Chapter 172

A large crowd of people had already gathered on the city wall, everyone watching the surging scene of the insect tide in front of them with trepidation, at a loss.

Andong was also on the city wall at this moment. It turned out that he was preparing to attack at any time under the city wall, waiting for the moment the protective shield broke and the bugs rushed into the city to kill out and kill the insect repellent master. This might be the only way to save the city.

Of course, Andong didn't know that even if the insect repellent master died, the bugs wouldn't stop. They would gnaw on everything that could be gnawed, then kill each other, and finally all die.

At a normal speed, they couldn't evolve unless there was life acceleration to speed up their iteration speed.

However, Andong had made the best preparations within his ability. Whether it could succeed wasn't something he could control. But such a big change happened, and he couldn't stay under the city wall, so he ran up quickly and then saw the most magnificent scene of his life.

A fearless warrior opened his chest, hugged the weak little girl into his arms, and then was submerged by the tide-like bugs. The wave peak produced by the bugs rushing over was like a deep abyss mouth devouring everything.

This scene was enough to become a famous painting passed down through the ages.

Obviously, he wasn't the only one who thought so. On the city wall not far away, a magician had already laid out a scroll, his fingers sliding quickly in the air, and the scene in front of him was sealed in the scroll.

When the scroll was activated, everything recorded inside would be transformed and presented vividly in front of you, allowing you to feel as if you were on the scene.

This type of illusion scroll had no other shortcomings except for being expensive and having a limited number of activations.

However, expensive was the biggest shortcoming. People who couldn't afford illusion scrolls were also a big market. Therefore, there were painters laying out canvases everywhere on the city wall, writing furiously to record that scene.

As for the little zombie, perhaps feeling it was an eyesore, it was deliberately ignored by most people.

This astonishing scene lasted for several hours, and then, everyone on the city wall watched the bug carpet that covered the entire earth gradually shrink, finally gathering into a small mountain.

When Ang burned a path out and walked out of the bug mountain with the little angel, a cheer erupted on the city wall.

When the little angel sacrificed holy light with both hands, the cheers were even more intense. Everyone started 'cursing' the Light Church: "Long live the Light, long live the Light!!!"

The church said that the Light is eternal, but you let it 'long live'? If it's not a curse, what is it?

Andong felt uncomfortable hearing it and didn't know how to stop people's cheers, so he could only smile bitterly. But soon he reacted: "Eh, I know these people. Holy Light above, where did Lord Anthony find these people? One person cleared the bug plague?"

It wasn't just him who was surprised. When the news reached Anthony, Anthony was also surprised. What the hell is this? I'm just buying grain, does buying grain come with a bug removal service? And how did Ang do it?

Hurriedly calling Ang, Anthony asked cautiously: "My lord, how, how did you do it?"

"Insecticide."

"What!? You mean insecticide? An insecticide that can infect a nest after one bug eats it, and then the whole nest of bugs dies?" Anthony's eyes were about to pop out, and he said excitedly: "I want exclusive agency!"

Ang tilted his head: "What does exclusive agency mean?"

"It means this medicine, you only sell it to me, and I sell it to others, and I pay an agency fee," Anthony explained.

"Oh." Ang indicated he understood, and then pulled Nai Nai Ge Li Si's intention in to let them talk.

The sky gradually darkened. Ang began to gather fire elements into the bug corpse mountain, and then let them burn. The flames devouring the bug mountain jumped dozens of meters high.

The rising hot air flow of the burning took away a lot of ash, spreading it in all directions, especially downwind. In the coming year, the crop yield of the Heishan Duchy would explode, but that was a matter for the future.

Andong on the city wall shouted loudly: "Administrator, open the city gate!"

On the city platform, the temporary administrator of the Heishan Duchy poked his head out and said: "No, it's dark, can't open the gate. If a bug slips in, we're finished."

Andong nodded. He understood the temporary administrator's concerns. Indeed, if a bug slipped in and ran into the sewer, it could quickly expand into an army of bugs, crawling out from every sewer hole, every cesspit, every stinking ditch. Thinking about it was scary.

If it's not opened, it's not opened. Andong simply jumped down from the city wall. As soon as he landed, the temporary administrator shouted loudly: "Lord Andong, are you going to visit the warrior who cleared the bug plague? Please express our thanks on behalf of the Heishan Duchy. We will prepare some gifts and food and send them over later."

"Okay, no problem." Andong muttered in his heart: Still know how to do things.

"Wait for me, wait for me, that's our boss, you pick us up." Alchemist Sawa's voice came from the city wall.

Andong took a look. It was a tall and slim girl, or a servant related to the warrior? That was of course no problem: "Okay, jump down, I'll catch you."

Alchemist Sawa took a breath, jumped with her eyes closed, and was caught steadily by Andong.

"Thank you, thank you, there's one more." Alchemist Sawa thanked him politely.

Andong saw that Alchemist Sawa was quite beautiful, and suddenly felt a bit more spirited. A smile he felt was the most handsome appeared on his face: "No problem, serving a beautiful lady is my honor. Next lady, jump, jump down bravely."

While speaking, he looked up at the city wall, made a catching posture, and then saw a Tauren jump down. Andong only had time to urge his fighting spirit before feeling a mountain slam onto his body.

Waniya carried the fainted Andong with a look of shame, came to Ang, and said awkwardly: "My lord, I smashed someone fainted."

Ang took a look and cast a series of Cleansing Arts down.

The burning bug mountain was the brightest bonfire. Upwind, Andong rubbed his arm, lingering in fear and aiming at the Tauren not far away. Waniya sensed the gaze, turned her head from time to time, and returned an awkward, foolish smile.

It is estimated that the inner activities of both of them at this moment are about the same: Kubada, almost smashed to death (smashed to death by a cow) person...

Feeling his arm was a bit better, Andong suddenly remembered something: "Oh, right, my lord, the temporary administrator of the Heishan Duchy asked me to express his thanks to you on his behalf, and said he is preparing gifts to express his thanks to you."

Ang tilted his head, not knowing what to say. He obviously hadn't been able to explain his 'recognized the wrong person, jumped down to hack people, found he recognized the wrong person, and hacked them anyway since he had to collect bug ash' matter clearly.

Not long after Andong finished speaking, the city gate in the distance slowly opened, and two carriages drove out.

"Yo, two carriages? This gift is not light." Andong praised, but when he saw the gifts in the carriage, his entire face suddenly turned black.

Originally, he thought they would transport two carriages of gold coins, silver coins, jewelry, etc. After all, Ang saved a city and more than 100,000 lives. Two carriages were a bit much, counting as a heavy reward. One to one and a half carriages was reasonable.

In this day and age, to hire a mercenary group to save a city of more than 100,000 people, a reasonable price was three times this number.

However, the two carriages were actually loaded with grain, cloth, handicrafts, books, and other worthless things. The most valuable thing was a pocket offered by the person at the head, which contained 1,000 magic crystals.

1,000 magic crystals weren't even enough to buy a bottle of holy essence liquid without water. That is to say, the Heishan Duchy's thanks weren't even as valuable as a bottle of essence liquid.

Andong was a bit angered: "No wonder the Heishan Duchy is worse than the previous generation. Is this little bit of stuff worth taking out?"

Although angry, a thank-you gift is not a reward. There was no agreement. Even if the other party didn't pay a penny, it wasn't illegal. Besides despising the other party for not knowing how to act, being stingy, and being rude, Andong couldn't do anything. After scolding a few words, he returned to the city.

Ang didn't care. He didn't take action to save the Heishan Duchy; he did it because he recognized the wrong person.

After burning the bug mountain, Ang collected all the ash. At this time, Luo Ge suddenly appeared: "Lord Ang, I found the nest of the insect repellent master."

Because Luo Ge couldn't pass the scan of the Light of Truth, he stayed outside and didn't enter the city. Actually, he could have been put into the Palace of Rest and brought in, but at that time they were already close to the city gate, and there were people everywhere, and this move was very eye-catching, so he simply let him stay outside.

A demon's perception is very sensitive, so he didn't come over when fighting. He didn't think a demon and an insect repellent master could beat the Undead God and the God of Knowledge, so he went for a stroll with peace of mind. He didn't expect that such a stroll would lead to an unexpected harvest.

Looking at the bags packed full in the cave, Nai Nai Ge Li Si, who had just negotiated the price with Anthony and returned to the Brass Dragon, was dumbfounded: "Did this guy turn the entire Heishan Duchy upside down? The thank-you gifts from those guys in the city are so shabby, are they really poor?"

They saw the cave piled full of bags. Some bags were filled with gold, silver, and treasures that couldn't be contained, flowing down from the bag mouth. There was everything inside, including rings, necklaces, bracelets, silver candlesticks, gold rice bowls, and various exquisite gold, silver, and copper utensils. Anyway, as long as it was something valuable, it was possible to find it here.

Among them was a bag of things that made Nai Nai Ge Li Si very angry—gold teeth. Obviously, they were all knocked off from corpses.

Even gold teeth were knocked off, so it was not strange at all to say that the entire Heishan Duchy was turned upside down. And this was also something the insect repellent master could do.

Driving the tide-like bugs, they were pervasive. Whether it was the house beams, the ground, or three feet underground, they couldn't be blocked by bugs. If there was a crack, they drilled into it; if there was no crack, they dug a hole. Every corner, every brick, every cellar, every pit was the target of the bugs' search.

Especially since many nobles and wealthy families liked to dig pits to bury grain, which gave the bugs even more motivation to dig the ground.

Under this intensity of looting, all the wealth accumulated by the entire Heishan Duchy over thousands of years was piled up here.

"Plus the treasury in the royal court, the wealth of a country is all in your hands. It's really dog shit luck."

National treasury +1.

Ang had no feeling at all, but felt bored. Bags of shining gold, silver, jewelry, necklaces, and ornaments were put into the Palace of Rest, not as fast as when he was loading bug ash.

He wanted to stop loading, but seeing Alchemist Sawa's excited and agitated posture of wanting to pounce on the bags, Ang knew that these things were still very valuable to humans.

After loading the treasures, Nai Nai Ge Li Si said: "I've negotiated with Anthony, and now I'll report to you. Anthony bought out the exclusive operating rights of the insect repellent for 3 million magic crystals. In the future, we can just sell our insect repellent to him, 600,000 magic crystals at a time."

Hearing about the insecticide, Alchemist Sawa's ears had long been pricked up. Hearing this, she said puzzledly: "At a time? What does that mean? Shouldn't our insecticide be sold by weight?"

Nai Nai Ge Li Si glanced at her and sneered: "You don't think insecticide can kill all the bugs, do you? Of course, insecticide has a certain amount of credit, but insecticide alone can't exterminate bugs. As soon as the insect repellent master sees something is wrong, he will immediately stop the bugs from devouring each other."

"Do you know why Ang stood there and resisted hard just now? Only in this way would that insect repellent master foolishly drive all the bugs up to die. Otherwise, how could the bugs die so cleanly? At least this cave would leave a large pile to guard the treasures."

"As long as they aren't all dead, if one or two remain, these bugs can grow into a large pile again. Eliminating them isn't difficult; what's difficult is clearing them cleanly, especially in those complex environments, such as in the city. How to clear them cleanly? In the end, Ang still has to take action."

"So I agreed with Anthony not to sell the physical goods, but to sell the service. Clearing the bug plague in one place, charging per time, 600,000 magic crystals each time, and the bug corpses belong to us."

"Oh, right, you have a one-ten-thousandth dividend right for the insecticide, every time."

Alchemist Sawa's two eyes were full of the flashes of magic crystals: "Dividend? Every time? Does this time count?"

"It counts. Bai Yin said that the best incentive for high-end talent is dividends, because you get a dividend every time," Nai Nai Ge Li Si smiled.

Of course, Bai Yin also said some other things, which he didn't repeat. For example, Bai Yin said:

"Can't give too much. Too much will dampen enthusiasm. If one time is enough to eat for three or five years, some people will really be lazy for three or five years. At the same time, we must guide her to make large-scale consumption, such as buying houses, buying manors, buying magic crystal construct cars, having children, and letting her owe a debt, so that she has the motivation to make money."

Alchemist Sawa was indeed very motivated: "My lord, look, this is the potion I've conceived over the past two years. Take a look and see if there's any suitable one?"

While speaking, she took out a large notebook. Nai Nai Ge Li Si flipped through it and couldn't help but curse:

"What kind of ghost potions are these? Petrification potion? Can make limbs harden in a short time? Shouldn't it be skin hardening? Why is it limbs? Vasodilator potion? Treating vascular embolism atrophy? Isn't there a Purification Art? Find a priest to purify it. And this one, pregnancy potion? What do you want this medicine to do!!"