Chapter 946 The Sea Turns Into a Mulberry Field

On the banks of the River Lenau, in the northern port.

With a crash, a ray of sky curtain opened, and the violent storm washed down from far and near, making it difficult for people on the opposite side to open their eyes. Fortunately, there are not many pedestrians on this pier at the moment. To be precise, there are almost none. There is no need to worry about anyone suffering from the rain... However, the meaning of this scene is not good.

As a port terminal close to the Lenau River, the main economic artery of Brann, busyness and excitement should be the main theme here. And I believe no one would be happy to see this unusually deserted or even lonely scene. Including those porters who worked constantly in the past and complained about not getting any rest...

"Bah, this damn weather!" He crushed the inferior cigarette sparks in the mud with his kick. Under the hay shed on the side of the dock, a strong young porter squatted half-crouched, looking angrily at the continuous rain outside the shed, muttering and cursing, "Half a day! Not a single merchant ship has entered the port to unload goods for half a day. If this continues, I will starve to death!"

"Who says it's not the case? I used to be able to bring some meat back every other week, but now I can't even afford bread..."

"This world, alas..."

"Anyway, I can't wait any longer. Several people in the family are relying on me to work here to fill their stomachs... I will go to Xicheng Tavern Street tomorrow to try. God bless, I hope I can find a job..."

"Tomorrow? Then I'll go with you and try my luck... Boss, do you want to come together?"

"By the way, Boss, do you have any ideas..."

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No matter which industry, there is a clique style, and there are always leaders. This is a normal phenomenon, not an attempt to cause trouble. Most of them are still a team cooperation model. For example, the porter job right now. Once a merchant ship enters the port, it needs to unload its cargo. Naturally, one porter can't handle it. It often requires a team that works well together to achieve high efficiency. In other words, individual porters almost do not exist here. Even if they do exist, they are called handymen.

"Wait a little longer." The leader of the group of porters in the hay shed was a middle-aged man with slightly frosty temples. He held a low-quality cigarette that was about to burn out between his fingers and stared blankly at a few people parked on the pier in the rain. A lone ship. He took a deep breath and sighed, "Just wait a little longer... It took a lot of effort to secure these two piers. Once we leave, it will be difficult to come back."

This is a fact. Although there are many docks in the port, there are also many corresponding teams of porters. It is normal for there to be too many porters. Everyone wants to occupy more docks and gain more benefits, but there are many ways to do it. Not only do we have to deal with the greedy officials who manage the port. We also need to have familiar merchant ship resources on hand, and the gangs in the city must always pay homage... to the end. It is the competition between porters and porters.

It can be said that it is not easy for these porters to have the right to unload goods at two terminals. You don’t need to think twice to know that they are veterans in this industry and have been working hard for many years. Precisely because of this, how can they be willing to give up these two docks easily now?

There was silence for a moment under the thatched hut, and a porter in gray shook his head bitterly, "Boss, you know the situation of my family..."

The middle-aged porter leader waved his hand and interrupted: "I know, your boy is going to enter a civilian college in a few days, right? Haha, he has grown so old in a flash... It's okay, I still have some savings, you can use it for emergencies first. "

"But this is not the way..."

"I know everything, but now we can only wait." The leader of the porters shook his head and put out inferior cigarettes. "You should also know the situation now. It's not that there is no work in our dock or port, let alone this damn weather. The reason is that the world is... chaotic! No one dares to come out to make a living, and the business of various shops in the city is also very deserted. Even if we are willing to abandon the dock and go to Xicheng Tavern Street to find another way to make a living, we will be afraid that it will be difficult to find one for a while. Work."

This is also true. As for the reason, I have said it many times. It is nothing more than the barbarian invasion and the rise of the gray army. There is no need to elaborate.

boom! He punched the wooden pillar of the straw shed hard, and the strong young porter roared angrily: "Your mother! There is no work to do if we stay here, and there is no way to survive when we go out. Are we going to be forced to death in this cruel world!"

"Calm down, there is always a way." Standing up, the leader of the porters frowned to dissuade the young man from committing self-harm. Then he made a confident look, pointed to the misty and rainy river in the distance and said loudly, "We rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and we rely on the water to drink the water. At least we are much better than those doing business. No matter who is in charge of this empire, as long as we keep the Aren't we afraid that we won't be able to survive in this huge river?"

After a pause, he smiled and said, "Unless, haha, do you think the Lenau River will dry up one day?"

The Lenau River twists and turns for thousands of miles, running through the entire Bran Empire from north to south. Of course, it will not dry up inexplicably one day. The porter leader's words were obviously meant to liven up the atmosphere, and the effect was quite good. There were bursts of laughter in the hut.

The young porter was also smiling, but after hearing this, he subconsciously glanced at the misty river water outside, and the smile suddenly solidified on his face. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, then rubbed them again. His strong body suddenly stiffened, and his face looked as frightened as if he had seen a ghost in the day.

"Huh? What's wrong?" The leader of the porters noticed the strangeness of the young man and asked in surprise.

"Head, head..." The young porter turned his head stiffly, his eyes were straight, his expression was blank and strange, he raised his hand and pointed tremblingly at the dock outside, slightly crying, "I... my eyes seem to be broken... the river... …The river is gone!”

"Huh? You kid...haha..."

"Really, I didn't realize that your sense of humor is getting stronger and stronger."

"The eye seems to be broken...the river is gone...ha, look at this expression, it's absolutely amazing!"

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The whole hall burst into laughter, and all the porters in the hut were so happy that they fell to the floor laughing. Especially the leader of the porters, while smiling, he cast an admiring look at the young porter, thinking that the other party was cooperating with his lively atmosphere.

But the young porter seemed to be really anxious, his face turned red, he opened his mouth, and then opened his mouth again. Every time he wanted to say something, he was interrupted by laughter. Finally, he yelled suddenly, grabbed the leader and ran out of the hut, ran into the violent storm, pointed at the misty and rainy dock river, and shouted hurriedly: "It's true! It's true - look, look, ——The river is receding! It’s really receding, it’s receding——”

The roaring roar in the storm, mixed with the faint thunder in the sky, instantly spread far and near inside and outside the dock.

Figures came out of the huts and huts around them, looking over here and pointing and saying something. Then they saw the surface of the dock and the river, and their figures instantly turned to stone. Immediately afterwards, more and more blurry figures slowly walked out of the hut and walked into the rain, looking blankly ahead...

Under the pier, the river is indeed receding. Or to be more precise, the water level is falling, falling sharply at a speed visible to the naked eye...

This is an extremely weird scene!

This is the Lenau River now, not the Lenau Sea, and there is no daily ebb and flow. And with the boundless waters here, there cannot be any cross-river sluices, so there will be no water release and rising water... In short, no matter what angle you analyze rationally, you will not find any reason for the decline of the river water. reason.

But unfortunately, the water level is falling now! It makes no sense, just like under the vast river, there is a huge water beast that sleeps for thousands of years and wakes up once. It feels thirsty, so it swallows cattle and drinks from the vast river...

One inch, one foot, one foot...

After the young porter who was the first to notice the abnormality called out, in just a few moments, the boundless river water continued to fall, fall, fall... water plants, iron anchors, sunken boats, and carrying various Various black and gray mottled tidal flats with messy debris gradually emerged from the water.

Immediately, the turbulent river water retreated, retreated, and retreated like a crazy ebb... The area of ​​​​tidal flats became larger and larger, and the T-shaped protruding pier increased infinitely. Buzz, buzz - the reins connecting the ship retreating with the river are getting tighter and tighter.

At a certain moment, there was a loud banging sound, sawdust flying, and most of the old rope piles were uprooted and quickly retreated out of the harbor together with the ships. During this period, many ships with only inertia and no one at the helm crashed into one place, or collapsed, or continued to retreat, or stranded on the tidal flats, like abandoned dolls that were tired of being played with, and no one cared about them... …

After a while, the river disappeared. There is one less riverside port in the world and one more inland town.

The vast sea turns into mulberry fields...

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