Chapter 571

Chapter 571: Scorching Summer

Luo Ji remained very calm about Ye Qingxuan rising to the Bronze rank.

After all, Ye Qingxuan had already mentioned it to him a few days ago.

She had adjusted her time zones and developed sufficiently during this period.

Before promoting to the Bronze rank, her civilization’s army had already fully equipped themselves with bronze weapons.

She also stockpiled enough resources.

Additionally, Luo Ji had been providing guidance from the sidelines.

Theoretically, if an average Bronze-rank player encountered the aggressive Ye Qingxuan, they would likely suffer a great loss.

Because of this, Luo Ji was not particularly worried about the situation over there.

By comparison, his own current living environment was truly harsh.

According to the latest report from the medical department.

Many people in the cities had already suffered from heatstroke.

Fortunately, heatstroke was not a complicated illness.

This condition had also appeared during previous summers.

The hospital already had prescriptions and knew how to treat it.

Furthermore, the effects of the Gold-grade Ancient Nursing Home provided additional support.

They should be able to handle it.

Even so, Zhou Jingsheng and the others were not idle recently.

Luo Ji had ordered them to find some traditional Chinese herbs that cleared heat and reduced internal fire.

He wanted them to formulate a medicinal tea to prevent heatstroke.

They were busy with this task lately.

Luo Ji put down a document in his hand.

Recently, many city lords had mentioned the scarcity of local freshwater resources to him.

They also noted the difficulty of obtaining freshwater.

Luo Ji exhaled a long breath and looked at Lu Yang below him.

Then, he spoke and asked.

“Lu Yang, how is the water conservancy project going lately?”

“Replying to Your Majesty, we just finished digging the artificial lake for Giant Wood City. The weather is too hot. The work efficiency of the workers has started to decline.”

Lu Yang’s voice contained a clear sense of helplessness while he spoke.

Luo Ji also found this very troubling.

He had clearly started the water conservancy project a long time ago.

However, it had only reached this stage by now.

He felt helpless about this progress.

After all, diverting water by digging channels was a massive project in a true sense.

It was time-consuming and labor-intensive.

How could it be as easy as it sounded?

Luo Ji rubbed his brow forcefully.

After careful consideration, he made a decision.

“Then lead the water to Giant Wood City first.”

“Giant Wood City is an important agricultural city in my Myriad World Civilization. The water supply must keep up.”

Lu Yang nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

After responding, he immediately began drafting the order.

When they originally excavated the riverbed, they left a layer of earth and stone walls near the water source on purpose.

This was to facilitate construction and avoid polluting the water quality during the process.

Now they had Luo Ji’s order.

The construction team only needed to set up the water wheels in various locations.

Then, they would break through that earth and stone wall.

It would not take long for the water from the main stream of the Song River to pour into the excavated riverbed.

Then, it would flow all the way along the riverbed into the artificial lake outside Giant Wood City.

This wave of water diversion was undoubtedly a great thing for the people of Giant Wood City.

This meant they could now obtain freshwater resources with less effort.

They could also irrigate their crops and fields.

However, the good times did not last long.

The fiery ball in the sky called the ‘Sun’ mercilessly baked the earth below.

This caused the temperatures to rise continuously.

A farmer wearing a bamboo hat carried water buckets on a pole.

He braved the scorching sun to go to the artificial lake outside the city to fetch water.

As a result, before he even got close, he saw a large crowd of people gathered by the artificial lake from afar.

The farmer walked closer and looked.

He saw that the water level of the artificial lake had actually dropped by more than half!

The water flow in the riverbed connected to the artificial lake had also dwindled significantly.

This matter immediately caught the attention of the engineering department.

As the general managers of this water conservancy project.

Old Minister He Shu and the Chief Engineer of the Goblin Civilization, Zhang Ze, had an immediate first reaction.

They thought a water wheel had malfunctioned, causing the diversion to fail.

With this suspicion, they hurried along the riverbed to check the water wheels installed in various places.

However, the results proved that these water wheels had no malfunctions.

Eventually, they followed the path all the way to the source of the Songhe River.

Only then did they confirm where the problem lay.

The water of the Song River flowed down from Songhe Mountain.

Therefore, the source was naturally on that mountain.

The previous opening of channels to divert water had already caused the water level of the Songhe River’s main stream to drop significantly in a short time.

In addition to this, the sun had been scorching lately.

Not a single drop of water had fallen from the sky.

The continuous baking made the water in the riverbed less and less.

At a glance, it was already less than 1/3 of the original amount.

When even the main stream of the Songhe River had insufficient water, how much could those branches receive?

This was clearly already a major problem!

An urgent report was delivered directly to Luo Ji’s hands via fast horse.

Looking at the contents of the urgent report, Luo Ji’s mood was extremely heavy.

Over this period, let alone the Songhe River, even the water level of Mirror Lake in his Mirror City had dropped significantly!

The area of Mirror Lake was large.

That small drop in water level was not enough to make the residents of Mirror City feel threatened.

It also wouldn’t make them lack water.

However, this allowed them to clearly realize how poisonous the sun in the sky was right now!

If this continued, the water source of the Songhe River would likely be dried up by this sun!

A strong sense of a headache arose.

Just as Luo Ji was rubbing his brow and thinking of a countermeasure.

Inside Giant Wood City, located northwest of Mirror City.

Some farmers were plowing the fields before them with great worry.

The time approached noon.

They wiped the beads of sweat from their foreheads.

Just as the farmers were thinking about finding a cool place to rest.

A strange sound suddenly came from the distance.

Furthermore, it got closer and louder!

One of the farmers squinted his eyes and looked into the distance.

He saw a massive dark shadow vaguely appearing in the distant sky!

As the distance shortened.

The farmers clearly saw the true form of the dark shadow.

Their expressions changed drastically.

Insects! They were countless flying insects!

At this moment, it actually created a feeling of blotting out the sun!

It was no exaggeration to say they swept over like a sandstorm.

That scene, which looked like the end of the world, was enough to make the farmers present piss their pants in terror.

While the flying insects that almost blotted out the sun swept past, the crops in the fields were also completely destroyed.

They were almost gnawed clean by those flying insects.

Afterward, looking at the mess in the fields.

Several farmers who could not handle the shock fainted on the spot.

In a short time, another urgent report was delivered to Luo Ji’s eyes via fast horse.

The words almost made his heart leap with fear.

How does the saying go?

Blessings do not come in pairs, and misfortunes do not come alone!

Drought and locust plagues arrived one after another.

This wave was undoubtedly his bad luck arriving!