Winning People Over with Virtue
"Excuse me, sir, what brings you to No. 3 Settlement?" the registrar asked politely.
"Go tell your city lord that I have something important to discuss with him!" Lu Li tilted his head and glanced at the registrar before speaking directly. His time was very precious. After all, having set a date for his death, if he didn't want to actually die when that time came, he had to become as powerful as possible before then to be able to change that date.
"Um, sir, I'm sorry, the city lord has many important matters to attend to. You can tell me what it is, and then I will inform the city lord, who will decide whether to see you." The registrar's heart skipped a beat, but he said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.
"Tell you? Fine!" Lu Li looked at the registrar and smiled slightly, giving the clerk an ominous feeling.
On the luxurious wooden desk, Wu Donglin tapped the surface with his right hand and propped his head up with his left, looking at the registrar kneeling on the wool carpet, sweating profusely and filled with fear. At this moment, a scarlet dagger was stuck in the registrar's shoulder, emanating a strong, twisted power.
"You said he wanted to see me, and then you stuck this dagger into your shoulder, saying that if I saw it, I would understand, and if I didn't understand, then it was better not to see you?" After a while, Wu Donglin came out from behind his desk, placed one hand on the scarlet dagger on the registrar's shoulder, and asked expressionlessly.
"Lord City Lord, that's what that person said!" the registrar hurriedly said. The intense twisted power on the dagger on his shoulder made him uneasy. If it were to flow into his body, it might combine with the twisted infection in his body, causing a qualitative change in the twisted state and making him explode on the spot.
Wu Donglin carefully sensed everything about the dagger. With a flick of his wrist, he pulled it out. The registrar's blood splattered onto the woolen carpet. Wu Donglin looked at the dagger in his hand. The entire dagger was like a red crystal, looking like a work of art, with a faint red glow on it.
"Are you sure that person took out a red fruit and conjured this dagger right in front of you?" Wu Donglin's voice rang out again, still devoid of emotion.
"I am absolutely certain, otherwise I would not have dared to disturb Lord City Lord." Wu Donglin's question prompted the registrar to give an affirmative answer once again, despite the pain in his shoulder.
"Well done, you deserve credit for this. It seems we're still short one deputy secretary. Go and heal your injuries, then you can resign from your position as city gate registrar and go work in the administration department!" Wu Donglin said suddenly after looking at the scarlet dagger for a while.
"Thank you, Lord City Lord! Thank you, Lord City Lord!" the registrar said hurriedly, kowtowing. His face was full of joy. After seeing Wu Donglin wave his hand, he quickly retreated from the office on one knee.
Wu Donglin looked down at the blood-stained wool carpet and said to the crew-cut young man sitting on the sofa on the other side of the office, "Merit should be rewarded and wrongdoing should be punished. Third brother, after he takes office, execute him for soiling the carpet. Use this carpet to wrap his body. We should win people over with virtue!"
"Second brother, third brother, take a look at this dagger!" Wu Donglin tossed the dagger to a long-haired young man leaning against the window on the other side, then sat back down in his office chair, tapping his fingers on the table as if thinking about something interesting.
"This dagger can actually absorb a certain amount of twisted power, yet it's not a twisted artifact. That's quite interesting." The long-haired man examined the dagger closely before tossing it to the third brother.
"That's right. Although it only absorbs a little bit and doesn't have any other functions, don't you think this kind of thing is already somewhat similar to a twisted artifact?" Wu Donglin tapped the table.
"The clerk's remaining twisted infection has been mostly absorbed by this dagger. His subsequent feeding behavior is very likely to cause a qualitative change in the twisted infection. Third brother, hurry up and act, don't let things drag on and let the people in other settlements know the specific information."
"Second brother, go arrange a banquet to welcome our distinguished guests!" Wu Donglin continued, squinting as he pondered. Today's events couldn't be kept secret from the people in the other settlements, but as long as they didn't have specific information, they would be hesitant, and he could handle it.
Lu Li, with a somewhat trembling Fang Yi by his side, sat on a fairly decent sofa. Several city guards around them watched Lu Li warily, ready to flee at any moment. In their understanding, only Correctors could use supernatural abilities, and Correctors with supernatural abilities could easily kill them all.
Lu Li showed no signs of tension. His mind was still conducting simulation experiments. After the secondary brain was completed, he could adjust the flow of time within it to gain more time to think, and he could also use the secondary brain to simulate certain phenomena.
The dagger he plunged into the registrar was naturally the same spell that turned the red fruit into energy, causing Zheng Li's corpse to explode. However, based on the requirements, Lu Li made a slight improvement. He Solidification that energy into a dagger and fixed the spell on it.
This gave the dagger the ability to absorb the power of distortion. Although the power of distortion is advanced and strange, it is still energy. By drawing in energy, it is not difficult to absorb a certain amount of the power of distortion.
Although the world is able to utilize the power of Correctors due to the Twisted Artifacts, only ten years have passed since the Great Cataclysm. These Correctors' use of the power of distortion is still very rudimentary. Therefore, at present, apart from borrowing the Twisted Artifacts, there are no other technologies or methods to extract the power of distortion.
Lu Li used this tactic to attract attention. According to Fang Yi, each of the Correctors who can use superpowers possesses several abilities, such as standing in mid-air, being invulnerable to blades and bullets, being immune to all poisons, having mental perception, and controlling objects with their mind. These are the basic abilities that every Correctors absorbs enough twisted power to undergo a qualitative change possesses. Furthermore, every Correctors a qualitative change will awaken a unique superpower, granting Correctors unimaginable strength.
If Fang Yi's description wasn't exaggerated, then as long as those Correctors weren't stupid, it would be extremely difficult for Lu Li to kill them. So for now, he should focus on his research and utilize their resources, since he didn't have much time left.
Soon, a man in a well-tailored suit rushed over and said in a humble and respectful tone that the city lord had invited Lu Li to a banquet. Not long after, Lu Li met Wu Donglin, the city lord of the No. 3 Settlement, on the third floor of the prison canteen.
Upon meeting them, Lu Li felt a powerful spiritual force sweeping towards him. While his evaluation of the Correctors' power increased, his evaluation of their skills decreased again.
That's all for today, goodnight everyone.