My territory is filled with block creations.

Chapter 31 Let's keep up the good work so that more people can enjoy this delicious food!

In an instant, the entire threshing ground erupted in excitement, with every villager enthusiastically gripping their spears and thrusting them at the training dummies in front of them.

The hearts of almost all the villagers were ignited.

Unlike the numb and stifling training of conscripted people in other territories these days, their training was entirely driven by heartfelt enthusiasm and desire.

After all, their future battles are not like the reasons other lords use to declare war, for that vague sense of glory, face, and dignity.

As for the spoils of war such as money and land, those were earned by the lords through fighting with their lives for their own private property, and had nothing to do with them.

However, the battle Thorne is about to launch this time is different. This time, it is to rescue Lester, a friend who grew up in the same village as them, an ordinary villager who grew up with them and was no different from them.

And the lord was actually willing to make weapons for these villagers and train them to go and rescue Lester.

So Lester was captured today, but what about tomorrow? If I were captured tomorrow, would the lord come with his troops to rescue me?

That's probably true. So I'm not fighting for some vague, intangible thing. I'm fighting for myself, for Lester, for the village, for the lord...

Similar to the bustling threshing ground, Alex was now spinning like a top, constantly busy.

Last night I enjoyed a relaxing foot bath before bed, but the next day I was suddenly bombarded with a ton of tasks.

First of all, the power source for the second-generation waterwheel is the most crucial factor. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the construction speed of the village needs to be accelerated. If nothing unexpected happens, I will have to work overtime today to produce two more large machines.

After all, to avoid a situation where everyone in the village is eating bread and singing songs one night when a group of mercenaries suddenly rushes into the village to burn, kill, and loot, the construction of the city gate needs to be put on the agenda ahead of time.

Although I had originally planned to use a 500-strand rope for the city gate, given the current urgency, a 400-strand rope is also an option.

With the help of custom parts from Thorne, the rope braiding machine was completed in just one morning, and the Waterwheel Power 2.0 was also rushed out to power such a large machine.

This is a giant dam capable of filling an entire river channel; calling it a dam is truly an understatement.

This thing is a giant monster made of all kinds of densely packed gears of different sizes, plus more than a dozen waterwheels stacked together. When it was erected on scaffolding, it was as wide as the entire river channel, and its height of nearly six meters made it an exaggerated behemoth.

When this device was slowly embedded into the frames on both sides of the river, the water level on the upper side of the river instantly rose, while the water level on the lower side visibly began to drop, with the waterwheel's power at 2.0 as the dividing line.

Seeing this, Alex stroked her chin: "It seems we need to raise the river level further upstream."

"We don't have any spare manpower right now, how about we dismantle a few waterwheels?" Thorne suggested.

"Hmm... how about we raise the waterwheel?" Alex didn't want his hard work to be cut short, so she chose a more radical approach: leaving enough space for the water source under the waterwheel.

"But then, the water flow wouldn't be enough, would it?" Thorne said, stroking his chin.

As soon as he finished speaking, Alex stared intently at the iron ingots in the work area.

"Didn't you tell me about your alchemy concept before? What was it called again, Infinite Water?" After Alex finished speaking, Thorne quickly rubbed his head. He hadn't slept all night, and his brain wasn't working properly.

"Infinite water, yes, yes, Alex, lift that waterwheel up again, I have a better idea."

After Thorne finished speaking, he rushed towards the workbench area, quickly made a bucket, and then took out a large pile of raw stone blocks from the chest and began to build something resembling a giant archway over the river.

It was still wider than the river channel and nearly nine meters high, basically level with the city wall.

The archway also has a recess specifically designed to house the 2.0-powered waterwheel.

Then Thorne jumped down from the arch, picked up a bucket, and scooped two buckets of water from the well he had made earlier. He then built a platform on the arch that resembled a pool.

Alex considered herself to be very receptive to new things, but she still didn't know how Thorne had filled the giant pool above the archway, which was nearly 20 meters wide, with just two buckets of water.

As the water in the giant pool cascaded down the river like a waterfall, Alex finally understood Thorne's meaning.

Using that strange, infinite water property, combined with the stone archway pool in front of them, they created an effect similar to an artificial waterfall, thus driving a large waterwheel.

This method avoids both diverting water downstream and building dams upstream, achieving two goals at once, which is a good thing.

Soon, Thorne and Alex assembled the Waterwheel Power 2.0 onto the stone archway. As the massive waterwheel began to turn under the immense kinetic energy of the artificial waterfall, the village's power problem was finally solved.

The next issue concerns protecting the safety of the village.

The two began to divide the work again. Thorne first made a 4-meter-thick log gate and a drawbridge, along with corresponding counterweights.

Alex, on the other hand, used pre-designed parts to create a relatively simple rope-braiding machine.

Connecting the waterwheel to the power source, adding enough raw materials, and setting the rotation speed, a rope nearly as thick as a wrist was woven at a speed of more than 20 meters per hour.

While waiting for the rope to be made and woven, she didn't rest. She quickly made the winch device for the gate and a series of labor-saving levers.

Doug slept until noon, and when he woke up, he was about to rush out of his room to find Thorne to get the mission and then hurry to Autumnwind Town to complete it, when he suddenly scratched his head in confusion.

Where did I end up? Is this still a village? If I remember correctly, I only slept this morning.

Upon waking up, I found that the two gates of the once empty castle had been completed and were even being held up by ropes, which was considered normal.

What's even more frightening is the huge stone building standing by the river, and the waterwheel embedded in it.

Wait a minute? A waterwheel? Water?

My God! Where does the water that keeps flowing down from that building... that stone building come from?

It doesn't look like it was pumped up by a waterwheel.

If it weren't for Thorne kneading dough enthusiastically not far away, and the crowd of people training busily on the threshing ground, he would have really thought that he had woken up from a hallucination, or that he had simply been exhausted to heaven.

After all, that giant waterfall that appeared out of nowhere is hardly something that would exist in the mortal world.

Once he realized this was reality, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, threw away all the jumbled thoughts in his mind, and walked straight towards Thorne.

Upon seeing him, the latter took out a bowl of freshly baked bread and handed it to him.

"Let's eat before we go," Thorne said. Doug nodded, picked up a piece of bread, and took a bite.

The moment he took a bite, a soft, sweet, and fragrant taste instantly filled his mouth.

That hard, sour, and astringent taste was nowhere to be found. He had originally thought that all bread had that strange earthy smell, but he didn't taste it at all. Instead, he had a mellow and sweet taste.

Seeing Doug wolfing down his food, Thorne smiled, took out a wooden bowl, walked to the nearby sink with constantly flowing water, scooped out a bowl of water, and handed it to him.

This is a waterway he drew from the unlimited water supply on the Waterwheel Power No. 2. This clean, flowing water source is perfect for providing villagers with more convenient and healthier drinking water.

Thorne chuckled as he watched Doug devour the entire bowl of bread in the blink of an eye, burping and unable to eat any more.

"Is it good?"

Doug nodded quickly: "Delicious!"

"This is all thanks to you merchants," Thorne said, then took out another batch of freshly baked bread, put it into a backpack made of woolen fabric, and personally helped Doug put it on.

"So let's keep up the good work so that more people can enjoy this delicious food, starting with saving Lester."

After Thorne finished speaking, Doug felt his vision become blurry, and it remained blurry until his vision cleared. He had unknowingly walked out of the forest and saw Autumnwind Town in the distance.