Lord Helanza

The volcanic ash is flying and falling, like gray snow in the sky.

The air exudes a strong sulphur smell, and the inhaled air is dry and hot. Working in this dry and hot environment makes the body easy to dehydration.

A group of masons with white cotton masks on their faces and long leather boots on their feet, carrying picks, sledgehammers, crowbars, chisels and water bladders on their waists, and wicker on their backs. The basket, just walked out of the tent, and entered the Fire Mountain Cliff channel full of stalagmites. After seeing the sulfur ore on the stalagmites, these masons basically didn’t care about how thick the sulfur was. The stone layer, round the iron pick, and start quarrying in a frenzy.

One Silver Coin every day, the labor subsidy has made the villagers motivated. It is the first day of coming to Pustule Mountain. Everyone is full of energy and is ready to gather a batch of goods as soon as possible. Let the carriage team leave in time.

Twenty horses stopped at the camp at the foot of Pyobao Mountain. They cost more to eat and chew every day than the villagers. The stonemason worried that once they had eaten up the soy ingredients, they would wait for these horses to meet. I won’t grab wheat cakes with them...

These sulphur is loose in texture. As long as the surface of the stalagmite is exposed, the iron pickaxe will break up when it hits it, and all the fine sulphur ore will be packed into a wicker basket. These stalagmites are very hard. It takes a lot of effort to extract the sulfur ore hidden in the stalagmites, and sometimes even smash the entire stalagmites open.

In order to avoid dehydration, Surdak requires these villagers to drink some light salt water every once in a while.

Moreover, the climatic conditions in this area are too hot. Surdak sets the time of quarrying around dawn and dusk. Once the scorching sun reaches the mountainside of the pustule mountain, all villagers are required to withdraw their tents to rest. The villagers encountered many stalagmites exposed outside of sulfur mines. A wicker basket of sulfur mines had already been mined. For some stalagmites that were difficult to mine, the villagers also dug out at least half a basket of sulfur mines.

The villagers were busy in the stalagmite forest. They were excited when they heard the whistle to stop work. They were a little confused for a while, but they still carried the wicker from the stalagmite forest in the chaotic area. The basket came out.

Back to the camp, Surdak found that the collected leaves were packed in a tent and everyone talking at once whispered.

Wait for Surdak to walk in from outside, sit down in the middle of the tent, and ask the villagers about the mining of sulfur mines.

"I think we can do a little longer, you guys say, don't you? Dark..." Under the instigation of others, the big black man was the first to stand up and shoot.

Behind the big black man sat a middle-aged uncle. He stretched out his hand and slapped the back of the big black man's head, and said angrily: "You must be honored Lord Surdak Knight, you smelly brat!"

The big black man clutched his head, daring not to speak up at the violence of the middle-aged uncle.

"Everyone should call my name directly." Surdak slightly smiled and said to the villagers in the tent.

A villager sitting next to Surdak took the opportunity to say: "Duck, I think we can increase the time to work a little bit. How can we just walk out of the tent and have no food in my stomach? After digestion, we must return to the tent to rest. If Bright Uncle knows that we are so lazy, we may deduct our subsidy. You can see how difficult it is to earn some subsidy..."

In the tent The villagers nodded one after another, and they obviously think so too.

Surdak shook the head. He signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "You may continue to dig here for half a month. The environment here is difficult, and a lot of losses are lost every day. Moisture, although we are not short of drinking water, our body is always in such a hot state, it is prone to problems, so everyone must maintain physical strength."

"Half a month is about to start the autumn harvest , Everyone’s health can’t be worn down. This time I bring this batch of goods back to Wall Village, and I will definitely bring enough supplies."

After Surdak said, most of the villagers fell silent. Obviously Everyone also has some concerns.

The big black man yelled again from behind, "Then we must at least follow the rules of other quarries. This is the sulfur mine in Wall Village. It doesn’t make sense. High wages, oh~ Bah! The subsidy, but it takes less time than other quarries to work!"

Surdak gave the big black man a little speechlessly. Are you the old village chief? The spy sent?

"Considering environmental factors, these subsidies are still very reasonable, and here I have the final say, everyone will implement this standard for the time being, and I will personally persuade Bright uncle. The conditions here are still difficult. After a little bit, when the life in our village slowly gets better, everyone's subsidy can be improved." Surdak said in a final word.

……

By the evening of the 3rd day, the first batch of sulphur mines were all ready, and they were put in a canvas pocket and hung on both sides of the saddle. Each horse carries two bags of sulphur ore. There are a total of 20 horses carrying goods. The remaining three horses are exclusively for riding. The first sulphur ore transport team in Wall Village is officially established.

Surdak, Charlie, and Wall were responsible for transporting the first batch of sulfur mines back to Wall Village, while Luke and the other two young people stayed at the Temporary Camp in Qibao Mountain to take care of the sulfur here. In the mine, Surdak, Charlie, and Vaal led a series of horses before dawn on the fourth morning and set off on the way back to the village early.

After the horse team went out for about 30 miles, the floating volcanic ash in the sky was reduced to almost nothing. When a small amount of sea buckthorn grass appeared on the limestone ground, a group of sand wolves appeared in the horizon. At the other end, the gray fur on their bodies can almost fuse together with limestone. If they hadn't appeared from the height of the rock mass, Surdak would have been unable to find them.

And this group of sand wolves probably also discovered Surdak entire group. Only three people dare to appear behind the horse team so blatantly. There are probably more than 30 sand wolves, and the head wolf is standing. The front end of the entire wolf pack is a Wolf King that is much larger than other sand wolves.

Charlie noticed that Surdak's horse suddenly stopped. He followed Surdak's gaze and saw the group of sand wolves in the distance. He was so scared that he almost fell off the horse's back.

After Charlie calmed down, he thought that he was a team of horses. If these horses ran, the sand wolves would not be able to catch up, so he said to Surdak, "Duck, it’s those sand wolves... …Let’s go quickly. If you go overnight, you can return to Wall Village in a day and a half. They don’t dare to approach the human village easily, as long as......"