Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 1578: Chapter 156: The Soon-to-Form Interim Government

”Lu Huayu’s eyes were frantically blinking, but the intense brainstorm couldn’t help him understand the logic behind it: ”What the hell are you talking about?

The command center isn’t just your head and your tablet?

Can that thing be smashed?”

Snow Cloud Peak bent down and gently sniffed the fresh fragrance of the windbell grass, unable to refrain from laughing, ”Didn’t you see how the crystal ball in Lind’s hand came about?

As long as we make them believe that after we enter Aesces, we have a Divine Artifact Book that accepts various local world tasks, wouldn’t that work?

Once it’s destroyed, everything resets... Although Aesces’s rules are as numerous as cow hairs, it’s such a world that makes one believe in such an artifact’s existence!

So don’t blame others for having too many rules. If you can’t find the direction, you can only blame yourself for not adequately utilizing the rules.

You all understand, right?

For them, with Ellie as a backup, starting from scratch is the only way to achieve the final victory!

Tsk tsk~ Still, they managed to expel a bunch of us old dudes who have no use from Basia, hehe~

As for the resentment and hatred from other Scattered Ones and ordinary families, can you really blame me, a useless person who can’t even protect a Divine Artifact?

The ones taking direct action are the NPCs; since the rules allow them to use force against force, you can’t blame them for being ruthless.

Moreover, for some Scattered Ones, restarting is better than having all the military exploits taken by our Proud Sky Alliance. As long as they have these people’s support, they won’t be targeted by everyone.

Heh~

Looks like, in the future, Basia City will probably be officially under the family of Paintbrush, huh~

The group from Eden are a bit clever; when they don’t have enough people, they have to use one of our families as a transition.

Tsk~

I say, Ink Brush, look, you’re about to become a criminal of the century... forcing a good girl to act as a temporary government!”

Snow Cloud Peak’s eyes flashed with a cold light. He deftly pulled out a crystal ball from a flowerpot... clear and crystalline, shimmering with a slight silver-blue brilliance, with some divine emblems flashing past... revealing a satisfied smile: ”You see, as long as some sneaky people only catch a glimpse of the divine emblems, isn’t that enough?

Although there are some differences between the sacred emblems of each world’s sun and moon, light and dark, if a peeper is flustered and didn’t look carefully, it’s roughly the same, right?”

”Hmm... the position of the fingers also needs to be placed accurately.” Lu Huayu swallowed silently... How did he survive under Old Dog’s claws for so many years?

Snow Cloud Peak raised an eyebrow, skillfully rotating the crystal ball in his hand: ”Of course, we should be grateful to Teraxil and the generous Toril Gods.

Especially the Elf Deity System, allowing us to slightly morph their sacred emblems on our crafts... as long as it looks good.”

The lively windbell grass pressed its branches full of tiny silver flowers onto the crystal ball, and just then, a beam of moonlight passed suavely... precisely obscuring the moonbow on the full moon.

Aesces’s Silvermoon Goddess, the sacred emblem is a full silver moon with a few floating clouds below.

And the one that just flashed by was actually Shahani Yugong... the moon lady of the Elf Deity System... her sacred emblem.

Lu Huayu’s mouth twitched: ”Why would they believe such nonsense? The undead tribe of other cities... how many can you control across cities?

Haven’t they all turned into places for those small families to rake in military exploits?

As soon as they inquire a bit, they’ll know you can’t manage matters so far away, right?”

”Our Proud Sky Alliance, though the main forces have come to Basia, heh~ we never focus our eyes on just one city. How can we be so shortsighted?

Just open a few subsidiary sub-branches, isn’t that enough?” Snow Cloud Peak turned to look at the chuckling Old Age Striking King, ”You also know about the small family called ’Black Rose’ asking me to invite you to eat mangoes, right?

Aren’t they now growing mangoes at the edge of the desert?

You can’t think just because most people there like to play life professions that they’re not part of Proud Sky Alliance~”

”I’m not the only one who knows about this, right? They won’t ask that group selling mangoes either.

Heh~ No wonder you let the Proud Sky Alliance families come in batches.” Lu Huayu suddenly realized, ”You didn’t want people to know how many cities are truly under your control!

Damn... I should have thought of this sooner, given that you don’t need to bring bosses, getting into battle earlier is definitely better!

Wait...”

Lu Huayu asked, somewhat confused, ”How can you be sure the families they inquire about are yours?”

Then he suddenly turned to look at the lifeless Mobi Chenxin, who kept silent even when Old Dog humiliated him: ”Damn! Did your people start following Paintbrush from the beginning?

Only the people around Paintbrush can ensure all the information gathered and returned is something you guys know!

Tsk tsk, no wonder you knew it was Paintbrush causing trouble much earlier... I wondered why you trusted Zhu Meili so much!

No wonder Baldy... I really thought he installed surveillance in Zhu Meili’s house!”

”You can’t really say they’re my people...” Mobi Chenxin casually picked at the armrest of the sofa with his fingers, ”It’s just that my family doesn’t only have factories on the main star.

Although they usually like to hang out with those girls, they’re still drawing their salary from my family, aren’t they?”

”Damn!” muttered ’Lu Huayu’, ”You rich folks really are something else!

You talk about how much you trust your Deputy Gang Leader, but tsk, you already had someone placed right next to her!

Honestly, there’s probably one right next to me too, but luckily I’m a good person.

Hmm?

Wait, Toril... what’s going on with you?”

”No amount of scheming can match a person’s momentary impulse. When she goes crazy, she doesn’t even communicate with her friends,” ’Mobi Chenxin’ looked at him with a deadpan expression, ”I didn’t think much of it either, just have to take the blame!

Could I really argue with a girl who’s been pursuing me for years over a bit of money? People would think my family’s going bankrupt!

But... she still came looking for me after that, and even found my house!

I could move so quickly because I already had property, but... who knows if she’ll find it again?

Do I have to buy a new house to avoid her?

Do I have some kind of illness?”

’Lu Huayu’ smirked: ”Snow Old Dog acts like he can predict everything, but it turns out he already placed a spy right beside that woman!”

”Mr. Snow Cloud Peak.” Ditte interrupted the exchange, ”Are you taking the Endless Vines away?

What about Basia City...”

”As long as you don’t come near the coast here, there won’t be any trouble.” ’Snow Cloud Peak’ smiled at him, ”With Ellie’s sea monster around, the Moon Clan can’t easily come ashore from here.

Although that’s no longer your sister, from what I’ve observed, Ellie still has some obsessions she has to abide by.

For example, the safety of the Stelter Family.

You must have noticed, right? When those sea monsters attack, they always avoid you.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been so easily called in by me.”

Ditte remained silent.

”Brother?” Lind held his arm worriedly, ”Don’t be stubborn about this, we are mortals!

The citizens of Basia City still need your protection. The coast... it’s a battlefield for the Moon Clan and those undead controlled by Ellie anyway. Temporarily retreating, no one will blame you.”

”I have no choice either.” ’Snow Cloud Peak’ explained softly, ”Sea monsters aren’t outside the hunting range of the Endless Vines. If they want to establish a foothold, they have to clear our vines.

How can we let our friends die unjustly because of our retreat?

Sigh... we had good intentions when we planted these Endless Vines.

But Ellie will definitely conflict with us because of Hill.

So our retreat was inevitable from the day she started to change.

Even Aesces couldn’t catch her slip-ups, what can we do?”

Ditte glanced at the ’Old Age Striking King’ clinging to the edge of the Cloud Platform, concernedly watching the outside, and nodded weakly: ”I can only hope that our friendship won’t dissolve because of these... circumstances.”

”Why would it?” ’Lu Huayu’ smiled, ”We still want to open a shop in Basia City! At that time, we might need Mr. Ditte to help maintain some order.”

The few stores of the Last-Era Clan might annoy the people from Eden to death.

Unfortunately, the contract was signed before they came to power; as long as the Stelter Family is around, it can’t be voided.

However, because of Ellie’s existence, the Stelter Family might not have it easy, but they will inevitably persist.

Ditte looked at Lind and nodded seriously: ”I certainly will.

But I need your help to pass messages between Lind and me.”

”Of course, no problem.” ’Lu Huayu’ laughed, ”A landlord deserves respect.”

”Old Dog, 5 minutes left.” ’Qiuqiu’ reminded.

”Elder, are the names of those helping the sea monsters destroy houses all in red?” ’Snow Cloud Peak’ raised his voice to ask.

”Yes, but only light red.” ’Old Age Striking King’ had one hand hanging on the edge of the Cloud Platform, the other clenched into a fist watching outside, ”Not at the level where we can fight back... and not hitting William’s ban threshold.”

”Ah... retaliating is out of the question.” ’Snow Cloud Peak’ shook his head, ”It’s all up to you! Be sure to let me hold on for over 10 minutes, hehe~”

He smiled at Ditte: ”Mr. Ditte, look, it’s almost dusk. Would you like to take Mr. Lind over to Hill’s Magic Tower for a chat?

We’ll leave at midnight.

Don’t worry about Hill’s blockade, Qiuqiu will take you there, at least take one last look at that beautiful scenery before it disappears.”