After the water supply system was built, the town's public facilities needed to be built as well. Fountains, public bathrooms, and other things had to be built. Since they had decided to expand the town, the bathrooms would be built outside the town.
The 500-meter-long town was divided into the lord's residential area. Other than Suhlen's castle, this was where the lord's guards and their families lived. After the outer city was built, the entire place would be moved to the outer city.
The new city wall was one kilometer long and four kilometers in total. It was considered a small town. The original city wall became the inner city. In order to build the outer city, Suhlen brought the barbarian guards to the wilderness to capture a large number of slaves.
In fact, after their continuous patrols, there were very few goblins, kobolds, and gnolls around the territory. Although these creatures were not very smart, they knew to avoid dangerous areas. Suhlen's territory was now a dangerous area for the goblins, kobolds, and gnolls.
If they wanted to capture slaves, they would have to go to places further away from the territory. After wiping out a few goblin and kobold tribes, the number of slaves in the territory broke through to two thousand.
Su Lun didn't intend to use Mud to Rock for the construction of the outer city wall, mainly because it was too much work. In Su Lun's plan, the height of the wall was ten meters and the thickness was four meters. If he relied on himself to cast Mud to Rock for such a large amount of work, it was estimated that he would have to do it thousands of times.
Therefore, Su Lun was going to build with bricks and stones. For a long time, the territory would be in a period of development and construction, so there would be a lot of bricks and stones needed. Su Lun was going to build a brick kiln factory in the territory to make bricks and stones for the territory.
With the sugar trade, the territory would have a stable source of income. Suhlen once again sent Zeon to the northern cities to buy slaves to increase the population of the territory. Now, there were more than a thousand human slaves in the territory, and there were more than three hundred refugees who came with the caravans. The population of Suhlen's territory had reached more than seventeen hundred people. It was not difficult to transfer some people to build a brick kiln.
Suhlen was in a good mood during this time. With money, the construction of the territory sped up a lot. After fooling around with Kris last night, he was full of energy when he woke up in the morning.
However, his good mood didn't last long. A soldier from the security team rushed over on horseback. The bad news made his face turn gloomy.
Last night, three fishermen were killed at the harbor. Upon hearing the news, Suhlen's good mood immediately dissipated. He walked towards the port with a gloomy face.
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The dead were slaves bought by Suhlen. These slaves' job was to fish. Because the territory had been cleaned up so many times, the area around the town had become very safe. In addition, there were two rivers at the port. Goblins and kobolds couldn't pass through, and Gnolls hated water, so the slaves would stay near the port at night for the convenience of their work.
At night, they would rest on the fishing boats. Every three to five days, they would return to the shore to rest and replenish their daily necessities. In fact, these fishermen were ranked at the top in terms of points. The various types of fish caught in the harbor were the main source of meat for the territory.
Because the bison needed to be farmed, they were no longer slaughtered. The Spotted Antelope had also begun to try to domesticate and breed them. Before they succeeded, they would no longer slaughter them. The source of meat in the territory had decreased by a lot. Now that three fishermen had died suddenly, the other fishermen would definitely worry about their own safety.
When Suhlen arrived, there were already many people gathered around. Seeing the Lord coming, the people around all moved aside. Sheriff Harrison came up to greet him.
Looking at the crowd, Suhlen frowned. Sheriff Harrison quickly yelled at the crowd, "Other than the fishermen, everyone else return to their posts immediately. Violators will clean the public toilets for three days."
Hearing the sheriff's yell, the crowd scattered immediately. Suhlen followed Harrison to the harbor. There were three stretchers at the harbor. The bodies had been fished out after they were found.
"When were they found? What's the cause of death? Have you found any clues? "Su Lun came to the side of the corpse, and a soldier quickly lifted the linen covering it.
"Monseigneur," Harrison replied. "The other fishermen reported to us this morning after they found a few missing people. After some searching, we found them."
"These bodies should have been dragged into the water and drowned by the senior. Look, there are many signs of entanglement on their bodies. Their faces are purple." As a veteran with investigative skills, Harrison could still determine the cause of death of these people.
"These people were suddenly attacked in their sleep. The enemy they met was very strong. The three of them could not fight back at all. After they died, the murderer even dug out their hearts."
"Preliminary judgment is that the murderer is not human. It should be a kind of monster in the water."
The three victims were all adults. Because there was enough food and the bodies of these slaves were not weak, they were killed before they could even fight back. Clearly, the murderer who attacked them was very strong.
"Ding! Triggered mission. Host, please resolve the danger in the river as soon as possible."
"Did you find anything on the fishing boats?" Suhlen asked after checking the three bodies.
"The three fishing boats are slightly damaged. There's also a lot of mucus on the fishing boats."
"Let's go take a look." The few of them came to the fishing boats at the harbor.
The fishing boats had already been towed to the shore. The three fishing boats were slightly damaged. There was a kind of translucent mucus in many places. The mucus was very smooth and had a fishy smell. Clearly, the murderer was a creature in the river.
"A monster in the water? Could it be murlocs? "Suhlen said with a frown.
But murlocs lived by the sea. This place was at least a few hundred kilometers away from the sea. Why would those murlocs come here to kill people? No, judging from the bodies of these people, they were probably dragged into the water by tentacles. Murlocs do not have tentacles. Suhlen quickly thought.
"Where were the bodies found?" Suhlen continued asking.
Harrison brought Suhlen to a bend in the river and pointed at a patch of seaweed. "In a patch of seaweed. When they were found, the three bodies were all wrapped up in seaweed."
Soon, the few of them arrived. As expected, there was a lot of mucus on the seaweed. Suhlen and the others continued to search around and expanded the search area. Not long after, one of the soldiers found a new clue.
"Monseigneur, there's mucus here too!" Suhlen went to check it out. There was also a lot of mucus on the seaweed. Following that, the group continued to search along the mucus. More and more clues were found.
The group continued to follow the clues. After searching for half an hour, there was no other discovery ahead. The group shifted the main search area to this body of water.
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