Chapter 00058: Very Interested
# Very Interested
Chapter 58
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 58 Very Interested
There are four great joys in life, and meeting an old friend in a foreign land is one of them.
And since this old friend was her very close cousin, Viola's excitement was understandable.
"Where were you when the Capital fell? Is uncle well?"
"It was a coincidence, I happened to be at home. Since the enemy was about to storm the Duke's mansion, I had no choice but to take my father and a few servants and escape with a group teleportation spell."
"Are they in the City of Academics?"
"Yes, Father talks all day about returning to the country to join the resistance, but as you know, his age really doesn't permit it."
Hearing this, Viola felt much more relieved.
At least she knew she still had living relatives.
The Capital fell late at night, and its fall was so sudden that there was no time to prepare.
Viola was still asleep when she got the news.
She shot out of bed and hurriedly summoned the Royal Guard.
By then, the enemy's helmets were already visible from the Royal Palace's terrace.
There was simply no time to worry about anyone else.
She could only fight a bloody path out with her Royal Guards while gathering the routed troops to escape.
Even the news of the King and the Crown Prince's deaths in battle was heard halfway through their escape.
"How did you get to the Leon Territory? The main roads outside should all be blockaded by the enemy."
"With a teleportation spell."
Audel said:
"I came here a few years ago to write a paper on the creatures of the snow region."
When using a teleportation spell, it's best to go to a place you have been to before.
Although you can go to a place you've never visited if you have the coordinates, doing so can easily lead to accidents, like getting stuck inside a rock or falling from the sky.
After explaining how she got there, Audel cut off Viola's next question and instead pointed to the farmland beside them, asking:
"What is this plant growing here? Where did it come from? I saw some Druids around, did they cultivate it?"
"What you're talking about are potatoes. They are seeds bestowed by the Lord Demon God. The Druids are also here to help manage them under the Lord Demon God's command."
"Demon God?"
Audel tilted her head, extremely surprised by this answer.
As a member of the Avarus Royalty herself, Audel had also heard the legends of the Demon God since she was a child.
But this feeling was like having grown up reading Journey to the West, only for someone to tell you one day that Monkey Sun actually exists.
Behind them, Zola said to Xuelin:
"Although Miss Audel's personality is a bit strange, she is actually an easy person to get along with. And look, Miss Audel's expression has changed. The corners of her eyes are starting to turn down, which means she's extremely interested in the Lord's affairs."
Xuelin: "..."
In any case, she couldn't see any real change in Audel's expression.
"I'm very interested. Please tell me the details."
Zola wasn't wrong.
Audel was indeed very interested.
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Unlike the sunny late April in the game, reality was early August, another stretch of muggy weather with continuous rain.
Li Chengxi had wanted to take advantage of the fresh morning air to ventilate the room, but the moment he opened the window, he was assaulted by the humidity from outside.
He quickly shut it again and turned up the air conditioner's dehumidifier.
He felt that in this kind of weather, unless absolutely necessary, probably no one would make a special trip to the convenience store.
With the mindset of 'it'll be good enough to make a single sale today,' Li Chengxi turned around, sat down behind the cash register, and looked at his computer screen.
Several days had passed since Viola led her troops to intercept the Winter Wolves, and she had long since returned to the city.
It turned out that Li Chengxi's choice not to personally flatten the wolf pack was the correct one.
The returning soldiers embellished the story and spread it all over the city.
At first, the commoners didn't really believe it, but when they saw the soldiers carrying the corpses of the Winter Wolves into the city one by one to be skinned, they had to believe it whether they wanted to or not.
The result was a sharp increase in the number of followers.
In less than a day, everyone in the entire Leon Stronghold, except for a few die-hards, had become followers.
Even in the villages and towns outside the city, the average number of followers had reached over 30%, and he believed it wouldn't be long before they were on par with Leon Stronghold.
At the same time, the first batch of Holy Emblems, produced with overtime work these past few days, began to be distributed.
With more people praying at regular, set times each day, the Faith Points were also soaring.
In just a few days, his Faith Points had broken past one thousand and were heading towards fifteen hundred.
Li Chengxi felt he had grasped the essence of this game.
Although he was idle most of the time, whenever there was an opportunity to interfere, he should do it when there were many people around.
Even though it consumed a lot of Faith Points, it could be exchanged for a large number of followers.
However, he still hadn't found a more effective way to use his Faith Points.
On the screen, the White Dragon took off from the open ground in front of the castle, soaring into the air.
With a whoosh, it flew north, quickly disappearing into the vast fog of war.
That's right, the White Dragon was still not considered a follower.
Its Devotion had always been 0.
Li Chengxi hadn't thought much of it at all.
His only thought at the time was to flick the White Dragon away with a finger.
But due to a serendipitous misunderstanding, Viola mistakenly believed that Li Chengxi wanted to take the White Dragon as a follower too.
He had no way to explain.
After all, he couldn't just say that his Holy Light had actually missed its mark...
He had a feeling that if he said that, Viola's Devotion would decrease.
Since it was already a misunderstanding, he might as well let the mistake ride, just like how Li Chengxi still hadn't explained the meaning of the 'Shit!' and 'Fuck!' that Viola and the others chanted all day.
Anyway, the White Dragon, having been hurt, probably wouldn't randomly head south again, so it didn't matter.
He moved the camera view over to Springlight Woodland for a look, checking on how the vegetables cultivated by the Druids were doing.
Then, Li Chengxi turned his attention to the plains north of Leon Stronghold.
A major infrastructure project was underway here.
Infrastructure work is exhausting, and most people are unwilling to do it.
Moreover, it was currently the busy farming season, and mobilizing farmers would cause problems with the grain yield.
Therefore, the main construction force consisted of the bandits captured from the mountains earlier.
The real bandits with blood on their hands had long been hanged.
The refugees who had been coerced into joining the bandits had to perform labor service to atone for their sins.
Originally, they were only responsible for repairing the roads within the Leon Territory.
Now, they finally had something significant to do.
The foundations for the windmills and waterwheels were already set up.
The efficiency was quite high.
He estimated that Viola's next step would be to build a fertilizer plant.
The fertilizer Li Chengxi told Viola about was not the same thing as modern industrial fertilizer.
The main ingredients were kelp, seaweed, shells, and soil.
Through processes like crushing, mixing, and fermentation, it could produce a fertilizer that, while not as good as industrial fertilizer, was far more effective than ordinary farm manure.
Since the raw materials were mainly sourced from the coast, the factory site would likely be by the sea as well.
Li Chengxi moved the camera view to take a look and found that although construction on the factory hadn't started, it seemed Viola had already ordered people to begin repairing the docks.
With the only road leading out of the territory blocked, only the sea route remained to connect with the outside world.
Viola was likely thinking of using sea transport, hence renovating the docks to facilitate other work in the future.
The joy of a simulation management game is watching a piece of land go from barren to prosperous, which fiercely prods the farming DNA of the people of the Celestial Empire.
Although an idle game doesn't require much operation, the enjoyment is the same.
After checking the construction progress, Li Chengxi turned the camera again to look at those few plots of land in front of the city gate that he had been longing for.
"Wait a minute, who is this blue-haired person? Why is she lying in my field?"
And then he saw Audel, lying at the edge of the field as if she wanted to fertilize it herself...
(End of Chapter)