In the camp.

The huge black dragon landed on the ground.

"Your Excellency, the basic preparations have been completed. A total of 14,600 people are employed, all of whom are professionals, including 10,000 laborers, 4,000 craftsmen and technicians of various types, 500 guards and 100 people.

We have a management team and the camp has been built and can start work at any time. We have discovered the nearby mineral deposits and can start work at any time." A middle-aged man who looked shrewd and capable said to Lu En on top of the black dragon.

He is Sigur, the emperor's secretary, and now the general manager of this hell expedition. In theory, he is Lu En's deputy.

He began to chatter endlessly. While writing down something in his notebook, he said unceremoniously to Lu En: "Your Excellency, your action of abandoning the camp and traveling alone as soon as you arrived in Hell may bring huge consequences to the entire camp.

The risk is that our guard chief is only level 8. It is very likely that we cannot guarantee the safety of everyone in hell. We need to have a level 9 in the camp at all times, otherwise..."

"I just defeated the Eternal Hillelius." Lu En walked past Kara, dropped a word and ignored him.

This sentence made Sig speechless and made him look unhappy.

Kara shook her body, kept her dragon body, and followed Lu En in. But after taking a few steps, she glanced back, her eyes a little impatient, and flicked her tail with a sharp barb, directly hitting Sig.

It flew out.

"Uh-!" He exclaimed as he flew in the air, but halfway through the flight, his body suddenly stopped and floated in the air.

Looking carefully, Lu En was stretching out his hand not far away, using the mage's hand to stabilize his body.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Sig, but my maid doesn't like rude people very much. Don't annoy her, otherwise you won't be happy." He put Sig on the ground and walked towards the temporary camp.

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Kara thought about it for a moment, then waved his tail, which frightened Sig and took a few steps back. Looking at his appearance, the black dragon continued to move forward with satisfaction.

After walking for a while and out of sight of the other party, Lu En saw the mining area in front of him and said to the dragon beside him: "There is no need to do this. It will do us no good to offend him. After all, he is the emperor's man."

Kara purred and wagged her tail. She didn't answer. She just lowered her head and rubbed her cheek against Lu En.

"Okay, I'm not blaming you. I'm just coming to hell after all, so I need to calm down my temper. We have to stay here for thirty years. Even if we can go back from time to time, it won't take long to go back. It's better to get along well with them.

Be responsible for yourself." Lu En stroked the dragon scales and said to Kara with a smile.

Kara tilted her head, spread her wings, and flew into the sky. She didn't know where she went.

However, Lu En didn't chase her. He walked straight forward and came to lead the workers' camp, because he knew that Kara was just too lazy to deal with that group of people. Keeping the dragon body in the past would definitely scare a lot of people.

The workers and technicians here are carefully selected by the empire. The workers are all professionals, with the lowest level being 2 and the highest level being 4. Each of them is the technical backbone of the workshop or a model worker, even in hell.

Can maintain extremely high work efficiency.

The smaller number of technicians are generally level 5 to level 6. These people are responsible for more sophisticated things, such as magic arrays, alchemical transformations, and the construction of the entire water plant framework.

It is impossible to transport a large amount of materials through the portal, and the initial investment is just to build the portal.

These people came with about a month's worth of supplies, and then took root here through mining, construction, and planting on the spot.

All comers must stay for at least ten years. After ten years, they can leave at their own expense. In other words, they can leave after paying the price of the teleportation array, which is about 1,300 emperor gold coins.

Fortunately, the wages for working here are extremely high. After all, everyone knows that they are going to hell, risking their lives and living in a harsh environment. You must have enough money to make people willing to come.

As far as Lu En knew, their wages were as high as sixty emperor gold coins per month. They were still laborers, not technicians, and technicians' wages would only be higher.

So after working here for ten years, most of them can afford the teleportation array, although it may account for a considerable part of their salary for ten years of work.

After seeing Lu En's arrival, almost everyone put down their work and knelt down in fear. Only a few leaders dared to stand, but they immediately ran over and said to Lu En respectfully and horrified: "

Your Excellency, Count! Why are you here?"

Everyone present knew that the core of this water plant reconstruction plan was the border Earl in front of him, level 9, and the king of hell.

According to the normal education they received, such a big man was unattainable and absolutely impossible to offend, so they were extremely respectful and fearful, fearing that the count in front of them would not like him and would stab him.

This is not without precedent. They are all professionals. Everyone has seen this kind of thing in their own lives. Someone has pissed off a big shot, causing the whole family to suffer.

So they all had this kind of fear towards the nobles, especially since they had just arrived in hell and they would have to deal with this Earl for the next ten years, this mentality was even more intense.

Therefore, Lu En saw that everyone was trembling with fear, especially when facing him. He glanced around and saw that all the people he saw had their foreheads touching the ground and lowered their heads, not daring to raise them up.

Only the leading few, who should be the highest-ranking people here, were hunched over and sweating profusely. I don’t know why this earl was in the mood to come to the construction site.

Who among the nobles is so diligent? Don't they just give orders and then they do it? How come they come here on their own? Is there something wrong?

When they think of this, their legs feel weak.

"Everyone, please get up. I don't have the habit of being knelt down by others." Lu En said.

But no one paid attention to him.

He snapped his fingers and released a magic spell.

The sound boomed.

A thunderous sound exploded in their ears, followed by Lu En's roar: "I want you to get up!"

This was very effective. A group of people jumped to their feet. Obviously they were basically big and thick men, but they were all frightened, and some even cried.

"When you see me in the future, you have to get used to it. Do what you should do. Don't kneel down all the time. Do your own thing! Time is precious, so get moving!" Lu En said.

More than 10,000 people immediately dispersed with a roar. Those who had something to do hurriedly went to work, and those who had nothing to do pretended to be doing something. In short, the whole camp immediately seemed very busy, and I didn't know whether it was true or not.

Lu En knew that it was not easy to change them. After watching them all go to work, he didn't say anything more. He just continued to say to the leaders who were still shivering slightly in front of him: "Follow me."

Then, he walked into a barracks and found a place to sit down.

The leaders also came in, Lu En counted, there were seven people in total.

"Sit, everyone, sit down." After entering, Lu En stretched out his hand, and seven chairs were automatically moved over from the barracks and placed together.

These people looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally they sat down, looking awkward. One of them even fell down when he sat down, but no one laughed at him because no one could laugh.

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They have just arrived in hell, what does this monster count... want to do?

"Then...well, Lord Earl, do you have anything to do with us?" After sitting down, someone asked.

This is a man who looks very impatient. Like most craftsmen, he is very strong, with muscles and a flat head. He can't wait to ask questions when he sits down.

"It's nothing big, but we will stay here for at least the next ten years, so I want to get to know everyone in advance so that we can do things more easily in the future."

"By the way, don't kneel down casually. I'm not used to being superior to others, just like I am now." Lu En held the cane with both hands, stood in front of him, and said to the person in front of him.

But obviously, although others nodded, no one really believed this.

Lu En looked at this situation and continued.

"I originally wanted to introduce myself, but thinking that you all probably know me, I'll skip that for now."

Of course, he didn't expect them to believe it. After waiting for a while, he found that no one answered, so he continued: "If you don't speak, then the greetings will end here. I have called you here this time. I have something to think about.

I’ll leave it to you guys to do it.”

Hearing that the business was finally here, the seven people breathed a sigh of relief: "Please give me your instructions."

"I want a list, a list of everyone. I want to know their names, how old they are, and where they lived before. Is there no problem with this?" Lu En asked.

"Of course! Of course there is no problem! We will do it immediately!" Others immediately replied.

There is no such thing as a list here, and they don't understand why Count Anluo needs such a strange list.

They have never been in the habit of compiling rosters. In fact, they only count wages and names. If you want to know your age and where you lived before, you need additional investigation.

But since Count Anluo has given the order, they can just do it. The noble lord is always right. Even if he is wrong, it can only be said by other noble lords. They cannot say wrong.

Seeing these people nodding, Lu En also nodded.

"I will give you some reward after the work is done." Lu En added: "By the way... I have a management plan that I want to implement here."

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About two hours later, Lu En finished his work and sat on the top of a mountain without a chair, sitting on the ground.

Most of the land in hell is red, with a crimson sky and a crimson earth. The sight is blood red, shocking, but extremely magnificent.

Sitting on the top of the mountain, looking at the majestic mountains, the jagged peaks stretch to the farthest point of sight, and the ground is rough sandstone.

It seems to be raining in the distance, a black cloud, but in hell, rain is not a good thing. It is either greasy and dirty heavy rain, or acid rain that corrodes the ground. There is almost no clean water source in hell. Most of the

The water is a corrupt indigo color.

Even the sea of ​​Hell, the Ancient of Days, is all black water.

Fortunately, the first thing built in the camp below was a water purification device. They connected it to a surrounding swamp, a bubbling swamp leaking stinky mud.

The unclean sewage there exudes all kinds of disgusting stench, and there are corrosive ooze monsters everywhere. The most popular ones in that place are mushrooms of various shapes, and frogs that can eat people.

But as long as you use chemicals to kill all the mushrooms, then ask the soldiers to sweep away the frogs, and finally insert the pipes and water pumps into the sewage there, it only takes a period of transformation, and clear water will gush out from the water outlet.

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As long as you don't look at the raw materials, this water is still very clean.

This place is hell, spectacular, but never beautiful.

The sky here is always like that. It is difficult to estimate the time. The sun and moon never set. The sun is as red as the sunset and hangs on the horizon. Opposite it is a damaged full moon, just like the moon has never set.

It looked like it had been smashed into pieces by someone's punch, but it still hung in the sky, unmoving.
To be continued...