forest kingdom

"Lawrence, it's almost winter, what else are we going to do?"

Salil had just come back from the mountain a few days ago, and was planning to decorate the cave and prepare for the Fried Chicken Festival, but it turned out that Lawrence had to go away again.

Lawrence said: "I want to integrate the forces in the territory. There are still many threats from the Valkyries and the south. If you don't want to go, just rest here in the cave and let Kehalan follow."

Salil came out, looking unhappy.

"I didn't say I won't go. Khalan is studying herbal medicine. Or should I go with you? I won't do what she does."

Lawrence smiled, "Okay, I'll be back in two or three days this time. If it's quick, it will only take two days."

Sariel asked, "Who else is there besides us and Sophia?"

Lawrence thought for a moment, "Dren and his mother are going to open up a room here. Kharan is cultivating wheat seeds. We and Tulaka, plus Reglo and a few warriors will be fine."

Salil was a little worried, "Is this okay? There are hundreds of people there, and we will only go with a few people."

In Sariel's eyes, the forest people are a bunch of savages.

Lawrence felt the same way before, but after understanding some things with Turaka, he realized that the forest people were just poor people, not savages.

Lawrence hopes that more people can change this arrogant impression, just like his previous arbitrary perception.

"The Forester camp has been stable for more than a year. Coupled with continuous management, it now obeys the control of the territory."

Lawrence explained: "General territories are prone to troubles, mainly because they are plundered too hard. For example, at the beginning of Pumixiu Town, after Avari became the lord here, he kept plundering things from here and putting them in his pockets."

"Such large-scale plunder and abuse naturally aroused resistance from the people below."

"In fact, after we conquer the forest people, as long as we don't enslave them too much and rob them of their food and livestock, they won't resist so strongly."

Salil caught the loophole, "So you will still resist?"

Lawrence said: "Resistance is nature and a gift from nature. Animals and people who don't know how to resist will have perished long ago."

"Force is necessary, and violence is also a necessary means of survival, but the world is not only divided into good and bad."

"Take care of yourself. We went there with good intentions. Of course, self-defense weapons are also essential."

Salil nodded and said, "Yeah!"

Salil called Sophia back who was playing outside, and Lawrence cleaned up before saying goodbye to the others and explaining the matter of going downstream.

As soon as he walked into Kehalan's room, Lawrence saw Kehalan sitting on a chair, with two young women lying on the ground in front of him, illuminated by dim firelight.

"What are you doing?" Lawrence looked at Kharan's movements.

At this time, Kehalan's foot was stepping on a woman's head, and both women humbly surrendered at Kehalan's feet.

Moreover, the hands of the two women were tied behind their backs, and their feet were also tied with ropes.

Kehalan glanced at Lawrence, then looked at the two women on the ground and said, "I am testing the obedience of these two hybrids. Among the dark elf hybrids, there are not only prostitutes, but also assassins."

Lawrence looked at the two dark elf hybrids on the ground and quickly said: "What are you going to do with them?"

Kehalan looked at the two trembling women on the ground. After feeling the wizard's approach, the two hybrids became emotional.

"Dark elves are different from wizards. Wizards are more likely to pass on their abilities to future generations, while dark elves are more likely to be passed on to women."

"It is extremely difficult to get a female dark elf pregnant. Most dark elf men are unable to do this, and ordinary humans are even less able. Therefore, dark elf women who inherit the maternal bloodline are usually more valuable. .”

Lawrence asked: "You mean, there is more than one pure-blood wizard in the Ancient Whisperer family?"

Kehalan looked at Lawrence in surprise, "I didn't think so, why would you think so?"

"Guess." Lawrence gave a casual answer.

Kahalan smiled and said: "No, this kind of thing is not easy to say. Dark Elf women are just not easy to get pregnant, not that they cannot. Since there is a dark elf group in the Ancient Speaker family, it is not surprising that there is a mixed race of elves."

"There are also many powerful people in the southern country. I think the next person coming from the Ancient Whisperer family will be the descendants of wizards."

Lawrence now has a lot of people, and he is no longer as afraid of wizards, wizards and priests as before.

If you can't afford conflict, you can't afford it. Now the priority is still to develop safely, but if you can't avoid it, you have to fight when you need to.

"I'm going to go out and check out the forest people downstream. I'll be back in a few days. Is it okay to leave these two here?"

Kahalan explained: "These descendants of dark elves are not suitable for free-range breeding. They cannot integrate into other ethnic groups and can only exist as vassals of the strong."

"These two women and the other men are of no value at all. It's best not to trust gifts from other wizards."

Lawrence looked at Kehalan's hands. The woman had leaned over and stretched out her hands to grab the two women's necks, obviously intending to kill them.

"Keep them." Lawrence hesitated for a few seconds and finally spoke.

Khalan raised his head and looked at Lawrence, "What are you going to do?"

Lawrence said: "Arrange them to guard the lighthouse in Dumu Harbor. It just so happens that they should be more adaptable to dark times than normal people. These people will be the night watchmen of Dumu Harbor in the future."

It was too dangerous to keep around, and Lawrence was afraid of assassination.

Since Kharan said there was danger, he would definitely not just talk about it.But with the example of the forest people in front of him, Lawrence did not want to be too arbitrary in classifying a race as a non-human creature.

The best arrangement is to be dispatched to Dumu Port. It is not close or far, does not affect the safety here, and at the same time is under the protection of the territory.

Kehalan nodded, "That's okay, they are indeed suitable for vigil."

After deciding the use of these people, Lawrence found clothes for the two women to wear, and arranged for the 12 people to be sent to Dumu Port for resettlement.

Lawrence is determined to speed up the integration, otherwise things will happen sooner or later if all kinds of people in the territory mix together.

The first is to synchronize language and synchronize eating and working time.

The festivals of any race are inseparable from these.

Working when you should work can break 90.00% of holiday habits, and setting time for meals can solve most of the remaining troubles.

We still need to continue to make big pot meals, and we must first synchronize our eating habits.

Eating in the same place and eating the same meal makes it easier to form a sense of identity.

Lawrence took a five-meter-long and 1.8-meter-wide boat down the river, followed by three other boats of the same style.

The hulls were bound with ropes, and some anti-collision wood chips were specially added to the bow.

The boat quickly headed off into the distance, drifting away from the logging camp and toward the forest area below.

When they reached the bend in the water flow, the boatman pointed his long pole under the water and gently walked around it.

The hull of the boat inevitably hit the rocks on the shore, but fortunately it was no big deal, and it quickly went down the river again.

There are some obvious collision marks on the shore. I knew that the forest people worked slowly and the logging speed was extremely slow, so I threw the wood directly from the logging camp into the river.

The wood flowing down the river has opened up part of the river, mainly by breaking some aquatic plant branches. Wherever the wood is blocked, someone will use wooden sticks to clear it on the bank.

Seravan salvaged wood in the meandering areas of the river and moved the wood to the shore to build houses.

A day's supply of wood in the lumber mill is enough for foresters to use for a week, so it is usually soaked in water.

For the first time, Lawrence took a serious look at the slopes on both sides of the bank and the difference between the upper and lower sides experienced in a small boat.

This water and land is indeed a bit steep, and it is basically impossible to go upstream.

Purely natural rivers are not suitable for navigation by human cargo ships.

Lawrence looked at the mountains behind him. He could no longer see the area where the manor was located, but he could see the location of Ugg Mountain.

After seeing a quiet apiary in his field of vision, Lawrence recalled the memory of his previous exploration.

At that time, I was exploring the downstream area with Kehalan. There was a water surface with a big drop in front.
Thinking of this, Lawrence sat down and said, "Sariel, I remember there is a hanging water and land in front of me."

Saliel saw Lawrence sitting down and followed suit.

The ship soon reached a drop of more than one meter, and the entire ship fell to the water like it was drifting.

Both Saryl and Sophia kept their balance by holding on to the ship.

Lawrence sat on the bow of the boat and looked ahead. The front had entered a strange area, an area that Lawrence had not explored.

From the beginning to the present, most of the areas within Lawrence's territory have been explored step by step by Lawrence himself. However, with the expansion of territory and population, Lawrence has also begun to accept the exploration results of others.

Lawrence looked at the boatman behind him, "What will we encounter next?"

Turaka said respectfully: "Prophet, there is a wide river ahead. There are many big fish in the river that like to jump. You need to be careful not to dirty your clothes with those big fish."

Sariel raised her shield and said happily: "Leave it to me!"

Sofia also said happily: "I will discover them in advance!"

Lawrence said: "Are these big fish that like to jump out the forest people's main food?"

Tukara explained: "No, forest people think that eating this kind of fish will make you sick, so they don't eat this kind of fish. Instead, they eat fruits and wild beasts in the forest."

"I once split a fish and looked at it. There were a lot of disgusting bugs in the flesh of these fish. I thought it was best not to eat this kind of fish."

Lawrence thought for a few seconds, "How big is this fish?"

Turaka said: "It's about a meter long, there are some bigger ones too."

Lawrence felt that he was in a bit of trouble. "Since the fish here are so big, the animals that feed on this fish will not be too small. It is very likely that there will be big guys like the Earth Fury Bear."

Turaka said: "There is a very big water snake, but this snake only comes here in spring and summer. According to the forest people, this snake will not eat people."

Lawrence did not speak, but had already begun to think about how to hunt the giant creature in the water.

Sariel knew Lawrence's temperament very well and asked, "Are we going to kill that snake?"

Lawrence affirmed: "In my territory, no creatures that can threaten ordinary people are allowed to appear." (End of Chapter)