Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 598 -

Chapter 598: Leaving the City

Early the next morning.

I woke up early.

Perhaps because I went to sleep a bit early last night, plus my need for sleep and rest isn't that great, so I woke up before dawn.

But it doesn't matter.

After I gradually adapted to the continuously decreasing need for sleep, I already had a coping method.

Just appropriately lengthening the meditation time is enough.

But now there is the Enlightenment Meditation Method to use.

Persisting for one cycle every morning gives a refreshing feeling, and my spirit becomes much more active.

However, the Enlightenment Meditation Method seems to continue providing "nourishment" for my Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell continuously.

It's very subtle, like an ant gnawing on a flatbread as large as a desert.

Although continuous, the effect is very minimal.

The only pity is that I don't have a better way to deal with this problem yet.

With the promotion of the Enlightenment Meditation Method, to use a metaphor again, it's just changing from a few ants to a swarm of ants, but the change brought is still very tiny.

After one cycle of the Enlightenment Meditation Method passed, I opened my eyes.

Through the window, I saw the first ray of morning sunlight.

I also got up to wash up and went to the dining area of the hotel.

Looking at these dazzling dishes in the dining area, I couldn't help but use the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell on them.

After all, the land area Ninglan New City is located in is not large.

Supplying the operation of a city naturally puts great pressure on it.

But now... the dishes here are so rich, even featuring off-season vegetables that are impossible to appear in Ninglan New City.

I knew there were some problems.

After a slight investigation, there was a result.

These vegetables were indeed only available after communication with the Witch Academy led to an agreement on food transportation cooperation.

Plus the situation Ninglan New City is facing now, Ninglan New City has stepped up stockpiling a lot of food.

However, food is just standard in relatively high-end luxury places, not reflecting its value and fluctuation.

Only in places like small roadside restaurants will there be obvious changes due to some price fluctuations.

It looks like in order to prevent riots from those accepted into the city and those refugees outside the city, Ninglan New City's demand and supply for food have also risen linearly.

Even if it's just the most basic "relief food," the quantity must be large enough to fill stomachs.

According to the information shared by the Shadow of Knowledge from Mo Le and the frontline City Defense Army and City Guard, after solving the communication problem, they immediately established communication with those people outside the city.

Most of the people outside the city are the old, weak, sick, disabled, and some pregnant women.

Or some people willing to communicate actively with them, such as those who cooperated with the language translation needed by the Literary Association earlier.

After establishing communication with them, through the information sharing of the Shadow of Knowledge, I also pieced together their plan.

They picked out a group of people, and after communicating, asked them to go out of the city to communicate with and appease those refugees outside.

However, this matter is very dangerous.

Because previously, due to the inability of both sides to communicate, plus emotional loss of control caused by hunger triggering large-scale riots, Ninglan New City has always tended towards suppression by force.

If not for Ninglan New City distributing relief food to them, they would have thought the city didn't care about their life or death.

But even so, when food was distributed for the first time, some people chose not to take it and even escalated the matter.

Even with the language barrier, it could be seen that those troublemakers might think Ninglan New City wanted to poison them to death once and for all.

Inciting hatred, guiding emotions, those guys are the most restless opportunists.

So Ninglan New City also eliminated them without mercy.

Only after that did the refugees become "docile" outside the city under the relief food.

And now they need to re-establish communication channels with those refugees.

Only by communicating well can they paint big pictures for them, so they can be more peaceful.

Last night was a peaceful night for me, but a sleepless night for the City Defense Army and those refugees.

The City Defense Army can choose to maintain the status quo like this, but communication must be carried out.

Letting these refugees sleep on the ground outside the city undoubtedly poses many hidden dangers.

But if they want to settle them down, how to carry out construction?

So the matter has to be solved in another way, that is to provide the most basic disaster relief tents and supporting basic appliances, sleeping bags or bedding, etc.

But all these require money!

So this requires painting big pictures to appease the masses, and then fighting for time to think of a way.

After all, where does Ninglan New City get so much money to help them for free?

Even if Ninglan New City prints money, it cannot be used in the Main World Core Realm.

So what can be used for transactions are only items of equal value, conducting barter.

But soon this problem was solved.

Ninglan New City is located in the Expansion Realm, and Ninglan New City is also qualified to mine those Transcendent resources exposed outside in the Expansion Realm.

Then... exchange these Transcendent resources for... conventional supplies, food, relief supplies, medical drugs, tents, etc.

Although there are large amounts of Transcendent energy crystal deposits outside Ninglan New City, unfortunately, ordinary people without corresponding means do not possess the ability to mine.

And those teaching assistant groups and later students fortunate enough to participate in mining often put the mined resources into their personal pockets.

Ninglan New City doesn't have much qualification to share the profits, at most providing intelligence on detection locations for sale and professional equipment rental, but this is still a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, these precious mines are not the property of Ninglan New City.

The Witch Academy only granted mining rights, but the current Ninglan New City cannot effectively transform this advantage into its own benefit and resource accumulation.

That's why Ninglan Qiuyue is seeking cooperation everywhere.

She is definitely unwilling to accept the status quo.

Compared to the ordinary workers of Ninglan New City, the students of the Witch Academy truly crush them in all aspects, with no advantage to speak of.

However... whether it is Ninglan New City or the teaching assistants and students arriving here, having such rights also explains one thing.

That is, this represents that the Witch Academy doesn't care for these resources, and even views them as "teaching resources," allowing them to circulate within the Witch Academy.

And precisely because of this operation by the Witch Academy, other Transcendent Academies also want to come and share a piece of the pie.

As for the price to pay for sharing a piece of the pie... only they understand it themselves.

However, on the whole, they definitely profit.

For example, other Transcendent Academies are not suckers either.

However... over time, even witches have needs.

After all, they usually need a large amount of materials for various experiments.

Scarcity increases value; things looked down upon before might depend on the situation now.

So some witches in the Witch Academy don't entirely not need those Transcendent materials from the Expansion Realm.

It's just that these materials will leverage the inflow of another resource in a different way, that is... spellbooks, Magic Power Sources, techniques, knowledge, etc., possessed by Transcendent Witches.

Breakfast has been finished.

I gently wiped a trace of residue from the corner of my mouth, then stood up again.

It's time to go out and see the situation.

Hope no accidents happen to that Myriad Connection Main Network Tree some distance away from Ninglan New City.

This time I am going through formal channels.

The main purpose is naturally to tell some guys who have been secretly watching me that I am going out now.

But what I didn't expect was that the formal process of leaving the city was actually somewhat troublesome.

After signing, I pushed the exit permit over.

"To be honest, your Ninglan New City's exit process is really cumbersome enough."

After a simple complaint, I arrived at the city gate.

And the staff member I complained about immediately took it seriously, and reported to the higher-ups immediately after sending me away.

As the city gate opened a slit, I truly stepped onto the land outside the city.

And this area at the city gate had numerous City Defense Army guards, so there was no scene of refugees rushing up to watch as soon as the city gate opened.

However, my appearance also alerted the City Defense Army.

After some reporting, a person familiar to me appeared in front of me.

"Scholar Xiao Han, didn't expect you to be preparing to leave the city so early?"

"Un, I'm just leaving the city, no need for you, the highest officer of the City Defense Army, to come out and welcome me, right?"

I looked at Mo Le, whose spirit was slightly flagging at this moment.

Even without using the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell, I could see he hadn't slept all night.

"Scholar Xiao Han is naturally worth it. Yesterday you..."

"No need. If you have time, better go back and catch up on sleep."

Speaking of this, I seemed to remember something again.

My storage equipment stockpiles a lot of things, and among them are potions stockpiled in the past.

For example... Refreshing Potions, etc.

However, I basically don't use them much now.

I used to use them often in the past, but as my strength grows too fast and my life planning becomes healthier and healthier, many things have no place to be used.

"By the way, giving you a bottle of potion, used for refreshing the mind. But I still suggest you go catch up on sleep. If you have something crucial and must stay awake, take a sip of this thing."

I rummaged for a while and took out an exquisite medicine bottle and handed it over.

"This! Thank you."

"Alright alright, don't hinder me, I'm leaving."

I interrupted him, then took out the Flying Broom.

Don't know if it's an illusion, feels like sending something to dismiss them.

As I sat sideways on the broom and flew into the sky, disappearing from their sight, the crowd finally recovered.

"Dismissed... let's go."

Mo Le shook the potion in hand, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

But he still resolutely opened the bottle and took a small sip.

Instantly, a cooling sensation rushed straight to his forehead.

That refreshing feeling was different from the stimulation of mint; it was a more comfortable, even indescribable coolness that made the sleepless Mo Le spirited again.

"Sure enough, witches have all good things in their hands... Let's go, we still have very important things unfinished. But this trip wasn't in vain."

After all, with this potion, it's equivalent to catching up on sleep.

After being refreshed, he can devote more energy to the predicament Ninglan New City is facing now.

...

Leaving Ninglan New City, I simply identified the direction, then headed towards the direction they mentioned earlier.

After arriving in the sky above, I was shocked by two scenes.

What attracted my eyes first was the lush plants in the distance, like a sea of green plants, primitive and eerie.

And the other one was the crowd surrounding the outer wall of Ninglan New City.

Their number far exceeded my imagination.

So many people crowded yet empty.

Everyone seemed to want to get closer to those city walls, but strange groups kept a certain distance to prevent others from bringing unnecessary trouble.

This scene reminded me of the post-disaster reconstruction after those players attacked Tan Han and destroyed such a large area of the city.

And the scale of refugees here is far more terrifying than that time.

Because these people didn't receive rescue, and it's even more impossible for them to enter Ninglan New City to start a new life.

Subsequently, I looked away from these people, no longer staring at them.

I must admit, their disaster has nothing to do with me, but their suffering also moved me.

I understand this is the uncontrollable emotional mobilization brought by empathy, but I won't completely discard the ability of empathy because of this. I will just control it, instead of letting it control me.

And before having the ability to harness it... I thought of the Self-Awareness Sealing Spell.

Some consciousness sealing spells learned from Natalie might be a very good tool to help me control emotions.

Leaving those crowds, I also arrived at this sea of plants.

After getting very close, I also subconsciously used the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell to obtain information about these plants.

In that world where plant technology prevailed, many plants coexisted with civilization in ways they themselves couldn't imagine.

Even many buildings, foundations, infrastructure, etc., were essentially plants.

In the hands of this civilization, plants had already been played into "materials" that no longer grow according to the will of the plants themselves, becoming the cornerstone of civilization development.

And now the world has changed greatly. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

The whole world has experienced a "reshaping."

Plants broke away from their original "posts" and lost human restrictions.

Plus the "precipitation" of many Three Source Elements of the World, Transcendent energy uncontrollably dominated the growth and mutation of plants.

Even though it hasn't been long, those plants broke through the shackles given by humans, sprouting and branching.

Even if the root system is suspended in the air, it will firmly plunge into the surrounding soil or even buildings, absorbing nutrients for its growth breaking through restrictions.

It can be foreseen how terrifying those plants will become under the induction of Transcendent energy in those areas rich in Transcendent energy.

And don't forget, there are countless mutated beasts on the original ruins of the Expansion Realm.

Perhaps they also wander on this newborn world.

Near Ninglan New City, I didn't see many mutated beasts.

However, after entering that world of plants, I quickly saw their traces.

"So many plants... wonder if the people of that world used this opportunity to research any food that can supply people on a large scale to fill their stomachs."

I whispered softly, also recalling which plants are the high-yield types, corn, rice, wheat, etc., and even plants like potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Perhaps within this world of plants, there are still precious legacies left by that world.

However... my understanding of plants seems not to be much, at most self-studied some at the start of the school term.

But... speaking of plants, among the people I know, the one with the most research on this is Sofili.

She is now the biggest supplier of raw materials for the Witch Cat Cafe's Fool's Dream Drink.

Heard she is also improving the characteristics and yield of some plants.

With the change in the Fool's Dream Drink formula, she also carried out richer raw material cultivation and mutagenesis.

Even Dongli Yiren seems to be studying with her.

Speaking of which... Dongli Yiren seems to have been exempted from exams.

Should I let her come to Ninglan New City to see the world too?

Best to bring Sofili too.

She would probably like the plants here very much.

Although these are just some ordinary plants, under the "infiltration" of Transcendent energy, maybe many wondrous mutations will occur.

Presumably, for that student researching planting and plants, she should be very interested.

But these things are just thoughts for now.

If they can grasp such an opportunity, that's naturally best.

If not, I won't force it.

What's more, this is just a thought of mine.

"Saw it... indeed a very big tree..."

In the sky, I finally faintly spotted the huge tree shadow in the distance.

But that tree shadow is really too huge.

Perhaps the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree, having lost human restrictions, began to grow wildly and freely under the action of Transcendent energy.