Release that Witch - Chapter 291

[Chapter 290 Investigation Plan]

Roland was sitting at his desk, thinking about how to air raid the Royal Palace, when there was a knocking sound from the French windows behind him.

Looking back, I saw Lightning laying on the window with a panicked expression, while Maggie squatted on top of her head, quickly pecking at the window.

As soon as Nightingale opened the window, the little girl flew into Roland’s arms.

“What’s the matter?” He was startled, “What happened?”

“Black stones! Huge snow mountains!” Maggie landed on the table, flapping her wings to report.

“Ah?”

“Neither,” Lightning muffled, “It’s a devil, I saw a devil!”

“What?” Roland became serious, and he patted the other person’s head to calm her down, “No Hurry up, speak slowly.”

After a while, Lightning raised his head from the prince’s arms, his short golden hair was messy, and there were two light red marks around his eyes, which were obviously caused by the windshield being blocked by the windshield during the high-speed flight. “I was going to draw the border of the Misty Forest, so I headed west along the Chishui River, and then I found a big mountain…” After

listening to her recounting what she had seen and heard in detail, Roland couldn’t help but Eyes widened, the red mist that devils rely on for survival is behind the snow-capped mountains, and it’s only two hundred kilometers away from the western border?

He glanced at Nightingale, who nodded, “I’ll go and call the other sisters.”

An emergency meeting was held in the castle office.

After Roland recounted the situation discovered by Lightning to everyone, the group of witches who had experienced the killing night all showed uneasy expressions, especially Ye Zi, as the witch who personally killed two devils, couldn’t help covering her mouth. He let out a low breath.

“Your Highness, I suggest further investigation of the land covered by the red mist,” Scroll first said, “After all, the lightning just glanced at it from a very long distance, so it cannot be sure that the devil must be entrenched under the red mist. In addition, even if After confirming this, we also need to investigate whether they will cross the mountains near the sea and reach the mainland of the kingdom along the coastline.”

“I agree with Scroll’s point of view,” Wendy nodded, “Although they are very powerful, they must be prepared for defense. It’s

better than being caught without a fight.”

As the two oldest witches in the Mutual Aid Society, Scroll and Wendy have always been the backbone of many sisters. Although the others are still a little scared, no one wants to just sit and wait for death.

Roland is also inclined to this countermeasure. Seeing that no one expressed any objection, the matter is basically settled in this way. The key is how to implement it.

“Use a hot air balloon to scout,” Anna suggested, “cover the Skywatcher with sky camouflage, use the clouds as cover, and fly over the sea.”

“You can also take Sylvie with you,” Nightingale said, “her ability can handle it.” This situation couldn’t be more appropriate.”

“Well,” Roland nodded, “Also… I’m going too.”

“Your Highness!” As soon as he said that, Wendy, Scroll and Nightingale stopped him at the same time, “You You can’t take this risk yourself!”

“It’s not an adventure,” Roland waved his hand, “If they had the ability to leap over the sea or mountains, they should have spread all over the four kingdoms long ago. The reason why they still gather in the Far West is because It

means that the devil is not as terrible as imagined.”

There is another reason he didn’t say, he has more experience than anyone else in judging the development level of a different civilization – if he can see the devil and their cities with his own eyes, it will be beneficial to the future. It will be of great help to set the direction of development and countermeasures.

“But…” Wendy hesitated.

“Don’t worry, just take a look at it from a distance,” the prince smiled. “If it’s dangerous to stay in the distance to investigate, I will never agree to let you go.”

“Okay then, but you have to take me with you,” Nightingale was the first to change her words when the dissuasion was ineffective.

Looking at the serious look cast by the other party, Roland knew that it was impossible for him to refuse her, and after thinking about it, he announced: “Then other than me, the people on this trip are Anna, Wendy, Soraya, and Sylvie. , Nightingale, Lightning, and Maggie.”

“The departure time is one week later. In addition to the necessary food preparations, I will equip each of you with a revolver. Practice it well for a week, so that even non-combat witches can face There is also the ability to fight back against any enemy.”

The flying speed of a hot air balloon is far inferior to lightning, and it may take a whole day to fly a distance of more than 200 kilometers, so everyone needs to camp in the wild for one night to complete the investigation. Considering this , Dry food, tents and weapons are all necessities.

“Yes, Your Highness,” the witches replied in unison.

After everyone left, Roland had time to check the black ore brought back by Lightning.

“You said that this kind of stone is everywhere on the edge of the forest?”

“Well,” now that Lightning has returned to calm, sitting at the mahogany table shaking his feet, his cheeks are still a little flushed, “and the closer to the foot of the mountain, the more there are. , if you look down from the air, the ground covered by black stones is about ten times larger than that of Border Town.”

Roland weighed it in his hand, his heart skipped a beat.

In terms of weight, it is much lighter than ordinary stones, and it is unlikely to be metal ore.

The appearance is hard and light, it can reflect the metallic luster, and it is exposed on the surface… Could this be a coal mine?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly called Anna back.

Under the burning of the black fire, the stone quickly became bright red, looking very much like the iron ore in the smelting furnace, but it did not dissolve because of this.

Even if the black fire was retracted, the orange light it emitted did not weaken at all, and the slightly rising blue flame could be seen on the surface.

Roland confirmed his guess, this is indeed a piece of high-quality anthracite.

“It turns out that coal mines look like this,” Lightning said in surprise, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com “I thought they were all as fragile and brittle as charcoal, and there was a lot of powder, and they would stain your palms if you touched them a little.”

“It’s briquettes and briquettes that have been crushed and processed with water,” Roland said with a smile. “Most coal mines are like stones when they are mined. Of course, the better the raw coal, the harder it is, and in the end it looks like these stones.” The

same, the surface can even reflect gloss.”

This unexpected discovery made him very happy.

Coal is not a rare commodity in Graycastle. There are coal mines in Falling Dragon Ridge and Silver Light City, most of which are used for kiln firing and heating.

But in fact, it has a wide range of uses. Before the popularization of internal combustion engines, it was the burning coal that supported half the sky of steam power.

Coking coal can replace charcoal to smelt iron and steel, which is much more environmentally friendly than cutting down trees. Even after entering the electrical age, coal can also be used to refine gas, hydrogen and asphalt, and can also be used to generate electricity. It is high quality and low price Excellent fuel.

Holding an open pit coal mine in your hands is obviously much better than relying on imports.

The only question is, how to develop it?

Roland turned his attention to the newly drawn map of Lightning.

It seems imperative to build more inland steam cement ships.

[End of this Chapter]