When the plot-skips players into the game world-Chapter 956 - 321 Avalon’s Troll Construction Crew

It took a long while for Aleister’s spirit to gradually stabilize again.

Like red-hot metal that has been quenched, its hardness would also increase.

After this satisfying cry, Aleister felt that her spirit had become much steadier and stronger, and her brain had cooled down and become clearer.

Despite Isabel’s wish for Aleister to just lie in her arms and have a good rest for the night, to fully relax her spirit. After all, Isabel didn’t lack time for just one night…

After all, it was already the middle of the night when Aleister entered Dreamland. After so much time had passed, it was very likely that Isabel was about to wake up.

But Aleister was very persistent.

She still hoped that Isabel would mention the important matters first.

Isabel couldn’t persuade her, so she had no choice but to agree.

She also keenly captured this detail—Aleister seemed to have a deep anxiety and discomfort towards any behavior that wasted time, much like Aiwass.

“Do you remember the port of Summer County?”

Isabel asked softly, “I remember you went to the Holy Nation last month… I mean, when Aiwass went to the Holy Nation, it was from a ship from Summer County.”

“Uh-huh, the construction there is already quite good.”

Aleister nodded.

Her impression of Summer County was still relatively vivid—of course, definitely not “comfortable and luxurious.”

After all, Glass Island itself was Avalon’s largest port.

If Aiwass, who grew up on Glass Island, said that the construction in Summer County was really good, then it would surely be a mere courtesy.

“But as a developed port city, Summer County already has all the essential elements it needs. That is, the population is still not enough… far from enough.

As a port city, there are barely a dozen people on a single street! The number of new empty warehouses even exceeds the active population; the number of Trolls working on construction is greater than the workers unloading goods at the port.”

Aleister commented, “I can only say that the Goblin engineering teams have indeed done a very good job. The ground is laid out very flat, not at all inferior to Glass Island. Moreover, everything in Summer County is very new—so new that I could smell the paint on any street I walked on.”

“That’s the Goblin engineering team? I thought it was the Troll engineering team.”

Isabel was taken aback for a moment and then remarked, “The engineering team consists entirely of tall, massive Trolls, nearly all of them Transcendents… It initially scared quite a few people. After all, they’re not only a different race, but they also look so frightening, and all of them are Transcendents… They can virtually construct a building out of thin air in just over one day.”

“Building?” Aleister was a bit puzzled.

She didn’t recall any tall buildings that could be considered towers; they were all small bungalows.

“Yes, a special kind of building. It’s said to be very popular over at Star Antimony, where the workers live… It seems it’s because the strength of the cement there is high, and perhaps because the bricks are powerful, the buildings can be built very tall without collapsing easily.”

Isabel nodded and added, “When you left, they hadn’t actually finished constructing—those Trolls first cleared the dense forests around Summer County, bought the timber at market prices, then they started to build roads; after finishing the roads, they began constructing warehouses; and after you left, they started building residential houses.

“The houses we live in are different; these are quite tall buildings. Each high-rise has more than ten floors, with two elevators caged in barbed wire on the outside—the elevators are even more advanced than those of the Lohar Society. And each floor of these high-rises has more than twenty empty rooms; each room can accommodate four beds, even more spacious than many hotel spaces.

“With this setup, just one building alone can accommodate thirteen hundred people. And such high-rises, with just a single construction team, can be built in less than two days—even though the interiors are merely undecorated grey walls and empty rooms, the efficiency is astonishingly high. Those five teams took only over ten days to raise thirty-three high-rises of these specifications…

“From a very far distance, one can see that oppressive collection of grey buildings. Many journalists took special trips to Summer County just to photograph these huge buildings… they regard these high-rises as ‘proof of advanced development’, ‘the popular architectural style of Star Antimony’. As a result, Avalon now seems to want to build these big buildings too… but it’s difficult to buy such bricks in Avalon, and they’re being traded at high prices on the black market.”

“…That really is quite astounding.”

Upon hearing this news, Aleister was genuinely surprised.

She had underestimated the labor force of the Trolls. She originally thought they were just coming to build warehouses and repair railways, but she didn’t expect they even helped to clear the adjacent dense forests and repair the roads.

In this era, the issue of environmental conservation and greening is yet to be addressed—the main reason impacting urban expansion today is the uneven land, complex terrain, and dense jungles. The cost of mass road building is exorbitantly high, and most often it requires city managers to pay out of their own pockets.

Therefore, in Avalon, apart from the main thoroughfares, the expansion of other areas relies on developers who have purchased land rights to expand on their own.

And for those cities where the land holds no developmental value, it’s likely that only a small central part of the city has roads, whereas the surrounding rural towns all have uneven dirt paths. This is also the reason why, even in an era when trains have become widespread, there is still a large number of horse-drawn and even donkey-drawn merchant carts.

They say a Troll slave can replace seven hard-working laborers, but who could have anticipated these Transcendent slaves to be so capable.

No wonder the slave owners of Parthia all want to buy massive numbers of Trolls.

This means if they wished, they could conjure up a rudimentary military fortress from flat ground in just one week—Star Antimony’s reinforcement bricks are extremely tough, and even the large-caliber guns mounted on ships would find it difficult to shatter them in one blast. Such military fortresses are even sturdier than many fortresses in Avalon.

“What technology are they using?”

Aleister’s first thought was this question: “Can we send someone to steal a look?”

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“…Er, probably not.”

Isabel hesitated: “Our workers might not be able to sprint while carrying meters-long steel bars. Their carts aren’t even pushed but carried while running. To save on wheel usage and not to wear them out too much, it’s not a man pushing a cart, but a cart that rides the man.

“Moreover, much of their construction technology—like their methods, are something our workers simply can’t understand.

“They just gather around a bonfire, then while singing and dancing, cement starts to fly up by itself, spreading along the walls. The walls can even move on their own, swallowing the cement. This initially frightened many people, and a lot of them reported it to the Supervisory Bureau and the church, causing quite a commotion.

“But the quality of those Trolls is actually not bad. Even though they don’t speak Avalon language, they’re quite polite.

“Because later on, some townsfolk gradually got used to it, seeing them work so hard and went to bring them some food and water. They instantly knelt on the ground. As they grew more accustomed, it turned into saluting and giving thanks.

“When it was time for their departure, many residents of Summer County had cultivated a relationship with them—they requested the Blessing from each other, believing it to be a force of good fortune…”

Isabel vividly recounted the stories within Avalon’s territory.

“That makes sense—after all, they did bring prosperity and wealth to Summer County. The locals see them as embodiments of richness and luck, which isn’t strange.”

Aleister nodded: “With these newly constructed sturdy roads, the densely-packed ports and warehouses, the cargo starting to be transported from the ports, as well as the three railways that are about to open, connecting east and west of Avalon… and these solidly built high-rises that can house a large population, it’s only a matter of time before Summer County becomes wealthy.”

Having said this, Aleister thought for a moment and decided to clarify to Isabel: “By the way… those Trolls kneeling down should not be out of gratitude or politeness… but because of fear.”