Banner of the Evil God

Outside the town of Pyroxene, near the artificial mine site, a few clusters of flowers appeared. They were not very dense, but they were quite neat. If we follow a certain courtyard decoration style on Earth that is good at seeing the big in the small, it can barely be considered a landscape.

These clusters of flowers certainly did not fall from the sky, but were transplanted by Sui Xiong from somewhere else.

He transplanted these clusters of flowers, on the one hand, to see how the soil here was purified and whether it could allow more fragile plants to survive. On the other hand, he felt that a village without flowers was incomplete, and life without flowers to appreciate lacked the necessary interest.

This is undoubtedly a manifestation of the thoughts of a literary youth. If he was a science student who liked to shout "technology creates the world, technology changes life", or an engineering student who advocated fire and steel, he would never have such an idea.

But the people of Pyroxene Town like these flowers very much. Many people ran to the vicinity of the construction site and looked around the flowers again and again. If Felix had not been notified in advance and had built a fence around the flowers, perhaps many people would have tried to pick one and take it home.

Of course, for the entire Pyroxene Town, the flowers are just a small episode. The other two things are really important.

The first thing: relying on the purified land, Felix found a resident who had been a vegetable farmer before coming to the northwest to make a living, and found a few people with good farming skills to help, and reclaimed a small vegetable field.

The vegetables they planted are the famous "little green vegetables". This is a kind of vegetable that grows very fast and has relatively loose requirements for soil and environment. As long as the land is not barren and there is enough water and sunlight, it can grow into a green piece in half a month, and it can be picked after about a month.

This kind of vegetable has a strong vitality. When picking it, just leave a few leaves on it, and it will grow many new leaves again in a short time. It is one of the most favorite vegetables of the middle and lower classes.

Of course, it also has disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that it is not good at competing with weeds for water and fertilizer. If there is no farmer to take care of it, the vegetable field will become a weed in a few days.

Fortunately, there are not many weeds in the Ash Forest. There is not even a single small plant that can thrive in this environment, not even the golden vine. Without the support of magic energy, even the golden vine cannot grow in this damn place.

So the farmer who was in charge of growing vegetables soon found that he could do all the work in the field by himself, and he didn't need more help at all.

So his original assistants were transferred to build the outer fence.

The outer fence is a simple fence built with wood about 200 to 300 meters outside the town, forming a circle.

This is certainly not to deal with the skeleton tide, but to prevent robbers or monsters. Of course, no one expects that a circle of wooden fences can stop robbers or monsters, but they can effectively buy a buffer time and greatly reduce the damage to villagers and caravans.

For a long time, the four towns in the northwest have always wanted to build such a fence. But until today, except for the completion of Longhou Town, even the most prosperous Rye Town has not completed this project.

In the final analysis, it's because of money.

This investment is not small, and it depends on the rich people in the town to pay for it, but the beneficiaries after completion are mainly civilians and small businessmen. For the rulers of the town, it is a loss-making thing. So even if they know that it is very beneficial to the whole town, no one is willing to pay for it.

Even the fence of Longhou Town was not built by the mayor, but by the monster hunters who were bored in the winter, and they slowly built it up with a stake and a piece of wood.

However, now that Felix is ​​the mayor, although she is also a businessman, she has lived in the Void Face Amusement Park for many years, and her horizons have broadened a lot. With Sui Xiong's advice behind her, she quickly thought of this project and put it into practice.

Although the construction of this project will waste the labor originally used for production and greatly affect the income of the town, Felix doesn't care about the income. Even if there is no investment from the Void Face Amusement Park, it is not difficult for a high-level mage to build a large circle of fences with his wealth.

If Sui Xiong hadn't advised her "Don't do everything yourself, let the residents feel their presence", I'm afraid she would have waved her wand and cast a spell to create a fence.

The biggest problem of Pyroxene Town is the lack of population. The total labor force of the entire town is so small. Some of it is occupied by farmland and vegetable fields, and some by warehouses and a few shops. Although the artificial mines have temporarily stopped working, they still need manpower for daily maintenance... In the end, only more than 20 people can be sent to build the fence. Relying on this small number of people, they cut wood, trim wood, dig pits, drive piles, and tie wood strips to piles... When the entire project was completed and Pyroxene Town was finally surrounded by a circle of fences, the caravans had come several times.

Since the establishment of the Void Mask Amusement Park, the security situation in the four northwest towns has improved a lot. The former political officer Liv often sent adventurers to track down the whereabouts of the bandits, and then sent elite soldiers to hunt them down. Among them, her younger sister, Miss Nice, who was good at flying combat, made outstanding contributions. Few bandits could escape detection from the air, and once their whereabouts were confirmed, it was almost equivalent to a death sentence.

Because there are fewer bandits, there are naturally more merchants. However, what merchants like now is the long-distance business from Rye Town to the Void Mask Amusement Park. In comparison, the profits of the business within the four towns are a bit small. In addition to some bulk commodities, other businesses are gradually only done by small merchants.

There are no caravans in winter. After the spring, the weather has to warm up before merchants dare to travel in the northwest forest. However, when the weather warms up completely, there will be more caravans. For example, the caravan similar to the one where Mr. Palin, the librarian of the Void Mask Church, worked as an accountant when he was young, will come every two or three days in summer.

Even though it is not very warm now, there are still many caravans passing by. They brought a lot of necessary goods, such as food, seasonings, textiles, daily necessities, various sundries, etc. And what they purchased from Pyroxene Town were naturally the low-grade gems produced by the gem veins. They couldn't afford the high-grade ones, and they were unwilling to take the risk of doing such a large-scale transaction.

The shops in Pyroxene Town have been integrated and managed by Harman. Daily groceries, food, necessities, and other items are clearly divided. The renovated house is spacious and bright, enough to display a variety of goods on the counter, making it clear at a glance, and some unused houses have been converted into warehouses or left vacant.

This also speeds up the transaction. Merchants no longer need to negotiate with each store. As long as the goods are genuine and the price is reasonable, Harman, who has sufficient funds, does not mind stockpiling more, anyway, everyone needs it.

In this way, the rumor that "Pyroxene Town seems to have money" gradually spread, and soon, robbers actually came.

"Uh, what should we do with these guys?" Qiao Xiu, with sparks in his nose, carried a few pale and trembling robbers back to the town like chickens, and threw them at the door of the mayor's office. He was not afraid that those people would run away, and swaggered in to discuss with Felix.

"Those few scared bastards dare to learn to be robbers?" Felix glanced at the door, frowned, and said in confusion, "Am I not keeping up with the times? Or is the Ash Forest too safe now?"

As she said, the Ash Forest is not a safe place. Skeletons, monsters, and various monsters... Those who can be robbers in such a place are generally some strength or at least more courageous. But looking at those guys lying on the ground trembling and motionless, they don't look like they have the ability to make money here.

"I killed the two leaders." Qiao Xiu smiled and said, "I haven't been able to control my strength well yet. I beat the two people...piecemeal, and they were scared."

Felix suddenly realized and couldn't help laughing: "No wonder! Then I'll put magic collars on them and let them do labor."

She took out a few magic collars that had been made long ago and asked someone to put them on the scared robbers.

Once you put on the magic collar, you can't escape or resist. They can mark the location of the criminals and release electric current to punish them. They are a widely used torture device.

After the bandits were put on the magic collar, although they looked gloomy, they were relieved.

In any case, at least they didn't have to be hanged immediately.

For the Pyroxene Town, this means a few more strong laborers, and they only need to provide food and don't need to pay a penny.

This made Phyrex, who had been suffering from a shortage of manpower, have some discordant thoughts, so she contacted the Void Mask Playground and found Niss, who had a good relationship with her.

"You want me to help find bandits, then capture them and escort them to Pyroxene Town to serve as laborers?" Niss asked doubtfully, "Are you so short of manpower there?"

"Of course, very short of manpower."

"But there may be fewer bandits recently..." Ash Forest's top flying policewoman said thoughtfully, "Now that the weather is cold, many bandits are active in the south. It will take some time before they come to Ash Forest."

"It doesn't matter, just capture as many as you can." Phylex said with a smile, "Anyway, I'm always short of manpower here, no matter how many come, it won't be enough."

Niss thought for a while and asked again, "Are there any requirements for race or anything like that?"

"How can I be picky now! As long as I can understand what people say and have some strength to do things, that's fine."

So, Niss, who has been cared for by Phylex in the past few years and has learned a lot of air combat skills from him, set out.

Half a month later, the first batch of bandits were sent to Pyroxene Town.

Seeing these dusty and anxious guys, Phylex couldn't help laughing.

"Next, we just need to recruit some more pioneers!"

(I have something to do tomorrow morning so I have to go to bed early today. Sorry, I will only update one chapter today...)