Chapter 869

The cold wind blows from the direction of the sea, rolling the flag of the Empire flying high on the coast. Under the sword and plow emblem with gold pattern on a blue background, soldiers and skilled craftsmen are putting today's third fixed stake with The steel frames were welded together—the magic net runes that had not yet been encapsulated shone with a faint halo on the ground not far away. Inside the meter-high metal frame, some copper pipes and heat-conducting fins have been fixed in specific positions, just waiting to be connected to the rest of the heat pipes.

This huge installation is part of the "Waste Heat Recovery Center", which circulates the alchemical solution through the pipes. This installation will turn several nearby facilities - including an alchemical reaction tower, a rune casting factory and an ooze waste. Incineration Center - The waste heat released is collected and distributed to the camp's heating system through a high-efficiency heat exchanger to heat parts of the western side of the coast.

In order to survive in the cold northern region for a long time, similar technology is essential. It is far cleaner and more efficient than cutting down the slow-growing frigid trees at the foot of the mountain for heating, and it can also minimize the impact on local residents. Life, and someday in the future, these facilities could even be used to heat nearby settlements - that's a long time later, of course.

In a farther place, on the open and flat ground near the coast of Beigang, large and small simple houses, military tents, towers and some newly built brick and tile houses have been scattered, and the materials on the material storage yard are piled up like mountains. The large-scale construction machinery that has recently arrived at the construction site is busy. A temporary trestle bridge extending towards the sea has been built. Near the trestle is a large area planned for the construction of dry docks in the future.

The temporary trestle was not fixed on the seabed near the sea by fixing piles or the like, nor did it use a floating bridge, but was built on several huge ice piles, which were as thick as a bell tower, frozen from the bottom of the sea and stretched all the way. To the sea surface, a large number of branched icicles penetrated deeply into the seabed, and the whole is strong and abnormal.

Byron stood on a large stone near the temporary trestle, smiling happily in the face of the sea breeze, he couldn't help but said to the Victoria Archon beside him: "Your ice spell is really amazing - I already I heard that the Wilder family has researched the skills of ice magic to the extreme, but I never thought it could be so powerful... When you raise twelve ice 'columns' in the ocean, the scene is almost like Art."

"You're overrated, it's just a rude use of magic," Victoria shook her head indifferently. In the cold wind, the "Queen of the North" was still wearing a long dress, and the flying fine ice and snow was like a barrier "And I never imagined that I would one day use these magical skills to...build things, it's a novel experience, and I'm glad I didn't screw it up the first time."

"Magic is a convenience, and it is far more cost-effective to use it to improve life or advance technology than to waste the strength of mages on the battlefield - that's not what I said, it's what His Majesty said," Byron laughed He said, "Although I don't know much about things in the field of magic, I have always highly recognized what His Majesty said,

Because at least after Princess Rebecca put her strength to work in the lab, there have been far fewer inexplicable explosions and fires elsewhere..."

Victoria thought for a moment and said seriously: "But in my opinion, Her Royal Highness Rebecca's magical talent is actually far higher than everyone thinks - her ability to shape the fireball into a statue of His Majesty is the real thing." Magical art'. But I can't understand the principle... If there is a chance, I would really like to study the mysteries of the evocation field with her..."

The Grand Duke of Ice and Snow is always serious in strange places, and Byron has taken it for granted, he did not let this strange (and seemingly suspected of slandering the royal family) topic continue, but casually mentioned another thing: "As a Ruler of the North, is it really okay for you to stay in the 'North Port' every three to five?"

"The ruler of the northern region is the government affairs department of the northern provinces, and the authority of the grand consul is only a part of the government affairs department," Victoria said lightly, "As for the Beigang side... Beigang is currently one of the most important projects in the entire northern region. , The eyes from the imperial capital are always watching here, and I often come here to show up... It's also to show the attitude of the Wilder family on this matter."

Byron shook his head: "I hope that the families in the north will one day understand your good intentions - you are doing your best to prevent them from being included in the 'list'."

Victoria didn't speak, she just stood there quietly, her cold eyes slowly sweeping the entire coastline and the rolling hills in the distance.

The "Northern Construction Corps" led by Byron has been stationed on this cold coastline for a month. For more than 60 days, engineering equipment has been started day and night, and a steady stream of materials has been sent from the rear. Under the double promotion of , a large-scale seaport prototype is rapidly taking shape, which is undoubtedly exciting.

But this massive construction activity and the large-scale construction corps also attracted a lot of attention.

Here is the north, the cold and stubborn north, far from every civil war of the kingdom, far from every political shuffle, far from the north of the magic industry, deep in these frozen mountains, the ancient families and these families The winds of bravery and stubbornness that soaked through the blood were the same as they were centuries ago, little changed.

They instinctively refuse to allow anyone to "act" on the land where their ancestors have lived, even if these people are here to help them build the land, even if the traditional rulers of the land have publicly expressed their attitudes and issued warnings, There are still many people who are secretly opposed to the Beigang project.

People here have not yet developed the concept of "the empire as a whole", and it is useless to teach them what national planning is.

Although Victoria once expressed her stance to Byron and made it clear that she would support the construction of Beigang, and did not mind "beating" local families who were ignorant of current affairs, in the final analysis, she also did not want to see too many people hanging in Beigang. On flagpoles outside - too many flagpoles in one port are not "beautiful" for the entire North.

So she, the "Grand Duke of the North", can only choose to come here a few times in the early days of the Beigang project, at least... The majesty of the Wilder family still works on this land.

Byron's eyes were looking at the distant sea - on this sunny and cloudy day, an extraordinary person could look far and far away, his eyes crossed the slightly undulating sea, and crossed those in the sun. Under the shimmering bubbles, the "sea peninsula" of the Holy Dragon Principality and part of the border of the Violet Kingdom can be vaguely seen, but farther away, there is only a vast expanse of white.

That's a distance that even a superhuman eye can't reach - you need to rely on powerful magic props or additional spell effects to see that far.

"The direction of the storm circle..." Victoria noticed the direction in which Byron was looking, and she nodded slightly, "On rare days, the weather is clear enough, and the storm just expands in size, so you can see it visually. Observation, but should not be visible during this time - the storm circle in the northern outer sea shrinks in summer, and the outermost cloud wall is further away from land than usual, and cannot be observed with the naked eye under normal circumstances. There's a large mage eye device that sees across the peninsula in all seasons, and I occasionally use it to watch that storm."

Byron glanced at Victoria curiously: "Have you observed anything?"

"Apart from confirming that it really won't dissipate, and confirming its change cycle, I haven't found anything," Victoria shook her head, "The ocean is not calm, it has reached an area where humans can't set foot, and legendary powerhouses will also Buried in the sea outside the storm circle - no one knows how that layer of storm formed, let alone its internal structure."

"Your Majesty seems to think that it is one of the defense systems of the dragon kingdom 'Tallond', and beyond the storm is the dragon's territory," Byron said casually, "If you want me to say, he can directly talk to the one who often visits. Miss Giant Dragon... It seems to be called Mei Li or something, talk to Miss Giant Dragon, maybe you can find out something."

Victoria said expressionlessly: "...There are many legends about the dragon clan in the northern region, most of which come from the Holy Dragon Principality. From our point of view, the dragon clan is not a role to deal with."

Byron let out a noncommittal heck, then slowly said thoughtfully while looking at the sea: "It's not easy to deal with... But according to this trend, when we step out of this land and send ships to the far sea, sooner or later, You have to deal with any race..."

Victoria glanced at Byron and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but before she could speak, a vague commotion came from the south of the camp, interrupting what she wanted to say.

Looking at the prestige, she saw that a large group of people had gathered near the checkpoint in the southern part of the camp at some point. The people outside the isolation line were wearing civilian clothes, and the soldiers at the checkpoint had already gone to maintain order, making noise. From time to time, shouting voices came from there, mixed with a strong northern dialect.

Victoria's brows immediately wrinkled, she vaguely guessed what was going on over there, the ice and snow around her condensed instantly, hovering in the air like a cold ice blade, her tone was as cold as winter: "I am here Here, there are still people..."

Before the Duchess could finish speaking, Byron suddenly raised his hand to interrupt her. The mercenary-turned-empire general just glanced over there and knew what was going on, with a strange smile on his face: "Don't So excited, Archon, those are just civilians and some familiar faces - you've missed something lately, but I know what's going on, it's not as small as you might think."

As he spoke, Byron jumped to the ground and walked towards the checkpoint. At the same time, he said to Victoria who followed: "Don't show your face later, they may be too nervous - just watch me deal with it."

Victoria nodded in confusion, and released the Quguang force field to cover her figure. She and Byron came to the checkpoint in the southern part of the camp, and the nearly 100 civilians gathered here were already standing clearly with the soldiers at the checkpoint. two rows.

"Here comes the general..." "Here comes the general..."

Someone in the crowd saw Byron's figure, and whispered reminders came one after another, the soldiers gave way to a passage, and the gathered civilians took two steps back neatly.

Victoria, who used the curved light force field to hide her figure, immediately turned her attention to those civilians—they were wearing old sackcloth shirts, but their clothes were clean and warm. Judging from their facial expressions, these were all living nearby and all year round. The most interesting thing about the working mountain people is that there are not only sturdy men, but also women and children -- all brought by their families.

While Victoria was guessing which family these gathered commoners were instigated by, Byron had already taken a few steps to the crowd.

Those in sackcloth and sackcloth looked in awe at the tall and majestic Imperial General in front of them, but they didn't step back.

Byron glanced at them, and said casually, "What are you gathering here for?"

His tone was calm and natural, as if he was used to it.

Several men in the crowd stood up. They glanced back subconsciously before coming to Byron boldly: "General, we have something to say..."

Byron raised his eyebrows: "Is it the same as before?"

"Yes," several men nodded in succession, then took a breath and shouted with a broken gong-like voice, "Southerners don't touch our land! You are digging our mines and water sources!!"

The civilians gathered behind them also shouted, and the sparse shouts lasted for a few seconds before they all stopped.

The leading man looked at Byron with a hint of anticipation, while the latter curled his lips and waved casually: "You all heard - arrest these people, the men will be sent to the West End to dig the drains, and the women will deal with potatoes and meat. Shit, the child also goes to the kitchen to help, and then has an hour-long literacy class... Who brought this one who looks less than five years old here!?"

A tall and thin man emerged from the crowd with an embarrassed smile: "I, it's my son... He's brilliant! And he's almost seven years old, but he looks thin..."

"I'm not blind yet, if he can be five and a half years old, I'll be your son!" Byron glared at the tall and thin man, then waved his hand angrily, "Go in and watch the child, you won't be allowed to bring it tomorrow. ."

A group of civilians in front of the checkpoint immediately walked forward beamingly, and cooperated with the soldiers to be checked and searched, and then walked towards the camp under the leadership of several soldiers. He also stopped for a while, and smiled ingratiatingly: "General, is it still the sun knot?"

"Otherwise?" Byron glared at the other party, "The soldiers of the empire will never deceive the people, saying that the knot is the knot of the sun!"

"Fine, that's fine..."

The man nodded happily, quickly followed the team that had already left, and entered the camp.

Victoria was stunned watching from the side.

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