Chapter 185 Casefile 6: Twin Kings' Tombs (6)
Bolin didn't know what [Underworld Mahua] was, but there was only one bite of scone left in his hand. He stuffed the small piece of pastry into his mouth and felt a little clearer.
As his ability to think gradually returned, he felt the familiar coldness and hunger rising up again.
The scone from before had been digested as his soul solidified, and he wanted to eat again.
"Mahua." He said to the knight subconsciously, and the knight timidly stuffed one into his hand.
The so-called twisted dough sticks are only a small section, and look a lot like a girl's pigtail. The "noodles" are also purple-black, a bit hard, and a little bit yellow, probably fried.
Bolin stuffed the finger-length, two-finger-wide fried dough twist into his mouth and began to chew it with a crunching sound.
The fried dough twist had a greasy, crispy texture, a taste he had never tasted before. It seemed to have sesame seeds in it, leaving a lingering fragrance in his mouth.
He remembered sesame seeds; they were small, fragrant, and expensive. His family only bought them once a year and ground them into oil. The aroma was so alluring that he could chew three cakes just by smelling the oil.
His mother would also gather sesame residue and mix it into the dough to bake small snacks for him. They tasted like fried dough twists. Although not as oily as fried dough twists, they were also crispy and the mouth was full of the aroma of sesame.
After eating one of the twisted dough sticks, Bolin felt like he had regained some of his sense of being a human being. He smiled naturally and asked the knight, "What do you want to know?"
"We'd like to know if you've seen anyone from the Evil Moon in this ruin... ahem, this city? They often wear black robes and masks, and wield weapons like steel wire. They look sneaky and don't seem like good people."
The young knight gestured excitedly at Bolin for a long time. Bolin searched hard in his fragmented memory for a long time before finally remembering: "Oh, they, I have eaten, they should be heading in that direction."
He waved his hand at the little knight, not realizing he was floating in mid-air. He beckoned his dark purple tentacles towards him and said, "Come on, I'll take you there."
The young knight looked at the strange black and purple shadow in front of him that barely had a human shape and was covered with strange tentacles - even this shadow only vaguely looked like a human after eating - he tried to muster up his courage, called his teammates, and followed the undead into the inner city.
Similar things kept repeating around Jiangyou. The undead who were attracted by the black and purple offerings brought out by Jiangyou would gradually regain their human form and sanity after eating those offerings. Their aggressiveness would drop sharply, and they would even be easy to talk to and do "business" with the Knights under the temptation of more food.
Of course, when the undead lose their rationality, they will only act according to their instincts to find food, so their memories during this period are also fragmented, and they need to eat more offerings before they can remember.
Jiangyou didn't mind getting some advance payment. She cooked a lot of food yesterday and had the fruits and seeds of the soul grass on her. When she went to Holly to get materials before, she asked Holly if she could expand the cultivation of the soul grass. Holly responded by giving Jiangyou three large sacks of seeds and telling Jiangyou about the special requirements of the soul grass for the planting location.
"This thing can't be considered an ordinary plant." Holly said to Jiang You at the time, "If you can't find a suitable planting site, it won't germinate anyway.
"But as long as there's enough Netherworld energy, even if you just throw them on the ground, they'll grow rapidly. When I say rapidly, I mean they'll complete their life cycle of sprouting, growing stems and leaves, and finally blooming and bearing fruit within minutes to hours."
At first, Jiang You couldn't imagine this crazy growth scene - there was no way, she had lived in a scientific world for too long, and now that she came to this magical world, some common sense things were completely impossible to avoid.
Not to mention that although she loves farming, she has killed far more flowers and plants than she has kept alive. She has only seen plants that won't grow no matter how much she takes care of them, but she has never seen a miraculous plant that can take root and grow in minutes.
But as soon as she arrived in Dongcheng, she felt that something was wrong with the bags of seeds. She took out the sacks and found that most of the seeds had begun to germinate and grow, almost bursting the sacks.
Jiang You had no choice but to ask each knight to grab a handful, spread out and scatter them to the places where the undead gathered, and then pick them up again after the soul grass grew.
In just a few hours, Jiangyou had harvested enough soul grass to fill a cart. She simply asked Andre and the dwarves to help her build an oven on the spot and started baking the offerings directly.
The main ingredient of the offering is only soul grass, and all the remaining ingredients are just to increase the taste and flavor.
Originally, the main group had brought a lot of food with them on this trip. Now Jiangyou wanted to use some of the food to bake offerings, so Nolan sent some people back to the west city of Eston to continue transporting the food.
Those bizarre, eerie, and terrifying undead spirits that could suck the living dry would become gentle and easy to talk to once they ate the purple-black food Boss You made. The knights used this food to exchange for various intelligence regarding the Evil Eye Moon, the terrain of East City, and the underground royal tombs. They even found undead spirits willing to lead them and help them deal with the Evil Eye Moon...
There is no need to fight against the undead, no casualties, and all that is paid is some food. Nolan will still settle the account.
He sighed, "Boss You is really amazing to be able to do business with the undead!" He urged his hands to get more ingredients, and he couldn't hide the smile on his face.
Andre glanced at him, nodded softly, and when he turned around to look at Jiangyou, his eyes were full of love for Jiangyou.
Having successfully turned the [Regional Monster: Undead] from an enemy into a friend, the knights' advance into the inner city became safe and fast.
The only trouble is that the undead consume food too quickly, and they have to come back for new offerings after advancing a certain distance.
Nolan simply adjusted the deployment. He asked some undead who had regained their sanity to join the patrol and rotation team, and transferred half of the knights who were originally responsible for guarding to form a transport team, which was specifically responsible for delivering food and fodder to the vanguard team going deep into the inner city.
It truly achieved the goal of sending food and fodder before troops move... but this food and fodder was fed to the undead... Well, it's a bit weird, but it seems to make sense.
Nolan, who had led troops in battles for many years, scratched his hair. Turning around, he saw a team that had penetrated deep into the inner city returning with several black-robed men who were tied up, and a group of undead who were chewing snacks non-stop.
"Wow! I actually caught him!"
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