Chapter 640 - Contracting System (2/2)

Roland felt that this king was f**king sick and almost flipped the table.

Then before Roland was about to lash out, Stephanie pulled Roland away.

The two of them left the palace and took a carriage to Stephanie’s estate. In the carriage, Stephanie said embarrassedly, “I’m sorry to have put you through that.”

“It’s fine. Although I do feel a bit like getting angry, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal to put up with it.” Roland waved his hand.

“My father, he’s a big kid.” Stephanie’s also had a rather helpless expression. “According to my grandfather, he’s been like that since he was a little boy. He likes to push people’s boundaries and also can’t keep his mouth shut and talks recklessly all the time.”

“Your father may be a bas*ard and act like a jerk, but he can be counted among the most powerful people in the world anyway.” Roland closed his eyes, feeling a bit of a headache. “This is a disaster.”

Stephanie rolled her eyes helplessly at Roland.

Although her father was indeed a bas*ard, it certainly sounded a little awkward to her when said by an outsider.

After all, it was her father!

When they reached the entrance to the manor, before getting out of the carriage, Stephanie asked, “Your floating city, how is it coming along?”

“The degree of completion is probably just one percent.”

“That’s a little slow.” Stephanie frowned.

She wanted to have a shelter in the floating city, so that in case something really happened, she would have a place and a chance to make a comeback.

This was important to her, and the sooner the floating city was built, the more peace of mind she would have.

“Everything is difficult at the beginning.” Roland thought about it and said, “I will slowly increase my strength soon, and the construction of the floating city will speed up drastically.”

Stephanie nodded. “I believe in what you say. I’ll just wait for your good news. By the way… I’ll keep an eye on that expeditionary force for you, and I’ll help you temper the people in that team beforehand to keep them from being so unruly.”

“Sorry to trouble you.”

“No problem. Come and take the expeditionary force in half a month.”

The two soon ended their conversation.

Roland teleported back to the Realm of Devils, found the vanguard meeting room, and found Solisa and the others.

“How did the talk go on your side?” When they saw Roland, they immediately gathered around.

The rescue was now proceeding in an orderly fashion. One-third of the people in the breeding city had been transferred to the main plane and then escorted to Wetland City by other players from Sisilia.

After being blessed by Detoxification and Healing, most of the bred humans were able to live in good health.

But there were still a small number of people that died.

Their bodies were dry and thin, and there were even writhing white maggots on the surface of their bodies.

There couldn’t possibly be a good environment and conditions in a breeding city.

Those bone devils and mind flayers only had to make sure that most of the humans didn’t die and didn’t develop diseases.

If a hundred or so frail humans died… they’d simply be thrown outside the city.

Regardless, people would be born, and soon there would be new human babies again.

The more rescues were made, and the more they cleared the central areas of the city, the more alarming the devastation.

Many white bones were piled up in the center of the city.

Based on the teeth marks on them, a picture of a raw human eater came to their minds.

And now… they had the intention of asking the succubi about the breeding cities.

It had been determined that there were three breeding cities within three to four hundred kilometers of this city.

After saving this one, there would be more saving to do.

That meant here would be at least three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand people to save down the road.

However, Wetland City would hold at most two hundred thousand more people; the city couldn’t handle any more than that.

Therefore, the cities or countries that could admit large populations had to be arranged as soon as possible.

This was also the reason why Solisa was anxious.

“It’s been negotiated,” Roland said with a nod, “but we now have a rather important problem. Even if Fareins were willing to take these people, it’s not very realistic to have them trek nearly two thousand kilometers to Fareins. A small number of people would be fine-just rent some carriages—but millions, tens of millions of people, how many carriages would that take, and how many people would die on the journey if they just walked?”

The group froze.

This question had not occurred to them before.

At this moment, someone was livestreaming, and the pop-ups that were roaming in the livestream died down because of these words.

“Are we just going to have to move them from one pit of fire to another?” asked Solisa, in a somewhat distressed mood.

“I have an idea that I need your cooperation with.”

Solisa’s eyes lit up. “Go ahead.”

“As you all know, I know the multiple teleportation magic array.”

The crowd nodded.

Roland continued, “But that teleportation cost is too expensive, so I’ll find a way to bring it down to a point where it’s affordable.”

“How long will it take?”

“At least a month.” Roland continued, “That is, if you rescue more people, then you will need to take care of their food for at least a month, and food for hundreds of thousands of people is not a good solution.”

The crowd was silent.

With two or three hundred people in one guild, they were under a lot of logistical pressure.

The difficulty of managing the necessities of hundreds of thousands of people was too much for them.

“They don’t eat much, two meals a day will do.” Solisa gritted her teeth. “Fifty thousand people, Phoenix Guild will take care of that many people.”

At this time, the chairmen of other guilds also stepped forward.

“I’ll cover thirty thousand.”

“I’ll cover forty-five thousand.”

“Forty-five thousand.”

Within a few moments, a dozen guilds had covered the population of half a million.

And in the livestream, more people were shouting

“We’re a small guild, but we can also cover three thousand.”

“We’ll cover five thousand.”

“Six thousand.”

“I will definitely work out the cheap version of the magic array in a month.”

With a swish of his cloak, Roland immediately disappeared in front of the crowd.