On the third night of early November, the suburbs of Austin ......

Ivan Stilwell leads a dozen young men and women into a small, abandoned house, each carrying a black lockbox.

The lockboxes in their hands seemed to be heavy, and several of the skinny girls were visibly struggling to carry them around.

Arriving at the empty abandoned house, Ivan Stilwell suddenly became nervous, quickly looked around by the moonlight, and then suddenly stood in the doorway and slowly closed his eyes.

The young men and women stood outside the door in a huddle, and after putting down the box in their hands, they cautiously peeked at Ivan Stilwell at the door.

The group of young people were obviously a little frightened, and they gathered their shoulders and swallowed a mouthful of saliva from time to time, but none of them dared to make a sound, let alone open their mouths to speak.

So everyone looked down at Ivan Stilwell with his eyes closed.

Standing at the door of the ruined building, Ivan Stilwell's body trembled slightly inadvertently, until he felt a sudden surge of heat from the mark in his body, and he opened his eyes suddenly.

"Ivan Stilwell. The familiar voice came again.

Ivan Stilwell opened his eyes and saw a thick cloud of black smoke suddenly rising from the sound not far in front of him, and then the figure that had been like a nightmare in his mind appeared in front of him.

His mouth was extremely dry, he subconsciously swallowed his saliva, bowed down and whispered, "My lord, I have brought you all the things and people you need." ”

Chen Ze in the black robe didn't speak, nor did he turn his head to look at the group of young men and women who were trembling and almost paralyzed, but just raised his hand in that direction.

Ivan looked there slightly, his eyes widened instantly, and he saw that the men and women who had just been terrified suddenly straightened up, picked up the boxes and lined up like a machine and walked towards this side.

"Adult ......"

Ivan Stilwell straightened up, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he noticed that the black-robed man had turned around and led the group of men and women away in the other direction.

After another minute or two, a dark smoke suddenly rolled up around the black-robed man who had walked a hundred meters away, and disappeared in front of him along with the dozen or so young men and women.

"Hoo ......"

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Ivan Stilwell let out a long breath.

"Ah......h

But before he could relax, there was a sudden sharp pain all over his body, and Ivan Stilwell screamed and fell to the ground.

The strange voice of the black-robed man appeared directly in his mind, "Don't try to snoop on my secrets again, this is my last warning!"

It was a long time before the pain wore off, and Ivan Stilwell struggled to get up.

"Shet ......"

As if thinking of something from the words in his head, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "Bastard, Gary, this stupid pig actually sent someone to follow me, and I was almost killed by him, Shet......"

............

"Hosts, they are ......"

A few days later, in the early morning, when Marcuri got up to clean the hall on the first floor of the manor, he saw the elevator in the basement slowly rising, and then saw Chen Ze coming over with more than a dozen young men and women.

"Give them a room and they'll be here for a long time to come. Chen Ze didn't answer, looked at Marcuri and ordered directly.

"Okay. Marcuri didn't dare to ask again, and nodded slightly.

"Come with me. ”

Marcuri leaned the broom aside and turned to beckon to the young men and women.

Everyone glanced at Chen Ze on the side with fear, nodded and walked out of the hall with Marcuri.

Seeing them go away, Chen Ze went to the wine storage table in the living room and opened a bottle of liquor that he had brought from China before, poured a glass and sat on the sofa.

"It won't be long before I break through to the Intermediate Wizard Apprentices, and I'll need to revise their memories just in case. Taking a sip of the thick puree liquor, Chen Ze thought to himself.

When he was with Ivan Stilwell, Chen Ze used his mental power to control the nine men, four women and thirteen children, creating black smoke and hiding their figures.

After bringing them back overnight, Chen Ze untied his mental restraints, and they were still extremely flustered and frightened at that time, after all, they also saw the scene where Chen Ze appeared at night.

However, after implanting spiritual imprints on all of them one by one, and applying the previous methods to Marcuri to them, the thirteen children gradually calmed down.

Although one of the boys had the idea of running away for the past two days, after feeling the effects of the spiritual imprint, he finally settled down out of fear and unknown.

Let them stay in the basement for two days and two nights, and only now did Chen Ze finally choose to take them out.

During this period, Chen Ze also inquired about their respective ages and life experiences from them one by one.

These thirteen children have just turned sixteen years old and come out of the orphanage, although they are not from the same orphanage, because they have been brought to Ivan Stilwell for more than half a month, they are not familiar but know each other.

A few days later......

Chen Ze, Marcuri and the thirteen children sat around a round table and ate dinner.

Perhaps these children have found that they are doing better in the manor than in the orphanage before, and they are all much more relaxed, and they have no idea of running away.

And as they gradually became familiar with it, although they were still in awe of Chen Ze, their fear had diminished a lot.

Glancing at the children at the table who were talking softly while eating, Chen Ze turned his head to look at the side, "Makuri ......"

"The hosts. Marcuri looked up and listened to the command.

"Tomorrow you go and prepare a legal labor contract for each of them, and then start teaching them the cultivation of the channeling technique and the breathing method. ”

In the United States, when you reach 16, you are an adult, and it is legal to work and sign labor contracts. Chen Ze did this to prevent the special situation of official investigations.

"Okay, I'll do it right tomorrow morning. Marcuri nodded back.

"Hmm. ”

Chen Ze answered, put down the knife and fork, got up and walked into the elevator back to the basement.

............

Time flies, and in an instant, the end of the year has come.

In the course of two months, the thirteen children's somewhat thin bodies gradually became stronger, and the knightly cultivation method taught by Marcuri had some results.

Now with their physical fitness, they are enough to cope with two or three ordinary young adults, and their strength, speed and other aspects are far beyond ordinary people.

Chen Ze felt that even if they were put in the army at this time, as long as they had a little training, they could definitely be called the elite of the elite.

However, Chen Ze would never rashly implement these ideas before breaking through the intermediate wizard apprenticeship, although these thirteen children had been very peaceful in the past two months, Chen Ze still felt that they were an unstable factor.

Only after revising their memories will Chen Ze be truly relieved, and ......

There is also the hidden danger of Ivan Stilwell.

If you really act rashly now, once some clues are revealed, Ivan Stilwell or the Eighteenth Block Gang will definitely come to the door immediately.

Although Chen Ze was not afraid of them, and might be able to destroy them easily, the troubles that came with this ...... But he didn't want to see it anyway.

"Fortunately, it will only take a month at most for a complete elemental inscription sequence to be built, and the promotion to an intermediate apprentice will be just around the corner. ”