Chapter 1403

"Stop! Hold it!"

After raising his hand in a stop gesture, Li Ang, who was holding a small notebook and preparing to write a purchase list, couldn't help but frown and say:

"Besides food, don't you have any other specialties there?"

Besides food?

Hearing Li Ang's words, the female cleaner couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then looked back with an incredulous expression.

Why "besides" food? If you come to the North and don't eat well, wouldn't that be a wasted trip?

"Food can be tasted, but I mainly want to bring something back for Veronica..."

After explaining his intentions, Li Ang asked with great anticipation:

"Mei, can you recommend a few specialties other than food? Exquisite and gorgeous ones would be best!"

"..."

Specialties other than food... Is there any need to pay attention to such things?

"..."

Fine, asking you about these things is my own problem.

Looking at the female cleaner's hesitant expression, Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head helplessly. Just as he was about to put away his small notebook, a voice full of resentment sounded from the seat behind them.

"Besides food, our Ashito Kingdom's specialties include large bone carvings, white beast furs, Grom colored carpets, ice crystal amber, and snow stone ornaments, etc. These things are unique to our North.

In addition, near the Warm Pulp Sea on the east side of our Ashito Kingdom, there is a small valley oasis that remains at a constant temperature all year round. The snow linden honey produced by the tiger-headed linden bees there has the effect of preserving youth and softening the skin. Although this snow linden honey is also considered food, Her Majesty Veronica should like it."

"Oh, oh!"

Hearing these much more reliable gift choices, Li Ang was overjoyed. While listing them in his small notebook, he kept thanking him.

Hearing the commotion, the female cleaner turned around in surprise, looked at the resentful Minister of Foreign Affairs, and asked with astonishment in her eyes:

"Lord Stamo? Why did you follow us too?!"

Why did I follow you too... Damn it, I'm just the deputy envoy!

Hearing the female cleaner's question, the Northern Kingdom's Minister of Foreign Affairs broke down on the spot, and even his lips could be seen trembling visibly.

My little ancestor! You, the only one qualified to sign the agreement, have already been dragged away by their Prince. As a deputy envoy with zero power who can't sign any inter-state agreements, what was I supposed to do staying there like a fool? Was I waiting to eat the wedding cake?

Besides, I'm not even asking you to stand with me, but could you have called me beforehand when you left?

I finally managed to appease the allies and was swearing to them that our North and the other side absolutely had no collusion, but as soon as I turned around, our own princess was chasing after their married prince and ran off happily!

She ran off!!!

A thousand words were stuck in his throat, but he couldn't spit them out. The Northern Kingdom's Minister of Foreign Affairs couldn't help but reach out and touch the fingerprints on his neck, feeling so aggrieved he almost cried.

Ancestor! Do you know that after seeing you run off with him, that pirate commander from the Saio Kingdom with his barbaric style was so angry his eyes turned green! If Her Majesty Veronica hadn't called the guards in time, he would have strangled me to death on the spot!

With the situation you've created, how many lives do I have to dare to stay?

"Uh..."

Looking at the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose eyes contained a thousand words—clearly saying nothing but seeming to have said everything—the female cleaner realized what happened, gave a dry laugh, and apologized with an embarrassed expression:

"Lord Stamo... I'm sorry, I had an emergency here and had to leave immediately, so I didn't take care of you for a moment..."

Emergency?

Looking at the triple-folded giant pizza on the female cleaner's table, then looking at Li Ang, who was slowly writing a shopping list and seemed more like he was on vacation than on official business, the Northern Kingdom's Minister of Foreign Affairs couldn't help but spit at them in his heart.

Bah! You're not in an emergency at all!

"Really, what we have to do is very important!"

Seeing the Minister of Foreign Affairs' disbelieving look, the female cleaner had to explain:

"You also know that besides being a princess, I am also a cleaner for the Cleaning Bureau, so I have some special abilities, and I... uh... in short, although Li Ang and I look very relaxed, we are actually very nervous inside!" "..."

Bah! I don't believe you!

Just as the female cleaner was trying her best to explain, attempting to prove that they really had an emergency and weren't intentionally ignoring the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Li Ang, who had finished the shopping list, glanced at her, then reached out his right hand and lightly touched the side of her dinner fork with his index finger.

"Sizzle..."

【Name: Saliva of Tranquility (Tranquility, Soul, Thought)】

【Appearance: A colorless and slightly viscous transparent liquid with a fresh and elegant faint fragrance like blue bellflowers. Just a little fragrance emitted during evaporation can make people calm down from the bottom of their hearts】

【Ability: Powerful sedation, soul soothing, thought acceleration】

【Cost: After drinking a large amount in a short time, one's appetite will experience an uncontrollable surge until this anomalous object is completely metabolized】

【File: Melisande Ashito, the current princess of the Northern Kingdom, possesses two special bloodlines: 【Gluttony】 and 【Tranquility】. The strength of these two special bloodlines is similar and they check and balance each other, so abnormalities usually do not occur.

However, after her appetite is greatly satisfied, leading to the influence of the 【Gluttony】 bloodline being weakened, she will unconsciously secrete a small amount of special body fluid with sedative effects under the influence of her 【Tranquility】 bloodline】

【Evaluation: A powerful anomalous object with extremely special effects. Just a single intake of over 1.04 milliliters can directly double basic thinking speed, and the cost is almost negligible.

But with your moral standards, you shouldn't want to collect and use it, right?

Right?】

【Infection Value: 0.1】

"..."

Of course I wouldn't use this thing! What do you mean by emphasizing it twice? Do I look like a pervert?

After closing the prompt speechlessly, Li Ang touched the Black Goat's horns, felt his soul state, and then, as expected, discovered that his soul state was indeed somewhat abnormal at this moment.

Wisps of light blue "mist" had infiltrated his soul at some point, causing his originally quite tense soul to calm down silently.

Hmm... it feels about the same as when I fed her cake before.

According to his usual situation, he shouldn't have taken the initiative to feed her food, but after chatting with the female cleaner for a few words and inadvertently inhaling a trace amount of 【Saliva of Tranquility】, he soon felt that it didn't seem like a big deal, so he casually stuffed a piece of cake over.

And later, when he received the news that the mission was ahead of schedule, he was still quite nervous inside, but as Mei followed and chatted with him while blinking her eyes, he soon became calm again. Even at a tense moment with a great enemy approaching, he unconsciously started considering the issue of local specialties...

Tsk, this anomalous object is really not ordinarily powerful. You can get hit just by chatting face-to-face at the dinner table. For those who don't know the situation beforehand, the probability of being successfully ambushed is basically 100%!

After looking at the female cleaner with a complex expression, Li Ang, who finally exempted part of the 【Saliva of Tranquility】 effect amidst the prompt that 【Materialism】 was activated, took out the blackout eye mask sent on the airship and lay on the chair to sleep peacefully.

Although this state is wrong, he studied etiquette for most of the night yesterday and basically didn't close his eyes. Besides, he couldn't do anything before the airship arrived tomorrow afternoon, so he might as well catch up on sleep!

Moreover, although the Northern Kingdom side is urgent, isn't the female cleaner's great-uncle, that Director Barto of the Aquarius Branch, still there? As a backbone of the Cleaning Bureau and one of the twelve Zodiac directors with the most seniority, could he not even hold on for a day?

(End of chapter)