Asking the same question over and over again three times?
Li Jiasu suppressed the complaints in his heart and looked trembling.
He was just about to speak and flatter the devil in front of him.
The devil with a terrifying face and a pair of reading glasses seemed to have seen through Li Jia Shu's inner complaints and directly interrupted the mortal's flattery.
"Haha, those are three questions."
"Boy, with your level of thinking, there is no way you can join our company at the Nine Prisons headquarters."
An "awkward yet polite" smile appeared on Li Jiasu's face.
...
This incident has to start from the day when I died suddenly on the construction site.
The night before he originally planned to run away with the bucket, in order to ensure that the safety and quality inspection passed the next day, Li Jiasu was repeatedly called by the project supervisor and dragged to the contractor to inspect the construction site conditions for four hours at midnight.
Then, when the cold wind blew, Li Jiasu's legs and feet went weak, his head became dizzy, and he fell straight onto the newly poured concrete pile.
He died, and his soul was picked up by the Devil Archduke passing by the Terra Blue Star Crystal Wall System.
When he came back to his senses, he was sitting in a windowless study room. A green flame was burning in the fireplace. The surrounding bookshelves were filled with books with unknown titles. There was a person behind the desk with a terrifying face and reading glasses.
The devil reading a novel.
The title of the novel in his hand is Terra Blue Star text on the side of the spine.
Li Jiasu tilted his head slightly and saw that the title was "Spring and Autumn of the Temple".
Bang! The devil closed the novel and looked at Li Jiasu with his red eyes through his reading glasses.
"I'm finally awake. Don't rush to ask questions, young man. Just recall it first. I've already stuffed the key information into your soul."
Although the devil did not speak Chinese, unexpectedly and not surprisingly, Li Jiasu could understand his language.
Clicking his tongue, he recalled for a few seconds and immediately found the memory forced in by the devil.
His honorary name is Asmodeus, and he is the devil prince of a distant crystal wall system called Toril, and he is a rare true devil god who can live in peace with the Church of the Good God.
What he saw in front of him was just an incarnation of Asmodeus's divine power, not his true form.
And now, it seems, seems, probably, that I have become the ‘Civil Engineering Contract, Cross-Crystal Wall Department Outsourcing Department, Chief Project Supervisor (Internship Period)’ under this devil’s archduke?
A drop of cold sweat flowed from Li Jiasu's forehead.
The words ‘contract’, ‘outsourcing department’, and ‘project supervision’ are not very good no matter how you look at them.
Gathering up the courage, facing the Demon Archduke, he finally said: "Honorable Archduke Asmodeus, I dare to ask..."
He waved his hand and interrupted Li Jiasu: "Save time, you don't need to call me by my honorable name. Just call me Grand Duke Ad."
The Devil's Archduke Asmodeus, abbreviated as Archduke ad, can indeed save time in speaking.
Li Jiasu was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to. Then he took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and spoke again:
"Ad Duke, I dare to ask, according to the knowledge you gave me, in the Faerun continent of the planet Toril, you have many temple believer adventurers, and you also have powerful devils of all kinds under your command...
"
"...But why didn't you entrust your mission to your temple believer adventurers or your devil subordinates? Instead, you chose a mortal like me from Terra Blue Star?"
The True God of Devil raised his reading glasses, his red eyes without any emotion, stared at Li Jiasu, and chuckled.
"Xiao Li, what do you think..."
“Can extraordinary beings build houses?”
"Will extraordinary people build houses?"
“Can extraordinary beings build houses?”
Li Jia Shu was stunned, with a trembling expression on his face, and complained in his heart at the same time: "Does a question need to be asked over and over again three times?"
I was just about to speak up and flatter the Grand Duke AD.
The devil's true god with a terrifying face and a pair of reading glasses seemed to have seen through Li Jiasu's inner complaints and directly interrupted the flattery of the mortal.
"Haha, those are three questions."
"Boy, with your level of thinking, there is no way you can join our company at the Nine Prisons headquarters."
An "awkward yet polite" smile appeared on Li Jiasu's face.
AD The Grand Duke took off his reading glasses, wiped the lenses, and said: "I have to go to the filming set of the 'Golarion' crystal wall system later. I won't waste time. Let's get down to business."
"In a remote low magic crystal wall system, someone performed a devil's contract ceremony calling my honorable name."
"In my impression, no matter which of my incarnations, I have never been to that remote crystal wall system. It is probably that some devil or one of my legendary adventurer followers left a copy when passing by that planet.
The blank Nine Hell Contract was then acquired by locals and used recently."
AD The Grand Duke put his reading glasses back on, looking slightly troubled.
"If it's just a regular mortal request, I can just send a devil or a high-level priest there. Hey, requests like building a castle are rare."
"Although some high-level arcane or divine spells can indeed create buildings such as 'mansion', 'fortress', and 'oasis' out of thin air, those are all illusions and not objectively existing civil structures."
"The request made by the mortal in the contract was to rebuild his castle with the help of the Devil's Grand Duke. Well... As a devil's true god with a good reputation, I don't want to use magic to fool that devil.
Named Contractor."
"The devils of the Nine Hells, oh, refers to my subordinates, and the adventurers who worship and believe in me in the temple, are not suitable for this project."
"Originally, I planned to go to the Golarion crystal wall system to catch up with the set, and then find a local dwarf civilian stonemason to entrust this matter..."
The devil's true god stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Jiasu.
"...While passing by your Terra Blue Star Crystal Wall System, I was reminiscing with an old friend and talking about this matter. He recommended you to me and said that you should give it a try."
Li Jia Shu was stunned and asked: "Ah? Do I know any powerful person? Who is he?"
ad Grand Duke: “***.”
Li Jia Shu patted his ears and said, "I'm sorry, could you please say it again?"
adThe Grand Duke frowned slightly and spoke again: "***."
Li Jia Shu's face was full of confusion: "Uh, ad Grand Duke, I didn't hear anything."
The True God of Devil thought for a moment, then shook his head.
He sighed, "It seems that for you people from Terra Blue Star, his name is not allowed to be heard or mentioned. Some kind of cosmic rules have blocked his name. So for you, Xiao Li, you can't
Hear or speak his name."
"Forget it, let's skip this. I'll talk to you about the salary."
Li Jia Shu immediately became energetic.
It seems that AD Grand Duke is a pragmatic boss who does not try to make a big deal, but pays to buy people's hearts.
The devil behind the desk raised his hand and snapped his fingers, snap!
Li Jia Shu suddenly felt that his body was full and enlarged a lot, and a floor-length mirror appeared out of thin air on the wall of the study room, allowing Li Jia Shu to see his own image.
The face is terrifying, a textbook humanoid devil, the kind that can breathe fire from its mouth.
After a second of silence for his human appearance, Li Jiasu asked Grand Duke AD: "Can I change back to a human in the future?"
He nodded, "When your strength improves and you learn extraordinary abilities such as transformation, you can naturally change back to a human form."
"In fact, you were in a soul state before. I reshaped your body just now. So now, you are truly reborn as a devil."
Li Jiasu pressed the triceps of his upper arm and felt that he was full of strength. He could carry six bags of concrete up to the tenth floor at one time without breathing!
"Don't get me wrong, you are a weakling now. If you put it in Faerûn or Golarion, a fledgling paladin would give you two rounds of Evil Slaying Slash, and you would be gone." Grand Duke AD poured a basin of cold water on you and drowned it out.
Li Jia Shu’s blind optimism.
Then He threw a towel to Li Jia.
"Ah, thank you." Li Jiasu took the towel and began to wipe his wet head and upper body.
He really poured cold water on me just now.
"Haha, don't be discouraged. Strength and weakness are all relative. On the remote low-demon planet you are about to go to, probably ordinary mortals or spellcasters will not be able to pose a threat to you." Grand Duke AD added.
"Xiao Li, if you overturn, don't say that you are a devil from the Nine Hells. If word spreads, it will lose my face. Do you understand?"
Li Jiasu, who had just wiped off the water stains on his body, nodded quickly: "I understand, boss, don't worry, I have always been pragmatic, despising the enemy strategically, and paying attention to the enemy tactically."
Bang! The real devil snapped his fingers again.
The towel on Li Jia's hand was replaced by a small dark brown cloth bag at some point.
I put my hand in a long way and could feel the inside of the small bag, which seemed to be bottomless.
Ad Grand Duke: "The dimensional bag can hold 100 pounds of things in it. I think you can use it."
Li Jiasu put away his curiosity, put the dimensional bag behind him, and hung it on his tail.
The devil's true god had a half-smile on his face, and said: "When you complete this contract, and if both the contractor and I are satisfied, you can be promoted from the internship period to an official devil of the Nine Hells."
"When the time comes, I will allocate you a small piece of territory in the Nine Hells."
Li Jia Shu asked cautiously: "If the contractor is not satisfied in the end...?"
ad The Grand Duke pushed up his reading glasses, his face still half-smiling.
"What do you think?" He said.
Li Jiasu was excited and immediately replied: "We will definitely maintain quality and quantity, and deliver on time! Let Party A be satisfied! Let the boss rest assured!"
Then, he coughed and whispered: "Um, boss, construction manpower and funds...?"
"What? Xiao Li, please speak louder."
"Um, boss, how much can you grant me in terms of manpower, materials, machinery and equipment, and funding?"
Li Jiasu asked loudly and cautiously.
adThe Grand Duke chuckled.
"We are not doing charity."
"After you arrive at your destination, you can figure out a solution by yourself and use local materials, right?"
Li Jiasu nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, you are talking about using local materials, recruiting people locally, and raising funds locally."
A kind of plant is so difficult that you have to start your relationship from scratch!
"Xiao Li, don't think this is me being stingy." AD Grand Duke said, "In fact, this is also part of your salary."
"I only care about whether the contract can be completed. As for the whole process, how you start from scratch and how much money you make into your personal pocket depends on your own ability."
Li Jiasu suddenly realized.
That's right! Issues of manpower, materials, machinery and equipment, and funding are all solved on the spot. Isn't it just that you have to make money by taking cards? How much you can put in the dimensional bag depends on your ability.
"Stop imagining, it's time for you to work, Xiao Li." AD Grand Duke said.
"The destination is a relatively low-magic crystal wall system. And the world where the contractor is located, using the history of your Terra Blue Star as an analogy... is closer to, well, the ancient Frankish Kingdom period. But in
In some aspects, it resembles the ancient Genoa inland sea trading country and the atmosphere of the Pirates of the Caribbean era."
"There is feudalism, maritime trade, slaves, and pirates. Oh, that contractor seems to be the noble lord of a large island port city."
Is it similar to the mixed low-demon world of the Western European Middle Ages and the early Caribbean? Li Jiasu thought in his mind.
"For specific circumstances, when you arrive at your destination, you can communicate with the contractor yourself."
He got up from the recliner, opened the desk drawer, took out some spell-casting materials, and threw them on the ground.
With a sound of ‘Whoosh!’, blue-green flames ignited from the ground, forming a portal.
"The first time you experience the cross-crystal wall portal, you may feel a little nauseous. If you can't help it, just vomit it and it will be fine."
adThe Grand Duke gave a sermon to Li Jiasu.
Li Jiasu nodded, but stopped in front of the portal of blue-green flames.
He turned to look at Grand Duke AD and asked in a consultative tone: "Boss, can you let me go back to the rental house on Terra Blue Star first? I want to take away some reference books so that I can better promote the civil construction.
"
The Devil's True God was sitting behind the desk, staring at Li Jiasu with his red eyes through his reading glasses.
After a while, Li Jiasu began to sweat on his forehead, then he nodded and cast a spell to summon another portal of red flames.
"Go, hurry up, my patience is limited."
Li Jiasu quickly thanked him and passed through the portal of red flames.
When he came back to his senses, he was standing in a familiar rental house, and the portal of red flames behind him continued to burn.
Going straight to the bedroom, Li Jiasu took the commonly used civil engineering industry reference books from the bookshelf and threw them into the dimensional bag.
Then, he lifted the bed board himself and took out a small iron box hidden under the bed board.
Blow off the dust on the surface of the tin box and open it.
With trembling devil's claws, Li Jiasu took out several shabby books from the iron box, with wrinkled covers, hard-to-read spine titles, and red-covered books.
This is a book left to me by my father who died participating in flood relief many years ago.
Li Jiasu carefully put these old books into the dimensional bag.
Afterwards, he first returned the bed board to its original position, and then stuffed the spare key of the rental house under the carpet in front of the door, so that the landlord could easily retrieve the spare key after receiving the news of his death.
After finishing these things, Li Jiasu looked out the window before stepping into the red flame portal.
The morning glow reflects on the streets and alleys of the city, and the unique red-yellow sunlight in the early morning begins to warm the land under people's feet once again.
Li Jia Shu once died in the dark night when the cold wind howled.