Chapter 17: The Madman

In the Ark Continent, no one had studied the Black Soil Wasteland before. About a thousand years ago, a famous advanced wood-based mage, along with several water based wizards, alchemists, and some elves who were most familiar with plants, conducted research on the Black Soil Wasteland with the aim of transforming its soil into the largest granary on the entire continent.

But after twenty years of research, they still couldn't grow even a single blade of grass on the black soil wasteland, and finally had to give up sadly.

Since then, no one has studied the black soil wasteland anymore. People believe that studying there is no longer valuable and is just a waste of time.

In fact, this is closely related to the basic situation of the Ark Continent. Although there are many people here, the area is larger and there is also a lot of arable land, so there is no need to worry about food issues. Therefore, agriculture has not received much attention from people on the continent.

However, in recent years, due to the relatively calm situation on the mainland and the rapid population growth, some small countries have already encountered food problems. However, because the five major empires on the mainland have had favorable weather conditions, this situation has not occurred, so it has not attracted widespread attention.

And don't forget, there are slaves on the Ark continent. As the price of food increases, it's not a big deal. Just reduce the amount of food the slaves eat, as long as they don't starve.

Of course, those slave owners could not go out and say that their slaves had been reduced in food. In fact, those slave owners would never talk about those slaves when they were together. They would rather talk about women, the moon, than slaves. Therefore, people on the continent have not realized that the food crisis is getting closer and closer to them.

Nowadays, the mainland is peaceful, and the economic development of various countries is very good, so prices have been rising. However, those in power have not noticed that although the country's economy is rising, the living standards of most civilians have not improved. On the contrary, they have decreased significantly, not to mention those slaves.

As the country's economy develops, prices naturally rise, but the income of those civilians does not increase. This naturally leaves many civilians unable to support themselves and unable to eat, leading to more people becoming slaves and exacerbating social conflicts.

Of course, Merlin doesn't know about these things. She only knows that food on the mainland is very expensive now. If Zhao Hai can really turn the black soil that can't grow anything here into fertile land, then it's impossible for the Buda family to develop.

Zhao Hai looked at Meilin's excited expression and smiled slightly, saying, "Yes, Grandma Meilin, this is a skill I have acquired. However, I can only transform ten acres per day, so you need to organize them this afternoon to measure as much land as possible. We will start with one thousand acres, and we won't be able to keep up with it. Let's stop after measuring one thousand acres

Merlin nodded excitedly and said, 'Okay, young master, I'll go arrange it right away.' With that, Merlin was about to leave.

Zhao Hai quickly stopped her and said, "Alright, Grandma Merlin, don't be in such a hurry. It's still possible to go after dinner. By the way, we must not measure too much, and we must not be too far from the castle. We cannot let outsiders discover my ability. Otherwise, with the current ability of our Buda family, we won't be able to stop those guys at all

Merlin is also someone who has seen the world before. When she heard Zhao Hai say this, she immediately calmed down. She nodded and said, "Okay, I know, young master. Leave this matter to me

Neither Zhao Hai nor Merlin noticed. Meg, standing behind Merlin, was now looking at Zhao Hai with a look of obsession in her eyes.

Meg used to lower her head whenever Zhao Hai appeared, but now she has lifted her head and is carefully looking at Zhao Hai, without the wilted and shrinking look she had when she saw him before.

Meg grew up with Adam since childhood, and because Adam was two years older than her, the two played together. At that time, Meg was Adam's little tail, and whenever Adam went there, Meg followed him. If Meg was bullied by other children, Adam would fight for her, so she had a good impression of her young master brother since childhood.

But as they grew older, they also became more sensible. Meg knew that Adam was his young master, and she couldn't call him brother because she was a girl and Adam didn't want to play with her anymore, so she was very sad.

In his later years, Adam met many aristocratic young master friends, and it was from that time on that Adam began to learn badly and seemed to have forgotten about her childhood playmate.

As she grew older, Adam became more and more unreasonable, while Meg became more and more beautiful, sensible, and showed good magical talent. She and Adam took completely different paths. But Meg became increasingly unhappy. Seeing Adam's daily antics, she wanted to stop him, but it was useless. Adam didn't even listen to her grandfather's words, let alone her. She wished time could go back to the past, back to her childhood, when the young master and brother who played with her every day and could fight for her were back by her side.

People say that a girl's emotions are always poetic, and Merlin is like that. She always hoped that one day Adam could return to his original state, but reality mercilessly shattered her dream. Adam actually wanted to rape her. As Adam walked towards her with a smirk, she felt her world collapse with a loud bang. The beautiful memories of the past were far away from her. Although she escaped a disaster, she felt like she had lost her soul. Her world lost its color and she lived aimlessly every day.

At this moment, disaster struck and the Buda family reached a critical moment of life and death. She watched with her own eyes as those who had lived with her since childhood left the Buda family one by one, as the place where she had lived since childhood was taken away by the king, as Adam was fed into the void water and began to faint, watching her home disappear in a short period of time.

Then they went to the black soil wasteland, to this dead end, but Adam never woke up, watching his grandparents busy day by day, striving tirelessly for the continuation of the Buda family, like a drowning person, making their final struggle.

Meg is just a girl who hasn't experienced anything. The sudden series of blows made her feel a little unbearable. If it weren't for her grandparents still accompanying her, she might have committed suicide long ago.

But not long after they arrived at the Black Soil Wilderness, Zhao Hai arrived. Although Meilin noticed that the young master had changed, he was no longer the same young master who knew nothing and only knew how to cause trouble. He had become mature and knew how to work hard for this family.

First came Mo Laisu, then Blue eyed Rabbit, and now it's Black Soil Improvement. She suddenly realized that the young master had become a good stranger, but slowly merged with the perfect image of the young master in her heart.

Meg noticed that something seemed to be attracting Adam now, and his temperament was no longer the kind that was reckless and frightening. Instead, it had become a calm and natural temperament that made people want to be close to him unnaturally.

She likes to see Adam's confident look, and he also likes to admire his gentle smile. She also likes Adam's unnatural and somewhat guilty expression when he sees her. Unconsciously, the girl's heart was once tied to Adam's body.

Merlin, however, did not notice Meg's change. After speaking to Zhao Hai, she immediately walked towards the kitchen, which made Meg come to her senses. She immediately lowered her head, blushed, and followed Merlin towards the kitchen, bringing up her food.

A few people still ate together, but today Merlin and the others ate quickly, finishing their food in just a few bites. Then Merlin and Meg immediately walked outside, apparently preparing to organize people to measure the land.

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Zhao Hai could only smile impatiently as he looked at Meilin. He could understand Meilin's feelings. Meilin and the others had always believed that the Black Soil Wilderness was a dead land, but now someone suddenly told her that he could turn a dead land into a living one. It was like someone telling a terminally ill patient that their illness was saved. How could they not get excited.

Zhao Hai slowly finished his lunch before leading the wood and stones out of the castle. As soon as they arrived outside the castle, they realized that Merlin and the others had already led the slaves to measure the land.

Those slaves may not have much skill, but they have planted soil before. If they were asked to do anything else, they might not be able to do it. However, if they were asked to measure and plant a piece of land, they would still be fully capable.

The ten acres of land were about to be measured, but Merlin and the others were not going to Zhangliang. Instead, they were all fixed on looking at Zhao Hai to see if he could really improve the land.

Zhao Hai looked at the ten acres of land, but was stunned. He had seen how big the ten acres were in space, but he didn't have to worry about planting or harvesting there. Now that he was asked to improve the ten acres of land, he really didn't know what to do. Can the spatial soil and water still be under his control after leaving the space?

When he was in the space just now, he was too focused on calculating proportions and forgot about it. What should he do now? Could it be that Lu Ben is slowly sprinkling spatial soil and water onto the ground?

As Zhao Hai was anxiously spinning around, suddenly a spatial prompt sounded: "Do you want to improve the land in front of you? Yes/No." With the sound, a projection of a screen appeared in front of him, displaying two buttons, one with "Yes" and the other with "No".

Zhao Hai was overjoyed and immediately reached out to click the 'yes' button, only to find that his hand had passed directly through the screen without touching anything. However, the screen and the two buttons were still there, and he seemed to have turned into a dancing madman.

(End of this chapter)