Recruiting More Than Ten Thousand Saxaul Trees
As soon as Zhou Wanwan finished speaking, these people knelt down on the ground.
Zhou Wanwan wanted to scream. She wasn't a human trafficker, so why did so many people appear wherever she went?
She was able to support tens of thousands of people; now she has over 100,000.
Adding in the population here, the number would probably reach 200,000.
How is she supposed to support 200,000 people?
The general knelt on the ground and looked at Zhou Wanwan, saying:
"Please, please take us in! We have over 1,000 soldiers here, and some homeless civilians as well."
They all lived in the Northern Desert and were willing to endure hardship, doing whatever they were asked to do.
As long as we have food to eat and a way to survive, we can mine for you in this mine."
Zhou Wanwan waved her hand and said, "You guys stay here for now! I need to go check on my gold mine."
If this really is a gold mine, supporting these people would be a piece of cake.
However, we'll have to wait and see how these gold mines are moved home.
Zhou Wanwan walked into the mine tunnel. Both sides of the tunnel were filled with stones of all sizes, piled up everywhere.
Most of the stones are bluish-gray or yellowish-brown. You can barely see anything at the entrance of the cave, but the further you go in, the dimmer the light becomes, with only a few pine torches stuck in the cave walls providing light.
These are all stones containing gold; they will need to be further processed after they are taken back.
Extract the gold from this.
Looking at the stones, Zhou Wanwan asked, "How can we move these stones back?"
The Old Scholar Tree clucked and clucked:
What is difficult for others is not difficult for us at all.
There are many saxaul and willow trees here, and we also collected several hundred poplar trees along the way.
Those poplar trees are incredibly strong.
Zhou Wanwan nodded, then found many saxaul trees and infused them with energy.
The saxaul trees straightened their backs and looked at Zhou Wanwan, saying, "Master, what do you want us to do? We can do anything, and we feel full of energy."
Zhou Wanwan then brought over a dozen soldiers from the Northern Desert. These saxaul trees, seeing the soldiers, shook their trunks and asked, "Master, is this our food?"
Zhou Wanwan nodded and said:
"By absorbing their power, you can evolve, and then you will be stronger enough to move the rocks below."
I need you to pry up all the rocks in the entire vein. Can you do that?
The thousands of saxaul trees quickly nodded and said, "Of course we can do it. We have many brothers here, and we'll gather them all over in a bit."
Before long, Zhou Wanwan saw tens of thousands of saxaul trees, more than a thousand poplar trees, and more than a hundred strange willows.
Zhou Wanwan replenished their energy, and they were soon ready to go into battle.
These trees grow in the Northern Desert, so they are very familiar with the environment here.
Soon, they were able to pry up the rocks inside.
They moved very fast, and in no time the stones had piled up into a small mountain.
Other trees began carrying these stones on their backs, and some trees even brought more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages.
They loaded all the stones onto the cart and headed home.
Zhou Wanwan looked at the horses and asked, "Didn't we not have a carriage for this trip?"
The trees hopped and skipped:
"Yes, we didn't see any carriages on this trip, but we did take a stroll around Northern Desert City."
There are so many horse-drawn carriages there! I've driven more than ten, and a few more brothers are on their way!
No sooner had it finished speaking than hundreds of horse-drawn carriages came in a grand procession from afar.
Zhou Wanwan's lips twitched. She didn't even dare to imagine what it would be like when the Northern Desert people woke up tomorrow and found that all their carriages were gone.
The key point is that the carriage also contained all sorts of valuable supplies.
These trees are all seasoned veterans.
No one needs to say anything; everyone knows how to rob someone.
The saxaul and poplar trees were moving very fast, and the Old Scholar Tree were also helping to dig hard at the ore below.
Zhou Wanwan and Gu Sinian were studying the treasure.
After studying it for a long time, Zhou Wanwan finally said:
"It seems we've dug in the wrong place!"
We're digging for Noble Consort Ning's gold mine; this is the Northern Desert people's gold mine, tsk tsk tsk...
The Northern Desert people's gold mines are larger, while Noble Consort Ning's gold mines are located within the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom.
Zhou Wanwan sighed and said:
"Why did these people from the Northern Desert Kingdom bring us here?"
"Now look what's happened, they've made us dig for this gold mine."
In just one night, a poplar tree came over and said, "The gold mine is almost finished, and it's all loaded onto trucks. We can leave now."
Zhou Wanwan nodded, looking at the poplar trees, and said, "You're more familiar with the area here, so please lead us out!"
More than 1,000 poplar trees, followed by hundreds of horses, marched in a grand procession toward the Great Xia Kingdom.
The Old Scholar Tree looked at these things and said:
"Let more than 300 brothers escort these things back."
"Wanwan, give them some energy to ensure they get home safely within ten or more hours."
Zhou Wanwan nodded and said:
"That's definitely not a problem, and I'll also add some energy to these jade stones."
If there's a complete power outage, they can use it too.
Zhou Wanwan directly replenished the energy of the more than 300 trees, and then took out several pieces of jade and filled them with her energy.
These trees can replenish their energy by placing their roots on this jade.
There are now many such jade stones in the mountain village, which Zhou Wanwan discovered by accident.
Jade is inherently spiritual; by infusing it with energy, this energy can be preserved for a long time.
The 300-plus trees, along with several hundred horse-drawn carriages, headed back.
These tree-people travel along secluded paths, with each tree controlling one carriage. Sometimes, if a carriage can't make it across, the tree can carry it over.
After sending those gold mines away, Zhou Wanwan followed the map to another gold mine.
This gold mine is much smaller than the previous one.
Zhou Wanwan didn't spend much time emptying the gold mine completely.
Several of the Old Scholar Tree's subordinates also returned, bringing back more than a hundred horse-drawn carriages.
"These all belong to Noble Consort Ning's estate. I never imagined she would keep warhorses there. This woman is quite formidable."
Zhou Wanwan didn't care about anything else and just got straight to work.
It took another day to finish mining Noble Consort Ning's gold mine.
At this time, the people of the Northern Desert Kingdom were in a state of panic, and no one understood why many carriages had disappeared from the city overnight.
It is important to know that the Northern Desert Kingdom highly valued horses and camels, as these were their means of transportation.
It was also their weapon of choice in every battle. The Northern Desert Kingdom cursed angrily, "A bunch of useless fools! They can't even keep an eye on the carriage! Go and investigate right now!"