I'm really a crispy French

Leon got off the swing, and the tentacles were grilling fish on the grill, when a gust of wind blew up, blowing the smell of the barbecue in the opposite direction from the swing.

Leon looked left and right, and found a black and white zebra-colored hair ball curled up behind a big rock that was used as a seat.He knelt down and stroked the hairball from head to toe.The hairball... shivering.

Leon looked at the hair on his hand, and if he continued to pat it down, it wasn't really bald, but he was going to scare this little thing to death.

He lifted the hairball straight up, turned over, and looked at each other with Eggy, Eggy held back tears, her watery amber eyes were full of flattery: "Meow~~~~" It was this sound that was trembling ...

"If you protect it well, I won't do anything to you. And I will give you delicious food." I knew that a mount would be born, but I didn't expect such an accident, but how to deal with it For things, Leon is still prepared.The previous attitude was a small punishment for making Eldy uncomfortable.

Half a piece of grilled fish on a tree leaf was delivered, pure fish meat, no fish bones.Although the fish has not been marinated for a long time, it is grilled with wild garlic and wild onions, and the fishy smell is almost negligible and very fragrant.

"Cats seem to like to eat fishy food? Although you are not a cat, if you don't like to eat this, I will give you fresh fish." Leon squatted down and put the ball next to the fish.

Eggy stared the cat's eyes even wider, looked at the fish in shock, and then at Leon.Finally, unable to resist the delicious temptation, he buried his face in the snow-white fish in an instant, and gnawed wildly.

"Meow~~~" Although the cry was still very long this time, it was indeed not trembling but happy.

Leon rubbed its head, Eggy squinted his eyes boldly and rubbed it twice, and then his chin was scratched again, Eggy's expression suddenly became more delicate, his tail curled up into a small circle, shaking back and forth .Although its coquettish appearance looks like a cat's, but Leon thinks its personality is more like a canine.

After all, if you scare a cat like that, most of the cat's reaction is to jump up and give him a paw, and then kick away Aldi, an unqualified shit shoveler.

Thinking about it this way, Leon had a better impression of the zebra cat, and even said: "If you haven't eaten enough, bark at the tentacles."

"Meow~" Eggy's call sounded more pleasant now.

After the meow was settled, Leon went to lie down next to Eldy, shaking and falling asleep together.In fact, Leon is not sure whether he is asleep or not. When his main body is "sleeping", the avatar is still executing the commands of the main body before falling asleep, but during the process of falling asleep, the consciousness of the main body and avatar are not the same. Not sharing, until Leon wakes up, what those avatars experienced will flood into his mind.However, if the avatar encounters something extremely special or dangerous, it will also wake up the main body.

Now when Leon falls asleep, his avatar will do three things besides barbecue.

The first is to protect the territory. Although there are soldiers and knights on duty, the scope of the territory is too large. The main thing to protect the town is Leon's tentacles; There is a lack of maintenance, and the road will be invisible within two days. If manpower is used to maintain it, it will not be enough for all the people in the village; the third is to explore the road in the depths. This is similar to the first point, and there will always be soldiers Form a team with the knights to go out to explore, but their number is too small, and the area to explore is too small.

These three things are also what Leon has been doing since they established this village, no matter what he is doing.Leon was also awakened several times during his sleep, one of which was the water bandit attack, and several times after that, monsters that threatened the village were discovered. Except for the water bandits, everything else was solved quietly up.

By the way, another thing was added today: papermaking.

Leon has been thinking about papermaking since the first day he saw the parchment.Seeing that Aldi uses linen for convenience, he wants to make paper more. He thinks he should be able to, but he always thinks about it intermittently.After seeing that team fighting continuously last time, including his own soldiers (soldiers, right?), some things came back to him one after another.

Although those memories are still messed up, many of the memories seem to be unreal, at least not what he experienced himself, more like a real drama or something.What Leon can confirm is that the place where he lives is also extremely scarce, and people have to do it themselves, such as firing porcelain, making paper and weaving cloth.

From his memory, Leon himself should not have done this specifically, but he has done it. It seems that someone else said, "We must all know how to do it, so as not to cause accidents in the future, and we will completely become slash-and-burn savages!"

But being able to do these things with time means that they have settled down and should be able to develop quickly, right?

Don't think about these past things.In short, some avatars are whipping away wild beasts, some are weeding, some are leveling the ground for papermaking, and some seem to be running around aimlessly...

A mouse clone of Leon is investigating a cave - the kind of cave that is the best hiding place for many beasts and monsters.This cave is not very big from the outside, and adults have to bend over to get in and out, but when you actually go in, you will find that more than half of the cave entrance is buried in the soil, and the cave is very spacious.

The mouse ran inwards close to the sides. The hole was dark, damp and stuffy. After running for more than ten minutes, the hole forked, and one big mouse turned into three smaller mice, moving forward separately.The rats ran and ran, and the cave was surprisingly winding and deep, mostly dead ends, but sometimes the paths that parted merged together.

They found dark rivers in the cave, and found various mushroom mosses, one of which could emit a very subtle fluorescent light.

However, these discoveries were not enough to wake up Leon until...

Leon sat up suddenly, his mind was confused for more than ten seconds, because he needed a period of time to receive and understand the new news, and then his face became more and more ugly.

"Eldie, Eldy!"

Leon's tone was too tense. Although Eldi was sleeping soundly, he opened his eyes immediately with just two sounds. Leon's expression reminded him of the night when Diller City was attacked by demons: "Why? gone?"

"I found an underground entrance."

"The underground entrance? Is it... the underground entrance I understand?"

"That's the only one."

The entrance of the underground is not equal to the entrance of the abyss, and the devil is not equal to the inhabitants of the underground world, but the underground world is still the enemy of the above-ground races.The gods and demons frontline we are talking about now actually fights the residents of the underground world.

Eldi stood up immediately: "Let's go and notify the Church of the God of Nature!" But he was held back by Leon.

"what happened?"

"The situation of this entrance is a bit special." Leon said, and brought the three-dimensional mini-map over. "I didn't realize that this is the entrance to the underground world. I found that there are 'people' living here."

That "this" is a seemingly inconspicuous intersection in the huge underground maze. The mouse has differentiated all the way here and has become a small spider, as small as a grain of rice.Originally, this intersection was a dead end, and the spider should return to where it was, but its super night vision ability allowed it to discover the difference at this intersection.

Its thinking is not natural, but blocked, and the stones blocking it are very regular, and should be deliberately built by intelligent creatures.This should be investigated in detail in the task assigned by the avatar, because it represents danger.The spider crawled through the gap and found that on the other side of the blocked intersection was thick mycelium.

"It's the Mushroom Man?" Seeing the shape displayed on Leon's map, Eldi also relaxed.

The Mushroom Man's appearance is terrible, like a ball of black dough stretched out, and then a slender strip is pulled out of the dough as an arm.This race has no eyes, no nose, not even a mouth.They grow mushrooms everywhere. At first it was thought that the herders also ate mushrooms, but it was later discovered that the herders actually only need a small amount of water to survive.The grown mushrooms are more like their children, and those mushrooms can grow to a certain size before they can come alive.

When this race first appeared in front of the people on the ground, it was considered a kind of demon, and later it was also regarded as an outpost for the invasion of the underground world.It was later discovered that they were actually driven to the surface by the army of the underworld, and they were also victims.But because they are weak and harmless, and their appearance does not conform to the aesthetics of the races on the ground, the shepherds are still regarded as animals that can be hunted, and they have been slaughtered in large numbers.

It wasn't until the major churches came forward and regarded them as friendly underground races, and the invasion of the underground races calmed down, that the massacre stopped on the surface—the races that can only be seen in story books, and they don't know where to go if they want to kill them kill.Fortunately, the reproductive ability of this race is amazing, as long as there are spores growing up in a certain corner, new mushroom shepherds will be born, otherwise they would have been killed by both the ground and the ground.

"Is this entrance blocked by themselves? It seems that the Mushroom Shepherds are also very smart." Eldi looked at the world of the Mushroom Shepherds on the three-dimensional map. The mycelium near the entrance was thicker than other places, but standing You can't tell the thickness in the hole, you can only see a gray patch, and there are countless mushrooms growing from the mycelium.There are more mushroom shepherds wandering around here than in other places. Based on the situation, they should be patrolling.

Whether the Mushroom Shepherds are wise or not is still a mystery that is being debated. Even though the church has issued a statement, some people still think that they are not humans, but animals, or even lower than animals, with active plants.

"It must have been blocked by them. There are still some adhesives between the piled stones. The composition is very similar to mycelium, but it should have been fermented, and it has lost its activity for too long."

"You want to hide this entrance?"

"Well, I don't think there is any need to report it for the time being."

"..." Eldi was not in a hurry to deny it. He first thought about why Leon would do this, and what benefits it would have for both of them.

At this stage, there are only mushroom shepherds in the map Leon gave him. It should be that Leon has only explored the area of ​​mushroom shepherds.Shepherd mushrooms are edible, although mushrooms grown by shepherds can be interpreted as their young.But the reproduction method of the Mushroom Shepherds is different from that of the races on the ground. The mushrooms are mushrooms before they become Mushroom Shepherds, no different from the mushrooms that grow wildly in the woods after the rain.

If it is just for food, there is no need to take such a big risk, their need for things is not so urgent.So what's underground?The gods on the ground have the ability to completely seal the underground entrances everywhere, why not seal them.On the one hand, if an old entrance is sealed off, there will be a new entrance in a few hundred years at most. This means that there is too much lava accumulated underground, and there is always a place to erupt. It is not wise to block the crater.On the other hand, it is the relationship of interests. There are all kinds of precious materials and medicinal materials in the underground world.

In addition, judging from the thick mycelium that Leon said and the range of activities of the mushroom herders, they have been multiplying in this area for a long time.There is a certain possibility that there are only mushroom shepherds in this underground area. If there are other races in the deeper depths, it also means that this area belongs to a remote and neglected area.

"It may be safe here for the time being, but keeping a secret is still too risky for us."

"Because I want to use this place as my hunting ground." Leon said frankly, "If I devour most of the living creatures in Diller City, at least Diller City won't be completely destroyed. But In that case, I would be the one who was killed by the self-explosion by the archbishops. But if it is a dungeon, there is no such trouble. Eldi, you want to become stronger to protect me, and I want to become stronger."

This answer really made Erdi unable to refuse, and he actually thought it was really good: "If you are found out, you must cut off the contact with the clone as soon as possible, and notify the church. Although I don't know much about it The race that lives in the dungeon, but I heard that they are more proficient in the magic of the soul than us, they like to tempt the soul to fall, and even transform it."

"I will pay attention, and I will share the results of the expedition with you tomorrow."

Eddie smiled, "Okay."

He was still a little apprehensive, as if Bonova's family was still there, and his parents were still there, after he played a prank.Because he knows that he has done something wrong, and once adults know that he has done such a thing, they will definitely punish him severely.But Leon took him to eat grilled fish, and smiled at him—if you do bad things, you will do bad things, anyway, you have already done it!

"It's delicious!" Eldy took a big bite of the grilled fish, the tender and delicious fish slipped down his throat and fell into his stomach, his "confidence" suddenly increased.

While having dinner with Eldi, Leon showed Eldi the maze of the underground cave.There are stalactites of various shapes in the caves, transparent fish without eyes and strange-shaped bugs in the underground water caves...

"Next time we come out, I'll take you to the maze!"

The two people who already had a lot of secrets in common, now have a big and scary secret.

Time entered February, and the boats of the Modosu family docked one after another, first with machines, then with immigrants.The two researchers and the new testers assembled and modified the machine together, and the originally empty factory building was gradually filled.However, the cotton that filled the warehouses finally began to decrease.

Immigrants are a little troublesome. Immigrants' first migration target is the city near them, followed by a familiar big city, and finally they are willing to leave their hometown. In particular, they hope that the village is not a city, but a village.Most of the immigrants who are willing to come here are desperate, except for bankrupt farmers who are burdened with heavy debts, they are some desperadoes.

I hope that the current folk customs in the village are very good, and no one wants the village to become a chaotic place.Immigrants first clean their bodies when they come, and they are quarantined after registration, and those who are unwilling to cooperate are directly sent back to the ship.These people are penniless, and the tickets are paid on credit. If they hope that the village will not accept them, the crew will not kindly send them back to the same place, but will directly throw them somewhere passing by - kind sailors will Throw them on land, and the unkind will throw them into the river.

If those sent back are willing to make corrections, the village will give them a second chance to stay.But if they reverted to their old ways, especially if they saw the boat go away, then the labor camp would be a good place for them.

Hope Village lacks large livestock, and the whip will keep these people happy to work.Leon would not let the people of the Church of the God of Nature be responsible for driving out the hard labor, which violated their teachings, so Leon let the tentacles beat them directly.

The image of the tentacle itself is terrifying, in line with people's imagination of demons. Those who cause trouble, some people will be scared to death immediately when they see the tentacles.I don't know if it makes people feel "so brave that they dare to flop around", or "others are bullying and fearing the hard, and he is bullying and fearing the strange, and the nest is to the extreme".

Beating convicts to work with tentacles has become a famous scene in the village. Every day, people are trembling with fright, while staring with wide eyes.Those families who live together again, the adults teach the naughty children, all changed from "the disobedient monster is coming to catch you!" Apparently tentacles work better than monsters.

With the first batch of hard labor drawn by tentacles as an example, the later immigrants will be more honest when they come back, and the number of people who die will be greatly reduced.

However, with the increase of the population, the management of the village has gradually become problematic.After all, it’s impossible to be like in the novel, when people are in need of talents, some people will not send them to their door. People who were promoted from the bottom, after getting used to power, some people have deteriorated—although now they only have a lot of power.

The codes written by Eldi are rapidly becoming thicker, and the knights are all pulled over to be the stewards.

In mid-February, Leon called Hogan, Mombe, and Morifio over.

"What's the matter? I'm still checking the reclamation of the farmland." Morifio gasped.

Among the new immigrants, the most people were thrown to open up wasteland. Although Leon's tentacles have pulled out the vegetation and moved away the big rocks, there are still a lot of gravel and tree roots in the farmland, and it is still a laborious task to open up wasteland. things.Leon set strict regulations on the reclamation of farmland last year, but the regulations are placed there and must be tested.

The inspection of each acre of land is also very energy-intensive and physical strength-but no one proposed to let Leon's tentacles do it. We all know that if Leon does everything, then even if the city develops, no matter what No matter how gorgeous it looks on the surface, it is just a palace built on sand.

Hogan is now a primary school teacher plus a doctor, and he is busier than Morifio every day.Mombe is a little more relaxed at this stage, because he is in charge of the village's property, but only slightly.

For them, building a city with their own hands is also a new thing.Although in many things, they have differences with Leon.But Eldi has conveyed his five-year agreement with Leon to everyone, and they can still do it just by waiting for five years.

"Come with me to a place and see something." Leon said.

This mysterious attitude made everyone turn their attention to Eldi.Eldi shook his head, he didn't know, it wouldn't be the underground thing after all, but knowing that Leon had another secret, Eldi was still a little unhappy.

Eldy didn't even know, but Leon's attitude was obviously that they must go, so... let's go.Did they let such a village head stand up?

After walking into the woods and running wildly on the scorpion for more than an hour, they came to a riverside, where there was a small wooden house and some items they couldn't tell the use of.Leon walked into the cabin, and brought out a thick stack of beige "cloth"?Is he weaving here?

"Here, paper." Leon held up the stack of "cloth" and said a word that surprised them.

"Huh?" "What?" "Paper?"

Morifio was the fastest, he pressed down on the paper and grabbed...a dozen of them.This touch is indeed not cloth, but it is not parchment paper, and they are very thin. Morifeo grabbed the upper one, and the lower one floated to the ground. Everyone's eyes were focused on the fallen paper, although it fell It fell slowly, but no one reached out to catch it. They all had a weird sense of unreality, so the paper fell to the ground and was quickly soaked in mud and water.

"How could this be paper?" Morifio held up the paper in his hand, for these flimsy little things, especially the ones that were scratched in his hands, and the dirty paper on the ground, he suddenly felt violent guilt.

Paper is expensive and precious. It is impossible for ordinary parchment to be so white. They are brown or tan, and even if they are soaked in spices, they still have a foul smell in the nose of the awakened.How precious is it to be so white, with a light fragrance of paper?It should have recorded precious knowledge and heavy history, but it was destroyed by him...

The other three felt the same way, they took a few steps back, away from Morifio, and even more away from the stained paper, and looked at him with disgust and accusation.