Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

"What kind of Chaos is this, and from which family?" Malin picked up a piece of meat and felt it—strange, there was no smell of Chaos at all.

"Uh, Lord Malin, this is not the flesh of chaos creatures you’re thinking of, but a type of self-growing flesh orb referred to as Chaos that is usually dug out from underground in the North. It looks like biological meat, yet it’s not alive. Eating it can cause hallucinogenic and other toxic effects. We Northerners wouldn’t eat this stuff. It seems they were planning to sell it as a Northern specialty jerky in the South. Many merchants do this." Under the soldier’s explanation, Malin finally understood, patted him on the shoulder in gratitude for the explanation, then put the lid back on: "Remember to mark these meats and burn them."

Tuojin directly took out a piece of charcoal and drew a large cross on top.

Arriving at the second pile of boxes, there were only three boxes. Malin opened the pried lid and saw cans produced by his own cannery.

Tuojin laughed upon seeing them: "I never imagined that canned goods would be preserved with such care by them... Hmm, seem to be canned fruits?" Tuojin was curious, but Malin understood—these fruits came from his own Semi-Plane, rich with elemental powers, and it looked like part of them had been collected. Were they intended to be sold to the North?

Ha, these guys must not have realized that Malin no longer makes this kind of canned goods—only the freshest fruits have the best effect, so now Malin only takes pre-orders from various parties, with fixed shipments each season.

Looking at the production date—wow, two years ago.

Malin remembered that the longest shelf life for these goods was three years, which meant that this batch was actually stuck with the warehouse owner—major Noble families and the Church would get their goods directly from Malin, and no buyer capable of buying in bulk would want these outdated goods.

"Tell the soldiers to split these goods into two parts and distribute them to the Goddess of Harvest and the Winter Wolf respectively." Before Malin and his people came to crash the place, he had already informed the Assistant Priests of these two Churches here, which is why he played the role of the invisible man—when a High Priest like Malin shows up, it’s not the turn for the young Assistant Priests to show themselves.

Tuojin immediately found two soldiers and had them evenly distribute the three boxes of cans, while also sending two squads of soldiers to contact the two Churches to come and pick up the goods themselves.

There were many more boxes in the third pile. Malin opened a lid and saw shiny yellow bullets, the latest model from the workshop. Malin picked up a bullet and looked at the bottom of the casing, confirming it didn’t match the batch code he sold to the Northern Legion.