Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 18 Caring for Grain and Vegetables

In the northwest corner of the camp, a simple cage was quickly erected.

Originally, there were quite a few vehicles carrying livestock in the convoy. Although most of the livestock had been lost in yesterday's corpse tidal attack, the livestock carts were still basically in good condition—several blacksmiths, at the behest of the lord, Filed down the iron fences on the cart cage and put them back together to form a large cage big enough to hold four or five adults.

It was also during this process that Xia Houyan saw with satisfaction that the chief mage Mr. Victor Laurie finally played a serious role - since there were no furnaces and anvils for forging and welding metals in the camp, the blacksmiths The original plan was to use iron wire to connect and fix the iron bars, but some people have questioned the reliability of this fixing method.

As a result, Master Laurie easily solved the problem with magic - he murmured a spell in his mouth, and a bright and fiery flame suddenly appeared on the tip of his index finger.The master asked the blacksmiths to put the iron rods that need to be joined together, and then stretched out his fingers and smeared the joints, and the iron rods were immediately welded together by the high temperature of the flame. After the white smoke dissipated, the iron rods that were welded together had already become firm and reliable, and they were no less than the products of a serious blacksmith shop.

The blacksmiths praised the master's magical power in unison, but only Xia Houyan looked at him warmly.

The "Flame Technique" used by the master is only the most basic "apprentice-level magic". From the first-order "magic apprentice" to the ninth-order "Holy Mage", almost everyone can't do it, even the lord with poor magic power himself. will use;

However, to condense the flame generated by the flame technique to a high temperature enough to melt gold and iron, it is the true strength of Master Laurie, the fifth-order "junior magister" - as the second-order "junior mage" "The temperature of the flames that Xia Houyan summoned from his fingertips can at most be used to burn a piece of paper and illuminate it, and the gap between him and the master is far more than a thousand miles.

Although the only criterion used by the Magic Association to distinguish the rank of mages is the magic power in the magician's body, the sophistication of the control and use of magic by magicians of different ranks is obviously not the same.

However, the Lord is still very happy to see that the craftsmen under him still show extremely high work efficiency in this difficult situation-with the assistance of Master Laurie, this giant, more than two meters high The iron cage, which only took two or three hours to rise on the ground, stood solemnly in a clearing in the northwest corner of the camp.

The bright noon sun shines directly on the iron cage, and the iron railings with the thickness of one finger shine with a cold metallic luster in front of everyone's eyes. The blacksmiths also specially installed wheels and wheels on the bottom of the iron cage. Brake lock so that the cage can be easily moved if needed.

The zombie "Dave" was stuffed into the iron cage by the guards with all his hands and feet. When it was loosened, the undead creature once tried to fight the beasts, but under another crowbar from the lord, wearing The husband completely lost the will to resist, and was locked in the cage in a dizzy state. Until now, he is still paralyzed at the bottom of the cage.

As it happened to be lunch time, Master Laurie waved his hand and rushed all the nearby onlookers to eat, so only Xia Houyan, Master Laurie, Captain Alice and other key figures in the team were left beside the cage.

The maid Anjie Randall kindly brought lunch to the lord - Xia Houyan opened the wooden lunch box and took a look: a bun, two slices of beef and four or five olives, lying in the lunch box dejectedly , exuding an air of despair and desperation.

"What does everyone else eat?" he asked.

"It's about the same as what you eat." A little old man who was about five or sixty years old, but still bright-eyed and energetic, replied respectfully, "A lot of food carried by the convoy was lost in the tide of corpses. Look for something to eat in the forest."

This bulging, slightly fat little old man is named Johansson Joel. He was originally the mayor of Eagle's End Town. He has been managing this fief capital on behalf of the Igor family for most of his life; due to his deep qualifications, he Of course, he became the captain of the migration convoy. He has always been in charge of the management of materials and personnel during this journey.

However, because of the previous habit, people still like to call him "Mayor Joel".

When it came to the matter of supplies, Xia Houyan, Master Laurie, and Alice looked at each other for a moment, feeling a little headache.

The daily food consumption of [-] big living people is not a small number, especially in this territorial migration, the original plan of the convoy was to stop in the towns along the way one by one and replenish supplies one by one. not enough;
After entering the infected area by mistake and being attacked by a corpse tide, the amount of materials left will only become more stretched.

Although the mayor of Joel did not report the situation to the lord in the worst way, judging from the faint worry between his eyebrows and the performance of sending people into the forest to find food, it seems that the current food situation of the convoy is not ideal— - Mayor Joel is just out of his own sense of responsibility, and he doesn't want the Lord to worry too much about it.

As for how much food can be found in the forest not far away, Xia Houyan actually felt that there was little hope: this infected area is located in the southern part of the empire, and there are very few wild plants that can be eaten directly in the natural belt, and even more There are many poisonous mushrooms and poisonous weeds that kill people. If you are lucky, you will be able to hunt a few uninfected beasts from the forest, but it is undoubtedly a fantasy to rely on this alone to feed [-] mouths waiting to be fed.

——In other words, as long as they are still trapped in the middle of the infected area, there will always be a day when they will run out of ammunition and food.

Xia Houyan frowned tightly and asked a question that suddenly changed the color of the others:

"You said... Is zombie meat edible?"

"I suggest...you don't pay attention to this unless you are desperate..." Master Laurie hurriedly stopped the lord's whimsy, "These zombies have been rotten for 800 years, maybe there is some toxin in the meat ..."

Xia Houyan looked at the zombie Dave in the cage and nodded solemnly.

——Let him eat the meat of this thing, then he might as well choose to die.

"Forget it, we'll talk about the food later." Xia Houyan stretched out his hand without aristocratic demeanor, took a bite of the bread from the lunch box, and said vaguely, "Now, let's start the magic experiment first."

Master Laurie glanced at Dave, the zombie in the cage.

Just now, the lord has already told the master about his experimental plan to "control wild zombies", and the master reluctantly agreed. Since wild zombies are also driven by ghostly magic, then theoretically there is a way to control them with necromancy magic. possible.

——However, the master thinks that the possibility of the Lord's success is almost the same as that of his Victor Laurie. The probability of advancing from the fifth-order "primary magister" to the eighth-order "archmage" in this life is almost the same. It's like impossible...

You must know that magic has strict rules and laws: Zombie Dave is not resurrected by Lord Lord, and the ghost magic in its body is completely different from Lord Lord. The textbook "Principles of Magic Mechanics" might as well go back and rewrite it!

Master Laurie folded his arms and cast a contemptuous look at the eager lord.

(End of this chapter)