Path of light

Chapter 541 542. Some things in Plateau City

After all, the three investigators failed to wait for any reply from the Silver Pegasus Legion, so they followed a supply ship and left Queen's Island.

In fact, the investigators knew very well that the Silver Pegasus military headquarters had been reluctant to respond directly because they did not intend to deal with the young half-elf officer without any evidence.

"Should we return to Buenos City, or continue to the Partington plane to investigate?" an investigator asked in a low voice.

This time he entered the Partington plane to conduct a comprehensive investigation, but he did not collect any useful information, which made him somewhat unwilling.

"I don't want to go to the Partington plane anymore. I want to go back to Buenos. As for the investigation report to hand in, I plan to write down everything I saw and heard along the way." The second investigator continued. He shook his head and said frustrated.

"In fact, we can't prove that Roy deliberately killed Abir." The last investigator said helplessly.

The investigator who spoke first continued:

"Then write all the information we have investigated in the investigation report. Let the guys at the trial decide what to do!"

A gust of sea breeze blew, but it could not dissipate the irritability in the hearts of the three investigators.

…

Most of the main buildings in Plateau City have been completed, but some of the scaffolding has not been removed.

The roofs of many buildings are decorated with exquisite stone carvings, and the front walls are also decorated with relief murals.

The elves' pursuit of beauty has almost become an obsession.

The plateau city is not very big.

Fountains can be seen at every intersection.

Most of these fountains flow from the stone sculptures and then flow into a pool made of hollow bricks.

There is an overflow trough on the edge of this kind of pool. When the pool is filled with water, the excess water will flow along the overflow trough and into the culvert.

Every street in Plateau City is clean and tidy, and the residents in the city are mixed elves.

Initially, most of the mixed elves living in Plateau City were the families of the mine guards.

Later, some mixed-blood elven collectors gradually chose to settle in the plateau city.

Together, these elves number more than 8,000 people.

Currently the most lively place in the city is the concentration camp for Plateau Headhunters prisoners of war.

There were about 12,000 prisoners of war in the concentration camp. They were the main force in building the city and had to perform heavy labor every day.

The headhunter concentration camp is also the place where Roy is most worried, because currently the main force of the mine guard regiment is not stationed in the plateau city.

Once the headhunters in the concentration camp launched a riot in the Plateau City, the existing military strength of the Plateau City would not be able to quell the riot.

This concentration camp was located in the southwest corner of the plateau city, just one street away from the free market.

The concentration camp was surrounded by a four-meter-high wall with five-meter-high arrow towers at the four corners.

From the outside, there are four such arrow towers, distributed in the four corners.

But if you walk into the concentration camp, you will find that there are actually fourteen such arrow towers in the concentration camp.

Moreover, there are high walls connecting these arrow towers, and archers can support each other through the high walls between the arrow towers.

A group of mixed-blood elf warriors walked into the main entrance of the concentration camp. The mixed-blood elf warriors responsible for guarding the concentration camp stood up straight at various posts and saluted Roy who walked in from the main entrance.

The headhunters' barracks are row houses, with iron fences separating some relatively large rooms, and there are some bunks on the upper and lower floors in the rooms.

The environment in which these headhunter prisoners of war lived had no privacy at all. There was only a layer of straw mats on the bed, and a wooden bucket filled with water in the corner of the room. .

A group of headhunter prisoners of war had just returned from the construction site. They were standing next to a wall in the yard. There was a drain on the top of the wall. Dozens of water columns poured down the outlet. The headhunter prisoners of war were bathing in the open air area. .

Probably due to being in the sun for too long, the skin of these headhunters has a bronze color.

Roy said to the mixed-blood elf officers in the concentration camp: "Take me to their canteen."

The Headhunter's cafeteria only has some long tables, and there are no benches inside. Everyone has to stand when eating in the cafeteria.

There was a sticky gruel cooking in the big iron pot in the cafeteria. Roy got closer and examined it carefully, but he couldn't tell what was cooking in it.

However, there were some Headhunter prisoners of war in the canteen holding wooden plates and eating this gruel.

"What's this?"

Roy picked up a long-handled spoon, scooped out a spoonful of gruel from the cauldron, put it under his nose and smelled it. The smell was not weird.

The officer in the concentration camp quickly replied:

"They usually eat porridge made from cassava. This plant is abundant in the wilderness. They also cook broth twice a week, and occasionally eat breadfruit and apples."

As he spoke, he took Roy to the warehouse next to the canteen, which was filled with plant roots as thick as his arm. He introduced Roy: "These are cassava, which is a food that headhunters usually eat."

A group of female headhunters placed the cleaned cassava in a stone trough. Two strong headhunter women stood on both sides, each holding a large wooden mallet, beating the cassava continuously, smashing it into mud, and then crushing the cassava. Scoop out the juice and soak it in the large vat next to it.

These headhunter women were still chatting away just now. When they saw Roy and his entourage walking in, they immediately shut up and started working honestly...

Roy walked out of the cafeteria and came to the small square in the concentration camp.

Almost all the mixed-blood elven officers above the squad leader level in the concentration camp gathered here.

Roy did a rough count and found that there were less than two hundred mixed-blood elf officers.

He stood on a low wall at the edge of the square so that all the officers in the camp could see him...

Roy clapped his hands, and the surrounding area quickly became quiet. All the eyes of the mixed elf officers fell on Roy.

Roy told the officers guarding the concentration camp:

"Actually, I have been worried about something going wrong here in the Plateau City Concentration Camp for the past two months. Sometimes I would wake up while I was sleeping, fearing that there would be a riot here."

"I think whether these headhunter prisoners of war have weapons in their hands will not affect their combat effectiveness."

"Now it seems that you are doing a good job, you are managing this place well!"

When the mixed elf officers heard what Roy said, they applauded excitedly, and everyone's morale was high.

Roy waved his hand to signal everyone to quiet down.

Roy continued:

"Currently, the concentration camp in Plateau City is considered a high-risk area."

"The job you concentration camp guards do is also quite dangerous. It's mainly because of me that I can't station enough troops in the plateau city, which makes this place a little dangerous!"

"So how to manage the concentration camp well is also a great test for you guards."

"I hope you can follow the management system of the concentration camp and make sure that rewards and punishments are clearly defined. Only in this way can the headhunter prisoners in the concentration camp know how to abide by the rules and know what they can and cannot do. If you do something wrong, you will be punished. Punishment and reward must be given for meritorious service, so that these headhunters can get used to life in the concentration camp as soon as possible..."

Roy talked a lot, mainly telling the half-blood elf guards in the concentration camp to distinguish rewards and punishments.

After touring the concentration camp, Roy even went to see the headhunter prisoners’ lunch in person.

The dining room was packed with headhunter prisoners eating cassava porridge from wooden trays.

It can be seen that these headhunter prisoners of war can still accept cassava porridge.

Roy found that the older headhunters and female headhunters in the concentration camp were more accepting of this kind of life. They even felt that living in the concentration camp was more stable and they did not need to worry about food, much more than they lived in the tribal villages. comfortable.

In the row houses of the concentration camp, some headhunter children ran around unbridled, and there were no guards to restrict their activity areas.

Some elderly headhunters were sitting in the sun, basking in the sun against the clean walls of the townhouses. Looking at their drowsy eyes with squinted eyes, they felt extremely leisurely.

As for the headhunter prisoners of war who were working as coolies, they didn't seem to be very resistant to this kind of intense labor. Roy even found that some of the headhunter prisoners of war took a bath, had lunch, and even wrestled in an empty field.

The person in charge of the concentration camp also introduced to Roy:

"Boss Roy, these headhunter prisoners of war working as coolies on the construction site will earn certain points based on their daily performance. When these points are accumulated, they can be exchanged for some biological items. They can also use their holidays to go to the market to buy unicorns. Beef, improve some food.”

Roy nodded and took Mulin and Sabrina out of the concentration camp.

…

Woods walked into the free market in Plateau City and saw some elf merchants setting up stalls in the market. Most of the goods sold in the stalls were daily necessities, such as cloth and iron pots.

Of course, there are also some miscellaneous items such as bow strings, daggers, whetstones, flints, etc.

What surprised Woods was that there were almost no magic herbs available in the free market in Plateau City.

But I can still find some basic Warcraft materials...

Woods saw a half-blood elf dressed as a hunter setting up a stall. There were some animal sinews, leather, spiral horns, etc. on the stall. Ordinary materials and magical materials were mixed together. He was sitting on a woven wicker basket. , gnawing an apple with relish.

"Are you a gatherer?"

Woods asked curiously when he saw the small hoe leaning against the wicker basket.

"I usually collect some Demon Emperor Grass in the foothills of the southwest, and occasionally hunt the Demon Antelope if I see it. These pieces of skin were pulled from the Demon Antelope, but the quality is not very good!" A mixed-blood elf collector said shyly.

He was wearing a set of light armor made of magic antelope skin, with an ordinary dagger hanging on his waist, and the long bow he carried behind his back looked pretty good...

"Then why are there no magic herbs in your stall?" Roy asked curiously: "Have they all been sold out?"

"You want to buy magic herbs? Then you have to deal with the mine guard group." The mixed elf collector answered calmly: "Our collectors will basically sell magic herbs to the mine guard group for military purchase. Not only is it convenient, but there is no need to negotiate the price. ”

Woods asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that if you set up a stall and sell it, you can make more money?"

"But the purchaser of the mine guard group belongs to Boss Roy's business! Hey, what do you want to buy?" The mixed elf collector couldn't help but ask again in the end.

Woods said quickly: "I wanted to buy some magic herbs, but I didn't find them in the free market..."

"It's normal not to find magic herbs in the free market. The biggest buyer here is Boss Roy. Who would sell magic herbs to other merchants?" The half-elf collector said proudly, and then she whispered: "Are you a merchant from Padstow? If I can't buy magic herbs, I think it's okay to buy some magic materials!"

...

Moi and Miss Tiffany didn't go to the free market area to hang out. They chose to walk around the residential area in the city.

In fact, the buildings in the Plateau City are very compact, and these buildings built with hollow bricks are relatively regular.

Although some of them look square and don't quite fit the aesthetics of the elves, they are actually acceptable...

In the alleys of the Plateau City, you can often see some arch bridges overhead, and many roofs are drying some clothes. The alleys are already full of life.

Although the half-blood elves did not sleep in the tree house, they filled their huts with lush plants. Some buildings even had creepers growing on their walls. The strong breath of life filled the alley.

"Actually, building such a city on the plateau looks pretty good!"

Moira walked out of the alley first and turned back to say to Miss Tiffany behind her with a smile.

As she spoke, a half-blood elf girl with a tearful face ran past Moira carrying a small pot. Just as Moira turned around, the half-blood elf girl almost bumped into her, and the small pot in her hand shook violently.

Some of the soup in the pot with the smell of herbs accidentally spilled out.

The half-blood elf girl exclaimed: "Oops!"

She quickly slowed down to make the small pot more stable. At this moment, her tearful face was even more aggrieved. She pouted her mouth and continued to run forward with tears in her eyes.

"Is it okay? Do you want me to help you?" Moira hurriedly followed and asked the half-elf girl.

"Hey, Moira, before we came out, Sabrina told me to watch you and mind my own business. Did you forget?"

Miss Tiffany stood at the entrance of the alley and shouted at Moira's back.

Moira said without turning her head: "Why is it a trivial matter? I accidentally bumped into her. Let me see if I can help. Tiffany, you just wait for me here. I'll be back soon..."

"Hey, don't leave me!"

Seeing Moira running into the alley, Miss Tiffany hurriedly stepped up and chased after her...