Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 768 - 440: Is This the Pace to Have the Whole Family in Government Offices?_2

Chapter 768: Chapter 440: Is This the Pace to Have the Whole Family in Government Offices?_2

Not long after, Ange came to deliver grain, reaching out to grab a large bag of food, as if taken from a storage space.

“Where did this grain come from?” Negris asked.

Ange pointed in the direction of the food merchants’ guild, where they had first entered the city to sell vegetables and run into John: “I took it.”

With trade routes disrupted, the only solution to the food crisis in the city was to requisition.

Requisitioning surplus grain from the noble traders in order to make a reasonable distribution. Of course, the process was not very peaceful, it was seen as ‘robbing’ in Ange’s eyes, who himself was the one to take action.

A group of skeletons surrounded the Food Merchants’ Guild. Ange blasted the guild’s gates with magic, and Little Zombie and Little Angel, leading the skeletons, rushed in. The haughty mercenaries quickly surrendered, huddling in place.

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Earl Gura may have fled, but all the food he’d accumulated fell into Ange’s hands. He had made a lot of preparations for Lord Peibiao, stockpiling enough food for a smooth post-war transition. As long as he became the city lord, he could legitimately open the granaries, and the market could quickly stabilize.

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Following this plan, they opened the granaries and sold grain at a fair price, plus establishing dozens of food distribution points, allowing the poor to receive food for free.

With a large number of skeletons maintaining order, no one dared to cut in line or grab for food. If it were human soldiers, they would give some warnings or drag the people away. The skeleton guards wouldn’t, they would decapitate immediately.

No one would try to argue with the skeleton guards.

The crisis in Northern Wind City was completely resolved overnight. Now, all that was needed was to reopen the trade routes so that Northern Wind City could regain its former vitality.

“We’ve already checked where the route is blocked. The mountain range has completely isolated Northern Wind City and the desert, leaving only a pass. We thought the pass was blocked by a giant rock, but now, the whole pass has collapsed. It must have been the work of Gura, not willing to accept defeat, that the pass was blasted.” Feiwo said resentfully.

To clear a completely collapsed pass is a massive project. The requisitioned food has temporarily resolved the food crisis in Northern Wind City. But if the road remains blocked, the city’s food supplies will run out sooner or later. What then?

Talking about the massive workload, Durken looked around and asked, “Where is His Majesty?”

Big projects are for ordinary people. For Ange, this might just be half a month’s work.

The silver coin immediately understood what Durken meant. Shaking his head, he said, “His Majesty is back to reclaiming the wilderness. We can’t bother him anymore. If we can’t restore a trade route, what’s the point of our city? Assets that don’t generate income, but become a burden instead, are considered liabilities and we should abandon them soon.”

Feiwo was taken aback. What? Liability? Discard it? How did he end up talking about discarding it? He just became the city lord, he hasn’t even warmed up the seat, and now it’s a liability?

Durken then asked, “What should we do?”

Silver coin turned to Feiwo and asked, “Are there any other ways out?”

Feiwo considered for a moment and then said, “There is one. To the south of the mountain range, there’s a great rift. Someone has built a cableway there. You can get to the other side of the rift via the cableway, follow the rift through the mountains, and arrive at Rapids Fortress on the other side. It’s a city larger than Northern Wind City. But the cableway can’t transport grain.”

“How wide is the rift?” Durken asked, intrigued.

“Around fifty meters, but it’s incredibly deep. If you fall, you will die instantly.” Feiwo answered.

“Has no one ever thought of building a bridge above it?” Durken asked.

“Build a bridge?” Feiwo was stunned, hesitated and said, “I’ve heard people from the North Wind family say that building a bridge over the rift requires a lot of geological considerations, something about bridge structure, forces, stresses, and more. Only a master engineer would be capable of building such a bridge. What does engineer mean? I’ve never heard of it.”

“Cough cough!” Durken took a step forward and said, “It shouldn’t be very difficult. Let me check it out. However, I still want His Majesty to assist me, to take a look. Otherwise, we’d measure it slowly and don’t know how long it would take, how long can our food supplies last?”

“Three months.” Silver coin knew exactly how much money he had in his pocket.

“Then let’s ask His Majesty to take a look at this, let’s prepare some gifts, such as all the seeds that can be found in the city, in order to ask for His Majesty’s help. This way, we won’t be considered a liability, right?” Durken suggested.

“Good idea.” Silver coin’s eyes brightened.

Feiwo was utterly confused. Weren’t they just talking about needing a ‘master’ engineer? How did the conversation shift to collecting seeds? Wasn’t this a huge leap in subject?

Silver Coin explained with a smile, “If a magician’s level is at the master level, wouldn’t the level above it be considered a king level? So, this man would be both the King of Alchemy and the King of Engineering.”

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After the dam was completed and the water had accumulated for a few days, the water level of the sand river had risen. All that was left to do was to dig out the canal to irrigate vast tracts of land on both sides.

Ange, having finished handling affairs in the city, couldn’t wait to return and work on his field. The area that needed to be cultivated at once was too large; the four of them alone couldn’t handle it.

Out of necessity, he selected a group of ‘smart’ Ashbone Skeletons to help out.

Back in Desert Town, Ange noticed something. The Ashbone Skeletons here were smarter than those of the same rank in the Master Plane. They had at least the intelligence of Silver Skeletons, and a few of them even had the wisdom of a Gold Skull, barely qualifying as Wise Skeletons.

With the skeletons being clever, Ange found it much easier to command them. At least they were competent at tasks such as digging ditches and building ridges.

“These Ashbone fellows sure are intelligent. It hurts my heart to think that my Enlightenment Aura, which was initially mine, got stolen by that dead head. It pisses me off,” grumbled Negris, who was directing the Ashbone Skeletons.

No one paid attention to him.

Negris didn’t mind and continued, “Should we go looking for it? If we find my Enlightenment Aura, we can make these skeletons even smarter.”

Still, no one responded.

“His Majesty has probably left many territories behind. If we venture out, we might come across farmlands larger than here; much better than this desert.”

Complete silence.

He kept mumbling in different ways for some time, but still, no one paid him any attention.

Realizing that Ange had firmly set his mind on farming, Negris finally shut his mouth reluctantly.

Once the irrigation ditches were dug and filled with water, they soaked the land and closed the sluice gate, dispersing the seeds.

Ange chose to plant date palms, which were most suited for desert growth. He had pre-buried Insect Ash in a circle around the root of each date palm.

This Insect Ash was painstakingly accumulated by Ange, who grabbed a handful every ten minutes or so.

As Ange’s soul grew, the interval at which he could grab decreased to sixteen minutes. Each time, he could take a fair amount, but he couldn’t grab spatial items.

He tried to grab storage bags or rings, but as long as they contained something, he couldn’t move it unless the storage space was completely emptied. He didn’t understand why this was.

On the contrary, when he retracted his consciousness to his physical form and transformed into Locke, he could stuff things in from the other side, which allowed him to stuff storage items filled with things into it.

However, only small storage spaces could be stuffed. Larger spaces, like the several hundred cubic unit ones that Big Cat had cut, couldn’t be stuffed through.

Ange had only stuffed it once, stuffing six storage bags of about two cubic units each. Two of the bags were filled with seeds, and the other four were filled with Soul Crystals, at least a few million in count.

If there’s anything that needs money in the future, he can simply smash it with Soul Crystals.

The date palms grew rapidly. When they reached waist height, Ange paused the Instant Death Halo.

Then, in the gaps between the date palms, he intercropped Axe Potatoes. This way, with the date palms blocking the intense sunlight, the Axe Potatoes could grow more stably.

Everything proceeded smoothly, and soon, many green plants sprouted from both sides of the Sand River.

Durken and Silver Coin, riding their carriage, couldn’t help but exclaim, “It’s so strange. His Lordship is an Undead, so why does he bring infinite life energy wherever he goes instead of death?”

“Isn’t that a good thing? Life is always more interesting than death. We didn’t find many new seeds in Northern Wind City, I wonder if His Lordship will like these.” Durken was speaking while glancing back at the carriage, where piles of semi-transparent items were stacked.