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Roland originally thought that she would send a few battle witches to help, but she didn't expect to come in person, which means that the trouble on the island has been resolved, or that it will not threaten the stability of the sleeping island for the time being.

The day after receiving the letter, Roland took Anna and the others to greet Tilly in the shallows.

After half a month of construction, there are also many traces of artificial carving on the muddy and sandy tidal flats.

Simple wooden houses and sheds are built around the ramp - the prototype of the future storehouse and sailor's quarters, and the windward side of the wooden house is painted with an orange-red coating to prevent the sea breeze from corroding, which is both striking and beautiful. A stretch of beachhead about 30 meters long was flattened by lotus, and bricks and stones were erected around it to serve as a temporary pier. Since this is a natural deep-water port, even the pier is omitted, and even a three-masted ship can be docked directly to the side.

Most of the witches saw the shallows in the development stage for the first time, and they looked around curiously.

"Is the big pit over there the dock that collapsed before?" Anna walked over to Roland and pointed to the busy position of a group of workers in the distance, "What are they doing now?"

"Well, you've heard about that, too. Roland was slightly embarrassed.

"Of course, Nanawa told me that day that three workers had broken their legs. ”

This incident, along with the deflagration that occurred during the trial operation of the coke oven, are the two worst accidents in the border area in the new year, and the latter can also be said to be the price that had to be paid in the way of groping, and at least half of the responsibility of the former was caused by Roland's carelessness.

Considering the soft soil of the shoals, the Minister of Construction, Karl, suggested that it might be safer to build a dock on the edge of the ridge, but he rejected it. The main reason for this is the construction period - it took so long to settle a long slope alone, and if a dock was sunk according to the old method, I am afraid that it would have to be delayed until next year before the construction of the Thunder steam ship could begin.

As for the loose sand, he didn't think there was too much to worry about, just let Lian make the outline of the dock and pour in concrete as a retaining wall.

The work went smoothly at first, and as he expected, the concrete had solidified and the walls looked solid, as if a stone wall had been added to the foundation. For this reason, Roland was also complacent, thinking that the civil dog was nothing more than that, but an accident happened when the iron gate was installed.

After the arm-thick iron door broke away from the hummingbird's contact, it suddenly collapsed along with the concrete walls on both sides, smashing the workers who installed it below. Although the hummingbird made the door panel as light as goose feathers for the first time, the three people who were crushed were still seriously injured, and if it wasn't for Nanawa's timely treatment, these people would not have survived.

Later investigation found that when the concrete wall was first filled, part of the sand collapsed under the workers' trampling and filled the bottom, resulting in the wall not being closely connected to the floor, and the outside looked flat and solid concrete surrounding, and there was only a thin layer at the joint of the wall foot. When the iron gate is hung on such a wall, the self-weight instantly exceeds the limit of the steel bar, and the consequences can be imagined.

In later generations, this is definitely a serious mistake, but for this era, casualties during construction are very normal, so no one will take it seriously, let alone criticize the lord himself, and the guilt and guilt in it can only be experienced by Roland himself.

He cleared his throat and gathered his thoughts, "They're making stake retaining walls. ”

"To reinforce the soil on both sides of the dock?" Anna quickly guessed the answer.

"Well, like tree roots, they are crossed into the ground to increase friction between the sand and soil, so that the side walls don't collapse easily. Roland nodded, and with the lesson of the previous time, when pouring concrete, he would definitely carefully check whether there was any residual falling sand inside the formwork.

"Look, there's a ship coming!" Myss suddenly shouted.

Everyone followed the sound and looked at the sea and sky, only to see a sailboat with a pink flag slowly approaching this direction.

There is no doubt that the ships that will make their way around the Far South Cape to the hinterland of the West are the Pretty Woman of the Sleeping Island.

The boat lingered for a while as it approached the shoal, and then adjusted its direction to move closer to the shore, apparently unaware that the shoal had become like this.

Roland meets Tilly Wimbledon again, the Grey Castle's Five Princesses.

He held her right hand, and the two of them smiled and shook each other—they hadn't seen each other for months, but she looked as if they had just parted yesterday, and there was no strangeness in the slightest. And it can be seen from the other party's eyes that she feels the same way about herself.

It was a good reunion, he thought.

Other witches weren't so reserved.

Honey, Candlelight, and Evelyn hug their former friends warmly, Andrea slings shoulders with Nightingale, completely devoid of her aristocratic demeanor, Wendy takes Ash's hand and asks about the situation with concern, and Yufeather is surprised to find that there is a Bloodtooth witch among them.

"Why are you here," she frowned as she walked over to a somewhat pale witch, "couldn't Hety Morgan wait for me to get back to Effie and throw you over again?"

"No, Lord Hetty is on the boat," the other shook his head.

"What-" Yu Yu's exclamation instantly caught everyone's attention, "You mean...... She's coming to the West, too?"

It is not difficult to hear that there is a strong fear in the little girl's mouth.

"Who is Hetty?"

"Seems to be the leader of the Bloodfangs?"

"Ah...... Ife seems to have mentioned it. ”

"What is she doing here?"

Roland looked at Tilly, "You got her?"

"If you're referring to uniforms, think so—the plan was successful, and Hetty did play to Annie's vision," Tilly said, "but she refused to reveal the whereabouts of the witches rejected by the Bloodfangs, and said she wouldn't speak until she saw you. ”

"See me?" Roland was stunned.

"That's right, I guess she's using you as a last straw," Tilly blinked, "The ruler of the Greykeep Kingdom, the representative of the secular aristocracy, as long as he can come up with enough benefits, should spare her life, and even help her return to the position of wolfheart...... Probably. ”

"Are you deliberately reminding me?" he couldn't help but laugh, and had to say that Tilly looked cute when she pretended to be nonchalant, "Don't worry, if I would weigh the witch's life by profit, you wouldn't have brought her to me." By the way, who that witch is, I don't seem to have seen it before. ”

"Sunset, the battle witch of the Blood Fangs," Tilly replied, "and if it weren't for her use of the Symbiotic Seed to keep Hetty alive, the latter probably wouldn't have made it to Neverwinter. ”