Chapter 22: Wood is too big
"...Amirido's boy, it's not moving! Was it killed by you?" Udad was confused by Harold's combo. When he came to his senses, the deceiving flower had gone from being able to stand up unsteadily at the beginning to lying on the ground motionless.
"Ah, that's a bit too much..." Harold paused, and the rock book on top of Hua's head disappeared.
It turns out that you can’t shout “Mu Da” when hitting someone, otherwise you will get too excited and unable to stop.
Harold approached the flower, and it collapsed to the ground, its two round little eyes turning into a “—” shape.
It’s really not moving?
He wouldn't really die suddenly from my combo, would he?
Harold glanced at Udad guiltily. I had just caught it, and I killed it with one blow.
Well...I feel a little guilty.
Harold opened his elemental vision and felt the elemental power around the fallen Flower.
It was red, and there was still some fire elemental power left, but it was not certain whether it was because the Prank Flower was not completely dead or because the elemental reaction it caused had not been completely dissipated.
Harold reached into the cage and plucked the corolla of the lily of the valley.
It's quite soft. Although it looks like the leaves of a plant, it has a layer of fine hair on it. It actually feels more like a thin rabbit ear and is very comfortable to touch.
Then he mobilized the power of rock element to wrap up the deceptive flower and tried to heal it.
For elemental life forms, they can self-recover, reproduce, or evolve by absorbing elemental power. Harold didn't know whether his rock elemental power could be useful for the fire-attributed Liarflower, but he could only give it a try.
"Amirita boy, is this also part of your research?" asked Udad.
In his opinion, Harold's action of touching the flower was to record experimental data. As a member of the group of thirty people, he often saw some scholars who conducted experiments on mice doing this.
They are conducting research. I feel relieved now. I thought Haroldt didn't control the strength well and hit Pianpianhua to death.
Udad comforted himself.
Harold: "No, it was an accident."
Udad: ...
Want to hit someone.
He just caught the cheating flower! He searched all night and dug a ten-meter pit to catch the cheating flower! This brat killed it in less than a minute! !
"Don't worry, he's not dead yet. He can be cured," Harold said, sensing the low pressure around Udad. "It's my responsibility. If he really died, I would find a way to catch another one myself. I won't let you pay for my mistake."
"You should spend your time on research, honorable scholar," Udad smiled bitterly and shook his head, "We are better at finding and capturing monsters."
"...I will cure it," Harold increased the output of elemental power. Under the elemental vision, he could see that the fire element in Hualien's body became full, which was a good sign.
Ten seconds later, the Pianpianhua, which was originally lying on the ground, shook itself, and then stood up unsteadily. After standing up, it saw someone who was still surrounded by the element of rock.
Thinking of the rock book that had just hit her, Pianpianhua wished she could immediately burrow into the ground and turn into a sweet flower.
But now it was trapped in a cage, and it could only retreat to the corner farthest from Harold and tremble.
"He was really saved," said Udad in surprise.
Harold also breathed a sigh of relief. In his previous life, he never imagined that one day he would be concerned about the life and death of a lizard.
"Fortunately it's quite sturdy," Harold said playfully as he looked at the Flower of Deceit huddled in the corner.
It is indeed an intelligent elemental creature that even knows how to be afraid.
This scene also divided the disciplinary officer and the group of thirty people present into two groups. One group pointed at the trembling Pianpianhua and laughed, while the other group cast implicit and disapproving glances at Harold.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?" Haroldt looked at the Liarflower in the cage and tried to communicate with it.
The Deceptive Flower is an intelligent elemental creature, but no scholar has studied the extent of their intelligence.
Harold was not disappointed when he didn't get a response. In his previous life, there were many intelligent creatures, but none of them could understand human language. At most, they could respond to specific pronunciations and specific movements, and that was enough. Harold just wanted to trick Hua into thinking he could do this.
If the creature could really understand his language and communicate with him through body language, then this would be a problem for him, because he might not have the heart to experiment with such a highly intelligent creature, which would give him the illusion that he was conducting human experiments.
"Ada, from now on you can be called Ada," Harold said to the flower in the cage.
Then he looked at the other cages. After he started to beat up this deceiving flower, the lucky ones in the other cages calmed down and stopped struggling and trying to break out of the cages.
Lipsticks have eyes, and they use their eyes to see things most of the time, but they can also use elemental forces to perceive what is happening around them.
Even though the upper part of these flowers was covered, they could still sense how this human was beating their fellows. They were now very afraid of this cruel man, and when they felt the man's gaze, they dared not move, fearing that they would be the next to be beaten.
Harold walked to the next cage and said to the Pianpianhua inside, "A'er, you will be called A'er from now on."
Afterwards, Harold followed suit and named the remaining two pranksters "Asan" and "Awu".
At this time, a disciplinary officer asked curiously: "Why is it Ah Wu and not Ah Si?"
Harold swore: "Because the number four is unlucky, it will bring me bad luck."
I am a superstitious person, so I always skip Thursdays when drawing cards (although it’s useless, even if I skip Thursdays, I still get the guaranteed big draw every time).
"...Ah, is that so?"
Okay, it’s your own fake flower, as long as you are happy.
Afterwards, Harold asked the disciplinary officer and the thirty-man group to keep the flowers for him for a while. He would handle all the affairs of the farm within three weeks.
"Three more weeks?" Udad was puzzled as he looked at the deceptive flowers in the cage. These things were very conspicuous and if the residents around saw them, it would cause a commotion, just like what happened just now. In his mind, the sooner Harold took these things away, the better.
But three weeks...this means that they have to take turns guarding these deceptive flowers every day for more than twenty days.
"You can make some modifications to the tent," Harold also found it a bit tricky.
What was Azar doing? Why didn't they think of contacting him to ask about his arrangements before sending people to catch Prank? His work ability was comparable to that of the Honorary Autobot Starscream.
Harold doubted that Azar couldn't even organize a picnic, so how could such a person sit on the position of the great sage?
It seems that the Fatui played a big role in this.
"It's normal for nearby residents to find out if you put things in a tent that doesn't even have a door. Let's renovate the tent. It's not just for this job, but you'll also be putting things in it in the future, right?" Harold said.
The temporary buildings built by the Xumi forest patrol officers and discipline officers have no doors. They are fine for taking a rest in them, but not for spending the night or storing important items.
"Hang a door curtain here, or build a wall around this area," Haroldt drew a sketch on the ground with a branch. He studied graphic design in his previous life, and his drawing skills were pretty good. Others could understand his drawings. Architectural design was certainly not his strong point, but it was still far better than these disciplinary officers and the thirty-man group.
After seeing Harold's design, everyone around nodded, saying that although they didn't understand it, it seemed very impressive.
"Then what should we use to make the door curtains and fences? Can we use vines and thornwood?" asked Udad.
"There's no need for the thorny tree. If you have too much money and don't know where to spend it, just ignore what I said."
Harold was shocked. Is this high-grade wood like thornwood for you to use to build fences? Or are the current discipline officers and the Thirty-Man Group so rich?
Is the Xumi City Security Brigade such a promising job?
"I'm just asking. We don't know much about wood. I only know this kind of wood. We didn't quite understand what you said. Hey, Lima, did you understand?" asked Udad.
"No, but I feel that it will be good for us if we do what he says. That's my intuition," Lima, the mercenary from the thirty-man group who was called, replied immediately.
"...Maybe you should find a professional architect," a blond figure appeared in Harold's mind.
"Ah? A professional architect? Is that necessary? Can't we just ask a carpenter?"
"Carpentry may meet your requirements and be cheaper, but if you want to ensure aesthetics and durability, you still have to find an architect," Harold began to try to sell Kavi.
"makes sense."
The discipline officer and the leaders of the Thirty were all convinced.
"It just so happens that I know a very reliable architectural designer," Harold smiled happily, and wrote Kavi's address on a piece of paper and handed it to Udad, "He is one of my seniors, his name is Kavi."
"I've heard of this name! He is famous because of his achievements in architectural art and is known as the 'Light of Myo-ron School,'" said Lima.
"Ah, is he such a famous designer? Will he be willing to take our order?" Udad scratched his hair. At first, he was wondering if it was a bit of an overkill to hire an architectural designer, but after hearing about Kavi's name, he became worried about whether the other party was willing to take such a small order.
"Why not ask? I think Senior Kawi will treat anything related to architecture very carefully," said Haroldt.
In fact, after trying to cooperate with the construction team, Kavi has encountered many outrageous clients, but every time he is willing to modify the design draft over and over again according to the client's requirements, striving to make the design drawings still meet his own aesthetic standards while meeting the client's requirements. In order to ensure that the engineering team builds completely according to his design, he will go to the construction site in person to direct the work, and sometimes he even has to buy materials and vegetation himself.
This resulted in almost every design cycle of his being prolonged. He would often have to draw five or six drawings for each order, and at his slowest, it would take him several months to complete an order.
As the "light of the Miaolun School", the prices he quoted were not expensive, and were above average among all architectural designers, even much lower than some less famous but bad-tempered designers. He also did not make a lot of money from architectural design as others thought.
Harold felt that Kavi should need a client like Udad, who would not make strange demands and could give Kavi maximum freedom to play his role.
Udad and a few friends checked the prices of Kavi's previous orders in the void and found that the price-performance ratio was indeed very high. They had never thought that they could afford the famous "Light of Miaolun School" at this price. Lima and several leaders of the thirty-man group have even begun to discuss secretly that they want to ask Kavi to help them design a new home after this project is completed.
It seemed that the sales pitch was successful. Harold nodded with satisfaction and reminded, "It would be better to move the Prank Flower to the depths of Daocheng Forest before going to find Senior Kavi. Otherwise, if the nearby residents see it, it will cause a commotion again."