Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

"It's a fascinating story." Lind raised his hands and clapped. "I just don't know if it's true history."

"I'll ask my mother when I get back. She knows more about the history of elves than I do." said Alisa.

Efit, are you telling this story to imply that you are Moras? Lind kept a normal expression and thought to himself. You came here with a mission from the evil god. Do you want to kill me, or do you want to drag yourself down like Moras in the story?

If it is true, it would really be a sugar-coated bullet.

So what should I do?

Chapter 289: Eat the Sugar Coating

Efit's story is over.

Alisa listened with such gusto that she even forgot to eat the bread.

Linde didn't react that much. After all, before crossing over, Linde loved reading books and online novels, and had seen all kinds of plots. Although Efit's story was quite interesting in this world, in Linde's opinion, the story was a bit cliché.

But a story is not just about the plot, it also has characters, rhythm, tension, and the person telling the story. For example, with the same script and the same story, it’s still okay if a talented actor plays the role, but if a young actor plays the role, it’s just garbage that will be used to attract fans who don’t like it.

Although the story was a bit old-fashioned for Lind, he had to admit that when he heard it from Efit's mouth, he was not bored at all and even enjoyed it.

It must be admitted that the same thing done by different people will have completely different effects; for the same thing, with the same level of effect, beautiful women will always get extra points.

The question then arises again, what is Efit's purpose in telling this story.

Lind didn't know much about the high elves. After all, due to the backwardness of paper making and printing technology in this world, the cost of spreading knowledge was very high. Even if one could read, there was no way to pass on a lot of knowledge.

Lind only knew that the High Elves' base camp was located in the west, and that the High Elves implemented a special dual monarchy system, the High King and the Everqueen. Lind didn't know how it was done specifically, but Elisa also confirmed that the first High King of the High Elves was indeed called Alarion.

This increases the authenticity of the story to a certain extent. After all, the characters in the story really existed in history, but it only adds a little bit. For the sake of drama, there are many examples of authors making magical adaptations based on history. Not to mention the plot, even the gender can be changed.

Therefore, the authenticity of this story is not the point, the point is the content.

Is Efit implying that she is Moras?

In this story, Moras is the only believer of the evil god. Regardless of whether Moras really existed or not, since Efit, who is also a believer of the evil god, told this story, it is natural that Moras in the story is the counterpart.

To summarize based on the content of the story, was Efit, like Moras, ordered by the God of Sin to approach him and then wait for an opportunity to kill him?

No, unlike Alarion in the story, the evil god obviously didn't want to kill him. Rather than killing him, the evil god obviously wanted to get him. All the Chaos Gods wanted to get him, including the Blood God who had been humiliated by him.

If the evil god didn't want to kill me, then was I the original target of this cursed dagger?

On the surface, Linde was eating bread quietly, but his mind was working rapidly. Based on the story he had just heard, he was analyzing the possible goals of Efit and the evil god behind her.

There was an evil demon living in that cursed weapon. If I were to stab myself with that dagger, there was no guarantee that I would not fall into depravity.

Following this line of thought, Efit was watching the battle on the cliff at that time in order to find the right opportunity to stab me in the back with a dagger and snatch myself away from the Blood God's ritual?

But Efit didn't do that. In the end, she stabbed Mara's eyes with a dagger and saved Alisa.

Was she like Moras in the story, betraying the orders of the evil god?

And when did she set her sights on me?

While eating bread, Linde recalled every little bit of his time with Efit, not missing a single detail, and looked at Efit from time to time. Whenever their eyes met, Efit would generously respond with a smile.

The first time they met was on an ocean-going ship heading to Ivozhen Island. He rescued her and helped her get rid of several thugs who had bad intentions towards her.

The second time we met was after I saved Lady Ilufa.

Let's not expose her yet. After thinking for a long time, Lind decided not to expose Efit's identity as a cultist for the time being.

Firstly, there is no very clear evidence. After all, fingerprints are not very complete. Just like paternity testing, there is still a possibility of misjudgment in theory. Secondly, Efit has not done anything that is detrimental to himself and the entire camp, and he has even made contributions.

Also, in the story that Efit just told, Moras never hurt Alarion from beginning to end, and helped his husband in his own way.

I'll just observe for a while. If I really kill Efit, the evil god will definitely not give up and will send new cultists to approach me. Rather than waiting for the enemy to be in the open and I to be in the dark, it's better to keep this capable one, at least I can keep him under control.

Before crossing over, Lind had heard that undercover agents were very capable at their jobs.

After making up his mind, Lind looked at Efit with a firm look, no longer confused. Efit also noticed the change in Lind's eyes. Although he didn't know what Lind was thinking, he still smiled kindly.

In response, Linde just smiled politely, and thought to himself, please don't do anything to force me to deal with your problems.

After lunch, Lind asked the two to go back and rest for a while, and then come back to work around 2 o'clock. The two nodded, got up and left, each going back to take a lunch break.

After the two left, Lind sat on the chair with his arms folded across his chest. Should we find someone to secretly monitor Efit?

Forget it, let's not alert the enemy. Linde quickly threw the idea out of his mind. It's not that he doesn't want to, but there is really no suitable candidate. Judging from his performance in the last cliff jump, Efit's real strength is very strong and very flexible. It feels that he can't win even if he goes in person. Letting other clumsy people to monitor is no different from directly telling the other party "You have been exposed".

After the two of them left, Lind sat on a chair and rested for a while. He took a look at the not very spacious tent, and then Lind thought about the new colony of the Holy Empire that would arrive in about two months.

"It's time to build a proper camp." Linde made up his mind, then picked up the wood chips and began to write his plan.

At about two o'clock, Elisa and Efit came back. As soon as they came back, they saw a wooden board with dense handwriting on it placed on the table.

"What are these?" Eliza picked up a wooden board and began to look at it.

"The next construction plan for the camp." Linde said as he wrote. "In the next two months, I will build all the buildings in the camp into stone houses."

"Two months? A stone house?" Alisa asked in amazement. "Is this possible?!"

"Of course it's okay." Linde said confidently. "Because of your mother."

Chapter 290 Productivity Issues

Within two months, all the buildings in the camp will be transformed into stone houses. If anyone told others this, Elisa would think that the other person was crazy and talking nonsense.

Although she didn't know how to build a house, Elisa was the daughter of a count after all, and had seen with her own eyes the construction of walls and castles, which were mainly made of stone. The time consumed was measured in years, and some were even recorded in decades.

There are indeed some civilian houses built with stone, but not many. Generally, civilian houses are made of a combination of stone and wood, but the vast majority of houses are still made mainly of wood. Although it is not fireproof, it is easy to obtain materials and requires less manpower to build.

Then Lind said that within two months, all the houses would be turned into stone houses?

This……

If someone else had said this, Alisa might have thought that person was crazy, but it was Lind who said this.

That's Lind! Lind has shocked Elisa several times! No matter how outrageous his words are! You can't immediately conclude that it's impossible!

After calming down a little, Elisa recalled and then thought of the thing that her mother did to make her body dirty in the camp before the battle with Mara.

"You mean... cement?" He recalled the thing his mother made.

"Yes, that's right." Lind nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad, not bad, you still remember that thing."

"I have a very good memory." Alisa protested a little, then lowered her head to think. "If it's that thing, it seems that it can do it..."

"If we use that magical mixture, it is indeed possible to build all the buildings in the camp into stone houses within two months." Efit put his hand on his chin and silently calculated the feasibility of this plan in his mind.

Seeing Efit's serious look, Lind was curious about what kind of insights she would give. In the past, Lind only regarded Efit as a village girl who knew a little bit, but now it was different. Now Lind regarded her as a cultist sent by the evil god to seduce him to fall.

I have to say that the evil god has a really good eye for picking people. Efit's appearance completely hits Lind's strike zone, both in appearance and figure. The only flaw is that he is not tall. He is only one year older than himself, but Lind has a strong premonition that Efit will grow up to be the person he has been dreaming of in the future.

It would be even better if I could wear black stockings. No, I have to get black stockings quickly even for my own selfish desires.

When Lind thought of the grown-up Efit, Cynthia after she returned to secular life, and the group of beast girls around him who were already in estrus and constantly rubbing their bodies against each other in black stockings, he felt his pants move.

"Master, I'm afraid your plan won't work." Unlike Elisa who happily thought it was feasible, Efit raised his objection after thinking for a while.

"Oh?" Lind waved his hand and pretended to listen. "I wonder if you have any advice for me, sir?"

"Sir?" Efit was stunned.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what advice you have for me, young lady." Lin De changed his tone.

"I was watching when Madam Ilufa was experimenting with the cement." Efit answered. "The cement is indeed easy to make and use. It will harden in a few hours after adding water and become as hard as rock in a few days. But there is a very important problem."

"Materials," Aifet said firmly. "The materials for cement are not difficult to find. Limestone, iron slag, and sand are not difficult to obtain. However, limestone needs to be baked in a furnace at high temperature, and the same is true for iron slag. The problem is that we don't have that many rune furnaces."

"More importantly, I just did a rough calculation. There are more than 500 people in our camp right now. It is impossible to build houses that can accommodate so many people in two months with the materials needed, relying solely on the labor force in our camp. What's more, there are many jobs that need people to do every day, such as hunting and tending to the fields."

"Therefore, it is impossible to convert all the houses in the camp into concrete houses within two months as you requested, young master." Efit said seriously.

Lind did not answer immediately, but looked at Efit quietly.

To be honest, Lind had also thought of the same question as Efit, but to Lind's surprise, it was not Elisa but Efit who first raised the question.

And what did she just say, mental arithmetic?

"What's nine plus seven?" Lind asked suddenly.

"Sixteen." Efit answered without hesitation.

"Twenty-three and sixty-eight."

"Ninety-one."

"Thirteen times eleven."

"...One hundred and forty-three." After a slight hesitation, Efit finally gave the correct answer.

Linde looked at Efit in surprise and joy, while Efit also looked at Linde with a slightly stubborn look. Sister, are you not pretending anymore?

Alisa was stunned by the continuous questions, especially the last one. In order to verify whether Efit's answer was correct, Alisa took a piece of wood and drew a total of six cross-slashes on it.

After drawing and counting for a while, Alisa looked at Efit in shock. She was actually right.

"What kind of calculation method is this?" Linde looked at the wooden board in front of Alyssa and asked curiously.

"It's the line drawing method." Alisa said as a matter of course. "Don't you know it?"

"I don't know. I do all the multiplication in my head."

"what?"

"Have you heard of the multiplication formula?"

"No... Then how did Efit calculate it?"

"That's how I calculated it."

“How is everything calculated?”

After a heated exchange of views on the multiplication problem, the three of them brought the issue back to the topic.

"What Efit said makes sense. This is indeed a problem," Lind agreed. "Whether it's collecting limestone, iron ore, or digging sand, a large number of people are needed. Even if there are strong beastmen, it's not enough."

“And we also need furnaces that can burn the limestone at high temperatures, and there aren’t enough of them.”

"The precious Salaman stone was blown off in half..." Elisa muttered.

"Master, since you have also thought about these problems, do you have any solutions?" Efit asked with a smile.

"One of the problems does have a solution." Lind scratched his head and handed over a piece of parchment.

"This... I seem to have seen it before?" The two of them came over to take a look, and then Alyssa found that she seemed to have seen the things above before.

"Steam engine," Lind smiled. "That's one of my solutions."

Chapter 291: The sequel to the story

While Linde and two fourteen-year-old girls were dealing with important affairs in the camp, the nominal owner of the camp, Countess Illufa, was in her tent, studying the puppet she brought back from the mine cave.

The nominal owner of the camp is still Ilfa's husband, and Ilfa herself is managing it on behalf of the owner. But to be honest, even if Ilfa's husband Gast came back now and wanted to take over the camp, it would probably be impossible because few of the people under him would agree.

Leaving the management of the camp to three minors was not something a responsible adult should do, but Ilufa had good reasons. Alisa was almost fourteen years old, and according to tradition, she should start to get involved in government affairs. As a woman, Alisa shouldn't learn these things, but there was no other way, because Alisa was Gast's only daughter, the first, the only heir to the earl.

If there was still a slight possibility that the two of them would have a second child before Gaster escaped, then now it was a sign of self-control that Illufa did not shoot a fireball at Gaster's face.

Don't meddle in things you don't understand, and leave it to the right person. A noble lord has the task of governing his territory, but how to govern is also a science. Being a good lord is not good if you are diligent. It is also bad to arbitrarily interfere in things you are not good at. Zhu Youjian is a very good example.

Therefore, Ilufa was very relieved to hand over the camp construction affairs to Linde, and she was not worried that Linde would rebel. As a mature woman and wife, Ilufa understood the thoughts of adolescent boys very well, and could see what kind of person Linde was.

In a word, Linde is a good man, a responsible man. As long as you trust him, Linde will not do anything to bully his subordinates.

Of course, to be on the safe side, I still have to marry Elisa to him. Then he will be my son-in-law and I will be his mother-in-law, and the relationship will be even stronger.

To kill time, Ilufa is studying the puppets he brought back from the cave. A puppet is simply a man-made object driven by magic, used as an aid to the magician's daily work. Depending on the purpose, the puppets have various appearances, ranging from humanoid to indescribable.

As a magician proficient in four elements, Ilufa also hunted puppets, but he was not proficient in them. The production of puppets was not a simple magic problem, but also involved the manual production of materials, etc. Ilufa was just researching to kill time, but as he was researching, he discovered something unexpected.

"Is the manufacturing process of this puppet... the same as that of the elves?" Soon, Irufa discovered that the manufacturing process of this puppet was not that of humans. Since it was not a human manufacturing process, then it must be that of the elves?

He compared it with the elves' technology in his memory, but unfortunately, although Ilfa had come into contact with the elves' technology, he was not familiar with it, so he was not sure whether it was the elves' technology.

Speaking of elves, Ilfa recalled the casual conversation between her daughter Alisa and her when she came back for lunch.