Lord of Rot

Chapter 288 Letterpress Printing (page 12)

Butler Lidun held a torch and led the way.

The location of the Iron Wall Castle's treasure house was similar to that of Longship Castle, but when turning a corner, a spiderweb suddenly hung on Li Qi's face.

He raised his hand to pick off the cobwebs on his face and said: "It seems that the Black King has never been here."

Without the need for a torch to illuminate, Li Qi was able to clearly capture the layers of cobwebs in the corners, as well as the shriveled moths hanging on the cobwebs.

When Liton walked by holding a torch, a big hole was instantly burned into the spider web.

The two stopped in front of an iron door.

Lidun tilted the torch, lit the torch at the entrance of the treasure house, and handed the torch in his hand to Li Qi: "Yes, sir, I don't think anyone has been here for at least a year."

Li Qi held the torch with one hand and pushed open the treasure house door with the other hand.

The jumping light of the torch seized the opportunity and penetrated into the treasure house, illuminating the treasure house that had been sealed in dust for at least a year.

Opening the door brought up a burst of dust.

Li Qi covered his mouth and nose with one hand and squinted at the treasure house.

A small pile of gold suns, perhaps a hundred pieces.

Gone.

"So poor!"

Li Qi walked inside. Although there was no treasure in the treasure house, there were quite a few things on display.

Among them was a huge blanket, stitched in seven or eight colors, lightly covered with a layer of dust.

There is a book next to it.

Li Qi picked up the book and shook it, and the dust fell down. Judging from the weight of the dust, no one had touched this book for at least five or six years.

After turning the page, Li Qi was immediately shocked: "Hot air balloon?"

The sketch is of a hot air balloon.

"Is he the one who fell to death?"

Li Qi closed the book and smashed his boots twice to remove the dust even more.

This action also made him cough twice more.

After making sure that most of the dust was gone, he put the book under his arm.

"Save it for later and find someone to study it."

Hot air balloons have many functions, such as throwing magic as a fixed eye position, or used to convey messages. They are still very useful when the number of ostrich knights is not large.

When more people fly on a large scale in the future, hot air balloons will completely lose their military role.

As for carrying people on a large scale, it is not necessary. It only moves slowly on the ground and in the sea. There is no guarantee in the sky, and it will die.

Li Qi was obviously not the first person to come to the treasure house. He didn't find many useful things here. Apart from books recording how to make hot air balloons, which cost hundreds of gold days, there were only a few sets of armor, and some watches. The more precious coral jade.

"If you can sell it for money, it's not a loss."

When leaving the treasure house, Li Qi emphasized: "Don't let anyone approach without permission."

"Yes, my lord!"

It would be best to find someone to guard it, but the Iron Wall Fortress is short of manpower, so this idea is useless. It is better to bring the money with you.

So the current treasure house actually doesn’t have a single bronze star.

Not long after walking out, a head looking around caught Li Qi's attention.

"What are you doing?" Li Qi saw the girl who had been rescued from the mercenaries. She was standing at the intersection holding a cup, as if she was lost.

The girl who heard the voice turned her head: "S-Sir!"

"Miss Aili," Liton quickly took two steps over and said, "I think you must be lost. Turn back and follow the road in front of you."

"But, I..." Ellie stammered.

"Nothing but" Lidun was a little nervous.

"Don't be too nervous, Lidun," Li Qi said, "I think Miss Aili must have something important to do."

He understood the reason for the butler's nervousness.

Unless permitted, valets and maids can only move within specific areas during specific times. For example, laundry maids are not allowed to enter the upstairs, cooks are not allowed to leave the kitchen, etc. Only butlers and valets have the greatest rights in the castle. .

For example, no one is allowed to approach the road leading to the treasure house, even if there is nothing there now.

"Sir, please forgive Miss Ellie," Liton said, "She has never worked as a maid before. Today is her first day after applying, and she still doesn't understand many things."

"Okay Lidun, I told you not to be too nervous," Li Qi said, and then he asked the girl: "So Miss Ellie, what are you looking for in the castle?"

"I prepared tea soup for you."

Ai Li said in a low voice: "This is a kind of tea soup that makes people feel better after drinking it. I think you seem to be very tired today, so..."

"Thank you." Li Qi nodded: "Maybe you can help me deliver the tea soup to the meeting hall. By the way, please send me another beer. Mr. Liton will tell you where to get the wine."

"Yes." Butler Lidun nodded quickly: "Follow me, impudent Miss Alli."

Ai Li nodded quickly and left with the housekeeper.

Li Qi directly communicated with his corpse ghost. The Black King's body had been put into the coffin and was waiting to be freshly taken out of the coffin tomorrow.

Back in the meeting hall, Li Qi looked through the hot air balloon manufacturing manual and could see that he was still in the process of exploring it.

But the basic idea has matured.

"My lord" Lacey stood at the door and knocked gently.

"Please come in." Li Qi put down the book and asked, "How is it?"

"The situation is not optimistic." Lacey pulled up a chair and sat down, shaking his head and saying, "The food in the castle can support 3000 people for half a month at most."

"They didn't store any food?"

"Part of it," Lacey said, "but if you save food, you can last for a month at most."

The Iron Wall Fort has been closed for a long time, and it is expected that every household has run out of food supplies, otherwise Li Qi would not have asked Lacey to confirm the food storage problem.

If people are willing to go out, food is not a problem.

But now everyone thinks that there are resurrected dead people outside. Even Li Qi himself believes in the existence of such things, so he never thought of forcing people out.

"I'll find a way to get food," Li Qi said.

He planned to write a letter to Longship Castle and ask Mrs. Jie Lin to support some food supplies. With the abundance of supplies in Shuijian Land, it would not be difficult to support 3000 people with food and drink.

Then he emphasized: "But food must not be distributed for free!"

There is a saying that "Sheng Mi's kindness fights with Mi's hatred".

If Li Qi really wanted to develop the Iron Wall Castle and had to establish the concept of working in order to eat, these people were not refugees, they just wanted to hide behind the towering city wall.

Lacey nodded with deep understanding and said, "We can let them work."

There are only more than 2000 people in Porcupine Collar. Now that they suddenly have to support 3000 people besides Porcupine Collar, Lacey also feels a headache.

Lacey's proposal coincided with Li Qi's idea.

But work requires money. Li Qi does not have much money now, and it is impossible to distribute it to ordinary people.

Because sending money to the people in Iron Wall Fort, and then waiting for the money in their hands to slowly flow back to Li Qi's hands, this period of time is enough to drag him down.

The porcupine collar also cannot quench the near thirst with far water.