When Chang Le returned to the army, his face was ugly, because none of his three most important generals could be seen.

There is no need to ask the reason for this, the soul servant on the road has reported it urgently from Xiaohai.

Lola had already led the attack on the grounds that a light infantry of Fisher's army had moved south along the west bank of the Griffin River, estimated at about 3,000 people, in order to hold the only vehicular bridge on the river.

Almost immediately, she set out with her team, ready to crush the enemy, for the heavy cavalry was an unstoppable crush for the light infantry in the wilderness, but it would be very different if the infantry reached a defensive position and dug a ditch and built a wall to build fortifications.

At that time, Xiaohai was strongly stopped by Chang Le's order, and suggested that she wait for the coach to come back before discussing.

Lola didn't look back, leaving only one sentence:

"When he comes back, the fighter will be gone!"

In just four days, the troops were in chaos, and it seemed that just through Xiao Hai's idea of communication, what kind of "remote meeting" was not perfect, especially in this rapidly changing battlefield.

The coach is not in sight, and the generals are either cautious and dare not do anything, or they are the other extreme, simply letting go of their hands and feet to do their own thing.

Lola is the latter.

The word "prudent" never appeared in her dictionary, and she was even more confident after the victory at the Griffin River, for she had won the battle for the second time in her own command, which was a testament to her military prowess.

And the next successive local defeats made Lola anxious, the word "fierce" in "fierce general" was no joke, she couldn't swallow this bad breath, so she led the heavy cavalry of her descendants to rush out of the camp without authorization, to "kick the enemy's ass".

The thin monkey's persuasion was ineffective, so he had to follow with two thousand light horses, and also joined the ranks of "kicking the ass".

And Wild Thunder had been sent out by Chang Le before, so at this moment, the three core generals were all absent.

Xiaohai has just become a soul servant, although he is clever, he has no friendship with Lola and others, and everyone did not regard him as the "incarnation of Chang Le" as they did to Ruiqi in the past, so Chang Le's words came out of his mouth, and his authority was greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Lola only took away the 1,000 heavy horses she trained herself, plus the 2,000 light horses of the thin monkey were only 3,000 people, and Changle's entire army was 13,000, especially the powerful Dark Knights, who were still there, and they didn't hurt their muscles and bones.

Besides, Fei Xueren lacked cavalry, and even if Lola couldn't win the battle, at least it would be easy to retreat, so although Chang Le was angry, he didn't worry much.

Before getting down to business, he went to visit Victor.

Victor is not top-notch among his old classmates in the military academy, especially his lack of talent in cultivation, and he has not yet stepped into the realm of a war master, wasting the precious medicine and devil special training that Chang Le provided at the beginning.

So usually Victor mainly led the light cavalry to conduct reconnaissance, and did not bear a heavy responsibility, but this time Elliot also sent elite troops to disperse the guerrillas, and everyone scout cavalry fought a big encounter with the scout cavalry, causing him to bear the brunt and be seriously wounded.

Chang Le left some phantom feather dew before leaving, just to prevent this situation, so Victor's life was fine, but when he lifted the quilt to check the injury, his face changed, and everyone present was silent.

Only Victor smiled palely:

"It's okay, I can still ride a horse with a prosthetic leg in the future. ”

"Tell me about the battle. ”

Although it is a bit cruel to let Victor recall the scene of being hacked and killed, this is also a "military situation", and Chang Le is very concerned.

Victor could not recall much of the situation, only that the other party was also a cavalryman, with black armor and black cloth masked, which was quite similar to the Dark Knights, so he thought it was a friendly army at first, until the enemy rushed over with murderous energy, and then hurriedly ordered to meet it.

Twenty to five, Victor had a four-to-one advantage, but after one round of hedging, it became fifteen to five.

He was furious and didn't know how to "turn in" in time, yelled and turned around and charged again, and then the cold light flashed in front of him, and he didn't know anything.

He didn't know what was going on, but others could guess it.

After leaving Victor's camp where he was recuperating, Miranda pulled out a piece of parchment:

"This is a letter from the enemy. ”

This "letter" was brought back by poking Victor with a dagger, and the other party saw that it was a commander, and did not investigate whether he was dead, but directly cut off another leg, and then attached this letter, and asked the horse to carry the "corpse" back.

The letter depicts a pig with "Changle" written on its buttocks, a leg that has been cut off, and a wound wrapped in bandages dripping with blood.

There was also a table next to it, on which was a roast pork leg, apparently the leg of "Changle", and a demon with sharp teeth was munching on it.

A line at the bottom of the screen:

"Last time I asked you, don't misestimate my true strength, if you dare to come and deliver food to your door, I have set up a fine wine and waited for you. ”

Signed: "Elliott".

Chang Le was not angry after reading it, and said with a faint smile:

"Is this Elliott's handiwork, do you really fall in love with me when you draw me so cute?"

"Elliott, do you have a leg with that sissy?" Miranda couldn't help but laugh.

Chang Le remembered that Elliot was still a man in the eyes of everyone, and smiled bitterly:

"I have a wide range of hobbies, so you have to be careful. ”

came to the Chinese military tent, summoned Miranda and Louis and others, and everyone stood solemnly around the sand table.

Chang Le adjusted the position of the enemy army according to what he saw all the way around, pushed its main force to the north, and grabbed a few small flags and planted them on both wings:

"The 50,000 main forces of the Fisher have been recovered, and about 30,000 Zalans are arriving one after another, and the curtain of another battle has been opened. ”

Louis frowned:

"This time the disparity in strength is even greater, we don't have elven archers yet. ”

"You don't need to fight this time, stick to them!"

Chang Le stretched out a finger and drew a line in front of his army:

"I want all the fortifications here, the horses, the trenches, the wooden fences, and the arrow towers! If there is not enough wood, cut down the trees for me at once!

After all, this time he is not here to fight with others, as long as the main force of the enemy army is attracted to the south, Claire can show his strength in the north, and Duke Sharp's 100,000 peasant army, no matter what its combat effectiveness, is at least amazing, enough to turn the political situation in Zaran.

He also understands that in the last war, Elliot did not do his best, but only deliberately used a knife to kill people to clean up the opposition, and this time the other party is determined to win and regards him as the number one enemy.

And this is precisely where it is worth making a fuss, the Queen Mother Claire hid her intentions too well, and when she was the queen, she was tolerant and considerate of Prince Theodore, so no one could have imagined that Theodore, who had ascended the throne, might lose the throne, and the Kingdom of Zaran would also turn against Fisher.

At least Elliot would never have imagined that when she stared at Changle in the south, something big would happen behind her.

Therefore, after Chang Le's return, all deployments were strengthening defenses, putting on a posture of seizing territory and separating one side, and he was not in a hurry to fight.

At the end of the meeting, when everyone went their separate ways, he also deliberately added:

"I'll send Victor to treatment right away, he's not going to be crippled. ”

With this sentence, Victor's sudden disappearance will not cause a commotion.

The so-called "treatment" is the "basal cell proliferation technique" of the Beast Soul Space Dormant Chamber, which takes advantage of Victor's coma to send him to sleep, and after a period of time, he should be able to recover.

After doing this, Chang Le deliberately came to a few hundred meters behind the Beast Soul Tower, and looked at a golden circular building with his hands behind his back.

This is the new functional area that appeared after his beast soul was promoted to the fourth order, and he didn't have time to take a closer look until today.

Anita followed behind as usual and explained:

"Master, this is the Soul Crucible, a combination of the latest technology and occult achievements!"

"What's the use?

"First of all, it is a more powerful energy source than a fusion reactor, which can guarantee the needs of more functional areas of the base in the future, and secondly, it can also make an army for you. ”

The concept of "making" an army stunned Chang Le.

It's not like he hasn't seen this kind of thing, the dark altar in the demon abyss, the dark creature manufacturing device in the demon castle, he is using one and the other is cultivating, but all the creatures produced there are dark creatures, each is more hideous and terrifying than the other, and he can't take it on the table at all, unless he makes up his mind to be a demon king.

Anita continued to explain, much to his shock.

The Beast Soul Bell has always been a soul collection device, even if it has not been activated in the past, hanging in the neck of the young Chang Le, it has also quietly absorbed soul energy from the real world.

When the beast soul space was not yet activated, the power of the bell was weak, and it could only collect soul fragments, that is, a small amount of information that escaped when a person died, and analyzed it according to the principle of "holographic", which became the source of Chang Le's later "soul activation".

Now, with the opening of the "Soul Furnace", they will be able to forcibly absorb the intact souls in the vicinity in the future, so that they can neither go to heaven nor hell, obediently enter the beast soul space, and be bound in a special coil of the furnace.

From then on, these souls are "fuels" that can be converted into an almost infinite amount of electromagnetic energy.

In fact, since the soul is conceived by living organisms, it has been absorbing the ubiquitous dark energy in the universe, and the burning of the soul by the soul furnace is equivalent to using the soul as a medium to mine and utilize the dark energy deposits that could not be detected and collected.

Just as people can't eat the soil and drink the wind, no matter how fertile the soil is and how sunny the sun is, people can grow food in the soil, and through this medium, the soil nutrients and sunlight and air can be converted into food.

And these souls can be burned as fuel until they die, and they can also be used to make armies.

The Dormancy Chambers and the Soul Forge are a combination of "basal cell proliferation", which theoretically allows any living thing to replicate completely, with only a small genetic sample.

In addition, it can edit genes, make functional trade-offs, cover up defects, highlight its advantages, and make it better than the ontology, which is the once popular "cyborg".

However, after the "cyborg" is manufactured, it has no autonomous consciousness at all, and even if it is instilled with instructions, it is like a human flesh machine, because this technology cannot create souls.

Therefore, it is necessary to use the "materials" in the soul furnace --- the souls of the dead.

This is the latest technology that can be called "earth-shaking" after the development of the soul theory.

The soul is very durable as an energy source and does not die easily, and once it is infused into the biochemical body, he/she becomes a real "human", generating cognition and the ability to act autonomously.

Of course, this process is very similar to the legendary "reincarnation", so it is necessary to erase the "memory" and clear the past life grudges and emotions carried by the soul so as not to affect the execution of the mission.

As for the so-called "dark creatures", which also create monsters from nothingness, and also use souls, Anita believes that it is a similar mechanism to the "soul furnace", but there are technical flaws, so the product is also strange, nothing more, and has nothing to do with good and evil or light and darkness.

The Soul Forge guarantees flawlessness through the human body created by the Sleep Pod.

Speaking of which, the AI phantom made a joke:

"Master, if you want a super beauty, you can make it yourself, first find a beautiful woman as the substrate, copy it and then fine-tune it, I hope that which part is bigger and smaller can be controlled in the center console, and even if it is completed after injecting the soul, she is naturally your soul servant, 100% obedient, and never betrayed. ”

Chang Le has no appetite for such a "beauty", and when she thinks that her face and figure are "adjusted" by herself, even if she throws herself into her arms, she becomes very interested just because she is "100% obedient".

He frowned in contemplation, trying to digest the entire theory, and then asked if it was possible to copy the Victor in the dormant pod now, and then create a "Victor Army"?

Although the strength of the Victors is poor, they are also peak monks, and if there are 100,000 Victors, it is enough to sweep the world.

Anita nodded again and again, the answer is yes, anyone can copy it, Chang Le can copy himself if he wants, in order to avoid confusion, he might as well modify the appearance slightly, but the strength of the body is definitely no less than the body.

100,000 Changle, 100,000 Zhan Zong! That is really sweeping the world!

However, a stronger body requires a stronger soul, otherwise it is difficult to match and cannot be injected.

And the soul furnace is empty at the moment, not to mention the "powerful soul", there is not even an ordinary complete soul, if you want it to run quickly and at full power, you have to create large-scale bloodshed and killing, Chang Le has to bring the beast soul bell to be present in person, in order to intercept and absorb those souls.

This thing does not sound strange, Elliot has always done it, which is why he has the army of darkness, and even the dark lord in the ring, Solchak, instigates Changle to kill from time to time, and he also wants to collect souls.

If Chang Le kills for this purpose, what is the difference between him and the above two demon kings and evil gods?

Therefore, with all the new functions of the Beast Soul Space so far, the Soul Forge has become the first block he is unwilling to enable.

Sister Xue Ying is also sleeping in the sleep pod, her soul has passed away, her body is repaired, and the "soul injection" can make her stand up immediately, and that sweet and warm smile can also reappear in front of her.

Chang Le took the risk and chose the path of cultivation in order to resurrect Sister Xue Ying!

But what you get in this way is not the real Xue Firefly, it's just someone else's soul borrowed from the body to be reborn, unless you can find your sister's soul and inject it on the premise of retaining your memory!

Where is her soul?

If her soul had been intercepted by some careerist and was burning in a device that resembled a soul furnace, Chang Le would have almost gritted her teeth just thinking about it.

Even for that reason, he couldn't activate the furnace, he couldn't bear the guilt.

Now he really wanted to see Sister Xue Ying, but it was difficult to face her pale body suspended in the nutrient solution, so he could only caress the sleeping pod, kiss it lightly on the metal outer wall, and then resolutely leave the beast soul space.

At this time, Wild Thunder led the team back.

Since Victor suffered a defeat, Chang Le had already sent out a wild thunder and disguised himself as an ordinary scout to find the traces of Fei Xueren's mysterious elite cavalry.

The deputy commander of the Dark Knights stepped out of his horse, and naturally he was able to capture one of the enemy patrols and capture one of the cavalrymen alive.

"Commander!" Wild Thunder escorted the captive into the door, and reported in a loud voice, "This guy is not human at all!"

Chang Le has already prepared his mind, and Elliot's subordinates are afraid that there are many "non-human" existences.

Hidden under the captive's masked black scarf were a pale face and two fangs.

"This old man, where are you from?" Chang Le asked with a sneer.

The other party glanced at him gloomily, and replied in a hoarse voice:

"Hell. ”