I'm also trying to survive today [Western Fantasy]

After a pleasant night, when Julian woke up the next morning, the tent was empty.

Thinking of last night, Owen's reserved and eager expression, he couldn't help laughing.

In a way, Owen is really like a big cat, very curious, and good at acting like a baby...

(Kai: Who? Who are you talking about? I am definitely not the same person as Captain Owen you know!)

In the morning, I simply baked some pancakes, served with the leftover soup from last night, and it was a delicious breakfast.

Parry and the others are used to eating these days, and they are doing well. The way Gino eats makes people worry that he will choke on himself.

"Let's go." Julian looked up at the sky. He didn't know when Nina would be back, so he simply asked Parry to leave a message for her, and he led everyone to the high tower on the mountain.

The reason why the Gray Tower Valley is named this way is because one of the original lords here was a magician. Normally, the lord would build a castle as his residence, but the magician directly combined the castle with the mage tower. Together, a giant tower was built.

Of course, this high tower does not have the nature of both offense and defense like a real mage tower, it is purely a castle built in the shape of a tower.

For a long time, due to the war between the two countries, the lords here have been changed very frequently. Later, due to the emergence of the Forbidden Mountains, this place has been completely abandoned. Except for the two small villages in the valley, there is only one lonely high mountain. tower.

Now, even those two villages are gone. Julian couldn’t help but feel sad when he thought of all this. People travel through the construction industry, and they all bring their own money and talent. When he comes to him, not only has no money, but even people are gone... …just gave him a bunch of goblins.

The Gray Pagoda was built using a kind of gray stone excavated nearby. It is very dense and very strong. After so many years of wind and rain, there is not much sign of weathering.

On the contrary, the original wooden door has long since failed, and the broken wooden boards hang obliquely on the door frame, making a creaking sound with the wind.

Parry stepped forward and touched it lightly, and the board fell to the ground with a bang, breaking into pieces.

The corners of Julian's eyes twitched, and he rubbed his forehead: "Okay, let's go in and have a look, it might be worse inside."

However, after entering, it was discovered that Julian had guessed wrong.

When the tower was first built, the magician was really not short of money. Although he couldn't use magic materials like building the mage tower, he chose good things of high quality.

Julian looked back at the broken gate, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He deeply suspected that the gate might have been replaced later. The good door was smashed!

The furniture in each room had already been destroyed during the war, and each room was empty, leaving only dust on the floor.

Julian and Parry checked the tower separately. The design here is very reasonable, from the kitchen to the servant's room, and the master's room is placed on the highest floors in the center of the tower.

The most interesting thing is that a channel was ingeniously dug out in the center of the tower, going straight up and down, with an opening the size of a door on each floor.

Parry and Roger studied it for a long time but couldn't figure out what it was for.

On the contrary, Julian could tell at a glance that this was clearly the specially reserved 'elevator passage'.

Although there is no elevator here, but considering that it was a magician who built it at the beginning, he must have used some method to replace the elevator.

There are five floors in the Gray Tower, only the bottom two floors are large, and most of the rooms are concentrated on these two floors, while the number of rooms on the third floor is limited. Judging from the original design, the magician seems to be proficient in Some skills such as enchanting and refining medicine have laid a good foundation for Julian.

Thinking of his life skills, Julian opened the panel and looked at it, alchemy, enchanting, sewing... Forget it, looking at the miserable experience, even he himself felt a little sorry for the money-making skills given to him by the father of the system .

Thinking of digging into these life skills once he settled down, Julian continued on his way.

He found that the magician seemed to like to be tall, and specially placed his bedroom on the topmost floor of the gray tower.The fifth floor of the entire gray tower is divided into two parts, one part is the bedroom, and the other part seems to be a place similar to the living room.

It is conceivable that the magician at the beginning must have wanted to communicate with fellow magicians here, and those noble guests probably could not enjoy such treatment—well, some ladies and wives who were invited to spend the night together except!

Turning around in the entire gray tower, Julian suddenly had a headache.

Still the same sentence, no matter what you want to do, you must first have someone, otherwise such a big castle, just cleaning it will kill him, not to mention they have to get some wood to build the house, the last time, You have to get a bed first, right?Do you continue to sleep in the tent at night?

Probably God also felt that Julian was a bit too miserable. Before noon, Nina showed up with her people.

Julian looked at the crowd of goblins in rags at the door, the corners of his mouth twitching constantly.

Well, now that there are people, the next thing to worry about is what these people are going to eat at night.

Gino has been hungry for three days. He doesn't think these goblins are much better than Gino. The food they carry is limited. Five people can eat for half a month. If there are less than [-] goblins, even if the goblins eat more Small, fill in some wild vegetables, it is estimated that it will take two days.

"Matthew, take your money and go to Monk City to buy some flour... No, don't buy flour, I saw a stone mill in the back just now, just buy wheat, buy more, anyway, there are so many people, we grind it ourselves. "

"Thank you for your generosity." Nina knew that Julian was planning for them, she immediately smiled and thanked him in a shrill voice.

Julian waved his hand: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me, let's talk about it first, you have to work for me after eating my food, if you guys run away after eating..." His eyes turned cold, he swung his long sword, and The white sword light blasted a hole not far away: "Don't blame me for being rude."

Nina's heart tightened, and she shook her head again and again: "No, no, don't worry, my lord, we are willing to work, as long as we can have a full meal, we will never be half-hearted."

"That's good." Julian then asked, "What have you eaten recently?"

Nina suddenly showed an embarrassing expression. An old goblin with a wrinkled face beside her bowed her waist and said softly: "My lord, we have been catching bugs for a living recently..."

"Don't eat the bugs, go catch the fish." He turned to look at Parry: "Parry, you take them to catch the fish. I remember that there are a lot of fish in that river, at least eat your lunch first."

"Yes, master." Parry stood up, and Nina quickly picked a dozen or so smarter goblins from among the goblins behind her, and followed Parry to the river.

"Roger, find some people to help you make the dough. We will have wontons for lunch today." Julian said expressionlessly.

It was too late to steam the steamed buns, and there were too many people, Julian could only choose some simple and convenient food.

Hearing that there was food, these goblins were all very excited, and what they showed was that they were more obedient. Whether it was helping Parry catch fish, or helping Roger knead dough, these goblins were quick to learn and very enthusiastic .

Except for a few fish that Pali caught, they were used to cook the fish soup, and the rest were smashed into mud and wrapped into wontons. The pork leftover from yesterday was not wasted, and it also became the filling of wontons, two kinds of fillings The wontons are mixed together, which one you eat depends on your luck.

Julian moved very nimbly, pieces of diamond-shaped dough fluttered like butterflies in his hands, and the wontons he made were even more round and lovely, not looking like wontons, but more like ingots.

There are many goblins who have learned from Julian, but the most outstanding one is Gino. It took him only a short time to complete a series of operations from imitation to surpassing. In the end, even Julian's speed could not match He, simply let go and let those goblins do what they want.

I don't know if this is a racial characteristic. These goblins may not be good at cooking, but their hands are very dexterous. The wontons made by the few goblins who came to learn how to make wontons didn't even have a single opening, and they all withstood the test.

After eating a full lunch, the group of goblins became energetic all of a sudden, and their gazes at Julian changed from hesitant at the beginning to full of gratitude now.

Obviously, if you ask them now, Julian will definitely get a lot of good person cards, but combined with Gino's "pure truth" back then, Julian decides it's better not to ask.

After eating and drinking, it is natural to start working. This group of goblins are quite simple as Nina said. Those goblins who eat faster have already taken the initiative to find brooms and start cleaning the room after eating. Diligence It made Sidney and the others feel incredible.

Julian didn't think there was anything incredible about it. Goblins and humans are actually not that different. There are also good people and bad people. You can't think that this group of people is not good enough just because of a few bad guys.

When there are more people, the work will become less hard, especially this group of elves are grateful for the food provided by Julian. They are desperate to work one by one. Sidney and the others are smacking their tongues, constantly surprised Call yourself to see must be a fake goblin.

At night, when Matthew came back with a team of carriages, he couldn't believe what he saw. The gray tower was wiped clean—no, just clean can't describe the gray tower's exterior. According to Julian, someone gave the gray tower a beautification.

With people, many things will be easier to handle. It only took Julian less than two days to completely clean up the entire gray tower.

He left a dozen weak and clever goblins working as servants in the Gray Tower, and he sent all the rest of them to the village where they camped before. All the broken walls and ruins were cleared out, and then a brand new village was built on the spot.

In this way, a week later, when Owen finally took time out of various boring but unmissable banquets to see Julian, what he saw was a scene of construction in full swing.

Owen: ...

Although the scene is very hot, but...is there something wrong with the race?Why is there a group of goblins living in my lover's territory?

Owen Diary:

After a week, I finally got the chance to see Julian. It was unbelievable that I saw a group of goblins in his territory? ?

Wait, am I in the wrong place?Why is there a group of goblins building villages in Julian's territory?Are these goblins his bought slaves?

But... why do you want to buy goblins?Although this race eats less, they also do less, and their physical strength is still weak, far inferior to human slaves.

I don't quite understand what Julian thinks, but this is his territory, since he thinks goblins are good, then it's fine, but my little lover is too miserable, there is no furniture in the room , can only make a bed out of wooden planks.

(PS: That plank bed was too hard! After finishing the work, I found that Julian's waist was bruised, which made me feel very distressed.)

The conditions here are really too harsh. I wanted to persuade Julian and me to go back to Monk City for a while, but he firmly refused.

His skeptical gaze made me sad, am I the kind of person who tricked him into Monk City just to satisfy his desires?

Well... I admit I really am, but it hurts so much for Julian to point it out so bluntly!I think he should make it up to me!

— at least twice!