Chapter 274: Subordinates become creditors, it's too late if I don't run

Ang was never a skeleton with strong curiosity. He was content with his lot and could farm in one place for a thousand years. Apart from planting things, he had no interest in other things.

He wasn't even curious about where the King had gone, but he did ask Naigelis this question at the beginning, because compared to other questions, the King's whereabouts were the only thing that could arouse a tiny bit of his interest.

If he didn't know, he would just pretend he hadn't asked.

If the cave was just a small space, he would just take a look and leave. But if the cave was likely a huge space, or even another world, Ang wouldn't be interested. He didn't want to explore a new world at all; there was still seaweed waiting to be planted outside.

Blocking the empty hole and leaving the reef, Alice greeted him for the first time. Today, "the sea's breathing" ended too early. Usually, it would last for a whole night. This change must have something to do with Ang.

"I blocked it," Ang said.

Alice's expression shook: "You can move the stone ball?"

Ang tilted his head. Is it hard? He pushed it very easily, stuffed it into the hole, and stomped his feet twice with force, and it was stuck firmly.

Looking at Ang's floating figure, Alice murmured: "Empty people are too powerful. Are all empty people this powerful?"

Ang easily pushed a stone ball with a diameter of seven or eight meters, which didn't mean Alice could move it, even in the water. Even if the whole tribe went up together, they could barely move it, and it wouldn't be stuck firmly. It would be sprayed out as soon as the wind blew at night.

Over time, the sea people were too lazy to block the leaks. They calculated the time, and as soon as night came, the whole tribe would leave, and they would go back after the wind stopped the next day.

It was still the time when the wind was blowing, but the air bubbles didn't bubble out anymore. Clearly, it was blocked tightly.

However, for safety's sake, Alice and her clansmen waited until the next morning to return to the reef and drilled into the accumulated water in the lower part to take a look...

"Alice, that empty person is so scary. He stuffed the whole stone ball in, only revealing a small point of less than half a meter. When our tribe was prosperous in the past, the whole tribe worked together to stuff it in, and we could only block the hole, with at least three meters exposed outside the hole. No wonder the sea couldn't blow it open," the clansman said in fear.

Now they understood why the only warrior in the tribe was so respectful to an empty person.

"Alice, does that mean we don't have to run out at night anymore?" The clansman suddenly realized a point.

No one likes to leave home as soon as night comes, sleep in the wild for a night, and then come back. It's not safe, and it's worrying. The key is that it's troublesome. One day or two days can be endured, but a lifetime like this is too uncomfortable.

"Seems so..."

Unexpectedly, Ang solved a big problem for them casually. Grateful, a group of sea people discussed and decided to send Alice to bring some shells to give as gifts.

Alice carried a bag of shells and came to the seaweed field. She didn't see Ang, so she started looking for Ang's whereabouts. While looking, she vaguely saw some things floating in the "horizon."

She was on the seabed, and the horizon she saw was naturally diagonally above. Looking up, she saw a huge "tentacle" vaguely floating, extending toward the sea surface.

"Oh my god, such a big tentacle, is it a Geocentric Sea Demon? The empty person wouldn't be caught and eaten by it, right?" Alice "swooshed" and lay down in the silt, observing nervously.

However, after watching for a while, Alice felt something was wrong. The tentacle was too regular. Its swaying and the fluctuation of the water flow were consistent. It didn't look like autonomous waving, but more like floating with the waves. Could it not be alive?

Alice gritted her teeth, quietly covered it, came under the floating "tentacle," and then saw a scene that made her heart tremble. That wasn't a tentacle, but a seaweed.

"How... how is it possible? Growing such a long seaweed in two days? Did it eat a male seahorse?" Alice murmured.

In legend, male seahorses have the effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, and replenishing energy. Eating them often can make you grow fast, just like what humans call chicken blood, bloodthirsty techniques, etc.

Two days ago, when the empty person didn't come, there was no such seaweed. Undoubtedly, its appearance had something to do with the empty person. But no matter what it had to do with, it was impossible to grow so high in two days. What magic did the empty person use?

Knowing it was just seaweed, Alice stopped hiding and started swimming. When she swam to a certain height, she discovered that the root of the seaweed was entangled on the goddess statue.

"This empty person, desecrating the goddess, I..." Alice's face first showed anger, and then a tangled expression.

These sea people living here were undoubtedly related to this statue and the Goddess of Redemption, and they were very likely a god-guarding tribe.

The so-called god-guarding tribe was naturally a creature that guarded the god. Their mission was to protect the statue, god tomb, god traces, etc., things related to the god.

Alice remembered that when she was very young, the elders in the tribe trained her and mentioned her mission to her several times, such as defending the statue, keeping the statue clean, and killing creatures that desecrated the statue.

Now, was it time to sacrifice for the mission?

After being tangled for a while, Alice sighed: "Forget it, haven't cleaned the statue for so many years, the mission was already uncompleted. Desecrate if you want to desecrate, and... it's actually quite good-looking."

Because Ang entangled the rope net between the two legs of the statue, the seaweed grew along it, and naturally entangled the lower body. Looking from a distance, it looked like a green skirt.

After comforting herself for a while, Alice swam up along the seaweed.

She didn't know until she swam, but she swam to the sea surface. As the light became brighter and brighter, Alice's eyelids closed, revealing only a slit.

The seaweed actually grew to the sea surface, floated on the water surface to grow, and grew into a large piece. Looking from the water surface, it looked like an island.

Alice floated out of the water surface to take a look and discovered that it didn't know if it was because of the sun, but the side of the seaweed floating on the water surface was bleached white and grew flowers.

Flowers? Alice never knew that seaweed could grow flowers?

Looking around, Alice soon discovered Ang. She saw Ang stepping on the "island" formed by the seaweed, walking as if stepping on flat ground, and from time to time beckoning to some seaweed, and those seaweeds would obediently float into his hands.

Checking, registering, comparing, Ang entered his most familiar rhythm.

Just as he expected, the seaweed rich in chlorophyll, after reaching the water surface, underwent photosynthesis with sunlight, and indeed generated starch. Those places that Alice thought were bleached white were starch.

In the past, Ang didn't understand such professional things. The knowledge instilled by the Lord was only normal soil planting, and the knowledge level was about the same as a professional farmer.

The current knowledge was all obtained from the hand notes of the Spring Breeze Great Druid, and from the scattered soul fragments in the Druid village.

Seaweed is an algae similar to sea grapes, one by one, connected into a large string. After reaching the water surface, it spread disorderly, branched out a lot, and grew from one root into a cluster.

After receiving sunlight, the starch generated made those "grapes" white and hardened. Picking them down was like picking fruits.

Ang picked up a "grape" that was seven or eight percent white, drove out the water inside, and then ground it into powder to check the situation of the powder.

These actions were a bit beyond the standard. Naigelis couldn't grasp what Ang was doing and asked hesitantly: "Ang, what are you doing? Why grind every one into powder?"

"Check ripeness, overripe, not tasty," Ang explained.

"Pfft, you haven't eaten it, how to distinguish whether it's tasty or not?" Naigelis asked puzzled.

"Hand notes say, more starch, tastier, pick in time, overripe, will shrivel, now good," Ang said while kicking the floating glue board, on which there was a footprint.

For this footprint, Ang specifically took out a piece of gel board from the space, otherwise he wouldn't know where to step.

Naigelis finally understood Ang's meaning. It turned out he was studying the starch content to determine the best picking time.

Less starch means not ripe, overripe means starch will turn into plant nutrition, wasting it in vain. So any crop needs to choose the right picking stage.

Naigelis thought for a while, felt his head was big, and could only write it down first and understand it slowly later.

Putting the problem aside, Naigelis relaxed, projected its will to look around, and soon discovered Alice, who was revealing half her head and gnawing on seaweed desperately.

After Alice approached, for some reason, she suddenly felt very hungry and couldn't help but bite into the seaweed in front of her.

After kicking away the footprint, the growth of the seaweed slowed down, and Ang also relaxed.

Facing new crops, he was very focused when launching the Speed Death Halo, preventing himself from missing any details.

Now that he relaxed, he felt that someone was calling him in the dark. Following the soul connection, Ang's will extended in the direction of the call, and soon touched Anthony's will.

Ang tilted his head: "You find me."

In the Main Plane, at a secret reincarnation altar, Anthony was preparing in an orderly manner. A body was placed on the altar, looking exactly like Anthony himself, but much younger, about twelve or thirteen years old.

Phoenix, also called the Undying Bird, the so-called Phoenix Plan, is the plan he has been constantly resurrecting and reincarnating.

In the past, reincarnation and resurrection required careful selection of bodies, but now it's not needed. Ang helped him cultivate an extra one when he was idle, using his own tissues, but it stopped growing when it was ten-something years old.

If Anthony reincarnated into this body, even if he stood in front of others, everyone wouldn't associate him with Anthony.

However, Anthony didn't want to reincarnate, because once reincarnated, he had to give up everything and start over. Although there were many conveniences to use, he had to start over in the end.

The best way is to be able to contact Ang and let Ang help him solve this big problem now.

But as time passed, Anthony was anxious at first, then calm, and then indifferent now.

Even with the Speed Death Halo, it would take Ang five or six days to grow one hundred thousand tons of grain.

Three days have passed. If he starts planting now, it will take at least eight days or more. By then, everything will be too late.

He was originally moving between major forces, just like walking on a tightrope. Now that the most critical grain is cut off, and it is cut off for eight or nine days, his entire plan will definitely collapse.

Relying on his prestige and connections, he maintained the current situation. Once it collapses, he will immediately become a street rat that everyone shouts to beat, and then no prestige will be useful.

It's better to run away early and start over.

Before today, he called Ang in the hope that Ang could save his life. Now calling Ang again is mainly to say goodbye. Anyway, even if Ang starts planting now, it's too late.

As long as he is covered by Ang, even if he starts over, Anthony believes he can definitely mix better than this life.

And he is also a little hesitant now. Should he reincarnate as a human and mix into the Light Church to continue to make trouble? Or should he simply reincarnate as an undead or a black warrior and return to the command of the Undead God?

For over a thousand years, Anthony has been a human for a bit too long.

What to do? While hesitating, Ang's voice sounded in his heart: "You find me."

"Oh, my Lord, finally found you. Are you okay? Calling you has never been responded to, I was worried to death," Anthony said emotionally.

"Whoosh," Anthony's consciousness was dragged into the consciousness space, and Naigelis's teasing voice sounded: "I know why you can be an Archbishop. You are clearly overwhelmed, but you still remember to flatter."

"Hehe, Lord Naigelis, this is not flattery, this is the sincere emotion from the heart and soul, representing my loyalty to my Lord," Anthony said sincerely.

Eh? This reaction is wrong. The grain was burned, and Ang disappeared again. Naigelis thought Anthony would be overwhelmed and anxious, but didn't expect him to still have the mood to flatter. Could it be that the grain problem was solved?

"Hehe, it's too late, it's too late. I've already prepared to start the reincarnation plan. Anyway, if I start planting now, the first batch of grain will take several days to come out. My borrowing from the Silver Coin Society, Merchant Society, and Mercenary Society is about to expire. Without at least thirty thousand tons of grain, I can't fill this hole."

"Once I breach the contract, my credit will collapse immediately. By then, the creditors will come to the door, and it will be too late for me to run."

Naigelis said puzzled: "You are a dignified acting Pope, with so many people under your command, are you still afraid of creditors coming to the door? Just beat them out, right? No matter what, you can hold on for ten days and a half months, right?"

Anthony smiled bitterly: "The people under my command were developed by me into creditors long ago. After the credit collapse, the first batch to come to the door will be them. Even Patricia has borrowed her family's wealth."

"Pfft—you are too—" Naigelis didn't know what to say. It finally understood why it wouldn't work even a few days late. If you don't run now, you might really not be able to run by then.

Anthony sighed helplessly: "No way, without sufficient funds, I can't mobilize so many people and grain. As for borrowing money from Patricia and the others, it was to take them to earn a little, so they could work harder. Who could have imagined that someone would dare to burn Lord Ang's field."

Hearing this, Ang said: "Change to something else, is it okay?"

Anthony was stunned: "Change to something else? Change to what?"

Ang stepped on the air, slowly walked to a higher place, looked down from a high position, his gaze swept over the seaweed that had already turned white, and the Balance Ring flashed on his body. A string of numbers appeared in front of him: "One hundred and fifty thousand tons... Bread Algae."

Ang decided to call these seaweeds Bread Algae. ===== CHAPTER 275 =====