At the moment of the long night, there are countless demons and monsters, and the city's guards are under heavy pressure.

Just at a glance, Lu Ping'an saw the tiredness and helplessness of that woman, which was the accumulation of physical fatigue, and more of the helplessness of exhaustion, a kind of hard support that could not see the dawn. Lu Ping'an used to often see similar micro-expressions on Xia Qin's face.

At this time, compared to a group of "scholars" running around the world, a merchant who travels south and north is obviously more popular, especially when he can really take out the goods.

So much grain, so cheap?! Great, we just had a headache for the winter. Ahem, that helped us a lot. ”

The excitement of the female knights was beyond words, and even the other knights were much friendlier.

Hearing this, Lu Ping'an's expression was subtle.

The grain reserves he took out were naturally not his hometown goods, and that thing had already been sold at a sky-high price in the royal capital, and Lu Ping'an himself didn't know that interdimensional trade was hundreds of times the trade income.

Perhaps, he can seriously consider whether he will make a profit by transforming into a smuggler.

This time, he only habitually stored grain after the grain was delivered, and bought some local crops, including meat, a wheat-like staple food called "kak", and various easy-to-transport tuber plants, all of which are commonly used by the locals and are also high-quality products of the holy city.

He received the goods in the royal capital, and since he was a businessman, he naturally couldn't give it at a low price, so he blackly gave a triple price, waiting for the counteroffer result on the other side, but the other party regarded it as a savior, making people have nothing to say.

"Has your food gone up so much? Ah, then I'm at a loss, you have to make up for us, you know, with the teleportation power of the Church of the God of Travelers, you need not only money, but also resources and connections. ”

Lu Ping'an is still telling the truth, after all, teleportation requires the consumption of divine power, of course, the God of Travelers will not be open to the locals endlessly, but the first few teleportations of the explorers are all free (Lu Ping'an: I consume contacts, and the gods consume resources, which is not wrong at all)

I can call the shots, increase the price by two more tiers, and give them a local trade permit. If you can get more, I'll have more in return."

Gritting her teeth, Catherine made a promise.

She also knew a little about the rules of "teleportation", and had no idea how the fake merchant on the other side brought so many goods.

But now the food shortage is so big that as long as there is a life-saving straw, she can't let it go, she just asks the fake merchant opposite to sell more grain.

Fake merchants? Yes, she could tell at a glance that the other party was not a businessman at all.

The skin, clean hands and feet, and cheeks without wind and rain can be described as alien, but after being surrounded, they are still not nervous, and even eager to try, which shows their true identity.

"Warriors, professional fighters, and should be strong. It's strange what they are doing in the Black Forest at this point in time."

If the above can be forcibly explained, the "delivery of grain" itself is too nonsense.

The consumption of the teleportation has long exceeded the amount of money of the same weight, and it is not even a fraction of a fraction of a price to be sold, and it is said that it is not for charity.

But this is not the time to think about this, and it is the friendliest guests of the local knights who can bring food and necessities to the area.

And when she returned to the city, she also played a trick.

The convoy did not enter through the usual side door, but asked the guards to open the gate and slowly enter in full view.

"Bang!"

A grain truck broke down at this time, and a large number of kakmai were scattered on the ground, causing a burst of exclamations from bystanders.

And such a car, there are ten more cars in front. Lu Ping'an and his entourage knew that half of them were stones that had just been stuffed into the bag.

The spies of the knights are also in action, and after today, everyone knows that there are a group of foreign grain merchants, and the pressure on food in the city is not great. In that way, there will be fewer profiteers who raise prices, and the residents of the eastern and northern districts will live a little more comfortably.

Her careful thinking, Lu Ping'an and his party also saw it, after all, this is really not clever, but it has not been exposed. Lu Ping'an didn't really come to make money, and it didn't do any good to offend the Knights.

After entering the city, the two sides were directly separated.

"We will report the situation to the lord, and we will personally visit you tomorrow to thank you for your generosity, and we will talk about it in detail when the time comes."

The captain of the knights said this, and then took the lead in leaving, but before leaving, she asked a knight to "escort" the merchants to the local inn.

Obviously, this also undertakes the work of surveillance, but since it is open, it is still relatively friendly.

Lu Ping'an also needed some guides, so he talked to the knight named Hui En as he walked.

After chatting, I realized that the situation here can no longer be described as bad, and the mountains and rivers are all said lightly.

The long night has been going on for more than five months, and when it first happened, the scholars, astronomers, and wizards above all said that this was a normal astronomical phenomenon, and it lasted for half a year at most.

Only today, there is no sign of the end of the long night, on the contrary, there are more disasters.

This situation led the nobles and knights to find the local astrologer, only to find that the building had already been emptied, and to contact the other city-states, and received the same uneasy inquiring response.

In some remote areas, it has not been half a year since they received news and letters from the Holy Capital, which was normal in previous years, but in this obvious disaster year, it makes people feel bad.

The long night of nearly half a year was disastrous for crops, and the failure of grain harvest was inevitable, coupled with the fact that some people were sweeping goods, and some areas had a food crisis as early as two months ago.

Even the knights in charge of law and order had their food cut in half, and they had to go out of the city to hunt to supplement the food shortage.

"The biggest headache is that the mutated beasts that were once every few months before have become so frequent now, and some people say that the beasts outside have mutated."

The mutated beast in the knight's mouth is probably a demonic beast, and in the opinion of Lu Ping'an and his party, this is normal, the world's pollution layer is rising, and it is not daily to cause a large number of beasts to mutate.

"Poor Doug's family, they took a risk to go to buy food, but the food was not bought, the people were gone, fortunately, their children ran out and came to ask for help"

If something happened to an ordinary merchant, even if they were rescued, the Knights would not have come so quickly.

These merchants were commissioned by their lords to go to neighboring territories to buy grain. As you could see from the empty grain cart, they had made a trip in vain.

It was also because he saw the grain truck that Lu Ping'an set a strategy in an instant.

In this year, the area affected by the long night is not a city or a place, the whole world has been affected, there is no food in the local area, and other places are not much better in disaster years, even if they have food in hand, they may not dare to sell it.

This is just the opposite of the big merchants and nobles who opened warehouses to sell grain in the holy city, and the merchants and nobles in the following places also smelled the smell of the crisis, but they desperately grasped the life-saving straw in their hands, which indirectly exacerbated the food crisis.

And the food crisis, which has caused countless human tragedies, is only an appetizer for the disaster that has befallen the city.

(End of chapter)