In terms of humanoid creatures, especially human beings, 20 years is a long time, and the development of the Northland has not stopped because of the disappearance of the White River, but in this land of backward productivity and poor materials, the changes cannot be described as changing with each passing day.

The Ice Rainbow City in the south is still the same as before, but a strange thing suddenly happened twenty years ago, a large hole suddenly appeared in the north of the city, and abyssal monsters and dark elves often poured out and attacked everywhere.

The Frost Giants tribe of the Great Glacier were still the same, and they apparently didn't notice anything unusual about the sudden disappearance of one or two tribes, as they always were.

Even so, the White River's lair was inevitably exposed, and the reason was very simple - compared to other areas of the Great Glacier, the place where the White River's lair is located shows an abnormal rate of disappearances of adventurers, and many adventurers have their eyes on here, and the White River's lair has a certain strength, but it has not yet reached the point of being invincible in the world, so some of the fish that slipped through the net escaped.

Even if the base is strategically retracted, it will not help, the spell can only hide the main lair, the upper layer of the cold iron ore cannot be hidden, and there are often spies around.

Although these spies did not dare to be too bold due to the unknown power of this area, there was no doubt that some information was revealed.

For example, under the tireless exploration of many spies, the base's largest supplier of supplies for twenty years, Baron Jonker Valage of Ice Rainbow City, was exposed, and such a supply line transporting huge quantities of supplies, as long as anyone finds clues, it will be exposed.

About five years ago, the new sheriff of Rainbow City, a half-elf woman named Lillian with a strong will to fight, attacked Baron Warage's supply team that secretly sent to the glacier, and had a fierce conflict with Baron Jonker Varech, and finally the nobles of Rainbow City decided to side with Lillian and questioned Baron Jonk, and even the ruling Grand Duke of Walch Duchy learned about it.

The glacier was too close to the human world, which made the adults of Rainbow City very uneasy, and they forced Baron Varech to quickly reveal the identity of the owner of this glacier, and the head of the intelligence department of the Dragon's Lair naturally did not sit idly by, they joined Baron Jonker's military department and fought back against the violent law enforcement of the principality.

However, the strength of this counterattack was obviously not sufficient, and Shirakawa looked at the operation report and asked Heath with some depression:

"! You forty-odd people are all at least level 16 high-level wizards, and they are all in the flesh of teenage dragons, well, although they are a little thinner than the normally developed teenage white dragons, even if most of them are not very good at fighting, with your comprehensive strength, how can those small humans be your opponents? You actually told me that you can't beat them?! Is this teasing me or are these tiny humans hanging up?"

"Boss, are you sure that we can show all these powers without any scruples?" S4 Stalin, who has been in charge of the backdoor defense and is also the person in charge of this temporary assistance plan, asked: "You were very careful not to reveal your true identity when you were in Ice Rainbow City, and after discussion, we don't think this is the right time to show your strength, boss, the power of this principality is very strong, as you said, most of the researchers and technicians in the base are not good at fighting...... And, truth be told, when Jonker Valage was exposed, it was already doomed that we would not be able to keep this supply line. ”

"Boss, let's be honest, we are 'non-human', unless we use direct violence to rule, by manipulation and covert operation, we want to maintain this dark line...... It's difficult. Because these rulers will not allow the country's resources to be swallowed up by inexplicable black forces, they want to know where this power comes from. This is also why this conflict began. ”

"You mean the instinct of the ruler?" Bai He smiled and crushed the paper: "Okay, forget it, but ...... So, for at least five years, we've been sitting on our laurear?"

"That's right, boss, you should have seen that we have relocated the population of Ice Palace Town after cleaning the memory, it is true that there are not so many people here, but the cold iron mine on the top of the mountain, because the investment in the Blackwater Port has not been interrupted, and it has been operating well. Looking at Bai He's expression, Stalin hurriedly added: "With the capital and ability of the Cobden family after the chaos, it is already difficult to maintain this cold iron mine, and according to you, we can't fully trust Tilou Cobden. ”

"So all departments in the nest are running at low capacity now, and we still can't be self-sufficient?"

"Magic organic sauce has been produced, and the people who can supply it can supply about 700 humanoid creatures in addition to us, boss, this value is not large, this is also the limit of the amount that local magic can provide in addition to our research on magic, of course, boss, you are back, this consumption will increase." Staling said, "But the boss...... None of this is a problem, the biggest problem is ...... Our geographical location has naturally determined that this place is not suitable for building a force that can accommodate a large number of humanoids. Of course, if these humanoids are willing to be loyal to us, we can certainly physically modify them or equip them to survive on the Great Glacier. However, we can't confirm their loyalty, and you know, it's unreliable to build power with simple brainwashing. ”

"Hmm~" Shirakawa pinched his chin and understood what Staling meant.

You want to recruit a group of brothers who are determined to work with you, but will this group of brothers show their loyalty to the dragon?

Wouldn't it be the end of a few human supremacists among them to play Infernal Affairs on the Great Glacier?

Identity.

Shirakawa gradually felt the bottleneck of his ability to establish a reliable force in this world.

An evil dragon who is destined to be the enemy of humans by nature, the setting of the world dictates that Shirakawa can only sneak when his strength is insufficient. Aside from Jonk, quite a few humans he dealt with were unaware of the fact that he was a dragon.

Even in the face of that Tiru, Shirakawa was careful to hide the identity of the dragon.

Tiru now thinks she serves a powerful human necromancer, but if the target is changed to a dragon, that nature changes.

Bai He held his chin in thought, and his heart moved: "How is Jonk Varech?"

"Boss, he's sick. Staling said

"Clams?" Bai He opened his mouth and blinked twice: "Are you kidding me?"

"No, boss, the baron had been waiting for fifteen years to get his girlfriend, who had been suffering from severe depression and nervous breakdowns before the incident broke out. "Shortly after the outbreak of the conflict, he suddenly developed a heart attack, and the research department found it acceptable to see the average life expectancy of a human being, as determined by the level of hygiene of the era, and the imminent disappearance of the person's usefulness," Stalin explains. ”

“...... Depend on. This 'acceptable' left Shirakawa deeply speechless for a while.

He looked at the magical portrait on the data, and suddenly felt a little deep melancholy.

This is a human being, twenty years is just a big sleep for a dragon, and when it falls on the head of such a human being, it actually dies.

Fragile and fragile, Bai He didn't know why he was even more upset, he sent away Heath and Starling with some irritation, walked around for a while before he settled down, returned to the meditation room that only he could enter in the entire lair, and wrote and drew on paper against the empty stone wall.

After listening to Stalin's and Heathlian's reports, Shirakawa realized that there were many problems that had not been exposed before, and that it was not as simple as he thought to succeed in establishing a power in the Great Glacier, and that the huge difference between humans and dragons and the low prestige of the dragons made it difficult for him to form the 'human force' he wanted to build.

Emerge and win directly with force?

Bai He touched his chin and began to ponder, this is not a bad idea, but it is still a little bit owed.

No cannon fodder.

Sufficient, qualified cannon fodder.

Most of the civilians in the institute are useless, like Heath and Stalin, who are quite proficient in hand-to-hand combat and combat casting, and if they change back to their original form, their combat effectiveness can be called powerful, and there are also some amateurs among the researchers who study combat casting, but the greater interest is still in the magic itself, and the combat effectiveness of this scholar-type talent is to be discounted, of course, their main value is not reflected in hand-to-hand combat.

As for the war machine, with the mining of cold iron ore and the progress of external trade, a number of prototype robots have been made, but there are still some unsuitable for this world, and the combat effectiveness is there, but it is not large-scale, and the wheel efficiency is about the same as that of the golem of the same grade.

However, in terms of power armor, the technological breakthrough is amazing, and even the white dragons who have been domesticated by the research institute have developed a special cold iron armor, and the humanoid armor technology is more mature, and even Sena has a special model, and as soon as it is taken out, Bai He fought with a human form, and he almost couldn't beat her.

Absorbing the lessons of the first generation of products, this batch of power armor lowered the threshold and was mainly used for hand-to-hand combat, and once equipped, it could immediately form combat effectiveness, but the question was still that: who would wear it?

"Daddy, Daddy!"

Shirakawa was meditating, and Ellie suddenly jumped out of consciousness.

Shirakawa, who was in a state of magical meditation, couldn't pick up the chatter message - under the control of a completely sane personality, only a life-threatening orange alert that could lead to the destruction of the lair could alarm him. But right now he's not in magical meditation, so it doesn't matter.

However, Bai He still felt a little angry, because he repeatedly ordered that as long as he entered the meditation room, all unnecessary disturbances were forbidden, and Ellie's accosting made him a little angry: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to disturb me at this time?"

"Who will have nothing to disturb you, Dad?" Xiao Douding's image appeared in Bai He's consciousness: "Dad, you lack a batch of cannon fodder that can wear power armor for your current row of MT, and you are afraid that the cannon fodder is not loyal enough, right?"

"That's right, what can you do?" Bai Long was a little curious, he was thinking about this problem just now, whether it was violent brainwashing or creating a cult to pretend to be a ghost, but he passed it, the effect was slow, and it was easy to get rid of.

"Dad, what are you bothering about? Isn't cannon fodder ready-made?" said Ellie.

"Isn't it funny that those people from Ice Palace Town know my identity and are willing to fight for me?" Bai He was a little annoyed.

"No, no, no, no, Dad, you forgot about you opening an online game at the Spirit of the Halberd to harvest faith?!" Ellie jumped: "At that time, you messed around, ruined the law environment of the Western Hemisphere, and a group of game nerds were bewitched by you and made a dragon worship! Now there are still a large number of die-hard members in this church! They have long been connected to my divinity, and they are still constantly providing the force of faith."

Dad, you connect to my program and use the ability of 'fate' to pull them over, they already believe in you, and if you fool around a little, won't it be easy to get a batch of cannon fodder?"

"And this kind of play?" Bai He was stunned for a moment, amazed by Ellie's whimsy, but after thinking about the feasibility of it, he thought about it again.