Chapter 67: The Bottom of the Pyramid

Among these people who brought Nightmare Valley, except for more than a dozen 'technical main forces' and the enchanter, the rest were all ordinary people who had not been persecuted by the darkness. www.biquge.info In order to effectively prevent these dwarves from escaping, Li Yun still used the strategy of force suppression, captured and transformed more than 30 saber-toothed leopards as guards, and concocted a escape and chase incident. The two dwarves, who had been instigated to flee in the middle of the night, were chased back by the cheetah and torn to pieces in front of everyone, and the bloody scene made many of the dwarves lose their faces and even vomit on the spot.

While making an example, Li Yun habitually threw out 'dates'. That's what he said at the time. "Dwarven friends, you must be amazed in your grief and amazed at what I call you. Yes, it is easy for me to enslave you, and that in itself is a fact of the moment. Now, I don't call you slaves but friends, not because I'm pretentious, not because I want you to be kind to me, but because I'm sending a message that you will be free, and that the day is not far off. ”

Smiling, Li Yun continued to the dwarves standing in four rows: "For those who perform well, I have never been stingy with gifts. The Guardian Knights who have watched over you are the best proof of this. They were once death row prisoners who could only die in the mines or waiting to be hanged, but now they have become my servants with hard work and loyalty, and I have given them great strength and the rights and glory they deserve. I know that most of you are poor people who have been plundered and enslaved by the Black Iron Clan. Maybe you still have a wife and children at home waiting for your return, or maybe you still have such and such small wishes. I promise that as long as I am satisfied with your work, these wishes can be fulfilled one by one. From today onwards, your work is no longer unpaid, with a minimum of one gold coin per month, which is the remuneration for your labor. In addition, I will provide you with high-quality wheat and utensils so that you can drink your own ale. Not only that, but I'm also offering the strongest wine in the world right now to reward the best performer every day. I allow you to wear your own ornaments, to pray and worship like Moradin, Maya, or any other dwarven god, and to take half a day off on the traditional dwarven festivals to improve the quality of your food for you to celebrate. I allow you to have your own personal belongings, and I allow you to intermarry and have offspring. ”

Walking slowly around the dwarves, Li Yun's gaze swept over the faces of the dwarves, "As a year-end bonus, I will also fulfill a small wish of the best people." He pointed to a short-bearded dwarf, "You may be among them!" and to another balding dwarf, "You may be there! For example, take a letter to your clan and bring back news of your family and a token that proves that nothing is false. Unless you don't know the way home, unless your home is not on the continent of Salano, your wish will definitely come true. ”

"After ten years of hard work for me, you will become a free man with your own belongings and a small gold coin. When the time comes. Come and go as you please, and I can even send someone to escort you all the way to your own clan. I think that the conditions I have offered are much more generous and benevolent than those of your brutal dwarf cousins. So, on the other hand, I don't want to see another fugitive like last night. Many of you have seen how I 'work', and under my nose, it is generally difficult to try to achieve my goals without paying a price, and I will never be merciful to those who refuse to cooperate. I am telling you so much today openly and honestly, just to let you understand that as long as you are willing to work hard and abide by the rules, you will have a bright future......"

According to the news that Li Yun transmitted on the road, Albert, who had returned to Nesman, and the five former Patarek retainers began to purchase and prepare materials and utensils early. On the second day after Li Yun arrived in Nightmare Valley, the first pack team arrived. They brought with them a large number of tools and thick tents and other household goods, and the work began on the same day, starting with the establishment of three old-fashioned clay kilns, where the most basic material would be produced, refractory bricks. The fuel was palm oil wood, a flame-resistant wood that could produce high temperatures, pulled by Li Yun from Boulder Castle on a large pack truck. Also brought was refractory clay from the Black Iron Dwarven Lava Caves.

According to Li Yun's plan, the valley was divided into four districts, with a few hectares of land at the entrance as the front area, and a tall walled gate was placed horizontally to block the entrance to Nightmare Valley. Build a barracks and housing complex for 1,000 people. A small sector will be set aside around the deep water pool as the rear area, and a main building will be built in the rear area as the management core of this production base, and of course, there will be necessary production facilities such as water towers. On the left and right sides of the large area of land is an ordinary kiln area for the production of bricks and tiles, and on the other side is a fine kiln area for the production of ceramics and glass.

While production, construction, and living materials were continuously sent to Nightmare Valley, craftsmen sent by the Greenhill and Arrozo families were also in place. Together with some of the Earldom's own recruitment, the number of craftsmen reached nearly a thousand. Li Yun told them that they would either get out early, and once they stayed, it would mean that they would not have personal freedom within the specified time limit, and they would not be allowed to leave Nightmare Valley, otherwise they would all be killed. Unlike the dwarves, the more than eight hundred human craftsmen knew exactly what they were here for. In fact, everyone thinks that it is an honor to be selected to learn new skills, and after three or five years, as soon as the technology is in hand, it will be real dung turning into gold. Even if Li Yun didn't say anything, no one would run, not to mention that there were more than 30 cheetahs with fierce eyes patrolling the neighborhood day and night.

The collection of supplies was entirely handed over to Lana's five retainers, while Albert and the others were assigned to the Nightmare Valley to oversee the day-to-day work. Li Yun withdrew and returned to Nesmail as Kezananza, and hurriedly took a look at the calm dark elemental area, Li Yun directly found the chairman of the board of directors, Youde, and asked to meet the king.

Until now, this is the first time Li Yun has met Fret V. It has to be said that this king with outstanding political achievements is far worse than his son in terms of appearance, except for those deep and radiant eyes. The Fifth Emperor had long known from Youde what this strange-temperamented Dafa had done, so he received Li Yun with a posture of being eager to be virtuous and a corporal of courtesy. Li Yun also showed that he was moved by the wisdom of this king, and offered to contribute to the country. Li Yun said that the weather was getting colder and colder, and the city defense north of Nesmail had not yet been completed, so he could summon the white bone coolies to build the city defense instead of those migrant workers, so that it would not cost the people or money. Moreover, these bone coolies will never involve the dead who have been laid to rest in the dead city.

Such a great gift made the fifth emperor simply happy, and in this era, building fortifications was a big headache for every king. It takes time and money, and sometimes it has to endure the complaints of the people. Now some people actually say that Kenbai does this work and does not hurt the feelings of the people, how can it be unreasonable?

Of course, Li Yun was not flattering the Fifth World, nor was he on a whim, he had been looking forward to this day since the day he joined the palace magic hall. He wants to legalize and publicize the use of undead bones in due course. The construction of Nightmare Valley is his real purpose. Without those tireless white coolies, if Li Yun was to build a production base that satisfied Li Yun on nearly 100 hectares of land in Nightmare Valley this winter, it would be impossible to do it with less than a thousand people. (Under popular pressure, the author reaffirms that the protagonist is not a stupid bird, but a scheming man, and that there is a good reason for anything he does.) In the end, whoever takes advantage of it has to ride a donkey to read the record book, give a little patience everyone)

In this way, not long after the proclamation of Zhang Anmin was posted, the palace dark demon master Kezanansa set up the 'altar of the dead' outside the northern city under the banner of the king's personal approval, and scavenged the white bones within a radius of hundreds of miles, and created more than 5,000 white bone coolies and four epoch-making white bone creatures in seven days, digging, drilling, bulldozing, loading and unloading. As the name suggests, these are four large, non-combat-ready undead creatures with spider-legged white feet and distinctive working limbs, and most of their intellectual space is spent storing relevant operational information, but other than that, they only follow the fixed scale of a special bone whistle. With a stable body with a high specific gravity, a special structure, and extraordinary strength, these special immortals take on processes that usually require the participation of several or even dozens of people at the same time.

And the white bone coolies made by Li Yun are also very different from ordinary skeleton immortals, their heads are much smaller, like a flat-topped cylinder on the neck, without a mouth or nose, only on the head there is a finger-wide bone slit that wraps nearly half of the entire head, and in the darkness inside, a green ghost fire replaces the eyes. This structure allows them to have a very wide perspective, and they don't need to move their bodies, just tilt their heads slightly to see what is behind them. Their arm bones are also much larger than those of a normal skeleton, and they have two arm bones stretched up and down. Their thorax and abdomen are not thin ribs or spine, but a diagonally supported frame, which helps their weight-bearing capacity from a mechanical point of view. They have thick leg bones and claw-shaped feet with large hind toes...... It can be said that these immortals have left the category of skeleton immortality, they are just drawings of human form. In terms of the layout of the building blocks of the skeleton creatures, they are definitely superior to the skeletons.

The sea of white formed by 5,000 white coolies still surprised the people of Nesmail, who were already prepared. Even the Knights of the Holy Lock, who were in charge of the defense of the capital, sent a considerable number of personnel to monitor these immortal movements under the guise of maintaining order. To everyone's reassurance, as soon as these white bone creatures were created, they set off to the northern city defense and began their work day and night. These white coolies were not worn out and scrapped as some experts predicted, nor were they starved of energy and went on strike. On the contrary, after moonlit nights, these white bones showed signs of bone hyperplasia. This ability alone has shaken the entire spell world, and many people are worried about the immortality of the perfect, evolutionary white bones.

At this time, the Dark Magus of the Nethrel Court Kozananza did something that shocked everyone, in order to show his kindness, he took the initiative to throw an olive branch to the Holy See of Light, and helped the new Holy See Saint Lana Anvinska build a production base in Nightmare Valley at a low price. After this, things developed even more bizarrely, Lana not only accepted the help of the Dark Wizard, but also received a written letter of approval from the Holy See, saying that believing in the dark law of the dark gods and bowing to the light was a major victory for the forces of light, and also indicated that the light of the righteous gods would soon illuminate all the gloom and darkness......

This 'master of light and dark servant' incident completely subverted the impression that light and darkness are incompatible in people's minds, and many people claim that the combination of light and darkness means the arrival of chaos and the world will be on the road to collapse. There are also people who preach that this is a historical turning point, just as many creatures belonging to the original light are lured by demons to fall, and the creatures belonging to darkness can also be touched by the sacredness and glory of light...... In short, the incident was secretly hyped up by Li Yun and the Pope, causing an uproar in the human kingdom, and the words "Holy See", "Lana", and "Kezananza", became a topic of discussion for a long time and aroused the curiosity of more people.

This is part of Li Yun's hero development plan, just like another world, no matter what character you are, whether you are stinky, fragrant, or spicy, first of all, people must know you widely and pay attention to you, that is, you must be a celebrity first. As for whether the people's reaction is criticized or praised, Li Yun does not intend to spend too much time paying attention to it before it is linked to the vital interests of the majority of the people. He believes that when those ceramics, spices and other daily necessities continue to flow into thousands of households, when Lana Anvinska's every initiative becomes closely related to millions of people, those negative voices will become meaningless.

Fast forward to mid-December, and the fortifications of the fortifications and the production base of Nightmare Valley, seven kilometers north of Nesman, were completed day and night thanks to the tireless efforts of the white coolies. At this time, the ability of the white bone coolies has been greatly improved compared to when they were first manufactured, and their body structure has tended to be complete, and they are no longer the skeleton of the past. What's more, they have become the vanguard of the Kzananza mages in generating profits, instead of providing pro bono service. The first was the road construction project in Nightmare Valley. Due to the mountains, it is necessary to go around a large circle from Nightmare Valley to the east for nearly 100 kilometers, and the roads are narrow and difficult to navigate in many places, so a wide and smooth road is necessary for the ever-increasing transportation of raw materials, finished products and other materials. As a result, the Bone Engineering Regiment, which works around the clock, has become a secondary 'communication' bridge between the Holy Maiden Lana and the Dark Wizard Kezananza.

By this time, even the most stupid people could see that the 'money' of the extremely business-minded Master Kezananza was very large, and many nobles also borrowed various channels in the hope of getting the help of this cost-effective labor. Even the royal family, after inspecting the high-quality fortifications of the northern city, put forward the hope that the White Bone Engineering Regiment would be transferred to the western and northwestern fronts to expand several important forts. As a result, the schedule of the White Bone Engineering Corps in the next three years was almost completely filled, and the deposit alone brought a huge profit of 700,000 gold to Kezananza.

During this period, Li Yun also made a major breakthrough in the magic experiment in the dark element area, the poison ivy demons produced by the blood vine were finally perfected after nearly 100 tests, these special carriers of the soul can suppress the imprint of the soul related memories as needed, while retaining the IQ and original knowledge and skills that are not inferior to normal people, they joined the White Bone Engineering Team as semi-autonomous creatures, and became the team commander, taking over the heavy work of Li Yun controlling the overall situation alone. They were the first prototypes of the later Wisdom Demons. The birth of this intelligent undead creature with Li Yun's characteristics and the gradual formation of a strict hierarchy provided Li Yun with the possibility of creating a large-scale white bone army, and as a later emperor-level necromancer, Li Yun began his own journey of building the 'Pyramid of Light'.