Zhang Mu took Lei Ming and Leng Yun to see the boat.
Everything is now normal on the Shuguang. After several months of repairs and arrangements, it has been completely restored.
"The Dawn cannot appear in towns or even be parked in airports!"
The origin of this ship is unclear.
It cannot be exposed.
The Immortal Kingdom, one of the eight major forces, is a scientific research ship in the extraterritorial expedition fleet. Although the scientific research ship is an auxiliary ship and is not conspicuous in itself, there is no guarantee that no one will recognize it. Once the news about this scientific research ship reaches the Immortal Kingdom and attracts the attention of the Goblin Emperor, the Underworld mercenaries will be in trouble.
Lei Ming nodded in agreement: "If there is only one scientific research ship, even if the Immortal Kingdom knows about it, it won't bother to ask for it, because it is afraid that the matter of Pluto's coffin will be leaked..."
Leng Yun stared at the disc-shaped Dawn spaceship in the sky with a pair of clear ink eyes, which was like a work of art, and said: "The key is that Dawn is related to Pluto's coffin. This powerful sacred artifact, the Immortal Kingdom will definitely not let go." .”
"We might as well dock the ship in a wild mining area."
Leng Yun nodded in agreement: "Although it's a bit unsafe, it's better than leaving it in the city."
The case of Zhonghai City's undercover Black Corner mercenary was exposed. The Black Corner mercenary was completely destroyed. The team's working capital was frozen and confiscated. The items in the mercenary warehouse were basically hollowed out. They were all filled up in the official warehouse of Zhonghai City. The real estate amounted to 50 % is confiscated, and 50% is retained as a reward for the Huangquan Mercenary Group.
Don’t underestimate 50% of real estate assets.
The Dark Corner has been operating in Xihai Province for more than ten years. Because of the indigenous exchanges, they have developed faster than any mercenary group. In recent years, they have colluded with the indigenous people and have attacked many transport ships and green alliance resource production areas. Their accumulated wealth is quite large. Huge, with a considerable amount of real estate assets.
Nowadays, the streets near Huangquan Castle are all owned by the Dark Corner. About two streets are now dedicated to Huangquan. Needless to say, there are various shops, entertainment venues, casinos, and the Colosseum. An average of 200,000 to 300,000 gold coins were brought to Huang Quan every day.
The Huangquan mercenaries are a level 3 team. The structure is not bloated, and the personnel are not large. They have five to six million per month, which is more than enough for all expenses, and a lot of funds are deposited in the treasury, thus enriching the mercenary group's foundation.
Real estate is not only the real estate in Zhonghai City, but also a considerable part of the properties outside the city.
According to the rules of Zhonghai City, as long as a resource site is discovered in the wild, such as spiritual field resources and ore resources, the news must be reported to the Green Alliance. After the alliance confirms the resource site and puts it into excavation, a certain percentage of the output will belong to the discoverer.
If a private team first discovers a resource field occupied by indigenous people, defeats the indigenous forces and seizes the mine without relying on official power. In this case, the team will enjoy all the output of the resource field and only need to pay a certain tax to the Green Alliance.
Black Corner colluded with the indigenous people to occupy many resource sites, and most of the mining rights of the resource areas were taken away by Zhonghai City in the name of Black Corner.
Naturally, some will be left for the underworld mercenaries.
Zhang Mu calculated that Huangquan mercenaries have 30 field factories, including ore processing, leather processing, herb processing... In terms of resource areas, there are 20 level 3 spiritual fields, 11 mines, and 4 secret realms. The daily production value is far away. It's higher than the city. It's just a pity that Zhang Mu doesn't have the manpower. The resource production area needs the army to protect it and someone to take care of it. The Underworld Mercenaries are only a level 3 team, where can they find someone to manage logistics
Therefore, most of the resource producing areas are idle.
However, the insect nest can create gathering insects, and use insects to replace absenteeism. Not only can it deceive people, it can mine a large amount of ore, but it can also save manpower and material resources.
Zhang Mudi selected a low-level mine, "The quality of the magic ore produced by this mine is not very good. It took many years from discovery to excavation. The mine is complicated and the space is very large. We parked the Dawn next to the mine and came from all over the place. Collect corpses and use Pluto’s coffin to create our undead army!”
"There are too many corpse resources here." Leng Yun is looking forward to the undead army. "Because high-level corpses themselves have material value. Most of them on the battlefield are transported back by the army and are managed by the Resource Bureau. Let Qiao Weier open up the relationship. I will definitely be able to buy a large number of corpses of earth spirits and even heaven spirits at low prices. I am not short of money, let alone materials. The speed of creating undead will be quite fast. I think we can create a terrifying army in less than a month. , the undead army with terrifying combat power!"
Zhang Mu thought so too.
Although he has connections with the Resource Bureau, buying corpses in large quantities will still attract attention. The Pluto's Coffin is no small matter. It is an epic item like the Dragon-Snake Bow. The Dragon-Snake Bow may be very powerful, but for a race, its value is far inferior to that of the Pluto's Coffin. If the news about Pluto's coffin is known to outsiders, they will face endless troubles.
If the news leaks to the Immortal Kingdom, the Goblin Emperor will definitely issue a request to recover the Dawn and Pluto's Coffin.
The Dawn was originally a spaceship built by a goblin empire in the Immortal Kingdom. The Pluto Coffin was a sacred artifact brought back from outside the territory at a heavy price. How could it be easily obtained by other forces? Zhang Mu can't guarantee that it will be perfect, but he can hide it for a while. During the process of making the undead, he will hide them all in the mine. After each batch is made, he will not stay in the mine. He will find a secret place and dig out the big ones. When the pit comes, bury them all.
Defense issues are out of the question.
There is a bug nest in the Dawn.
The insect nest has a large amount of material support and endlessly produces insects. The insects are used to monitor the Dawn, and outsiders cannot approach it at all.
In addition, Pluto's coffin can create undead monsters and real undead tribes. Although it consumes more money and takes a long time to breed, intelligent undead are an important part of the undead army. After the undead are made, each army arranges several intelligent undead to lead other undead and hide them in every corner of the wild. In short, the undead must be planned to prevent others from discovering the secret of Pluto's coffin.
Zhang Mu personally went to the Resource Bureau to negotiate.
The director of resources was very surprised: "What do you want to buy a body for?"
Zhang Mu replied: "I know a kind of undead magic ritual that has a certain chance of turning corpses into zombies. I have too many mines and need some hard-working coolies."
The director of resources suddenly realized that this explanation was reasonable.
In fact, the practical value of these corpses is not very high. Zhang Mu is willing to pay a high price, so selling them is no big deal. The director of resources has some understanding of undead magic. There are many kinds of undead rituals, such as skeleton transformation, zombie transformation, lich transformation, lich transformation... These rituals can indeed create undead, but the probability of failure is very high. Ten corpses can It's good to have one or two successful ones, but it's also very troublesome to control. Moreover, the ritual transformation itself consumes a lot of materials and energy substances, and the cost is very high.
The zombies created in this way, even though they are extremely powerful, never get tired, and can reliably mine and make money, will they be able to make back their money in less than a few hundred years
Zhang Mu continued to explain: "Zombies have no thinking and are absolutely loyal. They are usually used for production, but at critical times, they can also be used for combat. Our regiment lacks combat effectiveness. We need a large number of high-quality corpses to create powerful zombie warriors!"
The resource director agreed: "Okay, as much as you need."
In the end, 20 corpses of strong Heavenly Spirits and 500 complete corpses of late-stage and peak Earth Spirit masters were purchased at a very high price.
It’s not that Zhang Mu didn’t want to buy low-level corpses, it’s just that during the process of checking the corpses, Zhang Mu discovered a problem. Tianling corpses are not easy to rot. In normal environments, they are exposed to wind and sun. There will not be much change in a year and a half. Earth Spirits There is no embalming for corpses. The climate in Xihai Province is warm and humid, and corpses will rot if left for a long time.
This rot does not matter, the energy in the flesh and blood disappears, the energy to ignite the undead fire is not enough, the creation of the undead is completed, and the strength will be greatly reduced.
Of course, the power of an Earth Spirit-level corpse seeps into its bones. Even if it is severely decayed, a lot of energy can be evoked from the bones. This force is enough to ignite the undead fire. At worst, it can also be made into an undead in the form of a skeleton. A master who was in the late stage of earth spirit while alive will only have the strength of the early stage of earth spirit after completing the transformation into undead.
The undead have no intelligence, retain few skills, and have single combat skills. Apart from not being afraid of death, they have no advantages and are basically no match for creatures of the same level.
Since you can't win in quantity.
Then put more effort into quality.
It is probably difficult for the strongest regiment in the entire Xihai Province to be composed entirely of earth spirit warriors. Zhang Mu doesn’t want low-level corpses. Even if such undead are created, they will rot quickly and have little value. The minimum standard is earth spirit level. A smaller number will make it easier to hide. The high quality of the undead army will make this Form an army and become a veritable army of death!
The speed at which Pluto's Coffin produces undead is affected by the energy supply.
At that time, in the desperate ice field with poor resources, the altar did not have enough energy to maintain, and it would take several days to give birth to an earth spirit. Now Zhang Mu has invested a lot of money in it, and has more than a dozen mines and dozens of factories as support. , so energy supply is not a problem at all.
Leng Yun, the Tianling-level mage, personally presided over the altar, which increased the production speed of undead several times.
According to the plan, we first make a few Heavenly Spirit-level mages, and let the undead host the altar instead of Leng Yun. Several Heavenly Spirit-level mages will host the altar, and with sufficient energy supply, Pluto's Coffin can produce more than ten or twenty Earthly Spirit Masters a day. Or, the speed is slowly increasing.
It doesn’t take a week.
Pluto's coffin created 5 heavenly spirit-level undead and 100 earthly spirit-level undead.
Zhang Mu was not idle, digging around looking for corpses, almost becoming a professional corpse thief. There are many famous battlefields in the Xihai Province. I don’t know how many corpses are buried. It’s just that it’s too old. Some of the Tianling-level corpses are so rotten that there are only a handful of bones left. But as long as they are valuable, even if there are only a handful of bones left, Zhang Mu also needs to be dug out, assembled, and sent to the altar of Hades for transformation.
Everything is done in secret.
No one knew that a terrifying undead army was brewing silently.