The mountains here are high and the roads are far away. Even the temperature of the boiled water is lower than elsewhere. Boiling water is fast, but cooking meat is very slow. What's more, the beef Gray Linte brought was dried beef... It took seven days to cook.
Eight minutes later, the slightest aroma wafted out of the small iron pot, causing Gray Lint to salivate crazily. He looked at Tripp who was playing with the firewood and asked expectantly:
"With this kind of fire, how long will it take to cook it before it can be eaten?"
It wasn't that he was extremely hungry, it was just the instinctive desire for food when people are hungry.
The old man wrapped a roll of dry cigarettes, carefully stuffed it into his arm-long iron smoking pot, carefully leaned towards the fire, lit the cigarette and said with a grin without looking back:
"Don't be in a hurry. If you just want to cook it, it's easy to do. It only takes half an hour. But if you want it to be easier to eat, you have to cook it softer. It will take at least a few hours... This
We still haven’t entered the grassland. If we go deeper, we won’t be able to boil the meat in water. We can only eat it by roasting it. It will be dry and hard. I don’t know if you can eat it, sir?”
ha?
How can I, a dignified Sequence 6 Beyonder, be stumped by one bite?
Gray Linte raised his eyebrows, pretending to be impatient, he opened the pot for cooking meat and looked at it, then covered it again, and threw a "twist", twisting the action of "covering the pot lid" into
"Closed", and then said mysteriously:
"Old man, you don't know that this pot I brought is not ordinary. Although it is ordinary, it is actually the latest invention of the Church of Steam! It is especially suitable for use in places with extremely high mountains. It can be boiled for ten or twenty minutes.
Just cook it in your regular pot for an hour or two."
Isn't it? After all, it is a "pressure cooker" constructed with extraordinary abilities... Even when he opened the lid later, Gray Lint did not dare to directly remove the "sealing". He had to give it an "air straw" first.
Let the high-pressure airflow inside go out first, otherwise it will fry the pot easily.
"Yeah?"
The old man looked around the pot suspiciously, but didn't find anything different about it.
However, although the Church of Steam does not have many beliefs in the Southern Continent, its name is very famous, because most of the natives know that the machine guns and artillery that defeated them on the battlefield originally came from the Church of Steam.
So he didn't delve into it further.
He was not the only one who was suspicious, Aphra next to him also looked at Gray Lint with a strange look.
Isn't this just what the teacher bought casually?
However, the inspiration of the "apprentice" is not low. She was already aware of the "closure" just now, and she roughly guessed that Gray Lint used extraordinary abilities, so she made up a lie.
Sure enough, the aroma of the broth could no longer penetrate the closed pot.
Half an hour later, according to the preset procedure, Gray Lint first used the "air straw" to deflate the pot, and then "twisted" the action into "unsealing" while removing the lid... Suddenly, there was a strong
The aroma of meat spread quickly.
"Haha, the effect is really good."
Gray Linte laughed, seemingly talking about the pot, but actually talking about the idea he had come up with. Then, he scooped out three bowls with the meat and soup, took his own portion, and put the thin wheat cakes
The beef became soft and soft, and he chewed it in deep and shallow bites. Tripp was a little unconvinced at first, but when he took a big bite of the beef and made his teeth hurt, he suddenly relaxed his brow and immersed himself in it.
In the smell of soft meat, what I thought in my heart was:
"This gentleman is very easy-going. Normally, those who do business always finish the meal themselves and the servants eat it. After the servants finish eating, it is my turn to scoop up some leftover soup... I wonder what his background is?"
There is naturally no answer to this question.
Soon, the group had lunch and took a short rest before embarking on the journey to the south again.
To the west of the Hagati Grassland is the Star Plateau of West Balam, so Glerint's trip is destined to gradually go to a place with higher altitudes.
The grassland area is vast, and you usually have to walk a long distance before you can see a felt tent. There are often many cattle, sheep, horses, and large dogs grazing around, which can scare away lone wolves.
Since these herdsmen can raise herds of cattle and sheep, they are certainly not the poorest group, so Graylint did not go down to talk or inquire. He always remembered that the purpose of his trip was to try
He uses the suffering of others to influence himself, and changes his original thoughts to achieve an alternative kind of "corruption" in order to completely digest the magic potion.
However, with a utilitarian mind, how can you make yourself a less utilitarian person?
…………
When it was getting dark, the group came to the first stop into the grassland:
Sloanesland.
In fact, this is not a "city" in the popular sense, because there are neither tall city walls nor any landmark buildings. It can only be regarded as a gathering place for human beings. Even the houses are only a small area in the middle.
Area, the outer layer is made up of tents one after another, mostly made of white wool, and a few are made of tawny leather.
"The 'houses' here are only for the officials and wealthy people who travel from north to south."
Perhaps when he saw Gray Lint looking at the mud-walled house inside, Tripp tapped the armrest with his pipe, shook off some ashes, and explained to Gray Lint at the right time, as if to dissuade him.
That intention didn't exist in the first place.
Gray Linte smiled dumbly and shook his head indifferently, not intending to explain anything to him.
Aphra, on the other hand, although she has a gentle and well-behaved temperament, is extremely persistent in the reputation of Gray Lint, and she said to him in a polite way:
"This is Uncle Tripp, you don't know. In terms of status, few of the guys inside can compare to the teacher."
Regardless of whether this is the case or not, if these words are spoken, they will offend others.
"Oh, what a loud tone."
When Tripp was driving his carriage and approached the "city" in front of him, a young man on horseback happened to pass by. He happened to hear Aphra's "wild words", so he rode his horse closer and headed towards the exit of the carriage.
, Aphra, who came out to enjoy the air, laughed sarcastically.
Aphrarou raised her eyebrows slightly, turned her head, and wanted to argue with him.
At this time, Gray Linte, who had a sudden inspiration, lifted the curtain of the carriage with some vigilance, and took a step out.
"teacher."
Seeing Gray Lint coming out, Aphra didn't care to argue with the young man anymore. Instead, she raised her dimples and lowered her eyebrows to greet Gray Lint.
Gray Linte's inspiration and gaze were all fixed on the person coming, but he didn't care about Aphra's mood and just said "hmm" in a low voice.
This is a typical Southern Continent person. He is about 170 centimeters tall and looks bigger than Gray Linte. He has facial features as profound as the Alister brothers and sisters, but not as refined as them. Maybe it is
He has been exposed to the wind and sun of the grassland all year round, and the skin on his face has varying degrees of chappedness in the areas where muscles are often pulled, but compared to the Alister siblings, his complexion is much fairer.
——Although in Glerint's opinion, this is just the difference between pot ash and firewood ashes.
Of course, these are not the point. The point is that he is an extraordinary person, and the kind that can touch Gray Linte's consciousness.
"Lawyers" are not the kind of people with high inspiration. They sense other Beyonders and usually use a person's position to directly judge his level. Gray Lint is no exception. He has long-term delivery of consciousness to "
He is the "Duke of Entropy", so he can be said to have the ability to identify someone's "level of chaos" far beyond his own sequence level. However, after all, he has not borrowed extraordinary characteristics, so he can see that the other person is an extraordinary person with a high level.
Or, this is the limit, and it is not possible to judge the opponent's specific level more accurately.
"Ruen people?"
Before Grayling could speak, the other party looked him up and down, muttered something unclear, and at the same time frowned.
It was said that he was "talking", but his voice was quite loud. Not to mention Gray Linte, even Tripp could hear it clearly...or maybe he actually didn't mean to hide it at all.
What happened to the Loen people? Did the Loen people eat your big... cattle and sheep?
Although Gray Lint does not like the colonial rule of Loen's army, this does not mean that he does not recognize his own identity. When thinking about certain issues, he does not mind standing in the perspective of the colonized people of the Southern Continent, but
After all, he had read through the memories of the original owner Gray Linte. In this world, his personal cultural identity still had to be biased towards Loen.
When he was about to say a few words, the young man said loudly:
"That's no wonder."
As he spoke, he took a careful look at Gray Linte and then at Aphra next to him. He shook his head, lightly pulled the reins, and was about to ride away.
"stop!"
Somehow, Gray Linte, who had always been extremely calm, was irritated by his actions and demeanor, so with the unique majesty of the second path of order, he gave an order with great force.
This loud shout had a good effect. Let’s not talk about what happened to the young man. The horse under his crotch was suddenly stopped by the drink, and his legs trembled. The excrement and relics were left together, even if the owner shook the reins.
, was slapped on his back, and he didn’t dare to move even half a step.
Looking at its owner, his mind was also shocked and he fell into a blank moment.
"Huh?"
Gray Lint was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that the roar he made with his momentum had a bit of "dragon power".
"Well, maybe I'm used to being in a high position, so I unconsciously developed some power, right?"
Gray Linte made an uncertain guess in his mind, and returned his gaze to the young man who turned his head stiffly. He was not eager to blame or humiliate him, but inquired:
"Who are you?"
"You are so dignified and arrogant, so your background must not be simple? Why don't you give me a name?"
He knew all about the large-scale extraordinary forces with angel-level powers in the entire world, so he really didn't believe that there would be anything on the border of the East Balam Colony that he couldn't afford to offend. The attitude of this young man
He's so disgusting, but if you don't give him any punishment, do you really think that he, Gray Lint, is doing charity?
The majesty of an "emperor" cannot be challenged by anyone.
This is because he is paranoid. Firstly, he is not the real "Emperor" after all, and his subordinates have no power that they can use at will. Secondly, for a real "Emperor", "power" and "strictness" are two different things.
, his idea of punishing the other party is "severe", but "power" may not be able to express it.
After being in a daze for a moment, the young man came back to his senses, turned his head stiffly, his eyes wandering, and looked at Gray Linte and others with fear:
"This person is not simple. He can scare my horse directly with just a drink. Even I was lost for a while, and finally regained my attention."
After hesitating for a while, he looked directly at the roof of Gray Linte's bullock cart and said vaguely:
"Hmph, now you look like you have the same tone as what you said before."
"But compared with the high-level Beyonders of our Zimmerman family, there is still a fundamental difference. I advise you to go around Sloan Silan."
Oh, poor technique, deliberately irritating me with words, trying to transfer the conflicts between us to the relationship between his family and me...
Gray Linte saw through his plan at a glance, secretly thinking it was funny, and asked again:
"So, what's your name anyway?"
But what he didn't expect was that the purpose of this young man's words to provoke him was not to provoke him to antagonize his family or die, but to divert his attention. When Gray Lint relaxed a little, he
Suddenly it turned into a blazing white flame, shooting out from a distance... At the same time, a thick mockery was left on the spot:
"Ha, idiot, my name is Leif. If you have the guts, come to Sloan Silan and find me!"
Gray Linte suddenly leaned forward, and just as he was about to raise his right hand, he suddenly thought of something and slowly lowered it. After saying "Enter the city" without emotion, he got back into the carriage.
At the same time, several sets of keywords emerged in his heart: subconscious provocation, turning into flames, diverting attention to gain an opportunity to escape, which also seemed to have a bit of a "conspiracy" flavor...
"Is this man a 'conspirator'?"
I didn't guess "Reaper" because, if there is no acting method, given his age, even just becoming a "conspirator" is considered extremely talented, and it also accounts for the fact that the end is approaching and the "original" will has faded.
, low-sequence extraordinary promotion has become easier and cheaper. Therefore, there is basically no need to consider Sequence 5, which requires ritual assistance to be promoted. Moreover, the "Hunter" path represents war and is the positive side of disaster. In this remote place, I am afraid it is not
It is not so easy to prepare for the ceremony.
"By the way, I'm not that easily angered. Is this the function of 'provocation'?"
…………
"Speaking of which, I happen to have a 'Hunter Mantis' here, which happens to be a Sequence 5 characteristic, and the extraordinary characteristics of this level have already had a relatively obvious aggregation effect... In this way, he accidentally got close
I also found the reason for coming here."
This reminded Gray Linte that he had to pay attention to the three demigod-level items in his hand, otherwise, if they gathered with the Saint of the Secret Order, the "Saint of Secret" of the Aurora Society would be destroyed.
"It's very bad over there, and there's also Amon in an adjacent route... These three routes are extremely dangerous. After Klein releases Zarath in Sequence 1, there will be another...
One more person to watch out for.
"Hmm, I wonder how Carol dealt with the convergence effect between the 'Chain of Parasites' and Amon?
Her mother is a demigod, and she belongs to the Jacob family with inheritance. She is a demigod in the 'Hermits of Destiny', so it is impossible not to know about Amon, this great enemy."
Gray Lint knew that the ancestor of the Jacob family had been eaten by Amon as early as the Fourth Age, and he also quietly watched the descendants of the Jacob family, panicking and laying out one plot after another and treasures.
, and buried a clone in the treasure of Backlund... But the "Hermit of Destiny" did survive for so long under Amon's pursuit...
Don't say that he kept it on purpose because he didn't want to eat it. Gray Lint clearly remembered that when he was taking advantage of Klein in Backlund, he said that he wanted to use that rat demigod to sneak into the "Hermit of Destiny" party.
This shows that he really couldn't track the party or the demigod extraordinary people inside, because in that situation, he was already sure of victory, and there were no other people around to spy on him. He no longer had any "deception" targets.
, so Graylint roughly judged that it should be a truth.
The terrible thing about Amon is that he can crush low-level enemies, including the Sequence 1 characteristics he later planned for Pasile, which he also uses to crush enemies of lower levels.
Personally speaking, he has never taken any advantage... Whether it's the angelic Klein, the demon wolf in the land abandoned by the gods, or Zaratul... so Glalint is afraid of his return.
He is only at the mid-low sequence and saint level. If he really had the status of an angel, he would still be able to run away if he couldn't be defeated.
Of course, in addition to personal crushing, his cunning is also commendable. However, with the information that Gray Lint has and his familiarity with him, he is basically not afraid that he will use "deception" to deal with him.
In comparison, his brother is more terrifying.
As long as they grasp their respective desires, even the real gods can become pawns in His hands.
And the key point is that he is still a paranoid. To a certain extent, he is no different from a madman!
But in any case, this aggregation effect between high-sequence characteristics of the same pathway is most obvious in the extraordinary world, and there seems to be no other way to deal with it except using the angelic persona or the source material to forcefully suppress it.
"Could it be that there is something special about the demigods of the 'Stealer' path, and this specialness can help them avoid the influence of the 'Extraordinary Characteristics Gathering' to a certain extent?"
He made this guess thoughtfully.
For him, there is no need to worry too much about the "Grasp of the Worm", because he also has the trait of "Duke of Entropy". For the aggregation effect of this path, Gray Linte can be regarded as the leader.
Don't worry about the debt... It's okay when he is at a low sequence. The connection between himself and that characteristic is very small, and its aggregation effect is suppressed by the strange space or the source material. When his sequence level gradually increases,
As the connection with that characteristic becomes closer, the aggregation effect of this pathway will become more and more obvious in him.
————————————————————————
Asking for recommendation votes;
Asking for a monthly ticket.
It is definitely inevitable to bring in private goods. Friends who have different opinions are welcome to discuss it with me.
To be honest, I think Amon is far inferior to Adam. Looking at the overall situation, Amon has only done two major things, that is, taking back the Sequence 1 characteristics and stealing Mr. "Gate"'s god-making ceremony - both to a large extent
After the person involved gave up resistance, I really felt that the squid was deliberately sent to Amon in order to make it more difficult for Klein.