Chapter 86: Peeing on the Grave

Seeing the crops, the little sapling sent them a message: Grow—hard—.

Seeing other World Trees: Grow—hard—.

Seeing Anna: Grow—hard—.

The next day, Anna came running to Seeing Ange like a madwoman with her hair in disarray, brushing the hair off her forehead: "Look, my lord look, my lord look quick."

Seeing Ange glanced at her, scratched his own smooth forehead, and said, puzzled: "Hair?"

"What hair, hair, hair roots, they grew out." Anna pinched a short stub of hair and said excitedly: "What did you do to me?"

Though she was barely twenty, her brother was unreliable, and the heavy burden of Bingcheng all fell on her shoulders. She often suffered insomnia and anxiety and lost her hair, feeling she would soon turn bald.

After Seeing Ange appeared, the hair loss eased considerably. Bingcheng's greatest crisis, the food crisis, had been alleviated. Now grain had been replanted, and the World Tree blocked the Resting Wind. Next year's grain output would surely climb to a new peak.

But the hair lost before still couldn't grow back. A head of long hair, thin as gauze, draped over her scalp; she truly feared a gust of wind would blow it aside and expose her scalp.

The moment she thought of this consequence, Anna grew anxious; being anxious made her lose more hair, so she grew even more anxious, and her hair fell even worse.

She never expected that today, waking from sleep, she touched her pillow and found no shed hair. While washing her face, she touched it and felt a prickly stub. Oh heavens, had a miracle occurred? Had her hair grown back?

She thought and thought but couldn't figure out what had happened, but the miracle was surely connected to Lord Seeing Ange.

"My lord, what did you do to me? Why has my hair grown back? Please, my lord, do it again." Anna's eyes shone as she gazed at Seeing Ange and pleaded.

Seeing Ange was a bit blank; he hadn't done anything: "No hair, can't do it." The gist was that he himself had no hair, so he couldn't grow hair.

Anna thought that was right too. Lord Seeing Ange himself had no hair, so how could he grow hair? Had she guessed wrong?

What to do? Could such a beautiful miracle have been just an accident? Could it keep growing in the future?

Anna drooped her head in dejection, but after only a few steps she froze, then stepped back one, two steps in the same posture, and slowly turned her head to look at the top of Seeing Ange's head.

Because Seeing Ange was taller than her, and wore a flowerpot on top, even on tiptoe she couldn't see. But her fierce conviction made her float up directly, rising above the flowerpot's rim, looking down to see the little sapling inside.

The little sapling startled, twisted its true leaves and gestured at her: Grow—hard—grow—.

Anna felt her scalp tingle, and a startling brilliance burst into her eyes.

The same brilliance burst in Lu Se as well. He darted over excitedly, grabbed Anna and cried: "Anna, you advanced?"

Anna's own strength was not weak; she possessed the level of a high-ranking swordsman. But a feat like this—sudden, unheralded levitation—was something only a great swordsman could do. Had Anna's strength broken through?

Anna didn't hear clearly what her brother said and flung his hand away: "Get lost, what rank advancement is as important as hair?"

After a round of verification, Anna confirmed the little sapling was the 'culprit' behind her hair growing back. Her heart surged with excitement. She reported on time morning, noon, and night—bringing water, bringing fertilizer, praying and kowtowing—no less devout than the most pious believer.

Gradually, people were baffled by Anna's strange behavior and came asking her about it. Good lord, it caught fire instantly. Lightning dashed over and showed the little sapling her half a horn; the succubus Lina ran over and showed her two lumps; there were even people who tried to drop their pants in front of the little sapling, until the angel skeleton spread its wings at him, and only then did he reluctantly stop.

The little sapling instantly became everyone's divine pet. If it weren't perched on Seeing Ange's head, someone would have taken it home on the spot.

……

Anthony scratched his own sparse forehead, frowning at the slips of paper in his hand. Each slip was a different size—some only a finger's width, others a full page, even several pages. What each slip recorded might involve dozens or hundreds of lives, or the rise and fall of one or two small nations.

The most sensational matter recently was, naturally, the anomaly among the elves. Every piece of news and intelligence about the elves, big and small, had been delivered to Anthony's desk.

Among them was one key figure. After he entered elven territory, the elves' unusual movements steadily decreased, and recently they had actually begun to retreat, returning to the depths of the forest.

Because the intelligence network couldn't reach into elven territory, let alone employ means like spies, bribery, or threats, no one knew whether this figure had anything to do with the elves' retreat, so they investigated him from top to bottom.

"Silver Coin—such a familiar name. Former vice president of the Silver Light Chamber of Commerce, now separated from it, founded a secret chamber of commerce, mainly dealing in Holy Essence Liquid? Hiss… I remember now, the Resting Abyss, that goblin. Didn't he die?"

The black warriors under Anthony had captured Silver Coin, even killed him and extracted his soul to search his memories. He should have been dead beyond any doubt. How could he be connected to the elves?

He had been thought a trivial character, yet now he was suddenly tied to the hot topic of the entire continent. Anthony keenly realized it must be inseparable from the Resting Abyss; otherwise, what qualifications would a goblin merchant have to make the headlines?

"Oh, God of Knowledge, what great matter have you cooked up this time? Could it be that the World Tree sapling is on your…" Muttering to here, Anthony suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air.

He suddenly recalled a sentence the God of Knowledge had once said: "My vegetable-growing knowledge is especially fresh right now, I'm researching how to plant a World Tree." He had taken it as a careless remark, but the elves' anomaly this time was related to the World Tree. Could it be—?

"Could it be that the God of Knowledge really grew a World Tree?" Anthony muttered, lost in thought.

Tearing off the number from the corner of the intelligence report, Anthony pressed his ring against the number. Where it met the paper, a light flashed, and an imprint was branded onto it.

Handing out this numbered, branded slip would naturally mean someone would handle the follow-up.

Different methods corresponded to different follow-up handling. The normal way was to stamp the document—for example, read, follow up, archive.

But this kind, where even the original document wasn't returned—only a number returned, stamped with Anthony's brand—meant the highest-priority handling method: destroy all documents with the same number, destroy without keeping archives.

Leaving his office and returning to his secret chamber, Anthony activated the teleportation array to call the one in Demon Valley. Because Lord Nai Ge Li Si wasn't there, someone had to be sent to fetch him, and only after quite a while was the communication connected.

"God of Knowledge, last time I heard you were researching how to plant a World Tree—did you succeed? Would you sell me one?" Anthony asked.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si's eyes rolled, and he opened his mouth: "No, who's planting a World Tree? What a joke, can that thing be planted casually? I said it offhand."

Anthony showed a face that said 'I knew you'd be like this,' and said lightly: "Do you still remember Jian Gu Luo Ke?"

Lord Nai Ge Li Si's heart jolted: "Jian Gu Luo Ke? He's still alive?" If he weren't alive, why bring up Jian Gu Luo Ke out of nowhere? Nearly scared the dragon to death.

"No, he's dead. If you sell me a World Tree sapling, I'll tell you where his skeleton is. Back when he dragged you back, weren't you always yelling that you'd pee on his grave? The chance has come." Anthony said with a smile.

PS: Got up late, no time, hurry jump on, one chapter first.