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The druid turned into a sparrow and flew away.
A moment later the bald eagle flew back with the frightened child in its claws.
Rosalie was shocked: "It seems that we should build a fence around the edge first instead of a house. After all, there are so many children among the survivors!"
Chapter 213 The Troubles of the Floating City Lord
No sooner had Wang made the decision to put up a fence post than he encountered a problem.
"You can't cook without rice," Rosalie said, using a Monrovia proverb. "There are so many acres on the island. Even if we want to make a wooden or bamboo fence, we need the wood."
Wang: "Don't worry, we will soon return to where the Star Chaser ran aground. There should be a lot of wood there."
Elizabeth: "It's not just that we don't have wood. We came to Shallow Water City originally to buy building materials and hire craftsmen, but now the building materials are not for sale, and we don't know if there are any craftsmen."
Hashir: "We have a carpenter and a blacksmith in our gang, so we should be able to get to the island alive. But a carpenter without wood is not enough. The blacksmith doesn't even have a furnace, let alone iron. I guess he can only sharpen his knives for a while."
Well, if a blacksmith can only sharpen knives, what kind of blacksmith is he?
Wang scratched his head: "Why don't we go back to the ground and search, maybe we can find something useful."
As soon as he finished speaking, all the refugees around him declined in unison: "No, no, we can just make do with what we have now."
Hashir snorted, "It sounds good to them! Now they just haven't gotten over the shock of being in the sky. When they get used to floating in the sky, you will see their true nature! They have nothing and lack everything. They pretend to need your charity all day long.
"In fact, they are the worst. They hide their wealth in various corners and ask you for charity all day long. When you are down and out, they will immediately come running to add insult to injury and take away your things!"
The refugees remained silent.
Hasher continued, "Perhaps there were some truly kind and gentle people in Shallow Water City. I don't deny that. But kind and gentle people only have one fate in that city: they become corpses in the gutter! And then all the valuable things on their bodies become the spoils of these people.
"There are absolutely no kind and gentle people in Shallow Water City now! Absolutely not! Just wait and see, they will soon ask for houses, food, and other things."
At this time, one of the refugees was not convinced and retorted: "You said this just to make the city lord rely on you. You pretended to be a kind person who warned the city lord, but in fact you have your own plans!"
Hasher: "Humph, I recognize you. King, the one who is speaking is the lie king Kro from the Lower City. He makes a living by deceiving rookie adventurers who have just arrived in Shallow Water City. His gang has robbed countless adventurers of their equipment, and he even raped the women in the team!"
Crowe: "This is slander! I also have a legitimate livelihood!"
"Yes, yes, it's a pawn shop. I just don't know how many of the things you sell are pawned by others, and how many are directly stolen from the bodies of dead adventurers. After all, the shantytown is like a man-eating monster. I don't know how many people disappear in it every day. No one cares if a few new adventurers disappear."
Harry paused, then said, "By the way, I remember you had a wife and a daughter. Where are they?"
Kro squeezed out a few tears: "Of course it was the undead army..."
Hashir: "I think you tripped them up and let them buy time for you! This guy is just such a scumbag, and quite a few of them escaped this time."
Wang: "Granny Hashir, stop talking. Now we can only rely on the Pelican Gang to reorganize the vigilante group. From now on, it will be you who will manage them because you know their nature well, Granny Hashir.
"But we have a temporary constitution for the floating city here. Granny Hasher, do you have literate clerks in the Pelican Gang? Let the clerks read the constitution to all the gang members, and refer to it when managing the gang."
Hashir: "There are also covenants. That's fine. We can manage it according to the covenants."
Wang: "Also, if there are guys like Kro among the refugees, arrest them. We don't want such serious criminals here."
Hashir: "What do we do after we catch them? Hang them?"
Kro knelt down with a thud: "Wish! This old woman slandered me! I am..."
Wang: "There is no need for hanging. We can just banish them to the island. We will soon return to where the Star Chaser ran aground, where we can get the much-needed wood. Then we can banish criminals and unreliable people, especially the Black Dragon Gang members that Hashir just mentioned, to the island."
Hashir: "I still suggest that everyone except the families of the Pelican Gang be exiled from the island."
Crowe: "This old witch wants us to die! There are ferocious beasts and terrible lizardmen in the rain forest. How can a group of unarmed civilians like us survive?"
Li Guang crossed his arms and said, "There are also vicious lizardmen on the island. According to what you said, it is not safe on the island."
Kro was speechless for a moment.
Wang: "Sending them all down is a bit beyond my bottom line. There are women and children among them."
Xiao Bai was shocked: "You have become the good camp now! I saw you negotiating with the cult and felt that we must be the evil camp. So that's a natural thing."
The "that thing" that Xiaobai mentioned here should refer to the collusion with the Lich.
Nini: "I think the teacher has always been very flexible."
Wang: "No matter what, we can't just let everyone go, but these bad guys must go!"
Hashir: “Okay, I’ll try to identify them.”
Wang: "It will probably take a whole night to reach the place where the Star Chaser is stranded. We should select the people to be exiled tonight and drive them off when we land tomorrow. Also, organize a strong labor force and prepare saws and axes. After we land tomorrow, we should dismantle the Star Chaser and other stranded merchant ships and transport them aboard. We should first build a small shelter from the wind and rain."
Hashir: “Leave it to us.”
Wang: "When dismantling the Star Chaser, be careful. The captain's room has a permanent space compression magic. Don't damage it. The captain's room must be brought up intact."
Hasher frowned: "How big is the captain's room?"
Wang reported the exact length, width and height.
Hasher: "It's very complicated to transport such a large object. You are a wizard, can't you think of a way?"
Wang: "It's impossible to use levitation magic to lift something that big. But I can prepare the giant transformation spell. You choose a few strong workers, and I will use the giant transformation spell to make it bigger, and then move the thing up."
"Okay." Hasher nodded.
Kro had crawled to the king's feet without knowing when. "Lord Lord! Please don't chase us off the island. For this, I can kiss your boots!"
After saying that, he hugged the king's boots and really kissed him.
After everything they had just gone through, the king's boots were covered in mud, but Kro kissed him without hesitation.
Wang initially intended to pull his foot away, but found that his boot was caught by Crowe, who was determined to perform this scene.
Wang made up his mind, kicked hard and threw Kro out.
Hasher said, "Now you have a sense of what kind of person this guy is, right?"
Wang: "I can't feel it, because I'm not good at judging people. But... I feel sick of him ruining his performance like this, let him get off the island!"
"Right now?" Xiaobai showed a wicked smile, and his ears stood up energetically. "I'm happy to do it for you."
The king thought for a moment and shook his head: "We will expel him tomorrow. And his accomplices, I mean those who cheated adventurers together, all of them will be expelled. Also, I just noticed that you call me the city lord, but now there is no city, so it is obviously inappropriate to call me the city lord."
Rosalie said, "There's nothing wrong with this. You are indeed the controller of this floating city. No one can control this city without you. You should accept the title of city lord. Or I can write a letter to my father and ask him to make you a duke, and your fiefdom will be this floating city."
Elizabeth immediately said, "I cannot bear to see your wishful thinking. Once the king accepts this title, this floating city will legally belong to Monrovia and will be Monrovia's territory."
Rosalie smiled and said, "I don't have such an intention. Miss Elizabeth would think so. I'm afraid she is planning to do so, so she thinks I am the same, right?"
Wang: "Instead of bickering here, why don't you all work together to figure out how to arrange for the thousands of people now? I forgot to mention that there is still a problem of drinking water to be solved. There is no water source in the floating city, and it is flying quite high, probably higher than the rain clouds.
"We must prepare equipment to store water. Granny Hashir, do your craftsmen know how to dig a pool?"
Hasher was embarrassed: "The Pelican Gang doesn't have the right craftsmen to do this. After all... we have lived by the Mayunya River since we were born, and fresh water is a resource that we can easily obtain.
"There are no wells or ponds for storing water in the entire Shallow Water City."
Wang could only hold his forehead and said, "This is difficult."
Elizabeth: "We have a lot of dimensional bags. How about using the dimensional bags to hold water?"
Everyone looked at Elizabeth.
Xiaobai: "This... is Dabai actually quite smart?"
Wang shook his head: "No, how could it be possible? Yesterday when I was giving a lecture to Nini, she came over to listen and soon fell asleep on the table."
Xiao Bai: "What do you mean? I also slept when you were teaching! Are you scolding me for having the same IQ as her?"
Elizabeth: "That's enough! I do come up with good ideas sometimes!"
Wang: “Yes, you did come up with a good idea this time.”
He patted Elizabeth on the shoulder and said, "Well done. It has temporarily solved our problem, but it is only temporary. We obviously have a religious group to deal with, but now we have to worry about the lives of two thousand refugees."
Li Guang said, "On the bright side, you can at least select a few hundred strong men from these two thousand people. When you fight against the cult, you will at least have a small army."
Xiaobai: "But this small army only has simple weapons and hard leather armor. You still have to get them weapons and armor."
Wang Fu'e: "You're right. Speaking of armor... the only person in our team who wears heavy armor is still waiting for us to revive him."
Elizabeth: "How? Wasn't his body destroyed by the Withering Spell?"
Wang: "Ah, well, actually when we went to confront the lich, it gave us - we seized a scroll of limited wishing. So now we can consider resurrecting Flint."
Nini: "But for the limited wishing technique to work correctly, don't you have to be very careful in choosing the words you wish for? Can you... do it?"
Chapter 214: Revive, My Dwarf
Wang Waner smiled: "Have you forgotten that my junior master is an expert in dealing with demons? In order to let the Devil Duke be my nanny, my junior master signed a contract consisting of fifteen chapters. Each chapter has three to eight clauses, and each clause is divided into three to fifteen items, and each item is further divided into..."
Elizabeth: "You just want to know how long the contract is. How many words are in it."
Wang: "My junior uncle said there are 110,000 words."
When Xiaobai heard the number of words, he lay down on the ground again: "You might as well kill me if I have to read so many words!"
Elizabeth: "In fact, I think it's rare that you, a druid who lives close to nature, can actually read. And you're a werewolf."
Xiao Bai: "Druids have to read books, so of course they have to be literate. Not only do I know the characters of the common language, I also know the ancient runes. It is said that a long time ago, a great druid left behind a rule. When he and his old father went on adventures, they relied on their knowledge of runes to escape danger."
Wang: "Hey, this is the first time I've heard of it. If you have time..."
Rosalie interrupted him and brought the topic back to the contract with the devil: "One hundred and ten thousand words, the Royal Code of Monrovia has only this number of words."
Wang: "That means the legal system of Gralia is still relatively rudimentary."
Rosalie: "Yes, we are just primitive people from a backward plane. So, do you think the flesh of primitive people suits the taste of the Planeswalker-to-be?"
Wang: “Not bad.”
Elizabeth: "Let's talk about how to revive Flint. Are you also going to write a 110,000-word prayer?"
Wang: "No, that's impossible. The duration of the spell stipulates that you can't recite the prayer for too long. Otherwise, when the spell time is up, it will fulfill your wish according to the words you have recited so far. If the wish is not completed, many strange results will occur."
Gao Trick suddenly asked: "What kind of result?"
Wang: "If the wish is fulfilled, the lightest case is that your wish is fulfilled in a strange way. For example, if you wish to become smart, your forehead will become bright, because smart and bright are the same word in common language.
"If you make a wish but don't fulfill it, there will be many terrible consequences. The wishing sentence is usually an imperative sentence, and the object of an imperative sentence is usually at the end. If you don't finish it, your wish may come true on something inexplicable.
"For example, our wish is to restore Flint's body. If we don't finish, we may restore a great arcanist from the Cyclops Empire."