After the meal.
Feng Long secretly slipped out of the Carefree Good Workshop with Wang Qian and the others. He did not say where they were going, only speaking furtively of an old friend's invitation and saying that the friend wanted to give him some powerful new toys, which he would take back to the Dragon Phoenix Territory and properly test.
Su Mo stood at the entrance and saw them off. After observing the direction they had left in, he could not help chuckling.
If one considered where the territory still had both funding and research capabilities to continuously supply new toys, there was only the Academy of Sciences.
The new weapons developed by the Ordnance Institute could perhaps be taken directly to the Northern Military Region's battlefield to test against the dwarves, but that would be somewhat risky.
Taking them to the Dragon Phoenix Territory to play with those small fry, however, was just right.
"Su Ge, if we sell food for one more day, we won't have much left in our stockpile. With disasters happening so frequently, do you think we should—"
Sun Quan walked out of the courtyard. He had already changed into ordinary clothes, and compared to a month ago, he looked much fresher and more composed from head to toe.
"It's fine. Sell it all." Su Mo smiled. "The territory's food prices clearly won't fluctuate too drastically, and it won't allow anyone to step forward and buy low to sell high. Hoarding it would only tie up our spare funds."
"That's true."
Sun Quan tiptoed over and lowered his voice. "Su Ge, among the people we sent out from the first Heroes Assembly, we've discovered that two of them have already given up halfway. It seems they would rather bear the punishment than continue their