Chapter 869： Beigang

The cold wind and cold wind blew from the direction of the sea, rolling the high-flying empire flag on the coast. Under the sword and plow emblem of the gold pattern on the blue background, soldiers and technical craftsmen are now linking the third fixed pile with today. The steel frame is welded together, and the unencapsulated magic net rune shines a little halo on the ground not far away. The sparks from the thermal energy beam when it sweeps over the steel fall on the ground that has just been hardened recently, more than ten meters high. Inside the metal frame, a part of the copper pipes and heat conducting fins have been fixed in a specific position, waiting only to connect with the remaining heat pipes.

This huge device is part of the "Waste Heat Recovery Center", which circulates alchemy solutions through pipes. This device will include several facilities next to it including an alchemy reaction tower, a rune casting plant and a slime waste incineration center. The released waste heat is collected and distributed to the camp's heating system through an efficient heat exchanger, which is used to heat parts of the west side of the coast.

For long-term survival in the cold northern regions, similar technology is indispensable. It is much cleaner and more efficient than cutting down slow-growing tundra trees at the foot of the mountain, and it can also minimize the impact on local residents. Life, someday in the future, these facilities can even be used to heat nearby residential areas. Of course, that will be a long time later.

Further away, 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 stack yard are piled up. Large-scale construction machinery that has recently arrived at the construction site is busy. A temporary trestle extending towards the sea has been built. Near the trestle is a large area planned for the future construction of dry docks.

The temporary trestle did not rely on fixed piles and other things to fix it on the sea floor near the sea, and did not use a floating bridge. Instead, it relied on several huge ice piles. These ice piles were as thick as a clock tower, frozen from the sea floor and extended As far as the surface of the sea, a large number of branch icicles penetrated deep into the ocean floor, and the whole was strong and abnormal.

Byron stood on a large rock near the temporary trestle and smiled happily against the sea breeze. He couldn't help but said to the Victoria Archon next to him, "Your ice spell is really amazing. I heard that The Wilde family has studied the magic of ice magic to the extreme, but never thought it could be so powerful ... When you raised twelve ice 'giant pillars' in the ocean, that scene was almost art . "

"You're great, this is just a rude use of magic," Victoria shook her head lightly. In the cold wind, the "Northern Queen" was still wearing a long skirt, and the fine snow and ice flying was like a barrier. Protecting her like that, "And I never thought I would use these magical skills to ... build things. This is a very novel experience. I'm glad I didn't mess it up the first time I tried."

"Magic is a convenient thing. It is far more cost-effective to use it to improve life or promote technological development. This is not what I said, but what His Majesty said," said Byron with a smile. "Although I do n’t know much about magic, I always highly agree with what Her Majesty said, because at least after Princess Rebecca used her strength in the laboratory, somehow the explosions and fire accidents happened elsewhere. Much less ... "

Victoria thought for a moment and said very seriously: "But in my opinion, Her Royal Rebecca's magical talent is actually much higher than everyone thinks. She's ability to shape fireballs into her Majesty's body sculpture is the true art of magic. '. But I can't understand the principle ... if I have the opportunity, I would like to work with her to study the mystery of the plastic energy field ... "

The Archduke of Snow and Ice took it seriously in strange places, and Byron was no stranger to it. Instead of letting this weird (and seemingly suspected of slandering the royal family) continue, he just mentioned another thing casually: "As The ruler of the north, is it really okay for you to stay in 'North Harbor' every three minutes? "

"The ruler of the north is the government affairs department of the northern provinces, and the authority of the big executive is only a part of the government affairs department," Victoria said lightly. "As for the north port ... North port 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 ... also to show the attitude of the Wilde family on this matter. "

Byron shook his head: "I hope that the northern families will one day understand your kindness. You are doing your best to prevent them from being included on the" list. "

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

The "Northern Construction Corps" led by Byron has been stationed on this cold coastline for over 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. In magic and modern industry Under the dual impetus of a large-scale harbour prototype is rapidly taking shape, this is undoubtedly exciting.

However, this huge construction activity and the huge construction corps have not unexpectedly attracted a lot of attention.

This is the northern boundary, the cold and stubborn northern boundary, far from every civil war in the kingdom, far from every political reshuffle, far from the northern border of the magic industry. In the depths of this frozen mountain, the ancient families and these families The brave and stubborn wind immersed in blood is almost the same as it was centuries ago.

They instinctively refuse someone to "act" on the land where their grandparents lived, even if these people came to help them build this land, even if the traditional rulers of this land have publicly stated their attitudes and made warnings, Many people still secretly contradict the Beigang project.

People here have not yet come up with the concept of "the empire is a whole", and it is useless to tell them what is national planning.

Although Victoria once expressed her attitude towards Byron, she clearly stated that she would support the construction of Beigang, and she did not mind "knocking" those local families who did not know the current situation, but in the final analysis, she did not want to see too many people hanging in Beigang Too many flagpoles are erected on a port outside the flagpole, which is not "beautiful" for the entire northern border.

Therefore, her "Northern Grand Duke" could only choose to show up here a few times in the early days of the Beigang Project. At least ... the majesty of the Wilde family still worked in this land.

Byron's gaze was on the distant sea. In this sunny and cloudless day, an extraordinary person could look far away, his sight crossed the slightly undulating sea, and passed those who were under the sun. With the shimmering bubble, the "Peking Peninsula" of the Duchy of the Dragon and the borders of the Kingdom of the Violet can be seen faintly, but farther away, there is only a white expanse.

That's a distance that is hard to reach even the eyes of extraordinary people. You need to rely on powerful magic items or extra spell effects to see that far.

"Is the direction of the storm circle ..." Victoria noticed Byron's direction, she nodded slightly. "On relatively rare days, the weather is clear enough, and the storm just expanded the scale, so you can see visually. Observed, but during this time, the invisible storm circle in the northern seas will shrink during the summer, and the outermost cloud wall is farther away from the land than usual. Normally, it cannot be observed with the naked eye. The large mage's eye device, which can see the opposite side of the peninsula into the sea in any season, I occasionally use it to observe the storm. "

Byron took a curious look at Victoria: "Are you observant?"

"Apart from confirming that it does not dissipate and confirming its cycle of change, nothing is found," Victoria shook her head. "The ocean is not calm. It has reached an area where human beings cannot reach, and the legendary powerhouse will also No one knows how the storm was formed outside the storm circle, let alone confirm its internal structure. "

"Your Majesty seems to think that it is one of the defensive systems of the dragon kingdom 'Talrond'. It is the dragon's territory to pass the storm," Byron said casually. Miss Dragon ... it seems to be Mei Li or something. Talk to that Miss Dragon, maybe you can find out something. "

Victoria said blankly: "... there are many legends about dragons in the north, mostly from the Holy Dragon Principality. In our opinion, the dragons are not very good at dealing with characters."

Byron hesitantly hesitated, and then thoughtfully slowly while looking at the sea, "It's hard to deal with ... but according to this trend, when we step out of this land and send ships to the open sea, sooner or later All races deal with ... "

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

Looking around, she saw that a small group of people had gathered near the checkpoint in the south of the camp. People outside the line of separation were wearing civilian clothes. The soldiers at the checkpoint had gone to maintain order and noisy. The sound of crickets came from there from time to time, mixed with heavy northern dialect in the middle.

Victoria's brow frowned immediately, and she vaguely guessed what was going on there. The ice and snow around her instantly condensed, swirling and flying in the air like a cold ice skate, and her voice was as cold as winter: "I am There are still people here ... "

The Duchess's voice did not fall. Byron suddenly raised her hand to interrupt her. The mercenary-born Empire General just glanced over there and knew what was going on, with a weird smile on his face: "Don't Too excited, big archon, those are just civilians, and are familiar faces. You have missed something recently, but I know what the situation is. It ’s not a small problem, as you might imagine. ”

As he talked, Byron jumped to the ground and walked towards the checkpoint. At the same time, he said to the Victoria who followed him, "When you don't show up, they may be too nervous to watch me deal with it."

Victoria nodded in fog, and released the curved light field to cover her body. She and Byron came to the checkpoint in the south of the camp, and nearly a hundred civilians gathered here stood clearly with the soldiers at the checkpoint. Two rows.

"The general is here ... the general is here ..."

Someone in the crowd saw Byron's figure, and the voices of whispers reminded one after another. The soldiers cleared a passage, and the gathered civilians took two steps back neatly.

Victoria, who used the Quguang force field to hide her figure, put her eyes on the civilians for the first time. They were wearing coarse old shirts, but their clothes were clean and warm. From the look of the expressions, these were living nearby and working all year round. Of the people in the mountains, the most interesting thing is that not only are there strong men in these people, but also women and children are brought in by mouth.

And while Victoria was guessing which family these gathered civilians were instigated by, Byron had already stepped in front of the crowd.

Those in coarse linen looked at the heavily armed, majestic Empire general in front of them with awe, but they did not retreat.

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

The tone was bland and natural, as if already used to it.

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

Byron raised an eyebrow. "Still the same as before?"

"Yes," several men nodded, and then took a breath, shouting with a gong-like throat, "Southern people don't touch our land! You are digging our veins and water sources!"

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

The leading man looked at Byron with a look of expectation, and the latter waved his lips and waved: "Have you heard them, grab them, the men sent to the Western District to dig a gutter, and the women deal with potatoes and jerky. The child also went to the kitchen to help, and then took an hour of literacy class ... Who brought this one who didn't even look at five years old !? "

A tall, thin man emerged from the pile of people, with an awkward smile: "I, it's my son ... he's alive! And he's almost seven years old, just looking thin ..."

"I'm not blind yet, I will be your son if he is five and a half years old!" Byron glared at the tall and thin man, and then waved his hand in an angry manner. . "

A group of civilians in front of the checkpoint immediately walked forward with joy, accepted the inspection and search of the soldiers very cooperatively, and then led into the camp under the leadership of several soldiers. The man who took the lead before passed Byron's side He paused for a moment and smiled flatteringly, "General, is it the end of the day?"

"Otherwise?" Byron glared at the other side. "The soldiers of the Empire never deceive the people, saying that the end is the end!"

"Okay, that's good ..."

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

Victoria looked stunned by the side.