0p0 Chapter 230: Cantilever Elevator Project
Chapter 230: Cantilever Elevator Project
The town of Nield is a typical mining town.
All food and daily necessities must rely on the transportation support of Huiyao City to feed Neild, which has no agricultural population.
So at the beginning of the rebellion, Annie led people to attack the invading soldiers, in large part because she hoped to open the blockade to prevent Nield from being completely cut off from food.
But Annie and the others did not wait for the transport team from Huiyao City.
“This is a very strange thing indeed…
We were so focused on taking over the Nield Mine that we didn't realize this would be a problem."
Liz Toomba shook her head, as if this confused her greatly.
“The amount of food that the Tomba family traded to Huiyao City has not decreased;
And after the successful peace talks, Tomba did not continue to block the transportation channel;
But there is still no news of a transport team heading here from Huiyao City."
"So, there is more than one Tomba targeting Nield?"
Ivan was equally confused.
Miss Xiling, who had just finished praying for Mielikki and was about to go back to her room to rest, came over and sat next to Ivan.
Today the halfling's skirt is a little shorter, and the blond girl's robe seems a little transparent...
The sharp-eyed Xiling believes that at this moment, the motives of these two women are impure.
Participating in the topic will make the half-elf lady feel more secure.
“Aven, I have witnessed the internal struggles between humans and elves.
For a conspiracy, there will definitely be many unexpected forces involved, and often the promoters seen on the surface may only be part of the open cards.
They are usually just the tentacles that participate in the center of the vortex.
And at the center of the vortex, unexpected mistakes will occur due to the combined effects of these forces that are unaware of each other."
Indeed, although Alvin is not very sensitive to politics, he has at least watched TV dramas about palace fighting and succession struggles.
"Oh? It seems that I am the tentacle that was thrown in..."
Liz Toomba looked at Xiling. She knew too well what men wanted.
In her eyes, she must have a greater advantage than this hooded female elf...she can show her face.
While Liz was secretly playing with the buttons on her collar, Annie began to express her own speculations.
“During the years when I was a resident of the Maids’ Association, I came into contact with some members of the House of Representatives.
In addition to the prosperous Tomba business family, which has a keen interest in Nield, several members of the Royal Capital faction also have some uneasy thoughts.
I just don’t know if these ideas are the same as those of the sponsors behind them.”
"So the situation in Nield is still a quagmire. If we don't want to get stuck in it, we have to unravel the mystery and figure out what those forces are trying to do..."
He touched the wooden sandbox in front of him. This was a training prop that Alvin asked Xiling to make.
"But we don't necessarily have to use their methods to deal with demons and monsters."
Ivan pointed to the east and west sides of Neild's sand table, motioning Annie and Liz to come closer.
I have to say that Xiling's [Tree Shaping] spell is quite exquisite.
Every detail of the huge pit in Nield was restored by Xiling on this wooden board.
Next to the Z-shaped ladders on both sides, there were a few thin wires of unknown purpose, and a few square wooden boards at the bottom.
“What is this?
Sir Ivan, do you plan to add more defensive mechanisms on both sides of the ladder?"
After giving Annie a mysterious look, Al waved his hand.
"Defense? No, no, no, this is Nield's new channel for communicating with the outside world.
Daryl should be ready to assemble it, we can go check it out together."
After saying that, he stood up first and led everyone out.
Near the spiral staircase on the west side of Nield, several thick ropes hung from above.
The upper end should be fixed very firmly, and the lower end should be connected to a winch.
As the workers below pulled the winch, the thick rope that was originally swaying in the wind in the air was pulled straight.
"Sir Ivan, I don't understand, are you planning to use a winch to transport supplies?
These ropes can’t carry much weight…”
"of course not."
Ivan flexed his fingers and said something to Leia who had been waiting here.
"Let's get started, dog-licking mage."
The elven wizard who received the signal gave Ivan a very unhappy look, but still released a fifth-ring arcane spell [Frost Spread] at the thick rope.
This spell is not known for its killing ability, but its ability to rapidly transfer low temperatures to anything it touches, thereby freezing other surrounding matter.
After a while, these thick ropes hanging from the sky became the medium for transmitting low temperatures, freezing the surrounding rocks into frost.
After completing the spell, Leia stepped aside and saw Ivan reaching out his hand towards the rock wall.
Using the thick rope as a guide, evenly spaced, straight-angled grooves appeared on the rock wall behind;
Some iron ingots that had been prepared long ago flowed into these grooves like liquid, with half of them protruding outside the rock wall and the other half embedded in the hard rock.
If someone could see through the sky, they would find that the steel inside the rock had spikes extending in different directions, grasping the rock firmly like steel claws.
The part exposed outside the rock wall has a strange shape. If a Blue Star boss is here, he will exclaim "Fuck! Tracks!"
Then, another series of steel pillars went straight up, forming a vertical long iron frame along the steel embedded in the rock wall.
On the other side, the iron wires that Daryl had placed in advance were twisted into a bundle and kept twisting, like a woven rope, into steel cables.
After doing all this, Alvin clapped his hands, very satisfied with his amazing spellcasting results.
And then...then everything went black and I fell to the ground.
This useless young man from Blue Star who had no idea of his own limits had overdrawn himself completely.
……
When Alvin woke up, it was already the evening of the third day.
The first face I saw when I opened my eyes was, unsurprisingly, Xiling, whose face I couldn't see at all.
“I really don’t understand…”
When the half-elf lady saw Ivan open his eyes, she handed him a glass of water indifferently.
"Is it worth it to make myself like this every time..."
Looking at the white chin under the hood, for the first time, Ivan did not have the urge to lift the hood.
“I don’t know…”
Ivan looked at Xiling, as if he wanted to engrave the outline of this half-elf lady into his heart.
"But maybe in this way, we have a chance--"
Before Alvin could finish his words, Xiling quickly interrupted him, as if the words stuck in this human's mouth would cause some natural disaster.
“Is it worth it…”
The half-elf lady moved closer.
“It’s worth it…right…”
Smelling the aroma coming from under the hood, Alvin began to imagine.