The morning is cold and dark clouds are thick, which vaguely indicates that freezing rain is coming.


    Imosen pushed open the wooden door of the shed and breathed out a snow-white fog. Then his lungs were filled with cold and wet fog, and he couldn''t help shivering. He frowned, wrapped his tight black sheepskin cloak, stepped down the wooden ladder and walked to the slaughterhouse on the west side of the camp.


    "What a big guy... I said, are you up to work again before dawn? Eh... It must be! It''s like this every day..." imosen put his hand in front of the brazier, and the burning flame of oil wood dispelled the thick, cold and ubiquitous cold fog. Several butchers ignored the wizard''s chat up, and they were busy decomposing their prey.


    A four meter long swamp hexapod was hung on a dark red wooden frame. Several purple gold ox horn sharp knives swam along the folds of the belly skin. In a moment, the gray white belly skin was removed and the bright red meat was exposed. A butcher raised his knife to draw everything. The internal organs mixed with blood slipped out of the cross section and just fell into the wooden bucket below. The pungent smell of blood exploded. The butchers continued to work as if they were unaware of it. They looked attentive and cooperated with each other. Their skillful movements had the beauty of Flowing Clouds and water. Before long, the behemoth was decomposed into a pile of meat, bones and a complete plate-shaped scale.


    Imosen rubbed his hands and asked: "Guys, is this the 27th hexapod crocodile you killed? Or the 28th... Or the 31st? Let''s see. We spent 51 days in this camp and caught 27 hexapod crocodiles, 6 giant beetles, 76 capybara, and 11 shadow spiders, or maybe more... You always get up and work when I don''t get up... What do you want to do with the juice of shadow spiders? I''m most annoyed This brainless insect is not obedient at all. "


    "It''s going to rain... I tell you, the rainy season in the Everglades is the hardest. The lake rises sharply, the big island becomes smaller, the island is flooded, and the air is cold and wet... If the fire goes out, it''s terrible... Bell and I ate raw food for a whole month in the water season of the first year."


    "By the way, when will adults come?"


    Only the beating tongue of fire and the sound of sharp knife cutting flesh responded to him. Imosen didn''t care. Since he separated from bell, he has been used to talking to himself.


    There are more than 100 people, more than 20 ferocious wolves and three domesticated dragon lizards in the camp. These people can not talk all day. In addition to work, they can work. If they can not eat, drink and sleep, imosen even suspects that this is a group of circus puppets. Imosen has not seen dumb fools who only know how to work, but lives with so many fools Being together still made him feel lonely and depressed. Although he had lived in the deserted swamp for more than ten years, he had at least one lively and lovely daughter around him. Emerson missed bell very much now, but he didn''t resent the adult who took him away, but was grateful.


    Anyway, I''ll let bell live a normal life! Imosen secretly vowed.


    Several ferocious wolves suddenly raised their heads stained with plasma from the barrel. They turned their ears and ran to the gate of the camp. Imosen''s heart moved. In the twinkling of an eye, he saw a dragon lizard passing through the gate, and the ferocious wolves in the camp were shaking their heads and tails at it.


    "Stupid dog, don''t come here! Sit down, and the blood all over your face will gather on me..."


    Several figures jumped off the dragon lizard''s back. Imosen rubbed his eyes and shouted incredulously, "bell! Bertina?" The smallest figure was not bertina. When she heard her father''s cry, she jumped and ran over. Emerson hugged his precious daughter whom he missed every day, and tears couldn''t help falling down.


    "Father, don''t cry. It''s impolite." Bertina managed to free her head from imosen''s arms and said solemnly.


    Still so heartless


    Emerson looked at the fat little face and was full of joy. Bell would never cry as long as someone ate and played. Then his eyes stared at the boss and asked, "Bao... Baby, you... Can you talk?"


    "Yes." Bell touched imosen''s chin. "Dad''s beard is gone." Tilted his head, thought for a while, and said, "it''s still not as smooth as the master." Imosenna took care of this. In addition to ecstasy, he shouted, "praise the Supreme Lord! Praise the Supreme Lord! My bell can speak! Bell can speak!"


    "Baby, how can you speak?"


    "Well... Grandpa Miller asked me to speak. He is the servant of the most High Lord." After that, bertina said mysteriously: "Dad, father grandpa also said that bell can grow up, but it''s a little slow... Eating more delicious things can grow faster."


    Imosen was so nervous that he lowered his voice and asked, "what else did father Miller say?"


    "Father Miller said bell was cute... You don''t have to worry about your identity implicating bell." Victor came over silently, looked up and down at the wizard, smiled and said, "imosen, you''re getting younger."


    The LORD was wearing an armor with smooth lines and exquisite shapes. The silver gray luster was dim and dim, as if it had melted into the cold fog of the Everglades. Emerson was startled, quickly put down bell and said dryly, "good day, sir. I shaved my beard. No! It''s all your kindness. I eat well here and sleep well. Naturally I''ll be young."


    With a faint smile, Victor touched Bell''s small head melon seeds and said, "it''s very cold outside. You and bell haven''t seen each other for a long time. First take her into the house to talk and bake the fire. We''ll talk later."


    "Thank you, my Lord!" Imosen bowed deeply and took Bell''s little hand to the cabin. Bell asked as he walked, "Dad, is there anything delicious in the house?"


    "There is snake meat mushroom soup, roast six legged crocodile tenderloin, slate mud shrimp."


    "Add salt!"


    "Salt is guaranteed!"


    After the Emerson and his daughter were separated, Victor turned to Jack and said, "show me around and introduce your achievements by the way."


    Jack, the elite militia, said, "please follow me, sir."


    "The camp has 50 auxiliary soldiers, 80 monkey militia, 40 Funiu militia, 25 war mastiffs and 3 alchemy dragon lizards. We have built 20 wooden buildings and 6 Arrow towers. The terrain here is high. Even if the lake rises sharply in the rainy season, the camp will not be submerged."


    The lower floor of the wooden building built by the alchemy auxiliary soldiers is open on all sides, and the upper floor is inhabited and stored. It is similar to the bamboo building in the south of China. It is very suitable for the humid swamp environment, but its load-bearing capacity is poor, so it can''t store much materials. Victor looked around the buildings in the camp and thought that if the lizard trade went well, he could rebuild the camp with rock bricks.


    Jack continued: "these days, we have captured 34 hexapod crocodiles and 11 giant beetles. The obtained scale skin can be used to make 41 sets of three kinds of skin armor. We have captured 14 shadow spiders and collected 119 pounds of various medicinal materials, which can make 3.3 pounds of discoloration dye."


    "We also collected 62 purified crystals, 17 pounds of first-class ingredients, blue taro and more than 3600 pounds of reed seeds."


    The three types of rattan skin armor made of Hexapod crocodile skin and giant turtle skin have defense performance comparable to refined iron scale armor, but its weight and flexibility are equivalent to ordinary skin armor. Once the swift bird light cavalry is equipped with this leather armor, its melee ability will be effectively improved. As for the color changing dye, Victor has personally experienced its effect. The color changing dye can now integrate into the environment. Although it is not as perfect as the shadow spider, it at least gets rid of the disadvantage of the reflection of the silver armor. However, the color changing dye has the greatest effect on leather. Victor is going to make some color changing cloaks, which will greatly improve the latent ability of scouts and shooters. Purified crystal is not only used to make snow sugar, but also a good thing to purify water. Blue taro, a kind of food respected by alchemists, Victor tasted it once in the mountain fortress. It tasted strange. He didn''t even like bertina.


    These natural resources are precious, but Victor pays more attention to the plain thousand reed.


    Reed qianqu is a common plant. Its roots and seeds are the main food for capybara and fish. Qianqu reed seed is similar to sorghum on earth, with an average yield of about 240 pounds per mu. Although its yield is not high, it is widely distributed, with two crops a year. The most important thing is that it can be stored for three years.


    Grain reserves are related to the basis of rule. Once food is conducive to storage, it has strategic value. Although Randall collar vigorously develops water conservancy projects and promotes new agriculture and animal husbandry, dried potato can only be stored for six to eight months. Prickly kidney beans are similar to vegetables, with a shelf life of only about ten days, and the yield of wheat once a year is also very limited. If the planting area of wheat is expanded, it is bound to affect the development of forest resources and animal husbandry in Randall collar, as well as the precious purple sugarcane forest.


    The vast lizard swamp is a natural granary. The proven area of alchemy organisms is 24000 square kilometers, of which 15 million mu is expected to grow qianqu reed. Victor can optimize Randall''s industrial structure as long as he occupies a small part of it.


    Generally speaking, qianqu reed is good for feeding pigs.


    Now, the obstacle to Victor''s development of the Everglades is the problem of manpower. Ordinary people can''t count on it for the time being. Although there are an endless stream of alchemy creatures, they only have more than 2000 hands at most. Victor can think of only swamp aborigines - Banlong people.


    Whether it''s trade or slavery, Victor must win a half dragon tribe. The wizard imosen is the key! In fact, as long as he has a firm grasp of imosen, Victor can even enslave a group of goblins and assist the half dragon people in exploiting swamp resources.


    After a general tour of the outpost camp, Victor went into the largest wooden building and told Jack, "go and call imosen."


    Before long, imosen appeared in front of Victor with bertina.


    "Your Excellency, you summoned me?" Imosen bowed with a smile on his face. Victor nodded and waved bell closer. "Bertina, I have something to talk to imosen. Go out and play with Jack first." Wipe the grease off Bell''s little face. Victor put down the towel and said kindly. Seeing this scene, imosen was completely relieved. Bell had just told him that the master was good to her, the wife was good to her, the little attendants were good to her, and father Miller was very good to her. However, hearing and seeing were completely different feelings. At the moment, the last big stone in imosen''s heart was put down.


    "Master, those people outside are not fun at all. They won''t play with bell." The little girl blinked and looked very wronged. She was born to know that those creatures can be close and those creatures need to be far away, but these people and animals in the camp are like flowers, plants and trees in Bell''s eyes. Just look at them and don''t talk to them.


    "These guys are really boring." Victor nodded. Emerson looked bitter and worried. Victor added, "imosen, as long as you are loyal to me and work hard, I will arrange for you to live in Pinghu Town."


    "Thank you, my Lord! I swear I will never betray you!" Imosen was overjoyed. Living with these workaholics every day, he was going to be insane. Bell raised his small face and asked happily, "master, can I live with my father?"


    "No!" Emerson said fiercely, "bertina, what did I tell you? You are an orphan and have no parents!"


    "There''s nothing wrong." Victor said faintly, "I promoted you to be the hunting manager of Randall family. You can not only adopt bell, but also get a wife and have children."


    "Sir, can I really be your hunting manager? I... I''m a..." imosen was excited and his lips trembled. After all, he didn''t want to say the word "Wizard".


    Isn''t he a mutant with super powers? Victor brushed his lips disapprovingly and said, "I''m not the first noble to keep wizards, nor will I be the last. As long as you keep your nose to yourself, you can live well, but..." Victor smiled and said: "I might as well tell you that once your relationship with me is exposed, I will be exiled to the Eastern League at most, and you can''t escape the fate of purification, and bell may also be involved."


    Emerson was so cold that he hurriedly said, "I dare not drag your excellency... I just hope your excellency can protect bell."


    "I will try my best to protect bertina." Victor solemnly agreed to imosen''s request and said, "now, talk about your work."


    "Bell, you go out first." Emerson winked at her daughter, but bertina didn''t sell him. She pouted, "I don''t! You''re not my master. Only the master can order the maid."


    Victor couldn''t laugh or cry and said, "forget it, bell, what don''t you know? Even if she accidentally leaked her mouth, who can believe the child? As long as you don''t use witchcraft in front of people."


    "Yes, bell has many lizard friends." Imosen lost his smile. He suddenly found that he and the young Lord had a common secret. Thinking of this, his tone became more friendly, as if he regarded himself as victor''s confidant. "Dear master, Lord Jack found a group of half dragons five days ago. I negotiated with them according to your request. These half dragons respect me very much..."


    "It''s done?" Victor asked happily.


    "Er... Something happened." Imosen said in fear: "I found that this group of lizards came from three tribes, and their original tribes were..." Imosen gritted his teeth and said truthfully: "It has disintegrated under Philip''s attack. Philip is the alienated dragon lizard I used to control. Lizard people worship it as a totem beast and call it itugos. Last year, I was stunned by Lord jack when I cast a spell. Since then, I lost control of Philip. Now he has become a real alienated monster, bloodthirsty and cruel. The lizard tribe has been destroyed To its attack, the casualties were heavy, and the surviving members formed a new tribe, which was ready to leave Philip''s territory. "


    Victor frowned and asked, "you just let them go?"


    "No, No." Imosen waved his hand again and again and said, "the lizard people know that Philip is my pet. They begged me not to let Philip eat them all. They are willing to provide blood food for the totem giants according to the tradition of the half dragon tribe. I pretended to promise and stabilized them for the time being."


    "Half dragon people believe you?"


    "These dirty orcs have no choice." Imosen said disdainfully: "the freezing rain is coming. They have lost their territory and can only move westward to fight with other half dragon tribes, otherwise they will starve to death. But these half dragon people are weak and are not the opponents of other tribes. Walking is also dead, not walking is also dead, and now being able to stay is their only vitality."


    Victor asked Jack, "where are these half dragons? How many people? What''s their strength?"


    "274 kilometers northwest, 897 half dragons, 39 snake demons and 27 ferocious half dragons. Most of the other ordinary members are females and cubs." Answered Jack.


    Victor thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Jack, go to the mountain fortress immediately, mobilize 150 elite archers, 60 elite soldiers, 50 fierce wolves, equipped with heavy crossbows, and then bring all the dragon lizards."


    "Let''s meet these half dragons for a while!"