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Leo, carrying a manure fork, was studying composting techniques.
In the Northern Region, the concept of making fertilizer was not unknown. Farmers would collect the manure of cows, horses, donkeys, and sheep, dry it, crush it, and spread it on the fields as fertilizer. Or they would simply graze cattle and sheep on fallow farmland.
In some remote forest villages or Wild Folk tribes, they would also practice slash-and-burn farming to the extreme.
However, they rarely used human feces as fertilizer because their ancestors told them that human feces were poisonous and could kill wheat seedlings.
As a senior office drone with thirty years of experience, Leo thought he was somewhat of an intellectual. But after traveling to another world, he realized he was just a person who only knows theories.
He seemed to know everything, but couldn't do anything well!
The so-called fact that human feces could kill wheat seedlings was because if the feces were spread into the soil without fermentation, they might undergo secondary fermentation in the farmland, and the high temperature generated would burn the wheat seedlings.
So, all that was needed was simple composting and fermentation.
But no matter how simple the high-temperature composting technique was, it definitely couldn't be achieved just by typing a few times on the keyboard.
Leo could only search hard in his childhood memories while slowly trying.
A village beauty started to feel something was off. Suddenly, she clutched tightly Olivia's arm and shouted in panic, "Is Leo going to eat poop? Olivia, why don't you go and stop him quickly!"
Olivia finally couldn't stand it anymore. After the short break ended, she took her thirty-two godsons to work.
Regarding the fact that Olivia had more and more dog sons, Leo had also seriously investigated.
For some time, he spied on secretly the interaction between Fisa and the kobold cubs after she entered the settlement camp.
Under the pretext of checking the living conditions of her own people, Fisa lay outside the fence of the stable and talked to the kobold cubs.
Glancing around to make sure no one was paying attention, she suddenly took out a small puppy from under her clothes, "plopped" it into the pile of dogs, and then turned around and left.
That's right. After frequent contact with humans, Fisa learned to wear clothes.
She commissioned Olivia to transform her bear skin blanket into a bear skin coat. Wearing it not only showed her status but also made it convenient for her to hide the small puppies and bring them into the human settlement camp.
The last time, Leo suddenly jumped out and mercilessly exposed Fisa's little trick.
Fisa was extremely annoyed and angry. She didn't come to the settlement camp for three consecutive days!
Sitting by the newly built canal, Fisa, Freya, and Little Mouse were swinging their legs, watching a group of villagers struggling to carry logs under the command of Ulyan.
They were planning to build a watchtower on the rocky knoll in the middle of the canal tunnel.
The rocky knoll, which was seven or eight meters high, plus a small watchtower three meters high, would create a visual advantage that would enable them to have a sweeping view of the surrounding flat ground. No one or animal invading the River Bend could escape the eyes of the sentries.
It was more than a thousand meters away from the settlement camp. Once the horn was sounded, it could at least gain time for the militiamen to return to the camp and put on their equipment and weapons.
The militiamen also had to work during the day, and they were the main workforce. It was impossible for them to work while wearing a full set of equipment.
Not only this rocky knoll, but Ulyan also planned to build watchtowers and stockade gates at both ends of the canal to include the entire peninsula under protection.
As for the plan to build stone walls and wooden fences inside the canal, the project volume was no less than that of digging the canal, and the priority was not high enough. They could only take their time and do it during their spare time.
Meanwhile, another group of over thirty people had already set off towards the peninsula, preparing to clear the Shili (about 5 kilometers) road from River Bend to the Western Watchtower.
Of course, the "so-called" road construction wasn't as extravagant as building a concrete or stone road.
This road, which runs along the flat riverbank, had already been traversed once by the exploration convoy, so it already had the basic path and rudimentary form of a road.
In the first stage, all they needed to do was cut down the big trees and shrubs that got in the way along the route, level some small slopes that are two or three meters high, and move the boulders that block the road.
And build simple wooden bridges over several small streams that flow into the Anzerno River.
Ulyan didn't have high requirements. As long as the passing freight wagons could barely make their way through without overturning or falling to pieces halfway like last time, that would be fine.
Except for miraculous roads like World Tree Avenue, most of the roads in knight fiefdoms are like this. Mobile caravans often take on the role of maintaining the roads.
If the road is difficult to travel on or broken, would you just turn around and leave? You'd still stop and patch it up a bit to just about get through.
When the population of River Bend increases and trade grows, this mountain road will naturally become smoother and smoother.
The "kobold" Fisa watched enviously as the humans worked with great enthusiasm. Compared to humans, kobolds seem extremely clumsy.
Most of the kobolds, except when it comes to mining, are simply unwilling to do anything else unless threatened with whips and starvation.
Fisa forced them to build a wall at the valley entrance, but it was washed down by the stream within a few days.
Fisa herself stood in the stream and wasn't even washed away!
Good at learning, she comes to observe the human settlement camp every day, secretly learning their technologies and then goes back to teach others hand by hand.
In just one month, she had secretly learned the Sling-throwing Technique, the Militia Training Methods, the Human Cooking Skills, and the Shaft Furnace Iron-smelting Technology.
She even started making crossbows!
But compared to the rapid development of River Bend Territory, Kobold Valley seems to be standing still.
As far back as she can remember, there has never been any changes.
If it wasn't for her efforts to maintain trade with humans, the kobolds would immediately return to a life of eating mice and going hungry.
Unwilling, Fisa stood up and shouted, "I, the kobold princess! Chief! Leader! The smart Fisa! I will work hard!"
The giant marmot beside Fisa was trying hard to imitate the leisurely pose of Little Mouse and Fisa as they swayed their legs. Unfortunately, her legs were too short and were pressed under her plump belly, unable to sway at all.
Just now, Ulyan had come over and tried to ask her to help carry logs to speed up the project progress.
But she refused, stating that she didn't have shoulders!
Hearing Fisa's declaration, Freya got up and retorted defiantly, "I'm also a princess, the princess of the elves, the smart Freya!"
Little Mouse looked at the proud pair and summoned up the courage to say weakly, "I'm the princess of the human race, the smart Gulveig..."
Unfortunately, her voice, lacking confidence, didn't even reach her friends' ears.
On the fourth day of playing with manure, Leo suddenly felt something strange.
He raised his head warily and saw a strangely burly stranger standing on the ridge outside the settlement camp.
This stranger was a giant nearly two meters and twenty centimeters tall. On his head were huge antlers, and his dark green long hair and beard cascaded down his body like waterfalls.
He was bare-chested, wearing nothing but a pair of animal skin shorts. On his rock-sculpture-like muscular body were streaks of green tattoos.
The villagers working in the fields not far away and the militiamen standing guard even farther away didn't seem to notice his presence.
When Leo made eye contact with him, a huge sense of oppression instantly made his spine go stiff. Leo was so highly concentrated that the surrounding scenery began to blur, as if only the two of them existed in the world.
Malfurion Stormrage
No, it was the elven great druid who resembled Malfurion - Bobak Marimotas
There was no need to think. Leo guessed the identity of the newcomer in an instant.
(Volume 1 · Who Isn't a Princess? End!)