Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Climbing a mountain and dying is just an exaggeration.

Even if Locke really wanted to do this, the elf knight next to him would not allow it.

Before setting off, His Majesty had specifically warned them to ensure the safety of Chief Locke.

Although Zhou Xu no longer has any expectations for Locke's future, at this stage, as an extraordinary mage, Locke's value cannot be ignored.

Zhou Xu's arrangement for him was not so much giving up, but rather letting Locke enter semi-retirement early.

When necessary, just let Locke take action. There is no need to impose any work or training requirements on him on weekdays. After all, he is old.

After estimating the distance, it took Locke almost half a day to climb almost a quarter of the mountain road. The elf knight who accompanied him the whole way couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The elf knights who have been here know clearly that the first half of the mountain road is relatively easy to walk, but the second half is much more difficult.

According to the efficiency of Chief Locke's mountain climbing, he would not be able to climb anywhere tomorrow, and accidents would easily happen in the process.

"Well, Chief Locke, let me carry you up the mountain."

After half a day of climbing down the mountain, although Locke did not change his mind, his body had long since become honest. Now that he heard the elf knight's proposal, he had no intention of rejecting it.

I just heard him cough twice...

"Then...I'm sorry to trouble you."

As an old man, he is an Elf by blood, so Locke doesn't feel too embarrassed at the moment.

After hearing this, the elf knight had no idea. He picked up Locke and rushed towards the location of the Life Spirit Tree.

Locke's body can only be said to be thin. For an elf knight, it is not considered heavy. Coupled with the results of martial arts training in the past few years, now that he is running around in the mountains and forests with Locke on his back, the performance of the elf knight It's pretty easy to do.

Compared with when Locke climbed the mountain by himself, the entire movement efficiency was more than twice as fast.

Before it got dark, Locke finally saw with his own eyes the thousand-year life tree located in the center of the mountain col!

Although Locke had already seen ordinary and even century-level life spirit trees on the way here, after seeing this thousand-year-level life spirit tree, Locke's entire mood was still uncontrollably high. stand up.

In the process of casting different spells, the energy converted by the power of truth is also different. The mantra spells of their wood elves convert life energy, which also makes Locke, an extraordinary mage, particularly sensitive to life energy.

At this moment, he could clearly feel the rich life energy emanating from the thousand-year-old life spirit tree in front of him!

"The thousand-year-level life spirit tree is really the thousand-year-level life spirit tree!!"

Locke's mental state at this moment made the elf knights beside him a little worried.

I was afraid that the old patriarch would get too excited and something would go wrong.

However, his worries are actually unnecessary. Although Locke's physical fitness is poor, he has been nourished by his own life energy all year round. His body is still very healthy, and he is not likely to get into trouble when he gets excited.

After seeing this thousand-year-level life spirit tree, it was almost dark. After dark, it was okay to let the elf knight go down the mountain by himself, but carrying a Locke on his back was undoubtedly a bit dangerous.

"It's definitely too late to go down the mountain now. I can only rest on the mountain for one night and go back down the mountain early tomorrow morning."

Having said this, the elf knight turned his head and looked at the small camp on the side.

"There should be tents in the campground for us to spend the night."

There is a small camp at this mountain col.

Of course, it's called a camp, but it's actually just a few tents.

The people who live here are the staff who are responsible for taking care of this thousand-year life spirit tree.

After all, with such an important resource, Zhou Xu would definitely not be able to encircle the mountain and leave it alone. Out of caution, the status of this life spirit tree must be confirmed every day.

This night, they had a good rest. I don't know if it was the life energy emitted by the Life Spirit Tree that nourished his tired body. The Elf Knight felt that after sleeping, his entire state was basically restored.

Without hesitation, after waiting for Locke to look at the Life Spirit Tree a few more times, he quickly carried him down the mountain.

At the port at the foot of Qingshui Mountain, the ship they took had been waiting for them.

Arrive at the port of Green Forest City by boat, get off the boat and take a carriage, and you can go directly to the wood elf village.

After sending Locke to the village, the elf knight who completed the task was secretly relieved. He did not rest in the village and rushed back to the port of Green Forest City that day, preparing to take a boat back to Black Moon City to return to his life.

After this, the season changes from summer to autumn.

This autumn, the grain production within Dazhou has further improved.

It’s not that the southern farm has increased its scale, but that this spring, the farm in the New Taipei District has started farming.

This fall, New Taipei District was finally able to harvest its first batch of grain since the reconstruction project began.

In fact, compared with the farming environment in the southern region, whether it is the New South District or the New Taipei District, the farming conditions for their crops can only be considered average.

If Zhou Xu was pursuing an extreme idea, he should demolish all the farms in New Taipei District and even New South District and replace them with other industries.

Then all the grain production work will be moved to the southern border, and the areas with the best farming conditions will be responsible for all grain output.

But Zhou Xu's thinking is obviously not like this.

In his opinion, this idea is somewhat extreme.

Yes, in a region, he will appropriately let some cities with less suitable environments for farming give up farming and focus on the development of other industries.

But! Each region must have its own independent grain production capacity, which is his bottom line.

Just like Xianyang City and Green Forest City in the New South District, and Black Moon City are the best examples.

This arrangement, on the one hand, takes into account the transportation cost.

If the grain is all produced in the South Border, then the farther away from the South Border, the more expensive their grain prices will become, considering the transportation cost.

On the other hand, it takes into account the ability to deal with unexpected situations.

Food is the most fundamental resource, which is directly related to the life and death of the people.

If something unexpected happens one day, the grain from other regions cannot be transported, or it is too late to be transported, the region itself has a certain grain production capacity, which can survive at a critical moment!

At the same time, starting from the autumn of this year, the grain reserves in their Great Zhou, which had been tight for several years due to the reconstruction project in the New North District and the war in the southern border, finally began to grow rapidly.

This also indicated that their Great Zhou had finally completely gotten rid of the influence of the previous war and entered a new stage of rapid development!