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"By the time you receive this letter, winter will have already entered Ursus, and the weather will probably be even worse. I hope you can come back soon after the matter is resolved."

"Remember to take the things Beichen gave you with you. I hope you won't be involved in the chaos over there."

"Finally, although we all know what your character is like, we still have to remind you not to get too involved."

"good luck."

Chariot put down the letter, sighed, and said to himself.

"Don't get involved too deeply... Unfortunately, it's meaningless to talk about this now. I don't know how deep the involvement is."

He once again turned his attention to the huge machine in front of him.

It was an extremely crude-looking thing. The metal tracks were full of rough polishing marks, the unpolished surface was slightly rusty, and some places were even made of wood.

"Install this Originium engine and it should be done... Where is my wrench?"

Chariot turned over the tool box and took out the wrench and level.

It is said to be a spirit level, but it is actually a homemade gadget made of birch wood and glass bottles.

After laborious gestures for a long time, he finally adjusted the position of the connection between the engine and the equipment.

After confirming that the connection status of the device was correct, he breathed a sigh of relief and reached out towards the switch.

"The energy supply device is operating normally. Let me check the voltage... Where can I get a voltmeter or something like that? Let's just use it first."

Chariot shook his head again, there is no such delicate thing here.

"I hope the material is strong enough and won't fall apart if you move it."

The chariot connected the machine and the energy supply device with great anticipation.

The roar of machinery soon came from the warehouse, and the chariot was already smiling from ear to ear.

"It's finally done."

Just when the chariot was about to be put into practice, people outside were attracted by the roar of the machine.

"Mr. Alexander, is this machine finally moving?"

"Yes, Mr. Arsu, after two months of hard work, we finally got some results."

Chariot said rather proudly.

"Oh, it's a pity that the wine has been finished, and I don't know when the caravan will come."

This is a fly in the ointment. After all, drinking and celebrating has become a tradition in this village.

"Then you will be disappointed for a long time. After all, winter is coming soon, and those in the caravan rarely go this far."

Arsu replied, to be honest, he was also a little greedy for wine.

"But, with this machine, even if the people from the caravan don't come, I can still process some simple parts."

Chariot patted the machine beside him and continued.

"Just like your broken hand pump last time, you can fix it with this thing."

"So magical?"

Arsu measured the machine.

"I think I heard my son say that this thing is called...a machine tool, right?"

"That's it for now, but there are still some functions that are not perfect. Later, I can teach other people in the village how to operate this machine. It will be much more convenient."

The chariot turned off the energy supply switch. After all, this thing is quite precious. It should be used sparingly before the caravan comes next time.

"By the way, speaking of your son, I haven't seen him for so long since I've been here, but you talk about your son every day."

After Chariot packed everything, he asked curiously.

"The place where he works isn't too far away. After leaving the village, it's just over a mountain. However, it's difficult to walk on the mountain road in winter, so I rarely let him come back."

Arsu opened his mouth to explain, but once the winter was over, this boy would come back to accompany him, which made him very happy.

"The east side of the mountain? There seems to be a mining area over there, right? It's an affiliated land of a nearby city."

The surrounding situation of the tank has been made relatively clear.

"You are much more familiar with the situation around here than most people in the village."

"When I went to exchange supplies with the refugee settlement before, I inquired more about the surrounding situation and even exchanged the items for a map."

Chariot explained that although the map was crude and had incomplete markings, it still played a very important role.

Hearing Chariot's words, Arsu suddenly became serious and said seriously: "Don't go looking for those Wastelanders during this period. The tax collector's team will be here soon. If they know about us and the Wastelanders, If you do business, something big will happen."

"Something big happened?"

Chariot asked doubtfully, private transactions may indeed be illegal in some countries, but looking at Arsu's expression, this may be a serious matter that will cause his head to fall.

"I don't know about other places, but Lord Fetisov does not allow us to have too much contact with the wastelanders."

Arsu lowered his voice and spoke softly.

"You are not allowed to contact those refugees, why?"

Before coming to Ursus, he thought that the people of Ursus were all unruly people as described outside.

Even the truth told him before he set out to be careful about the people he met and to always be vigilant.

But after being here for so long, doesn’t he still know what the local people are like?

Some scum cannot represent all ordinary people. Most people are like Arsu next to the chariot, honest and kind, and treat others sincerely.

"In the past, people from the army often came to spread the word, saying that many of the refugees in the wasteland were spies from Casimir, and that there were also thugs like Rusty Hammer mixed in."

If Beichen heard this, he would definitely not be able to help complaining.

"It's really shameless to say, who has lost the territory Casimir lost?"

"So that's it...but I see that most of the residents of that wastelander settlement are Ursas."

Chariot clearly remembered that those people had very obvious bear ears.

As soon as he mentioned this, Arsu couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing.

"Well, it wasn't like this before. There weren't so many wasteland refugees at all before. Most of the wasteland people at that time came from places other than Ursus."

"Now, the Usas people in the refugee settlement are basically people who escaped from other villages, running towards the wasteland, and some even ran outside of Usas."

Arsu raised his hand, pointed at several dilapidated houses in the village, and continued.

“Look at our village, there were more than 200 people there just a few days ago, and almost all of them have disappeared in the past two years.”

"The tenant farmers have run away, there are fewer and fewer people, the land is deserted, and business people have stopped coming. In addition, the taxes to be paid this year are higher."

Chariot nodded: "Population loss...I'm familiar with this, but it's not a good thing."