Manager He looked at Zero with great surprise and said:
"Lord Zero, please come with me."
Ling followed Manager He into a private room in the Miracle Medicine Pavilion.
Manager He poured Ling a cup of tea and gestured to him:
"May I ask what brings Lord Zero here? If there is anything I can do to help you, please let me know as soon as possible."
Taking a small sip of tea, Ling replied:
"I came here to purchase some medicine, but as soon as I arrived, I encountered someone causing trouble..."
He casually brought up what had just happened, tapping his fingers on the table.
Manager He suddenly felt immense pressure, and even with his tall stature, cold sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.
He met Steward He in the Falling Cloud Realm.
That day...
"Lord, you want to buy 100,000 pieces of Absolute Grass?"
"Yes, I heard they've put up a bounty this time, with a reward of thirty crystal jades!"
"What? Thirty pieces of crystal jade!"
Crystal Jade is one of the common currencies in the Fallen Cloud Realm. The currency levels in the Fallen Cloud Realm are: Common Crystal, Fluorite, Crystal Jade, and Myriad Fluorite. Ten Common Crystals equal one Fluorite, one thousand Fluorites equal one Crystal Jade, and one thousand Crystal Jades equal one Myriad Fluorite.
Thirty pieces of crystal jade are equivalent to thirty thousand fluorite stones, which is quite a sum.
You should know that in the Falling Cloud Realm, an ordinary family's annual expenses are only about a hundred fluorescent stones, while thirty crystal jades can provide for generations without worrying about food and clothing.
"However... this Jueyan Grass isn't everywhere in Qiaota Plain, so why is there a bounty suddenly being offered, and such a high one at that?"
"Yeah, who knows what the lord means? Isn't it good to get paid? Especially such a simple job..."
"Yes, yes, let's hurry, or we won't get any..."
"Hurry up, hurry up..."
Watching a group of people rush forward to accept the bounty and then swarm away, I smiled and left without paying any attention.
Days passed, but something else happened in the city...
"Have you heard? None of the people who went out to search for the Absolute Grass last time have returned!"
"Yes, including those teams, not a single one has returned."
Some people act alone, while others go in teams. After all, there's strength in numbers, and those who collect the materials first can get a bigger share.
"That's right, I heard there's something fishy about this..."
"Tell me about it?"
"I heard it from the neighbor's son of my great-aunt's sixth niece... It's said that the Qiaota Plain is usually uneventful, but strange things happen on the fifteenth of every month... People who go there on that day are said to have returned as completely different people..."
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard about that from my wife's friends too. They said that people who come back suddenly have a huge appetite! And... they also become incredibly strong..."
"Yes, Liu Hong, the son of Aunt Liu, you know him, the one who's always slovenly and hangs out at the casino. I heard that for some reason, he suddenly stopped gambling on the fifteenth and went to Qiaota Plain with a group of people..."
"Why go to the plains of Jota? He's just an ordinary person."
"That's right, who knows? He suddenly went out with a group of people that day, and when he came back, his mother told me that Liu Hong had killed a cow!"
"That's not the point. The point is that after he killed the cow, he carried it directly to the slaughterhouse!"
"If it's nothing to say about those of us with some skills, then who doesn't know Liu Hong? She's never been properly educated since birth, never studied, never practiced martial arts, and spent her days hanging out with those gamblers and hooligans, eating, drinking, and having fun. She's nothing. Isn't it strange that she's suddenly changed like this?"
"That's quite strange... So, what about the plains of Jota..."
"Shh...don't say anything more, Lord Qiu, one of the lord's men, is here. Let's disperse."
Whether to reduce panic or intentionally, after learning of the incident at Qiaota Plain, the lord ordered a information blockade, forbidding any information from being disseminated. He also sent his subordinate Qiudi to patrol the streets, ostensibly to "appease the people."
But he couldn't control what people said behind his back.
For example, the current zero can be heard clearly.
It seems I'll have to make a trip to the Chota Plains.
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