Chapter 440 Is This the Rhythm for the Whole Family to Become Officials?

At dawn, John wrapped his clothes and went out. When the adults left a few days ago, he left him a few pieces of beef patties, which he treasured. He mixed a little each time to adjust the taste and oily smell, and ate them with the batter until yesterday. .

This kind of treatment is already one of the best in the entire slum area. Many people have already run out of food. They carried out two starving corpses yesterday morning. If this continues, many people will starve to death.

There is grain for sale on the black market, but the price has increased tenfold, emptying everyone's last copper coin. Damn Earl Gula, his grain merchant association controls the entire city's grain business. price.

I heard that it was for the position of the city lord. John couldn't understand and didn't want to understand these high-level power struggles. He only hoped that the market would recover soon and the food price would return to normal.

He has hands and feet, even if he is doing odd jobs to carry big bags, he can always make a living, unlike the ghost he is now, who doesn't even know where to beg.

The market is getting more and more chaotic. From time to time, I see some ghostly people who look like slave catchers. Is it possible that there are still people who dare to arrest people in the city and make them slaves?

He didn't know whether the slave hunting team dared to capture the freedmen as slaves, but he knew that the slave traders had started to attack the slums. In the past two days, people had been probing around, probably waiting for an opportunity.

There are two women in John's family, who are the main targets of slave traders. The only advantage of slave traders over slave catchers is that they seldom use force and will not break into your home and take you away.

But when they are dying of hunger, they come to the door again, not to mention paying money, a few pieces of cake can make you "voluntarily" sign the contract of sale.

Thinking of this, John couldn't help but worry about the two women in the family, and couldn't help but want to go back, but his empty stomach reminded him that if he didn't go out to find food, the family would starve to death.

Walking out of the block through the black and smelly dirty water, John unexpectedly found that there were many more people on the street outside, and there were some gray skeletons on the corner of the street.

John's heart was shocked, and he became excited in an instant, and quickly ran over to watch.

He didn't have a good impression of these skeletons before, because seeing them would remind him of death. But now, no matter how you look at it, there is one word in these skeletons—kindness.

The appearance of the skeleton guards represents the return of order.

It is difficult to understand the value of order if you have never experienced chaos. Now that he understands it, the people around him understand it too, and everyone has an expression of relief on their faces.

John recognized a few slave traders, and even put 'friendly' smiles on their faces, and the daggers that were deliberately exposed on their waists to scare people were now tightly covered.

Look, order has returned, and ghosts have become humans.

There was commotion in the street, and a brass dragon flew by, followed by a procession of skeletons.

John shouted excitedly: "Lord Naig!"

When he met an acquaintance, and it was a special brass dragon, with so many skeletons behind him, John immediately contacted the return of order and Anger and others.

Naig turned his head to see John, his eyes lit up immediately, and he pointed with short paws: "Okay, so who, you have been conscripted, and now you are appointed as a sheriff to lead the guards to maintain the safety of this area."

He flew over involuntarily, and slapped a badge on his hand, and the skeletons behind Naig immediately turned their eyes to him.

Holding the badge, John pointed to his nose in a daze, "Me? Sheriff?"

"Yes, yes, magistrate, we don't have enough manpower, you come here, you are familiar with this place, and anyone who dares to make trouble, you will arrest them."

Speaking of this, Negris leaned into his ear and continued to whisper: "If you can't beat it, just click here on the badge. Hold the badge, and these skeleton guards will listen to you. Don't let people snatch the badge."

"But..." John was embarrassed, but his tone was a little excited and eager to try.

"It's nothing, the mission of saving the city is entrusted to you, go quickly." Negris said while shirking responsibility.

They are not short of manpower, but lack of manpower to lead the team. Except for the little angel and the little zombie, the rest of the people have been thrown out, but for a city, it is still a drop in the bucket.

As for the Rhine family, they have already taken over key places such as city defense, municipal administration, and grain depots, and there is no one left to maintain law and order.

It is a majestic god of knowledge, and it can only lead the skeleton guards to patrol the streets, and has no energy to go deep into every block.

And even if it has the energy, it doesn't know where to start. It's not familiar with the place, so the devil knows where the dirt is hiding.

I didn't expect to meet John, isn't this the person who is most familiar with the local environment?

"By the way, let your wife and daughter come over too. We will build a free food distribution stall later, let them distribute food, and I will let people protect them, so I will appoint them as city officials." Negris said casually It doesn't matter what level the mayor is.

John trembled all over: "This...is this okay?" Is this the rhythm for the whole family to be an official?

"If there is anything wrong, go quickly and find more people you know, at least you can have enough food." Negris urged impatiently seeing his ink stains.

It didn't take long for John to bring his wife, daughter and a bunch of people he knew. When they heard that there was enough to eat, everyone was enthusiastic.

Not long after, Ange came to deliver food, and when he reached out, he found a large bag of food, as if it had been taken out of the storage space.

"Where's the food?" Negris asked.

Ange pointed to the direction of the Grain Chamber of Commerce, which was the Chamber of Commerce where they met John for the first time when they went to the city to sell vegetables: "Grab it."

The trade route was interrupted, and there was only one way to solve the food crisis in the city—expropriation.

Expropriate the excess grain from those noble companies and make a reasonable allocation. Of course, the process was not very peaceful. In Anger's eyes, it was understood as "robbing", and he was the one who did it.

A bunch of skeletons surrounded the Chamber of Commerce and Food. Ange blasted open the gate of the chamber of commerce with magic. The little zombie cherub screamed and led the skeletons to rush in. Those high-spirited mercenaries hurriedly surrendered.

Count Gula ran away, but all the food he hoarded fell into the hands of Ang. In order to bid for the city lord, Count Gula made a lot of preparations and hoarded enough food for the aftermath. When the grain is released, the market will stabilize immediately.

Of course, the silver coins did the same, opened the warehouse door, distributed grain at a low price, and built dozens of grain distribution points by the way, allowing the poor to receive food for free.

There are a large number of skeletons to maintain order, and no one dares to jump in the line to fight for it. If it is a human soldier, they will warn them several times or drag them away.

No one will try to reason with the skeleton guard.

The crisis in Beifeng City was completely resolved overnight. Now it only needs to open up trade routes, and Beifeng City can restore its former vitality.

"We have already visited the place where the road is blocked. The mountains have separated the entire Beifeng City from the desert, leaving only one pass. At that time, I heard that a huge rock rolled down the pass and blocked the pass. Now it has been a long time. Look, the entire pass has collapsed, it must be that Gula was unwilling to fail, so he blew up the pass." Feiwo said bitterly.

To clear out the completely collapsed pass, the amount of work would be too large. The temporary import of forced grain has solved the food crisis in Beifeng City, but the roads are impassable, and there will always be a time when the grain in Beifeng City will run out. what to do?

When it came to the large amount of work, Duroken looked around and asked, "Where is your lord?"

A large amount of work is for ordinary people, but for Ange, it may take more than half a month.

Yin Coin saw through Duroken's meaning at a glance, shook his head and said: "Your Excellency has gone back to open up wasteland, we can't bother you any more, we can't handle a business route, and you always ask your Excellency to help, so what do you need this city for? Assets that cannot generate income, but instead become burdens, are negative assets, and should be discarded as soon as possible.”

Feiwo was shocked, what? Negative equity? give up? Why do you talk about giving up? He has just become the city lord, and his butt is not hot yet, so how come he has negative equity?

Duroken asked: "Then what should we do?"

Silver Coin turned to Feiwo and asked, "Is there any other way to go outside?"

Fevor thought for a while, and said: "Yes, there is a big rift valley to the south along the mountain range, and someone built a cableway there, and you can go to the other side of the rift valley through the cableway, and then walk along the rift valley." We can pass through the mountains and reach Stromgarde on the other side, which is a city bigger than Northwind City, but the ropeway can't transport food."

"How wide is the rift?" Duroken asked with a thought.

"It's about 50 meters, but it's very deep. If you fall, you will be smashed to pieces." Feiwo said.

"Hasn't anyone thought of building a bridge over it?" Duroken asked.

"Building a bridge?" Feiwo was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "I heard from the Beifeng family before that what geological conditions should be considered when building a bridge on a rift valley, and what kind of mechanics and stresses are needed for the bridge body? There are a lot of them, at least a master engineer is able to build a bridge, what does an engineer mean? I have never heard of it.”

"Ahem!" Duroken took a step forward and said, "It shouldn't be difficult, I'll go and have a look, but I still want the help of an adult, give me a 'look', otherwise we will measure slowly, no Knowing when to measure, how long can our food last?"

"Three months." Silver coins know exactly how much money is in his pocket.

"Then please take a look, sir. Let's prepare some gifts, such as all the seeds that can be found in the city, and ask you for help. Isn't this considered negative equity?" Duroken suggested.

"Good idea." Yin Coin's eyes lit up.

Feiwo was at a loss. Didn't he just say that he wanted a 'master level' engineering warlock? Why did you turn to collecting seeds again? Isn't this topic jumping too much?

Silver coins explained with a smile: "If the level of a warlock is only at the master level, then those who are higher than the master can be counted as the king level? Then, this is the king of alchemy and the king of engineering warlocks."

...

After the dam was built, the water level of the Shahe River has risen after several days of water storage. As long as the horizontal canals are dug, large tracts of land on both sides of the river can be irrigated.

After An Ge finished the work in the city, he couldn't wait to run back to fiddle with his field. This time, the area that needed to be reclaimed at one time was too large, and the four of them couldn't be busy at all.

As a last resort, he selected a group of 'smart' gray bone skeletons to help.

When he was in the desert town, Ange discovered a problem. The gray bone skeletons here are smarter than those of the same level on the main plane. They have at least the intelligence of silver skeletons, and a small number of silver skeletons can even have the intelligence of golden skeletons. It can barely be regarded as a smart skeleton.

The skeleton is smart, so Ange is much more convenient to use, at least capable of digging ditches and mounds.

"These gray bones are so smart, it hurts my heart. It was originally my aura of enlightenment, but it was snatched by that dead bone, and I was so mad." Negris directed the gray bone skeletons, cursing.

No one cares about it.

Negris didn't care either, and continued: "Should we look for it? Get back my aura of enlightenment, and then we can make these skeletons smarter."

Still no one cares about it.

"Your Majesty doesn't know how much land is left. Let's go outside and maybe we can find a larger piece of fertile land than here, which is much better than this kind of desert."

There was no sound at all.

I muttered in different ways for a long time, but no one paid any attention to it.

Realizing that Ange was determined to farm, Negris shut up embarrassingly.

After the canal is dug, the gate is opened to release water, and after the soil is soaked, the gate is closed and the seeds are sown.

Ange chose the most suitable sand dates for desert growth, and the roots of each sand tree were pre-buried with worm ash.

These bug ashes are all caught by Ange every ten minutes, and the hard work has accumulated.

With the growth of the soul, Ange's grabbing interval has also been shortened to once every 16 minutes. He can grab a lot each time, but he can't grab space items.

He tried grabbing the storage bag or the ring, but as long as there was something in it, he couldn't grab it unless the storage space was emptied. I don't know the mechanism.

On the contrary, his consciousness returned to the body, and then turned into Locke, and stuffed things here, and then he could stuff the storage accessories containing things over.

But only those small storage spaces, such as the large space of hundreds of cubic meters cut by big cats, cannot be filled.

Ange only stuffed it once, and stuffed six storage bags of about two cubic meters, two of which were filled with seeds, and the other four were filled with soul crystals, at least a few million in number.

The next time there is any need for money, he can directly hit people with soul crystals.

The jujube tree grew rapidly, and when it reached waist height, An Ge suspended the halo of quick death.

Then interplant yams at the intervals between the jujube trees. In this way, the jujube trees are shaded from the strong sunlight, and the yams can grow more stably.

Everything was in order, and soon, many greens appeared on both sides of the Shahe River.

Duroken and Yin Coin came all the way in the carriage, and couldn't help sighing: "It's so strange, obviously the lord is an undead creature, why doesn't he bring death with him wherever he goes, but instead brings endless vitality?"

"Isn't this good? Life is more interesting than death. There are too few seeds in North Wind City, and no new seeds have been found. I wonder if adults will like these things." Duroken looked back as he spoke. In the carriage compartment behind him, bundles of translucent things were stacked there.

Thank you for the rewards from the people who eat melons.