Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1309 615: Helping Him Cut in Line

Cui Tiq sat on a large blue stone, took out a stack of paper, a pen, filled it with ink, and began calculating accounts with Li Banfeng.

"Our friendship is unbreakable, and I have never doubted that, but business matters must be clarified first, especially this deal, where the cost I have to bear is very high.

Your friend is growing a special fungus on him, and you received higher education, so you know how troublesome fungi can be,

Moreover, this type of fungus is beyond my knowledge range, I've never seen a similar species, and I have no way to directly formulate an effective strategy against it,

Furthermore, you want me to develop a drug to kill this type of fungus, which further increases the difficulty of treatment, so under such high costs, my fees are quite considerable."

Li Banfeng was prepared: "Go ahead!"

Cui Tiq first proposed the first condition: "I have been ordered by the Peddler to maintain order at the De Song Cliff, and I have signed contracts with many Virtue Cultivation leaders here to not start a war in the short term, or they would be seriously ill,

But the main issue now is that participants in the De Song Cliff war are not just those from Virtue Cultivation; many gangs from Puluo State are also involved, and they refused to sign any contract with me. I can't kill them either because under the Peddler's constraints I'm limited in the number I can kill,

So, the first thing I hope you help me with is to make these gang disciples leave De Song Cliff. If you can't expel all of them, at least make most of them leave."

Li Banfeng nodded and said: "This can be done."

Cui Tiq proposed the second condition: "De Song Cliff suffered very serious losses in this war. According to my prediction, they will be hungry this winter."

I've been hungry myself, and you can't expect a hungry person to remain rational. Faced with the test of survival, they might provoke another war. Friend, I hope you can provide a batch of food to support De Song Cliff. For you, this should not be too big an expense."

"I agree to this as well."

Cui Tiq has changed greatly, but Li Banfeng still cannot pinpoint where the change originated.

Is it the Peddler's influence?

"Third condition, in this war, a few key figures have been quite restless. I initially wanted to kill them, but their prestige at De Song Cliff is extremely high. Killing them could bring about even more serious conflicts. I hope you can help me deter these people, just deterrence is enough."

Li Banfeng looked at Cui Tiq and asked: "Is this really you? Have I mistaken you?"

Cui Tiq laughed: "I'm just trying more effective ways to solve problems, for example..."

"Soup, delicious!" The child carried the soup to Light Bulb.

Cui Tiq stood up and took the child away: "I told you, don't play games with him yet, there are many small things on him, very dangerous small things."

Light Bulb glanced at the child, not too interested in the soup, he didn't really want to eat; he just wanted to stand upright like now.

Cui Tiq came close to Light Bulb, and the density of fungi on Light Bulb made Cui Tiq frown: "The good news is, through you, I can obtain a large number of experimental samples, the bad news is I may not chew it, and you might not withstand it."

Deng Pao'er looked at Cui Tiq, then turned his head, continuing to stand upright.

Cui Tiq concentrated his mind, standing beside Deng Pao'er, after more than three minutes, Cui Tiq's cheeks swelled up.

This is not an exaggeration; the amount of fungus indeed made Cui Tiq a bit unable to chew.

He swallowed hard, his cheeks swelled again, it wasn't clear if it was collected from Light Bulb or if he hadn't swallowed earlier and spit it out.

Swallowing several times repeatedly, Cui Tiq took a deep breath and looked at Li Banfeng: "Fungi and spores, a marvelous sensation!"

Li Banfeng looked at Light Bulb.

On that night at the Dark Star Bureau, Light Bulb had been standing all along, and for most of the train ride, Light Bulb was standing too.

Now he finally grew tired of standing and lay on the ground.

"Seventh Master, the sky of Puluo State is really blue." The moment he lay down, Light Bulb shed tears.

Preserved Fruit and Haitang were very excited, they also thought the sky of Puluo State was very blue.

Cui Tiq was very excited, not only the sky was blue, but he could also see angels descending from the heavens.

"Li Qi, my friend, look quickly, an angel has descended to earth, this is a miracle!" exclaimed Cui Tiq excitedly, rushing up the mountain path.

He wasn't witnessing a miracle, he likely overdosed on fungus causing poisoning, Li Banfeng had seen similar cases at the Dark Star Bureau, such incidents happened frequently in Nan Zhao Province.

Seeing the direction Cui Tiq ran, the child was anxious, shouting and chasing after.

"High, higher!"

"There is a huge 'Virtue' character here, looks like the angel also advocates morality!" exclaimed Cui Tiq, waving his arms, and jumping off the mountain cliff.

The child screamed loudly in fright, and soon Li Qi lifted Cui Tiq up from the bottom of the cliff and flew back up.

Cui Tiq sang a song from Amikan while waving his arms, imagining himself as an angel soaring in the sky.

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Deng Pao'er wasn't completely healed, just as Cui Tiq himself said, the number of fungi was too immense for him to consume in one go.

The troublesome thing is, if the fungus isn't finished in one go, the remaining fungi will immediately proliferate massively, and by the morning of the second day, Light Bulb ran to stand at the cave entrance again.