After doing more tests, Gwen felt that there was no need to continue the test.
Rebecca could not establish a connection with the crystal.
He asked Amber to come over and try again, but the result was the same.
It seemed that other than himself, no one else could contact the mysterious monitoring station even if they touched the crystal. So why did Gwen Cecil leave the crystal 700 years ago?
Gawain believed that there were only two answers to this question. Either the Gawain Cecil from seven hundred years ago was special and had a special method to use these crystals, or … these crystals weren't for Gawain Cecil's own use, but were left for him seven hundred years later.
The second answer was particularly creepy.
"Ancestor..." Rebecca looked at the ancestor in front of her a little uneasily. She had just gone through a muddled test, and although she did not know the purpose of the test, she could clearly feel that she had failed the test. This made her feel that she had disappointed the ancestor again. "Is it because my talent is too poor, so..."
"No, it's not because of you. Didn't Amber also try it just now?" Gwen suppressed the various thoughts in his heart and comforted the girl. "This crystal is not for ordinary people. I just wanted to test it on a whim. By the way, tell me the results of your investigation outside. "
Rebecca's mood immediately improved when this topic was brought up. "Yes, yes, I was just about to talk about this! Ancestor, did you know that the land here had been purified from the beginning? I searched according to the range you gave me and found that the land was not polluted, and the terrain was open and flat, and it was convenient to get water. The farmers who came with me said that this was the best place for reclamation... "
Gwen was not surprised by this answer. He certainly knew the situation here.
At least 10 years ago, the pollution in this area had subsided, but the people in the kingdom did not know this.
It was unknown when the influence of the Demonic Tide in the Gloom Mountain Range had subsided, but at least 100 years ago, it was still a polluted area. The records left by the Cecil family at that time proved this point. It was also because of the pollution of the Demonic Tide that the treasure vault in the mountain remained to this day. Otherwise, the Moen family might have taken the ancient materials back. After the great change of the Cecil family and the extinction of the Moen family, no one knew the secret of the treasure vault in the mountain, and the kingdom had completely abandoned the mess of pollution and disasters in the Southern Territory. Naturally, no one knew about the disappearance of the Demonic Tide.
After all, the Wind of Impurity still blew regularly across the Gloom Mountain Range every year. Even if the pollution in the land had subsided, the poisonous sandstorms still existed, it was still not a good place for development.
Gwen could only be sure of one thing. In the bird 's-eye view stored in his mind, there was no pollution in this place ten years ago.
The nearest noble territory was the Leslie family's Tanzania Town. According to the Ansu law, the nobles in the southern border were also responsible for monitoring the pollution in Gondor. So Gwen guessed that Viscount Andrew should have more or less known about the situation of the Demonic Tide's subsiding. But for the traditional noble who relied on the mines and lived a comfortable life, this temporarily settled land was probably still not worth investing in. Plus, the wave of development in this era had cooled down, and the viscount probably did not even send anyone to check the situation here.
Gwen nodded and looked at Rebecca. "At present, the range of the land that can be determined to be safe is the part that I have drawn. The pollution outside should have subsided, but that will have to wait until the main force is in place before carefully surveying. You don't go there first."
The bird 's-eye view in his mind was from ten years ago. In the past ten years, the polluted area should have further shrunk, but as for how much it had shrunk … Given that the satellite view had turned into a "magic imaging" and could not be adjusted, Gwen could not be sure for the time being. So, he could only arrange it this way.
Time continued to pass. After Heti's hard work and the people in the territory adapted for a period of time, the new work system finally showed results. The people who worked began to realize that work meant better rationing, and the "smart people" who tried to find loopholes in the new system realized that what was more painful than drinking vegetable soup and watching others eat meat was watching others drink vegetable soup with an empty stomach. For Gwen, those clumsy loophole techniques were not clever, and the punishments he set were never merciful.
This was a matter of everyone's future survival, and there was no mercy to be taken into account.
With the new system in effect, the construction of the outpost camp was completed at an astonishing speed and was ready for the arrival of the main force. Under Gwen's plan, the fences around the camp were expanded to the south and east by hundreds of meters, leaving a large area of empty space for the 700 people who would follow to set up tents, and reserved a shed for carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths, as well as a new space for storing materials. He also ordered a temporary small wooden pier to be built in the camp facing the river bank, and a sawmill to be built on the spot near the pier to process the wood that flowed downstream from the forest in the west.
Of course, at present, the pier and sawmill were only plans on the drawing. One hundred laborers were really limited, and even with Heti's magic help, it was still difficult to build the camp. At this time, Gwen really hoped that Rebecca could cast a spell other than fireball …
Standing on the high ground by the river bank, Gwen looked at a large wooden house that was being completed in the distance. It was one of the few buildings in the camp that could be called a house, and it was a very large building. It and the large open space around it would be used as a temporary blacksmith's shop for a period of time. Although there were many smelted metal ingots in the mountain treasury, it was difficult to use them in the construction of the camp. Most of them were mithril, adamantine, copper, and steel. No matter how generous Gwen was, it was impossible for him to melt those things into nails, right?
The iron ore in the east had been roughly explored. Although it was not yet time to open a mine, it was still possible to take some ores back to verify the quality. Now that the first batch of ores had been excavated, when the blacksmiths set up their furnaces, Cecil's territory would enter the Iron Age …
How annoying.
Thinking of the Demonic Wave and the mysterious monitoring station in the sky, and then looking at the slow progress of the camp, Gwen could not help but shake his head and sigh.
Rebecca, who was shading her eyes with her hand, noticed Gwen's movement. She turned her head and frowned at him. "Why are you sighing? Can't I just rest here for a while? "
"Don't always think of me as a bad person, okay?" Gwen looked at her helplessly. "When have I really squeezed you dry?"
"It's fun to bicker with you!" Amber said confidently. "It's the first time I've seen a noble who can bicker with others and not get angry. It's a new feeling!"
Gwen turned his head and ignored her.
However, Amber did not intend to give up. "Hey, you haven't said it yet. Why are you sighing?"
"It's too slow." Gwen shook his head. "It's really too slow."
Amber's eyes widened. "You're talking about their speed? This is slow?! "
Then she waved her arms exaggeratedly. "Do you still have a conscience? These people are the fastest serfs and labourers I've ever seen in my life! Yesterday, it took them less than a day to complete all the additional fences. Today, they're starting to build the blacksmith shop. Do you know that this speed is crazy? "
Then, she mumbled, "When I saw you feeding them meat and forbidding them from being whipped, I thought you were a good person …"
Gwen glanced at her. "I'm a good person. And I don't blame these people for not working hard. I'm not blind. I can see that they're not slacking off. But overall … it's a fact that the construction speed of this camp can't keep up with my plan."
"Your plan is unrealistic." Amber pursed her lips and then looked at Gwen suspiciously. "I've felt something wrong before. You've been acting weird these two days. You seem to have a lot on your mind. You've been drawing a lot of weird stuff on the paper. Especially this morning, you're already thinking about building an urn when the camp has just been built … What are you panicking about? "
Gwen didn't even turn his head. "Panicking about the end of the world, panicking about the falling of the sky, panicking about an outsider, okay?"
"You just don't want to admit it, eh, but I can see that you're panicking." Hu Po put his hands on his hips. "Let me think, when did it start … Ah, right, it was when the red spot appeared on the sun! You've been feeling uneasy since then … "
This time, Gwen was a little surprised. He looked at Amber from head to toe. "You've been observing me all this time?"
"I don't have time for that." Amber put her hands on her waist. "But the problem is that you can't hide it from others. In fact, your two great-granddaughters have noticed it too. But they didn't dare to ask you … "
Gwen was stunned. "Really? Is it that obvious? "
After being stunned for a moment, he could not help but reflect on the recent changes in his mentality and consider how he should adjust. Meanwhile, Hu Po pinched his chin and thought for a while before suddenly throwing out a question, "What are the extraterrestrial visitors you mentioned just now?"
Gwen was speechless.
Why is this girl's reflex arc like Brownian motion? When she didn't respond, I thought she didn't pay attention to the term at all …
At this moment, a small figure suddenly appeared in the corner of Gwen's vision. The little handmaiden, Betty, in a coarse dress, was running towards him.
The little girl ran to Gwen and panted a few times. Then, she blinked her big eyes and said blankly, "Madam Heti wants to see you."
"What's the matter?"
Betty thought for a while and said, "I forgot!"
Gwen was speechless.
At this time, Amber suddenly noticed that Betty's hands were empty. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Where's your precious frying pan?"
Betty looked up and answered seriously, "Miss Rebecca said this is our new home. When we got home, I put the frying pan in the kitchen."
When she went out with everyone, she was responsible for carrying the cooking utensils. When she got home, she had to put the things in the kitchen — this was what Mrs. Hansen had taught her.
At this time, Gwen already knew why Heti wanted to see him.
He had already seen the figures in the distance in the west.
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