"The two mages on duty are also a little more diligent," complained the crooked mouth hiding in the pantry, "they are all the 'old grey robes' who have recently joined the noble mages, and they are desperately trying to show themselves to their new masters. ”

Ever since he joined the Blazing Sun Boat, One-Eyed and Crooked Mouth have been hiding in Tibet. The two apprentices left on the airship by Lillett take turns scouting the situation on the airship every hourglass hourglass.

With a silent gesture, One-Eye gestured to the door of the pantry—meaning to keep the crooked mouth from grumbling and pay more attention to the outside, while he himself was busy preparing the materials he needed to use for a while.

After waiting for half an hourglass, a chef who was preparing dinner for the people left behind on the airship came in and picked up the ingredients. Thanks to the illusion tricks that made them more and more handy, they were no different from the keel protruding from the cabin in the eyes of the chef.

"I'm ready," said One-Eye, in a low voice, "I have made sugar into sugar as His Excellency Pasha commanded." He gently patted the bags full of viscous syrup on his waist twice, and then pointed to the few bags left on the ground, "The effect of the spell can still last for about half an hourglass, and then the sugar will gradually solidify." ”

After saying this, One-Eye used the "Hazy Technique" on himself, causing the outline of his body to become blurred, and the color of his camouflage fluctuated according to the changes in the surrounding environment. "I'll go to the port engine compartment, and you're in charge of the starboard engine. ”

Crooked nod, he quickly picked up the few remaining water bladders and tied them around his waist like one-eyed. The two men looked at the doorway of the storage room for a moment, and quickly dodged into the hallway.

The "Oremochi's Barrel of Waste" on the Blazing Ship provides fuel for the airship, which is used to heat the air, keep the airbags full, levitate the airship, and send it into the engine compartment to power the thrusters.

Unlike the Uzeans, who used mules and horses to pull their propellers, the noble mages of the Obsidian Council used more advanced technology when modifying the Blazing Boat.

Using finite prayer, they created two special mechanical engines, which were mounted in the stern of the ship to power the airship forward. These two mechanical engines could not be filled with coal, and could only be driven by the addition of black oil.

Quis, who heard this from Potbelly, immediately came up with a plan - send someone to fill the engine of the Blazing Sun with syrup, and the engine would malfunction when it started.

The airship that had lost power had to be moored at Nome for repairs, and at that point, he would have plenty of time to get the "Oremoch Barrel". And the two brothers he sent to carry out this "sugar-blending" plan were the one-eyed and crooked-mouthed brothers.

With the added "Hazy" effect, One-Eye was able to dodge several patrolling guards - there was no hiding place below the deck of the Blazing Boat, so he dodged quite dangerously - but on the other hand, it wasn't a lot of space for him to find his target.

There are guards standing guard outside the engine compartment and dedicated maintenance personnel on duty inside. Taking advantage of the convenience of the personnel on duty to get out of the cabin, One-Eye used illusions to trick the guards and blended into the engine compartment.

Since the airship was still hovering, the engine was warmed up every day, but it was not fully started. Some of the prepared black oil was packed in barrels and neatly stacked on special fixing brackets on the walls of the cabin.

According to the young blue dragon's previous instructions, One-Eye carefully removed several barrels of black oil, squeezed the warm syrup from the water bladder into the wooden barrels, and shook it slightly before returning to its original place.

After doing all this, he first exhaled and relaxed, and then tricked the guards again in the same way as he had blended in, and got out of the way.

When One-Eye arrives at the intended evacuation location, the chamber containing the garbage on the airship, he finds Crooked Mouth already waiting there.

"Is everything going well?" took the strip of cloth that was used to block the nose and block the nose with the crooked mouth, and asked in a low voice with one eye, "Pour them into different black oil barrels, shake them well, and put them away, these processes are all right?"

Except for a reassuring gesture, "I promise to follow the same steps as Lord Pasha," and showed the shriveled water bladder on his waist for One-Eye, "It's the same as when I came in, how about finding a wicker basket to hide?"

One-eye nodded, and the next job was to wait with peace of mind.

......

In the warehouse of the Salt Mill in Tuka City, the deacon of the Salt Guild led Brach and several purchasing merchants to a smaller warehouse, and he ordered the locked door to be opened, and as he led the way inside, he said:

"This is all the pale pink lake salt at the moment, and with the certificate of special purchase issued by His Excellency the Archon, I can call the shots and hand over all the stock here to you to take with you. But even so, I'm afraid there is no way to meet the amount of purchase you want. ”

Unlike the usual powdered refined lake salt, the pale pink lake salt stored in this warehouse is processed and shaped into a cube about a palm on the side – ready to be scraped with a special salt sieve when it is time to eat.

Due to the high prices, although the climate in the inland area is drier, there are plenty of moisture protection measures in this small warehouse.

The floor of the warehouse is covered with a layer of clay slabs with cinders that have been cooled after boiling salt, and every few shelves are an open clay pot with coal.

At present, only about one-third of the entire warehouse is stocked, and many shelves are empty. A few of the envoys in charge of the procurement quietly counted, and they found that the stock of powder salt here could only reach about half of the expected purchase volume at most.

"Mr. Deacon," the desert elves asked, after they had spoken to Brach, "what is the situation? My companions say that because of the high price, there is no particularly large sales of powder salt in other parts of Medici, except for the supply of some nobles in Beit City. According to the salt-making capacity of Tuka City, there should still be a lot of inventory, right?"

A bitter smile appeared on the deacon's face, and he nodded and patiently explained, "You don't know, that was the previous situation. In the past, there were plenty of aquatic vines used to make pink salt, but in the last two years, a water monster has come out of nowhere in the depths of the salt lake that can deceive people's minds and kill people......"

It turned out that the production of powdered salt was greatly reduced because of a shortage of raw materials – salt workers often risked their lives to pick some of the material from the salt lakes.

However, there is not much powder salt in circulation on the market, and few people will purchase such expensive powder salt on such a large scale as Ques this time, so the news of the reduction in production did not spread through the mouths of merchants.

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Sogou