Chapter 255 Serving the People
The next day, Drizzt followed Bradro and learned "Selected Works of Chen Ke" through practice.
Bradro summoned the village's gray dwarf lizard riders and sent each of them a strange-shaped shovel. The shovel was not big and horseshoe-shaped, and the shovel handle had bolts that could be connected to fix the steel pipes.
"This kind of shovel will be named 'Stonefall shovel' for the time being."
Luo Feng held up a shovel to show the lizard riders, and said while demonstrating: "Its purpose is exploration, and to put it simply, it is to dig holes."
As he said that, Bradro dug it out on the ground with a shovel, and soon he dug out a hole as big as a bowl. He connected the extended handle and continued to dig, digging deeper and deeper.
"Just like this, this kind of shovel can be dug to twenty meters underground. If you encounter a rock layer, replace the fine gold-breaking stone shovel head. Your backpacks have maps around you, and you are also miners who are good at identifying minerals."
Luo Feng continued: "The task I assigned to you is to explore the nearby mineral resources and water sources, especially water sources. When you find the water veins, you will immediately return to the village to report."
There will be no rain in dark areas, so fresh water is the most valuable resource. Residents must rely on any filters that come down from the surface. The discoverer of water will store water and use his life to protect the water.
There are also some rivers and lakes in the dark areas, but the mineral content in the rivers is too high and even contains toxins, and the lakes are occupied by powerful races.
In caravans from the surface, trafficking in water purification is also a good deal. If you put a worthless amount of water on the surface, you can get equal weight of silver ore when you put it in a wooden barrel and transport it to the dark area.
There is very water shortage here, just like a barren Gobi Desert, but Luo Feng believes that this is not the case. Groundwater is obviously an important part of water resources and is one of the important water sources for agricultural irrigation, industry, mining and cities in the real world.
It is very likely that the bottom layer of the dark area is above the groundwater layer, which happens to be in a zone of groundwater scarcity. Due to the limitations of exploration technology, residents in the dark area do not know where to dig the well. Once they dig the wrong location, they can only give up after spending a lot of manpower.
So he summoned the gray dwarf lizard rider and first surveyed the nearby mineral veins and water veins to lay a solid foundation for planning future development.
After seeing off the exploration team carrying Luoyang shovels, Luo Feng took Drizzt to a stone house built with stones and clay walls.
As soon as he entered the house, Drizzt felt that the temperature inside was much higher.
"Sense the temperature difference?" Luo Feng saw him with a puzzled look and said to him: "There is a flue under this room. When a fire is made outside, the heat and smoke will be discharged along the flue. The ground is equivalent to a large kang."
Drizzt continued to observe the furnishings in the room. The house was filled with iron racks, rows of iron racks were arranged in an orderly manner. Bags of burlap bags were piled on the racks, and holes were drilled in the bags, and small milky white mushroom umbrellas were drilled into the holes.
He recognized that kind of mushroom, which was Los Beetle, a delicious underground mushroom.
Looking around, there are no less than thousands of bags in the whole big house, and each bag is covered with beef mushrooms that have just emerged from the tip of the umbrella.
This fungus tastes delicious and rich in nutrients, and is much better than the lichen moss and straw mushrooms that gray dwarves usually eat. However, this fungus is not common. Only when it is close to geothermal areas and near hot spring areas, it occasionally grows a few clusters.
Because of its rareness, this kind of fungus can be regarded as high-end ingredients on the dining table of the Dow Elves. I didn't expect that so many of them could grow in this room.
"As long as you understand the conditions for the growth of bacteria, prepare matrix soil suitable for bacteria, use giant mushroom skin to make bacteria bags, supplemented with geothermal heating for burning coal, and then appropriately sprinkle water to adjust humidity, you can plant bacteria on a large scale."
Luo Feng pointed to the beetle mushroom on the shelf and explained to Drizzt: "Grasp the laws of nature and use scientific methods to develop agriculture in the dark areas. Do we need to pray to Mother Earth? Will we pray to her? Will she give this planting technology?"
Drizzt shook his head slightly and nodded again.
"The natural conditions in the surface world are better, and there are more ways to promote agricultural technological progress, increase food production, and enough to make all the Ferens fill up. But the gods disagree. If the Ferens eat their stomachs, wouldn't they have more time to study and think? The result of learning and thinking is that science has developed. People can live happily by relying on their own strength, and will they still kneel before the gods and pray for them?"
Luo Feng looked at Drizzt who was bowing his head and pondering, and continued: "We must first prove to the gray dwarves that faith in red means that by believing in the representative of the most advanced productivity, we can use our own hands to improve life, change destiny and the mercy of the gods, and create a bright future for ourselves and future generations that can live equally and dignifiedly."
Drizzt clenched his fists, and he felt a force surge from the bottom of his heart. Isn’t the future that Bradro mentioned is what he dreamed of?
People suffer all their sufferings in the world, and God enjoys all their glory in the kingdom of God. The happiness of more than one hundred gods is exchanged for the hardship of most mortals.
Why?
Just because they are God?
Are tens of millions of ordinary souls inferior to more than one hundred holy spirits?
Since mortals can use their own hands to transform the world and create the future, what else does the gods need to do?
Mortals should not kneel down and pray to the gods. On the contrary, Gods should serve the mortals in exchange for the respect of the mortals!
Otherwise, the glory of the gods is a joke!
No matter how powerful you are, you cannot deserve the word glory if you don’t work for the interests of the people!
A series of thoughts passed through his mind in an instant. Drizzt knew that he had realized it. Suddenly, a message was transmitted from the void. This was the recognition of the prophetic god Savras for establishing his red faith.
The bright red divine power lingered around him, and the golden and red light enveloped him. Drizzt advanced to the battle priest for the Red Faith - "Red Pastor".
He obtained the first Red Priest’s Divine Art: “Serve the People!”
This magic technique is similar to the priest magic technique: "Blessing Technique", but compared with "Blessing Technique", the bonus effect is more and stronger!
The magical blessing technique can give the morale of the person who is being subject to the magician +1, obtain attack identification and attack power +1.
"Serve the people!" can increase your morale +2, obtain attack identification and attack power +2, and can also eliminate fatigue to a certain extent and regain the magic spell position.
Seeing Drizzt being promoted to the Red Pastor in front of him, Luo Feng patted his shoulder with great relief and nodded, "The little comrade is very enlightened..."
Chapter completed!