Chapter 274: Evacuation Plan
Monroe nodded, "I did bring news from Mr. Bredrow, and he hopes that you can organize the people to go to sea immediately by boat and follow the chart to Fish-Man Island southwest of Amm." ”
The six delegates were stunned, and they looked at each other, not understanding why Bredrow had given such a guide.
Handak was the first to say, "Let's abandon our hometown and go to the territory of the Koutao Fishmen?" Let's not mention that Kou Tao Fishman will not allow us to go to the island, even if those monsters are willing to accept us, the small Fishman Island will not be enough for 50,000 people to live! ”
Askatra had a population of 110,000, of which about 20,000 were migrants, who were merchants and caravans.
The remaining 90,000 fixed population, after the six knights entered Am, a large part of them had already left their homeland, preferring to go to another country rather than stay in the city where tensions were increasing.
After the uprising, some people left Ascatra one after another and took refuge in the village of Am, fearing that the temple to which the Knights belonged would organize an army to retaliate.
After the success of the Acheng uprising, the rebels effectively controlled only one city of Azkatra, and the other towns in Amm were in a state of anarchy and chaos.
But in fact, this has nothing to do with the uprising, most of the towns on the continent of Faren are autonomous towns, and the backward transportation and monsters all over the continent make it difficult for the lord's decrees of each country to reach the local level.
It's like Am's town of Tremi, which is plagued by druid-induced animal riots and fire djinns hunting down Rakshasa demons, but Askatra has done nothing, and it is the Tremi Town Municipality that has sent someone to help Chanem's team solve the problem.
It was the norm for the lords of the various kingdoms on the continent of Faeron to ignore the towns and villages in their territory, exercising sovereignty only when collecting taxes, and ignoring other issues.
This is also one of the reasons why the adventurer team of the Faren Continent is prosperous, and many problems that the government needs to solve are handed over to the adventurers.
Of course, it costs money to hire adventurers, and this money is paid by the localities themselves, saving a lot of administrative expenses for the lords who rule the kingdom.
Monroe shook his head and said: "Mr. Bredro does not plan to settle the people on Fish-Man Island, Fish-Man Island has a passage to the dark region, Bredro has reached an agreement with the Fish-Man Prince of Fish-Man Island, and he has agreed to allow the people of Acheng to enter the dark region through this secret passage." ”
Luo Feng's team had already killed Fish-Man Island with the Mithril team in advance, helped Kou Tao Fish-Man Prince create his father's rebellion, and supported the Fish-Man Prince to ascend to the throne, which was exchanged for the right of way to the dark region of Fish-Man Island.
This passage leads directly to the dark area, and the monsters are also cleaned up along the way, as long as you avoid the guard of a nearby dark elf city, you can reach the rockfall base.
After the investigation of the transformation monsters, Luo Feng learned that the dark elf city had also suffered a catastrophe recently, and Chanem led the team to use a fake silver dragon egg to deceive the city's first family mother to be killed by the demon, and now the dark elves in the city are busy fighting for the title of the first family, and have no time to care.
This was the plan for the retreat of the rebellious people in the city of Askatra.
"Why go to the Dark Regions?"
This time, not only Handak, but also several other representatives were shocked: "Humans can't live in the dark region, where there is no water, no sunlight, no crops, only terrible monsters and evil underground races!" ”
The gray dwarf who came with Monroe laughed, and he said in the common language of Faeron with a strange accent: "The dark region is different now, at least the five hundred miles around Luoshi Village are completely different, we have dug deep water wells, and under the guidance of Master Qiu, we have used distillation, filtration, and alchemy to neutralize the water, and build mushroom greenhouses, and the mushroom rations produced are more than enough to feed the whole clan, as long as you work with us, you don't have to worry about starvation and thirst!" ”
The gray dwarf's words were unbelievable, and several human representatives looked at him suspiciously.
The Dark Regions have been synonymous with barrenness and savagery for tens of thousands of years, and they are only a little stronger than the bottomless abyss, how can they produce enough food to support the survival of the surface races?
But the people of Faeron don't know that people can transform the environment through labor, not everything by God's grace!
The dark area is not a desert area, it is obviously under the surface, and the difference from the surface is only that there is no sunlight, there is no lack of water, nor is there a lack of minerals, and the giant mushroom forest provides a large amount of wood fiber, limiting the underground race population to only two aspects: food and water.
Using exploration technology, deep wells can be dug to open up groundwater aquifers, and water can be lifted by steam engines, which can completely guarantee the supply of water sources.
In the process of trying to eat them for many years, mushroom varieties that can replace the nutritional value of food have already been discovered, which has fed the deep dwarfs, gray dwarves, kobolds and goblins with large populations in the dark region.
In terms of food, the yield of cultivated mushrooms is actually very amazing, and the mushroom varieties in the Faren Continent are surprisingly large, and they can even grow into giant mushroom forests and mushroom people.
In the real world, the annual yield per mu of oyster mushrooms planted in greenhouses can reach 1500-3000 kg, and the planting conditions are good, the strains are excellent, and the annual yield can reach 5000 kg under proper management.
Mushrooms are different from grains, they can be planted in three dimensions, harvested many times, built a planting room of 1,000 square meters, controlled the temperature and humidity, and regularly replaced the medium, so that the energy can be continuously produced, and the harvest is three or four seasons a year.
What about the crops on the surface of Feren?
Only one season can be harvested a year, and affected by natural disasters and pests, there is no chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and the wheat produced by one acre of land is two or three hundred catties is already a good year.
Of course, the mushrooms produced in the greenhouse belong to fresh mushrooms, with large water content, and the yield seems to be very high.
But the mushroom production in the dark region far exceeds that of the real world, after all, in the real world, you can't find a giant mushroom as tall as a tree, and you can't find a mushroom man as tall as a human and can run around with hands and feet.
The output of dried mushrooms in the mushroom greenhouses in the dark area is almost several times that of the surface wheat field.
Now, under Io's guidance, the gray dwarves have finally solved the water and food problems that have plagued the various races in the dark region for tens of thousands of years through their industrious hands.
Surface water is permeable, and dark areas can only exist below or above the aquifer, whether above or below, and with proper exploration techniques, wells can be drilled, and the wellhead may be in the cave ceiling or above ground.
Why is it that tens of thousands of years have passed, but the underground races have not mastered the mushroom cultivation technology, and they have lived a life as poor as beggars and refugees in the resource-rich underground treasure land?
This is to ask Rose, the spider queen who rules the underworld, and whether the gods who control the surface of Faeron are a unique evil taste that claims to be lovely, benevolent, just, and great when they see the underground race suffering.
Or does the Underworld, the worst evil race ever since infancy, deserve this fate?
In the continent of Faerun, it is true that you are born as a dragon, a god son, a hero, an elf, and a nobleman, and you are extremely happy, wandering, and enjoying your life, but if you are born as a goblin, a deep dwarf, a gray dwarf, or a kobold, do you deserve it, and there is nothing to complain about?