Chapter 29 (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Mianbao

Edited by RED

“It won’t be raining today, judging by the weather,” Zhu Minglang muttered.

The mountain forest had its own ways of storing water. The dense bushes, thick earth, and succulent plants that produced water shone in the sunlight. The ponds in the valleys, however, were so dry that fissures could be seen.

It wasn’t that the people had no water to drink, but that the fields and livestock lacked water. Winter was just right around the corner; the people needed to stock up on food!

Little Baiqi was indeed very lazy. He clearly had wings, and had just woken up from his long slumber, yet he was unwilling to fly around the beautiful mountain, only lazing about on Zhu Minglang’s shoulders…

If he could perch on a shoulder, then he was determined to not take a single step himself!

Fortunately, the little fellow was light. If little Heiya was also like this, Zhu Minglang felt like he should change occupation and become an armor forger; forget about being a Dragon Tamer!

“Further up the gorge is a cliff. It’s not suitable for walking; go look around and see if there’s any other path to take,” Zhu Minglang told Baiqi.

Baiqi looked unwilling to leave this comfortable vehicle. He pushed his head against Zhu Minglang, acting like a spoiled child.

“You’re lazy to the bones,” Zhu Minglang said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Forget it; he’d scout around himself.

Zhu Minglang diverged from the stream, and saw the topography of the mountain forest ahead was rising. At several areas, the rise was so steep there wasn’t even a way for him to climb up…

“Strange. Why are there road marks here?”

When Zhu Minglang detoured around the steep area, he discovered there were signs of the vines and thorny undergrowth being hacked. Also, there was a clear path on the ground, like a mountain road woodcutters used when entering the mountains.

Harboring suspicions, Zhu Minglang walked along the path to the high area, then found the stream based on his memory…

However, the scenery in front of him left him stunned.

A dike!

There was a dike here, thoroughly severing the stream at its peak.

Ancestral Dragon City State’s irrigation works weren’t backwards. Theoretically speaking, the appearance of a water dike here was very normal.

It stored water when rain was ample, and let water out when it was dry. All of this was normal irrigation work.

Behind this dike, however, the water was as abundant as a mountain lake. There were no signs of a drought at all. Also, although the water didn’t flow much at the peak, it was still continuously flowing into the dike!

The amount of water stored inside was completely sufficient to irrigate the dry fields of Glory Valley City, as well as to water the livestock. All that was needed was to open the dike’s stone gate!

“What’s going on?” Zhu Minglang was confused.

That young city lord had clearly said that Glory Valley City was out of water, and irrigating the fields and raising the livestocks had become serious problems. However, the dike here was clearly filled with water. Wasn’t he purposely making the people face a crisis?!

Zhu Minglang had a rather good impression of that young city lord. He was neither subservient nor overbearing towards Dragon Tamers, and was clear in expressing their situation, even realizing that summoning rain in the night would bring harm to the fields…

However, after seeing the full bank of water, the tightly shut gate, and the pitifully tiny stream of water flowing down to the fields, Zhu Minglang only felt disgust and disappointment toward the young city lord.

The water bank was full, and yet he chose to not release it. The people were suffering, and he chose to ignore it.