Chapter 76: Casar City

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These things seem plentiful, but very few can be immediately turned into money. Corn and oil fruits have the highest yields, but these two cannot be immediately converted into cash. No one wants corn, and oil fruits need to be processed into oil before anyone would want them, and no one would want so much at once.

Eggplants and cabbages are vegetables. When Zhao Hai first started planting them, he only wanted to improve his life and add some variety to the food in his space. These two items probably wouldn't sell on the continent either, so they can't be turned into money.

Wheat is even worse. Not only is the yield low, but to turn it into the flour used on the continent, it needs to undergo deep processing. Just buying wheat wouldn't yield much money.

For now, he can only rely on radishes, hoping they will fetch a good price. There are only six hundred gold coins left in his space, which is why Zhao Hai hasn't planted more radishes. If he did, the gold coins in his hand would be used up buying seeds again.

Zhao Hai plans to harvest this season's corn tomorrow and then plant cauliflower. Although he only has enough seeds for two acres, he will still plant them. He will plant two acres of cauliflower and two acres of wheat. After all, he still has three thousand pounds of wheat in his warehouse, which can be used as seeds.

Zhao Hai doesn't want to use his space to plant wheat. Wheat can only be made into flour, and the price of flour on the continent isn't very high. Zhao Hai can plant other things with higher value in his space and then buy flour to eat, which would be more cost-effective.

However, Zhao Hai has a habit. If he plants corn, he will plant it on all four acres. So, after planting two acres of cauliflower, he would rather plant two acres of wheat than corn.

The things he can plant now are still too few. On the journey, Zhao Hai didn't collect other plant seeds because people were watching them all the way. If he had collected seeds, it would have seemed strange, so he didn't act rashly.

Zhao Hai has already thought it through. To collect seeds, he can't rely on himself alone. No matter how capable he is, how many seeds could he collect? And he would be discovered, which wouldn't be cost-effective. He plans to buy the seeds he can afford once he has money and then post a task in the tavern, asking mercenaries and adventurers to find more for him.

In this world, as long as you have money, you can make mercenaries and adventurers do anything. You can post any task you want, even a task to assassinate the king of the Aksu Empire. As long as you can pay, someone will dare to take it, though whether they succeed is another matter.

Sitting in the hot spring, Zhao Hai kept thinking about these things. His current strength isn't weak, but the funds he has are too little, and his enemies are too strong. So Zhao Hai decided to maintain his usual low profile.

Suddenly, a slight dizziness hit him. Zhao Hai was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and stood up. He was really dissatisfied with his current physical condition. Just soaking in the hot spring for a while made him feel dizzy, which was really frustrating.

He stood up, picked up the towel beside him, dried his body, put on his sleeping clothes, and walked to the bed. He took the Koya pot from the bedside table, poured himself a cup of Koya, and sat on the bed, sipping it quietly.

Zhao Hai felt his body was a bit weak. He knew it was because he had soaked in the hot spring for too long, but he was really too lazy to move. Recently, he had been under a lot of pressure, both external and internal, and it seemed like he was always living under pressure.

Now, after soaking in the hot spring, he suddenly felt a sense of despair. He didn't want to think about anything, his mind was blank, and he just wanted to lie there quietly.

If he lay like this on a normal day, he would probably fall asleep soon, but today was different. He just lay there quietly, his mind blank, but he had no sleepiness at all.

He stayed in this state for a long time before suddenly waking up. Although he hadn't fallen asleep, he felt like he had just woken up.

Zhao Hai gently shook his head, shaking off the dark and low thoughts in his mind. He didn't have time to feel sorry for himself; he had too much to do.

After calming his emotions, Zhao Hai decided to have a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, they would go to Casar City, and he really wanted to see what this city, known as the Northern Pearl of the Aksu Empire, looked like.

This was the first time Zhao Hai was going to a big city after waking up. He was really looking forward to it. Although Adam had always lived in the capital of the Aksu Empire, which was the largest and most prosperous city in the empire, and Zhao Hai had taken over all of Adam's memories, those memories were like watching a movie, not feeling very real. This time, he was really looking forward to going to Casar City.

The night passed without incident. The slaves felt they had slept well, although the environment in the space was better than outside, with no wind and a constant temperature, the feeling of sleeping in the open still made them feel uneasy.

The next morning, everyone was energetic. Since most of the rooms had hot springs, the slaves had a good bath, and everyone slept well.

However, after breakfast, the slaves went back into the space to learn to read, while Zhao Hai and the others rode the alien creatures straight to Casar City.

From the Rocky Mountains to Casar City, it would take two days by carriage, but Zhao Hai and the others weren't riding in a carriage; they were riding alien creatures. The speed of the alien creatures was no less than that of galloping horses, and after upgrading, their speed seemed even faster.

Horses would get tired, but the alien creatures wouldn't. They would continue at the same speed, making their journey even faster.

It took them only a little more than half a day to reach the walls of Casar City. This was the first time Zhao Hai had observed Casar City up close. The city was surrounded by several large mountains. To fit the terrain, Casar City wasn't the traditional square city but was circular.

There were six groups of eighteen city gates, with walls nearly thirty meters high and about six meters thick, making it very majestic. The walls were adorned with the Vanser family's running bull flag, and squads of soldiers patrolled the walls. The tall crenellations couldn't hide the soldiers' heroic figures, their silver-white armor and gleaming weapons showing their extraordinary status.

Standing below the city walls, Zhao Hai looked at the straight-standing soldiers and the majestic walls, feeling amazed. Although there were many ancient city walls in China on Earth, Zhao Hai had never been to any. The city he lived in, Youcheng, was a completely new city and couldn't have such things.

Even if there were ancient city walls, they would only be for show. You couldn't expect them to withstand missile attacks, so they naturally lacked the grandeur.

But the city walls here were truly for defense. Standing below the city walls, feeling the iron-like grandeur, Zhao Hai was amazed.

Zhao Hai had already put away the alien creatures, which was a common rule in cities, especially in a big city like Casar City. About five hundred meters from the city walls was the warning zone. If you had no ill intentions toward the city, it was best to put away your summoned creatures; otherwise, the guards might attack you.

Although Zhao Hai didn't know this, Green did, so he had Zhao Hai put away the alien creatures about five hundred meters from Casar City. Although they wanted to attract attention, it didn't mean they wanted to cause trouble. As long as they kept a high profile, there was no need to provoke trouble. If a fight broke out, they might expose their secrets, and they had many secrets.

Green didn't understand why Zhao Hai stopped at the city walls. Although the large hat of the black magic robe hid Zhao Hai's movements, Green could clearly feel that Zhao Hai was examining the city walls. Such actions could easily arouse the suspicion of the guards. If the guards didn't see him as a mage, they would have questioned him long ago.

Fortunately, after a while, Zhao Hai came to his senses and followed Green and Meg into the city. Merlin didn't come out with them; Zhao Hai didn't want others to know too much about his power.

Zhao Hai waved and walked toward the city gate. He noticed two large boxes at the gate, marked with the word "tax." It seemed they were for collecting taxes, so people entering or leaving the city had to put money in the boxes, or they would be stopped.

However, Zhao Hai didn't put any money in, as he remembered Green telling him that mages like him didn't need to pay. The state had a rule that mages were exempt from taxes.

Of course, it wasn't that you could just wear a magic robe and be exempt from taxes. You had to register with the Mage Guild and get a mage badge to be exempt. Without a badge, it wouldn't work.

However, Zhao Hai was an exception. Although he didn't have a mage badge, he had arrived on an alien creature, which already indicated his mage status. If the guards still dared to stop him, they would be too blind.

There were many black mages on the continent, and they wouldn't register with the Mage Guild. However, no one dared to pretend to be a black mage except in Black Mountain Pass. Therefore, most cities wouldn't stop someone in a black magic robe, even if they didn't have a badge.

Green reminded Zhao Hai of this because he was afraid Zhao Hai didn't know what black mages were like. If Zhao Hai acted too gentle, it wouldn't be like a black mage and could arouse suspicion.