Chapter 226: Seedling technology is outdated

Encountering a stupid skeleton, Ang felt helpless. He quietly walked along the wall, preparing to leave Shengbicheng, then wait for the undead tide to recede or for the Eternal Night to pass before finding another teleportation array to leave. The Fallen Plane must have other teleportation arrays to return to the Main Plane.

If that failed, he would wait for the dimensional beast to recover and return through a spatial passage.

He didn't expect to bump head-on into a three-meter-tall giant golden skeleton. The opponent possessed a soul heart several times more powerful than an ordinary golden skeleton, and paired with a sturdy frame, its combat power was likely very formidable.

Unfortunately, its brain wasn't very clear. After it roared at Ang with claws and fangs, Ang thought it was speaking in "roar-roar" language, so naturally, he roared back.

He didn't expect it was just roaring; it was trying to scare (sell cute) people, with no intention of expressing anything at all.

After the two sides talked past each other for a few rounds, Ang gave up, pushed it aside, and walked toward the east.

Now that the undead tide had surged into the west side of the Central Mountain Range, there were fewer undead on the east side, so Ang prepared to stay in Bridgehead Village for a while.

He didn't expect this stupid skeleton to follow him, speaking in a muffled voice: "Hello, my name is Da Gu, what is your name..."

"Why haven't I seen you before? Are you newly awakened?"

"Where are you going? Ha Wei told us to go to the west..."

"Fine, if you don't want to go, then don't. Anyway, Ha Wei isn't our king..."

"Why is your left arm bone purple, just like Ha Wei's? Are you Ha Wei's subject?"

"..."

Ang didn't feel anything, but Negris, who was projected onto him, couldn't take it anymore and spoke up: "Stop following us!"

Da Gu asked: "Who are you? Why are you on him?"

"Eh? You can discover me?" Negris was surprised. It had projected onto Ang so many times, but this giant golden skeleton was the first to discover it.

Da Gu nodded: "Ha Wei has one on him too, but it doesn't talk."

Negris asked: "Are you saying that Ha Wei also has a consciousness like me on him? Is Ha Wei that purple-gold skeleton?"

"Yes."

"Then why are you following us?" Negris asked.

"You were fierce to me," Da Gu said.

"When were we fierce to you!?" Negris couldn't help but cry out in grievance. What the hell, when had Ang ever been fierce to it?

"Roar roar," Da Gu gestured with claws and fangs.

"Isn't that because you roared at us, so we roared back at you?" Negris was furious. This wasn't framing someone, was it?

"I was scaring you," Da Gu said happily.

"Right, you were scaring us, so we were fierce to you," Negris said.

"You were fierce to me," Da Gu said.

Negris realized it had been led in circles by this stupid skeleton. It scared them, they were fierce to it, so it followed them because they were fierce to it... Why did it get led in circles... Who was the stupid one, exactly?

Forget it, let it follow if it wants, Negris thought speechlessly.

Ang turned and continued walking forward, and Da Gu followed closely: "Hello, my name is Da Gu, what are your names..."

To prevent this stupid skeleton from repeating the same questions over and over, Negris helplessly replied: "I am Nai Ge, and this is Ang."

"Oh, hello, my name is Da Gu," Da Gu replied.

"Got it, got it, you've said that several times already. Da Gu, why are you following us?" Negris asked, though it was repeating the same question itself.

However, Da Gu didn't give a repeated answer, but said happily: "You aren't afraid of being touched."

"??" What kind of answer was that? Following them just because they aren't afraid of being touched? It should go follow that purple-gold skeleton instead.

Normal people were destined to be unable to understand Da Gu's heart, which had been hurt by fragile skeletons.

But with it following like this, it wasn't convenient for Ang to return to Bridgehead Village, so he simply climbed up the mountain, heading toward the cave they had visited before.

Just as he approached the cave, Ang heard an unusual sound.

"Rats?" Was it rats digging up his seeds again?

He rushed over quickly, Ang gathering his power, ready to unleash a soul storm on them. However, what he saw upon rushing into the cave was a large group of the elderly, weak, women, and children.

The elderly, women, and children were all very weak, resting at the edge of the cave, leaving the central area where the crops were planted empty. No one stepped into it, and because the light in the cave was insufficient, the planted crops had basically not sprouted.

Seeing a golden skeleton rush in aggressively, everyone screamed and cried in terror, scrambling back into the depths of the cave.

An undead floated over, blocking Ang's path, and shouted sternly: "Do not harm the humans, get out!"

Ang tilted his head. He recognized this undead. Wasn't this Felik? How did he run back? And he brought so many human elderly and weak with him?

However, the other party didn't seem to recognize Ang anymore, which was normal, because Ang had taken off his hat.

As a high-level undead, facing a golden skeleton, Felik still had a bit of psychological advantage. He hoped his scolding would make the other party obediently retreat; otherwise, it would be troublesome.

If a golden skeleton went crazy, an accountant undead like him would have no ability to stop it, and all the humans here would die.

Just as Felik finished speaking, another muffled voice came from outside the cave: "Don't crawl so fast, wait for me." Then, a three-meter-tall giant golden skeleton clawed at the cave ceiling and squeezed in.

Its arrival terrified the humans even more, the screams and cries colliding and refracting in the cave, then surging toward the cave entrance together.

Da Gu was shocked by the screaming, staring blankly at the humans in the cave for several seconds before reacting: "Ah! So many people!" Then it turned and ran.

"..."

"..."

Negris said helplessly: "Felik, it's us."

Hearing this voice, Felik reacted immediately: "Nai Ge, my lord? How did you become a skeleton?"

Negris was too lazy to explain, asking instead: "Forget about me for now. What is your situation? Why are there so many humans? And why did you bring them here?"

"Oh, oh, my lord, it's like this. These are the families and friends of my clients on the other side of the mountain. Shengbicheng was broken, so everyone was very afraid and didn't know what to do. Although undead were announcing everywhere that the undead army doesn't kill, everyone was still very afraid, so they entrusted me to bring their families over."

"It was very tiring walking the mountain road, so I led everyone here to rest for a while. Don't worry, my lord, I have repeatedly warned them not to step on your land," Felik said with certainty.

Negris scanned the area with its consciousness and saw that the state of those humans was not very good. Everyone had cracked lips, dull eyes, and were listless.

"What's going on? Is there no water to drink?" Negris asked.

Felik replied: "Yes, we left in too much of a hurry. We didn't bring much water, and it was all drunk on the road. There are no water sources on the mountain. Maybe there is water in some rock crevices, but I don't drink water usually, so I don't pay much attention. Now that I want to find it, I can't find it. We can only endure until we reach the foot of the mountain to drink."

Negris looked at those people and said worriedly: "Can they still endure until the foot of the mountain? Going down the mountain is much harder than going up."

"Sigh, we'll try our best," Felik sighed helplessly. He was just one undead and couldn't take care of so many elderly and weak.

While they were talking, the humans in the cave who had been frightened gradually calmed down. Everyone was just frightened just now.

People willing to flee with an undead would certainly not be particularly afraid of the undead. Seeing that Ang had no intention of tearing them apart, they gradually quieted down.

A seven or eight-year-old boy, perhaps unable to bear the thirst, suddenly ran over and held up a soul crystal to Ang: "Can I buy water from you?"

Felik was surprised: "Little, little, little Brandu, where did you get a soul crystal?"

"Pfft, what is your name? Are you from the Brandu family?" Negris sprayed. Could it be such a coincidence? Were there villagers from Brandu Village here?

Looking closely, there really were. Many were familiar faces, but he didn't know their names.

Little, little, little Brandu replied: "My grandfather gave it to me."

"Your grandfather, could it be him?" After Negris finished speaking, Ang reached out and pulled out Brandu, Little Brandu, and Little Little Brandu one by one. Good heavens, these people named themselves too casually.

Little Brandu screamed as soon as he came out: "Snot-nose, why are you here?"

Little Little Brandu screamed in surprise: "Dad!? Dad? How did you appear all of a sudden?"

Little Brandu also found many familiar faces from the village among the refugees, running over in surprise and worry.

They were all acquaintances, and they had paid (soul crystals), so Ang had no choice but to take out a bucket from his space, reach out and cast a spell, filling the whole bucket with water like pouring water.

Fearing that someone would get dysentery, Ang also cast a purification spell, purifying the water in the bucket into holy water.

The sound of Ang casting the spell was like beautiful music to those refugees who were thirsty, and everyone looked over involuntarily.

When the bucket was full, and Ang cast holy light, everyone knelt down in shock involuntarily, muttering: "This... is this a holy skeleton? God, creating water out of thin air, is this a miracle?"

People who are hungry will have particularly sincere faith, and the same is true when they are thirsty. Ang only felt a wave of pure soul flames being cast toward him, and these soul flames were all cast toward him, not toward the light.

Ang tilted his head in confusion. Why did such a change occur? Was it because of the name "Holy Skeleton"?

Even Negris couldn't understand things like faith, so naturally, he understood it even less. He threw the question aside and couldn't be bothered to think about it.

Brandu, who was beside him, looked at everyone's kowtowing and listened to the shouts of "Holy Skeleton" and the like, his expression extremely complicated.

Having been to the Palace of Rest, he naturally knew what kind of goods this skeleton was. What holy skeleton, this was the biggest boss of the Undead Empire.

However, as a sophisticated person, he also realized that no matter what Ang was, there was nothing he could do.

Inform? In this situation, even if he shouted loudly that this was the big boss of the Undead Empire, would anyone believe him?

Thinking back to the miracles Ang displayed when harvesting crops in the village, ordinary people might not necessarily realize Ang's true identity even if they had been to the Palace of Rest, such as his two stupid sons and nephew.

Others might not necessarily believe it, but his fate was doomed. He would definitely die very cleanly, without even his soul remaining. Ang dared to let him in and out, naturally having a way to make him unable to open his mouth.

Thinking about it, it seemed that only one path remained.

Brandu pulled his long sword and planted it on the ground, knelt on one knee, and said seriously: "Lord Ang, Brandu, pledges his loyalty to you."

There were no empty words like light or holiness, only a simple pledge. But after his soul flame entered Ang's body, new symbols formed in his soul, and a connection on a spiritual level was established between them.

Negris couldn't feel this spiritual connection, but it was very satisfied with Brandu's actions, praising him: "You did the right thing, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to come out next time."

Main Plane, Dragonfall Lake, Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er rolled up her trouser legs, squatting on the ridge of the field with a face covered in dirt, tears in her eyes. There was no longer any of the elegant demeanor of an Elven High Priestess.

With the sound of hoofbeats, the unicorn carried Gai La De down, asking in surprise: "Lan Dai, what's wrong with you?"

Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er turned her head and said to Gai La De with a tearful face: "Your Majesty, go find Lord Ang and the others. I, I planted their rice to death."

"What?! Planted to death?" Gai La De widened her eyes in shock, and Lightning's mother also widened her eyes in shock, as if she had heard something incredible.

Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er, Elven Archdruid, the person who manages the World Tree.

If there was a ranking of druids in the world, Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er was undoubtedly one of the best. There were very few things in the world that she couldn't grow, so how could she plant rice to death?

Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er said with a tearful face, her self-confidence severely hit. Although she couldn't grow the World Tree seedling last time, that was the World Tree. It wasn't strange that she couldn't grow it; it would be strange if she could. Perhaps Ang had just been lucky enough to encounter a suitable environment, which was luck and had nothing to do with strength.

But this time, she was facing Saltwater Magic Rice. Although it was saltwater, rice was still rice.

Heading, filling, pollination, etc., were all under Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er's control. The final yield was 20% higher than what Ang had managed.

She had taken over when half of the growth period had already passed, and she could still increase the yield by 20%. If the entire growth period had been managed by her, wouldn't increasing production by 40% or 50% be easy?

The confident Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er, after harvesting the crops, selected seeds and bred them, rubbing her hands to cultivate the best Saltwater Magic Rice.

The idea was good, but the reality was that she couldn't even sprout a single seedling.

"Is my seedling-raising method wrong?" Kai Auntie Lan Dai'er asked, lacking confidence.

If it had failed in another way, she could accept it. But failing to sprout seedlings, just like the World Tree, made her have to suspect whether her seedling-raising technology was outdated.

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