Chapter 83 The Frogman Appears
Chapter 83 The Frogman Appears
After Chidi entered the skeleton arsenal, she bowed her head respectfully.
"grown ups."
Although he has become a human, a ghost, but for Thanos, he still has gratitude in his heart.
After all, if it wasn't for the other party, he would already be lying in the coffin now.
Being alive is naturally better than anything else.
Thanos continued to look at the information in his hand, and asked without looking back: "What is it?"
"My lord, there's news from Zixi Town that a strange kind of aborigine has appeared in the Scarlet Lake, causing huge damage to our cultivated land."
The Scarlet Lake was originally the Scarlet Plain.
But because of the battle between the Lord of the Black Leaf Tower and the natives, the entire plain turned into a lake.
So far, no one has found the water source of this lake, so Thanos suspects it is groundwater.
Hearing the question, he finally raised his head and asked, "Strange native? What does it look like?"
After thinking for a while, Chitty said in a low voice: "I don't know how to describe it. This native has both hands and feet. His skin is orange-yellow and slippery, like fish skin. There are membranes between his fingers and fish on his neck. Gills, that looks weird.
By the way, we took some captives, right outside. "
Hearing the other party's description, Thanos probably knew what race it was.
"Take me to see."
After a while, he followed Kitty to the dungeon and saw this unknown race, and it was exactly as he had imagined.
Frogmen, he had seen pictures in the miscellaneous notes of the Black Leaf Tower.
This is an amphibious race with extremely strong reproductive ability, afraid of lightning and flames, and its individual strength is relatively weak.
However, this frogman has scars all over his body, and he looks half dead.
At this time, Chitty said solemnly: "My lord, it is this race that none of us have ever seen."
Thanos nodded and said, "This is a frogman who likes to eat rice and various crops."
Then, he described the characteristics of the frogmen.
After Chidi finished listening, she asked, "My lord, what should we do?"
Because Zixi Town could not be self-sufficient in food, Thanos arranged for more than 300 newly admitted refugees to cultivate the land.
But now the cultivated land has been destroyed, which greatly delayed his plan.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Let Sumante lead the team to encircle and suppress the frogmen."
Guaranteeing food is a must.
It's not about money, it's about future dependence on food.
It wasn't because he was afraid that the Black Leaf Tower would play a demon on the food, but after comparing the prices of the two food purchases, he made a decision.
You have to know that when you bought grain for the first time, grain was only ten copper coins per kilogram, vegetables were only fifteen copper coins per kilogram, and cured meat was only thirty copper coins per kilogram.
Now, a kilogram of grain costs forty copper coins, vegetables cost sixty copper coins a kilogram, and pickled meat costs one hundred copper coins a kilogram.
The nearly four-fold increase means that under the current situation of instability and the continuous entry of foreigners, food has begun to soar.
According to the current trend, the price of food cannot stop rising unless the price of food rises enough to make money from other worlds using portals.
So self-sufficiency is the next trend.
"Yes, my lord."
Chitty nodded and left the skeleton arsenal.
And Thanos, after Kitty's interruption, also remembered the thoughts he had thought about before.
It is Tibetan soldiers and civilians, so that civilians can also obtain skeleton soldiers and raise soldiers for them.
This can increase the war potential. When the war comes, the skeleton soldiers can be forcibly recruited through the compulsory conscription order.
After thinking about it, he asked Malika to call over.
Sarah has shown enough loyalty that no matter what the reason is, he will still trust the other party for the time being.
It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, after all, your foundation is too poor, and there are no other people at all.
"My lord, it's time for dinner."
At this time, Ai Ruo came in with dinner.
Thanos looked at the sun that was about to set, and put down his work.
While eating dinner, he noticed that Ai Ruo beside him suddenly shook his body, and then fell towards him.
Thanos reached out to support Ai Ruo, and found that the other party's eyes were half-closed, with severe dark circles and weak breath.
"Ai Ruo Ai Ruo!"
After calling twice, Ai Ruo finally woke up.
Immediately he stood up straight, then lowered his head and said apologetically, "Ah! My lord, I'm sorry I didn't rest well last night."
Thanos shook his head without blaming the other party.
Because the psychic tower had just been built a few days ago, in order to ensure that there would be no problems, he asked the other party to take care of the psychic tower.
Judging by the other party's appearance, it is estimated that he has been guarding all night every night for the past few days.
Thinking of this, he asked, "Do you want to become an undead?"
Ai Ruo tilted her head and asked suspiciously: "Excuse me, my lord, what is an undead?"
After thinking for a while, Thanos said in the most straightforward and understandable way: "The undead are a kind of undead, but they retain wisdom, memory and emotions, and at the same time have the ability to control soul fire, which belongs to the extraordinary. exist."
But no matter how simple and easy to understand, Ai Ruo still showed a confused look.
After all, undead, controlling soul fire, and transcendence are all new words to her.
You must know that she usually avoids Thanos talking to his subordinates, so she doesn't know at all.
After thinking about it, she still asked the question she was most concerned about.
"As an undead, can I help adults better?"
Thanos smiled and said: "That's for sure, after becoming an undead, you can learn some simple necromancy, and then you can help me build psychic towers, skeleton arsenals and so on.
And there is still a chance to become a lich in the future. "
When Ai Ruo heard the definite answer, she nodded without hesitation, and said firmly, "As long as I can help you, I am willing to become an undead."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to think of something, and asked cautiously: "By the way, does it cost a lot of money to become an undead? I only have 32 silver coins here, do you know if it is enough?"
Although she has a lot of gold coins on her body, those are used by adults to buy her vegetables. Only these 32 silver coins are her wages
So she was worried that there must be not enough money.
Upon hearing this, Thanos smiled and patted the opponent's little head.
The 13-year-old Ai Ruo is now 1.5 meters tall and looks a little thinner. Her chest and back look similar, probably because she hasn't recovered well.
And the dry long hair seems to have not been taken care of for a long time, and it is not very smooth to touch.
"Don't worry, it's free."
Hearing this, instead of being happy, Ai Ruo shook his head nervously.
"No, how can I ask the adults to pay me.
Your Excellency does not despise my stupidity, you can take me in, and give me work, housing and food, I am already very grateful, how about this, I will give the 32 silver coins to the adult first, and the rest will come from my future salary buckle. "
(End of this chapter)