Chapter 805

"What do we do after the food runs out?"

"Hunt, or buy it. We'll be passing through other cities anyway."

"Alright, you have 266 people in total. At 1.5 kilograms per person per day, that comes to 4 tons of food for you."

Hillier's little mouth fell open.

She blurted in astonishment, "1.5 kilograms per person per day? How did you calculate that? We're female elves, not pigs."

Gu Qing was a little unhappy.

She and the women in the territory ate roughly 1 to 1.5 kilograms of food every day, since their working hours were long and they needed large amounts of food to replenish themselves.

Now that they had the over-limit load gene, each person ate 4 to 6 kilograms of food.

Quite a lot.

Gu Qing retorted, "What's wrong with you? Is eating less somehow better? We eat a lot because we're diligent — our workload is heavy."

Hillier hadn't expected Gu Qing to talk back to her.

But she caught herself: "Oh, I didn't mean it like that… we're on the slim side, we can't eat that much. Just give me 2.5 tons."

Zhao Chi nodded. "Alright, then come with me."

It was the small hours of the morning now.

Taoyuan Village was ablaze with lights.

The women of Taoyuan all had night vision and could see perfectly clearly without any lamps.

Normally they only lit fires for Zhao Chi's sake.

Today they had lit a few extra.

250 female elves, along with 15 human women, stood on the village square.

Each carried a cloth bundle and wore a full set of leather armor with weapons.

Hillier stared at the torches around her in surprise, her expression full of wonder.

Zhao Chi already had people bring over two large vats of Gao Liang fire oil.

"Stop looking — this is for you. It's 'Ultra-Bright Fire Oil' inside."

Hillier said happily, "Ultra-Bright Fire Oil? These torches of yours were made with this fire oil? Thank you. I wanted to ask earlier, but I was afraid it would be inconvenient for you. Is this a specialty of Snow Plain City?"

It was Zhao Chi's own specialty.

But since Zhao Chi was in Snow Plain City, calling it a specialty of Snow Plain City wasn't wrong.

"Mm, sort of. Take it back and see how it performs. If it's well received, you can come by to buy more."

"I don't even need to take it back to know it'll definitely be popular. How much is it?"

"Not cheap — about 20 silver coins per liter."

"Huh? You call that not cheap? I think it's very cheap."

Zhao Chi was taken aback.

Not good! He'd quoted too low!

But… was that price really low?

20 silver coins was the equivalent of 2,000 yuan.

That price already carried a profit of 12 silver coins — a 150% profit margin, one could say.

After all, this was a consumable, not a necessity.

Ordinary torches worked just as well, so the price couldn't be set too high.

Hillier was a noble, normally used to a life of comfort and ease, so naturally she felt 20 silver coins was cheap. Her own impression wasn't much of a reference.

But since she'd said so, Zhao Chi quickly added, "I mixed up the numbers. It's 30 silver coins per liter."

Hillier laughed, "I can see what you're doing — raising the price on the spot."

Zhao Chi was slightly embarrassed: "If you buy in large quantities, I'll sell it to you a bit cheaper."

Hillier said, "Let's talk about everything after I get back. If I really need it later, I'll bring a trade caravan. But for now…"

Her expression fell again.

Then she asked, "If I need to buy more later, how do I find you?"

"You…" Zhao Chi was genuinely stumped.

Hillier sighed, "Are you being wary of me? You're overthinking it. We couldn't possibly bring many soldiers from Shengshucheng — every city along the way would refuse to let a large army pass."

Zhao Chi looked at Gu Qing.

Gu Qing said softly, "He doesn't know our coordinates. Even if we just add him as a friend, he can only look for us in the Greater World. Bringing troops to attack our territory directly is almost impossible."

Zhao Chi nodded. "Add him as a friend, Hillier."

Hillier said cheerfully, "Sure! I didn't expect that although your woman here is fierce, she's still pretty clear-headed."

Gu Qing snorted, "You're the fierce one."

Hillier added Zhao Chi as a friend: "Since everything's ready, we'll be off now. Please send us out."

Zhao Chi nodded and pulled out a Random Marker Talisman to use.

A lord couldn't freely teleport personnel to the Greater World.

Nor could they freely teleport to locations outside the designated points.

With a Random Marker Talisman, these rules could be ignored.

The Random Marker Talisman ignited.

A wave of grey light spread across the entire territory.

Zhao Chi saw Taoyuan Village's coordinates change completely — they became entirely new coordinates, with plenty of garbled data mixed in.

This way, whether teleporting in or teleporting out, there was no way to monitor it.

It was practically foolproof.

However, it had a duration limit—it could only last 1 minute.

But teleportation was only an instant, so 1 minute was enough.

Zhao Chi clicked the teleport settings and chose the southernmost point of Snowfield City as the destination.

【Detecting……】

【Surroundings safe!】

Zhao Chi clicked confirm.

The torchlight before his eyes dimmed, and the moment he came back to his senses, a sheet of blue light filled his vision.

Everyone had arrived at the edge of the city wall.

The blue light of the formation illuminated everything nearby, extremely bright.

The towering city wall rose into the clouds, appearing extraordinarily magnificent here.

There was a faint smell of scorched smoke in the surroundings, with many pitted and scarred marks—clearly this place had also been through a battle not long ago.

Zhao Chi activated another Displacement Talisman, scrambling the coordinates of Penglai Village as well.

"Alright, while there are few people around, leave as quickly as you can."

Hillier nodded: "Then we'll be going. Zhao Chi… that name doesn't sound very nice."

Zhao Chi smiled slightly.

Hillier also laughed: "But you're not a bad person. See you."

In an instant, Hillier and the elves' figures flashed with blue light and vanished.

Zhao Chi didn't delay either, immediately teleporting back to Penglai Village.

At last, one more thing could be considered done.

Zhao Chi took out the "Primordial Angel Bloodline Sprout" and examined it carefully.

There was only very rough information.

Zhao Chi channeled spiritual power into his palm, wrapping around the golden little bloodline orb.

Soon, most of the spiritual power throughout his body was absorbed.

The gold on the orb's surface instead became dim.

It seemed the spiritual power that could be absorbed each day was limited. That was fine too—the cost wasn't high; mainly it required patient waiting.

Recently, one thing after another had been happening, with almost no time to catch his breath.

Now, at last, there was a little free time.

But having free time didn't mean relaxation—there was plenty of work in the territory.

If only there were a long stretch of time to develop.