Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 261 Lao Liu
Good guy!
Liang Yuzhi, who seems shrewish, stingy, and eccentric, is actually the sixth child in her family.

If it weren't for Ah Dai's sharp eyes that spotted her little trick, Li Wei probably wouldn't have noticed it at all.

Liang Yuzhi prepared a mental potion during the mission and then took it during the mission, but it did not trigger the anti-smuggling regulations at all. As for the spider demon's leg, as long as it is not identified, the system that comes with the development card will not record it. In the first place, there was no such thing, so why should it be recorded?

The key is that Liang Yuzhi was able to pretend to be crazy and outsmart Li Wei and Li Yue from beginning to end. If she successfully obtains the rare scholar card, she will definitely be the one laughing last.

"I understand. If my request is that you also prepare a mental potion for me?" Li Wei said calmly.

"Impossible, I can't do it. I have too few raw materials for spellcasting. I only have enough to make one batch. So let's change the terms. I can give you 5000 gold coins, and I can help you backstab Li Yue. I can agree to anything else."

"Stop! Wait a minute, why are there so few materials for spellcasters? You've been with the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens for at least twenty years, there's no way you don't even have this much in stock, I don't believe it!"

Li Wei directly raised his doubts because it really didn't make sense. If you said it was difficult to find spellcaster materials in a normal world, that would be one thing, but what kind of world is this? It's a world where the source of magic has gone out of control and is polluted and radiated everywhere.

Liang Yuzhi sighed at this moment.

"I've actually been a member of the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens for fifty-eight years. I'm 90 years old this year, Li Yue is 82, and your boss, Night Owl, is 81. We're from the same cohort. Of the three of us, Night Owl is doing the best. She currently owns a four-star territory and is also a viscount under Duke Will. Li Yue and I are barons, and we each own a three-star territory, which we obtained through similar expansion missions. We used to be high-ranking five-star cross-border lords. I wouldn't even waste my time looking at a nobody like you."

"But do you know why Li Yue and I are in such a sorry state? Because we lost, we died, we died overseas. In order to be resurrected, we gave up everything, even mortgaged and sold our territory."

"You think our disheveled state when we joined this pioneering mission was an act? No, it wasn't. We were truly penniless. We practically jumped the queue to join this world right after we were resurrected. We were essentially starting from scratch, relying on nothing but the resources we had left. Do you understand that feeling? Overnight, we were left with only a resource card. I even lost most of our weapons and equipment."

"So in this situation, taking that thing is practically the same as taking my life, understand? I'm not threatening you, I don't want to erase my memories and go back to that world that's so foreign to me. I hope you can have mercy on me, consider it a favor I owe you... I... damn it, this is magic essence? Where did you get this?! Holy crap, holy crap! Holy crap!"

Liang Yuzhi suddenly swore because Li Wei took out the two bottles of magic essence!
"Now, could you prepare a mental potion for me?" Li Wei asked. He didn't really know how, but he wanted to try, just in case, just in case it worked, right?

"Yes! Absolutely no problem, damn it, you wait, give me the Spider Queen's life core, three days later—wait, damn it, you've already appraised it? This is already family property."

“Yes, but I can spend 100 prestige points to forcibly take it for myself.” Li Wei said calmly. This was in accordance with the rules, and he was acting according to the rules. What was wrong with that?

Liang Yuzhi looked at him with a complicated expression, finally nodded, and without saying a word, took the things and left.

However, she returned a moment later and initiated a transaction without saying a word.

[Your family member Liang Yuzhi initiated a transaction with you, and you received 2500 standard gold coins.]

[Transaction message: You're awesome, I'm impressed. This is 5000 gold that I swindled from Li Yue. I'll give you half. It's just a small token of my appreciation. Also, as long as the secret medicine for mental health is successfully prepared, you'll be the boss for the next three months.]

Looking at the inscription on the trade, Li Wei was also slightly happy. How could he not be happy? It was 2500 gold coins right away. Tsk tsk tsk, she's truly the best second aunt in history!
Of course, neither Liang Yuzhi nor Li Wei mentioned how to guarantee the deal.

We're all adults; we naturally know how to protect our own interests.

Although Li Wei spent 100 points of prestige to forcibly seize the life core of the spider demon, he did not hand it over to Liang Yuzhi through a transaction.

Therefore, from a legal perspective, even if Liang Yuzhi used this thing to prepare a mental drug, a portion of it would forever belong to Li Wei.

Of course, if Li Wei doesn't pursue the matter, then everything will be fine.

There's absolutely nothing to worry about.

Next, Li Wei slept soundly and comfortably, never having felt so at ease and relaxed, because from this moment on, the entire scavenging camp was entering a stage of efficient and rapid development.

From the inside out, from top to bottom, all members have been sorted out and organized by Li Wei, and no one will hold back or cause trouble at this time.

Even the free people know that the radiation storm will hit in two months. As this is their first time leaving the underground base, the more they prepare now, the greater their chance of survival.

Early in the morning, after having breakfast, Li Wei stood on the rooftop of the building. In the sky, Ah Dai's figure receded into the distance, while on the ground, people were busy at work. He finally felt a sense of being a lord, looking down on a small group of people.

"Two months from now, it will be the moment of tribulation for my territory. If I can get through it, there shouldn't be any problems later on."

Li Wei thought to himself with a sense of ease that he had never felt so confident about the future as he did now.

It's not blind confidence; it's that everything is truly under control.

He now has both manpower and resources at his disposal, so his boss, Night Owl, should finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

That was a kindness in recognizing his talent, and Li Wei still had to repay it.

Of course, this is only for this one time. Because with this territory, he will be a three-star lord with real power and a baron.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. That night, Liang Yuzhi silently sneaked into Li Wei's room. She didn't say a word or activate the conspiracy card, probably because she didn't have many left. She simply handed him a potion that emitted a faint golden light even in the dark.

Liang Yuzhi then left.

There were no transactions throughout the process; any transaction would inevitably leave a trace.

Moreover, both the life core of the spider demon and the two bottles of magic essence belonged to Li Wei. At most, she helped prepare them, kept one for herself and gave one to Li Wei afterwards. This kind of thing is best left to you and me to know, not even heaven and earth.

So Li Wei tacitly kept quiet and pretended that Liang Yuzhi had never been there.

Next, a thought struck him, and from between his eyebrows, the destiny matrix formed by the four professional cards floated out. The light of destiny shone on the potion, and a number of information was already clear.

【Name: Mental Elixir】

[Quality: 3 stars, slightly flawed]

[Effect: After the first use, there is a very high chance of permanently increasing mental strength by 3-5 points. After the second use, it will permanently increase mental strength by 2-3 points. After the third use, it will permanently increase mental strength by 1 point. After the fourth use or more, it will only have the effect of restoring mental strength, restoring 15 points of mental strength each time.]

[Warning: Side effects are inevitable after taking this product, such as hallucinations, headaches, drowsiness, and temporary forgetfulness.]

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This is really good stuff.

Li Wei opened the potion without hesitation and drank it all in one gulp.

In that instant, he didn't feel like he had drunk any beverage; rather, it felt more like he had eaten a gust of wind or a period of time—this description may sound absurd, but it really was that absurd.

Because the next second he felt like he had turned into a giant frog, his head suddenly growing thirty times larger, his tongue was thirty meters long, and he could take his brain out of his ears, sweep off the dust, pick off a few boogers, making it look shiny, and he could even sing and dance on his own, and even grow a few small brains, which were very noisy...

In the end, Li Wei completely forgot who he was and what he had done. When he came to his senses, it seemed like only a second had passed.
Looking around, the good news was that he hadn't gone on a drunken rampage, but the bad news was the intense pain that was as terrifying as thunder and as dark as a storm cloud.

All Li Wei could do was kick his own head around like a ball... the hallucination hadn't disappeared yet.

He regained consciousness earlier because of the intense pain.

But as soon as the pain subsides even slightly, he immediately falls into incomprehensible hallucinations.

The good news is that in this state, he is almost completely paralyzed and has almost no strength to move around. The bad news is that it's fucking terrible!

Vomiting, diarrhea, incontinence... Is this the price of becoming a mage?

After a whole night of tossing and turning, Li Wei finally got used to it, and then he fell into a deep, unconscious sleep, knowing nothing more.

He didn't even notice Zhao Xuanxuan coming in to clean up the mess for him.

When he woke up again, he even forgot the time and where he was, and almost thought he was in a hospital ward on his hometown Earth.

Because everything around him was tidy, he lay on the bed with clean bedding. Next to him was an open window, letting in bright sunlight and a glimpse of blue sky. A gentle breeze carried the sweet scent of ripening wheat.

Damn it?

The wheat is almost ripe!
Li Wei was startled and quickly recalled everything. How long had he been unconscious?

Somewhat weak, he stood up and went to the window. He saw that outside the camp building, a larger city wall was rising from the ground, and Thomas, Zhang Jinjun, along with Santiago, Javier, Benjamin, and ten other free men were busy at work.

In the southeast corner within this city wall, a furnace over ten meters high is under construction, next to which is a blacksmith shop of even higher specifications that has already been completed.
I could faintly hear the roar of the steam generator set and the whistling of the concrete mixer. Goodness, the main body of this level 3 city wall is almost finished. The progress is so fast. I've been asleep for almost a month.

Didn't fall into a vegetative state?

I don't think I've experienced any temporary amnesia. Looking at my mental strength, it's already at 15 points! Wow, that's the maximum!

(End of this chapter)