Chapter 272: My subordinates have become creditors and it’s too late to run away.
Ange has never been a curious skeleton. He takes things as he comes and can farm in one place for a thousand years. Apart from planting things, he has no interest in anything else.
He was not even curious about where the king had gone, but he had asked Nigris this question in the first place, because compared to other questions, the king's whereabouts was the only thing that aroused the slightest interest in him.
If you don't know, just pretend he didn't ask.
It would be fine if the cave was a small space. He would go in and take a quick look before leaving. But the cave was probably a huge space, or even another world. Ange was no longer interested. He didn’t want to explore new places at all.
In the world, there are seaweed and other species growing out there.
After sealing the hole and leaving the reef, Alice came up to him immediately. Today's "breathing of the sea" ended too early. It usually lasts all night. This change must have something to do with Ange.
"I'm stuck." Ange said.
Alice was shocked: "Can you move the stone ball?"
Ange tilted his head, was it difficult? He pushed it easily, and when it was inserted into the hole, he stamped his feet hard and it stuck firmly.
Seeing Ange's figure drifting away, Alice murmured: "Kongren is so powerful. Are all Kongren so powerful?"
Ange easily pushed the stone ball with a diameter of seven or eight meters, but that did not mean that Alice could push it, even in the water. Even if the whole family came together and pushed it reluctantly, it would not be stable. When the wind blows at night, it would not stick.
It will spray out.
As time went by, the Hairen became too lazy to plug the leak, so they calculated the time and left as soon as night came, waiting for the wind to subside the next day before returning.
It's still a windy time now, but the bubbles haven't popped up again, so it's obviously blocked.
However, for the sake of safety, Alice and her tribe waited until the next morning before returning to the reef and got into the lower pool to take a look...
"Alice, that empty man is so scary. He stuffed the whole stone ball inside, leaving only a small spot less than half a meter exposed. When our clan was prosperous, the whole clan worked together to stuff it in.
It can only seal up the cave, and at least three meters are exposed outside the cave. No wonder the sea can't blow it open." The tribesman said fearfully.
Now they understood why the only warrior in the clan was so respectful to an empty man.
"Alice, does that mean we don't have to run out at night anymore?" The tribesman suddenly realized something.
No one likes to leave home at night, sleep overnight in the wild and then come back. It’s not safe, and it’s okay to be worried. The key is trouble. You can endure it for a day or two, but it’s too uncomfortable to stay like this for a lifetime.
"Seems to be……"
Unexpectedly, Ange actually solved a big problem for them. They were so grateful that the sea people discussed it and decided to send Alice to bring some shells to give gifts.
Alice carried a bag of shells and came to the seaweed field. She didn't see Ange, so she started wandering around, looking for Ange. After searching and searching, she vaguely saw something floating on the "horizon".
When she was at the bottom of the sea, the horizon she saw was naturally diagonally above her. When she looked up, she saw a huge tentacle floating vaguely, extending all the way to the sea.
"Oh my God, what a big tentacle. Is it the Earth-centered Sea Demon? Will the empty man be captured and eaten by it?" Alice swooped down into the mud and watched nervously.
But after watching it for a while, Alice realized something was wrong. The tentacles were too regular. Its swaying was consistent with the fluctuations of the water flow. It didn't look like waving autonomously, but like it was floating with the waves. Wasn't it alive?
Alice gritted her teeth, quietly covered herself up, and came under the floating 'tentacle'. Then she saw a scene that shocked her. It was not a tentacle, but a piece of seaweed.
"How... how is it possible that such long seaweed grew in just two days? Did it eat a male seahorse?" Alice murmured.
According to legend, male seahorse has the effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, replenishing energy, and eating it regularly can make you grow faster, just like what humans say about chicken blood, bloodthirsty spells, etc.
Two days ago, when Kongren didn't come, there was no such seaweed. There is no doubt that its appearance is related to Kongren, but no matter what the relationship is, it is impossible for Kongren to grow so tall in two days. Kongren used it.
What magic was done?
After knowing that it was just seaweed, Alice stopped hiding and swam. When she reached a certain height, she discovered that the roots of the seaweed were wrapped around the statue of the goddess.
"This empty man, blaspheming the goddess, I..." A tangled look appeared on Alice's face.
These sea people living here are undoubtedly related to this statue and the Goddess of Redemption, and may even be the God-Shou clan.
The so-called guardian tribe is naturally a creature that protects gods. Their mission is to protect statues, tombs of gods, miracles and other things related to gods.
Alice remembered that when she was very young, when the elders of the clan were training her, she mentioned her mission several times, such as protecting the statues, keeping the statues clean, and killing creatures that desecrated the statues.
Now, is it time to sacrifice for the mission?
After struggling for a while, Alice sighed: "Forget it, I haven't cleaned the statue for so many years, and it has long been unable to complete its mission. If you blaspheme, just blaspheme, and...it's quite beautiful."
Because Ange wrapped the rope net between the legs of the statue, the seaweed grew naturally and covered the lower body. From a distance, it looked like a green skirt.
After comforting herself for a while, Alice swam upstream along the seaweed.
You wouldn't know it if you didn't swim, but you'd reach the sea surface as soon as you swam. As the light became brighter and brighter, Alice's eyelids closed, leaving only a slit exposed.
The seaweed actually grew to the surface of the sea, floating on the water and growing into a large area. From the water surface, it seemed like there was an extra island.
Alice came out of the water and took a look. She found that the side of the seaweed that floated to the surface was bleached white by the sun, and flowers grew on it.
Flowers? Alice never knew that seaweed could grow flowers?
Looking around, Alice quickly spotted Ange, who was stepping on the 'island' covered with seaweed, walking around as if he were on flat ground, hooking his hands towards some seaweeds from time to time. It floated obediently into his hand.
Checking, registering, comparing, Ange entered into the rhythm he was most familiar with.
Just as he expected, the chlorophyll-rich seaweeds photosynthesized with sunlight after reaching the water surface, and indeed produced starch. Those places that Alice thought were bleached by the sun were starches.
Ange didn't understand such professional things before. The lord only taught him normal soil cultivation, and his knowledge level was probably about the same as that of a professional farmer.
He obtained all this knowledge from the writings of the Great Druid of Spring Wind, as well as from the scattered soul fragments in the Druid Village.
Seaweed is an algae similar to sea grapes. They are connected one by one and form a large cluster. After reaching the water surface, they spread disorderly and branch out into a large number of branches, which grow from one branch into a cluster.
After being exposed to sunlight, the starch produced makes the grapes turn white and harden, and they look like fruits when picked.
Ange picked up a 'grape' that was 70% to 80% white, drove out the water inside, then crushed it into powder and checked the condition of the powder.
These actions were a bit out of line. Nigris couldn't grasp what Ange was doing, so he quickly asked: "Ange, what are you doing? Why are each grains crushed into powder?"
"It depends on the doneness. If it's overcooked, it won't taste good." Ange explained.
"Pfft, you've never eaten it, how can you tell whether it's delicious or not?" Negris asked in confusion.
"The handbook says that the more starch, the better it tastes. Pick it in time. If it is overcooked, it will collapse. It's fine now." Ange said as he kicked the floating rubber board to pieces, and there was a footprint on it.
For this footprint, Ange specially took out a gel plate from the space, otherwise he would not know where his footprints were.
Nigris finally understood what Ange meant. I bet he was studying the stage with the highest starch content to determine the best time to pick.
If the amount of starch is small, it cannot be considered mature. If it is overripe, the starch will be converted into plant nutrients and wasted. Therefore, any crop needs to choose the appropriate picking stage.
Nigris thought for a while, feeling overwhelmed, so he could only write it down first and understand it later.
Putting the problem aside, Nigris relaxed and looked around, and soon found Alice with half of her head exposed, desperately chewing seaweed.
After Alice came closer, she suddenly felt very hungry for some reason, and couldn't help but bite the seaweed in front of her.
After kicking away the footprints, the growth of seaweed slowed down, and Ange also relaxed.
Facing new crops, he was very focused when he activated the instant death aura to prevent himself from missing any details.
Now that he was relaxed, he felt that someone was calling him from somewhere. Following the soul connection, Ange's thoughts extended in the direction of the call, and soon he touched the extremely anxious Anthony.
Ange tilted his head: "Look for me."
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On the main plane, there is a secret altar of reincarnation, which Anthony prepares in an orderly manner. There is a body placed on the altar, which looks like Anthony himself, but it is much younger, probably only twelve or thirteen years old.
Phoenix, also known as Phoenix, the so-called Phoenix Plan, is his plan to continuously resurrect and reincarnate.
In the past, reincarnation and resurrection required careful selection of bodies, but that was no longer the case. Ange helped him get an extra body when he was free, and it was cultivated using his own tissue, but it stopped when he was a teenager.
If Anthony was reincarnated in this body, even if he stood in front of others, no one would associate him with Anthony.
However, Anthony does not want to be reincarnated, because once he is reincarnated, he will have to give up everything and start all over again. Although there are many conveniences at his disposal, he will have to start over again.
The best way is to contact Ange and ask Ange to help him solve this big problem.
But as time went by, Anthony became more and more anxious, and the corners of his mouth blistered.
Even with the quick-death aura, it would still take Ange five or six days to grow 100,000 tons of food.
Three days have passed now. If you start planting now, it will take at least eight days. By then, everything will be too late.
He was already walking on thin ice as he moved among the major forces. Now that the most critical food supply is cut off, and for eight or nine days, his entire plan will definitely collapse.
Relying on his own prestige and connections, he has maintained his current situation. Once he collapses, he will immediately become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats, and then all his prestige will be useless.
It's better to run away as soon as possible and start over again.
Before today, he called Ange in the hope that Ange could save his life. Now he called Ange mainly to say goodbye. Anyway, even if Ange started planting now, it would be too late.
As long as Ange is there to protect him, even if he starts over again, Anthony believes that he can definitely do better than this life.
And he is a little hesitant now. Should he be reincarnated as a human and continue to cause trouble in the Church of Light? Or should he simply be reincarnated as an undead or a black warrior and join the army of the immortal god again?
After more than a thousand years, Anthony is getting a little tired of being a human being.
What should he do? While hesitating, Ange's voice sounded in his heart: "Look for me."
"Oh, sir, I finally found you. Are you okay? There was no response when I called you. I'm worried to death." Anthony said in an emotional voice.
With a swish, Anthony's consciousness was dragged into the consciousness space, and Nigris' teasing words rang out: "I know why you can become the archbishop. You are obviously very exhausted, but you still remember to flatter him."
"Haha, Sir Naige, this is not flattery, this is a sincere emotion from the heart and soul, representing my loyalty to Sir." Anthony said sincerely.
Huh? This is not the right reaction. The food was burned and Ange disappeared again. Nigris thought that Anthony would be overwhelmed and anxious to get angry, but he didn't expect that he was still in the mood to flatter him. Has the food problem been solved?
"Haha, it's too late, it's too late. I'm already preparing to start the reincarnation plan. Anyway, if I start planting now, it will be a few days before the first batch of food comes out. My loan with the Silver Chamber of Commerce, the Merchant Guild, and the Mercenary Guild will start soon.
If we don't have at least 30,000 tons of grain by the end of the year, we won't be able to fill this hole."
"Once I default, my credit will collapse immediately. When creditors come to visit, it will be too late for me to run away."
Nigris said in confusion: "You are an acting pope and you have so many people under your command. Are you afraid that creditors will come to your door? Can't you just beat them out? No matter what, you can last for ten days and a half, right?"
Anthony said with a wry smile: "Those people under me have long been turned into creditors by me. After the credit collapse, they were the first ones to come to my door. Even Patri lent her money."
"Pfft - you are too -" Nigris didn't know what to say. He finally understood why it wouldn't work for a few days. If he didn't run now, he might not be able to run by then.
Anthony sighed helplessly: "There is no way. Without sufficient funds, I can't mobilize such manpower and food. As for lending money to Patri and the others, I want to help them earn a little so that they can work more carefully. Who would have thought
There are still people who dare to burn Mr. Ange’s fields.”
After hearing this, Ange said: "Can I change it to something else?"
Anthony was stunned for a moment: "Change it to something else? Change it to what?"
Ange stepped on the air, slowly walked up to a higher place, looked down from a high position, his eyes swept over the white seaweed, the scale ring flashed on his body, and a series of numbers appeared in front of his eyes: "One hundred and fifty thousand