3: Chapter 3 A Billionfold Critical Hit! Spirit Rice!

"Too much... really too much..."

Zhou Yun had thought the infinite return rewards would be plentiful, but only when he saw the mountains of buns piling up in his space did he truly grasp it!

In less than ten minutes, the System had returned hundreds of thousands of sugar buns!

With hundreds of thousands of sugar buns piled together, could you even call them buns anymore?

That was a mountain of buns!

He suddenly felt a trace of worry.

That was... if this kept up, wouldn't the buns fill up the space?

If that happened, what would he do in the future?

Although the System space seemed boundless, what if?

Just as he had this thought, a System prompt appeared.

[Ding! The System space is infinitely large; you do not need to worry about supplies filling up the System space.]

Hearing the prompt, Zhou Yun couldn't help but feel relieved.

But since the System space wouldn't fill up, he would go all out!

"Lei Lie!" he called out.

"Here!"

"Bring a few clean tables! Or a few clean cloths will do!"

Tables? Cloths?

Although Lei Lie was puzzled, it was, after all, the City Lord's order, so he complied.

Soon, Lei Lie and 20 City Guards returned with four tables and a stack of cloths.

Following Zhou Yun's instructions, they spread the cloths flat on the ground.

Just as they were confused, they saw Zhou Yun wave his hand, and a mountain-like pile of sugar buns instantly appeared on the cloths!

!!!!!!

Everyone present, including Lei Lie, had their eyes widened!

Sugar buns!

Steaming hot sugar buns!

So many!

The heat gathered and rose, dispelling much of the chill from their bodies.

"Come! It's too slow for me to distribute them alone, help me distribute them!" Zhou Yun hailed Lei Lie again.

"Yes!"

Lei Lie answered readily and had the 20 City Guards help out.

With their help, the distribution speed increased significantly!

But as the distribution speed increased, the System's reward returns also sped up!

[Ding! You successfully gifted Sugar Bun * 1, triggering a 100x critical hit reward, obtaining Sugar Bun * 100!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted Sugar Bun * 1, triggering a 1000x critical hit reward, obtaining Sugar Bun * 1000!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted Sugar Bun * 1, triggering a 1000x critical hit reward, obtaining Sugar Bun * 1000!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted Sugar Bun * 1, triggering a 10000x critical hit reward, obtaining Sugar Bun * 10000!]

...

Lei Lie and the 20 City Guards worked for a long time, and finally, the sugar buns on the cloths were distributed.

Just as they were about to finish, Zhou Yun waved his hand again!

On the cloths that had just been cleared, another mountain of buns appeared!

"Be diligent!" Zhou Yun smiled. "There are still many people who haven't eaten!"

Lei Lie was a bit stunned.

Still many people who hadn't eaten?

Hadn't everyone around here already eaten?

It couldn't be...

His gaze traveled through the crowd, and seeing the long line that had formed behind the crowd, his pupils shrank.

This newly appointed City Lord...

Could it be that he wanted to feed everyone on this street?!

While he was stunned, a City Guard leaned over to him and asked in a low voice:

"Captain, do these buns... include a portion for us?"

"Huh?!" Lei Lie glared, and the City Guard immediately shrank back.

Seeing his subordinate's reaction, Lei Lie couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

To be honest, these steaming hot sugar buns, fragrant and soft, who wouldn't like them?

Thinking of the soft texture of the dough against his teeth, he couldn't help but swallow a few times himself!

But!

People were different!

They were City Guards, while these people receiving the buns were refugees who had lit up the red light, entered the execution line, and were about to be expelled!

He hadn't understood before, but now he thought he had seen through Zhou Yun's intentions.

These buns, where were they just buns?

These were clearly a final meal!

After eating this meal, they were to be expelled from the city!

As for benevolence?

Loving the people like his own children?

Impossible!

In this world, where would such a fool exist?

The reason for distributing these buns was just to leave a good reputation for his newly assumed position!

This was also the conventional thinking for a new City Lord after taking office.

Although...

The cost of doing this was truly a bit high.

But looking at it from another angle, with his twenty City Guards, wanting to expel the more than 46,000 people who had fallen into the execution line, even if these people didn't resist, the workload was not small.

But having eaten the City Lord's buns, they would be indebted to him!

Once they ate the City Lord's buns, the City Lord would only need to say one word, and they would have to obey!

This invisibly saved a lot of trouble!

From this perspective, the City Lord's methods were quite clever.

Killing two birds with one stone!

Achieving two things at once!

Thinking he had figured it out, Lei Lie's mindset became stable.

Previously, he had thought Zhou Yun was too naive, too green, and not suitable to be a City Lord.

Now it was different!

With such a City Lord who possessed both methods and shrewdness, the future development of Flower City was completely predictable!

[Ding! You successfully gifted Sugar Bun * 1, triggering a 100,000,000x critical hit reward, obtaining qualitative change reward: Spiritual Rice * 10 jin!]

[Spiritual Rice: Rice rich in Spiritual Qi; after consumption, one can obtain a small amount of Spiritual Qi and quickly heal common illnesses.]

Triggered a 100 million times critical hit reward?

Spiritual Rice?

Zhou Yun was slightly stunned.

When the critical hit multiplier was high enough, it could actually trigger a qualitative change reward; this was something he hadn't expected.

And looking at the description, this Spiritual Rice was not ordinary!

This world was different from Earth; it had a System of extraordinary powers!

Not to mention the myriad races like the Elves, Dragon Clan, Titans, Orcs, and so on.

Speaking just of the Human Race, there were the ten major professions.

They were Warrior, Knight, Mage, Assassin, Archer, Martial Artist, Priest, Summoner, Formation Master, and Curse Master.

But no matter what the profession, even if it was a hidden profession outside the ten major ones, to Cultivate, to become stronger, one could not bypass one point, and that was Spiritual Qi!

Generally, Professionals would obtain Spiritual Qi from the world through Cultivation.

But besides that, there were other ways to obtain Spiritual Qi.

Among them was absorbing it from food!

However, according to what Zhou Yun had learned from textbooks, food containing Spiritual Qi in the natural world was extremely rare!

Every item was worth a fortune!

For example, Dragon Tooth Rice, which was only sold in the Imperial City, was one of them.

Just didn't know... compared to Dragon Tooth Rice, how much worse would the effect of Spiritual Rice be?

Putting this question aside for now, Zhou Yun continued to distribute the buns.

He had the intention to distribute the Spiritual Rice to see its effect, but the Spiritual Rice was, after all, raw.

For these hungry city residents, buns were a more direct choice.

"City Lord..."

Accompanied by a timid call, Zhou Yun felt his pant leg being tugged.

Looking back, it was a Little Boy.

"City Lord..." the Little Boy gathered his courage and asked, "Can I... take a bun back for my sister to eat?"

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