Tolerance makes people unscrupulous, and ruthlessness makes people behave, which is a common phenomenon that happens to human beings. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Many people know this, so they never say that they are good people. -- Li Yun's quotations

With abundant funds, on December 23, 217 year 217 of the Kingdom of Netheril, the first phase of the Crusader Project was officially launched. Albert was responsible for recruiting the cavalry regiment, Bender was responsible for recruiting the infantry regiment, Solandar was responsible for recruiting the assault regiment, and Stephanie was responsible for the scout and longbow regiment. Except for the upper limit of 300 people and the 30-day conscription period, Li Yun did not have any restrictions, and the funds distributed were also quite generous. From dignitaries to fugitives and prisoners, as long as Albert thinks they can handle it, they can absorb it as they please. Li Yun's original words were as follows: "I don't care what method you use, and I don't care about the identity and background of the people who are recruited, what I look at is the result, give you money, give you time, and meet your requirements within a limited range, I want to see a combat unit with strict military discipline." A force that obeys orders and is not afraid of death. You are the first governor of those people, so if they have any problems, I will punish you directly. This is a strict trial, and if you can't complete the task, you will think about the consequences, I won't go into details!"

At the same time as the Crusader Project was launched, Lana purchased another 50 hectares of sloping land on the south bank of the River Revin and began to build the Crusader camp and racetrack, as well as some training infrastructure.

Also on the same day, the first batch of products in Nightmare Valley was officially shipped. Since many aristocrats had seen the charm of the glass flower house of Count Anvinska more than a month earlier, the buyers of the glass and fine porcelain produced this time had already been determined. In order to be fair and impartial, Lana recently launched the first innovative way of selling auctions at Nesman, and the first buyers were generated through this event. For a long time after that, due to the popularity and short supply of products, auctions have been the only way to obtain the original. In this way, the bidding method of 'auction' has officially appeared on the stage of the human kingdom of Salano, and has become the main way to sell some rare items.

For the development of the Nightmare Valley production base, Li Yun has adopted a steady forward business strategy. He was not in a hurry to expand production, on the contrary, as new kilns were put into operation and the craftsmen's craftsmanship became more and more mature, Li Yun strictly limited the number of daily shipments. He just wants to hang the appetite of the nobles, so that countless people will keep chanting the words of the Holy Maiden Lana for the glittering gold coins. As for the bricks and tiles in the Puyao area, the main business strategy of early hoarding has also been adopted. As an alternative to boulders and thin slate tiles, durable and inexpensive bricks and tiles are bound to become the main building material of the future. This material was used in the buildings of the Valley of Nightmares and the barracks of the Crusader garrison. According to Li Yun, this is a model house, and it is the most tangible way to show people their value. The period of hoarding goods is the 'warm-up period' before the product is released, that is, to let more people know about the product, so as to increase purchasing power.

At this time, the Nightmare Valley, which had undergone initial construction, had changed dramatically. The brick-kiln-fired bricks, one foot long, half a foot wide and half a foot thick, not only built a wall forty feet high and twenty feet thick at the mouth of the valley, but also built six large guard towers on the ridge surrounded on three sides, and built a fifteen-foot wooden wall between the guard towers, sealing off the entire Nightmare Valley except for the towering Flying Spring Peak. There are more than 50 large and small kilns in the two kiln areas, and the boutique area uses string kilns and pair kilns, so that a group of 20 kilns with a diameter of 10 feet and a stove height of 8 feet can be completed by eight to ten skilled kiln workers. The kilns in the ordinary area are all large single kilns, and there are not many of them, and a large part of the vacated land is used as a drying ground for brick embryos. Due to the arrival of winter, it has caused a lot of trouble to natural drying. But even so, the daily throughput of the kiln is more than 10 tons.

Twelve three-storey brick and timber artisan housing buildings rise from the front area, with a canteen, a grocery store, a bar, a medical clinic, and ...... The infrastructure here is quite well developed. In addition, Li Yun kept his agreement with the dwarves not long ago and built a small temple dedicated to Moradin and Maya. And the bar specially invited two dwarves to make their favorite ale. While fully considering the combination of work and rest, the work and rest of the production base are also quite strict. Blowing the lights out whistle at 9:30 p.m., waking up whistle at 6 a.m., anyone who watches the kiln temperature and working overtime at night must wear a number plate, and the amount of alcohol per person per day is also limited, and anyone who violates the rules will be punished including caning.

Due to a lack of manpower, Lana hired Nesman's famous 'Bruis' mercenary group to take charge of the day-to-day defense and supervision of Nightmare Valley. The Qingshuang Mercenary Group is a medium-sized mercenary group of nearly 1,000 people mainly composed of women. The original ideology was to take in women who were in a miserable situation for various reasons. This tradition has been preserved by them, and at the cost of three-fifths of the mercenary group, they are non-combatants. Although they solve their survival problems through other means, such as helping with odd jobs, they are still living a very difficult life. The combat strength of the combat members of the Qingshan Mercenary Regiment is generally high, and the most commendable thing is that their military discipline is quite strict, and they are often used by the ladies and ladies in the capital, and so far, their performance has never disappointed their employers. One of the reasons for inviting them to take on the role of defenders this time is that Lana has found stable jobs for non-combatants with the love of a woman. That is to provide legitimate services other than pornography to the men of Nightmare Valley. For example, laundry, sewing, cooking, housekeeping......

Li Yun did not object to Lana's decision. The world was originally made up of men and women. A world with only men or women is a kind of prison. As long as it does not affect normal work and does not infringe on Li Yun's bottom line, it is like eloping, escaping, and colluding with each other to pass on production skills...... Li Yun welcomes the various versions of love stories that take place in the production base. As the main person in charge of the day-to-day affairs, Lana's five retainers took over all the responsibilities of the base from production to sales, and their families were also taken to Nesmeer to settle down and send special personnel to protect them. Obviously, this is a more effective means of protection or supervision, which can reassure these retainers and make them understand what is the best choice.

As if to emulate the heroic female warrior of the Qingshuang Mercenary Regiment. Beginning on December 20, the Count's Court of Anvinska added 36 female knights of the personal guard. Since Lana has now become a celebrity in Nesman's upper class, these female knights with first-class figures, green veils on their faces, and good hands have attracted the attention of many nobles in a few days, and have become the new highlight of the Anwinska family. Another 40 female knights are stationed in Nightmare Valley, who are responsible for the overall security monitoring on behalf of Lana. Since they all had an alienated cheetah as a pet soon after, the men at the production base called them 'leopard girls' behind their backs, which means that the lines are hot but difficult to get close to.

Of course, these 76 female knights did not fall from the sky, they were the clansmen of the old generation of the Shadow Clan. After becoming goblins, they were already the most elite power in Li Yun's hands. As a price, Li Yun's strength, which had paid another 76 drops of original blood, continued to fall to a new low, although it did not affect his normal use of the Force, but if he encountered a real crisis situation, Li Yun's weakness would make him powerless. For this reason, Li Yun not only postponed the demon duel, but also brought someone with him to deal with all the things that needed to be solved by force. This person is Alina, one of the Ten Masters of ShadowClan and the mother of Fog and Rain.

From the moment he saw the last Shadow Clan master, Li Yun liked her very much. Alina's temperament is very similar to Vera in another world, and her age and unique experience give this only woman in the Shadow Clan who focuses on promotion at a middle age with a steady style and outstanding ability. For her sake, Li Yun even broke the convention, let her see the fog and rain, and fought for her personal wishes before turning her into a goblin. Alina is also the only goblin who has endured two drops of original blood, with Alina's physique at the time, that is the limit of what she can bear, which shows Li Yun's importance and favor for her.

Alina's first public appearance came with the title of assistant to Kezananza. A beautiful lady who is dying and decrepit next to her, and her demeanor is intimate, which is really enough to make people think about it. But the most everyone can do is talk about it behind their backs. Since this purple dark wizard in Nesmana became known to the masses, rumors about his various versions have been rampant in Nesman. Regardless of the version, the most important part of its content is the process of deceiving power from the god of calamity. The imagination of the people is extremely rich, and an event that happens in ten minutes, they can break it up, crush it, and add a lot of their own concocted material, and become a story that is exaggerated several times more than the truth, thrilling and bizarre, and lasts for hours. It is with this creativity that Kzanantha is vividly described as a cunning, ferocious demigod-like creature with immense intelligence and great mystical powers. For such a figure, the fear in the hearts of people is far greater than the respect, as if even if we talk about this dark wizard in the deep and quiet alleys, we must be wary of being watched and suffering a catastrophe worse than death.

In view of the needs of the situation, the role of Kezananza is becoming more and more important among the two characters played by Li Yun. At the same time, in order to adjust his physical state to cope with next year's trip to Queldan, what Li Yun needs most now is a stable place to cultivate and plenty of time. Therefore, Li Yun decided that Andivan would disappear from people's sight for a long time on the grounds of preparing for the large-scale planting of spice seeds next spring. And Kezananza will be in the palace magic hall, focusing on his magic experiments and strength improvement. Behind these two decisions is an act of force, which is to address the ever-present threat from the underworld of Nightmare Valley. Just as no one likes a bomb that explodes under their pillow, Li Yun doesn't want to save this problem, which can cause great disaster, until the new year.

December 27th, a day of heavy snowfall. Li Yunqi got up very early, rode the curved horned goat that he had rented two months ago, walked out of the west gate of Nesmai City, and headed for Nightmare Valley.

The weather is freezing, the wind and snow are pervasive, and the pedestrians on the road are extremely scarce. However, Li Yun is in a good mood now, in fact, every bad weather, Li Yun's mood will be better than usual, especially in rainy days or snow, when others are running around on the street to escape, Li Yun often walks alone, listening to the rain and snow, smelling the moist and cold breath, and seeing the world in his eyes is washed cleaner...... Li Yun felt that it was a kind of enjoyment.

The small town of Landes, about forty kilometers from Nes Maisi, has forty or fifty households. Less than a kilometre west from Landes, the road forks, with one turning north-east leading to Nightmare Valley. Li Yun did not stop at Landes, but walked directly through the town. The crotch crotch goat itself is extremely resistant to severe cold riding, and the low temperature of nearly 40 degrees below zero is really nothing to Li Yun. With this swan snow appreciation, Li Yun really couldn't find a reason to stay.

Not long after turning the corner, Li Yun saw his army of white bones. Under the control of the Poison Ivy Demon Man, the white-boned coolies spread out a 3-kilometer-long work belt, and with the ups and downs of whistles, coolies with different responsibilities worked mechanically in the wind and snow, forming a warm but strange labor picture.

The 40-foot-wide dirt road has been repaired from Nightmare Valley, and although there is a big gap compared to the second-class roads of the other world, the wide road surface that has been repeatedly tamped can accommodate the secondary pack carts used by the human kingdom to travel in parallel, which makes the input and output of materials and finished products in Nightmare Valley unimpeded in the future, thus ensuring the stable development of production.

In the roadside woodland not far from the construction site, several large and sturdy marching camp tents are lined up. These are the places where the 'overseers' of the Knights of the Holy Locks and their horses live. Most people, including these knights, thought that instead of worrying about the threat posed to Nesman, it would be better to find a way to put more effort into mage Kzananza instead of worrying about the threat posed to Nesmail. But the lords of the House of Lords insisted on doing so, and the Knights of the Holy Locks had to do what they were told. However, just looking at their performance of not even being able to camp out, everyone knows that this is a typical negative sabotage.

The House of Nobles was less and less important to the people than the wise king, and it seemed to have become a base for issuing the stupid, ridiculous orders that the Fifth clearly wanted. As long as the orders issued by the House did not cause great damage, Fret V even deliberately connived at them. Then, the Fifth often subtly disassociated himself from these orders in order to weaken the influence of the Senate. This cannibalization is steady but unobtrusive. Li Yun believes that once the House of Representatives is 'about to collapse' in the hearts of the people, Fritte V will not hesitate to make up for the last kick, so as to taste the long-cherished wish of dictatorship.

Thinking of the king, Li Yun thought of the Sword Saint Queen again. In Xijia, Li Yun easily found his own shadow, and the biggest similarity is the style of seeking only ends and unscrupulous means. And the most obvious manifestation is the same 'shameless'. Think about the battle between the two when they met for the first time, how could Xijia have the appearance of a queen and a master, one is like a scoundrel desperately bargaining, and the other is like a gangster, constantly intimidating...... Li Yun found that he sometimes missed Xijia, just as he sometimes missed the Pope. Whenever this time, Li Yun would feel that he was living a little lonely, the kind of loneliness that few creatures were qualified to compare with him. Therefore, in Li Yun's view, it is not a bad thing to have a few opponents who are also enemies and friends in this world.

Thinking all the way, I have come to the Nightmare Valley before I know it. There were already goblins waiting for Li Yun's arrival in the gatehouse. Accompanied by this goblin named Sandres, Li Yun roughly inspected the situation of the production base and went straight to the abyss in the back area. Changing into the special airtight hard leather armor that had been prepared long ago, putting on the goggles polished by the spar pieces and the air filter processed from the dead flowers, Li Yun finally checked the equipment he was carrying, probed the bloodline bone blade, supported the cave wall like an eight-legged spider, and began his first journey to the cave in another world.