Fallen Moon Territory, the waters near Rhodes Island.
A shabby garbage boat was sailing unsteadily on the sea.
Because it is close to the garbage island, the sea surface here is covered with oil spots of various colors.
Black oil, corpse water, the juice left by rotting food, sewage from various factories, alchemical waste liquid discharged from the Mage Tower, earth, fire, water, wind, ice, thunder, dark light in the periodic table, all circulate endlessly in the sea, filling the sea surface with unbearable sour and stench.
However, Wally, the captain of the garbage ship, did not wear a mask. Instead, he stood at the bow, facing the sea breeze, with an intoxicated expression on his face.
"This smell is the smell of wealth and glory, the smell of a bright future.
"Shashasha , it smells so good, so good!"
Wally's eyes were red, revealing his big yellow teeth, and he opened his mouth to breathe sharply.
When Qi Ge came to the Garbage Island for the first time, he told Wally, the only boatman on the island, that as long as he could adapt to the stench of the island and smell the fragrance from the stench, he would take Wally as his subordinate.
This kind of unreasonable request was actually impossible to accomplish, but Wally had already run out of options, so he had no choice but to do it no matter how difficult the request was.
It turns out that the potential of living things is unlimited.
After fainting dozens of times, Wally actually got used to the smell of the Garbage Island.
When Qi Ge heard the news, he was a little amused and helpless.
He secretly admired that Wally was a tough guy.
When things got to this point, Qi Ge took Wally in, but he did not let Wally get in touch with his core circle. He only asked Wolfs to send a few of his men to connect with Wally.
So, Wally's shabby garbage boat was replaced by a luxurious giant cruise ship, and his identity changed from a boatman to the [Minister of Health of the Fallen Moon Territory].
This position comes with its own mage tower, and the salary is three times the average salary of the Falling Moon employees. The position also has some rights to recruit and assign cleaning staff.
Wally was so happy about this sudden success.
He specially asked someone to customize a statue of Xingfeng and worshiped it. He would kneel down and worship it every morning when he got up and before going to bed to express his loyalty.
Seven Pigeons also made many layouts around Rhode Island through Wally.
“Suck it!”
Wally sniffed and smelled the familiar fishy smell from the sea breeze. He immediately looked towards the sea and blew the conch in his hand.
"Woo~~~~"
The melodious sound of conch shells was heard, and soon a large row of black bubbles appeared on the sea surface.
“Crash!”
The bubbles burst, and a group of fishmen with green skin riding on black slimes emerged from the sea.
"Wow!" The leading red-skinned merman raised his harpoon towards Wally and uttered something in the non-standard Asa common language.
"Where is the stuff?"
Wally clapped his hands excitedly and shouted:
"Old fisherman, I will send you what you want right away."
Wally blew a whistle, and the goblins on the garbage ship dropped a long row of well-packaged packages one after another.
At a command from the red-skinned fishman, the fishmen and slimes surrounded the garbage boat and dragged all the supplies wrapped tightly in waterproof cloth into the water.
"Ji Li Gua ~ Very good!"
The red-skinned merman nodded, threw the harpoon in his hand, and accurately stabbed it into the deck under Wally's feet.
"This is for eggs, for next month."
Wally took the list off the harpoon, read it carefully, and shouted:
"No problem, I'll deliver it as soon as possible."
"Gugua~"
The fishman brought the slime back to the bottom of the sea, and Wally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had once again perfectly completed the task assigned to him by Lord Starwind.
He took a deep breath of the stench from the sea and shouted intoxicatedly:
"Return!"
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"So this Wally is actually doing pretty good?"
Not far away, Qi Ge stood on the sea, looking at Rhodes beside him with a complicated expression.
Rhode scratched his dirty hat and said with emotion:
"Yeah, I never thought he would have such a terrifying work ethic.
The materials we requested were always delivered within a week, with guaranteed quality and quantity, and there was never any problem.
In the Fallen Moon Territory, the goblin you sent to monitor him also responded that he had never revealed any information about you on any occasion.
In order to avoid blurting out things when drunk, he even gave up drinking after having been addicted for more than ten years. His self-discipline is shocking. "
Wolfs, wearing a protective mask, added:
"My Lord, I have investigated Wally's background. He once served as the general of a mage unit, at the level of a squadron leader, in charge of three teams of ten people, so he can be considered a person who has held power.
He and his two brothers were stationed at the border customs near Krulod, and they accumulated a considerable fortune by smuggling and trafficking mane men, gnolls, and orcs from the sea.
However, his eldest and second brothers died because they failed in power struggles with others, and he was demoted to the Falling Moon Territory as the captain of the city defense team.
Previously, while serving as the captain, he also invested in opening a merchant club, hoping to accumulate wealth to avenge his two brothers.
But later his son got involved in a gambling game and owed 260,000 gold coins, unable to repay the debt and chose to commit suicide. His wife, who was too upset, also jumped into the sea.
The destruction of his family was a huge blow to him, and he never recovered from it, and lost his job as captain of the city guard.
His trading guild was left without anyone to take care of it, and he also went bankrupt due to the need to pay off his son's gambling debts.
After a series of blows, he fell into destitution and became the only garbage boatman in Rhodes Island.
With his level, it is not impossible for him to find out how high your status is in Bracada, Lord.
He should be very clear that to you, his once distant enemies are just small ants that can be easily dealt with.
People who have lost everything will naturally cherish the opportunity to gain everything again.
Sir, although Wally is just a useless little character, I think he is ruthless to others and himself, knows how to seize opportunities, and knows how to distinguish the important from the unimportant. He is indeed useful."
Qi Ge nodded and said:
"Since you think it can be used, then go ahead and use it. From now on, it will be handed over to you."
"Yes, sir." Wolfs nodded happily.
As Qi Ge walked towards the depths of the garbage island, he asked Ke Ruoke and Rhodes who were following behind him:
"Hey, now that we're here, you two should stop keeping us in suspense.
Tell me, what did you find? You were so secretive along the way and refused to say anything. "
"Hehe!" "Haha!" Ke Ruoke and Rhodes smiled at each other.
Ke Ruoke shook her robe and said excitedly, "Master Qige, we have discovered the reason why fairies are not good at growing crops!"
“Ahem!”
Rhodes coughed and said loudly:
“My Lord, Ke Ruoke and I have always been troubled by the problem of how to make the fairies self-sufficient in food.
We believe that in order to solve this problem, we must start from the root of the problem.
According to our comparative research, fairies are not good at growing plants because we fairies absorb the characteristics of negative emotions. "
Ke Ruoke added: "My Lord, you may not believe this, but plants also have negative emotions!
This negative emotion comes from the plants' dissatisfaction with their own living conditions.
It’s so dark inside the seed, I need to sprout and get out quickly.
Why is the grass around me so tall while I am still so short?
Why isn’t it raining yet? I want to drink water. When it rains, I will drink to my heart’s content.
Other plants have bloomed, why haven't I bloomed yet? I want to bloom. I want my pollen to stick to the pistils of other flowers and fill them up!
It is these negative emotions that make plants grow faster.”
Rhodes continued, "We, the goblins , absorb this negative emotion, which means we absorb the power for plant growth and development.
The plants that have absorbed our negative emotions will lie down and don't want to do anything.
Fertile soil? Suitable environment? Whatever, it's up to you. What does it have to do with me?
That’s about it.”
“Therefore, the seeds planted by us fairies are difficult to germinate, and the plants near us fairies grow particularly slowly.
So whatever we goblins plant will die, and crops won’t survive at all.”
"Each plant has a different dependence on negative emotions. Trees and herbs are relatively less dependent on negative emotions as a driving force for growth.
Unfortunately, most of the staple foods in the Asian world, such as potatoes, barley, and rice, require negative emotions.
So we fairies are not actually incapable of growing anything. Theoretically, if we look carefully, we can still find suitable crops."
At this point, Ke Ruoke added seriously:
“However, different levels of dependence do not mean no dependence at all.
Even if we find suitable crops, the yield will still be reduced because we fairies absorb negative emotions.
So Rod and I had a long discussion and finally came to a conclusion.”
Rhodes and Ke Ruoke said at the same time:
"Since we fairies are not naturally suited to farming, then we won't do it.
The way to obtain stable food does not necessarily have to rely on plants. The slime balls produced by the slime garbage food processing plant under our garbage island are also a stable way to obtain food.
If we can’t grow crops, we can also engage in animal husbandry.
Or, to go a step further, produce food in a more "fairy" way."
Ke Ruoke and Rhodes said in unison:
“Since slimes can produce food by consuming garbage, plants can absorb food produced by the Yasha world.
Then why can't we fairies do it?
We fairies can also find ways to synthesize non-food into food to achieve food self-sufficiency.
Yes, the future of us fairies is the food synthesis factory!"
"Food synthesis factory?!"
Seven pigeons shocked:
"What ideas do you have? Tell me in detail."
Ke Ruoke said excitedly:
“Sir, this is what we think.
Now the food yield of our Underworld Farm in God's Chosen City is very high, but the Underworld Farm is dependent on the terrain after all, and the consumption of resources is also huge.
Only Diya has the underworld, only Erathia has the white stone, only Avili has the Pegasus spring, and only Bracada has the iron man factory.
To create a large number of underworld farms is not only costly, but also requires the cooperation of the four major forces, which is not universal.
Likewise, Rhode Island's method of producing food from garbage is not universally applicable.
It's true that slime balls are good food, but not every faction has that much garbage to feed slimes.
At the same time, the food production efficiency of Slime is still too low.
The entire Bracada and most of the South can support Rhodes Island.
So we have to find ways to be more efficient.”
Rhodes cleared his throat and said:
“I studied the mechanism of slimes consuming garbage to create slime balls a long time ago.
There are three processing tools in the body of slime. The first processing tool dissolves the garbage they eat into a mixture, and then separates the part that can be absorbed and utilized by themselves from the part that cannot be absorbed and utilized.
The second processing tool is divided into two parts, one part absorbs the digestible part, and the other part classifies the mixture of the indigestible part again and removes the toxic part.
The third processing tool will convert the dissolved parts into the slime balls we eat.
Coincidentally, the slime under our Rhodes Island can absorb exactly the part that we cannot absorb.
And the part that they cannot absorb can be used as food for us.
According to my experiments, the part inside the second processing tool, that is, the dissolving solution in liquid form, is still inedible and is mostly composed of metallic minerals.
But in the third part, the dissolved liquid processed by slime becomes edible.
Therefore, as long as we understand the working principles of the second and third parts and imitate the corresponding factories, we may be able to restore the slime ball production factory."
Qi Ge looked at Rhodes with appreciation and was about to applaud when he heard Rhodes continue:
“It’s just one route.
Another route is to imitate food crops.
Wheat and potatoes can convert Yasa energy into resources, so why can't we fairies do the same?
For a long time, no one living in the world of Yasa, including us fairies, realized a problem.
Why are some things edible and some not?
We always take it for granted that we can eat anything that the goddess Asa has given us a food mark, and have never thought about the principle behind it.
Now the Lord and Brother Ke Ruoke have enlightened me.
Since no one understands, let me do it.
I am willing to start a complete study of food, unravel the mystery of food properties, and through our own power, analyze the underlying principles of food crops and replicate their transformation process. "
Rhodes said excitedly:
"My Lord, I believe this is a great research that can change the entire Asia!"
"Very good!! I believe it too." Qi Ge finally found an opportunity to applaud.
He clapped his hands vigorously and said:
“Using easily available resources, we can quickly synthesize hard-to-obtain food in the form of factories, eliminating the survival problems of the troops.
The upper limit of food production efficiency will determine the upper limit of the number of arms in the entire Yasha world. As the base number of arms in the Yasha world increases, more high-level arms and heroes will naturally emerge.
When you succeed, not only the fairy clan, but also all living beings in the entire Yasa world will benefit.
Rhodes, I unconditionally approve your and Ke Ruoke's research plan, and am willing to provide an unlimited amount of gold coins and all resources as support."
Rhodes said excitedly:
"That's great! Lord, I need a wizard tower that can study plants and slimes.
The alchemy laboratory left by the ancestors is certainly good, but most of the equipment there is for mechanical research.
I only need a few dozen research equipment such as the inner-viewing magic mirror, elemental light wave instrument, stream witch pot, high-speed freezing cave, rupture furnace, rocking recliner, slippery slide, high-altitude falling hot air balloon, etc. to start the research!"
Seven Pigeons: ...
Wait, wait, there is a problem! There is indeed a problem!
I can understand the things in the front, but what are the lounge chairs and slides in the back used for?
Rhodes, are you using the name of research to satisfy your unspeakable personal desires?
Don’t think I don’t know!
I have a rough idea of ​​how many beast-eared girls, snake girls, and succubus girls my teacher Aged has applied to Bracada in the name of researching military structures.
Qi Ge looked at Rhodes' clear eyes and sighed in his heart.
Damn it, Rhode is a goblin. Forget it, just give him whatever he wants.
The research process of fairies is not something that we normal creatures can understand.
The mass-energy formula he came up with while sliding down the slide was very reasonable.
Qi Ge coughed and said, “No problem, most of the equipment you mentioned is produced by Bracada, I should be able to get them all.
When the time comes, give me a list so I don’t miss any.”
"Long live the Lord!"
Rhodes cheered, and Ke Ruoke cheered too.
Qi Ge waved to Wolfs and said:
"Wolfs, come with me, I have something to ask you."
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After Qi Ge walked a little further away, Ke Ruoke approached Rhodes and asked quietly:
"Hey, hey, hey, can you really do the experiments you want?"
Rhodes spread his hands and said, "I don't know either.
There are some books related to biological research in the garbage, and if I see a name that I think is cool, I will ask the Lord for one."
"Huh?!" Ke Ruoke was shocked: "Then you are lying to the adults!"
“This isn’t cheating.
But brother Ruoke, think about the name. We can get some results with such an awesome thing just by trying it casually. What if we succeed? !
Anyway, the Lord is not short of gold coins."
“That’s right.” Ke Ruoke touched his chin and said, “No, I still have to talk to the Lord.
The lord is good to us and he will satisfy any requests we have, but we can't hide this from him like this.
Rhodes, let's just tell the truth, the Lord won't blame us."
"Ha..." Rhodes tilted his head, thought for a while, and said:
"That's right. Okay, we'll go find the lord together later."
"Yes! That's right! This is my good brother."
Ke Ruoke patted Rhodes on the shoulder and was very satisfied with him.
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Wolfs walked beside Qi Ge, feeling a little nervous.
He was afraid that he had done something wrong and Qi Ge would blame him.
Qi Ge glanced at Wolfs several times and asked uncertainly:
“Wolfs, if I remember correctly, your full name is Wolfs Alama.
Is Allama the name of your ancestor?"
Wolfs didn't know why Qi Ge suddenly brought this up. He hesitated for a moment and chose to tell the truth:
"Yes, my lord, our ancestor's name is Alama."
"What race were your ancestors? Mages or elves?"
Wolfs blinked and said, "I don't really know. Our family tree records that our ancestor was a real scumbag.
Our grandmother’s family is an old noble family in the Fallen Moon Territory. My grandmother is the only daughter and also the head of the family. Our ancestor married into the family through marriage.
Later he cheated our grandmother and ran away with a large sum of her money.
But he still had a conscience and left our grandmother some powerful sea wizards, so that our grandmother did not end up living on the streets.
But I think the ancestors of Arama were not elves.
My father, my grandfather's line, and my uncles and great-uncles who have passed away all followed my grandmother's example and were all marine wizards."
"Is this really a coincidence?"
While Qi Ge was thinking, Wolfs whispered:
"Lord, are you interested in my ancestors? I remember that my uncle who immigrated to the underground city had a diary left by my grandmother at home. It contained many records about my ancestors."
Seven Pigeons: !!!