Chapter 414: Become a sacrifice for the undead!

North Wind City was chaotic, and even the garbage on the street was not cleaned up. The shops on both sides of the main road were closed, and the pedestrians on the road were also in a hurry.

The arrival of Ang and his party attracted a lot of attention, but seeing their obviously not easy-to-mess-with attire, no one came to touch the bad luck.

Nigris fell into the same confusion as when it was in the Land of Sinking, not knowing where to go. But the leader, Silver Coin, was not confused. He observed for a while and walked straight into a small alley.

Soon, the group came to a quiet alley. At the end of the alley, a swordsman poked his head out and looked at them vigilantly.

Silver Coin held up a bunch of fresh vegetables. Saying fresh, but don't know how long they had been planted, they were just taken out of Ang's Divine Domain, so they appeared fresh.

The swordsman retracted his head, soon poked it out, and nodded at Silver Coin.

Nigris was stunned and couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean by gesturing like this?"

Silver Coin walked straight to the end of the alley, explaining as he walked: "On the main road in front, I saw the sign of the Grain and Oil Chamber of Commerce. Grain is a bulk commodity and needs a large warehouse to store. If they sell grain in front, there must be a warehouse in the back."

"The shops in front are closed, but there must be people in the warehouse in the back. Even if they are not open for business, there is no way to transport the grain away all at once, so I came over to see. Sure enough, there are people."

"I hold up fresh vegetables, indicating that I have 'vegetables' in my hand. If they have needs in this regard, they will let us pass. If not, then we will try another place. But it seems our luck is good." Silver Coin said with a smile.

Nigris realized: "You profiteers, the ways of doing business are really many."

"Not really, just some small tips. Even if you don't do business, you can use them. Many commercial habits here are different from the main plane, and I am still learning." Silver Coin said modestly.

The group walked to the end of the alley, turned a corner, and saw a row of strong swordsmen staring at them.

Silver Coin walked over as if nothing had happened, handed over a small card, and said enthusiastically: "Hello, nice to meet you. I am Silver Coin, Vice President of the Silver Light Chamber of Commerce. This is my business card." A businessman's style.

Silver Coin used to use wooden cards carved from the World Tree, but no one here knew the World Tree, so the effect of using the World Tree to 'pretend' was gone. These small cards were silver-plated business cards that Silver Coin made in a hurry, silver and shiny, very beautiful.

Silver Coin's businessman style made the other party relax a lot. After taking the business card, he stepped back and let out a human who looked like a businessman behind him.

Silver Coin was even more enthusiastic, went up to hand over the business card, and then whispered for a while, and even gestured with his hands for a full half hour before they finished talking.

After Silver Coin came back, he signaled everyone to retreat the same way and leave the alley. Only after leaving the alley did Nigris couldn't help but ask: "What's going on again? What did you talk about? Why did you leave without selling things?"

Silver Coin said: "Sold, sold, sold 6,000 jin of fast-growing vegetables, 30 magic crystals."

Hearing 6,000 jin, it seemed quite a lot, but hearing '30 magic crystals', Nigris was a bit unhappy: "Only 30 magic crystals? So cheap?"

Silver Coin was a bit stunned: "Cheap? Uh, not cheap anymore, right? 30 magic crystals equals 300 gold coins. On average, 20 jin of vegetables for 1 gold coin, expensive to the sky. I couldn't believe it when he quoted the price. In the main plane, the same type of fast-growing vegetables are a few copper coins per jin."

"Ah? Are vegetables so cheap?" Nigris was stunned.

It really didn't know the price of vegetables. That didn't count as knowledge, just market conditions. It felt cheap because Silver Coin earned 100,000 or 100,000 magic crystals at every turn, and this kind of business of a few tens of magic crystals a bit damaged Silver Coin's image.

"Of course cheap, can't sell, even can only rot in the ground. The shelf life of vegetables is very short, not resistant to storage, and can't be sold far at all. I can supply such fresh vegetables, the other party is also surprised."

"It is remote and desert here, fresh vegetables are rare, basically dried vegetables and radishes, which is also the reason why the other party offered a high price."

Nigris was still a bit unhappy. Tossing such a long way, just for these few tens of magic crystals? Even if all the vegetables in Ang's Divine Domain were sold, it might not be 1,000 magic crystals.

Silver Coin said with a smile: "Compared to selling some expensive goods, I prefer to do business of bulk commodities like grain and salt, because the demand is large and stable. If I can take down the grain and salt supply of ten cities, earning 1,000 magic crystals a day, that's 300,000 a year. If I take down ten cities?"

"Even 3 million a year is little." Nigris said disapprovingly: "Not enough for half a month's profit of God-Beauty City."

"Puff—" It was Silver Coin's turn to spit blood, rarely grabbing and saying: "Can it be compared with God-Beauty City? That is a monopoly business."

"Then why don't you give the vegetables to them?" Since the price is very suitable, why not deliver the goods directly?

Silver Coin shook his head: "Of course not. The Lord's Divine Domain is a secret. Delivering goods here, wouldn't they know that the Lord has a storage space that can keep fresh? This is more valuable than anything. What if they rob us? We deliver goods at the edge of the cemetery outside the city and let them come to pull it themselves."

Oh, the box containing things is more expensive than the things inside. What if the other party robs? Of course, kill them. Nigris was used to running rampant relying on Ang's strength and had never thought about being robbed.

The group exited the alley and didn't walk a few steps when a man suddenly rushed out and blocked them, raising his hands high and kowtowing hard on the ground.

"This is... begging?" Nigris was stunned.

This was the first time Ang and the others were begged by someone. This kind of experience was too fresh, and for a while, they didn't know how to react. On the contrary, Silver Coin was like a treasure, hurriedly pulling the other party to a corner, and Ang and the others surrounded them.

The beggar was stunned. What is the situation? He looked at everyone vigilantly, his hands slowly covering his front.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, what is your name?" Silver Coin asked with a kind smile, and at the same time asked Jili for a few small flour cakes. Among the group of people here, only Jili needed to eat.

"John." The beggar John was obviously starving, his eyes glowing when he saw the flour cakes. He took it and bit off half in one bite. When he wanted to bite again, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, used great perseverance to endure it, and reluctantly put the flour cake into his arms.

"Called John again? People here also like to be called John?" Nigris couldn't help but complain. It had seen John, Old John, Little John, John Bull, and there were already no less than twenty. The guy who named them was really lazy.

Seeing him put the flour cake into his arms, Nigris couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Eat, why don't you eat? Not hungry?"

John said humbly: "Thank you for the reward, I want to take the rest back to my wife."

"So you still have a wife? Eat, eat, eat, as long as you answer some of my questions, these flour cakes are yours, eat boldly." Silver Coin showed the remaining flour cakes.

He held this John, just to understand the situation in the city, otherwise he would be blind. This matter should have been done when entering the city, but who let the grain chamber of commerce be near the outside of the city, and it was seen as soon as entering the city, on the contrary, the beggars couldn't be seen.

Jili was unhappy and said: "Leave some for me, this is beef flour cake I baked with beef essence flour and snow from the lake. You give it all to him, what do I eat?"

Every time Jili said a material, John swallowed a mouthful of saliva. After Jili finished speaking, his stomach couldn't help but roar, his eyes staring straight at the remaining flour cakes in Silver Coin's hand.

He ate too fast just now and didn't taste the flour cake at all. Now that Jili mentioned it, his lips and teeth were full of beef and wheat fragrance.

"How long have you not eaten?" Silver Coin asked, asking while handing him another flour cake.

"Haven't eaten for three days." John took the flour cake, didn't eat it, but put it into his arms, took out the half piece from before, and gnawed it in small bites.

"How many people are there at home?" Silver Coin asked.

"There are two... one, wife left at home." John's mood suddenly dropped.

"Is it one or two?" Silver Coin asked.

John's eye sockets turned red: "There is also a daughter, but she was cursed and can't live anymore. If I go back, there should only be one person left."

"Cursed?" Silver Coin muttered, temporarily writing it down, and turned to ask: "Why did you think of begging from us?"

John wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and said gratefully: "You came out of the grain chamber of commerce, I think you should have food. The grain shop has been closed for seven days, and only the black market has grain to buy. I really had no choice but to try it. Thank you."

"Seven days? Do you know the reason?" Silver Coin asked.

John responded: "It seems that the road was cut off by mages. Now North Wind City has cut off contact with the outside world."

"Cut off the road? Why?" Nigris couldn't help but ask.

In a world with teleportation arrays, cutting off the road is a very unnecessary operation. If the road is broken, nobles and rich people can also travel through teleportation arrays and cannot cut off their contact with the outside world at all.

"Maybe they want to starve us poor people to death. Most of the grain in North Wind City is transported from outside. If the road is broken, many of us will starve to death." John said with a bitter smile.

Silver Coin asked some very detailed questions, such as whether there are many pedestrians on the street recently, whether there are luxury carriages or knights coming in and out, what things are sold in the black market, and whether there is robbery.

These trivial things were asked, and Silver Coin showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

Seeing Silver Coin finished asking, Nigris immediately stepped forward and urged: "John, take us to your home to see. Didn't you say your daughter was cursed? Let's go see what curse it is."

Nigris was more curious about curses. Curses are a relatively special power, sometimes more inclined to divine arts, belonging to the level of faith and spirit.

Necromancers are more proficient in curse-type magic. With Nigris's knowledge level, seeing magic, it can roughly calculate the strength of the mage.

John led the way in

John led the way in disbelief, a glimmer of hope igniting in his heart; these people were going to see his daughter, could they possibly have a way to dispel the curse?

Yet this hope was shattered the moment they returned to his doorstep, as his wife's miserable sobbing drifted from inside the house; John rushed in, and soon he was sobbing too.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but sigh: "Sigh, poor people, they don't even dare to cry out loud."

John's house was small; once Yin Bi, Nai Nai Ge Li Si, and Ang entered, there was no room left, so the others had to wait outside.

As soon as he entered, Ang saw a dried corpse lying on the bed. Why call it a dried corpse? Because the body was so thin it was nothing but bone, just like a dehydrated mummy.

However, Ang still 'saw' that there was residual warmth inside the corpse; it hadn't been dead for long.

Ang followed the corpse with his gaze, which shifted to the corner of the wall, where there was a mouse hole.

John had actually prepared himself mentally long ago, so at this moment, it was more that his hope had been shattered; he cried for a few moments before recovering, turned to kowtow to Ang and the others, and then wanted to roll up the mat.

If a corpse is rolled in a straw mat and thrown into the cemetery outside, the undead will handle it; this is the best way to be buried, as the soul of the deceased will return to the embrace of the God of the Undead and enjoy eternal peace.

"Wait a moment," Nai Nai Ge Li Si stopped him: "She isn't completely dead yet, she might be saved. Ang, come over and take a look."

Ang cast several Cleansing Spells, and the emaciated corpse became much more vibrant; then, he cast a Rebirth Spell, striking the corpse's heart. The corpse suddenly flipped over and sat up, taking a sharp, gasping breath—she was alive.

This kind of treatment frightened John and his wife; it wasn't until their daughter lay back on the bed with her eyes wide open, hoarsely calling for Mom and Dad, that they finally reacted, though they hesitated for a long time before daring to approach.

God of the Undead, is it really this intense? Is this healing or is it a corpse coming back to life?

Ang didn't pay them any mind; he went about condensing a water ball, took out an Elf Bean to crush it, mixed half of it into the water ball, and poured it into the girl's mouth.

Then came the Cleansing Spells, one after another; the emaciated, corpse-like body became visibly rosy.

Not until the girl's life force stabilized did Ang stop, continuing to cast his gaze toward the mouse hole in the corner.

The girl was already able to sit up on her own; she looked at her hands in disbelief and touched her body—nothing was missing, and that sense of gradual withering and weakness was gone. Did I not die? And the curse seems to be gone too?

"Dad... Mom..." the girl called out to John and his wife in a hoarse voice.

John and his wife were in disbelief; John gathered his courage, hesitantly reached out, and squeezed his daughter's arm. It was soft and warm to the touch, not the cold, corpse-like sensation from before. Their daughter had truly come back to life.

The family of three hugged each other in a daze, weeping softly.

Just then, a frantic, furious voice came from the mouse hole in the corner: "Damn it! Who stole my sacrifice! You meddlesome brat, didn't your teacher teach you not to meddle in other people's business?! Since that's the case, you shall take her place and become the sacrifice for my Undead Offering!"

A plume of black smoke emerged from the mouse hole, coalescing into a ferocious face.