"Phew—it's finally over. I really can't imagine that a new mastermind consciousness is so difficult to deal with. ”

One of them, Yin Shadora, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and his whole body looked like he had been fished out of water, and his clothes and skirt were almost completely soaked.

This shows how much pressure the psionic confrontation just now has caused her.

In particular, several veins near the head, without exception, all of them bulge like earthworms, and are accompanied by a slight tingling.

This stinging is a manifestation of excessive depletion of psionic energy.

If you lose the confrontation with the nascent mastermind consciousness just now, then the heads of all the participants present will explode with a bang, or they will be erased and turned into the walking dead in an instant, even the Mind Flayer.

In fact, this is how the mastermind closely monitors the entire Mind Flayer clan to ensure that there are no traitors or aliens.

It's a pity that the mastermind in front of me has just been born with independent consciousness not long ago, and he is not aware of the coming of the crisis at all.

Coupled with the Mind Flayer who controls the brain pool room, there is a summoned creature that is all Zuosi, and it has been instilled with a lot of wrong information from the beginning, so that at the beginning of the ceremony, it was realized that the crazy Yin Shadora actually wanted to replace him, and by the time he reacted, it was too late, and he could only do his best to make the last desperate resistance.

But unfortunately, this resistance was in vain.

After a lot of self-replication, devouring, and fusion, each of the remaining four Yin Shadora has a psychic ability that is comparable to that of the Mind Destroyer.

In particular, the unique understanding of the concept of "self" makes it not have any weaknesses in the mind and spirit at all.

In contrast, the mastermind is very afraid of death.

When many masterminds are seriously injured or their lives are threatened, they will even take the initiative to choose to surrender or become captives or slaves in exchange for the other party not to destroy themselves.

It was with his own powerful magical power that he forcibly captured a mastermind and the entire Mind Flayer Gathering Area.

They even used each other to conduct all kinds of cruel experiments.

In the end, he replaced the will of the main brain with his own soul and will, and became the first Mind Flayer master brain lich in the history of Faeron.

In this process, neither the mastermind nor those mind snatchers made any form of resistance.

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It wasn't until the last moment that he realized what the other party was trying to do, and the mastermind burst out with all his psychic power and tried to disrupt the progress of the magical ritual.

Sadly, it only killed the Mind Flayer who had rebelled and followed Yin Orum to learn arcane magic, and it did no real damage to the mighty Grand Arcanist, and even the extremely complex magical ritual was successfully completed.

"How are you feeling right now? Have you inherited all the knowledge and memories of the mastermind? The Mind Flayer asked, brandishing its octopus-like tentacles.

The main brain, Yin Shadora, replied without thinking: "I feel so good now, as if I have an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy. As for the knowledge and memory, it was also preserved as planned. As long as Soth brings his soul back from another world, the Fourth Scourge can be activated at any time. ”

"Very good! You didn't disappoint me. Remember, the Fourth Scourge is one of the most important projects of the Master at this stage, and its fundamental goal is to gather knowledge and talent from different worlds to create a new civilization from scratch, and a powerful army that will always be high morale and cannot be truly killed. ”

The Mind Flayer didn't hide anything, and told all the secrets in front of the four Yin Shado Ramen.

In his opinion, in the entire mage tower, except for the summoned creatures and Vermes, who were controlled by strange things, only these few girls would never be able to betray Zuo Si.

What's more, one of them, Yin Shadora, has now become the mastermind and the key core of the entire plan.

"If I want to fully realize the grand goals of the Fourth Natural Disaster Project, I need to constantly strengthen my strength, especially more Mind Flayer to donate their brains." Yin Shadora, who became the mastermind, made a request.

Having inherited an absolutely calm and rational character, she knows very well that it is almost impossible to rebuild a civilization with just a few thousand souls.

At the very least, you have to reach a million, ten, or even hundreds of millions of souls at one time to barely do it.

Of course, in addition to this, cloning magic must also be able to keep up, and can produce enough cloned bodies in a short period of time.

All in all, this is a huge and systematic project, and the relevant professionals required alone may be in the tens of thousands.

The Mind Flayer replied without thinking, "Don't worry, I've already informed Vermes to let her completely release the birth restrictions on goblin werewolves.

Within three months, you'll be provided with at least 50,000 new Mind Flayers transformed from goblins.

When these Mind Flayers have laid their eggs, I will arrange for them to donate their brains in batches.

While their brains are nowhere near as good as those of the Mind Flayer Brains that have lived for decades, they are able to win by quantity.

50,000 brains can at least increase the number of people connected to more than 100,000. ”

When he said this, the Mind Flayer did not fluctuate in the slightest in terms of tone or attitude, and the cruelty and coldness made people feel numb.

"Loosen the birth restrictions of goblins? Do we have so much food on hand to feed them? Another Yin Shadora questioned.

"Don't worry. This year's harvest in the Nälancer Islands is not bad.

Am's castle manor also had ample food reserves, more than enough to feed tens of thousands of goblins.

What's more, the master has used millions of low-level undead in another world to carry out large-scale reclamation.

The food output of a year alone is enough to feed the stomachs of everyone on the west coast of the entire Faren continent. ”

The Mind Flayer confidently gave a guarantee.

As a result of Zuosi's success in seizing the Floating City of Plantia, and removing most of the undead in the area around the floating city, or bringing them under control, although there are no living people at the moment, it rules nearly a million square kilometers of land.

Not only agricultural grain production, but also various mineral deposits.

In addition, undead laborers do not need to eat, drink and rest, and can work 24 hours a day, so the output is quite amazing.

Combined with some "Qualish" magical mechanical devices that draw on the principles of modern engineering, they can compete with the industrial society on Earth in terms of efficiency.

This is also the reason why Zuo Si clearly knows that the large-scale use of low-level undead is easy to be hostile to some gods and their churches, but he still refuses to give up.

Without him, it is simply low cost, high profit, and there is no need to worry about some unexpected disasters and deaths.

Just when Faeron began to frantically advance the Fourth Natural Disaster Plan, Zuo Si, who was far away in the other world, was not idle.

At this moment, he was standing next to the bed in the intensive care unit of a hospital, looking at the various monitoring instruments, tubes and oxygen cylinders next to him, as well as the middle-aged man lying dying on the white sheets, and it took a full minute before he asked, "Dr. White, I think you must know very well by now that you are going to die soon, right?" ”

"You...... Can you see me? ”

A translucent soul slowly floated out of its dying body, a look of shock and disbelief on its face.

Because he has maintained this state for more than ten minutes, it is not difficult to see from the reactions of the doctors and nurses around him that the other party can't see the soul at all, let alone feel his existence.

Zuo Si nodded with a smile: "Of course!" In fact, I have come from England on the other side of the Atlantic to talk to you about death. ”

"On the topic of death? You're the Grim Reaper! Dr. Wright's mouth grew in surprise.

You must know that he is a genius in the industry with a series of titles such as biologist, doctor of genetic engineering, virology expert, bacteriology expert, etc., although he will also go to church with his family on certain days, but he never believes that there is any god in this world.

If there really is a god, it must be an evil god.

Otherwise, how can it be explained that the people, States and organizations that have committed the many crimes have not been punished as they deserve, but still exist today?

But now, when a guy who can see his soul appears out of thin air, and the doctors and nurses around him don't react at all, as if they can't see it at all, Dr. White's materialistic beliefs and values are rapidly collapsing.

"Death? No, no, no, I'm not a god, just a traveling mage who knows a little bit of magic and wants to make a deal with you. Zuo Si bluntly stated his intentions.

But instead of disappointing Dr. Wright, this answer became more excited and agitated: "Magic? Is there really such an incredible power as magic in the world? How does it work? What is the principle? Can you show me that? ”

"I'm sorry, but I'd love to do your request right away, but the problem is that your cancerous body can't hold it anymore.

After another three minutes, the heartbeat and breathing will stop.

A force will pull you through the curtain and into a world of death.

In this world, you will slowly lose all your memories over a long period of a hundred years, and eventually your entire soul will dissolve into some kind of energy.

If you don't want to end up like this, the only way is to sign a contract with me. ”

As he spoke, Zuo Si took out a pre-prepared parchment scroll from his pocket, which was densely filled with a large number of terms in English.

"Contract ......"

Hearing these two words, Dr. White instantly calmed down, his eyes revealed a strong vigilance, and he cautiously approached to roughly browse the above contents, and then couldn't help but ask: "Are you a devil who seduces mortals to fall and sell their souls?" ”

"You're overthinking. As I said earlier, I'm a traveling mage. Although the way of signing a contract is somewhat similar to that of the devil, the biggest difference is that the devil only wants your soul, while I want your intelligence. Zuo Si patiently explained.

"You want me to serve you when I die?" Dr. Wright cautiously probed.

"That's right. I hope to draw on your expertise. Zuo Sida generously replied in the affirmative.

"And for what purpose? What exactly is your purpose? Dr. White continued.

"My goal is simple: to create a unique civilization from scratch that blends magic and technology. Also, you don't have to worry about me being any threat to this planet. Because I want to create a civilized place, in a completely different world. By the way, you still have thirty-five seconds to make a decision. ”

As he spoke, Zuo Si deliberately raised his head and glanced at the instrument monitoring the heartbeat rate next to him.

At this moment, the body lying on the hospital bed has entered the final stage of returning to the light, not only the body is convulsing violently, but also the heartbeat has become very disordered, and the device is constantly sounding alarms.

A doctor and two nurses rushed in from the outside and began to try to make an emergency salvage.

As a biologist, Dr. White was clearly aware that in his current state of his body, there was no use in resuscitating, so after a moment's hesitation, he quickly picked up a quill and signed his name on the last line of the parchment scroll.

When the last stroke was completed, the body's breathing and heartbeat on the hospital bed behind him just stopped.

Then he saw a curtain of a lake appear out of thin air, and at the same time, an invisible force was pulling him to the other side.

Such a terrifying sight immediately frightened Dr. White, and immediately shouted, "Help me!" Help me! We've signed a contract! ”

"Don't be nervous, I'm ready for anything." Zuo Si unhurriedly took out a small box studded with colorful gemstones.

Moment!

Dr. Wright sensed an even greater force and dragged himself directly into the box.

Before he could react to what was happening, he saw that it was not only himself in the box, but also a dozen men between the ages of thirty and seventy.

"You signed that contract like me?" Dr. White asked in a tone of not very certainty.

A seventy-year-old man responded with a wry smile: "Isn't this nonsense? If the contract had not been signed, we would have been in this box? ”

Realizing that all of these people were suffering from the same experience as him, Dr. White immediately relaxed and took the initiative to introduce himself: "Hello, my name is White, and I am an expert in biology, genes, viruses, and bacteria. ”

"Nice to meet you, White.

My name is McCass and I am a PhD in physics.

Next to him was David, a mechanical engineer.

In the corner is Camus, a chemist.

Bald Chris is a sociologist.

The youngest Bol was a weapons designer.

Monte, who has a beard, is an expert in geology and materials science.

The barefoot Elvi is a practitioner of agricultural and animal husbandry research......

In short, all those who are selected are the elites of their respective fields without exception.

I really don't know if the choice we made was right or wrong. ”

With that, the old man who called himself McCass sighed slightly, full of worries about his future.

But it's no wonder.

Anyone who signs a contract to sell their soul will feel a little nervous and uneasy.

But Zuo Si obviously didn't care about this, and kept moving around the world with the help of phantom shifting, looking for the next talent who was lying on the hospital bed and was about to die and he needed.

In just a few days, I made up a full thirty.

Looking at the small box in his hand that was specially used to store his soul, he couldn't help but sigh slightly: "It's really worthy of the earth with billions of people." In other worlds, it is almost impossible to collect so many high-level talents in a short period of time without using special means. ”

"With a huge population base and universal education for all, and finally the elite training of a very small number of talents, we can use this as a talent pool." The journal suggested.

"I've used this as a talent pool.

After all, more than 100,000 people die on Earth every day.

Even if we exclude Uncle Black from Africa, as well as relatively backward regions such as Southeast Asia, South America, and the Middle East, we can select at least hundreds or even thousands of talents with certain professional skills.

There is not much difference between the souls of non-wizards when they are transformed into energy, and it is a huge waste to let those high-end talents slowly forget everything and fall into the soul well.

And I can give them new life and a platform to show their talents.

In other words, this is a unique way for me to bring in talent. ”

When he said this, Zuo Si did not hide his ambition at all.

You must know that cultivating a high-end talent is not an easy task.

Not to mention the high investment in money and material, it takes more than ten or twenty years just to learn knowledge, and then slowly accumulate experience in the job until he stands out and starts to show his talents.

But now?

Zuo Si only needs a contract to pocket this group of experts who have accumulated a lifetime of experience and knowledge and have proven their talents to the world.

Didn't pay!

No cost!

And don't worry about the benefits provided are not good, and the other party will jump ship and run away!

This kind of talent introduction method that is close to robbery will undoubtedly make people feel a strong sense of pleasure.

In order to avoid the accidental death of important talents in related fields when he was not there, Zuo Si also specially made a long list of all the important scientists in the world.

If the person on the list dies, the phoenix will first detain the soul of the other person and wait for it to return before dealing with it, rather than allowing it to pass through the veil and enter the world of the dead.

As the only true god in this world, his mother undoubtedly possesses such power.

"We're going back to Feren next, right?" The journal asked in a low voice.

"Hmmm! The next step is to return to Feren and then take the Screw Ship to Floating City.

I've tested it, and the two worlds are in the same universe, so I should be able to build a permanent portal with the help of the Heart of the Leylines and the Core of Mythera.

In this way, two magic systems can be studied and used at the same time within the radius of the Floating City. ”

Zuo Si touched his chin and said his plan.

But the diary questioned, "Are you sure that the unstable [Mithera's Core] can provide a continuous output of energy?" ”

Zuo Si shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively: "It's just to maintain a portal, and not to let it provide energy for the entire Floating City, it shouldn't be a big problem." Big deal, I'll say hi to the Goddess of Magic and ask her to take the time to fix this thing. ”

"Well, it looks like you've thought of everything."

The journal finally stopped saying anything, closed his mouth and remained silent.

And Zuo Si didn't waste any time, immediately returned to his home in this world, activated the portal of the Doomsday Bunker, and returned directly to the Mage Tower in Askatra.

As soon as he stepped out of the teleportation room, he saw dozens of eggs piled up in the corners of the lair.

To be exact, all of them are the eggs of the white dragon.

As for the red dragon Vermes, as always, he was crazy under the supervision of strange things, and his thick limbs and well-developed chest muscles were daunting just to look at.

Even the wings were hung with several weights, just to make the power of the dragon wing flapping even more terrifying.

"These are the eggs you brought back from hunting the White Dragon in the Far North?" Zuo Si Raoyu asked with interest.

"Ahh That's right. I killed thirteen white dragons, and not only robbed them of the treasure in their lair, but also brought back the corpses and dragon eggs as you requested. Vermes grinned.

Zuo Si pressed his hand on the surface of one of the dragon eggs, feeling the life that was being conceived inside, and nodded slightly: "Good job." It just so happens that I can do a little test with these eggs. ”

"Testing?"

A flash of curiosity flashed in Vermes' eyes.

"That's right! Test! I'm going to take them to another world where magic is more abundant, and see if I can make these white dragons stronger and smarter. Zuo Si said meaningfully.

You don't have to ask to know that the world he's referring to here is Zendikar, who sealed the Eldrazi Titans.

If the experiment is successful, then Zuo Si will establish a research, breeding, and hatching base in the Zendikar plane, specializing in cultivating an army of dragons and half-dragons, and by the way, try to hybridize dragon creatures from different worlds.

Of course, all of the above is based on the premise that it can be "ripened" with time magic.

After all, he didn't have the patience to wait hundreds or even thousands of years for these dragons to become stronger and stronger.

As the most powerful red dragon among the five-colored dragons, Vermes looked down on the white dragon who was at the bottom of the comprehensive strength ranking and was known as the "shame of the true dragon", and immediately sneered and sarcastically: "Don't waste your efforts!" A waste like the White Dragon, no matter what kind of world it is put into, is destined to act only on instinct like a beast. ”

"How do you know if you don't try? What's more, the beast has the advantage of the beast, that is, the behavior and thinking patterns are simple, pure, relatively easy to control, and at the same time not easily confused by rhetoric. ”

Zuo Si rarely said a fair word for Bailong.

Since white dragons often appear as predators, they rarely take the initiative to talk to their prey, and choose to launch sneak attacks from behind.

Anyone who is unlucky enough to be targeted by the white dragon, unless they can find out in advance and say what the other party is interested in, will most likely be bitten to death or turned into an ice wither under the frost breath.

This can be seen in the adventure stories that circulate in the tavern.

Many of the protagonists in dragon-related stories often do not confront the dragon head-on or break out into a fierce battle, but instead use their eloquence and ingenuity to deceive the other party, and some even get some benefits from the dragon.

Note, however, that the evil dragons in these stories are red, black, blue, green, but not white.

Therefore, the probability of an adventure team that is not strong enough to encounter the destruction of the White Dragon is much higher than that of the other four dragons.

"Humph! The lowly white dragon is only worthy of being a livestock and a pet. ”

Vermes still maintained a disdainful and disdainful attitude.

Just as Zuo Si took out the box blessed with the Traceless Stretching Spell and was about to pack up all these eggs and take them away, the red dragon suddenly put down the equipment used to exercise muscle strength in his hand, pulled his huge head closer, and asked in a mysterious tone: "Do you know what the Mind Flayer and those four human girls who are hiding in the depths of the earth have been doing in the past few days?" ”

"What did you do?" Zuo Si asked casually without raising his head.

"One of the human girls replaces the mastermind's consciousness with her own consciousness. That Mind Flayer also made me let go of the population control of goblins, hoping to create a large number of Mind Flayers in a short period of time, and then let these Mind Flayers lay eggs, and then donate their brains to strengthen the mastermind's psychic abilities......"

Vermes succinctly told the story of what had happened in recent days.

She obviously knew very well that Zuo Si was absolutely unaware of this matter.

"What? What did you say? Repeat! ”

Zuo Sitong's hole suddenly enlarged to show the unrest in the master's heart.

"That Yin Shadora, who is usually cold to everyone, is no longer a human being, but a mind snatcher." Vermes cautiously repeated.

"Damn! Does she know what she's doing? ”

Zuo Si couldn't help but curse in a low voice, stuffed the dragon eggs into the box with extreme speed, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and with the help of the power of the mage tower, he instantly teleported to the depths of the underground where the snail ship was located.