He's still a mountain ghost, and by the way, he works part-time as an apprentice-level alchemist, even if he specializes in metallurgy, but he still knows a little about other common materials.

After discovering that Huai Shi was not the kind of newcomer who had black eyes and didn't know anything, the middle-aged man's expression suddenly relaxed a little.

"Yes. ”

He took a big sip directly into the wine bottle, wiped his mouth, and sighed unhappily: "It's all over the place, and this year is particularly annoying, especially a lot...... Especially fucking much. ”

Invasive species.

Huai Shi can understand that although this thing is useful, if it is not done well, it may grow everywhere, and even squeeze the living space of other plants.

"Isn't there a native species that can be targeted?" he asked.

"The Ministry of Ecology bastard introduced new species and eliminated more than half of the local psyllids, otherwise this year would not be so annoying. ”

When the middle-aged man said this, he patted his head awkwardly and stretched out his hand to Huai Shi: "What do you call it?"

"Huai Shi. ”

Huai Shi shook hands with him and heard his name: "Ali, just call me Ali - I'm sorry to think of you as an unlearned guy." ”

"It's fine. ”

Huai Shi could understand that the other party regarded him as the kind of guy who ate with his face, and he didn't care, but asked directly: "I heard that you have a job here." ”

"Yes. Ali nodded and pointed at the mistletoe, "Deal with this." ”

"You mean, pinch off your mistletoe here?"

"I can't pinch it. Ali shook his head, "Those ghosts are crazy now, even if they mobilize all the sublimators of the Forestry Association, they can't handle it, so they can only find a way to cultivate their natural enemies first." ”

As he spoke, he took out his glasses from his pocket, put them on, took out another notebook, flipped it open, looked at the pile of to-do items on it, and asked, "What kind of work do you want?"

"Just do odd jobs. Huai Shi said, "It's better to be effortless, is there such a thing?"

"Yes, yes...... But that's not going to make much money. ”

"Actually, it's just in passing. Huai Shi shrugged: "I plan to go from Jakarta to Madura, if I can help along the way, it would be best." ”

Ali fell silent.

Soon, he raised his head and looked outside the wooden house, and shouted: "Tawfik, Tawfik!

The voice was so loud that it shook the beams of the house into a layer of dust.

Soon, a young man came in with an aluminum box the size of a tea jar and placed it in front of Huai Shi.

When opened, it was filled with seeds the size of a grain of rice, like grass seeds.

"What is this?"

Huai Shi didn't recognize it.

"Preparation before proceeding with follow-up work. Ali explained: "Before a new species of psyllid population is cultivated, the impact of dragon mistletoe needs to be delayed a little. It's what the druids used to fertilize the land, grow tall, die fast, just can't live. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Huai Shi and didn't say anything more.

It's as if he's being examined.

Can you plant it?

Huai Shi touched her pocket, took out tweezers from the toolkit, picked one, put it in the palm of her hand, and observed it carefully. He hadn't seen this thing and couldn't pack a ticket.

Unexpectedly, his fingers just rubbed, and after a little sweat on Huai Shi's hands, the seed actually germinated.

Didn't even use the ability of the mountain ghost.

He breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "It's not that hard." ”

“......”

After a short silence, Ali finally put away the astonishment in his eyes, carefully studied Huai Shi, and nodded for a long time.

"Well, since Tylar introduced you, then with his guarantee, you don't have to sign the contract. Ali nodded and asked, "When will work start?"

"Anytime. ”

Huai Shi replied, reaching out and taking out his documents from his trouser pocket: "Also, don't bother Mr. Tillar to vouch, I have something that can prove my identity and credit." ”

A delicately elaborate document with a black cover inscribed with the coat of arms of the thorn-encircled realm.

When opened, there is a frontal photo of Huai Shi, as well as the steel seal of the Peace Dove of the Astronomical Society, which proves his status as a registered military attaché, and also gives him the right to carry weapons to walk freely between the present realm, the border and hell.

Ali gasped and froze in place, Tillard was not much better, his hand almost shaking the wine out of his glass.

The two looked at each other, incredibly.

'Where did you have such a big face to get such a giant to come and help?'

"I didn't know that the confused little brother I met by chance was from the Astronomical Society!"

Their expressions suddenly became extremely exciting.

Fortunately, they did not have any prejudice and resistance to Huai Shi, the executioner with a certificate—after all, in this part of Indonesia, there is no big lineage, and what can ensure the basic human rights and life of the sublimators is the rules set by the Astronomical Society.

This is equivalent to the enthusiastic old man introducing the young man to an old acquaintance to do odd jobs, but he didn't expect that the young man who came to move bricks was a passing criminal police captain......

Seeing that they wanted to stop talking, stopping and wanting to speak, Huai Shi held back a smile, and the little thought of pretending to be garlic in the dark corner of her heart was satisfied.

"Ahem, since you are a member of the Astronomical Society, you naturally don't have to worry about it. ”

After a long time, Ali replied embarrassedly and pushed the box over: "As long as you find a place to plant these all the way." I can pay me in advance, how much do you want?"

"If you just throw a few seeds along the way, it won't take much effort—"

Huai Shi held the box, pondered for a moment, and said, "If you really want to pay me, answer me a question." ”

He looked at Ali in front of him and asked seriously:

"What does it mean to be an ascension in your opinion?"

“......”

Ali glanced back at Tyrard and asked in a low voice, "Where did you find a poet?"

"Young people are always curious about the world. Tyral shrugged: "He needs some senior opinions, at least I hope you don't skimp on such a little language." ”

As if he had lost to him, Ali shrugged his shoulders and shook his head and replied, "It doesn't mean anything. ”

Huai Shi did not speak again.

Just looked at him, his expression calm and indifferent, and waited patiently.

Until he couldn't hold it anymore, suppressed his irritability, and took a deep breath.

"Well, although I don't know what the Grand Master of your Astronomical Society thinks, in my opinion, the Sublimator means nothing to me, it's just a job, do you understand?"

"I've gone from being an alcoholic forest keeper who was chased ducks to running a lumber yard and trying to maintain the ecological balance in the woods to take care of my old brothers who were unemployed...... It's too troublesome, young man, it's troublesome. ”

"Didn't you make any money?" asked Huai Shi.

"Earned it, so what?"

Ali was amused and pointed to the outside of the house: "What is the use of money in such a wilderness? I call a woman to my door once a week at public expense, and I tip twice, but more? This is the mountains, young man, and there is nothing more needy than a lumberjack." ”

"......" Huai Shi was stunned for a long time, "Has your life not changed at all?"

"Yes, there are a lot of changes, but when it really needs to be changed—what can it change?"

In the face of this poem, Ali turned his arm into a thick branch, and there was an amazing power under the thick bark, and what was even more terrifying was that an entire lumberyard and a whole mountain forest were faintly resonating with him.

This is his home turf.

"There's nothing wrong with power, it's magical, it's not wrong, but what's the use?"

Ali scoffed at this and asked, "Can it change my heartbroken ex-wife, and will it convince my two children that their father really loves them from the bottom of his heart?"

My eldest son and youngest daughter wouldn't even want to have a meal with me – in their eyes, I would always be the father who brought them fear and pain after drinking, a trouble that only brought shame......

Yes, I know that I deserve it, and I do it to myself, young man, and they hate me and are not even willing to invite me to their wedding.

It's not something that can be changed by power or miracle, unless I go back in time and I beat that bastard named Ali twenty years ago, and tell that fool to cherish everything he has. But even if I go back in time, will I be able to face them?

I messed up once, I messed up twice, I messed up all my turnarounds, and by the time I started to regret it, everything was irretrievable. ”

Ali's fingers stretched out, rolled up the liquor on the table, tilted his head, drank it down, and threw the bottle out of the window in irritability, spreading it out of his chair.

Staring at the picture frame on the table, his former family, he became tired and helpless, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Life is not something that can be changed with strength, is it?"

Huai Shi was speechless.

"That's the answer you want, Mr. Huaishi, I've made a fool of myself in front of a young man I've met for the first time, and now I beg you to give me a little last fig leaf, take your reward, and leave quickly. ”

Ali took out a car key from his pocket and placed it on the table: "There is a car outside, full of gas, you can use it as you like, just throw it at the end of the branch of the Forestry Association in Madura." ”

"Thank you. ”

Huai Shi picked up the car keys and thanked him sincerely.

"It's your pay. Ali said.

"No, I mean, your honesty. Huai Shi said seriously: "You can lie, or not answer." ”

"Just if you're lucky. ”

Ali waved his hand irritably, motioning for him to hurry up, and Tyral shrugged his shoulders and said goodbye to Huai Shi, pointing to the depressed Ali next to him, who was still here to comfort his old friend.

Before Huai Shi left, she opened her mouth to say something, but after thinking about it for a while, she obediently closed her mouth again.

What power and experience does he have to tell others how to deal with life?

After thanking him, he pushed the door open and left.

When I got in the car, I received a message from Tylar, a phone number: If you go to Madura, you can stop by to see this guy, who works as a Latin teacher in a middle school, and always thinks of something that he doesn't have, and what we call him a philosopher in private, maybe it will inspire you.

'I will. ‘

After Huai Shi replied, she looked up at the rather huge off-road vehicle in front of her and raised her eyebrows.

I rubbed my hands together in anticipation.

It's nice to have a free car......

Completely ignoring the premise that he had no driver's license and driving experience at all, Huai Shi stepped on the accelerator to the end and walked away.

It's on its way!