Otherworldly Skeleton

The smooth black slate floor reflects several fiery red long rope hanging candles above the head. In the hall full of warmth and light, hundreds of black skeletons of different shapes sit quietly according to their ranks, and Lu Yan as The only battle bone was also among them, sitting quietly in a corner of the hall.

The entire hall is supported by nineteen tall bone-carved stone pillars. The skeletons carved on the stone pillars showed joy, madness, ferocity, pain, despair and other expressions. They gathered with some cultural meaning that Lu Yan could not understand. Painted a bright red similar to blood, it looks extremely eye-catching, making every skeleton present full of desire to fight.

Two meters in front of Lu Yan is the tall body of Karen Val. This skull dragon has completely withered since it was in the limelight in Guzajian Mountain. It looks like a fool every day. Lu Yan guessed that he wanted to delay Advanced to the bone to escape the fate of becoming a Zexis mount, but would the always wise Karen Val choose such a stupid way? Lu Yan couldn't figure it out.

The other skeletons sitting in the same row as Karen Val are amazing. They are all at the level of riding bones. Take it off and put it on the ground to show the importance of this meeting.

At the very front of the hall, three generals sat casually in luxurious special chairs, arguing fiercely with each other, and in front of the three skeletons, the figure of Zexis Xiong Wei sat sitting In the wide chairs, he is listening to Jianggu's debate attentively.

"Although we have won, this battle has hurt us a lot. We should take care of our internal affairs and improve the overall strength of Blackwater City!" The speaker was Bernardi, a sheep-shaped skeleton with two sticks on top of his head. The horns climbed spirally, exuding a faint brilliance.

"You cowardly sheep, you are internal affairs and internal affairs all day long." Another giant elephant, much larger than Karen Val, yelled at Bernardi condescendingly: "This is a time of chaos. War must be supported by war, what we need is war, continuous war!"

"War?" Bernardi sneered, "If you're so brave, why didn't you sacrifice your life for your lord in the last battle of Bone Narrow Mountain?"

"What did you say!" The giant elephant straightened up the four kneeling bones, and the whole body was raised two meters higher again, and a thick bone whip stretched out from his wide face bone: "Bernadi, what do you want?" Do you want to challenge my dignity?"

"Okay." Zexis said suddenly: "Laurel, sit down, and York Finn will tell you what you think."

"Yes!" The answer was No.3 General Bone, a fox-shaped skeleton that looked very petite. Its soft waist swayed slightly, stood up and nodded to Zexis: "My lord, I think Both Bernardi and General Laurel are right."

Isn’t this talking nonsense? Lu Yan was depressingly guessing whether this sloppy guy was a male or a female. Suddenly, Karen Val’s ghost words came over: “Don’t underestimate her, this female fox is a famous black water demon fox. Not inferior to the wisdom of human beings, it is mostly due to her that Zexis is today."

If he was really so powerful, how could he be almost blocked by Fenrir and Huo Jiji in Guzajian Mountain?Although Lu Yan was full of doubts, he was still willing to believe Karen Val's words and listened carefully to York Fanny's opinion.

"My lord, Blackwater City has doubled in size overnight, and has reached the standard of a second-tier city in terms of area, but its interior is in fact a lot of waste, and there is still a lot of construction work to be done. If you want to truly enjoy the second-tier city We still have to build on it.” York Fannie talked slowly, her voice was soft and clear, making the skeletons who were making it very comfortable to hear, and Bernardi even raised his voice. The goat's head is too good to be proud of.

"But!" York Fannie changed the subject: "The chaos in the Skull Continent is an indisputable fact. Fenrir in the north was not fatally injured. The two leaders of 'Ibiel' and 'Ibupad' in the west Bone's strength should not be underestimated. Although Lord 'Kai' in the south is fighting against Lord 'Nancy', no one can guarantee when they will cease fire and turn their attention to Heishui City. , His large amount of land is free, and the six third-tier cities can be regarded as a considerable fortune, but if there is not enough troops, I am afraid it will not be able to eat this big bun."

In just a few words, the embarrassment of Zexis in the place of the Fourth World War was clearly explained, especially for skeletons like Lu Yan who did not understand the battle situation very clearly. Zexis sat on the golden chair Shang nodded again and again: "Then do you mean that we should attack the territory of Xiaolongji?"

"No, my lord, the city lords of the third-level cities are all powerful generals, and it is not very rare for the upper-ranked skeletons to suppress the level of their subordinates. Therefore, after the death of Yuluji, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no sudden evolution among them."

"It's not good for fighting, and it's not good for internal affairs." Laurel, the skeleton and skeleton of the giant elephant, roared angrily: "Sao Fox, what do you want?"

Ignoring Laurel's gift, York Fanny smiled slightly and looked at Zexis: "My lord, it's still the same as before. I suggest that internal affairs and armaments be carried out at the same time, but the difference is that this time I suggest that internal affairs come first. Supplemented by armaments.”

"Okay, it's exactly what I thought!" Zexis announced: "Laurel, I order you to be in charge of armaments. In two months, restore at least 15% of my troops!"

"Yes, my lord." Although a little upset, Laurel still took the order without hesitation. He immediately turned to face the four horsemen under him, and began to assign tasks, expand the city, add city defense resources, recruit troops and hunt for advancement. The four riders received their own tasks respectively. During this process, Zexis listened to each of them and confirmed every assignment of Laurel.

After completing the assignment of armaments, Zexis turned to the other two generals: "York Finney, Bernardy, the two of you are in charge of internal affairs, and an appropriate part of the force will be allocated to carry out investigations on Luluji's territory."

"Yes Yes!"

Like Laurel, York Finney and Bernardy also assigned tasks to the bone riders on the spot.

Lu Yan observed all this curiously. He found that Qigu would further decompose the tasks he got to his subordinate Qianggu. The original huge task was broken down into small units in a short period of time. The tasks will be further subdivided into the bones, and the entire skeleton army is operating efficiently and quickly in this task mode.

"Karen Val!" Bernardi called Karen Val's name: "Your bone riding boss is still fighting alone on the grassland. You should have been held accountable for leaving the team without authorization, but thanks to the grace of the Lord, you are exempted from punishment. For the time being, I will give you orders directly."

"Yes, sir." Karen Val stood up respectfully. Although he usually called Bernardy a stupid goat secretly, in public, he still gave the other party the face he deserved.

"Which one do you choose to raise funds for the army, cultivate soul gaps, and plan residential construction?"

"I choose to raise funds for the army, my lord!" Karen Val hesitated and made a choice.

Bernardi nodded: "I know you are very smart, and this task is very suitable for you, but this time the task is relatively heavy, and your full task limit is set at 30 cards."

"My lord... is this too high?" Karen Val complained with a sad face, but Bernardi didn't bother to pay attention to him, and ended the discussion with him with a wave of his hand.

Lu Yan sat quietly behind Karen Val, and watched the whole bargaining process. With his familiarity with Karen Val, he knew that the pain shown by this cunning bone dragon was fake, and the matter was basically according to Karen Val. The plan is in progress, Lu Yan just wonders why the whole city belongs to Zexis, why does he need to raise military funds, and what kind of concept is 30 cards.

Bernardi turned around to guide other bone riding assignments, and Karen Val looked at Lu Yan with a wicked look: "Boy, you have developed."

How did he develop? Lu Yan looked at Karen Val with strange eyes.

"You can see clearly the task management system of the Skeleton Legion. It is arranged layer by layer, and the bones are in charge of the overall direction. Riding bones subcontract tasks at different stages. Qianggu receives many small tasks assigned by the riding bones, while the battle bones I am a front-line executor." Karen Val simply explained: "I am strong, and I can only accept small tasks like raising funds for the army, but there is a lot of money in these tasks."

Lu Yan still didn't say a word, waiting for Karen Val to show off what he wanted him to do.

"Looking at your stupid appearance, it's really worrying..." After Karen Waal sighed, he began to explain the mission: "Every time the skeleton goes out, it needs to carry a lot of supplies, such as soul-inducing water, iron arrows, Steel guns, siege engines, etc. Contrary to what you might imagine, the Skeleton City is not a slave system, so these military supplies must be exchanged for funds, and this type of funds is the only common currency on the Skull Continent: Bone Cards!"

Karen Val took out a very finely polished bone piece from nowhere, and threw it in front of Lu Yan: "Here, this is the thing, with denominations ranging from 1 card to 10 cards, this is a bone card with a denomination of 10 cards , take a closer look and see if it looks familiar?"

Lu Yan picked up the bone card and rubbed it lightly. The edge of the blade is smooth, the surface is slightly rough, with a slight curvature, and a word "red" is engraved on the back of the arch.

"Is this a bone from a red bone?" Lu Yan asked in surprise.

"Hey, the eyes are very poisonous." Karen Wahl said with a smile: "The bone of the gray bone is the material of the bone card with a face value of 1 card, the bone of the red bone is 10 cards, the bone of the battle is 100 cards, the bone of the strong bone is 1000 cards, and the bone of the riding bone It’s 10000 calories, and it’s 10 calories!”

"Using the same kind of body to make coins..." Lu Yan stroked the bone card in disbelief and sighed in surprise.

"There are no metal mines on the Skull Continent. If you don't use bone cards, how can you use gold? That won't work. It can't be circulated among ordinary people. This kind of material that can be seen everywhere is good. But don't think that there are so many materials that they can be flooded. Some of the high-level skeletons were smashed to pieces on the battlefield. As far as the Battle of the Bone Narrow Mountain was concerned, there were no remnants of bones left at all, and the remnants of riding skeletons were pitifully few. There are not many strong bones and broken bones, so the face value of the bone card is still very high, and it will not depreciate."

Is this Skull Talking Economics?Lu Yan didn't think about the issue of depreciation at all, he asked: "My lord, how to complete the task, is it difficult to earn 30 cards?"

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult at all, and you can make a lot of money from this task!" Karen Val entered the topic with great interest, but his appearance made Lu Yan feel a sense of conspiracy.