Chapter 44: Novice Village Protection

Lin Bai supported Zhou Jiang and entered the City Lord's Mansion in a flamboyant manner; no matter who came to take over, he would smile, nod, and refuse, putting on a posture of "I am not tired."

One reason was to polish his image, and the second was to keep a hostage in his hands.

A single move of "Divine Dragon Wags Its Fur" had tested the depth of the City Lord's Mansion guards, but even a good tiger cannot withstand a pack of wolves; what if the City Lord still wanted to find someone to kill him, seeing if he was a player?

Therefore.

Before clarifying the City Lord's attitude, he would not let go of Zhou Jiang; besides, at this moment, Zhou Jiang was a walking wave of Positive Emotion Value.

Lin Bai had finally figured it out: having many systems was not necessarily a bad thing; although he would likely be driven to act like a schizophrenic by a pile of tasks, there were gains to be had no matter what he did!

……

In the corridor.

An old man hurried over, wanting to take over Zhou Jiang.

Lin Bai dodged backward with his treasure and habitually refused: "No need, I can manage..."

The old man looked at Lin Bai and shook his head helplessly: "Let me do it; I am the physician of the City Lord's Mansion."

"So you are a physician! My apologies." Lin Bai hurriedly placed Zhou Jiang on the ground and apologized repeatedly: "Doctor, please take a look at Lord Zhou quickly; he has been unconscious the whole way and vomited a lot of blood."

The old man nodded slightly at him, his hand already resting on Zhou Jiang's pulse.

A moment later, he frowned and muttered: "This is a severe internal injury! But why didn't he take healing medicine in time?"

"Perhaps he didn't have the chance!" Lin Bai kept a straight face.

"If he had taken medicine and circulated his Qi to regulate his breathing in time, his injuries wouldn't be this severe; now, I fear it will take two or three months of recuperation to recover." The physician sighed.

He took a bottle of pills from the medicine chest beside him, poured one out, and moved to feed it into Zhou Jiang's mouth.

But before he could reach Zhou Jiang's mouth, his hand felt empty; the pill had already been snatched away by Lin Bai.

The physician froze.

Lin Bai examined the structure and quality of the pill, pried open Zhou Jiang's mouth, and personally fed the pill to him: "Let me do it; after all, I personally sent him back to the City Lord's Mansion, so feeding him the medicine myself can be considered a Merit fulfilled."

The old physician looked at Lin Bai strangely but did not probe further, simply assuming it was one of Lin Bai's eccentricities in pursuing perfection; anyway, the medicine was fed, it was the same whoever fed it!

And the surrounding people contributed another wave of Positive Emotion selflessly, secretly sighing that Shopkeeper Lin was indeed a fastidious person...

【Treat a patient (Completed); Reward: Physique +1 (Distributed)】

【Actively treat three patients; Reward: Physique +1】

The moment the pill was sent into Zhou Jiang's mouth by Lin Bai, the notification of task success arrived in Lin Bai's mind without surprise; every initial task of the system was like a gift, only requiring him to do it, not requiring him to do it well.

The system's designer was quite humane in this regard, and Lin Bai liked it very much.

One point of Physique was added to his body.

Lin Bai felt his body become much lighter, but there were no other special manifestations; it seemed that Physique, like Spirit, could only be truly appreciated after accumulating more.

……

"Shopkeeper Lin, the City Lord invites you over." An attendant parted the crowd, came before Lin Bai, and cupped his hands at him.

"Very well." Lin Bai stood up and performed a circular bow: "I am going to see the City Lord; I leave Lord Zhou to you all."

If one is going to act, one must do it thoroughly; better to farm a wave of favor first.

He had been ambushed but counter-killed the attacker, and then went to the trouble of sending him back to the City Lord's Mansion; with such a righteous act, Zhou Jiang surely wouldn't say anything when he woke up.

Judging from the attitude of everyone in the City Lord's Mansion.

Perhaps just as Zhou Jiang said, after a wave of testing, the City Lord would likely not make a move against him in the dark.

……

The attendant led Lin Bai all the way to the door of the study: "City Lord, Shopkeeper Lin has arrived."

"Ask him to come in." A slightly hoarse voice came from inside the door.

A woman?

Lin Bai froze.

The City Lord of Jiamu City, Xu Longyun, was a woman?

"Shopkeeper Lin, please!" The attendant pushed the door open and gestured with his hand.

Lin Bai looked inside.

The study was divided into two levels and was brightly lit; the bookshelves on both sides were filled with books. The City Lord was in the second room, and through the carved partition, one could vaguely see a dark green figure, though the features were not clear.

Lin Bai stepped into the study and cupped his hands: "Lin Bai greets the City Lord."

"Come in!" The City Lord's hoarse voice sounded again: "Mr. Lin, I would like to have a talk with you."

Lin Bai walked into the inner room.

Only then did he see the City Lord's appearance clearly: a woman of about thirty, with elegant makeup and a heroic spirit between her brows.

Although she was a woman, standing there, she revealed a sense of majesty; this was an aura naturally cultivated by being in a high position.

However, at this moment, her face bore undisguised fatigue, and looking closely, one could even see bloodshot eyes.

On the table in front of her were scattered several sheets of white paper.

On the paper was exactly the "Collection of Heavenly Remnants" that Lin Bai had produced in the afternoon, with many contents filled in the gaps of the poems and lyrics.

Such as: "If love reaches the depth of deep affection," "The spring silkworm dies when its silk is exhausted, the autumn cicada at the end of its life..." and so on.

Every time she filled in a phrase, the City Lord seemed dissatisfied and immediately crossed it out...

Well!

It turns out the City Lord is a literary youth.

Then her becoming like this must be his own credit!

"If love reaches what?" Xu Longyun looked at Lin Bai and asked abruptly.

Lin Bai shook his head: "City Lord, there is no need to test me; if I had the complete poems, why would I produce a 'Collection of Heavenly Remnants'? Wouldn't it be better to publish them myself and achieve fame and success?"

"Do you know how many people will go gray-haired because of the release of this 'Collection of Heavenly Remnants'?" Xu Longyun said.

"City Lord, for the people of the world to grow old with white hair is always better than a bright pearl being covered in dust," Lin Bai said with a smile.

Xu Longyun stared at Lin Bai, looked at him for a long while, and suddenly laughed: "What a 'for the people of the world to grow old with white hair is always better than a bright pearl being covered in dust'; Mister Lin is truly a fascinating person."

No emotion came from the backend.

What a fake compliment!

Lin Bai engaged in some Belly-Defamation: "The City Lord is too kind with his praise."

"Let's not talk about the poetry collection," Xu Longyun smiled. "I want to know, what kind of person is Mister Lin?"

"What kind of person does the City Lord think I am?" Lin Bai asked in return.

"It is precisely because I cannot see through you that I have come to ask," Xu Longyun said. "If I say you are a person from beyond the heavens, yet none of those people from beyond the heavens know of your 'Heavenly Cripple Collection'. If I say you are a person of this world, yet your actions and conduct are completely out of place with the current age..."

People from beyond the heavens?

Lin Bai sighed inwardly; it seems the City Lord does not know about the game!

Lin Bai interrupted Xu Longyun and asked: "City Lord, how do you view those people from beyond the heavens?"

Xu Longyun was silent for a moment, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he said coldly: "The roots of disaster for the world."

A hit to the mark.

Lin Bai looked at Xu Longyun in surprise and asked: "Since that is the case, why does the City Lord not take advantage of the time when they are weak to round them all up, instead of letting them run wild?"

"Is this the reason you used the Dark Guard as an excuse to send them to the City Lord's Mansion?" Xu Longyun asked in return.

"Something like that!" Lin Bai said with a sheepish smile. Can I tell you that everything is just because my big brother was detained by you?

Xu Longyun looked at Lin Bai deeply and shook his head: "It is not that I do not want to, but that I cannot. Seven days ago, an Oracle descended from the heavens. At the beginning of the descent of the people from beyond the heavens, the Government must allow them to grow, must not interfere with their actions, and must not induce or harm them until they leave the city, only then can things return to normal. Otherwise, heavenly thunder will descend, destroying the city and slaughtering the people."

Damn it!

The newbie village protection is actually enforced through threats?

Lin Bai was stunned; that is just absurd!

His heart beat rapidly a few times, his expression changed slightly; the game protects the players' newbie period like this, and since he has caused such a huge commotion, could he also attract heavenly thunder?

Xu Longyun had been observing Lin Bai's expression. Seeing him dazed, he tapped the table lightly: "Mister Lin, sending all the Heavenly Descended to the City Lord's Mansion has truly given me a difficult problem!"

【Resentment from Xu Longyun; +1+1+1】 The backend finally received the City Lord's Negative Emotion.

So your name is Xu Longyun; I thought your city-dwelling depth was so great that you could control your emotions freely. Lin Bai looked at the City Lord and shook his head with a smile: "City Lord, let us cooperate!"

Xu Longyun frowned: "Cooperate?"

"Before meeting the City Lord, I did not quite understand my own mission, but after hearing the City Lord's words, I seem to have some clues," Lin Bai smiled meaningfully. "I sent them all to the City Lord's Mansion in one go, and did it not avoid attracting divine punishment? I think this can probably become the foundation for our cooperation."

(End of this chapter)