Chapter 444: The troublemakers are here

The Warlock Ladder was like a huge umbrella, supported outside North Wind City, with three rings falling down from small to large in turn, forming a hollow "umbrella" surface.

Nai Ge Li Si's intention was projected on Ang, and he said in surprise: "There is a shield on it? That's not just for the sake of good-looking shape, but also a magic shield? What a clever conception."

Protected by the magic shield, this large space under the "umbrella" would not rain, dry and clean... North Wind City didn't rain much anyway, but it was always good to have something to cover it.

This large space under the Warlock Ladder quickly formed a large market. Occupying the largest area were several large shops of the Warlock Alliance, one of which was for receiving food for free, and at this moment, it was queuing in a long line.

However, although the queue was long, the people queuing were all full of energy, and no one looked like they were starving, which made the goblin distributing food strange: "You are not hungry?"

"Not very hungry, I ate a small piece of rapeseed cake in the morning."

"Then why are you here to receive things?" The goblin asked in confusion.

"Ah? Isn't it free to receive? Does it cost money? If it costs money, I don't want it." The resident queuing hurriedly said.

"... It doesn't cost money. Did your North Wind City not suffer from disaster?" The goblin distributing food clearly hadn't received the latest news, so he was very strange. The scene didn't look like it had suffered from disaster.

"Yes, yes, how could it not suffer from disaster? Now grain is much more expensive. Bread has risen by 20%, and sometimes it is used to offset vegetables. If vegetables weren't more expensive, I definitely wouldn't be happy." The resident complained.

However, his complaint sounded like showing off in the goblin's ears. Hearing the word "vegetables," the goblin's saliva couldn't help but accelerate secretion.

There was no order from above to stop disaster relief, so the goblin had to glare viciously and slap a piece of brown gelatinous substance into the other party's hand.

"Eh—what is this thing? It's slimy like snot." The resident said disgustedly.

"Hehe, good stuff, eat it. One piece is enough for a day. Eat one piece, and you don't have to eat for a day." The goblin said unkindly.

"One piece for a day? How is it like rapeseed cake? The resident complained while licking a small bite, there was no strange taste, and then carefully took a small bite. The taste was okay, and there was no discomfort, so he ate it in three or two bites.

"It's okay, it's quite delicious. What is this thing called?" The resident asked.

The goblin had a mocking expression: "Didn't you just say it? Snot cake, we all call it that."

Another goblin flew over, slapped him on the head, and scolded: "Snot your head, snot your head, let you talk nonsense, let you talk nonsense."

After beating his companion, this new goblin smiled and said: "Don't listen to his nonsense. This is convenient rice cake, nutritious, good taste, and easy to preserve. We all eat this thing."

The new goblin smiled while eating it himself.

Anyway, it could be eaten, and the taste was okay, so the queuing residents didn't mind and left with one piece each.

The new goblin glared viciously at the companion who had just talked nonsense, and then gave the position back to the other party.

The beaten goblin muttered indignantly: "Just talk about nutrition and taste, why don't you talk about constipation if you eat too much? We eat it, but why don't you talk about eating this broken thing every day all year round?"

Besides this food point with a long queue, there was another long queue, and over a dozen human women in white ritual robes were busy.

Seeing them, Anthony and Du Luo Ken looked at each other, their expressions strange.

"Classical Light Priest, the ritual robe is a very classical style," Anthony said in a low voice.

These Light Priests were busy checking patients, first asking, then observing, and then distributing some potions, red bottles, green bottles, yellow bottles, as big as a finger.

The patient opened the bottle on the spot and drank the potion. After a while, their complexion improved a lot.

Anthony watched for a while and said in a low voice: "They are all minor illnesses and pains, diarrhea, colds, sores, etc."

Never saw those priests use divine arts. Soon, a person lying on a stretcher was carried over. This person was so thin that only skin wrapped around bones, dying, and also very painful.

Clearly, he couldn't even lift his hands, but every once in a while, he would suddenly cover his abdomen and his whole body would spasm, making a "he-he-he..." sound, so painful that he couldn't even scream.

Anthony shook his head and said in a low voice: "Late-stage liver tumor, no cure. Better to die early, otherwise he could be lived to death by pain."

The female priest came over and looked at it, and also had the same reaction as Anthony, shook her head, and cast holy light on his abdomen.

The patient's spasms eased, and the pain on his face also lessened. He couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

Another female priest came over, pulled the patient's family to the side and said something. The family couldn't help but sob, but finally nodded painfully.

The female priest turned back and nodded to her companion, and then the holy light flourished, and the patient swallowed his last breath with a smile.

Du Luo Ken asked in a low voice: "Can't this kind of disease be cured? Can you cure it?"

Anthony pursed his lips and said: "It's more troublesome. You have to cut off the diseased place, cooperate with essence liquid, and let the diseased organ grow again."

"But healthy flesh grows, and diseased flesh also grows. If there are too many diseased places in the whole body, what grows out might be diseased things. Unless you can use a good limb like the lord, and let the other party grow out, like I did at the beginning."

Nai Ge Li Si was startled: "Like you? Your body cost dozens of liters of essence liquid."

With such a high cost, not many patients could afford to treat it. A smiling sleep was his best choice.

The dead person was carried away by the family, and the queue returned to normal, but no one would blame these priests for not being able to save people. Instead, they felt grateful that they could make the patient die without pain, and couldn't help but learn their appearance, muttering: "Light bless."

Anthony said in a low voice: "Medicine, food, the two most practical weapons for fighting for faith."

Du Luo Ken said: "You mean, these warlocks are fighting for faith? Aren't they atheists?"

"Don't know, but they are definitely fighting for the hearts of the people. Faith is just incidental. Look over there." Anthony signaled calmly.

With the "umbrella bone" as the center, one team is medicine, one team is food, but the third stall is in another direction, which is not visible from North Wind City, and it is easy to ignore it if you don't pay attention.

So there was no long queue at the third stall, only a few people, and looking at their attire, they were all warlocks, nobles, rich merchants, etc.

Nai Ge Li Si's heart trembled, because it saw its own statue, or rather, the statue of the God of Knowledge—a lecherous dragon holding a book.

Ji Li said that the Hall of Knowledge was the largest religion in this world, because warlocks believe in knowledge, and mortals are influenced by warlocks and deify knowledge.

But in fact, Nai Ge Li Si couldn't convert this faith into its own power at all. Except for the stray child outside the desert town, Nai Ge Li Si never saw soul flames cast to it again.

But that stray child in the desert town, because Ang gave elf beans, it was hard to say whether he really believed in the God of Knowledge.

Unexpectedly, he would see one of his own statues here, which was obviously processed twice, becoming a dragon holding a book, but that lecherous... smiling expression was exactly the same as itself.

So, are food, medicine, and knowledge the three weapons for warlocks to fight for the hearts of the people?

However, there was no time to study it carefully. They had already pushed the cart to the innermost row, and various materials were piled up like a mountain, extending all the way. They found a goblin staff member and explained their purpose.

The goblin heard the vegetables Silver Coin said, his eyes lit up, and he immediately said politely: "Please wait a moment, I'll go find the manager."

Soon, a human was led over, looking at Silver Coin with deep meaning: "Hello, I am the deputy manager of the second material team, Lafitte. What did you transport? Vegetables? Who placed the order?"

"Oh, is it the deputy manager of the first team, Wrench·Head-Exploder? Deputy Manager Wrench is really amazing, finding vegetable sources so quickly, we need to learn from him, but routine inspection is still needed."

"You know, our Warlock Ladder is a fully enclosed space, and there can't be any dirty things like plague insects, so, are your vegetables clean?" Lafitte looked at Silver Coin with a smile.

Silver Coin almost laughed for the first time: "Manager Lafitte, I don't know what the standard of clean is? This is our first time here, and we don't know much. Why don't I invite the manager to have a drink and explain it to me properly?"

While speaking, one hand was behind his back, and he quietly made a gesture to Ang and the others.

This was the gesture Silver Coin agreed with Anthony and the others. Anthony laughed as soon as he saw it, and said in a low voice: "This person wants to find trouble, Silver Coin is probing, let us be prepared."

"Find trouble? We are just selling vegetables, what trouble can we find? Want to lower the price or not pay?" Nai Ge Li Si was puzzled.

Anthony coughed twice and explained helplessly: "If vegetables are particularly important to them, then finding the source is a great merit. If the source found by your colleague is fast and good, then the merit is his. If you can pick a little fault in this matter, then the merit might become yours, leaving only mistakes for him, right?"

Nai Ge Li Si realized, but immediately reacted: "No, you two are so shrewd, how could you not think of this kind of thing? Is the Wrench·Head-Exploder who purchased from you? Does this name sound good? Didn't he leave contact information?"

Anthony rubbed his nose awkwardly. Nai Ge Li Si didn't quite understand those little tricks in the workplace, but he understood Anthony and Silver Coin quite well, and saw through them at a glance.

"Don't you think this is good news? They are not monolithic internally and can be divided and utilized. This kind of news, sending the wrong vegetables can be probed out, it's too worth it," Anthony said.

They were chatting here, and Silver Coin's side was also finished chatting. Although Lafitte came to find trouble, I don't know how Silver Coin chatted with him, but he was actually smiling. Silver Coin walked back, and he was still nodding with satisfaction there.

"What did you chat about? Why is he so happy?" Nai Ge Li Si asked curiously.

"Ah? Just some polite words, saying he is young and promising and handsome, dedicated and capable, with sharp eyes and wide connections, admired by everyone and promoted quickly," Silver Coin said casually.

Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but praise: "Silver Coin really knows how to speak, say more in the future."

"No, no, no, Lord Nai Ge is the one who really knows how to speak, with broad knowledge, and knows all languages. I want to learn from you," Silver Coin said sincerely.

Thanks to Nai Ge Li Si being projected on Ang now, otherwise it would have floated up.

Silver Coin turned to Ang and said: "This Lafitte said that the Warlock Ladder is an enclosed space, and vegetables must be inspected and quarantined. There can be no living things, pests, and plant infectious diseases, otherwise they will be rejected."

"He also hinted to me that he knows someone who can clear these things, making the vegetables clean. If it really doesn't work, I can go find that person. The purchase price of clean vegetables is higher." 【44

Anthony's eyes rolled, and he said: "Soliciting bribes? Stealing credit?"

Silver Coin said: "Both, probably. He hinted that the purchase price could be higher; he probably wanted to give me some sweetening, but these sweeteners have to be shared with people he knows."

Naigelis couldn't help but ask: "Then what should we do?"

Silver Coin said with a naive face: "I didn't understand what he meant, so I had to cooperate with his inspection. Sigh, the vegetables from our place are too clean; where would there be any bugs or germs? Hehe."

"Pfft—" Inspecting anything else would be fine, but he had to inspect for bugs and germs? The vegetables Ang took out from the Divine Realm were clean enough to be eaten raw.

Silver Coin slowly played the fool, cooperating with Lafitte's inspection.

Time ticked by second by second. The time slot Silver Coin chose was only about ten minutes earlier than the time he had agreed upon with Deputy Manager Wrench.

Just as Lafitte finished his inspection, a goblin carrying a large wrench rushed over aggressively: "Lafitte, what are you trying to do to my supplier?!"

Lafitte's expression was very ugly. How could the vegetables be so clean? How could there not be a single bug, lesion, or even a speck of dirt or rot? He had already raised the inspection standards to the highest level, and even then, he couldn't find any faults?

Unfortunately, if he knew that these vegetables were grown by Ang in a closed planting sphere using a soil-less method, with moisture and humidity controlled by the Water God Tom, and transported via the Divine Realm, he wouldn't have had such thoughts.

Vegetables grown this way were cleaner than those that had been washed; they could be eaten as soon as they were cut.

Lafitte couldn't find any faults and was in the wrong to begin with, but Silver Coin's attitude was very good, so he couldn't vent his anger on Silver Coin. After being roared at by Wrench, he left with a dark face, flicking his sleeves.

Wrench complained to Silver Coin about why he hadn't notified him when he arrived so early.

Silver Coin looked naive and at a loss, with an expression of "I don't know what happened," which made Wrench unable to stay angry.

However, when he saw the quantity of vegetables, he couldn't help but complain: "Why so little? Are there more goods? This is only five hundred kilograms, right? How is this enough to eat?"

"Uh, is it not enough? Then how much do you need?" Silver Coin asked.

"Any amount is fine. Bring as much as you have, and we'll take it all. Money is not an issue. We don't have a place to grow vegetables there, and it's usually very difficult to get vegetables to eat," Wrench said.

No place to grow vegetables? Anthony and Du Luo Ken's eyes lit up simultaneously upon hearing this.