Chapter 162: So Many Ships

"Uh, seems I ate too much," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said, somewhat speechless.

It had heard that human stomachs were very fragile; eating too full was bad, too little was bad, cold was bad, too hot was bad, hard was bad, too soft was bad; grains actually needed to be hulled before eating, otherwise one would starve to death from being unable to swallow them—truly useless.

What could be done? Seeing Ange had come to save Luo, casting a barrage of Purifying Face Arts; not only did it cure acute gastroenteritis, but it also healed old wounds she had, and incidentally purified the grime on her body.

A few breaths later, a shriveled, emaciated, filthy madwoman became a clean, white, slender beauty.

Her hair, originally matted into a clump, now hung loose over her shoulders; aside from being somewhat dry and split, it was little different from hair washed regularly.

The miraculous effects of the Purifying Face Art made Lord Nai Ge Li Si exclaim in wonder: "The effect of the Purifying Face Art is too satisfying; if you ever stop farming, opening a bathhouse to wash people would be very profitable. Only someone like Lisa could define such Holy Light."

The effect of the Purifying Face Art was defined by Lisa; Seeing Ange merely provided the Holy Light.

After the grime and wounds on her body were purified, only 'thinness' remained on Claire's mother; she was not a lich, so she could not be filled up through 'Holy Light' and could only rely on eating.

Claire's mother touched her belly somewhat blankly, perhaps wondering why it didn't hurt, then looked up and smiled foolishly at Claire, grabbing the unfinished flatbread and gnawing on it again.

"Still foolish? It seems her mental issues are not caused by physical factors, but by mental reasons; Anthony has more experience in this regard," Lord Nai Ge Li Si murmured.

Seeing this, Claire no longer hesitated, quickly crawled over, and kowtowed to Lord Nai Ge Li Si: "I'm willing, I'm willing! As long as you provide food and lodging for me and my mother, I'll do anything you ask, anything at all."

"No, no, no," Lord Nai Ge Li Si hurriedly waved his hands: "This, this is the true master; the God of Undeath. Everything is his gift."

The treacherous grain merchant was brought before Seeing Ange, and then his attention was stunned by the mountain of grain sacks piled behind Seeing Ange: "I, I, I, this, this, this..."

Lord Nai Ge Li Si sighed; this situation would have been more suitable for the treacherous merchant Silver Coin to handle, or Lisa as well. Unfortunately, neither of them was present, so he was forced to push him onto the stage.

"Do you know the Undead Temple?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

The treacherous merchant glanced at Seeing Ange and shook his head.

"You see, this is a flame of the Undead. If you are willing to kowtow to it and dedicate your piety, allowing its flame to rise high, you can obtain grain at a low price, or even for free," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Really? How high does it have to rise to be free?" The treacherous merchant's eyes lit up.

"Here, rising to here is free," Lord Nai Ge Li Si gestured, then pointed to another spot: "To here, fifty percent off; to here, thirty percent off."

The treacherous merchant shot forward to the Undead Flame, kowtowing with a thud-thud-thud, and the Undead Flame's flame shot straight up to the 'free' mark.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si looked at the treacherous merchant in surprise, then turned to Seeing Ange and asked: "So pious?"

Seeing Ange tilted his head, looking at the thick soul flame rushing toward him; not only was it pious, it was excessively pious. Obviously, the treacherous merchant's belief in free grain was incredibly devout.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si threw a sack of grain in front of the treacherous merchant and said: "Just like that. Pious means free; not very pious means discounted; those who believe nothing pay full price. These grains are under your management. When they run out, find someone from Lord Roge; Roge will send people back then."

"Me? Manage this? Really? Aren't you worried I'll steal the grain?" The treacherous merchant widened his eyes, asking in disbelief.

When Claire kowtowed to him, Lord Nai Ge Li Si had already noticed the problem; he had been overstepping recently, which was unsuitable for his position as the Dragon Head Strategist.

Although Seeing Ange wouldn't mind, Seeing Ange was the owner of the Undead Divine Seat; if others got the wrong object, dedicated to the wrong target, and the soul flames were credited to the wrong account, what then?

Recently, the number of believers hadn't grown much; what if the halo ran out of soul flames?

So he simply had Seeing Ange stand at the very front, and also created a few Undead Flames to harvest a wave of believers.

Seeing Ange, who was bored, suddenly heard the words 'steal' and 'grain'; he reached out, grasped, and a huge scythe appeared in his hand, glaring fiercely at the treacherous merchant.

The treacherous merchant was so frightened his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"Stealing others' grain might kill you; stealing our grain, you won't even die easily," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

Claire supported his mother, looked up at the sky, and saw a black shadow dive down from the clouds; he was so frightened his face turned pale: "Dragon, dragon, dragon!"

The goblin airship defected; the Holy Spirit Angels were tied up and dared not let them fly; thus, air superiority over Dark City changed hands. Bone Dragons and the little silver dragon Bai Hou patrolled the sky, shooting down all flying units.

Of course, this was just a hypothesis; nothing had been shot down yet.

Besides Bai Hou and the Bone Dragon, there was also Nai Nai Aili. The Bone Dragon had no intelligence, and Bai Hou was too young; leaving them in the sky was worrying, so Nai Nai Aili was also left behind, mainly to judge if the enemy was unbeatable and then quickly flee with the Bone Dragon and Bai Hou.

Nai Nai Aili was too lazy to fly and was dozing on the Bone Dragon's back; to sleep better, he had people tie a rope net on the Bone Dragon's back, just like those used on ships.

After lying on it, his claws and hind legs were inserted into the net, firmly fixing himself in place; unless the Bone Dragon maneuvered drastically, he didn't worry about falling off.

As for the little zombie and the little angel, the Bone Dragon's nostrils were their exclusive seats; they loved to curl their bodies inside the nasal cavity, sticking their little heads out and howling. Now, villages near Fallen Longhu were spreading legends that giant dragons howled.

Seeing the twenty-meter giant descend before him, Claire was completely stunned; his mother was even stupider, drool dripping from her vacant mouth, suddenly shouting clearly: "Dragon!"

This was one of the rare times she made a sound.

Claire's belongings, including the silkworm babies, had already been stuffed by Seeing Ange into the Palace of Rest, including the big guys like Purple Skeleton and Lightning; they couldn't ride dragons, and if they got on, the Bone Dragon wouldn't be able to fly.

Trembling, they climbed up; Claire immediately hugged the rope net tightly. Not long after, the Bone Dragon took off into the sky.

Back at the oasis, Seeing Ange immediately plucked a World Tree leaf, placed the silkworm babies on it, and watched to see if they would eat. However, the silkworm babies curled into a ball, showing no sign of eating.

"My lord, it might not be a problem with the leaves; they eat grass, and leaves are much tastier than grass. It might be due to temperature and humidity; it's too hot and too dry here," Claire said.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si pouted; these weren't ordinary leaves; these were World Tree leaves. He had just said it casually before, but he didn't expect Seeing Ange to remember it, plucking old World Tree leaves to feed them immediately upon return, not afraid of killing them by overfeeding.

Entering the sandstone house, a few spells lowered the indoor temperature to a suitable level; after spraying some water on the silkworm babies, not long after, the silkworm babies slowly uncurled.

Its front had a small mouth and two eyes like little black beans; as it uncurled, it bent its waist and used its head to nudge its belly, rubbing and rubbing, as if washing its face.

"Wow, what a cute bug! Where did you get it, my lord?" Lisa, Anna, Sha Fei Ya, and other women staying behind gathered around, immediately captivated by this fat, white silkworm baby.

"Fat, white, tender, and crisp; it must be delicious when roasted," Anna said.

Sha Fei Ya nodded: "Just like date-wood worms; roast them, sprinkle some spices, and one bite makes them burst, fragrant and fragrant. These worms are bigger, so they must be even tastier."

Amidst the women's commentary, the ignorant and confused silkworm baby happily gnawed on the old leaves on its body.

Old World Tree leaves were relative to tender buds; anyway, any fully grown leaves counted as old leaves. Every single one was tender, green, and thick, oozing juice when pinched.

The silkworm babies obviously liked it very much, eating happily, but not long after, they flipped onto their bellies and lay stiff as corpses. If not for their breath, Seeing Ange would have thought they were dead.

Claire had never encountered this situation either and could only guess: "It seems they are full; sometimes when they are full, they act like this."

"Sometimes?" Lisa and others suddenly turned their heads. Sometimes full? That sounded so much like abuse! Not even letting the silkworm babies eat their fill?

"Yes, sometimes full. I myself can't even eat my fill; where would they get anything to eat their fill?"

Seeing the silkworm babies wouldn't wake up for a while, everyone gradually dispersed. Lisa then noticed Claire's mother curled up in the corner. After some explanation, Lisa spoke with pity:

"Oh my, so thin; I don't know how much suffering you've endured. You have no clothes, just draped in rags, but at least you're clean. Come, sister will take you to change clothes."

Just as he was about to take Klai's mother away, she screamed and broke free, darting behind Klai in an instant.

"Is the situation really that serious? Then we must find Lord Anthony." Lisa felt she couldn't handle it.

Klai, his mother, and the Silkworms settled down in the sandstone house just like that.

The next morning, Klai excitedly clutched a roll of white cloth and dashed up to Seeing Ange: "My lord, it's woven, it's woven! The Silkworms even had babies! These leaves are amazing — the Silkworms ate them and grew incredibly fast."

Not only could the Silkworms eat the World Tree, they grew fast too. After one night, they had already laid several eggs. They hadn't hatched yet, but once they did, the number of silkworms would multiply several times over.

Most importantly, they wove cloth — a whole roll in one night, even longer than the roll Klai had sold them at the market before, and that one had taken several days to weave.

"Right, right, this cloth seems to be fire-immune. Besides fire immunity, does it have any other properties? If it had one more property, the cloth's value could increase a hundredfold." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said excitedly.

After a round of testing, they found that the second roll of silkworm-silk cloth was immune to electricity, didn't lose its shape or shrink in water, was quick-drying, sweat-absorbing, warm, breathable, tear-resistant, puncture-proof — nearly every advantage one could think of in cloth was present in it. Truly remarkable.

The first roll of silkworm-silk cloth, on the other hand, was simply fire-immune and could not resist electricity; its other advantages were also greatly diminished.

"Could it be because of the Gnaw the World tree leaves? The performance boost is that huge?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in surprise.

To figure out what caused the dramatic increase in the silkworm-silk cloth's performance, Ange began his most specialized control group experiment — dividing the silkworms into several other trays: one fed only ordinary leaves, one fed World Tree leaves, one fed fruits and grains, and so on.

Those fed ordinary leaves wove fire-immune silkworm-silk cloth; those fed World Tree leaves wove electricity-immune, greatly enhanced silkworm-silk cloth; those fed fruits and grains wove ordinary silkworm-silk cloth with no magical properties at all.

"Your Silkworms are way too amazing — just because they eat different things, the silk they spin has different properties! Let's try other foods — can they spin silk immune to water, or even immune to Holy Light? Right, Holy Mushroom — Seeing Ange, feed them Holy Mushroom and see if they'll eat it?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si had a sudden idea.

Another control group was added — first fed Holy Mushroom, but the Silkworms wouldn't eat it.

When Holy Mushroom powder was sprinkled on World Tree leaves, the Silkworms inevitably ingested some while gnawing. Sure enough, the cloth they wove had a slight suppressive effect on Holy Light — though it couldn't grant full immunity, it could reduce the damage.

The Holy Light here, of course, was not Seeing Ange's Holy Light, but that of the orthodox Church of Light. As for why there was orthodox Holy Light — hadn't they captured a Holy Spirit Angel last time? Its Holy Light was very pure.

Lisa immediately used the Holy Light silkworm-silk cloth to tailor a dress for the little angel.

"Here, try casting Holy Light Radiance and see if it burns the clothes again."

The little angel's eyes lit up. She looked at Seeing Ange, and after receiving permission, she couldn't wait to fire off a technique at an empty spot in the distance.

The Holy Light silkworm-silk dress on her body sizzled with white smoke, but it did not burn.

"Not bad, the silk quality is excellent." Lisa's eyes gleamed — she was already thinking about what styles would look best made from the silkworm-silk cloth.

……

Day after day passed. In the blink of an eye, three months had gone by. By Fallen Longhu, golden rice stalks swayed everywhere, the heavy ears bending the stems down.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si saw it too, and could only sigh: "This is a year of bumper harvest."

Seeing Ange, however, was standing there with a small notebook, writing and drawing.

"What are you writing?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked curiously.

"These need to be lodging-resistant." Seeing Ange pointed at the rice stalks bending the stems.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si's little claws scratched his head, not daring to speak.

Seeing Ange's knowledge of farming had already far exceeded Lord Nai Ge Li Si's comprehension. Especially after obtaining Chunfeng Da De Yiyi's notes, the things he did became even more incomprehensible to him, so now he basically just asked questions to update his knowledge base and didn't speak carelessly.

"So much rice — how do we harvest it? Once harvested, how do we store it? Once stored, how do we digest it? We can't just grow it and ignore it like before, right?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si shrewdly changed the subject.

Seeing Ange tilted his head and said, puzzled: "Just plant it."

Clearly, he hadn't considered what to do after growing it. He couldn't just dig a hole nearby and bury it like in the Resting Abyss — the ground here was too damp, and it rained occasionally, so the grain would get wet. So he simply left it alone.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si wanted to spit blood. Just as he was about to say something, John ran over quickly: "My lord, ships — so many ships!"