Superbase Evolution

Chapter 424 Creditors come to visit
"Stop it... I just want this knife..." Lin Shen wanted to stop Lao Dao from destroying the knife.

"Absolutely not. How can I forge a knife that can't be sharpened? How can I save face if this gets out?" Lao Dao didn't care about Lin Shen's opinion at all. He threw the knife and scabbard into the furnace. He wanted to melt the knife and then forge a new one.

"Really, there's no need. I think this knife is good enough." Lin Shen said weakly.

With such high strength and wear resistance, it is very suitable for self-defense. He doesn't really need to sharpen it because he doesn't know how to use a knife.

Whether it is used to stab or hit people, it doesn't really matter whether it is sharpened or not.

But Lin Shen also knew that if he had listened to others, Lao Dao would not have stayed in this ghost place for so many years just to forge a sword for a swordsman who was no longer in this world.

Lao Dao wanted to melt the sword and reforge it, but the sword and scabbard were burned in the furnace for a long time and there was no sign of melting at all.

Not to mention melting, there wasn't even any sign of burning.

"How could this happen?" Lao Dao stared at the knife and scabbard, his eyes full of confusion.

"Maybe this is God's will. God let you make a knife like this, so why do you have to destroy it?" Lin Shen took the pliers and took the knife and scabbard out of the furnace: "Besides, I like this knife very much, this is it."

Lao Dao remained silent and did not stop Lin Shen.

Originally, he thought that even if it was not burned red, the temperature would definitely be very high. However, when Lin Shen put his hand close to the knife and scabbard, he did not feel any burning breath. He reached out and touched it quickly. It was not as hot as he had imagined. The blade and scabbard were still cool.

"What a good knife." Lin Shen held the handle and scabbard in his hands respectively. They felt very heavy, but not so heavy that he could not wield them.

The combined weight of the knife and sheath is about the same as the self-sharpening knife that Lao Dao had forged before, or perhaps even a little lighter.

"You made the knife, so give it a name." Lin Shen inserted the knife into the scabbard, played with it in his hand, pulled it a few times, and felt it was very smooth.

Although this knife does not have the terrifying sword intent like the Ten Directions Demonic Gods and Soul-Slaying Sword, almost every inch of it is the result of Old Dao's ultimate understanding of sword making.

It may not be the most powerful knife, but it is very useful.

Even Lin Shen, who had never practiced swordplay, felt the sword was very smooth when wielded. Without a sharp blade, the resistance to breaking the wind was also very small.

"You take it yourself." Lao Dao shook his head. He was an extreme perfectionist when it came to knife making.

A knife made of slag material containing a lot of impurities, which cannot be sharpened, even if it has some special features, he finds it difficult to accept it, and he is not in the mood to name it.

"I was not good at anything I practiced before. I can be considered the scum among the remaining people. A scumbag goes well with a scumbag knife, so let's call it a scumbag knife." Lin Shen fiddled with the scumbag knife, reluctant to let it go.

"Whatever you want." Lao Dao was in no mood to care what name Lin Shen chose. He put the Ten Directions Demon God Slashing Sword into the sword box that he had prepared long ago, put it on his back, and said to Lin Shen, "You are the dean of Tianshi Academy now, right?"

"That's right." Lin Shen nodded.

"Okay, let's go back to Tianshiyuan together." Lao Dao seemed to remember something, and said to Lin Shen: "Don't call me Lao Dao, Lao Dao. My name is Tianxia, and you will be my brother under Tianxia from now on. You can call me by my name or brother or something like that. I owe you a favor, so just come to me if you have any problems." "Okay, brother." Lin Shen thought of several ways to call me, but none of them sounded smooth, so he just called me brother: "Forget about the favor. You have already helped me forge the Zha Dao, and I like it very much. We don't owe each other anything."

"It's your business if you like it." Tianxia packed up his things and planned to go back.

……

Tianshi Temple is particularly lively today. It cannot be said that it is just today, but these days are particularly lively.

Tianshiyuan owed so much debt. In the past, Tianshiyuan didn’t even have a person in charge, so no one came to collect the debts.

Now that Tianshiyuan has a dean and a real boss, debt collectors have come to the temple these days. They waved IOUs in their hands and stayed inside, insisting on seeing the dean. They refused to leave until they saw him and got their money's worth.

An Sai and others ignored them. They were free to do whatever they wanted and move whatever they wanted. There was nothing valuable in the Tianshi Academy anyway. They had seen this kind of scene many times before.

"Fortunately, the dean went out, otherwise it would be really troublesome to be blocked by them."

"Who says it's not true? These guys seemed to have agreed to come to our college to collect debts. It doesn't have much impact on us, but if the dean is blocked by them, it will be very uncomfortable."

"What's the point of blocking it? The dean has no money. There's no way he can pay it back."

"Maybe they didn't really come here to ask for money."

Several ministers and vice presidents were playing cards and chatting at the same time. As long as those who came to collect debts did not overturn their card table, they would not even bother.

Ansai, who was knitting a sweater nearby, continued, "Please don't come back now, Dean."

Just as she finished speaking, she saw Lin Shen push the door and walk in. An Sai's face suddenly changed. He put down the sweater in his hand, walked quickly to Lin Shen, and pulled Lin Shen outside while lowering his voice and said, "My little ancestor, why didn't you come back earlier or later? You came back at this time. The debt collectors are about to flatten the Tianshi Temple. You should leave quickly and hide outside first. Come back after they leave."

Unfortunately, it was too late. Some sharp-eyed people had already spotted Lin Shen and swarmed over him without even waiting for them to leave.

"President Tian, right? You are the head of Tianshi Academy. Tianshi Academy owes our power supply department more than 300 years of electricity bills. Now our power supply department is almost unable to pay salaries. Hundreds of people in the power supply department rely on this money to pay salaries and support their families. President Tian, please have mercy and pay the owed electricity bills..."

"Our water supply department hasn't received salary payments for several months. Dean Tian, you must help us with this money no matter what..."

"President Tian, your Tianshi Academy has withdrawn so much equipment and materials from the warehouse over the years. We have been bearing this shortfall for more than two hundred years. We can no longer bear it. If you don't resolve this matter today, then we will go to Tianren Academy to seek justice..."

Lin Shen looked at the creditors who had surrounded him, all of them elderly men and women, and felt overwhelmed.

The Emperor of Heaven did not allocate any money to him, nor did he give him any job to make money, so where would he get the money to fill this hole?

(End of this chapter)