Chapter 376 Tarantan Metaphysics
Combined with the income from Moses Port and the payment received from Dutata City, the income from the Knight's renting a boat to sell lotus roots has skyrocketed to thousands of gold coins.
It sounds like a large sum of money, and it would be heavy enough to put in a cash box...it would weigh more than 20 kilograms!
Miss Linda returned to the room on the ship where she had stayed for a few days and locked the cash box with the key.
Then ... the secretary skillfully dragged out another larger box from under the bed, went to the captain's room, and stuffed the corpse, clothes, and miscellaneous belongings of her immediate superior into it...
He gave his room to the captain of the cargo ship who was the employer of the Undead Lord, helped Miss Linda carry her own luggage and her boss's corpse, and personally sent them to the guesthouse arranged by the City Hall in Midtown. Then he left politely - the contract between the two parties was only until the lotus roots were sold out, and when he returned to Innade, the captain could also take a batch of goods down to earn some freight.
Miss Linda, who has settled down...is not idle.
After taking a short rest to catch her breath, she walked out of the guesthouse, stood on the street, and looked around.
After a while, several undead passed by on the street.
Miss Linda glanced over quickly... and seeing that these undead were wearing full sets of standard equipment and their weapons looked very sophisticated, she turned her eyes away as if nothing had happened.
After waiting patiently for more than ten minutes and screening out two batches of "unsuitable" ghosts, Miss Linda confidently raised her hand to greet them when the third batch of ghosts strolled by.
The two players, wearing white steel knives on their waists, fish scale armor on their shoulders, and white equipment all over their bodies and carrying a bucket, ran towards Miss Linda and said, "Hello, do you need help from your undead friends?"
"I really need your help, Undead Warriors." Miss Linda skillfully put on an awkward expression, "There is a valuable item that needs to be delivered to Mr. Orange Cat's Knight Territory and handed over to the Knight Territory's Butler as soon as possible. If it can be delivered within ten minutes, we hope to receive five Undead Coins as a thank you gift. I wonder if the two Undead Warriors are willing to help?"
"Yes, yes!" The two inexperienced players who had just come online and had not yet used their transmission CD nodded in unison.
Miss Linda calmly called the two undead upstairs, handed them the cash box full of gold coins, and temporarily opened up the knight's undead teleportation point to them - inviting the two undead to form a team.
The private teleportation point can only be used by players who join the owner's team or group. Since it is impossible for the orange cat to be online 24 hours a day, he simply forms a long-term team with Miss Linda and lets Miss Linda take on the captain's authority.
It is not possible to allow "NPC" to have a panel similar to that of players. It is not a big deal to allow "NPC" to team up with players - the natives don't have a panel anyway, and can neither see the team channel nor the coordinates and distance of teammates' avatars. Only the players can see an extra green name in the teammate list.
"NPC will also recruit people to form a team?"
The two lazy players picked up the cash box, discussed in amazement, and went to the town hall, using the teleportation point of the town hall.
The two players who activated the teleportation point of the Orange Cat Knight Territory appeared in front of the Knight Territory’s house three minutes later.
They handed the box to the butler in the big house and received their reward, then teleported into CD. These two lazy guys couldn't go back to Dutata City for the time being, and they were in no hurry to go back.
The knight's territory of the orange cat boss is on the bank of the Barcelo River. There is a large river beach at the foot of the village - although this river beach has been dug into shallow lotus ponds and is full of silt due to harvesting... but it is a river beach after all.
"This place looks good and seems to be suitable for fishing. Why don't we try our luck here today?" Salted Fish Party A is eager to try.
"Let's go!" The Salted Fish Party waved its B-bone claw.
These two lazy players who basically did nothing serious when they were online ran down the mountain in a hurry.
The villagers who were preparing decorations for the winter festival at home heard the noise and came out to see what was going on. They saw only two ghosts coming down from the big house on the top of the mountain and running to the river beach. They then calmly went back to their own business...
In the city of Dutata, Miss Linda entrusted the important gold coins to the undead to send back. She then packed up her luggage, picked up the corpse of her undead boss, and went to the city hall to receive the students from the Ouchang.
The clerk from the Civil Affairs Department of the City Hall warmly received Miss Linda and invited her into the reception room to wait for a while. Not long after, Zhao Zhenzhen came over.
Miss Linda had seen this undead lady when she followed Phoenix to visit Innadri, and was deeply impressed; as soon as Zhao Zhenzhen spoke, she recognized this "Ms. Zhao" and excitedly introduced the Knight Territory's lotus farm cultivation experience to this wise undead lady.
Zhao Zhenzhen also remembered the secretary from Phoenix. After chatting with her for a while with a smile, she almost found out the background of the orange cat owner - this guy didn't use any special breeding methods at all, and didn't even do a control test. He just copied the experience from the wealth show.
They can actually keep wild lotus alive, and grow it to such a large scale - even someone as well-mannered as Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't help but be speechless for a while.
"Could it be that our agricultural experts have gone in the wrong direction?"
While continuing to talk to Miss Linda, Zhao Zhenzhen began to think in her mind.
Half a year ago on Earth, and one year ago in the alien world, a group of experts invited several retired agricultural experts to enter the "game" to study high-yield crops.
The achievements of these agricultural experts are obvious to all:
Westham Town and Yongwang Town, which have fully implemented intensive farming and scientific planting, increased their wheat yield per mu to 500 kilograms last year, with a growth rate of 30%; the output of potatoes, corn, and soybeans increased by at least 40% to 50%. Although it is still not as high as the average yield per mu in China, it is much higher than the output in this foreign world.
Then... when settling the autumn taxes, Innader was settled based on the total harvest of the previous year. Anyway, as long as the tax amount was not less than the previous year, there was no need to give more money to the Rhine Royal Family and the Gold Coin Church.
Because of this, Innadri's finances became more abundant...
It was also because of the full participation and guidance of agricultural experts that the southern wasteland of Adler Territory was able to accumulate a large amount of grain in the first year of reclamation and dare to accept so many pioneers.
But apart from that...the wild species domestication experimental fields set up by agricultural experts were almost wiped out.
The few experimental varieties that survived failed to achieve the expected yield.
"Wait - is it because of the problem of the Tarantan Wasteland? The wild species that migrated from the wasteland have a higher survival rate?"
After thinking about it for a while, this idea popped up in Zhao Zhenzhen's mind.
This kind of attribution is indeed a bit metaphysical... but in this alien world where there are even true gods, metaphysics does not seem to be completely out of the question.
Zhao Zhenzhen temporarily suppressed this thought and continued to discuss the river beach development in the Knight Territory with Miss Linda.
The population of the Knight Territory is limited. After all, it is the territory of the Odysseus family, and it is impossible to absorb population at will. It can only take a small and fine development route.
When Miss Linda mentioned that the Orange Cat Lord was planning to raise loaches in the shallow lotus pond next year, Zhao Zhenzhen expressed her appreciation... This thing tastes good and has high nutritional value, and is suitable for both braising and stewing.
After learning about the Knight Territory's development ambitions from Miss Linda, Zhao Zhenzhen judged that there would be no problem in utilizing this ready-made teaching venue to train a group of technical lotus root farmers as soon as possible. She thanked Miss Linda with a smile and asked someone to take her to receive the lotus root farm students.
There's actually no problem with the national team training itself...but the workload Zhao Zhenzhen has to deal with is too big, so it would be nice to ask compatriots to help share some of the burden.
The industrial structure of Adler Territory is very simple. Apart from agriculture, which is the pillar industry, there are handicrafts and agricultural product processing industries with low competitiveness and gross profit margins. Even though it has the port convenience of Dutata City, it only operates a few isolated repair shops, hardware parts factories, and pitiful and scattered private mines.
It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Zhenzhen, who came to Dutata City to take on the heavy responsibility after handing over Innadeli to others, took over a mess.
During the time when Yang Qiu and Coulson O'Neill were both ignored, Zhao Zhenzhen and the expert group behind her were racking their brains to find a way for the economic development of Dutata City and Adler Territory. Making use of the Barcelo River that runs through Adler Territory and fully exploring the potential of this river is the top priority at the moment.
"Since we have to start from scratch anyway, we might as well try to see if the metaphysics of the Tarantan Wasteland is reliable!"
After sending off Miss Linda, who was running around for her unreliable Undead Lord boss, Zhao Zhenzhen immediately summoned Ji Tang, who was working diligently as the mayor of Westram, two PLA soldiers who were among the players, and the national team's "tool players" who could spare some time, and all of them were teleported to Exile Town and drilled deep into the wasteland...
The orange cat boss had no idea that he had opened the door to a new world for the national team. He hadn't calmed down his furious wife until Miss Linda led ten students to buy boat tickets and return to the Knights Territory...
The fresh lotus roots brought to Dutta City soon appeared in the public canteens and delicatessens directly operated by the Logistics Department.
Lotus root is not a common food for the people of the Rhineland, and the lotus root slices placed on the stainless steel plate quickly attracted the attention of diners.
The night watchman, whose headquarters is diagonally opposite the city hall, has seen few people willing to eat in his own canteen since the public canteen of the Logistics Department opened. At mealtime, they all run to the canteen opposite.
Most of the night watchmen were well-off, and the Logistics Department's public canteen and delicatessen were famous for their cheap prices. When the night watchmen saw the new dishes, they didn't even ask the prices, but urged the canteen staff to give them a portion.
The slightly spicy braised lotus root slices, which cost three copper coins per portion and weighed about 300 grams, captured the tastes of the night watchmen who preferred slightly stronger flavors that very day. Together with the boiled slightly spicy edamame that had just been introduced not long ago, they became the default top two side dishes for the night watchmen and the middle-class people who came from South Street specifically to buy side dishes.
Almost half of the 80 tons of fresh lotus roots purchased by the Logistics Department were sold, and it was not until more than a month later that the Night Watchmen realized that this thing was actually grown by a certain Undead Knight Lord...
When the night watchman of Dutata City experienced the taste stimulation brought by the spicy and sweet braised lotus root, deep in the distant Tarantan Desert.
Ross Jonathan Mansfield, the former head of the investigation team of the Church of the Blazing Sun and current professional mentor of the Novice Village in the Birthplace of the Undead, stared expressionlessly at a square not far in front of him where at least a hundred undead were fighting.
During the third test, the time limit for newbies to conscientiously complete the brick-moving task was only one month (Earth time); when the third test players could easily put together a Spider's Nest monster-killing team and a Poison Mist Swamp reclamation team, the brick-moving task of Exile Town was ruthlessly abandoned by the players.
Only such a short construction period of two months (in the other world time) is enough... Today's Exile Town has a construction scale similar to that of Westram, a small town with a permanent population of several thousand. Although it is full of bungalows and the construction is not completed very meticulously, it does have the structure of a town after all.
Players were unwilling to stay in the town for a long time, which greatly reduced the work intensity of the "Novice Village NPC". The Innadri operators who were sent to provide support returned one after another, leaving only a dozen former thieves and eleven former members of the Fiery Sun Church Investigation Team still "holding their posts".
Ross finally got rid of the devastating life of having to talk to hundreds or even thousands of undead from morning to night, but he didn't feel lucky.
Ross , who is over 40 years old and at the peak of his wisdom, physical strength and energy, has been "living day and night" with these unidentified undead for so long. Whether he likes it or not, he has to passively and inevitably begin to understand and recognize some of the behavioral logic of these undead...
For example, now.
Even though Ross had tried his best to tell himself to ignore the bunch of undead fighting in the square in front of the Knights Guild... he was still forced to watch the whole process from the quarrel to the fight, and heard the reason for their quarrel.
To put it simply, one party angrily accused the other party of stealing his girlfriend (lover?), and the other party fought back, saying that the other party was not his girlfriend at all, but was just being harassed by him one-sidedly. The two parties became more and more excited as they argued, and then they started fighting. The undead next to them wanted to dissuade them, but friction occurred during the tug of war, so the one-on-one fight turned into a group fight...
Ross could understand that undead creatures also had emotional needs, especially intelligent undead creatures; but as for the existence of another world different from the material plane revealed in their quarrel, he really didn't want to know!
"Is it so realistic that there will be problems with competing partners in the afterlife?!"
Ross had a blank expression on his face, but he was roaring in his heart.
This is totally inconsistent with the Kingdom of God and Hell described in the Burning Sun Bible!
Ross didn't believe that such a large number of undead came from a certain dimension of the devil, even though he had speculated so before. But after being forced to serve the undead for so long, Ross had completely abandoned this idea.
——Even in the tenth level of the demon world, it is impossible for there to be so many great demons with advanced intelligence!
The low-level creatures from the demon world are muddle-headed and their intelligence is not even as good as that of a pet dog. It is even more impossible for them to suddenly become intelligent after being summoned to this plane by the Nightmare Butcher.
After thinking about it, although Ross was extremely reluctant to believe it... he could only guess fearfully that the origin of these undead souls might really be from the mysterious afterlife .
Rhodes did not mention this speculation to anyone else.
But his subordinates are all sharp investigators...it is only a matter of time before this "truth" is discovered by others.
Or maybe other people have already discovered this, but they just have the same concerns as Ross and have not expressed them...
What made Ross even more anxious and suspicious was that after so much time had passed, the Church of the Fiery Sun still hadn't rescued them!
"Could something have happened?" Ross withdrew his gaze from the fighting undead and unconsciously looked to the north. "What on earth happened in the Holy Land? Why is it so slow?"
Ross, who was rarely asked to perform tasks by the undead and spent most of the day just sitting at his post in a daze, suddenly saw several undead running hurriedly from the direction of the crossroads.
"Why are you guys still fighting? Stop it, a mining group found a group of NPCs we haven't seen before outside!"
Seeing the players fighting in the Knights Guild Square, one of the Undead stopped in his tracks and stood on the side of the road, shouting, "They are all high-level NPCs with great equipment! Come join the group and kill the BOSS!"
The chaos of the undead in the square suddenly became quiet. In the guild across the square, Ross, who heard the shouting, widened his eyes in shock.
The "NPC" that the undead refer to is humans.
When the undead refer to "BOSS", sometimes they are monsters, and sometimes they are humans, specifically professionals with powerful strength.
"...Could it be that the Holy Land sent someone here?!" Ross's heart began to beat violently.
Before Ross could get excited for long, the undead standing by the roadside yelled out the next sentence: "Come and join the group quickly, we are going to block the BOSS in the west, hurry up!"
Rhodes's ecstasy came to an abrupt end.
If the Kenyan Empire sent people to rescue, they might take the route from the Sokri Empire and enter Tarantan from the south, or they might directly cross the east and enter Tarantan from the east, but it would be impossible for them to come from the west.
