756: 275.
Cheering and surrounding him 756: 275.
Cheering and surrounding him Lord Enwae Bili did not know where the girl’s confidence ca from, but without them, he would still be restricted by the claws of the nobility.
“Do you have any friends or enemies to recomnd, Viscount Hamis?” Gulian asked.
“Alvarez, the richest rchant in the area,” Viscount Hamis didn’t want anyone else to share in the benefits, but it wasn’t his decision to make.
“I have a fairly good relationship with him.”
“That miser…” Lord Enwae Bili snorted, disliking the person Viscount Hamis ntioned.
“I don’t think he would agree, let alone offer up resources willingly.”
“I’ll find a way to persuade him, and if not…” Viscount Hamis looked towards Lu Li and Anna.
Viscount Hamis left the mansion to contact his friend, while the lord headed to the Lord’s Mansion, gathering guards before more nobles could react, and sent a trusted aide to stay with Lu Li to relay ssages.
In the anti, Lu Li returned to the inn.
People gathered in the living room, discussing what to do next—they had no place to stay.
Lu Li inford them about the migration to Storm Corner, and it was hard for people to disagree.
They had a kind of blind trust in Lu Li, and compared to Spinning City, Storm Corner was at least less likely a place to starve.
Lu Li crushed a stone badge, summoning the rchant.
“What’s the population of Spinning City,” Lu Li asked the city lord’s aide.
“…
People have been leaving consistently, now it’s less than twenty thousand.”
So Lu Li purchased a hundred boxes of canned pork from the rchant.
The rchant agreed, requesting an empty warehouse with no one around.
The city lord’s aide arranged it, designating an empty warehouse in the west of the city for Lu Li.
Half an hour later, the rchant appeared, telling Lu Li the goods had been delivered.
The guards stationed outside also quickly ca over, saying the warehouse was filled with wooden crates.
No one knew how the rchant managed to deliver a hundred boxes of cans inside.
In addition to the cans, the rchant also updated Lu Li’s spectral broadcast.
Besides the existing Ti of Silence, Shadow Thief of Fire, and Visible Sound, there were new whispers from the approaching Crowd of Suffering and the sizzling noise indicating approaching spirits.
“The spirits will give you warnings when they appear around, but they cannot distinguish,” the rchant said.
Lu Li looked at the spectral broadcast, remaining silent.
At this mont, Anna curiously picked up the spectral broadcast, its shape still a fist-sized square box: “Will the specters do this?”
The spectral broadcast was silent.
“No,” the rchant answered.
After the transaction ended, the rchant left the inn.
Anna handed the spectral broadcast back to Lu Li.
Lu Li asked the city lord’s aide to send more people to guard the warehouse, while the able-bodied n saved by the village gathered around and headed to the Lord’s Mansion.
Viscount Hamis returned, along with the rchant Alvarez, whom he had persuaded—a portly man with luxurious gold-threaded clothing and a wig.
His respect for Lu Li and Anna carried a hint of skepticism.
He believed in what Viscount Hamis had said because Viscount Hamis was firmly the noblest opposed to the migration.
But he doubted the so-called “power” was just so trick.
Anna casually lifted Alvarez, letting him hover in the air for a mont, which dispelled his doubts.
“My food is only slightly more than Viscount Hamis’s, but I have a lot of money,” Alvarez said, puffing his belly as he spoke about his wealth.
The food “donated” by Alvarez and Viscount Hamis, combined with a hundred boxes of cans, was barely enough to sustain the people through this journey.
Anna urged them to continue rallying the noble wealthy.
It wasn’t just for food, as leaving at dawn would also face less resistance.
“Morning?”
Lord Enwae Bili was startled; he thought they would prepare for a day and migrate at dawn the next day.
“We don’t have that much ti,” Anna said.
“Very well… but the plan needs to be adjusted,” Lord Enwae Bili appreciated this swift and decisive action.
He gathered all the guards along with the personal guards of Alvarez and Viscount Hamis, ordering them to notify the residents.
Over a hundred soldiers dispersed, holding torches, knocking on doors from house to house in the night.
The residents groggily opened their doors, letting in the night chill and the bright torchlight, inford by the guards that there would be a migration at dawn to Storm Corner, where there were abundant houses and plenty of food.
At the South City Gate, they could also receive a portion of canned pork.
So unlike the usually quiet nights, tonight Spinning City was exceptionally lively.
To impress Lu Li and Anna, Alvarez purchased all the food available in Spinning City and hired the only two exorcists in the city.
But they were not professional exorcists, rely ordinary people with so exorcism thods.
Until late at night, Alvarez and Viscount Hamis rallied a few more nobles, but only five were willing to contribute all their grain.
The rest were only willing to follow them or offer small help that wouldn’t cost them much.
So nobles were unwilling to leave, and the ill-tempered Alvarez cursed them as a group of conservative outdated breed, ready to perish with the city.
Surprisingly, those noble rich who had once conspired to control Lord Enwae Bili eventually got along with him and even began to respect him—unlike them, donating food and money wouldn’t leave them with nothing.
But the most precious thing Enwae Bili had was his title as city lord; without Spinning City, he was nothing.
“What use is a city lord’s title if all my people are dead?” Lord Enwae Bili said.
Lu Li and the nobles gathered at the Lord’s Mansion, waiting for dawn to arrive.
At five, it was forty minutes until dawn.
The streets beca lively again.
The guards went once more to notify the residents.
The distance of 130 miles was barely manageable for a grown man, but difficult for won, the elderly, and children.
The earlier they set off, the more likely they were to reach Stormwind City before dark.
When Lu Li and the others arrived at the city gate, it was crowded with families, and piles of canned goods and food donated by the noble wealthy stacked beside the gate.
Lord Enwae Bili shouted a speech, then introduced Lu Li to the people, explaining that he was the driving force behind the migration plan.
The gratitude from the people caused Spinning City to erupt with cheers.
Lu Li glanced at Anna, “But this was your plan.”
“I’m a ghost, reputation is useless to , and you are different,” Anna blinked, her pale, transparent hand grasped Lu Li’s under her sleeve.
More and more people gathered on the streets.
As dawn slowly broke, a troop of cavalry galloped out of Spinning City, carrying Lord Enwae Bili’s letter, heading first to Storm Corner.
As it brightened, no longer needing torches, the migration began.
The people first received a portion of rations, then took the wood-chip-sticked cans handed by the guards, delightfully leaving Spinning City.
Those at the back tiptoed, watching those in front receive theirs.
A hundred boxes of cans ford a small mountain, assuring people there was no need to worry about not receiving any.
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