Great time travel

Chapter 24, Cyrenaica Colony

Three months later, the Cyrenaica colony

After a period of hard work, a small and exquisite colonial town has taken shape.

From the turbulent Mediterranean Sea, looking at this piece of land that has just been developed, a white lighthouse stands tall on the steep cliff dotted with juniper trees and bushes, guiding the way for merchant ships that may come in the future.At the bottom of the cliff, on the platform near the coastal beach, Japanese immigrants have worked tirelessly to open up terraced fields with high and low levels, planting corn, rice, wheat, barley, potatoes, zucchini, peppers, sweet potatoes, onions, radishes, Cabbage, green vegetables, watermelon, eggplant, sugar cane, cucumber, grapes and other crops.

A series of clear springs rush down from the foothills, and flow happily in the dense irrigation canals, nourishing the dry land.Due to the abundant irrigation and the scorching sun, the growth of various crops is very gratifying, and they are ready to be harvested.

Among these lush green fields, there are hundreds of mushroom-shaped metal huts scattered all over the place, decorated with colored dots, which look like a dreamy fairy tale country.But in fact, due to the strong wind and sand in Cyrenaica and the strong sunlight, these metal mushroom houses are exposed to the sun like a steamer during the day, making people feel like taking a sauna in them, so most people regard them as Instead, they live in several huge underground caves, which are safe and cool, and they can share a set of toilets and bathing facilities, which saves the trouble of installing sewers for every household.

However, they did not hide in the burrow as otaku all day long for the sake of shade, but worked actively every day.

For example, police officer Miyamoto’s default son-in-law and judo master Haoyong Ii led a hunting team, carrying [-] big caps, wandering around in this barren mountains and mountains tirelessly, chasing all kinds of animals. Birds and beasts—although the record of laymen like them is really quite bleak...

"... Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by the blue smoke slowly rising from the muzzles of more than a dozen "[-] Big Gai" guns, a wild goat on the cliff ahead finally fell down in response.It also made all the Japanese urban youths who lacked exercise and were not working hard, and are now exhausted, cheered with relief.

"...Oh! Long live! I finally hit a prey! This time I finally don't have to go back empty-handed, and I was laughed at by those women!"

"...But, this goat is still on the opposite cliff, separated by a valley, and there is no way to go. How can I get it back?"

So, facing the shining star eyes of a group of "amateur hunters", Jing Haoyong suddenly felt a lot of pressure. He had to find out a [Bamboo Dragonfly] and stick it on his head, then soared into the sky and flew away carefully. In the past, the carcass of the wild goat was carried over.

Then, on the way of "returning with a full load" (actually, after tossing and tossing for a day, they were as tired as a dead dog before they hit a sheep), everyone found a fox, and they were overjoyed immediately, and immediately there was a burst of "crackling" and random shooting In the past, I didn't care whether it would hurt the fur... As a result, after the gunpowder smoke cleared, the fox was still unscathed, wagging its tail at them as if mocking, and then walked away gracefully...

——Well, it seems that the marksmanship level of these amateur hunters obviously needs to be improved...

After all, it's much more difficult to hunt for prey in the mountains with a shotgun on your back than to yell and hit people with a bat.

At the same time, Jing Haoyong's future wife, the "princess" Rei Miyamoto here, is also working hard for a living with a group of women.

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In the cloudless clear sky, groups of seagulls looking for food were seen gliding at low altitude.

And under this clear blue sky, rows of fine white waves, like galloping horses, swept across the vast sea, and like the fists of giants, slammed into the reefs by the sea, sending out a burst of heaven and earth shattering. There was a loud sound, and countless snow-white foams were splashed.

Large and small sea crabs and unknown crustaceans walk through the crevices of these reefs, barnacles and oysters are densely covered on the pitted rock walls, and sea cucumbers wriggle in the clear water, spitting milky white mucus.

A group of girls of various ethnic groups wearing straw hats and white work clothes, with bamboo baskets hanging around their waists, holding small shovels and small hoes in their hands, are taking advantage of the low tide to shuttle through this paradise of shallow sea creatures, collecting Seaweed, oysters, scallops attached to the reef, turtles and sea crabs on the beach, and small fish scattered in the shoal when the tide is low... On this smooth and sharp reef, they occasionally fall and bump into each other. His head was bleeding, leaving several bloody wounds on his body, but he still gritted his teeth and continued to work hard.

In the month of nightmare living in the zombie apocalypse, the most delicate Japanese girl has already learned what it means to be strong.

As for the slave girls bought in Crete, most of them came from poor backgrounds, and they were just picking up shellfish from the sea, which was really not a heavy job.

While digging shells, Rei Miyamoto, whose skin was already tanned, would occasionally look greedily at the deep sea not far away, where there are more valuable lobsters, abalones and pearl oysters... But in the absence of professional skills They really dare not rush to dive and fish like the professional divers in Kagoshima and Jeju Island. Since it is bare-handed diving and only relies on the oxygen stored in the lungs, this requires divers to be in excellent physical condition. At the same time, it has good swimming skills and breath-holding ability.What's more, because of the complex underwater environment, you may even be attacked by predatory fish such as sharks, so the risk of work is extremely high.Therefore, divers must also have calm judgment and a certain degree of combat effectiveness.

Obviously, none of the above-mentioned harsh conditions are met by them. Many of them even just learned to swim like a dog paddle.In fact, up to now, they have not even mastered the skills of casting nets, they can only fish with fishing rods, and they can't catch a fish for several hours.

Of course, compared to those men who hang around in the mountains with guns all day long, boasting that they have "samurai blood" flowing on their bodies, but they can't even bring back a rabbit, the harvest of these women who go to sea to collect shells every day Rei Miyamoto couldn't help laughing, and at the same time raised the tool in her hand to chisel the oyster again.

However, although the shellfish, seaweed, shrimp and crabs that these girls pick up on the beach every day can be sold for 10,000+ Yen from the [Automatic Pawn Machine], which is of great help to the financial situation of the colony.But that's nothing compared to Cyrenaica's other big gain.

That's oil!
——Well, Cyrenaica, or Benghazi in the future, is where the most important oil fields in Libya are located...

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Under the scorching sun, in the gravel desert south of the Cyrenaica settlement, stands a tall drilling rig, which keeps rumbling.Around it, there are many dark oil mining machinery, huge spherical oil storage tanks, and a large circle of Japanese immigrants wearing sunglasses and hard hats.They are now whispering and whispering, waiting for some exciting moment.

"...five, four, three, two, one... Attention everyone! We have dug through!"

Accompanied by Doraemon's shout from the console, everyone held their breath for a moment.

Although it was only a few seconds of lag, it seemed as long as a day.

After a while, under the attention of dozens of eyes, the pipe connected to the wellhead suddenly raised its head like a cannon, and a jet of black oil with gray mud spurted out from the ground in an instant. Take a moment to exceed the height of the derrick!

"...Long live! It's good! It's finally good! Now you don't have to worry about money anymore!"

The "First Lady" of the Cyrenaica colony, Ms. Miyamoto Kiriko, suddenly jumped up like a child, as excited as if she had just finished a very difficult game.All the others cheered together, even tears welled up in their eyes.

"...Well, I don't know how to be more stable at such an old age. Kiriko is really..."

Mr. Miyamoto said pretending to complain, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "...how is it? How much income can this oil well bring?"

"...You want to ask about the oil output of this well? Well... it will be more at first, and it should be stable at about 300 to [-] barrels per day in the future. Based on the price of [-] US dollars per barrel, Even if a certain amount of discount must be applied when using the [automatic pawn machine], it should be no problem to ensure a daily income of [-] to [-] U.S. dollars, or two to three million yen."

Wang Qiu looked at the data on the monitoring computer, and after a little calculation in his mind, he replied.

"...What? It's only two or three million yen? Isn't this income too little?" Miyamoto smacked his lips dissatisfied.

"...It's not bad to have this little money, Mr. Miyamoto! The future Libya is indeed an important oil exporting country. Yes, Cyrenaica is also a famous oil field in North Africa. But most of the oil wells in Cyrenaica , are all distributed in the inland desert area away from the coast, at least three or four hundred kilometers away from here, and the environment is as terrifying as an oven. If you can get this little oil by the sea, you are already lucky !"

Wang Qiu snorted, and replied with some displeasure, "... Doraemon has prepared a small fully automatic oil refinery for you, and various refining and production procedures are set by artificial intelligence. Wait until the oil pipeline After connecting it, your cars, tanks, fishing boats, and planes will have fuel. You can even synthesize various plastic products for sale...Hey, don't take it seriously! Mr. Miyamoto, explain again Once again, you can only use the cheap goods you get from the [chronological vending machines] or give them to others, and they cannot be used for trading, otherwise you will face a very terrible punishment - Nobi Nobita was almost killed before. Don’t you guys want to try it yourself by cutting off your kidneys to pay off your debts?”

Then, after dismissing the greedy Japanese immigrant leader, Wang Qiu took out the "Book of Time Traveling" and looked at the new writing on it:

"...The plot has changed, the Daughter of the Nile River is pregnant for the second time, and she gets 1000 reward points..."

——In this way, their total points in the plot space of "Daughter of the Nile" reached 48000 points, which is not far from the [-] points of "GAME#OVER".But Mr. Zhang Daniu, the unlucky traveler who was lost in this world, still does not know where he is... The only thing that is certain is that he should still be alive, otherwise Wang Qiu and others would not be able to stay in this world safely inside……

"...It seems that I have to go to Egypt recently to see if they have found that Mr. Zhang Daniu..."

After pondering for a while, Wang Qiu put away the "Book of Time Traveling" and muttered in a low voice.

In the early morning of the next day, after bidding farewell to the Japanese immigrants, Ma Tong, Wang Qiu, Doraemon, Nan Lixiang, and Ju Chuan Shizuka each planted [Bamboo Dragonflies] on their heads, and walked along the coastline all the way to East, slowly flying towards the distant Egypt.

And just three days after Doraemon and others left, the first Cretan merchant ship to arrive in Cyrenaica, also under the guidance of the lighthouse and the cheers of Japanese immigrants, slowly approached this place. Reinforced concrete docks for new colonial cities.

Then, these Minoan Kingdom merchants unloaded a large amount of Lebanese cedar wood, Aegean dried fish, Egyptian dates, alabaster and other miscellaneous goods from the cabin, in exchange for sweet candy from the people here , snow-white refined salt, silky cotton cloth, handy matches, exquisite porcelain, mellow shochu, shiny silver stainless steel and aluminum alloy tableware, and gorgeous modern small jewelry, as well as sharp steel knives (all Wang Qiu goods they left behind).In addition, the first batch of plastic containers made by Japanese immigrants using local crude oil and 3D printers in the Cyrenaica colony were also very popular with these businessmen... Of course, if it weren’t for the deterrence of the huge airship before, there would be residents here Friendship with "God Men", these Minoan merchants who often work part-time as pirates, would not trade in such a regular way, instead of trying to grab it and leave.

In any case, everything seems to be on the right track, and the city's future is full of bright hopes.

However, what none of them knew was that in the south of Cyrenaica, a group of uninvited guests were quietly approaching...