Chapter 1146: Did my harvest fail?

The Lord of the Starborn could not accept that the Light Disaster would be cracked by someone using such a simple method—selling grain.

This Silver Light Society was actually selling a type of vegetable flatbread to the billions of people in the entire Divine Light Alliance, continuously for over a month, and it seemed they were prepared to continue indefinitely.

This was the simplest method, and also the most practical method, but it was also the most impossible method to complete. Where did the Silver Light Society get so much grain?

After Nan Mian's investigation, the source of the grain was found to be the Sea of Omniscience.

"Sea of Omniscience? That plane that is all water? How can they grow grain there?" the Lord of the Starborn asked in astonishment.

Nan Mian also found this hard to believe, but still said: "They said it grew out of the water. No matter how I beat them, that's what they say."

"Beat? Do you not have other interrogation methods?" the Lord of the Starborn asked.

Previously, he had left outside matters to the Grand Speaker, but now, the Grand Speaker had rebelled, Bei Mian was dead, and the only person he could command was Nan Mian.

Nan Mian was not professional at this kind of interrogation work, and neither was he, but even if not professional, wouldn't beating them be enough to get important intelligence?

"I captured a mental mage and performed mental control on them, but still got the same answer. I think that even if it didn't grow out of the water, it should have something to do with the Sea of Omniscience," Nan Mian said hurriedly.

That was more like it; if they were truly that stupid, he wouldn't want them. However, not having capable hands to do things was still not good, just as troublesome as having no one to cook in the King's palace. But it was unlikely he could cultivate another Grand Speaker.

After thinking for a while, the Lord of the Starborn said irritably: "Destroy it all, it's too troublesome."

If everything was destroyed, there wouldn't be so many troublesome things. Thinking of this, the Lord of the Starborn said: "I am going to the Sea of Omniscience."

Taking a money bag, the Lord of the Starborn stepped onto the teleportation array heading to the Sea of Omniscience. That he had to do such infiltration and intelligence gathering himself showed how much trouble the Grand Speaker's betrayal had caused him.

Originally, he could have let Nan Mian go, but Nan Mian couldn't project onto a human body like he could, making it hard to deceive the Death-Mourning Undead Soldiers under the Grand Speaker, and even more impossible to deceive the Star Gods in Grisburg.

Following a bunch of people into the teleportation array, when he came out, he had already arrived on an isolated island. Looking around, it was all water, and in the distance was the boundless ocean, only now the sea surface was occupied by patches of white things.

The entire island was almost piled full of buildings. Between the buildings, shelters were pulled up to block direct sunlight. People were active under the buildings and shelters. Even the roads leading to the airship pier had covered bridges connected, absolutely not letting anyone be exposed to a single bit of sunlight.

The once desolate island had been built into a busy town in a short time. It was worthy of Lisha, who could operate a Beauty God City.

The main bulk trade on the island was grain. Most of the people coming and going were buying and transporting grain. Everyone was negotiating, ordering, placing orders in taverns and hostels, and then delivering them to the pier to be transported away by airships.

If it was for urgent use, one could also sign an order and pick up goods at the Silver Society's warehouses in various planes. If the local warehouse was out of stock, one had to pay a high price to transport it back through the teleportation array, which led to the teleportation array also being very busy. The Lord of the Starborn stopped to watch for two seconds before being urged to leave the teleportation array.

Standing blankly outside the teleportation array, someone immediately approached: "Hello, traveler from afar, are you staying at an inn or doing business?"

The Lord of the Starborn looked up and saw a middle-aged man with the temperament of a mage.

"I came to buy some things," the Lord of the Starborn said.

"Then that is business. What do you want to operate? Grain, cloth, clothes, shoes, hats, we have everything here. Do you need me to recommend for you? It only requires a small introduction fee," the middle-aged man asked enthusiastically.

"No need, I want to look around myself," the Lord of the Starborn refused.

"That's a pity. If I can't serve you, go down here. Raw materials on the left, finished products on the right. Grain goes this way, transport to the pier," the middle-aged man said with 'regret'.

Watching the Lord of the Starborn walk away, the middle-aged man connected to the soul network and shouted: "He's here, he's here, and it seems like a big one too."

Anthony, Negris, Li Li Ao Na De, and others swarmed over.

"It's this guy, he has no luggage on him, doesn't bring attendants, yet says he came to do business. At a glance, he's a novice," the middle-aged man, Ursman, said.

He, Anthony, and Li Li Ao Na De had been rotating shifts here for a long time, wanting to see if they could catch infiltrators from the Lord of the Starborn's side.

But after rotating for a period of time, they discovered there were so many infiltrators—from Leo Royal Court, the Joseph line, even the Feilie Empire. This greatly increased their interest, and they started playing the 'Smart Person Game' to see who could uncover more infiltrators.

Other infiltrators were called small ones, and the infiltrators from the Lord of the Starborn's side were called big ones.

"Why do you say he is a 'big' one?" Negris asked curiously, looking at the Lord of the Starborn wandering around through the Wizard's Eyes placed everywhere.

"Because he's too green. He didn't even react when I didn't use honorifics. A normal merchant, finding that a middleman like me didn't use honorifics, probably wouldn't even bother talking to me. Sending someone this green over, besides the Lord of the Starborn's side, there should be no one else," Ursman said.

The Lord of the Starborn also wouldn't have thought that someone would call him green behind his back. Although he had no experience, he had tried his best to be 'normal', even writing a cheat sheet for social terms in advance. How could he be seen through all at once? He thought that by pretending to be a 'person', he could deceive everyone.

In a field he was unfamiliar with, the Lord of the Starborn, who once could control everything, was like a newborn baby, walking into a wolf pack without any defenses, and was dissected clean in no time.

And he was completely unaware, thinking he was wandering around normally. However, the act of 'wandering around' was very abnormal here, as everyone was busy to the point of not having their feet touch the ground.

Finally, he wandered to the seaside and saw farmers rowing boats, collecting those white things on the sea surface, dragging them to the shore to expose to the sun, screen, grind into powder, and finally send them into a furnace-like building.

Coming out from there, they had already turned into pieces of vegetable flatbread.

Observing carefully for a few days, the Lord of the Starborn summarized a few key points. First, the yield of the white things was very large. The place that was just finished cutting today would be full of these white things again on the third day.

The Lord of the Starborn glanced at the sun in the sky. He strongly suspected it was because of the Light Disaster that these white things grew so fast, because he had heard more than one farmer say: "This sun is really powerful, the algae rice forms so quickly."

The Lord of the Starborn thought carefully and immediately thought of the reason. The main body of these white things grew in the water, and only the part floating on the water surface would be irradiated by sunlight.

The Light Disaster was weakened by the seawater and could not damage its main body, but the part floating on the water surface needed a large amount of light to produce more algae rice. The Light Disaster actually increased its fruiting ability.

Second, the harvested algae rice dried very quickly under the sun, and could be dried and ground into powder in one afternoon.

Third, that flatbread factory relied on sunlight to bake food.

Summarizing to this point, the Lord of the Starborn felt terrible: "They are using the Light Disaster to resolve the Light Disaster. Did my harvest fail again?" ===== CHAPTER 1147 =====