"Buzz buzz buzz..." The divine seal suddenly trembled.
Xiao Yu sensed that the divine seal was about to merge with the world stone. Before he could react, someone grabbed his hand. In just a moment, his body was exposed to the dark cold air.
Then they shrunk the distance into inches a few times, and by the time the divine seal began to merge with the world stone and completely cut off contact with him, the two of them were already in Zezhou City.
"Damn, is it so decisive?" Xiao Yu realized belatedly that unlike the last time when the Divine Seal absorbed the dragon vein, this time the Divine Seal merged with the World Stone, directly cutting off the supply of the power of incense to him.
The incense power he could use was only one thousand, a whole thousand. It was like he was a millionaire, but suddenly the bank had problems and froze his credit card, so he only had one thousand dollars in cash in his pocket.
Xiao Yu sighed: -_-||! As expected, if something is not yours, you may lose it at any time!
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"What should we do now?" Xiao Yu looked at Zhou Yan, who was still holding him tightly. With only a thousand incense sticks, they couldn't use them casually because they were unsure how long it would take for the fusion of the Divine Seal and the World Stone to be completed.
"Let's get some food first," Zhou Yan thought for a moment. They'd almost used up all their supplies while tempering their bodies in the underground cave. If Xiao Yu hadn't been able to stimulate the growth of crops, they'd probably have starved while he was tempering his body.
"I want rice, or noodles," Xiao Yu said. Back when he was tempering his body in the cave, he'd regretted countless times not having rice or wheat. Cornmeal was fine once or twice, but eating it every day felt like he wasn't eating at all.
If Zhou Yan hadn't specially prepared rice and noodles so that he could indulge himself occasionally, he felt that he would not be able to stay at home.
Sure enough, the main reason why modern otakus can stay at home is that they have food, clothes and drinks without going out.
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"Okay..." Zhou Yan's eyes flashed with a smile. The little immortal had complained more than once that he hadn't been able to get rice and wheat. Unfortunately, vegetable seeds, corn, potatoes, and the like were all easy to come by, but wheat and rice seeds were generally unavailable on the black market. Even if they were available, they wouldn't be easily traded.
Xiao Yu opened his mouth, about to say something, but suddenly realized that even using his spiritual consciousness to transmit sound also cost him incense. Before, he had more incense and could do it without any worries, but now...
After Zhou Yan's body tempering, his night vision was absolutely amazing. Seeing Xiao Yu's bewildered look, he couldn't help but comfort him: "Don't talk, let's go find some food on the black market and get dinner."
Xiao Yu nodded. It was a bit of a mistake. He hadn't bought some food while they were still early in the evening when he went to the local temples and the city god temples to burn incense. Now it was past ten o'clock in the evening, and there was no place to provide them with food except the black market.
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Zhou Yan was quite capable, finding the black market without much effort. The only problem was that the price of mutton was a bit low; even without a ticket, it was only about fifty or sixty cents per pound at most.
The wild sheep, which weighed only more than 70 kilograms without wool, was eventually exchanged for 70 kilograms of rice and 70 kilograms of flour.
They had plenty of sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, and other things, but the price of vegetables, even on the black market, was only a few cents per pound. A little inquiry revealed that fish was quite good, with 100 pounds of fish being exchanged for 300 pounds of rice or flour.
Xiao Yu and Zhou Yan immediately left the black market, and when they came back, they brought more than 300 kilograms of fish, which they exchanged for 150 kilograms of rice and flour each. However, they only got 50 kilograms of rice seeds and wheat seeds each.
After some bargaining, Zhou Yan finally gave ten kilograms of cotton seeds and two kilograms of cabbage seeds.
While Zhou Yan was trading with the black market manager, Xiao Yu exchanged a silver carp weighing 15 or 16 kilograms for 15 kilograms of vermicelli on the black market.
I exchanged a pheasant for ten eggs and a pound of black fungus.
Xiao Yu originally wanted to exchange for more black fungus, but after asking around, he found out that the black market price of a pound of black fungus was actually three dollars and fifty cents.
Damn, is it so expensive?
Such a big move by the two naturally attracted the attention of the black market, but the people who were following them lost sight of the two after following them into an alley.
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Less than a decade after the founding of the People's Republic of China, incidents of enemy spies appeared year after year. Not only in cities, but even in rural areas, any stranger could easily be targeted.
After buying things, the two did not stay in the city. Xiao Yu tried to use the power of incense to attract the power of incense and went directly north.
Fortunately, after three teleportations, he landed in a land temple located halfway up the mountain. The house was half collapsed and obviously abandoned.
But no matter what time, faith is not something that can be easily given up. So although the land temple looks abandoned and the simple hall is obviously cleaned up by someone occasionally.
Xiao Yu and Zhou Yan looked around and decided to stay here because he had detected no residents within a kilometer of the area using his spiritual sense.
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Sijiu City, Zhou family.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Mr. Zhou was awakened from his sleep by a guard who handed him a document. This was the document he had sent someone to investigate a few days ago.
He quickly browsed through the documents in silence, pulled out a letter that was sandwiched between the files, and read it carefully again and again.
The guard said cautiously, "Commander, when I received these documents, someone from the secretariat told you to retrieve Comrade Xiao Zhou as soon as possible. The Ability Bureau has let him go, but others seem to want to use Xiao Zhou's identity to make a fuss. Rumors have been circulating in Sijiu City lately that you're planning a retreat by not retrieving him. If you continue to keep Comrade Xiao Zhou out, it could impact your work."
Old Master Zhou looked down at the letter in his hand for a long time, then suppressed the bitterness in his eyes and said, "His parents asked me to send him off when he was still young. I thought I was protecting him by not recognizing him. I never expected that I would force the child to this point. It's my fault as a grandfather. I failed to protect him!"
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"Go ahead, go find him. My grandson won't follow my path. He'll just be an ordinary person. Since he's decided to take responsibility for that... child, our Zhou family will never betray him. Ever since I embarked on this path, I've been prepared to end my family lineage. Help me find him a technician job in the machinery factory. It's a waste of talent for a college graduate to work as a general laborer."
"Yes. I'll arrange it right away."
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Superpower Bureau.
Lei Xiangqian looked at several documents repeatedly.
If Xiao Yu or Zhou Yan were here, they would find that the contents of these documents and the accompanying photos were exactly the commotion they had created during this period.
"Lin Muxin is dead! Is there a new, even more powerful Wood-type psychic?" Lei Xiangqian muttered, staring at a photo. The photo didn't show lush vegetation in front of the City God Temple in the ancient capital of eight dynasties, but rather a photo of a military truck loaded with fruits, vegetables, sweet potato vines, corn stalks, and other items. "If it's true, and it can be used by the Psychic Bureau, it would be a good thing for the future situation."
Putting down the photos of supplies, Lei Xiangqian picked up the photo of a deep pit and asked, "But what is the relationship between this City God Temple and the other party?"
Although no supplies appeared in the City God Temple the second time, he felt that it must have been done by the same person.
There is also the City God Temple with a hundred pumpkins.
"...Looking at his route, this guy is heading north. It seems there are indeed many City God Temples in Jin Province. I wonder if we can catch him."
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