Chapter 357 The Crisis at the Sawmill

"I see."

Joan suddenly nodded, fully agreeing with the choice made by the town council.

Delin Town, after all, is a southern town mainly engaged in agriculture. Most of the residents in the town make a living from farming. If the crops fail due to insect infestation, many families will inevitably fall into the predicament of starvation.

Compared with the urgency of expelling pests to ensure the autumn harvest, the pest infestation in the factory is not so urgent. What's more, the Tyndall family and the Flint family who were affected by the disaster are both top-ranking wealthy families in the town, and the temporary closure of the factory will not affect their livelihood.

Of course, from a moral point of view, it is admirable that Jason Tyndall and Flint Anvil, as high-level government officials in this town, can take care of the overall situation at the expense of their own interests.

"Aunt Tyndall, we are going to take this task after seeing the reward notice posted by your house in the grocery store, do you mind?"

Conti asked the mayor's wife.

"Of course I don't mind, but you are still young, I really don't trust you to take risks in the lumberyard."

"You don't have to worry about that. We helped Mr. Flint eliminate the pests in the forge yesterday. The pests in the lumberyard will not be more difficult to deal with, right?" Conti said with a smile.

"Really? That would be great!"

The mayor's wife looked happy, and quickly got up to call the butler, and told him to bring the key to the gate of the lumberyard and act as a guide for Joan and Kandy.

Joan bid farewell to the mayor's wife, accompanied by Conti, Gray and Jamie, and followed the butler to leave the mayor's mansion.

Walking along the river beach for about half a mile, I saw a small pier near the river from a distance, and next to it was a sawmill surrounded by walls.

When the sawmill was in normal operation, the loggers felled trees in the dense forest on the upper reaches of the Delin River, and pushed the roughly processed logs directly into the river, drifting down the river until they were intercepted by a dam near the wharf, and were salvaged and sent to the sawmill. In the wood factory, after drying in the sun, it is finished and cut into wooden squares and planks.

Today's lumberyard was quiet, and the old housekeeper hid aside when he opened the door, his face full of panic, obviously unwilling to venture into the yard where the strange insects were lurking. Joan didn't force it, and led Jamie into the courtyard gate, followed by Kandy and Gray.

The sawmill occupies a vast area, and neatly stacked stacks of logs can be seen everywhere in the yard that can't be seen at a glance, and each stack is as high as a two-story building.

Due to the long-term suspension of work and the abundant summer rain, the yard has been covered with weeds half the height of a person, covering the road leading to the construction site and looking a bit desolate.

Jamie sniffed ahead, followed by Conti, holding an oak cane to push away the wormwood that blocked the way. Occasionally, broken sawdust was discarded in the grass, which looked like the residue left after the giant worm gnawed.

Just to be on the safe side, Joan took out the "magic siren" made of Digger tentacles from the storage bag to detect the surrounding wind and grass.

Gray carried a thick iron rod and followed Joan to break the back.

This large "mace" is a weapon tailor-made for Gray by the old dwarf Flint. It weighed more than two hundred pounds and was six feet long. It was thick at the front and thin at the back. The head of the stick was inlaid with many sharp prismatic steel nails, which shone chillingly in the sunlight.

A group of people came to the factory work area through the grass, the surrounding was quiet, there was not even a breath of wind, but Jamie widened his eyes alertly, and let out a low growl towards a work shed.

Joan looked at the slightly trembling siren in his hand, and according to the deflection angle of the tentacles, he confirmed that there were dangerous creatures hidden inside the shed, and then winked at Kandy.

Conti nodded, took out the keel boomerang, and threw it at the open fence door of the shed.

The dart circled through the doorway and flew into the shed, hit something unknown, made a muffled bang, then flew back backwards and fell into Kanti's hands.

There was a loud neighing in the shed, the fence door was knocked away suddenly, and a brown beetle as huge as a cow rushed out aggressively.

The monster had a pair of huge horns on its head. It was the "big staghorn bug" that Joan had seen in Vasa's ranch.

When it comes to dealing with such large pests, no one has more experience than Joan.

As early as the neighing sound came from the work shed, he could hear more than one big staghorn worm lurking inside. He took out two bottles of self-prepared insecticide in advance, saw the big staghorn worm rushing out, and threw it out of his hands without thinking. medicine bottle.

boom!

boom!

Two glass bottles hit the big stag worm's head, and it shattered on the spot. The mist of insecticide escaped, making the big staghorn worm dizzy and lying on the grass neighing in pain.

Gray took the opportunity to stride forward, swung the mace and smashed it on the head of the big staghorn worm. The hard horns couldn't bear such a heavy blow, and even the horns and head were smashed to pieces by the gray marsupial.

At this time, three big staghorn worms rushed out of the work shed one after another, roaring and pounced on Gray, as if they wanted to avenge their comrades who were crushed to death by the gray giant.

Joan whistled to remind Gray to retreat as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded by big stag worms.

Kandy quickly made a spell-casting gesture, chanted a sacred prayer in praise of Mother Nature, and suddenly stomped his feet, and a green glow rose from the ground.

The surrounding weeds grew wildly like hormones, and after just a few seconds, they evolved into countless thorny vines, entangled all the three big stag beetles on the opposite side, and made it difficult to move.

Joan left the three strange insects bound by natural magic to Conti and Gray to deal with, took Jamie around the thorny area, walked into the shed to observe, confirmed that there were no other strange insects lurking inside, and retreated He came out, turned around and walked towards the pier.

The work area near the pier has been flooded with weeds, and three large "hydraulic saws" installed on the riverside can be seen faintly in the grass.

These mechanical devices for processing logs should have been connected to the waterwheel in the river through a transmission rod, but now the transmission rod has been gnawed off by strange insects, the waterwheel is still rumbling under the impact of the waves, and the powerless saws are all discarded Rusted in the grass.

Then Jamie stopped and snarled at the platform where the saw was.

There was also a hissing sound coming from behind the red brick platform, moving quickly from far to near.

The moving strange insects seemed to be about the size of a hunting dog, and their bodies were covered by dense grass. Joan could only guess that they were approaching the area where he and Jamie were standing through the violent shaking of the grass.

Joan took out a piece of mica from the spell-casting material bag, held it in his hand and chanted the spell-casting incantation.

"Tinwé!"

Joan waved the crushed mica, and a shimmering dust covered the grass where the pests were lurking.

The magic brilliance burst out violently, blinding the eyes of all the pests in the grass.

"úré!"

Joan put his thumbs together, and spread the other four fingers. The magic power passed through the fingertips, turning into a fan-shaped flame and spraying forward, instantly igniting the grass on the opposite side, raising a raging fire.

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