"Dad? Brother? What's wrong with you two?" Hyren said in a nearly begging tone, "Why are you so unhappy? Isn't you having something to eat and drink? This is a banquet..."

"Child, you don't understand, the enemy...ah." Even in such a bad situation, the Duke did not get angry with his mentally retarded son.

"Are the enemies... those guys on the mountain?" Hyren stood up, "I...I know how to deal with them!"

The two looked at Hyun and smiled on their faces - of course, not an excited and happy laugh, but a caring and comforting smile.

Alas, he was able to understand our hardships, which was enough for him.

The two looked at each other again, smiled bitterly, and continued to look down at their plates in a daze, as if they could stare at them for another hour, and the way they could deal with the barbarians appeared on them.

"It's true!" Seeing the two of them doing this, Heren stamped his feet in a hurry: "Before, didn't my brother kill a barbarian who had passed away?... Isn't it better to blow up again and explode the mountains on both sides?"

"My brother, if this method could be used, my brother would have used it long ago." Leren shook his head helplessly, "The situation this time is a bit different; Storm Pass is not as 'weak' as Shura Pass. If you just blow up the stones, you can't kill them..."

Le Ren felt that the explanation method he chose was easy to understand enough.

"Hey? If they... it's hard for them to kill, then... put more red bottles?" He Ren continued to say and gesture, "Put more! If one doesn't work, two, just put them...a bunch!"

"Things are not that simple, Heren." Leren sighed and prepared to explain carefully: "The cliff here can't completely destroy Storm Pass, and even the city wall cannot be destroyed; even as you said, put the magic bottles desperately... Think about it, where will the stones on the mountain fall down?"

"It will fall to the foot of the mountain..." Heren replied tentatively;

"Yes, the foot of the mountain." Leren sighed long, "Where are we now?"

This problem was encountered before when Shuyu Pass was approached. Leren thought;

The dragon breath ejected from the black dragon destroyed too many rock walls, so many falling stones rolled all the way to the vicinity of Shanyuan Town. Fortunately, the black dragon chose to spray the rock walls on the Green Sea Plain, otherwise Shanyuan Town would probably suffer certain damage...

“We… are in the living room…” Hyren’s voice was lower;

"..." Leren adjusted his breathing and controlled the volume: "That's right, we are in the living room, in the Critical Fort... Then, where is the Critical City?"

“…in the Western Frontier?”

Le Ren almost made Hyren get angry all of a sudden.

"At the foot of the Mosen Mountains!" Heren waved his hand quickly, "Brother, I'm just kidding!"

"Since you know it's much easier to do at the foot of the mountain." Leren sighed again, "Do you think those stones will grow eyes and fall to Storm Pass?"

There is also a city wall on the side of Storm Pass! And the height and thickness are not comparable to the mound of soil like Chuyu Pass!

"The scouts had reported the approximate height and thickness before." Leren had told the Duke this conclusion before, "If you want to take the same method to kill the barbarians of Storm Pass... the stones that fall to us will at least flood half of the critical village on the opposite side of the mountain."

In fact, this is just a conservative estimate. Leren thought that in the worst case, the villages on both sides of the critical city would also be flooded by rock flows, and only a small number of villages protected by the critical city could survive;

As for the arable land near the village, there will be no remaining at all. Critical City will rely entirely on transporting grain from other places to make a living...

Of course, there will be no problem in the critical city.

In order to prevent the invasion of the barbarians, the city wall was built to be strong enough; even if there were indeed a lot of stones falling, there was no need to worry.

"So that's how it is..." He Ren nodded in a vague way, "If the village is submerged, everyone will die, and I will have no place to kill people..."

If it weren't for the last sentence, his image would have been reshaped in his heart. Le Ren's mouth twitched, and in terms of livening the atmosphere, He Ren was doing quite well.

"So, this method is not feasible..." Leren said and looked at the duke, "Right, father..."

Leren choked halfway through his words.

He saw that the expression on the Duke's face was not what he should have when he was joking;

The Duke was very serious and serious. After thinking for a moment, he nodded heavily.

"...Hey, my father, what decision did you just make?" Leren felt a little unbelievable.

"Just do this, I will order the Magic Academy to speed up the production of magic bottles and make enough quantities as soon as possible; Leren, you are responsible for selecting a suitable location and digging a hole deep enough in the higher rock wall should be no problem." The Duke looked directly at Leren, "We may have only one way."

"My father, don't you know how difficult it will be to resettle those landless farmers?" Leren opened his eyes wide, "What should those farmers do? Do you want to call them all into the city? You can't let go of the city! There are no other places in the Western Region to accommodate so many people!"

The number of residents that the village can accommodate is relatively limited, and the number of villagers in the critical village is too large. If they really want to move, there will be no more people living nearby. In the process of moving to a further place, a considerable number of villagers will die of hunger...

The most direct point is that this will cause farmers to lose their land and abandon most of their property, which will basically cut off the road to the future.

"If you want food, you will increase taxes; those people in the territory have never had to fight with the Korie tribe. It is time for them to get some blood. As for the people in the critical village... I will issue a notice in advance to prevent them from being buried by stones, even if Ren is done with righteousness, don't think too much." The Duke narrowed his eyes; Leren finally saw his father's cold side again.

"This is...this is..." Leren wanted to refute;

"My son, if you can come up with a better way to solve this situation, I'm happy to accept your suggestions." The Duke raised his glass and took a sip, then lowered his head: "After all, those people in the Western Regions, there is a better way to adopt..."

Leren was silent - how could this be thought of?

"Even if you are submerged by a stone, it is better than feeding monsters or burning into ashes by dragon flames." The Duke sighed, "That's it."
Chapter completed!