fynovel Chapter 729: Making Out Like Bandits (IV)
Chapter 729: Making Out Like Bandits (IV)
Chapter 729: Making Out Like Bandits (IV)
Li Hao put the mini tree away in a storage ring and took out a pile of seeds. “Senior, how long will it take to cultivate the rations I need with these kinds of seeds?”
“Their quality... is poor! They require a lot of modification as they are very poor strains. I would say... three months.”
Li Hao sighed upon receiving the assessment. So what they had was indeed low quality, and this was the best that Director General Zhao could gather! It looked like even the crops of this age were a marked degree worse than those of the ancient civilization.
Since the little tree’s main body was still present, it would have no trouble working on these seeds. Li Hao had no reason to linger in the imperial palace. He’d gained quite a lot on this trip back to Silver Moon! There was the little tree’s replica, five hundred drops of Water of Life, and two thousand sets of armor that Huang Yu had collected for him.
He also had all sorts of random armor, with the Black Armaturas the most at one thousand sets. There was also armor from various troops that Li Hao didn’t recognize. Who knew where Silver Moon had gotten those from and if they belonged to proper, official armies?
Li Hao rushed to Rift Canyon without pause. This time, Panther was his steed. He’d gotten tired from all the flying.
......
Director General Wang was surprised to see Li Hao return to Battle Heaven. The entire city trembled as it looked down loftily. An enormous tree that nearly enveloped that entire city seemed to rustle for a moment.
Li Hao had purposefully let the little tree out to intimidate it. It trembled and shook, not making a sound like it was dead. Shock gripped its heart! As expected, General Pagoda will still live! Not only the general, but the other plant spirits of Battle Heaven didn’t seem to be fully dead either. They were wrapped in the general’s enclosure and retained some vitality. Perhaps they could also come back to life as well.
The little tree shook with trepidation. Director General Wang decided to fly straight through the city until he reached the front gates. He saw the young man off in the distance and also the mini tree. Contemplating something, the director general vanished once more.
Li Hao brought the little tree forward and quickly approached the city gates. The little tree suddenly landed on the ground and transformed into a tree the height of a person. It bent slightly at the two characters like it was bowing.
The young man was surprised, but quickly understood. The little tree likely knew the origin of these words. Perhaps those of the imperial palace had mentioned it. The little tree reverted back to its miniature form after the bow and hovered unmovingly over Li Hao’s shoulder.
“Troop Leader Li!” The three other troop leaders landed at the same time, looking at Li Hao, then at the little tree with surprise. “A plant spirit? they asked with confusion. “Where does this plant spirit come from?”
“The imperial palace.”
“Imperial palace?” The Seventh Troop leader seemed to think of something and said after a moment, “Oh... the... abandoned palace? I remember... I vaguely remember... that there was a tree at the gates... But... it wasn’t this one...”
“That was my father!” The little tree’s energy ripples undulated.
“You can communicate with them?” Li Hao looked at the little tree with surprise. The three troop leaders communicated with him through the armor, not through pure mental ripples.
“We are of the same core origin dao. Their core origin has not dissipated, so we can communicate with each other.”
Li Hao understood, so this was the case!
“I see!” exclaimed the Seventh Troop leader. “What a pity, but it’s to be expected. So many of the Battle Heaven Army have fallen after all these years and we have decayed as well. Time urges us on the path of old age. Just surviving is good luck enough!
“What a pity that General Pagoda has not awakened. He would be able to talk with you then.” The troop leader turned to Li Hao. “Is Troop Leader Li going to the barracks?”
“This is from the protective detail of merchant convoys! You’re turning this in?!
“And... and this... oh my heavens, this is children’s armor! This is for children! It’s a toy! You want to trade this in?” The deputy commissioner was highly disdainful of the array set in front of him. “You’ve brought back all manner of bric-a-brac! I simply don’t know what to say!”
Li Hao glanced at his offerings sheepishly. Was that so? Weren’t they all armor?
As scornful as Zhang Liang was, he took careful inventory. “There’s twenty-two hundred sets here,” he concluded wordlessly. “Only sixteen hundred of them come from an official army. The rest is trash!”
“Commissioner Zhang...”
“Deputy commissioner!”
“I know, I know. Here’s the situation—didn’t I trade in twenty-three hundred sets before? I had one hundred to begin with, the Silver Moon Guards have five hundred, which makes for twenty-nine hundred total sets. How about I trade this lot for twenty-one hundred sets? That makes for an even five thousand!
“I can’t have an uneven number, can I? That would look so weird and lose face for the Battle Heaven Army. People will look at me and count a little over four thousand. They’ll wonder what happened to the rest, did I lose several hundred in previous battles?”
Did his words make sense?
A little! But Zhang Liang wasn’t convinced. “That... while you make sense, I’m the one who has to suffer through military punishment if I give you several hundred extra sets!”
“Give it to him!” A voice manifested in Zhang Jiang’s mind.
“Commander...” Zhang Liang jerked with surprise, then glared at Li Hao. Asshole who got in through connections! Pah! You’re so shameless! But what could he say now that the commander had spoken? “Fine, you make sense. You can have twenty-one hundred sets!”
“Thank you, Commissioner Zhang!”
“Deputy commissioner!”
Li Hao didn’t care about the proper title. He exulted in his success. The commissioner really had agreed to his request! Damn if that didn’t feel nice!
Meanwhile, the little tree was astonished. How was the matter settled like this? Didn’t they say that the Battle Heaven Army practiced strict military discipline?
But very quickly, it realized that this was because of Li Hao. The young man had an easy time no matter where he went. He could insist on his way here—proof that he really did have support from Battle Heaven.
The little tree was once more stunned by the human’s capabilities! The heir of the eight families was a fish in water no matter where he went! The Lis were indeed at their head! It looked like even Battle Heaven was wary of the Sword Sovereign’s renown.
Zhang Liang quickly brought out the armor and tossed them at Li Hao. He ignored the young man after that, not wanting to talk to someone who made it to his position through connections!
Li Hao didn’t mind. He gleefully walked out of the door. The commander’s office wasn’t his next stop. He simply lingered outside the building for a bit and saluted before running off. This was just to ensure that the commander wouldn’t be able to say that Li Hao hadn’t properly greeted his commanding officer after his return.
Inside the office.
The commander looked on wordlessly. That was truly such a perfunctory way of going through the motions!