Chương 290: Same Land, Different Worlds

Inside the greenhouse dome, Honglong was seen running around and rolling in the wheat field as if it were a lawn.

Roland disregarded her manners and quickened her pace, running towards the greenhouse door.

The restraining rings and bells on her ankles collided and swayed, producing a rapid, crisp ringing sound.

The gate was filled with beast-girl sheriffs and greenhouse farmers, all of whom turned their gazes toward the gate and shouted excitedly.

"Great! Lady Roland has finally arrived!"

"Lady Roland, hurry and stop that wretched fat dragon! That's our sixth squad's assigned farmland! Waaaaah..."

The voices of employees rose and fell all around, mixed with a lot of southern slang cursing the dragon.

Some of the beast girls were so captivated by Roland's attire that they stood frozen in place.

Only after Roland's figure disappeared through the greenhouse gate did the stunned beast girls come to their senses and begin to discuss among themselves.

"Has Lady Roland changed her image style?"

"Yes, it has a familiar feeling of my hometown in the South. You're dressed up so nicely!"

Some of the more cultured female members of the management team showed expressions of confusion and worry.

My gaze followed Roland and lingered on the greenhouse door.

As members of management, they are well-informed.

They knew more about the upcoming arbitration meeting at the group than the average employee.

Roland's southern fox-like attire made them feel somewhat worried.

"Won't Lady Roland's attire give those noble lords, with their tiger-skin coats, a reason to use it against her?"

A greenhouse administrative beast girl, looking uneasy, spoke up.

"I heard that if Lady Roland is found to have fox blood, she will be stripped of her noble status and arrested."

The human sheriff captain standing to the side frowned, weighed the spiked club in his hand, and snorted coldly.

"Even without any evidence, those lords still want to capture Lady Roland. You've known those lords for a long time; they want to possess anything good."

"Hmph, if they dare to arrest Lady Roland, we sheriffs will lead the charge in rebelling against the Church of Vulcan and the Empire."

"Rather than return to a life of poverty and hardship, where even basic necessities are a struggle, I'd rather die fighting against the company's walls!"

Roland was unaware of the employees' gossip.

Only the speed at which faith is collected within the system has quietly increased by a few percentage points.

At this moment, Roland was leading the cat Coco through the two doors of the greenhouse.

She stepped onto the integrated pipe embankment paved with oak planks and looked up towards the middle.

In the largest wheat field closest to the gate, a red dragon over three meters long lay supine amidst the lush green wheat.

The red dragon would occasionally roll from side to side, its fat belly crushing the green wheat seedlings in the heading stage, directly collapsing a large area of wheat.

Looking out from the oak ridge, Roland saw that the red dragon had already carved several huge tracks in the wheat field with its massive body.

The left side looks like an S, and the right side looks like a B.

On the left and right, the wheat that had been threshed lay flat on the ground, barely alive.

It is June now.

It is the heading stage of the new batch of high-yield wheat from the Luolan Group. This heading stage is the most crucial prelude to the heading and flowering of wheat.

The wheat that was completely flattened and crushed by the fat dragon was almost entirely lost.

Even wheat that has been rubbed against the surrounding soil and is still able to stand up will suffer a significant reduction in yield.

No wonder the catgirl in charge of this wheat field was so distraught.

Roland covered her breasts with heartache.

She completely ignored Corinne's advice to cultivate a good relationship with Red Dragon and shouted it out.

"Augusta, you fat dragon, stop right now!"

"What the hell are you doing in my agricultural greenhouse? Look what you've done to the crops!!"

If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't defeat the dragons, Roland would have loved to beat this stupid fat dragon up and then plant it in a field with its head up.

Hearing Roland's shout, the red dragon, who was engrossed in the wheat fields, slowly came to its senses, opened its dragon eyes, which were larger than a human head, and a trace of confusion flashed in its eyes.

"That voice... does it sound like the voice of the great fox, Roland?"

The red dragon Augusta, lying on its back in the wheat field, first tilted its body to the left, then suddenly exerted force to the right, and rolled over and stood up.

However, this trampled over a large field of wheat in its heading stage, making Coco, the agricultural supervisor cat next to Roland, feel dizzy.

The catgirl's face turned bright red, and she bared her teeth as she glared angrily at the red dragon.

The wheat lost from that single dragon roll was enough to feed a family of three in a southern tribe.

However, Augusta completely ignored Coco's hostility; the red dragon only had eyes for the beautifully dressed Roland.

"Wow, it really is you."

"Roland, you look beautiful today. Did you come to the garden to enjoy the scenery?"

The red dragon grinned and greeted everyone with a cheerful smile.

Roland was stunned for a while before she reacted, pointing to the endless flat wheat fields around her and asking incredulously.

"garden?"

"Do you think this is my garden?"

"Otherwise what?"

Augusta tilted her dragon head in confusion and turned to check her surroundings.

The meticulously decorated oak ridges, the orderly divisions comparable to a lord's garden, the magically leveled expansive terrain, and the lush, endless "lawn".

Yes, that makes sense.

It is indeed a very unique landscaping design.

The lush giant trees at the center and the surrounding vast fields of vibrant flowers are also spectacular, elevating the overall aesthetic of the "garden".

Red Dragon withdrew his gaze and looked innocently at Roland.

"Isn't this your private garden?"

"No wonder Secretary Corinne said you are particularly rich. There are so many workers along the way just to maintain your garden. Even the most luxurious earldoms don't have this kind of extravagance."

As Augusta spoke, her eyes sparkled as she looked at Roland, revealing an expression of meeting an old friend in a foreign land.

She stretched out her dragon claw, gave a thumbs-up, and praised.

"Although it feels a bit extravagant, Roland the Great Fox, you have excellent taste."

"After being away from Dragon Island for so many years, only your large garden makes me feel like I've returned!"

Roland looked at the red dragon with a twitching smile.

This thumbs-up gesture...

If I'm not mistaken, he probably learned it from Secretary Corinne.

The fact that a dragon could perform this action is simply hilarious.

Roland glared at the red dragon.

"Your Excellency Augusta, this is not some noble garden, this is the Roland Group's agricultural greenhouse! It's where wheat is grown."

"If you keep rolling around like that, the harvest from this field will be greatly reduced!"

"ah?!"

Augusta stared in astonishment, the dragon frozen for more than ten seconds, looking bewildered at Roland and the angry cat Coco beside her.

Are you kidding me?

"How could such a neat and beautiful garden be a place where villagers farm?"

Incredibly, she stretched out her dragon claw, pulled a huge book from her spatial ring, and turned it upside down in her hand, facing Roland.

She pointed with a dragon claw at the magically imprinted image above, which depicted an ordinary wheat field in the empire.

As far as the eye could see, there were only crooked and twisted fields, muddy ridges, malnourished wheat seedlings leaning precariously, and emaciated serfs squatting by the fields.

The serfs in the picture look haggard, and when they squat down by the field, it's as if they have endless suffering to tell.

Compared to the animal girl employees who frolic and play in the company's greenhouse, they're from a completely different world.

The employees in the greenhouse wore brand-new, well-fitting work clothes. Although they inevitably got dirty, they couldn't hide their dignified appearance from the inside out.

These beast-girl farmer employees are more like gardeners in a noble garden than serfs or free farmers resigned to their fate.

They are definitely middle-class citizens of this era.

Faced with such a difference, Roland was somewhat speechless.

The infrastructure and welfare benefits provided by their own group seem to exceed the comprehension of otherworldly beings and dragons.

She sighed.

"In short, this really is an agricultural greenhouse."

"You better fly away right now and stop trampling my crops!"

PS: Thank you to 【风花雪月的公婆神】 for the "Master Certification" reward, and thank you to the boss~OVO