Chapter 124: Interview

Watching those people fall one by one, and then a new group of people coming to watch her, Rita was extremely nervous.

These guys were particularly strange; every new person had to ask her about the specific situation, as if the internal strife within the Death Sect was very interesting to them, and many of them came with a gossiping mindset.

Even if they were puppets, they shouldn't have this kind of psychological reaction, and to ask tirelessly...

These people didn't seem to be puppets or automatons, just... simply too strange.

The players didn't find themselves weird at all; for example, Luolita simply hired a carriage, ran over from the City Center, and wasted a day of her cooldown just to come and see these two little sisters.

"What kind of place is Gannaer?" Luolita didn't notice the exhaustion of the two sisters, but instead excitedly opened her notebook and began to record on it.

"It's a place a bit further south than Tana City, but it's also spring all year round, just not as warm as it is here. We don't grow potatoes; in fact, we also import Grain from Tana City because we have War almost every year. We are not under the jurisdiction of the Federal, but a completely independent country. The new king who took office this year is called Kuiyin Eliyake; you guessed right, it is a Queen. Compared to peace, she identifies more with War, but we don't hope to confront the Barbarians—you guessed right, our border line is also close to the Barbarians, but not those savage guys, but some Barbarians who can communicate, and those Barbarian women are in the majority. And we are in a state of alliance..." Lita repeated these questions quite mechanically, because she didn't know how many times she had already answered them.

Almost every person who came to ask had to ask once, wishing they could draw Gannaer out, but unfortunately, she didn't have that ability.

But how could she have that ability? Looking at her sister who had already started to doze off, she had to say more to win a little more rest time for her sister.

After she used her ability, her body would be very weak, and these annoying guys didn't even realize that the two of them were already very sleepy.

They had been running away for this period of time, and Rita had even wasted two black corpses just to escape to Tana, so it was no wonder they were so tired.

It wasn't until Zhongshan Laoren came online that the two sisters seemed to have time to rest.

"Lock them both up and send someone to watch them. I think you've asked enough. Today's work isn't finished yet; we have to see how that charcoal is doing." Zhongshan Laoren was not interested in these two NPCs; he only hoped that he could finish the steelmaking factory task as soon as possible.

As long as there was a lead, the next step was just to arrange for the players to produce, and the sales business would be handed over to Andrew, so that he could go back to farming his own land.

You have to know that he was the person who wanted to be the number one life-skill player in the game.

Luolita still wanted to ask a few more questions, but thinking about it, some questions would always be asked by other players; she mainly wanted to see if this pair of sisters was good-looking.

After all, the players last night were all busy with the new plot and didn't even take a single screenshot, which was absurd.

Perhaps it was also because taking screenshots in this game was quite troublesome. Luolita watched as the two girls were taken away by four players, and only then did she finally remember that she was at the Coking Plant.

She hadn't been here to see it before, only having seen screenshots on the forum.

The footprint here was very large. Andrew had just taken advantage of the cheapest time to buy a large piece of land, and now this land had tripled in value, and in the distance, other nobles were also reclaiming new land.

Nowadays, players no longer needed to chop wood; the surrounding nobles would let their serfs chop the wood on the mountains to clear the land, and those woods, besides being used to build houses, would be sold cheaply to the players.

So the players had a fixed source of wood; all they needed to do was chop the wood into firewood and then turn that firewood into charcoal.

The smoke cleared, and the first batch of charcoal the players had smothered came into view. The smoking charcoal was pitch black, which clearly meant it was a success.

"Can this thing be used for steelmaking?" Luolita asked curiously, "Don't you need a blast furnace?"

"You even know this?" Zhongshan Laoren said, "Also, you should have seen it many times on the forum. We aren't just messing around. We have already found fireclay; there is some abandoned fireclay at the port terminal, and the Factory District also has some kilns for us to refer to, since they usually make porcelain. Bishop Andrew has connections and resources in this area and has already introduced them to us. Besides, our goal is to smelt iron first, and then consider the issue of steelmaking later. As long as we have iron first, making some basic daily necessities won't be a problem."

Ironware in Tana City was very scarce; many families didn't even have a pot and could only eat black bread every day, without even a vegetable soup.

Even the middle class couldn't guarantee that they had Cutting Tools for cutting vegetables, meat, and fruit at home. Buying a knife required half a week's wages. If they had loans from when they were in school, for them, if the money saved was used to buy a knife for cooking, it would be better to go out and eat.

Of course, inviting guests to come home for a meal was also very important, but that was something for after the loans were paid off.

So if ironware became cheaper, there would be no need to worry about sales in Tana City.

"At that time, it can be sold in our grocery store, and Store Street will also be more lively. Of course, it's already more lively than Commercial Street now." Luolita looked at everything here curiously, "Is that little furnace over there for iron smelting?"

"That's right. The furnace being built in the back is for steelmaking, and the structure is more complex." As he spoke, some firebricks were also raked out from the kiln. The furnace, after cooling down, was still steaming. The quality of these bricks looked quite good, at least much better than the stones used for the houses nearby.

"We have discussed with Andrew that if steelmaking doesn't make money, we can also sell bricks. I believe many factory owners will need them, and we can also use them to build houses, so we definitely won't lose money." Zhongshan Laoren pointed further away, "Over there is our tentatively designated place for dumping waste. There's no way around it; we really don't have the ability to deal with these pollutants, so we can only wait until we have the technical ability in the future."

"Can't these waste materials be used to build houses?" Luolita said blankly.

"It's not impossible, but it needs to be processed. We have some experts guiding us online; you can come and see with me." Zhongshan Laoren really treated Luolita as a Reporter; after all, Luolita and the others did indeed post some of the latest news to the forum.

(End of this chapter)