Chapter 285
285 Alarm Sound 1
Chapter 285 285 Alarm Sound 1 (Xie Moci, the Alliance Leader, Stays Up All Night with a Candle)
Two days later.
In the northern part of Black Cloud, at a medium-sized port called Yusha Port, forty large cargo ships slowly followed the pilot's small boat into the port.
A large number of laborers, including cattlemen and horsemen, had already gathered on the port shore to unload their cargo.
Behind the laborers stood the managers of the trading companies beside rows of large trucks. Half of these managers were from a business-savvy group like the tiger-people, while the other half were mixed-race sheep-people who still retained some ram-like features.
As a member of the lower-middle class of the outer city, in a district like Black Cloud where pure-blooded humans dominate everything, it's already a very tolerant environment for outsiders to be able to do some work on the outskirts.
Thump, thump, thump.
With a series of heavy footsteps, one after another, half-giants wearing gray vests with the huge characters "Bai Hai" embroidered on the back walked to the side to wait for the large cargo to be unloaded, carrying rolls of high-strength ropes.
These half-giants looked much like ordinary people, except they were very tall, the shortest being four meters tall and the tallest over six meters. They had grayish skin, buzz cuts or bald heads, wore sturdy hard leather boots, gray leather gloves, and each had a large gray-black towel around their neck for wiping sweat.
A group of more than twenty people stood scattered together, occupying a small area of the dock.
"Oh dear, how could I trouble Daoist Lin to come and receive the goods in person? I'm so sorry."
At that moment, on one side of the dock, a giant toad that was smoking a pipe had just exhaled a smoke ring when it suddenly shuddered, quickly threw the pipe to its assistant, and jumped a few steps to a group of people who were approaching from a distance, where it crouched down.
Standing a full four meters tall and three meters wide, covered in green goosebumps, it wore a golden jacket inlaid with gems and pearls. Now, it was crouching down with a humble smile on its face, looking rather comical.
“I’ve been waiting for this batch of medicine for a long time. I just happened to have nothing to do recently, so I came to pick it up myself.”
Lin Hui walked in front of the group with a smile on his face, followed by Su Yaping, Wang Hongshi and others.
"Almost there, it's currently in the review stage. Please follow me." The big toad said with a smile, straightening up to lead Lin Hui and the others.
Its name is Mo Xinghai, a human name. It comes from the Giant Toad Clan and founded the Green Mountain Merchant Guild within its own clan a hundred years ago. Later, it joined the Hundred Seas Merchant Alliance. Now, the guild is growing bigger and bigger, and it is one of the top ten large merchant guilds in the fleets near Black Cloud.
Since Lin Hui came to Black Cloud, he initially sought to purchase medicine from Mo Xinghai's Chamber of Commerce. Later, due to the pleasant cooperation, when he went to Tu Yue to pick up people, he also hired the Green Mountain Chamber of Commerce's ships.
The two sides can be considered long-term partners.
Mo Xinghai is an extremely trustworthy and secretive person. To date, he has always persevered in doing business he has agreed to, regardless of the changing times.
This is also the main reason why he has been able to grow his business so big and strong.
At this moment, he led Lin Hui and his group to a black cargo ship that was docking and waved to the ship.
Soon, a bearded man in a gray-blue long robe ran down the wooden ladder that had been set up on the boat.
After the bearded man and Mo Xinghai whispered a few words to each other, a second wooden ladder was immediately assembled and lowered onto the boat.
After the two wooden ladders were secured, strong men wearing gray vests lifted up the black wooden boxes, each over two meters long, and steadily walked down the ladders.
Immediately, the giants on the shore stepped forward one by one to take the boxes and then turned around to deliver them to the back of the truck.
"Because your goods are quite valuable, they've been placed a little lower down. Once this first batch of goods used as cover is moved, they'll be yours. Please bear with me," Mo Xinghai whispered to Lin Hui.
"It's alright." Lin Hui nodded. "Speaking of which, I've wanted to ask you for a long time, why don't you just use internal energy martial artists? Wouldn't it be much faster to move it?"
If a martial artist uses their internal energy to move the goods, the transport speed can actually be much faster.
"Isn't this cheap? It's not easy for us to make money in business. These half-giants are much cheaper than internal energy martial artists. They are resistant to poison. You can hire a whole group just by giving them a little bit of sea beast meat, even if it's just a tael or a pound. If it were internal energy martial artists, not only would they be charged per piece, but their appearance fee alone would be a thousand taels per person." Mo Xinghai said with a smile in a low voice.
Lin Hui silently calculated the prices in Tu Yue; martial artists with internal energy couldn't earn money as quickly as they could here.
Soon, all the large boxes were moved, and then came the smaller jade boxes.
"The gaps in these boxes are sealed with a special transparent adhesive, which is made from the skin of a huge sea whale called the Lost Whale. It has excellent sealing properties and can last for thousands of years without decaying, and is impervious to water and fire," Mo Xinghai began to explain. "The boxes themselves are carved from Blue Shadow Stone, which has a natural low-temperature preservation effect and can also maintain a certain degree of dryness and moisture absorption."
Soon a jade box was moved in front of them. Mo Xinghai took a small knife from his assistant, used his inner strength to cover the blade, and then cut along the seam of the box.
Click.
The box was suddenly opened, revealing neatly arranged blue-gold coral-shaped medicinal herbs.
"This is the top-grade golden coral you requested. Its effects are three to five times that of the Purple Cloud Mushroom! It will definitely satisfy you!" Mo Xinghai whispered.
Lin Hui nodded, and with a flick of his wrist, a piece of coral about the length of a palm flew out and landed in his hand.
He examined it carefully and nodded.
"How much did you acquire in total?"
“1342 jin, about three boxes, the price is ten jin per blood,” Mo Xinghai said with a smile.
Lin Hui nodded, turned slightly to look at Wang Hongshi behind him.
Wang Hongshi stepped forward to pay the bill, took out the withdrawal slip from Heiyun Money Exchange, and began to pay.
"Also, there's something else," Mo Xinghai whispered mysteriously. "Someone asked me to bring you something else."
He turned and gave an order, and soon another smaller black metal box was carried over.
"That person asked me to forward this to you. Please open it when you get back. This is an apology I made to you back in Tu Yue."
Lin Hui glanced at the box and felt a slight warmth from something hanging at his waist, immediately understanding its origin. He nodded and had someone take the box away.
"By the way, Daoist Lin, the situation outside is chaotic lately, with many battles taking place in various places. I wonder if your Qingfeng Dao is still accepting disciples from outside the city? Rest assured, he is the youngest son of my clan's ancestor, with top-notch talent and a respectful nature towards his teachers. As for tuition and resources, my clan's ancestor is willing to sponsor Qingfeng Dao with 10,000 units of various supplies every year." Mo Xinghai secretly transmitted his voice again.
“I don’t intend to recruit outsiders for the time being. However, since it was you, Old Mo, who asked, I’ll give you two spots. But I’m not accepting anyone right now. You can choose one of my personal disciples to become my apprentice,” Lin Hui said casually.
Now, anyone in Black Cloud City who knows anything about Qingfeng Dao and his background is trying every means to send their children and relatives to become his disciples. He doesn't have the time to accept them all, but this is an excellent opportunity to combine with local forces, so he has his disciples and close associates choose which ones to take on.
He was very busy. Besides his personal disciples Su Yaping, Tao Changsheng, Yun Xiazi, and Xia Si, he also had to occasionally teach Lin Xiaoliu. He didn't have enough time to cultivate himself, so how could he take on other people?
However, although I haven't met the ancestor of the giant toad clan that Mo Xinghai mentioned, he is a city lord of a federal city and a Mistman. Giving him some face would give me more ways to collect medicine.
Mo Xinghai was somewhat disappointed to receive a positive reply, but he could still understand.
After a quick handover, the group from Qingfeng Road carried the boxes and the gold and coral back home.
Lin Hui dismissed everyone except the metal box, placed it in the courtyard, and waved his hand to disperse the calamity energy, shielding the surroundings.
Although the environment of Qingfeng Academy is becoming increasingly dangerous over time, even though the wind rift has been sealed, it is still silently seeping out subtle calamity energy, spreading around.
This has led to a significant acceleration in the cultivation of many disciples at Qingfeng Academy recently. Everyone unanimously feels that their internal energy cultivation is progressing much faster than before, and the power of the internal energy they cultivate is also much stronger than before.
Lin Hui's mental strength was so great that even without actively sensing, he could cover a radius of several kilometers around him, so he was naturally aware of these changes.
But he couldn't do anything. He tried many methods, but none of them worked; he couldn't completely seal the crack.
Therefore, he pinned his hopes on this batch of top-grade gold and jade coral purchased from Tianchong to completely liberate the Blood Seal from evolution, and then to quickly develop a method to seal the wind disaster cracks.
This is one of the reasons why he personally led a team to receive the goods. In fact, he had already sent Su Yaping to escort the goods before they even entered the port.
After everyone around him had left, Lin Hui looked at the black metal box and a thought flickered in his mind.
laugh.
An invisible force of wind slowly opened the lock on the box, and the lid was gently lifted up.
It was lined with soft, black, fine fur.
A slender woman wearing a white fox mask was curled up in the middle of the fur.
The woman was completely naked, petite in stature, but with a very full and prominent chest, and her skin was so white it seemed to glow inside the box.
She appeared to still be unconscious, motionless, and breathing evenly.
There was also a pale yellow piece of paper with small writing on it placed on his thigh.
The parchment floated gently up and landed in Lin Hui's hand, where it automatically unfolded for inspection.
With a quick glance, he understood the whole story.
This box of gifts was an apology sent by the Black Face of the Kind Heart Sect. The woman in question is Fox, a member of the sect with whom Tu Yue had teamed up before.
The paper contained a detailed record of the entire process of why the fox was caught and given to him as an apology.
The reason was that the fox had once tried to send his specific information to Tu Yue Ji Yu Tian, hoping that the Blood Ancestor would use him as a target for devouring and to curry favor.
Now that Tu Yue has been destroyed and the original bloodline has degenerated, the fox, as one of the original bloodlines, has greatly lost its strength and is no longer of value. So it was simply given to him as an apology to gain his forgiveness and goodwill.
"What would I need her for?" Lin Hui shook his head and chuckled. That's the downside of his reputation for taking too many aphrodisiacs; everyone thinks he's a lecherous man.
But only he and those around him knew that he was actually a hermit seeking enlightenment.
Looking at the fox's beautiful body, he was about to dismember and kill it, but he stopped as soon as he moved.
A novel idea welled up in his mind.
If we can figure out how the evil weapon caused the bloodline of such a person to degenerate, could we reverse the evolution of this method?
This person still has some research value.
Lin Hui waved again, closed the box, and used the wind chime to summon Li Yuanyuan to come over, temporarily detaining the person.
Further exploration of the night fog, shadows, and wind-induced cracks will require test subjects with certain strength. As a cultivator of divine techniques, even if the fox's original bloodline has degenerated, it should still possess the strength of a divine official, which should not be wasted.
After Li Yuanyuan came over and moved the boxes away, she returned shortly afterward.
"Master, if you prefer that type, I can change into a box and rest naked tonight."
Lin Hui was speechless. He turned around and looked at Li Yuanyuan's cold and beautiful face as she told dirty jokes with a straight face. This girl knew exactly what kind of person she was, yet she still deliberately made such jokes.
"You should find a boyfriend to talk to and vent your frustrations," he said helplessly.
"Master, guess what kind of image and reputation these female disciples who are willing to live in this Daoist Academy have in the eyes of outsiders?" Li Yuanyuan asked calmly.
Lin Hui was completely speechless.
(End of this chapter)