Chapter 333: Chapter 333: Start Processing Prisoners (3)

“You mean to say that after all these years of war, there still exists a powerful nation in that world? The Great Witch was raised like this?”

“No doubt, it must be true. The Great Witch is young and powerful, only a place rich in resources could raise such a person,” the Knight’s Wife asserted with a nod.

The eldest son interjected then.

“Let’s not talk about that for now. Doesn’t this place feel familiar? There’s a faint energy, as if it’s the land of our world.”

“Hmm? It seems to be, but the season is wrong; it’s summer here. Fortunately, there’s a river nearby, which is somewhat refreshing.”

“Dear, sense it again, see if the energy is dense. Is it like our homeland?” the wife immediately said.

The eldest son used his weak talent to sense again, trying hard, and then shook his head.

“It’s not like our homeland, I suspect this is the Fusion Zone.”

“The Fusion Zone?”

The Knight’s Wife touched the sweat on her neck, suddenly widened her eyes, and displayed a look of despair.

“Is the Great Witch’s Space Technique so strong that she brought us straight from our homeland to the Fusion Zone? Can she go wherever she wants? Oh, heavens! Our monarch! Our nation is doomed!”

The eldest son also showed a concerned expression, embracing his wife.

“Back then, several Witch Saints discovered that our world was forcibly merging with that world, therefore they decided to conquer that world to preserve our homeland. It was all going smoothly, almost completely overtaking them. But now, seeing that there’s a person like the Great Witch, could it be that our father has kept something from us?”

“It’s not surprising, the people from the other world also need to protect their homelands. It depends on who is stronger. If they are stronger, they would invade our world and take our land,” she said, cautiously glancing at the Great Witch who was still eating in the distance.

“It’s now clear, the Avenger has arrived, they’ve found the path, and the people from that world are trying to counterattack us.”

“Heavens!” the young wife buried her face in her husband’s chest, her fear causing her to sob uncontrollably.

The other children were the same, holding each other and worrying about their fates.

It was the Knight’s Wife who held the scene together at the crucial moment. She took a deep breath, stabilized her emotions, and continued writing.

“War inevitably has its victories and defeats; it’s not in our hands to decide. Let’s all gather our spirits, don’t let the Great Witch think we can’t afford to lose and have our whole family killed. People accustomed to killing on the battlefield don’t care about killing a few more women and children.”

The eldest daughter-in-law raised her head, wiped the tears from her face, and handed her own pen and paper to her husband.

“Mother-in-law is right; the Great Witch could have killed our whole family right then, but she didn’t. We need to live now. Maybe one day, we’ll see your father among the war prisoners, along with my family and brothers.”

“Right, let’s survive first, we can think about the rest later.”

The eldest son nodded, took the pen and paper, and listed the living conditions needed for his large family, acting like an heir.

The Knight’s family quickly resigned themselves to their fate. The Baron was suppressed by the Duke, watching as most of the materials on the ground were picked over by the Duke’s family.

But the Baroness, holding the pen and paper her daughter gave her, was writing a list. Oona and her brother sat slightly away from them as a sign of maintaining distance, she only wrote down supplies needed for her and her brother, making her the fastest of the three families to finish.

Ye Nai finished eating instant noodles and washing the dishes, and returned to see Oona and her brother respectfully waiting at the edge of the long table.

Oona’s list contained only basic living supplies, nothing excessive, not even the textbooks and tools needed for her studies as a wizard apprentice.

She didn’t write, and Ye Nai certainly wouldn’t take the initiative to add on; there was no way she was going to cultivate a new witch on her own turf.

“Have you decided where to pitch the tents?”

“Can we be closer to the farm fields?”

“No, those fields are already grown, you don’t need to look after them, your daily task will be to clear the land for me.”

“Okay, please let the Great Witch arrange it for us.”

“Alright, let’s go.”

With the checklist in hand, Ye Nai took Oona and her sibling away from the fields, using the few sets of tables and chairs as a starting point.

The walk took them about a kilometer away; Ye Nai wanted to maintain enough distance to not interfere with the maneuvering space of the farm machinery.

“This will do, those three families that come after will start here and continue setting up forward.”

Seeing that the distance was sufficient, Ye Nai stopped, threw three new military tents on the ground, and then one by one took out other living supplies according to the checklist.

Military tents are simple, triangular tents used by soldiers, with basic waterproof capabilities and bare ground inside; they are spacious enough inside to sleep four people with room around them for personal belongings.

Now, one person slept in one tent, and adding a single bed and a cabinet with cupboards and drawers did not take up much space.

These pieces of furniture were, of course, moved from civilian homes. The brother and sister’s tents were identically equipped. Finally, Ye Nai brought out several sets of civilian clothes and materials like thread and fabric necessary for sewing.

“Do you know how to tailor? Use the fabric to make underclothes; as for outer clothes, just wear whatever – I gathered these from drawers and cabinets, they should be clean.”

“Thank you, Great Witch.”

“Don’t go to the river to fetch water, the water sources in the wild aren’t clean. I will provide you with clean, fresh water.”

As she spoke, Ye Nai placed a dual-ton barrel water tower a few steps away from the tent, filled with clean water from a municipal water plant. She personally attached two small-caliber valve adapters and screwed a hose onto the outlet of one of the adapters.

Oona and her sibling watched and memorized everything by the side.

“Got it? Once one barrel is empty, just switch the hose to the other barrel, these waters are clean. By clean, I mean the water was collected by a specialized factory from the natural environment and processed through multiple filters to get this clean water. You can freely wash your hands and vegetables, and even drink a small amount, but it’s best to boil it before drinking.”

Ye Nai wasn’t just making things up—she had bought the water directly from the water plant’s clean water pool, uncontaminated by city pipelines; indeed, the water quality met the standards for direct drinking.

The potential issue might be that the sanitation of the ton barrels wasn’t up to standard, but for the captives’ stomachs, this slight unsaniness actually was not much of an issue, right?

Ye Nai wasn’t looking down on them, it was just that she had raided many cities and military fortresses, she had even raided an enemy village on Blue Star just recently, a place without water, electricity, or gas—it wouldn’t be slander or discrimination to say they were primitive, would it?

“Got it, Great Witch, this is simple.”

“I’ll give you an extra tent, use the third tent specifically for water, cover this water tower inside it to prevent contamination, do you understand what contamination means?”

“We do, it’s a specialized term used in alchemy when dealing with raw materials.”

“Just dig a hole in the ground for a latrine, make do with it for now, we can discuss better options later.”

“Yes, Great Witch, the conditions are already very good now.”

“Alright, you all settle in first, I’ll bring some food over later.”