Devouring Evolution Begins with Hedgehogs

Tobias didn't answer, and Fuel Steel didn't continue to ask.

The biting cold night continued to immerse the faint lights, just like the silence that almost swallowed the two of them.

After a long time, Tobias sighed and looked up at the burning steel.

The light still couldn't penetrate his hood, but in vain left half light and half light on Tobias' face.

"Fueling Steel. It's been ten years, and you still refuse to give yourself back your freedom?"

"Freedom? Since that incident, in the past ten years, which day has I not been free?" The echo in the furnace was still cold and hollow, leaving a weak hiss like gradually cooling slag.

The corner of Tobias's mouth twitched for a while, and he spit out a few words indistinctly, almost as subtle as a breeze.

But it was this undetectable wind that caused the furnace to roar and burn, almost like a volcano spewing out endless angry flames!

"Accident?! You went down to the Isterian abyss and said to the ghost guarding the gate of Hell, 'This was just an accident', will he return my Windsor!"

A mouthful of thick phlegm flew from across the table and slammed heavily on Tobias' face.

Tobias didn't move, just let it trickle down his face.

It's as if a poor painter added an extra tear to Tobias's eternal snake face.

The blazing flame roared angrily: "For Windsor's sake, I warn you for the last time, Tobias! Don't let me see you and the dirty and despicable shadow behind you again! I would rather Rotten here at Ross, rotten in the cornfields and composted, and never going back!"

"Dirty and mean?" Tobias finally moved.

Lifting the hood casually, Tobias almost roared out!

"Dirty and despicable? You mean here? Or here? Or here?" He raised one hand, pointed to several parts of his body, and then threw his words back at the burning steel like a javelin!

"What's the use of talking about something like this that has long been in your blood? Even if you rot into the dung in the cornfield, can you feed the killer who will avenge you! Could it be for you? Did my sister take revenge!"

Blazing Youzi was angry and sad, but no sound came out.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar man in front of him, Tobias hesitated and took out the last straw.

"After this task is completed, there will be an opportunity to meet at the headquarters."

"An audience?"

"Yes, to meet, and to meet the interpreter directly, you go with me."

Ran Gang raised his head and looked directly into Tobias' eyes.

At this moment, Tobias almost thought that he was looking directly at a piece of red steel!

"Is this true?"

Tobias raised his finger and pointed to his forehead.

"Use my head as a guarantee."

After speaking, Tobias felt in his arms, took out a thick envelope, and handed it to Burning Steel.

Ran Gang didn't even look at it, just grabbed the envelope and stuffed it into his robe.Then he stood up, his tall figure almost hitting the low ceiling of the shed.

"I'm waiting for you and fulfilling your promise."

Looking down at Tobias in front of him, Ran Gang coldly dropped the last sentence, then kicked the already shaky wooden door away, and walked away.

The darkness came with the cold wind, and Tobias was completely engulfed in it.

Outside another hut in the Dilos mine, a tall and muscular figure appeared in front of the door.

Ran Gang stretched out his hand, groped for a while in an inconspicuous hole beside the door of the shed, and then pushed the door open.

"Clang"

A rope hangs from above the door, and a nail plate at the end of the rope shakes feebly in the air.

If he hadn't loosened the mechanism in advance, the nail plate would have stuck to the intruder's face the moment the door was opened.

However, it was just a nail board, and as long as the intruder had a little strength, it was unlikely to be harmed.The role of this small agency is only to declare the sovereignty of this place.

As for those idiots who can't even see through this mechanism, most of them are sleeping in the cornfield.

Besides, judging from the situation in the house, there is really nothing to take.

Pushing away the shaking nail board, Ran Gang walked into the shed and stood in front of the mirror.

It is said to be a mirror, but it is actually just a piece of iron that is barely polished and smooth.In the shed, almost all kinds of simple utensils are handmade with this iron sheet.

And in the corner of the shed, a blanket that has been used for an unknown period of time and has become so black that its original color cannot be seen at all, is on a pile of torn cotton wool, playing the role of a quilt.

During Rangang's wandering journey in the past ten years, I can't remember how many such "homes" there were.

In front of the mirror, Ran Gang took off his burqa slowly, and untied the cloth strips wrapped around his body layer by layer.

Although the mirror was simple and worn out, it still fulfilled its task very well, reflecting the muscular man completely and clearly.

There is no complete skin on a man's body.

Knife wounds, gunshot wounds, burns, and even a few large and small scars that seemed to be bitten by some kind of beast, almost weaving a web on the man's body!
And on his chest, there was a very shallow knife wound that almost ran across the entire chest.

At the beginning of the knife wound, there was a rather deep wound. It seemed that the murderer originally intended to pierce it in with a knife, but for some reason he withdrew his hand hastily, which cut through the man's entire chest.

No matter what kind of wound, it has turned into a small scar on the man's body, which shows the strength of his body.

Only the wound on the chest, almost as if it had never healed, still maintained the original rolled-up state.

The flesh on the edge of the wound had all dried up, and at this moment, the man's fingers were slowly brushing over the dry flesh, almost as gentle as brushing over a lover's face.

It just looked weird and scary.

It's not that it can't be healed, but that the burning steel deliberately kept it.

In that confrontation ten years ago, she recognized Fugang, but Fugang didn't recognize her.

So on Ran Gang's chest, she left such a scar; and in Ran Gang's heart, he pierced his entire world with his own hands.

During these ten years of wandering, this wound was like a bellows, stirring the fire of vengeance in his chest all the time!

In this way, he took this group of inextinguishable flames, and climbed step by step towards the exit of the abyss, but fell back into the abyss again and again.

This abyss called "Shadow of Order" is too huge and too far-reaching.

And tonight, at the bottom of this abyss, he finally caught a glimpse of some stars.It has been three months since the drop-eared melon and white-leaf melon were cultivated in the alchemy workshop.

During these three months, Liu Ergou and a large group of people reclaimed a large area of ​​farmland outside the city, introduced irrigation water from the moat, and began to grow these two food crops on a large scale.

Even after sufficient irrigation, the loess in the planting area has just turned into yellow mud, which is still very barren.Fortunately, the two crops cultivated by Doris are able to "endure hardships and stand hard work" and grow quite well.

So today, three months later, Liu Ergou has harvested enough grain to fill three granaries.

Fortunately, at the beginning of Yastun's design, sufficient room was left for the construction of the large granary.Therefore, there are now twenty large granaries in Beiyuan City, and they are not the simple cellar-like granaries of the past.

Among these granaries, three are now filled with dried meat, and one is filled with semi-finished products of various herbs.Coupled with the newly harvested three warehouses of grain today, the reserves in Beiyuan City are quite sufficient today.

In addition to the three warehouses of grain harvested, some of the harvest was actually buried in the ground by Liu Ergou's order.In this way, after a winter of decomposition, the fertility of the land will be greatly improved when the next spring begins.

In De Lisi's alchemy workshop, several new fruits and vegetables have been successfully cultivated.In this way, by this time next year, the residents of Beiyuan City can basically solve the problem of malnutrition.

However, even now, the living standards of the residents have been greatly improved.

Changing from the barrenness and poverty of the past, today's residents have long been accustomed to a life where they can easily buy food and meat in the market. Not only the bodies of Olo and Mais have become stronger, but the number of newborns has also increased. Substantially improved.

As for the money used to buy things, it is naturally the newly minted coins in the city.

When deciding on the shape of this coin, all the participants unanimously decided to use the giant tree of origin in the center of the city as the front pattern of the coin to commemorate the development of Beiyuan City.

But for the pattern on the reverse side, a few old fellows headed by Erlanster, for some reason, decided to cast Liu Ergou's head on it!

Naturally, Xilia, Avril and others would not object, and even Doris, for some reason, quite supported this proposal!As for the people like Abel Budley, they were also booing from the sidelines.

Is it possible that my big face will be engraved on coins and flow to the whole continent in the future?Liu Ergou brainstormed about this scene, and immediately decided to reject this proposal no matter what!
In the end, Liu Ergou's head was spared from being cast on the coin under the pressure of the city lord himself to die.In its place is a long sword with two crossed handles, with a giant gear superimposed in the middle.

This is the city emblem designed by Liu Ergou himself, but to be honest, the idea is to copy the metal plate found in the ruins.
Anyway, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, the group of elves on the opposite side of the sacred forest will not come all the way here just to find trouble with their own copyrights.

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In addition to these, De Lisi has also made great progress in the cultivation of several kinds of herbs.

Today's Beiyuan City has the ability to manufacture several commonly used medicines; and in order to increase production, Doris also specially requisitioned a large house and converted the second floor into a greenhouse dedicated to growing rare medicinal herbs.

As for the first floor, it was naturally converted into a pharmacy that manufactures and sells medicines.And Avril Lavigne sits behind the counter bored every day, acting as a doctor and pharmacist in Beiyuan City.

It's really hard for Avril to let a rabbit sit in the same place all day long and not run around.

The only fly in the ointment is that the cultivation of cotton and flax is still affected by the climate and has not formed an ideal scale.

With the current production capacity, I am afraid that it is not enough to provide cotton clothes and quilts for the whole city. Most people still rely on traditional methods such as burning firewood to survive the cold and harsh winter in Beiyuan.

So recently, Liu Ergou specially set up a team to collect firewood for the winter in the nearby woods.At that time, the firewood will be distributed to each resident free of charge according to the needs, which can be regarded as the first citizen welfare of Beiyuan City.

Liu Ergou also plans to use future tax revenues to build more public service facilities.But that's for the future, at least for now, he, the lord, hasn't collected taxes from the people.

In addition to Beiyuan City, the advance base on the edge of the Sunset Mountains has more than doubled in size.

The current advance base not only has city walls and fortifications similar in size to Beiyuan City, but also has a series of complete facilities such as dormitories, granaries, and pharmacies.

After further optimizing the production process, the materials consumed by the charged crossbow arrows have been greatly reduced, but the power and range have not been greatly affected.

After testing, a fully charged crossbow arrow can blast a large pit on the ground with a diameter of ten meters and a depth of two or three meters!And the range has reached 700 meters!
And for such charged crossbows, each dragon hunting crossbow is equipped with a full twenty rounds!Three ballistas fired in unison, even if the gargoyle lord was reborn, he would be blasted to pieces!

Now leading the advance base is the gargoyles led by Winston.These gargoyles had already proved their loyalty to Liu Ergou with their own performance, so Liu Ergou was relieved to hand over the advance base to him.

But today, there are only a few guards in the forward base.Everyone else was recalled to Beiyuan City, even Winston, who was the chief.

At this moment, except for the guards who still need to fulfill their duties, everyone in the city gathered in the central square, looking at Liu Ergou on the terrace of the clock tower.

Today, the big clock of the clock tower will be unveiled, and today will be celebrated as Beiyuan City's Harvest Day!
Looking at the excited, contented, happy, and slightly expectant faces on the square, Liu Ergou now feels that he finally has his own roots in this strange world.

Not only myself, this Beiyuan City built by everyone with their own hands is the common root of everyone here, including Xilia.

Scanning around again, Liu Ergou took out a pocket watch.This pocket watch was borrowed from Yaya Situn, the only timekeeping tool in the city so far.

Glancing at the time, Liu Ergou turned around and ordered to Hoffman who had already prepared

"Ring the bell!"

"Okay!" Hoffman ordered, and immediately began to vigorously shake a turntable next to him.

With the drive of the turntable, the entire set of mechanical structures designed by Hammer began to run with a bang!Every time Hoffman shakes the turntable, the big clock swings once driven by this complex mechanical structure.

Eighteen tones, the eighteen ringing bells, are recorded in the newly compiled "Beiyuan City Code" as the most solemn ceremony of Beiyuan City.

Today, these eighteen bells not only represent the laying of the cornerstone of Beiyuan City, but also represent the city's new beginning.