Ch 231: Return To Heilonggang

After the fence was removed, a block about five to six meters long, three meters thick, and four to five meters high was revealed, with many thumb-thick iron bars sticking out of it.

Tis and his men were full of doubt. Anke had been mysteriously working on this for so many days, and this was all he had managed to produce!

It didn’t look like stone, iron, or a pile of mud.

“What is this?” Luca asked.

“A prototype for the city wall.” With the cement block already displayed, Anke no longer concealed it.

City wall?

Tis was puzzled. He went forward and circled the cement block for a while, unable to figure it out, and then touched it.

It was rough, but the hardness was sufficient, no worse than stone.

However, since he was going to build a city wall, touching it wouldn’t do. Tis immediately drew his sword to cut it.

Anke quickly stopped him.

“Hey hey! Father King, what are you doing?”

“Testing how durable this thing is! What? You’ve been mysteriously working on this for so many days, it wouldn’t be a mere facade, would it!” Tis said.

For so many days, his heart had been itching unbearably, but he was the King, he had to maintain his dignity, and couldn’t appear too eager.

He had hinted many times for this little brat to give him a backdoor, to take a look at what was going on inside, but he just pretended not to see, he had long disliked him.

Luca gloated from the side: “Anke, you say this is a prototype for the city wall, but you don’t dare let Father King try it. Wouldn’t it be that your city wall is made of mud, and will collapse with a single cut!”

Anke was very confident in this cement block, and naturally didn’t take his mockery to heart. The more vigorously he mocked now, the more painful his face would be later.

“Go go go, Mr. Chen is here! This is technology provided by Mr. Chen, if you want to inspect the goods, Mr. Chen will do it.” Anke said.

Hearing that it was something Chen Wen had made, Luca put away his teasing expression and became serious.

Chen Wen could produce steam engines, cannons, and gunpowder; the things he produced would naturally not be bad.

Tis and Entes also carefully examined the cement block.

Tis handed his sword to Chen Wen: “Mr. Chen, please.”

Chen Wen looked at the sword, which looked like a toothpick to him, and waved his hand.

He didn’t need a sword to test it!

He immediately lifted his foot and stepped heavily on the cement block.

Tis：……

Luca：……

Entes：……

Anke：！！！

Even Anke didn’t expect Chen Wen to use such a brutal method to test the cement block.

He immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He was indeed very confident in the cement block, but the premise was using ordinary weapons to attack. Even if he brought in cannons to bombard it, he wouldn’t be the least bit flustered.

Stepping down with such a large foot like that, he suddenly felt uneasy.

What if he really crushed it? How would he explain it?

Seeing Anke’s helpless look, Luca leaned into his ear and whispered: “Oh, why are you sweating so much! Didn’t you expect Mr. Chen to use this method to inspect the goods?”

He believed that after Chen Wen’s kick, this city wall prototype would definitely be smashed to pieces.

“I…I…” Anke was sweating profusely.

Tis’s heart also rose to his throat. Although he had been very unhappy with Anke’s secretive behavior these days, he was still his son, and he certainly still hoped that he could complete Chen Wen’s task.

Chen Wen lifted his foot.

Everyone looked.

The cement block was dented and deformed, with debris scattered on the ground, but the debris was only from the surface layer. The inside was densely packed with iron bars, crisscrossing, and the cement inside did not show large-scale cracking.

Although this short section of ‘city wall’ was damaged, it still maintained its basic shape.

If this section of ‘city wall’ were made larger and thicker, Chen Wen’s blow just now probably wouldn’t have caused much damage.

Hiss~

Tis and the others all gasped.

The ‘city wall’ was much stronger than they had imagined.

Anke was uneasy, wondering if Chen Wen was satisfied with the quality.

Chen Wen looked at the ‘city wall’ and was very satisfied with its strength. He hadn’t held back at all just now.

With a solid kick, the simplified city wall, although damaged, had basically withstood his attack.

His strength was much stronger than that of ordinary dragons. Building it according to the quality of this ‘city wall’ would be perfectly fine.

He nodded and said to Anke: “The cement is fine, continue construction with this quality.”

Hearing Chen Wen’s satisfaction with the quality of the ‘city wall’, Anke breathed a sigh of relief.

“Yes, Mr. Chen.”

Luca picked up a piece of cement debris, looked at it, couldn’t figure out what it was, and came over to ask: “What is this city wall made of? I don’t think it’s stone or mud.”

Anke had passed Chen Wen’s inspection, and his mood relaxed a lot. He chuckled, and called his subordinates to bring over a sack and open it.

“It’s made of this, made according to the technology provided by Mr. Chen, it’s called cement.”

Tis and the others looked at the contents of the sack, seeing a gray powder, and were even more puzzled.

Tis reached out and grabbed a handful and asked: “Can this stuff make such a strong city wall?”

These looked like powder, how could they make a city wall?

“It definitely won’t work with just this, you also need to mix sand and gravel, and then add iron bars.” Anke said.

Anke called a few workers and demonstrated it on the spot.

Soon, the mixed concrete was poured into the mold with the iron bars.

“It’ll be fine in a few days when it dries.” Anke said.

Tis and the others were dumbfounded.

It’s that simple?

After it dries, it will become something as strong as the ‘city wall’ just now.

With Chen Wen here, Anke certainly wouldn’t dare to fool around.

If they didn’t use large stones, but only gravel, then the stone problem would be solved. And sand, there’s a river ten or so miles away, sand wouldn’t be difficult to obtain.

In that case, building this city wouldn’t be very difficult.

After inspecting the cement block, Chen Wen inspected the city wall foundation and the underground drainage system plan.

The dwarves digging the foundation, seeing a dragon circling above their heads, were so scared that they broke out in a cold sweat.

They thought that their discussion about the dragon clan had been overheard.

They immediately buried their heads in their work, swinging their pickaxes so fast that they left afterimages, hoping that the dragon above would spare their lives in consideration of their hard work.

Whether it was because of their hard work or not, the dragon circled a few times and left.

The dwarves all breathed a sigh of relief.

Anke seemed to have a good talent in engineering. His plan was good. If this city didn’t need him to oversee it, Chen Wen would have wanted to take him back to Black Dragon Port.

A month later, after several months of treatment, Ge Wei’s injuries had healed.

Vils was even happier than Ge Wei, and specially took money from her small treasury to hold a celebratory banquet for her.

The steam engines and cannon ammunition had long been prepared.

The reason Chen Wen was still staying in the Western Continent was to wait for them to cultiWatay a group of artisans who could skillfully manufacture these things.

And the cement side also needed to bring a batch of skilled artisans back.

Black Dragon Port definitely needed expansion, and new cities would need to be built in the future. Cement could not only be used to build cities and houses, but also to pave roads and build bridges. It had many uses, so a batch of artisans would definitely need to be brought over to produce cement.

With everything prepared, Chen Wen left five dragons here to maintain order and contact, while they took the steam engines, cannon ammunition, and a batch of skilled artisans to set off back to Black Dragon Port.

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