High Above

It was another morning.

With the gradual dawn of dawn, the entire Port of Harrison seemed to be waking up and rejuvenated.

The port has already resumed work, and the voices of caravans, horses, and pedestrians are noisy. A mountain ox nearly one and a half tall is dragging a huge truck over the mud and rocks, and the dust is flying.

The hawking of roadside stalls and shops, the aroma of fish soup and wheat cakes, and the shouts of boatmen all make the residents of this city feel very cordial.

Today, it is October 9th.

Twenty days have passed since that terrible storm and invasion.

For more than 20 days, the destroyed urban area could not be rebuilt, the damaged city walls could not be repaired, the city guards with heavy casualties could not be prepared, and the town network centered on Port Harrison could not be restored, and even the outer walls of the Viscount's Mansion could not be restored. None of the walls were repaired.

However, on the ruins ravaged by the crocodile dragon, temporary shanties have been built one after another. This is a building that imitates the indigenous huts. Although it is simple, it can house many refugees whose houses have been damaged.

Viscount Grant is not a good nobleman who loves the people like his own son. In fact, everyone knows how much taxation around Harrison Port is... But at the very least, he collects a lot and does a lot.

This is better than 90% of the nobles and officials in the empire.

After three weeks of rest, the city has resumed normal operation, and aid materials and craftsmen from Nauman City and Three Rivers City are arriving in an endless stream.

This is not because of good intentions, but because all fools know that if Harrison Port falls, no one will be able to stop the increasingly united aboriginal invasion in the southern border.

Rather than being rushed into the city by the crocodile dragon and making a fuss, it is better to give more money and supplies and let others take the lead.

The reconstruction of the city will not happen overnight. It will take at least one or two years to restore the southwest and northwest urban areas destroyed by the crocodile dragon.

But white paper is easy to draw on. Because the aborigines were seriously injured, all the aboriginal camps on the west bank of the Ewok River were pulled out at the very beginning of the war. Viscount Grant wanted to overthrow the severely damaged western city wall, and only kept a small section as a memorial. A new urban area centered on a new alchemy workshop.

In addition, he also planned to build a stone bridge across the Ewok River, build a new city and a group of sentry towers on the other side of the river, and completely suppress the sphere of influence of the natives back to the big redwood forest.

Of course, this is actually just incidental. The main purpose of Viscount Grant is to get rid of the current architectural planning of Harrison Port, build several large-scale residential areas and workshop parks in the new city, and use this as a starting point to gradually transform the dilapidated Port Harrison was transformed into a truly large seaport city.

Harrison Port was expanded by the fort back then. Many designs were unreasonable and there was not enough land left for the future. Now, taking advantage of the pain of the natives and the destruction of the old city, it is time to transform it into a more Sturdy and reasonable.

As for where the money will come from...

From the defeated natives, of course.

There are more than one hundred different tribes in the redwood forest natives, including four large tribes and more than a dozen medium-sized tribes. The others are not worth mentioning, they are just vassals of other tribes.

Although the native coalition failed, Port Harrison could not enter the Elephant Bone Mountain, and the foundation of the big tribe would not be shaken... The forces of other tribes were forced to shrink.

Some can retreat to the sea of ​​trees, or even go to the western redwood forest on the other side of Elephant Bone Mountain to recuperate, but other indigenous tribes who cannot retreat have only the last choice if they do not want to perish.

That is to follow the orders of Port Harrison.

Just like the saying that has been circulated among the indigenous people in recent years-Port Harrison is a tribe, and the empire is also a bigger tribe.

We are all human beings. Is there really any essential difference between being a vassal of other big tribes and being a vassal of an empire?

This question is not easy to say, but all in all, Viscount Grant accepted a large amount of compensation, and wiped out several recalcitrant tribes in Port Harrison, and traded the captured indigenous resources to obtain a lot of reconstruction resources and funds.

Coupled with the southern development intention revealed by God, it can be predicted that Harrison Port will become more prosperous in the future.

It's just that, compared to the steady and positive Harrison Port, Ian's mood has not been very high recently.

Because recently, he often has strange hallucinations.

Simply put, no matter when and where, he will suddenly see some inexplicable things.

For example, some stones, a few unknown people, overgrown vegetation, or a quiet lake...

The most bizarre time was when he saw a black figure wearing a pumpkin head dancing a weird and intense dance surrounded by a group of people. The puzzled Ian went to ask his teacher, and Hilliard Surprised, it was a special sacrificial dance in Yanjiang, the country in the extreme north, to celebrate the harvest.

It was incredible for Ian to be able to see the sacrificial scene in such a distant place, and he called Ian's talent.

But no matter how unbelievable, talented and talented, Vision still affects life.

Irregular, never repeated, unpredictable, and unstoppable, even when Ian was dreaming, strange images like goblins playing cards would suddenly pop up in Ian's dreams.

It has nothing to do with sleep quality, physical fitness, or strange diseases.

According to Hilliard's examination, Ian's health is comparable to that of a young leopard. He believes that there are not many heirs of aristocrats who are better than Ian among his peers, except those who eat source food as snacks since childhood. .

After all, there are not many people who can embark on the road of ascension at such a young age.

It's not a physical reason, nor is it a flash mosquito disease. If you eliminate all the impossible, what remains is the only possibility.

"All of this is probably related to your spiritual power."

After several inspections, Hilliard told Ian about the possibility quite seriously: "You are an acquired psychic, which is different from the natural awakened who can grow psychic power naturally, and is also different from practicing the way of sublimation. , Different sublimators who gradually extract life spiritual energy."

"Your psychic power is your desire. If you want to advance your psychic power, you need to satisfy your desire and keep generating new desires."

"I don't know what your desire is, but I think that you may have accidentally met the conditions for growth, and your spiritual power has improved, but your brain can't bear it, so this critical precursor appears."

Because of this abnormal situation, Ian didn't even attend the commendation ceremony for Viscount Grant.

But it's not a big problem. In terms of publicity, the main credit for repelling the spirit of the mountain tide was attributed to the four city guards stationed in that tower.

And Ian is just an enthusiastic group of people who assist in the maintenance of the alchemy cannon.

On the contrary, this is a kind of protection - after all, the aborigines are not extinct, and the big shaman and the crocodile dragon are still alive. They must hate those who hindered their final victory. Assassination and curse killing are very possible.

What's more, the benefits Ian got far surpassed these superficial glory.

"The Pattern of Canglan", the classic inscription of the ether armament passed down by the Grant family.

Theoretically, only family members can learn the secrets, but because the Grant family has declined in recent decades, and the Grant family has no talents who are good at inscriptions, it can only be learned by outsiders to help maintain the etheric armed forces.

Back then, Elder Purdue learned this classic with the tacit approval of the old Viscount, and combined his own inheritance of dwarven inscriptions, he was able to repair the etheric armament at a sufficient level.

And now, this 'honor' is passed on to Ian.

It has to be said that the inscription knowledge in Canglan Zhiwen is far more complicated than the basic inscription literature taught by Elder Pu De, and there are many knowledge about mechanical engineering, smelting, and material science.

Perhaps for others, the various disciplines and knowledge involved in ether armament are too complicated, even if they are proficient in inscriptions, it is difficult to understand all of them.

But who is Ian?

In his previous life, he was a senior engineer of East Asia Heavy Industries!

Although there is no help from AI assistants and electronic brains, and there is no online database, but with his professional level, it is not too difficult to learn the construction of ether armaments from a high altitude, not to mention rubbing the engine of a battleship with bare hands.

The worst is the worst, at least you can understand the designer's design purpose and method.

It's a bit of a coincidence, Ian began to have frequent hallucinations not long after he learned the Canglan Pattern.

He also thought about whether there was any connection between the two, but he always felt that it was just a coincidence.

After all, if learning some new knowledge will lead to hallucinations, it's too outrageous no matter how you think about it!

"No...not right."

Thinking of this, Ian, who was exercising in the morning, suddenly realized something: "What if my desire is to understand different worlds and new knowledge in the Terra continent?"

"In this case, it may make sense!"

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