Chapter 170

Following the influx of the thick soul flames, a large amount of information also poured in, giving Nai Nai Ge Li Si a jolt and making him roar excitedly: "Updated! My knowledge has been updated!"

The God of Knowledge, known as omniscient, relies on this ability of believers to update the knowledge base. As long as believers are willing to believe in him, the knowledge mastered by the believers will be transmitted to him, becoming a part of his knowledge system.

This ability has both good and bad points. The good part is that the more believers there are, the richer his knowledge system becomes, and he can know a little bit about even the most obscure knowledge.

The bad part is that the believers' knowledge is too shallow, and there are very few particularly profound things because scholars who delve particularly deeply into a certain aspect don't believe in him, and he doesn't understand what those scholars are studying.

This is also the main reason he is mocked as the God of 'Common Sense'.

His believers basically all follow this development curve. At the beginning, they don't understand anything, and as soon as an exam comes, they pray: God of Knowledge, I beg you, the exam is tomorrow, please tell me what this course is about?

Some believers are particularly amazing; they understand certain knowledge as soon as it's mentioned, draw inferences from one instance, and comprehend things quickly. This is the stage Nai Nai Ge Li Si likes most because they will contribute the most faith energy.

When the knowledge of these top-student believers gradually enters deep water and reaches a realm that predecessors haven't explored, Nai Nai Ge Li Si starts to get a headache. If predecessors haven't explored it, that means he doesn't know it.

If he can't answer the believers' questions, it's fine once or twice, but after many times, people close their books: "Forget it, I won't ask you, I'll research it myself." And then this believer is gone.

Coupled with the fact that his believers are relatively trashy, leading to weak faith and lack of divine power, the number of believers has never been large, especially since there are no fanatic believers. This is the thing that makes him say 'Kubada' the most.

Why does everyone else have fanatic believers, but he doesn't have a single one! The reason is that his believers are relatively rational and find it hard to become fanatical. Occasionally, there are one or two fanatics, but the object of their fanaticism isn't the God of Knowledge, but knowledge itself.

Alchemist Sawa before him is one of the more fanatical believers Nai Nai Ge Li Si has ever seen. You can tell just by the thickness of the soul flames.

However, these soul flames took a turn in his Godhead, and whoosh, seven or eight percent of them transferred to Ang.

"Kubada, you're taking a commission from me? Why? Why can you take a commission from me? Have I become your subordinate god?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si jumped up and said anxiously.

Where there is a main god, there are subordinate gods. He finally encountered a believer, and the faith was actually taken away by seven or eight percent? How could this be allowed?

Ang tilted his head, also feeling strange, and returned that stream of soul flames. But things like soul flames are hard to distinguish once they merge, so when he returned them, he accidentally returned too much. Well, just a few dozen times more.

The Huang Tong Book shone brightly, instantly growing into a thick tome taller than a person, and with a bang, it slammed onto the ground, and circles of invisible halos spread out.

"You can even return them? That's fine then. You take them, and give them to me when I need them." So subordinate gods have this kind of benefit, being able to borrow Ang's faith energy?

With his source of faith, it's not even as good as a small water pipe. Compared to him, Ang is a vast ocean. Being able to borrow is of course the best. In the future, he can pat his chest and brag: The divine power here is as vast as the ocean.

Ang withdrew his power, and whoosh, the Huang Tong Book shrank back to its original size.

With 1,000 magic crystals tucked in her bosom, Alchemist Sawa's way of walking was different, swaying left and right, afraid that others wouldn't know she had money.

"Goodbye, we're leaving, I'm never coming back, never afraid of stepping on dirty things while walking again, I'm going to buy back my family manor!" Alchemist Sawa said in high spirits.

"The manor is gone, gnawed away by bugs." Waniya took down the door pillar, carried it on her shoulder, lifted Alchemist Sawa up with one hand, carried her on the other shoulder, and stepped out of this street block without looking back.

1,000 magic crystals is a very large sum of money, enough to buy a bottle of holy essence liquid for limb regeneration, although it's the watered-down kind.

"Why are you carrying the door pillar?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si looked at the door pillar on Waniya's body and asked somewhat puzzled.

"Weapon, Tauren war totem pole," Waniya said domineeringly.

"But..." Nai Nai Ge Li Si's small claws picked at it, breaking the surface and revealing the inner core that had been completely corroded away: "The bugs have eaten it hollow."

Waniya shrugged: "No choice, it's better than being empty-handed. It's very chaotic outside now."

"Forget it, let Ang give you a better one. Carrying this thing is too embarrassing." In the end, Ang gave her a jujube wood pillar as thick as an ordinary person's waist.

Because the oasis had abundant jujube wood resources, and the Titans under his command also needed jujube wood to replace the weapons in their hands, Ang had collected a batch of jujube wood materials, covered them with breathing soil, and before long they became old wood, heavy and hard.

Waniya couldn't put it down. Being hit by such a pillar, even a person and a horse could be smashed into a pancake.

The group left the slum and came to the main street. Compared to yesterday, the situation in the city had changed. The street was empty. In the houses on both sides of the street, even if there were people, most were poking their heads out, timid and shrinking, looking once and immediately shrinking back.

"Could this be wartime control?" The Huang Tong Dragon had already been stuffed back into the Palace of Rest. At this moment, projecting onto Ang's body and seeing the situation on the street, he quickly thought of a possibility.

Wartime control refers to a practice of controlling road traffic, food, water, fuel, etc., under wartime conditions in order to prioritize the needs of the war, ensuring that troops can be mobilized smoothly during wartime.

Otherwise, it would be ridiculous if you wanted to mobilize a team to transfer to another place but were blocked on the road.

"How is it controlled? This is troublesome. How can we get out of the city?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si said.

The insecticide was made, of course, the first thing was to test its effect, but they couldn't get out of the city and couldn't encounter bugs.

Just as Nai Nai Ge Li Si was struggling, the sound of horse hooves rang out, and a cavalry squad of three people galloped from the other end of the street. Seeing Ang's group, they immediately shouted loudly: "Wartime control, don't wander around, eh?"

After shouting twice, he saw clearly the composition of Ang's group, and his eyes lit up.

His gaze first fell on Waniya, and he said excitedly: "Exquisite totem pole? War Tauren? Why are you wearing civilian clothes? Great, you've been conscripted. Go to the quartermaster's office to get a piece of leather armor and go up to the city wall. No disobedience allowed!"

After speaking, his gaze fell on the little zombie and Ang. Robust adult males were also within the scope of conscription, so he said: "You two have also been conscripted."

Finally, he looked at Alchemist Sawa and the little angel, his expression softening a bit: "You are not within the scope of conscription, go home, don't run around. People who can fight have all gone up to the city wall. Some disgusting guys are hiding here and there. If you encounter any bad people, shout for help, you know?"

While speaking, he took a cloth bag from the saddlebag of the horse and took two pieces of bread from his bosom, stuffing them into Alchemist Sawa's hands without question.

"Uh, conscripted. Wartime conscription of the young and strong in the city to cooperate in defending the city is a convention, the same everywhere. Actually, he doesn't have a bad heart, he even knows how to take care of children. Why don't we go up to the city wall? We can throw the insecticide out from above, and it's easy to leave if we want to," Nai Nai Ge Li Si suggested.

Ang nodded and led the people toward the direction the knight had just pointed.

The little angel naturally followed closely, completely ignoring the knight's words.

Alchemist Sawa smiled awkwardly at the knight, stuffed the bread from the bag back to him, and followed Ang quickly. She didn't want your bread; it could smash people to death.

"Ah! You two little girls are not in the conscription list, don't go up, it's dangerous on the city wall," the knight couldn't help but advise, but no one paid attention to him.

They soon arrived at the quartermaster's office near the city wall. There were gradually more people here, and there were people in obvious civilian attire wandering around like headless flies.

"Idiots," Nai Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but complain: "At a time like this, hurry up and grab armor. If there's no armor, grab a shield. If you grab armor, shield, and weapon, then grab a weapon. Otherwise, if you go up to the city wall empty-handed, are you waiting to die?"

After complaining, he couldn't help but sigh and overturned his own statement: "It's hard to say. If you grab armor, shield, and weapon, you'll be too conspicuous when you go up, looking like an elite. The officers on the city wall don't know who is who, and they definitely like to order 'elites' around. You'll die faster then."

Hearing his words, Waniya was confused: "Then should I take the armor? That guy riding the horse told me to come over to get armor."

"Take it. With your size, you're an elite whether you wear armor or not. Wearing it can add a layer of defense. If someone orders you around later, ignore them. Just stand here with Ang. If there's any danger, he can protect you," Nai Nai Ge Li Si said.

Waniya looked at Ang with half-belief. Actually, she had long seen that among this group of people, the silent Ang was the leader, and the Huang Tong Dragon who talked the most was the one with the least status.

But she wasn't very sure about this guess. After all, in Alchemist Sawa's mouth, the Huang Tong Dragon was the God of Knowledge. How could a god have the 'least status'?

However, Ang's small stature was too unconvincing. Waniya didn't quite believe that such a small human could protect her. She was the one who should protect him, at least she had more meat to block arrows.

Well, I'll stand next to you later, I'll cover you, Waniya secretly made up her mind.

The quartermaster's office in front was already packed. Waniya walked over, paused the totem pole on the ground, stretched out her big hand and parted the crowd. Amidst a scene of people falling over, she walked in easily.

Not long after, she walked out wearing a piece of leather armor that was obviously a size too small, pulling the grooves on her waist tightly. While adjusting it, she said with disdain: "The old man inside said there's no leather armor of this size, so make do with a size smaller. The iron armor is even smaller."

"Having it is enough. Go back and let Zijie sew a set for you. With your size, only Titan leather armor can fit you," Nai Nai Ge Li Si said helplessly.

Only Waniya was armored. Ang and the little zombie looked empty-handed on the surface. The little angel was even more eye-catching, in a pure white dress, pink and tender, which should only appear in fairy tales.

From the soldier's path up to the city wall, far away, in a cavalry squad waiting for orders under the city wall, Andong, who was at the head, looked over and frowned, saying: "Eh, isn't that the lord who sent the grain? They went up to the city wall?"

As soon as he got up to the city wall, Ang immediately felt something. He looked out of the city and saw an ocean of bugs.

Outside the safety line where the insect repellent was burning outside the city wall, it had already been densely occupied by black bugs. The entire earth seemed to be covered with a carpet of bugs, extending to the end of the horizon.

Although the individual bugs were small, the quantity was too huge. The life aura emitted densely was as conspicuous as a mountain fire in Ang's soul.

"So much bug ash." After staring blankly for a while, Ang suddenly muttered.

Pfft, Nai Nai Ge Li Si, who was projected onto Ang, almost laughed out loud. So in Ang's heart, these bugs all over the mountains and plains were fertilizer?

Now it was more than just fertilizer; it was also holy bug ash liquid, a magical liquid that could make fossil eggs return to life and restore them to living eggs.

He didn't know if a fried egg could be restored. If it could, that would be a shocking miracle.

"Hey, you little guys, don't stand there, come, come over and sit." In the corner of the wall not far away, a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer waved to them.

Beside the middle-aged farmer, there were several shy young men. Seeing Ang and the others look over, they all laughed foolishly.

Ang led the people over. Several young men hurriedly moved aside, or patted the wall bricks under them, enthusiastically inviting them to sit.

Waniya sat down without hesitation, occupying the space of three people. She greeted the middle-aged farmer roughly: "Hello, my name is Waniya." By the way, she placed the totem pole horizontally on the ground.

This was good. The totem pole was as thick as a waist, and when placed horizontally, it was just the height of a bench and long enough, which was more comfortable than sitting on the ground.

Of course, whether it was comfortable or not was Alchemist Sawa's feeling, so she sat on the totem pole. Ang's three were undead creatures and wouldn't feel uncomfortable even if they stood until tomorrow, so they didn't sit.

The middle-aged farmer gasped: "Call me Old Man Leo. You Tauren girl are really sturdy."

"Yes, good appetite, eat a lot, sturdy." Waniya often went to the mercenary guild and the human market to find work, and had long learned how to get along with the working people.

"Hear that? Good appetite, you can only be sturdy if you eat a lot." Old Man Leo seemed to have found theoretical support and turned his head to lecture the young men around him. Several young men smiled bitterly: "We have to have food to eat a lot."

They soon became familiar with each other, and Waniya asked: "Why aren't those bugs moving?"

"Oh, an officer just came over and said that the bugs are waiting for dark."

"Ah, dark? I can't see things clearly when it's dark," Waniya said distressedly. Tauren's eyesight is very poor, rumored to be because they are vegetarians.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si was also shocked. This trick was very effective. Whether it was humans or Tauren, night vision was greatly reduced, and bugs were black and small. In the pitch black, wouldn't they have to crawl onto their feet to be discovered?

Humans were in trouble. Hopefully, the protective shield could block them, but it was hanging. The bugs didn't attack yesterday, but waited until today, definitely to accumulate quantity.

And yesterday there were flying fire meteors hitting the protective shield, obviously testing the strength of the protective shield. That is to say, attacking today meant that the insect repellent master had already tested the strength and was sure to break the protective shield before preparing to launch.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si racked his brains but couldn't think of any good way to block the bugs in the dark.

Just at this moment, Ang's head suddenly burst into flames, and he said angrily: "Tulus! The one who burned my field." After speaking, he rushed to the city wall and jumped down.

The protective shield was defensive against the outside but not the inside. Without any obstruction, Ang penetrated that layer of film, slammed onto the ground, then sacrificed the Reaper's Scythe, and rushed toward the hillside on the right side outside the city wall.

The little zombie and the little angel hurriedly followed.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si took a look and saw a bonfire burning on the mountain city. The flames were twisting, occasionally condensing into a face. From that face, a powerful demonic aura emanated.

That wasn't Tulus at all; it was clearly a powerful demon.

"Hey hey hey, it's not Tulus, don't treat every demon as the one who burned your field, hey!" Nai Nai Ge Li Si roared anxiously.