The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 276 What I Saw on the Road

The railway track goes forward, and when it reaches the Magnetite Station, a large station halfway, it arrives at the territory where the dwarves are active in the wilderness. Although there is no decent big city here, it is very busy, and there are busy dwarves everywhere.

The area west of the magnetite mine and up to the Lengshui River is a vast expanse of green farmland, which is like two completely different worlds compared to the desolate wasteland on the east side of the railway.

Although Demps knew that Darren, a human from the alien continent, used a steam engine based on the same principle as that used on trains to drive a water pump to irrigate the wilderness, so that the four tribes no longer had to worry about food, he had never actually seen it with his own eyes.

Dempsey flew to a high place and looked at the neatly arranged farmland below and a steam engine emitting black smoke and white gas not far from the Lengshui River. He could not help but marvel inwardly.

This is just the dwarf area, and it is already so spectacular. What would it be like if we really arrived at the Cattail City that is talked about every day by the elves and halflings in the Vesper Moon Forest?

Thinking of this, Grand Mage Dempsey flew south along the railway line, watching the speeding trains and admiring the lush farmland.

The train was still too slow, and Dempsey had had enough of the scenery and began to speed up.

Where the dwarf's farmland ends, there is a clear boundary at the bank of the Lengshui River. After flying south for a long distance, new stretches of farmland appear in front of us.

This is the planting area that the gnomes learned from the dwarves to set up in the Great Wasteland, and the blank space is the area reserved by the dwarves for expansion.

If the gnomes want to transport supplies to the gnome new city, they need to cross the continuous snow-capped peaks of the Snow Summit Mountains, which requires airship transportation, so the gnomes don’t care where their farmland is. Anyway, for them, the distance by air transportation is about the same.

The gnomes left a large undeveloped area along the river to the dwarves and Cattail City for the dwarves to use to expand their farmland. They installed steam pumps between Cattail City and the middle of the magnetite mine and reclaimed farmland.

Nitia also mentioned this to her father Demps in the letter, so Demps could guess that he had already arrived at the area where the dwarves were farming.

After descending a little to observe, Dempsey found that it was indeed the case. The people farming here were dwarves, and a very small number of halflings might have come to teach the dwarves how to cultivate the fields.

After flying a long distance forward, passing the dwarves' farming areas and large sections of blank land, Dempsey finally arrived at the area under the jurisdiction of Cattail City, which was basically cultivated by halflings.

The obvious difference between this place and the farming areas of the dwarves and gnomes is the small villages located on both sides of the canals in the farmlands. The houses in those villages are all made of earth bricks, and even the windows facing south are installed with glass.

You should know that in the Nimbus Moon Forest, only the royal residence and meeting place of the Elf King's Court are installed with glass windows provided by Cattail City, while most of the dwarf and gnome areas, especially the gnome area, are still equipped with animal skin tents.

But in the northernmost farmland area managed by Cattail City, farmers have already lived in spacious and bright houses. Their yards are surrounded by neat wooden fences, which look neat and beautiful.

After flying past three or five villages, a small town appeared. At first, Dempsey thought he had arrived in Cattail City, but he immediately realized that this was a farmer's market built by Cattail City for farmers' trade, that is, a market town with a rural market as its core.

There are many residents on the road here, some are driving carts, some are pushing carts, and there are also individual residents riding bicycles or riding human-powered tricycles. They move on the flat stone powder hardened road surface, and look like ants moving in the sky.

"Wow, it's really lively. In the Long Moon Forest, except for the trading market opened by the river in Xiangpu City, other places are not as lively as this one."

Demps naturally talked to himself, but before his surprise subsided, such market towns that appeared every few small villages appeared one after another under Demps, connected by the gray and white stone powder roads.

Dempsey forgot to count how many towns there were, and as for the small villages, they were even more countless. He just flew forward until many hazy and tall shadows appeared faintly at the end of the green agricultural belt along the river in the distance.

At the same time, a large ship that Dempsey often saw in the sky south of the Long Moon Forest slowly approached him. It was the Cattail City Guard series airship.

But when he went a little further and saw the combined pods and airship paint that were completely different from the Goblin airships, Demps realized that these airships were not the Alert series airships, but were much larger than the Alert airships.

When Demps was in the Misty Moon Forest, when the first alert airship cruised there, he flew close to observe and even went in to chat with the elves inside.

So he knew that this was not a warning series airship, because the elf observer had told the great magician that the series of airships used by Cattail City to patrol the Great Wasteland were all of the same size and paint.

This should be the transport airship that the elf observer told him about and mentioned in Nitya's letter, a Hercules series airship painted with some kind of marine fish.

Because there are direct water and rail routes from Cattail City to the Longyue Forest, the Dalikun series of transport airships have never been to the Longyue Forest. They are responsible for cargo transportation on the Snow Peak Mountain route, and Demps has never seen them.

Demps accelerated and flew to the front of the Hercules. When he could see the operators inside through the glass of the cockpit, he truly felt the oppressive feeling like dark clouds covering a city brought by this super-large airship slowly approaching in the sky.

The operators in the airship naturally also saw Demps floating in the sky. Thanks to Demps's elf-like magic robe and pointed ears, the operators on the airship did not panic, but performed the elf etiquette to Demps.

Before the airship could turn to avoid Deng Demps, Demps had already returned the salute, got out of the airship's path, and flew towards the Cattail City, whose outline could be vaguely seen in the distance.

The glittering salt fields in the distance no longer attracted Demps's attention. His attention was all focused on the miraculous city below him.

Those tall buildings of different styles, the weapon platforms and weapons with hideous muzzles on the roofs, the lush green plants between the buildings, the wide roads, and the armed steamboats patrolling on the river in the distance...

Everything was telling Demps one thing: the magnificent city beneath him was the legendary city of Cattail City, which was built by the alien human Darren Fengyu with the combined strength of four tribes.

The size and architecture of Cattail City amazed the elven great magician.

(End of this chapter)