister entered his dream. With so much time having passed, it was very likely that Isabel was about to wake up.
But Aleister was very persistent.
She still hoped that Isabel would mention the important things first.
Isabel couldn't persuade her, so she had to agree.
And she also keenly captured this detail - it seemed that Aleister had a deep anxiety and uneasiness about any behavior of wasting his time, which was the same as Aiwass.
"Do you remember the port of Midsummershire?"
Isabel asked softly, "I remember you went to the Theocracy last month... I mean, when Aiwass went to the Theocracy, he took the ship from Midsummer County."
"Well, the repairs there are pretty good."
Alester nodded.
She had a fairly deep impression of Midsummer County—though it certainly wasn't "comfortable and luxurious."
After all, Glass Island itself is the largest port in Avalon.
If Aiwass, who grew up on Glass Island, said how well Summer County was built, then this would definitely be a compliment.
"But Summer County already possesses all the necessary elements to be a developed port city. The only thing we have to say is that the population is not enough...far from enough.
"For a port city, there are only a dozen people on each street! The number of newly built, empty warehouses is even greater than the active population; the number of trolls working on the construction site is greater than the number of workers dismantling the cargo at the port."
Aleister commented, "I can only say that the goblin engineering team did a really good job. The ground is very flat, even comparable to Glass Island. And everything in Midsummer County is new—so new that I can smell the paint every time I walk down any street."
"Is that a goblin engineering team? I thought it was a troll engineering team."
Isabel was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "The construction team is full of tall trolls, and almost all of them are transcendents... It scared a lot of people at first. After all, not only are they alien, but they also look so terrifying, and all of them are transcendents... They can almost erect a building out of thin air in just over a day."
"Building?" Aleister was a little confused.
In her memory, there seemed to be no tall buildings that could be called buildings, only small bungalows.
"Hmm, a special kind of building. It's said to be very popular in Xingti, where workers live... Apparently, it's because the cement there is so strong, and it seems the bricks are so durable, so the buildings can be built very tall without collapsing easily."
Isabel nodded and added, "When you left, they hadn't actually finished the construction yet. The trolls first cleared the dense forests around Midsummer County and bought the timber at market price before they started building the road. After they finished the road, they started building the warehouse. After you left, they started building houses.
"Those buildings were different from the houses we lived in. They were quite tall. Each one was over a dozen stories high, with two elevators sealed off with barbed wire outside—they were even more advanced than Lloyd's. And each floor of these buildings had over twenty empty rooms, each room capable of accommodating four beds, even more spacious than many hotels.
"According to this specification, a single building could accommodate 1,300 people. And a single construction team could erect a building of this stature in less than two days—even though the interiors were bare gray walls and empty rooms, this efficiency was truly astonishing. Those five teams built thirty-three buildings of this specification in just over ten days...
"Those gray buildings can be seen from far away. Many reporters have traveled all the way to Midsummer County just to photograph these massive buildings... They see them as 'proof of advancement and development,' 'a popular architectural style on the planet.' As a result, Avalon seems to be starting to want to build these buildings... But these bricks are hard to come by in Avalon; they fetch exorbitant prices on the black market."
“…That’s really quite astonishing.”
Aleister was really surprised to hear the news.
She had underestimated the trolls' labor force. She had originally thought they were only here to build warehouses and railways, but she hadn't expected them to even help clear the nearby dense forests and build roads.
In this era, it's too early to discuss environmental protection and greening—the main reasons hindering urban expansion today are rough land, complex terrain, and dense jungle. The cost of mass road construction is simply too high, and most of the time, city managers have to pay for it.
Therefore, in Avalon, apart from the main transportation routes, expansion in other places must rely on developers who have purchased the land ownership to expand on their own.
For cities with undevelopable land, access to roads is likely limited to a small portion of the central urban area. The surrounding towns are all connected by bumpy dirt roads. This explains why, even in an era when trains have become widespread, there are still so many merchants using horse-drawn carriages and even donkey carts.
It is said that one troll slave can replace seven hard-working workers, but I didn’t expect these extraordinary slaves to be so capable.
No wonder those resting slave owners wanted to buy a large number of trolls.
This means that if they wanted, it would only take a week to build a simple military fortress out of the ground - the reinforced bricks of Star Antimony were extremely strong, and even the large-caliber artillery on the ship would find it difficult to break them with one shot. A military fortress of this size was even much stronger than many fortresses in Avalon.
“What technology do they use?”
The first question that came to Aleister's mind was: "Can we send someone to learn it secretly?"
"...Uh, probably not."
Isabel hesitated, "Our workers probably can't run around carrying meters-high steel bars. They don't even push their carts; they carry them. They want to save wheels and minimize wear, so they ride on them instead of pushing them."
“And a lot of their construction techniques—it’s said like methods—are completely incomprehensible to the workers.
"They were just a group of people gathered around a bonfire, singing and dancing, and the cement started flying up and spreading along the wall. The wall even started to crawl and eat the cement. This scared a lot of people at first, and many people reported it to the Inspectorate and the church, and it caused a lot of unrest.
"But the trolls are quite good. Although they can't speak Avalonian, they are all very polite.
"Because some townspeople gradually got used to it, seeing how hard they were working, they went to bring them some food and water. They just knelt on the ground. As they gradually got used to it, they started to bow and express their gratitude.
"By the time they were about to leave, many residents of Midsummershire had developed feelings for them—they asked for their blessings, believing it to be a force of good fortune..."
Isabel vividly tells the story of Avalon.
"That makes sense—after all, they did bring prosperity and wealth to Midsummer County. It's no surprise that the locals regard them as the embodiment of abundance and luck."
Aleister nodded. "With these solid roads, the densely packed port warehouses, the cargo flowing in and out of the port, and the three soon-to-be-opened railways connecting Avalon from east to west... and these sturdy buildings capable of accommodating a large population, it's only a matter of time before Midsummer County becomes prosperous."
At this point, Aleister thought for a moment and decided to explain it to Isabel: "By the way... those trolls probably didn't kneel down out of gratitude or politeness... but out of fear."
(End of this chapter)
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