Alien world

Chapter 154 8. Smoke from the Xingyue Bay
The sparkling beautiful bay washes away the torment of the long journey.

These people have never seen the ocean, and the widest streams and long rivers they have seen cannot compare with the vast sea in front of them.

Even if the sea wind blows their noses red, they are unwilling to move away from the coast that brings indescribable touch.

"Xingyue Bay, the place where hope begins..."

Annan looked at his territory, his people, and murmured softly.

The pain, anxiety, and uneasiness brought about by the ten-day journey turned into a substantial sense of belonging at this moment.

They like it here, and they show it with their actions—these citizens in dirty cotton clothes can't wait to get in front of the lord, ready to build their homes.

Ingrid, a borrowed assistant, told Annan what to say at this time.

Annan, dressed in the morning light, responds to these haggard, immature, or expectant eyes, but without exception, they are shining with eyes:
"Someone once told me that when a person owns a village, he will devote himself to the development of the village. He will strengthen the wall because of fear of alien attacks, he will store food because of disaster, and he will increase revenue and reduce expenditure because of lack of tax... I will Do it, and I hope you will too."

"This is our home."

Responding to Annan's speech was a chaotic response, and everyone's face was filled with anticipation and longing for the future.

"Take a break for three 10 minutes and don't leave the shore."

Annan asked the people who were on their way to rest, and turned to ask Ingrid.

"Is it okay?"

"Lack of groundwork, lack of formality, but full of emotion, as an impromptu speech, you did a good job."

"Better than Olmedo?"

The assistant with short brown hair, a concise and indifferent tone, and an exquisite appearance said truthfully: "The city lord has been deeply influenced by Mr. Augusta, and he has shown no faults since he was eight years old."

"All right……"

Annan beckoned to the ogre and the captain of the bodyguard in the distance, leaving the former to let the latter survey around the bay, and then went to the headland - the big log house was still standing there.

Annan, Ogre, Ingrid, and Francois are the only four think tanks in Xingyue Bay.

But Ingrid's slender eyebrows frowned: "You let an ogre make a plan?"

The ogre looked down at the woman who resisted: "The brains of a wise man are sweet and delicious, I hope yours will not be fishy and foul."

"It's the wise man among the ogres." Annan eased the relationship between them.

"Still an ogre."

Annan had to remind Ingrid that Olmedo sent her to help him.Ingrid did not lessen her resistance to the ogre, but reluctantly acquiesced in its existence.

"Where should we build the territory first?"

The view of the headland is better, and the north side is closer to the water source.

Ingrid flipped through the map of Xingyue Bay she had prepared, and pointed to both ends of the crescent: "Then you can set up a watchtower on the headland, and then place the territory in the north."

After she finished speaking, she still glanced at the ogre vaguely.

"We don't desire rivers, but we need seaports. The river is too far away from the port." The ogre pointed to the map, but his fingers covered the entire map.

"Preferably in the middle of the bay."

As an obsessive-compulsive disorder, Annan also thought so.

Ingrid did not object, and Francois agreed. After the break, Annan asked Francois to lead the people to cut down trees with tools.

Then the Cavaliers came back and found no wolf man or other races in Xingyue Bay.

But they found tracks of gnolls around the headland house.

Annan still remembered the location where the Gnoll scouts appeared that night, and he planned to lead the Cavaliers to search from there.
"Master Annan, as a lord, you shouldn't put yourself in danger." Ingrid stopped Annan.

Annan thought that you should say this to Olmedo who led the cavalry charge instead of himself, but he still accepted her suggestion.

Ingrid measured the lengths of Xingyue Bay, Glacier River, and the headland respectively, and then led the ogre to circle the village on the edge of the coast by pulling out trees—it was only 100 meters in diameter temporarily, but it was enough for them.

The young and strong villagers cut wood with axes in their hands, while the elderly, women and children handled the logs.

Everyone is working hard for the future happy life imagined in their minds, and no one complains. Those who steal, rape and play tricks have long been screened out—those who got cotton clothes and escaped.

This small piece of forest should not attract druids...

Annan saw the area circled on the map and thought, just in case, he asked the leader to leave a few saplings and plant them in the forest outside.

The citizens regarded the behavior of the young lord as a strange way of praying, and Annan, who planted trees, had the illusion that he was being watched.

From early morning to noon, from afternoon to evening, the exhausted villagers only cut down an open space about 10 meters long, and did not clean up the roots buried deep in the ground.

"We can't clear the village in a week, but we can do it overnight with a fire."

"don't want……"

Annan had heard from Olmedo about the difficulty of druids, so he didn't want to take the trouble to visit Xingyue Bay.

And because there was no trace of the wolf man, they had no choice but to continue to spend the night in the car tonight.

Annan activates the magic ring, if it is a water element, it will create drinking water, the fire element will process tree roots, and the earth element will build a watchtower wall - a large earth element will take shape.

Annan assigned it to work on the headland, leaving behind a simple but sturdy watchtower after the call.

Ingrid asked Annan if he wanted to build the castle on a hill.

"Castle... I don't need that kind of thing." Annan shook his head.

Who the hell lives on a cliff?

"Do you want to establish a city-state?" Ingrid asked again.

Annan hadn't figured this out yet, but he was obviously not satisfied with just a village.

In order to reward the citizens for a day of hard work, Annan screened "The Fall of the Mage's Tower" at night by the sea.

But I didn't expect Ingrid to watch it for the first time, and then she talked a lot softer with Annan.

The next few days were uneventful, and the people were still logging.The patrol range of the Cavaliers is only around Xingyue Bay.They found scattered kobolds and lizardfolk, but only footprints of gnolls and orcs.

The next night's entertainment was also "The Mage Tower Has Fallen".

The entertainment on the third night was "The Mage Tower Has Fallen".

On the fourth night of entertainment, Annan proposed to hold a bonfire banquet, but the citizens wanted to watch "The Fall of the Mage Tower", so they had to watch "The Fall of the Mage Tower" while having a bonfire banquet.

"I have a question."

On the fifth day, Ingrid came to Annan with the notebook she never left with her. The opened notebook was densely written with views on "The Fall of the Mage Tower": "That attic can hide you and Evelyn. Personal, why don't you go in?"

"Because that's not true."

(End of this chapter)