Caterina and I walked upstairs, and Caterina lit a candle and the room became brighter, and we walked up the wooden staircase.The chandelier in the living room was burning with ten candles, and little Ella stood barefoot on the floor of the living room, and when she saw me and Caterina coming out of the basement, she was slightly relieved, smiled slightly, and said to Caterina: "I guess you should have come back, seeing that you didn't say hello, and you couldn't find anyone when you entered the door, so I tried to shout." ”Caterina crouched down in front of little Ella, hugged her in her arms, and said, "I'm sorry, I should have told you when I entered the house." ”"It's okay, Uncle Minotaur is lying in the pergola outside the house, he won't let a bad guy into the house, he will protect me.It's just that I'm not quite sure where you are!
”Little Ella fell into Caterina's arms, as if it was a little itchy, giggling, and then said to me and Katerina, "You haven't finished your meal yet, I'm cooking dinner, would you like to eat some together?"
”"Are you sure we won't eat your share?"
I asked her with a smile.Little Ella proudly waved the shovel in her hand at me and said, "There is fried meat, just two more servings are needed, it's very convenient!"
”Dinner was made by little Ella herself, I didn't expect the taste to be good, barbecue and vegetable risotto, although the meat is fried a little raw, the knife will cut it and there will be a trace of red blood outward, but with the sauce is still delicious, the vegetables are cooked very soft, the soup is very thick, every grain of rice is full of soup, she gave me and Katarina two full bowls.The three of us gathered around the table and ate the dinner in silence.By the candle on the dining table, little Ella raised her head and looked at me silently, and then asked me cautiously, "Jijia, is Karantso okay with her over there in Xinliu Valley?"
”I looked up at little Ella and asked, "What?"
Did you miss her?
”After all, she is only a nine-year-old girl, and although the children of the orc clan seem to be very mature, this kind of occasional time is still inevitably homesick.Her eyes flickered a little, and when she saw me staring at her and asked, she said, "No, it's just a little bit!"
”I asked her seriously, "Do you want me to open the portal and call her up?"
”To be honest, I haven't seen Kalan wrong in the past few days, and I feel like something is missing, maybe it's her determined and gentle eyes.Little Ellaje really thought about it for a while, hesitated for a moment before saying: "It's better not to, if she finds out that there is nothing important, and I am here, she will definitely blame me, I just want to know something about her recent situation from your mouth." ”She said to me stubbornly.Caterina glanced at Ella with a smile, she had been on good terms with little Ella lately, and she liked the little orc girl very much.I asked again, "Are you sure you don't want to look at him?"
”Little Ella nodded seriously, although it seemed a little difficult, but she still made her own decision: "Well, it's better not to." ”I reached out and gently pinched her fleshy little face, and then said to her lovingly, "Okay, as long as you miss her, I can take you back to the underground cave in Xinliu Valley to see her, and I can also see your friends." ”"Karantso said he would have to wait until I had my summer vacation."
Little Ella said with some frustration, she lowered her head, cut off a piece of beef with a knife, and dipped it in the sauce to eat it with relish, obviously she was a little hungry.After the meal, Caterina brought a plate of fruit, some blueberries and the first ripening apples of the summer with a slightly sour taste, the apples were almost not sweet, except for the crispness, but a slight sour taste, and a little bitterness, I didn't like the taste very much, just ate a few blueberries, but Ella and Caterina liked it.After dinner, I asked Caterina to close the thick velvet curtains in the master bedroom to block out the strong light of thunder and lightning, and opened the portal to the Valley of the Willow Inside, the Hammer of the Time Breaker became more and more comfortable to use, because it was summer, there were many thunderstorms, and it became easy to absorb the power of thunder and lightning in heavy rain, so I was not very stingy with the power of thunder and lightning.Since the basement had been turned into an ice cellar, the portal could not stand in it, so I changed the location where the portal was opened to the master bedroom of the room.The orc warriors guarding the altar in the underground cave were very responsible, and it didn't take me too long to wait, Karantso walked out of the portal wearing a half-body armor, and she stepped on the soft carpet in the bedroom with leather boots, only to be surprised to find that I actually opened the portal in the bedroom, and quickly took off the hard leather boots, and stood barefoot on the soft carpet of the bedroom.I walked up and hugged her, her exposed round shoulders were a little cold, and the hard leather armor on her body was a little panicked."
Why did you set up the portal here?"
Karantso asked in surprise as I let me hold her."
The basement is occupied, and this bedroom has the thickest curtains."
I saw a hint of helplessness on her face, she was the kind of woman with a strong principle, if I knew that it was because Little Ella missed her, I opened the portal, I would inevitably quietly reprimand Little Ella, so I hurriedly asked her: "How are the railroad tracks laid in the cave over there in Xinliu Valley?"
”She pushed me away and hugged Caterina before she walked to the bedroom door, picked up little Ella who was hiding outside the door, kissed her, and said, "It's not too early, you should go to bed, Ella!"
”Seeing that the little Ella of Karanco was like an extremely obedient and well-behaved baby, without any resistance, she obediently kissed Karanco on the cheek, and then whispered: "Mom, good night!"
”Breaking out of Karanco's arms, he ran barefoot back to his bedroom in a thin nightdress.Looking at little Ella's back, I whispered to Karan, "You should give her a little more care, she's still a little girl." ”Kahlan glanced at me wrongly, and just said lightly: "The girls of the orc tribe are far more mature than you think, if she is in the tribe, she should be married in three years, she knows how to choose the right life." ”"After all, he still has half of the blood of the empire in his body, and in Grimm, he can't buy a coming-of-age ceremony until he is sixteen."
I immediately retorted.Karantso gave me a faint look, then his eyes fell on Katerina's body again, and asked me rhetorically: "That's why you have endured it for so long, and you still have to endure it?"
”I was speechless at one question, and Caterina blushed and excused herself to pour us tea before running away in a panic.There was a desk in the corner of the bedroom with a few thick parchment books neatly arranged, and there was very little furniture in the room, except for a large gum, only a wardrobe, a dresser, and a chair with a backrest, but the room should have been cleaned frequently, and the bedroom was cleaned spotlessly.Karantso sat casually on a chair, peeled off the leather armor and skirt and half-armor on his body, and found a comfortable nightgown from the wardrobe in his underwear and put it on his body, and then said to me: "The railroad tracks in the underground cavern are only one-fifth of the length of the road, and all the black iron spears have been smelted, and the magic black iron ingots have been piled up in the warehouse, and almost all of those fine iron have been laid on this railroad track by Bernd, but unfortunately it is far from enough. ”Karantso found a rubber band on the dresser, and gathered the shoulder-high hair together before he said, "The dwarf has set his sights on the copper ingots in the warehouse, and if it weren't for the fact that the copper is too soft, he would probably have to lay the copper track in the near future." ”Karantso was not satisfied with Bernd's approach.I asked in surprise, "Nearly a thousand black iron spears have all been smelted?"
”The answer was yes, and Karantso nodded, and then said, "Bernd found a document on iron-making from the drawings left by those goblins, which happened to introduce a co-solvent that could melt those black iron spears quickly, and the time to smelt those spears was at least two-thirds shorter than expected. ”Later, she added, "Dwarves are born masters of casting. ”At this time, Katerina brought a cup of fragrant milk tea and a plate of small biscuits from downstairs and placed them beside Karantso.I said, "Looks like I still need to organize a large batch of iron?"
”Karantso from the close-fitting inside.
A roll of parchment pulled out of her coat, and God knows where she hid it, at least I didn't see anything on her when she had just changed into a loose nightgown.She handed the parchment to me, and then said: "Bernd has already prepared the drawings, he said that there is no need to transport the iron materials to the underground caves, and it is smelted into rails that meet the specifications, and the only people in the underground caves who can handle the blacksmith craft are some people in the orc villages, so it is better to order the rails that meet the specifications of the drawings directly in the blacksmith shop in the imperial capital." ”I thought to myself: it seems that Bernd has been prepared for a long time.After taking the drawing, I put it in my magic pocket without even looking at it, and then I said, "I'll find a suitable blacksmith shop, did he say how many rails are missing?"
”Karantso still has a very clear grasp of these data, she said to me: "If it is a blacksmith shop, I am afraid it will not be able to meet the supply of rails, and in the underground caves, at least 30,000 of these light rails are needed."
What kind of concept is 30,000 light rails, I'm afraid that the gold I got from all the magic spider silk I sold to Lady Arya this time is just enough to fill this big hole, I didn't expect that the light rails to erect underground caves would require such a large investment.Luckily, there was no need to dig this underground passage, the tunnels of this underground cavern were already there.But after thinking about it, it was necessary to lay railroad tracks to connect the ground and underground altars of Xinliu Valley directly, so I gritted my teeth and said to Karantso: "Go back and tell Bernd that the light rails will be in place soon." ”Karantso picked up a delicate small round biscuit, put it in his mouth, and took another sip of fragrant milk tea.Then he said: "The barbarian slaves have now stopped digging the rocks, and they have all been sent into the forest to cut down oak wood, which will be used to erect the sleepers of the rails." ”I asked Karantso, "How's the hemostatic bandage and magic herbs prepared?"
”Karantso said directly: "The primary magic herbs in the circular valley have all been drained, don't expect more magic herbs to be shipped out of the Xinliu Valley in the short term."
As for the hemostatic bandage, we are still stepping up to make it, and there are still many wild herbs waiting for this person to pick up in the eight hundred miles of mountains and forests in Xinliu Valley. ”I thought silently: probably the only thing that could be supplied to Louis recently was the forty boxes of hemostatic bandages in the airport warehouse.The morning sun bathed my body, and I felt that the free water elements around my body were constantly absorbed by the big whirlpool in my body, and it felt like every inch of my body was breathing freely, and under my magic perception, those magic elements were like clearly visible particles of dust in the air, constantly falling on my skin, and then merging into the big whirlpool with the meridians of my body.The large whirlpool formed by the various nodes in the body constantly absorbs the abundant magic elements into the body, and the magic elements absorbed by these nodes are different, so that the nodes that can absorb the magic of the water element are separated by me, and I send the water element magic absorbed by this node into the magic pool of the lower abdomen, and there is another world in the magic pool.The magic vortex in the magic pool was rotating at high speed, and those purest water elements were constantly compressed into drops of mana solution in the magic vortex, condensing into small droplets at the center of the vortex and falling into the bottom of the magic pool.In the past few days, the concentrated mana solution in the magic pool has been about to be filled, and I saw that the barrier of the magic pool has become very thick because of these magic solutions.I have to say that Shaun Scholar's method of refining mana is really easy to use, although the magic pool has not become larger, but the mana stored in the magic pool has made a qualitative leap compared to before.Awakened from meditation, the slender leaves hanging down from the iris in the flower pot on the balcony railing hung crystal dewdrops, under the refraction of the sun, it seemed so dazzling, a gust of wind blew, the dew fell from the leaves of the irises, the leaves were bent down instantly, and when the dew dewdrops detached from the leaves, the leaves suddenly bounced upwards.Even after meditating, I didn't get up immediately, I still sat on the cushion and savored the feeling of the slightest hint of magic in my body.The door of the terrace was pushed open, and Noah walked in from the outside, seeing that I was actually meditating in the early morning, and asked in amazement, "I have never seen you practice meditation in the morning, why have you suddenly become diligent recently?"
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