Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 765: Avalon's Troll Construction Team

After a long time, Aleister's spirit gradually stabilized again.

Just like red-hot metal, its hardness will increase 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 mind. After all, she didn't lack such a night...

After all, it was already late at night when Aleister entered the dream. After such a long time, it was very likely that Isabel was about to wake up.

But Aleister's attitude was very persistent.

She still hoped that Isabel would mention all the important things first.

Isabel couldn't persuade her, so she had to agree.

And she also keenly captured this detail - it seems that Aleister has a deep anxiety and uneasiness about any behavior of wasting time, which is 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 repair there is quite good."

Aleister nodded.

She had a fairly deep impression of Midsummer County - of course, it was definitely not "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 Shengxia County already has all the necessary elements to be a developed port city. The only thing to say is that the population is not enough... far from enough.

"As a port city, there are only a dozen people on one street! The number of newly built empty warehouses is even greater than the active population; the number of trolls working on the construction 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 great job. The ground is very flat, even better than the Glass Island. And everything in Midsummer County is new - so new that I can smell the paint when I walk on any street."

"Is that a goblin engineering team? I thought it was a troll engineering team."

Isabel was stunned for a moment, then she said with emotion: "The engineering team is full of tall trolls, and almost all of them are extraordinary beings... They scared a lot of people at first. After all, not only are they aliens, but they also look so scary, and even all of them are extraordinary beings... They can almost build a building out of thin air in just over a day."

"Building?" Aleister was a little confused.

As far as she could remember, there didn't seem to be any tall buildings that could be called buildings, just some small bungalows.

"Yes, a special kind of building. It is said to be very popular in Xingti, and workers live in this kind of place... It seems that because the cement in Xingti is strong, and it seems that because the bricks are strong, the buildings can be built very high and are not easy to collapse."

Isabel nodded and added, "When you left, they hadn't finished the construction yet. The trolls first cleared the dense forests around Midsummer County, bought the wood at market price, and then started to build roads. After they finished building the roads, they started to build warehouses. After you left, they started to build houses.

"That is different from the house we live in. It is a very tall building. Each building is more than ten stories high, and there are two elevators blocked by barbed wire outside - the elevators are even more advanced than those in Lloyd's. And each floor of these buildings has more than twenty empty rooms; each room can accommodate four beds, which is even more spacious than many hotels." And according to this specification, one building alone can accommodate 1,300 people. And such a high-rise building can be built by only one construction team in less than two days - even though there are no decorations inside. Gray walls and empty rooms, this efficiency is too amazing. The five construction teams only took more than ten days to build 33 high-rise buildings of this specification...

"The gray buildings can be seen from far away. Many reporters went to Midsummer County just to take pictures of these huge buildings... They regarded these buildings as 'proof of advancement and development' and 'the popular architectural style of Xingtan'. As a result, Avalon seems to want to build such buildings now... But it is difficult to buy such bricks in Avalon. They are sold at a very high price on the black market."

“…That’s really quite astonishing.”

Aleister was really surprised to hear the news.

She still underestimated the trolls' labor force. She originally thought they were only here to build warehouses and repair railways, but she didn't expect them to even help cut down the nearby dense forests and repair the roads.

In this era, it is not time to discuss environmental protection and greening issues. The main reasons affecting urban expansion today are rough land, complex terrain, and dense jungle. The cost of mass road construction is 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 be carried out by developers who have purchased the land ownership.

For cities with land that has no development value, it is likely that only a small part of the central urban area is accessible. The outer circle of towns are all bumpy dirt roads. This is also the reason why there are still a large number of horse-drawn carriages or even donkey-drawn carriages for merchants in an era when trains have become popular.

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 slave owners in Parthia wanted to buy a large number of trolls.

This means that if they wanted, they could build a simple military fortress out of nothing in just a week - Star Antimony's reinforced bricks were extremely strong, and even the large-caliber artillery on the ship would have difficulty breaking 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 Aleister thought of was: "Can we send someone to learn it secretly?"

"…Uh, probably not."

Isabel hesitated, "Our workers may not be able to run wildly while carrying several meters high steel bars. They don't even push their carts, but carry them and run. Because they want to save wheels and avoid excessive wear and tear, people ride on the carts instead of pushing them.

“And a lot of their construction techniques—it’s said that the workers just couldn’t understand them.

"They were just a group of people gathered around a bonfire, singing and dancing, and the cement flew up and spread along the wall. The wall even crawled on its own and ate the cement. This scared a lot of people at first, and many people reported it to the Supervisory Bureau and the church, and it caused a lot of trouble for a long time.

"But the quality of those trolls is quite good. Although they can't speak Avalonian, they are all very polite.

"Because later some townspeople gradually got used to it, and 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 thank them.

"By the time they were about to leave, many residents of Midsummer County had developed feelings for them. They asked for blessings from each other, believing that this was a kind of auspicious power..."

Isabel tells the story of Avalon in vivid detail.

"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 wealth and luck."

Aleister nodded. "With these well-repaired solid roads, the densely packed port warehouses, the cargo that is being handled from the port, and the three railways that will soon be opened to traffic, connecting Avalon from east to west... and these solid buildings that can accommodate a large population, it is 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 kneeled down not out of gratitude or courtesy... but out of fear."

(End of this chapter)