Chapter 567
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Chapter 567: Scared to Death
After briefly comforting Zhou Xian and Du Yuanzhi and telling them to rest and recover, Luo Ji leaned against a military tent in Gaoling City, his hand on his forehead.
He was scared to death.
Life felt like a rollercoaster. At this rate, how much bad luck was he going to run into next?
Even with a truce token, he felt insecure.
There was no time to linger in Gaoling City.
Luo Ji felt he needed to return and make preparations quickly!
As Gaoling City’s military advisor, Du Yuanzhi naturally remained there.
As for Zhou Xian, Luo Ji took him back to Mirror City for now, without immediate assignment.
This was partly because Zhou Xian was still recovering from his injuries and couldn’t take up a post immediately.
The other reason was that Luo Ji hadn’t quite decided where to assign him yet.
Zhao Pan held the eastern border, Liu Meng the northern, and Guo Zhen the western.
As for the south of Myriad World Civilization, its geographical location was quite unique.
Mirror Lake was situated within a ring of almost vertical, steep cliffs, and Mirror City was right beside Mirror Lake.
In other words, the direct path south from Mirror City was essentially impassable; one had to go east or west.
However, in some ways, this counted as a geographical advantage for Mirror City, as enemies could basically not threaten them from the south.
Now, back to the main topic.
His three most trusted fierce generals were stationed along the three important borderlines.
Sending Zhou Xian to any of them would feel like overkill.
And stationing him as a guardian in a smaller internal city seemed like a waste of talent.
After some consideration, Luo Ji decisively chose to temporarily settle him in Mirror City.
He could just focus on recovering for now.
During this time, Luo Ji summoned Li Ke and shared his thoughts on Li Yin.
“Li Yin is too young; his actions are a bit impulsive. His temperament needs to be refined. I plan to have him lead the Wolf Riders to the grasslands to serve as a deputy under Bai Ze. Li Ke, what do you think?”
Li Ke immediately replied respectfully.
“Your humble general has no objections. Li Yin can indeed be impulsive at times, so refining his temperament would be good.”
“Then it’s settled.”
As he spoke, Luo Ji drafted an imperial decree.
“Appoint Li Yin of the Wolf Tribe as a Hundred-Centurion Commander, to be transferred under the command of Thousand-Centurion Commander Bai Ze. He is to immediately lead the Wolf Riders to the grasslands to assume his post!”
Having said that, Luo Ji stamped the decree with his imperial seal and handed it to Li Ke.
“Then, I’ll entrust this task of delivering the order to you.”
“Your humble general obeys!”
Li Ke quickly withdrew with Luo Ji’s decree.
At the same time, Luo Ji’s gaze fell upon Lu Yang nearby.
“Lu Yang, how are the grain stores in each city?”
Though Lu Yang found it a bit strange that His Majesty was suddenly concerned about this, and had specifically instructed him to meticulously verify the statistics, he naturally carried out His Majesty’s orders flawlessly.
“Reporting to Your Majesty, this is the current status of grain reserves submitted by each city…”
As he spoke, Lu Yang presented a clear and organized report to Luo Ji.
“And in the upcoming autumn and summer seasons, another batch of crops will be harvested. In terms of grain, I believe it won’t be long before we fully recover.”
Luo Ji nodded as he looked at the report.
Then he summoned Luo Jin to confirm the recent activities throughout Myriad World Civilization.
Luo Ji’s current hypersensitivity was undoubtedly due to his fear of a sudden massive outbreak of bad luck, which would be devastating.
He kept a constant, close eye on the situation across all parts of his civilization, knowing it was better to prepare for eventualities now.
Reading through the reports submitted by various departments, to be honest, after the terrible avian flu, most things didn’t seem so bad to Luo Ji now.
In fact, he even had a sense that everything was going smoothly.
The construction of maintenance facilities in various cities was proceeding very well, and the construction and water conservancy projects in Azure Water Lake City were progressing in an orderly manner.
His Mirror Opera Troupe’s touring performances were going extremely smoothly, having already reached its third city.
Every performance was packed to capacity, causing the topic of opera to continually gain traction within Myriad World Civilization.
Citizens in cities not yet reached by the tour were itching with anticipation, almost shouting to the sky in the streets, “I’m dying without an opera to watch!”
And as the male lead of this opera, Li Feng, the Wolfman, became an instant sensation.
The male lead character portrayed by Li Feng allowed the people of Myriad World Civilization to experience the charm of ‘contrast moe’ for the first time.
This inexplicably awakened some strange preferences in a large number of people.
It was no exaggeration to say that wherever he went now, he would be greeted by cheers from the populace.
Many young women even sent him flowers and flirtatious glances.
However, Li Feng’s private life remained uncomplicated, as the aesthetic standards of the Wolf Tribe differed catastrophically from those of humans.
During this period, creatures like ‘spoiler dogs’ gradually emerged.
However, the impact of such spoilers on people who had never seen an opera before was quite limited.
In any case, the opera troupe was doing very well.
If there was anyone in Myriad World Civilization whose life wasn’t going so smoothly these days, it would probably be the owners of the poultry farms.
Although Luo Ji had handled the previous incident impartially, it couldn’t stop the drastic decline in poultry farm business.
After the last avian flu, many people in Myriad World Civilization steered clear of poultry, still feeling apprehensive even now.
This caused the business of poultry farms in various cities to plummet.
Many farms simply went out of business.
Luo Ji felt rather helpless about this. After all, he couldn’t force people to eat poultry or eggs.
He could only hope that time would heal everything.
The only thing he could do now was to conveniently purchase those poultry and eggs himself.
For Luo Ji, this was definitely a win-win situation.
The high-intensity training of the Xuanjia Army required a large amount of nutritional support.
The purchased poultry and eggs could conveniently provide food for the military camps.
However, despite this, the number of poultry farms within Myriad World Civilization continued to decrease.
Merchants sought profit; you couldn’t expect these merchants to spend significant funds and a lot of time daily to maintain their farms when they knew poultry and eggs wouldn’t sell and wouldn’t provide corresponding returns.
As a result, aside from a few remaining ones, the only poultry farms left in Myriad World Civilization were likely the state-owned farms under Luo Ji’s name.
Luo Ji was quite helpless about this, as poultry meat and eggs were, after all, one of Myriad World Civilization’s important food resources.
