In the village hall, Molga, the old village chief, stood up first and reported to Li Ran in detail the construction level over the past few days. As the house issue for villagers who Li Ran was more concerned about, although Molga, who was dedicated to defense, built it in a relatively simple manner, but it had basically met the requirements for residence. Most of the outer city defense was completed, and only the south wall where Li Ran was stationed last night was still under construction. Five observation posts were built. Although they were still just adobe, they could barely get on the crowd, but they could not carry too many archers and observers.

After Molga finished the report, Li Ran listened carefully to the reports of several other elders. In order to solve the food problem in the village, one of the mentally strong elders took his children to risk their own children and found many edible fungi and fruits in a swamp in the jungle east of the village. He was surprised to find a large pond with many fat fresh fish inside. Unfortunately, it was occupied by a group of lizard people and saw several big werewolfs...

As a relatively classic type of military service, the lizards have long been well known. The information says that they claim to be descendants of the snake god, but in fact they are still a human-like race. Their faces are as sharp as lizards, their skin is covered with blue scales and a long and powerful tail. Their teeth are very sharp, and the ends of their hands and toes are like claws, with webbed fingers. Female lizards have smaller mouths, lighter and less colored scales, and the skin under the scales is very elastic. From the human aesthetic, young women who look at the faces and other parts of the lizards are very attractive.

The sharp teeth of the lizard man are strong and powerful. It is said that he can even bite through iron armor. However, because his mouth is not big enough, it cannot be used as a weapon for attack. The sharp teeth exist mainly to facilitate the bite of fish in the swamp. Because he has to move in the water frequently, the lizard man only wears very little clothing to cover his body. Even the lizard man's warriors will not wear metal armor, because this will make the lizards unable to move in the water. The swamp is a dangerous and difficult area for other races. But it is the best cover for the lizards.

After pondering for a while, Li Ran asked the elder in detail about the weapons and equipment of these lizard men. When he learned that most of them were wearing simple clothes and were only holding some wooden sticks and simple iron tools, Li Ran nodded slightly. Although the lizard men, as a classic army, have good abilities in all aspects, their ability to use bows and arrows is far less than their ability to use bows and arrows in terms of melee combat capabilities. Most of these lizard men use only wooden sticks and iron tools, and it seems that they are just ordinary soldiers in the lizard tribe.

After expressing his gratitude to the elder, Li Ran then listened to reports from the two elders. It was nothing more than the lock incidents that happened in the village during his departure, such as whose child injured his leg during construction, whose wild boar was raised, who had given birth to a few piglets, and who had never wanted to move from his original place.

Several elders thought that the lord would be bored with these tedious little things, but they did not expect that Li Ran not only did not show impatience. Instead, they listened very carefully, and asked a few questions from time to time were all at the critical point, which moved the two elders and spoke even more vigorously. They even said it for about an hour or two in one breath. Finally, with Dorik's reminder, Li Ran suggested that everyone have lunch together.

Although he was a lord, Li Ran, who had not prepared, could only take out a few portions of food from his backpack and contacted the villagers who were guarding the heart of the town to warm it up casually. This was just a lunch.

During the meal, Li Ran took out part of the raw materials he had purchased this time and handed over to the old village chief Molga, and was preparing to discuss with him the plan for the construction of the city defense. According to his original drawings, when the basic urban defense is built, the main construction direction should be placed on the villagers' living and environment. However, the old village chief Molga changed his mind at this time and insisted on strengthening and building several more posts.

For the old village chief Molga who was only interested in building a defense system from beginning to end, Li Ran couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly. He discussed it with him for a long time and did not work. In the end, he had to take out the lord's rights and force him to stop building after the city defense was completed. But he could not resist the stubborn Molga's chatter and noise. Finally, under the persuasion of everyone, Li Ran agreed that he could strengthen the existing outpost, but could no longer build it. All the remaining materials would be used for the construction of the villagers' living environment and the construction of public facilities.

The old village chief was obviously dissatisfied with Li Ran's insistence, but the other party was the lord after all and had the final decision. So before the seat was dispersed, Molga, who had taken a random bite, left in anger.

"This little guy's temper is still so stubborn! Oh, please forgive me! He must have gone to the south again to urge the construction of the city wall." The oldest man at the table looked at their lord Li Ran with some concern and said carefully.

Li Ran's expression was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "You are too worried. It is my blessing to have guidance from seniors like Molga. Here I also hope that you can have any opinions or good ideas like the old village chief. Even though I have said that after all, I am so narrow-minded that many things are inevitable. Fortunately, they are all for a goal, and I hope that we can treat each other honestly in the future."

The elders did not expect the lord to be so magnanimous. Not only did they not complain to Morga, but they also encouraged them to say something. Everyone was happy and quickly answered yes, but Doric was shocked, because just after Li Ran said that, he saw the latter's special look at him, his eyes filled with doubts and vigilance.

"Did he have discovered it just after he came back?" Dorik, who had a ghost in his heart, couldn't help but feel a little scared. He hid more than a dozen senior warriors and scouts sent by his family in the village as villagers. Although he was not planning to rebel, it also represented distrust of the lord. Moreover, he and Morga had originally hoped that if they found that the lord was not good, they would rely on these people to make a fatal blow to the lord.

But at this moment, a huge wave appeared in Li Ran's heart. Since last night, he asked Topol to confirm with several other lamp gods, he had been guessing where these people came from. At first he suspected that these people were the hidden power of the old village chief Molga, but when he took Molga by his intentionally passing by them, he found that their vision had not changed at all.

So he put his doubts on several other elders in the village, but found that it seemed that nothing was right. When he just talked about honesty, he suddenly thought of the imperial clerk whom he had never doubted. Because of his identity and his always-off attitude, Li Ran never thought that he would be hostile to him. However, it was this glance that the expression on the other person's face made him feel cold.

After chatting with the elders in the village before, Li Ran knew that the entire empire had many villages like them as numerous stars in the sky. The job of a idle clerk was at most urged to pay taxes. It was irrelevant to them who had the management rights of the village. They would not care about the village chief, and they just had to pay taxes. They were not afraid of that village not paying taxes, because no city or village dared to openly fight against the empire.

Thinking of this, Li Ran had to rethink the true relationship between this person and Molga, because he was a clerk, Doric shouldn't be hostile to himself, and the empire wouldn't send so many elite soldiers for a small village.

Amidst the chat, Li Ran silently finished the lunch in front of him, and then left the elder who found the pond and lizard man in the jungle. Unlike Molga, who considered it, Li Ran, as the lord, is now considering the issue of the villagers' food. Although he went back this time to buy a lot of food, the research class on the food problem of so many people in a village cannot rely on himself to purchase it every time, so the most urgent thing is to find the problem of the villagers' food source as soon as possible.

Now that the whole village needs construction and the population is extremely tight, reclamation and sowing are definitely not possible. First, the effect is too slow, and second, it takes too long. Hunting and gathering are relatively old-fashioned, but it is a good way. A pond that can continuously provide fresh fish makes Li Ran feel even more excited.

Because of this, how to solve the problem of the group of lizard men guarding by the pond has become Li Ran's problem at this moment. It is definitely not suitable to attack. In addition to the fear of casualties because the few soldiers are afraid of casualties, heavy components such as the sulfur steel golem are really not suitable for fighting in the swamp. I am afraid that before encountering the lizard men, I will be trapped in the mud and cannot be pulled out!

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