A night of awkwardness

Author: Half-wounded but not broken

A night of awkwardness

As the teachings of Lathander say, the dawn will always come.

When the sun rose from the east, the spore cloud that had shrouded the sky over Muxing City all night was instantly dispersed by the morning light. The hyphae that were originally crawling on the streets were quickly scorched and lost their activity under the sunlight.

The people who stayed outside the city anxiously for a night finally returned to their city and began reconstruction work.

The first thing to deal with is, of course, the remnants left by the King of Corruption.

The Muxing City government spent a very high price of 1,200 gold coins to buy the formula for the special medicine and all the finished products created by Pei Renli and Eve, and called on the magic shops and alchemists in the city to work overtime to produce the potion.

So before the afternoon, many people took showers and used potions to kill the hyphae and mushrooms growing in the dark corners.

Some people were also ordered to enter the sewers with potions. In addition to searching for hyphae that might be growing underground, they were also prepared to wait until the potion became richer to discharge the highly concentrated potion directly down to perform a major cleaning.

However, when someone entered the sewer with a potion, they were surprised to find that the mycelium of the Rot King was fighting inextricably with the mud monsters that had increased in number due to heat and heavy rain.

The Rot King was originally used as a super weapon against the Faceless King, and the Faceless King is essentially a super powerful ooze monster...

Professional counterpart belongs to yes.

This is an unexpected surprise. At least this summer, I don’t have to worry about gelatinous mud monsters crawling out of the drains at home.

The biggest and most difficult thing to deal with is, of course, the body of the Lord of Corruption at the lighthouse.

It was too huge and left so much ashes that it would make people collapse.

Muxing City specially hired scholars to evaluate it, but even they were not sure whether the King of Corruption was dead or not. In view of the danger of this thing, handling it casually may lead to greater trouble.

Therefore, they did not throw the corpse of the King of Rot directly into the sea. Instead, they kept it in place and used water spray trucks to pour potion on it at all times. They would check the situation after a period of time. If there was no problem, they would burn it again in batches.

Make sure to kill him 100%.

In addition, the official also sent people to go door-to-door to publicize that people should never eat raw food or drink raw water. All food must be fully heated to avoid the emergence of plague caused by accidentally eating undeactivated spores.

In general, Muxing City suffered heavy losses this time. The port it relied on the most was shut down, and a large number of ships were made of wood, so after a night of rotting, almost all of them sank underwater.

The human losses were also high. Most of the dead were old people and children with poor resistance. Piles of corpses were carefully transported out and burned together.

Pei Renli didn't quite understand the funeral customs of the local people. Everyone knew that burial was likely to turn the corpse into an undead creature, but everyone thought that burial was the best way for the deceased to sleep peacefully. For them, cremation was the best way to put the deceased to sleep.

People break their bones and scatter their ashes.

Therefore, taking away the corpses and burning them attracted a lot of opposition, and many members of the security team had to explain one by one how troublesome it would be if cremation was not carried out when the plague occurred.

What should have been the biggest problem has become easy to solve.

For example, the fleet from the Republic of Tula.

City Lord Ash felt that the rescue of the six-person council should be postponed and the problem of the Rotten King should be dealt with first. This was not wrong, because he did not know that the Republic of Tula had already sent a fleet.

But when Pei Renli did things, he first saved the six-member council and reversed the order.

On the one hand, it will be easier to have official assistance, on the other hand, this can be regarded as a backup.

Due to the timely rescue, the six-person council sent carrier pigeons to the fleet outside in the afternoon and ordered them to assemble in the designated sea area.

The fleets that were originally dispersed to protect the waterway all ran to the west side of The Hague Castle due to orders. The Tula Republic fleet, which was excited in the name of rescue, happened to have an unexpected encounter with the fleet of Muxing City.

The scene was extremely embarrassing for a time.

According to the predictions of the Republic of Tula, they should only encounter a small number of ships from Mu Xing City or only patrol ships. By then, they will have to rely on many ships to force their way through and take over Mu Xing City, which has only the remaining health.

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However, the entire fleet blocked the road, which made the commanders on the scene afraid to act rashly, because they would definitely not be able to get through if they tried to break through. When the time came to fight, it would be a real all-out war.

The Tula Republic keeps making small moves, but they are limited to small moves. Once a full-scale war really starts, it will be equivalent to them personally breaking the twenty-year period of peace left by the tyrannical demon king.

This will put the Tula Republic in a fairly passive situation in terms of international public opinion, and it will have to face strong condemnation from almost all countries.

Not to mention anything else, if other countries impose additional tariffs on Tula Republic's goods, or simply ban the import of Tula Republic's goods, this is enough for them to drink.

As a result, the two sides were in a stalemate and spent the whole night on the sea.

It was not clear whether the Republic of Tula had received instructions from its superiors. It was almost dawn when the fleet from Muxing City received an order from the six-member council.

Since the Republic of Tula came in the name of disaster relief, it couldn't just turn people away thousands of miles away, so they allowed a transport ship to go to Muxing City.

The Republic of Tula also really wanted to know the current specific situation of Muxing City, so they nodded in agreement.

As a result, when the transport ship arrived, we happened to see a Muxing City that was in a state of reconstruction, the top leadership was still there, and the society could function normally.

In the original plan of the Republic of Tula, when the fleet arrived, most of Muxing City should have been destroyed by the King of Corruption, the top leadership was wiped out, and a large number of displaced people were struggling to survive, that is, when only a trace of blood was left.

At this time, the Tula Republic's fleet enters Muxing City as a savior, and can legitimately take over the entire city without any resistance.

In fact, the six-member council was still there, and although Muxing City suffered serious losses, it was not damaged. Seeing this scene, I knew that the plan must have failed.

The six-person council and the city lord Ash received the transport ship from the Republic of Tula very warmly, and greatly appreciated this humanitarian spirit. They called the Republic of Tula their closest business partner and friend, and the city lord personally presented a gift to them.

A letter of thanks.

Although everyone knew what was going on, there was really no curse word in the letter and it was full of praise.

In the eyes of outsiders, this means that Muxing City was hit by a disaster, and the nearest Republic of Tula launched assistance. On both sides, you said international assistance, and I shouted that friendship will last forever.

However, to those who knew about it, especially the Republic of Tula who planned all this, the thank you in that letter seemed strange and made people's blood pressure soar.

In fact, the letter was written by Pei Renli. Someone in charge of diplomacy in the six-person council drafted a letter, but after reading it, Ash felt it was not strong enough, so he asked Pei Renli, who was idle at the side.

There is no curse word in this letter. The main purpose of this letter is to blow, and to blow hard with a very low attitude.

However, the effect of breaking the defense was very good. As soon as I got the letter, I didn’t even take a second look at it. The people from the Tula Republic used the excuse of being busy and planned to leave. After hearing that Ash planned to officially report the experience of Mu Xing City and this thank you letter,

When the method was sent to all countries that had diplomatic relations with Muxing City, the envoys of the Tula Republic turned green.

In the end, the people from the Republic of Tula left behind a boatload of so-called relief supplies and headed back home in despair.

Are you going to let the Republic of Tula go so easily?

Otherwise? What else can be done?

The Republic of Tula has a vast territory and a strong army. If it were not for the sea of ​​trees lying in the middle, they would have annexed Muxing City from the land.

No matter how rich Muxing City is, it is just an independent city-state, and it is completely undesirable to go head-to-head with a real big country.

Moreover, the people of the Republic of Tula did it very cleanly, and no substantial evidence was found to prove that they did it. Even if the whole thing was publicized as it was, everyone knew that it was indeed very likely that it was the Republic of Tula.

But if there is no evidence, there is no evidence. It is impossible for other countries to take action based on groundless speculation, and it is not in their interests.

Of course, on the surface, it was a dumb loss, but in fact, Mu Xingcheng did not intend to swallow its anger. It probably wanted to give Zaitula Republic a serious blow commercially. After all, they were better at this.

Speaking of which, Mu Xing City was able to survive this disaster with minimal losses, and Pei Renli played a very obvious role in it. However, since the whole thing could not be widely publicized, there was no way to hold any honorable awards.

The ceremony was completely different from the previous one in Brevoir.

Pei Renli didn't have any dissatisfaction, after all, his goal was achieved.

The most important purpose is to prevent Muxing City from falling into the hands of the Republic of Tula. Perrenli hopes that it will always maintain its independence. This is only convenient.

Secondly, it can be regarded as an additional purpose.

After taking away the core, Perrenli had no intention of continuing to deal with the Lord of Corruption. It would be very troublesome to completely eliminate it. Whether he used the gaze of the Dark Lord or let Ravna take action, it would become inexplicable.

Pei Renli just wanted to take away the best part and let nature take its course for the rest.

But when he saw Kaya and the others appearing with his secret eyes, he immediately had a new idea in his mind.

Let the devil Atlas come out and wander around.

In this way, Korra saw Perrenli and Demon King Atlas appear at the same time, so she would naturally not think that they were the same person. On the other hand, although Mu Xingcheng did not know who the person who did it was, what did he look like?

The information must be there, so when Pei Renli's demon kingdom is established in the future, it will be a huge bonus in dealing with Muxing City.

I saved you with my own hands, but don’t you know how to thank me at all?

In other words, Korra, who knows that it is the Demon King, will not spread the whole story, causing people to peek at the sea of ​​trees in advance. But Korra, who does not know that it is the Demon King's Mushixing City, will secretly note this in her heart.

Okay, it will be of great use in the future.

Pei Renli pretended to be weak in order to cover up the huge consumption of magic power caused by using the Dark Lord's Gaze. It can be said that he is quite an actor.

Although he didn't expect that Lin and Fina, the magic pattern masters, were also there, and Fina was actually the 'aunt' that Cistia mentioned...

In fact, Fina only received a letter from Sistia, saying that Nethar had been arrested and asking her to think of a solution.

All members of the current six-person council were raised by Fina, and their reputations are extremely exaggerated. Many times when the city lord comes, he is not as handsome as this one.

Of course, to Pei Renli, this kind of thing was just a bit of a surprising side detail. After all, the main purpose had been achieved.
Chapter completed!