Otherworldly Skeleton

After Lu Yan heard Mr. Wo's words, he suddenly realized in his heart that he had actually heard of this soul-eating heart a long time ago.

Fleeing from White Ice City to the top of the Devil's Tooth Mountain at the beginning of the year, Zexis was besieged by the Xiaoyang tribe in the grassland. In the final battle, a Yeba army led by the fourth prince of the Lan Empire appeared. The big sword in the hands of the fourth prince Reni It's called the Nine-Foot Soul Gathering Sword, and Karen Wahl pointed out that Rui Ni had obtained the "Soul-Eating Heart's Sword Heart", and exchanged the whereabouts of another "Soul-Eating Heart's Body Heart" with the Yeba Legion. Brief peace.

The location provided by Mr. Wo is a city, the black prison in the sky in the south, and also the imperial city of the former emperor bone, the largest first-level city in the Skull Continent.

Osidus was also released by Lu Yan, but he didn't have much impression of the Black Prison City, and he didn't even know where the Soul Devouring Heart was hidden in the city. With the standard, I am afraid it is not so easy to think of these things.

Lu Yan knew that he couldn't ask any more questions, so he hurriedly bid farewell to the tired Mr. Wo.

In the next two days, Lu Yan finalized the general structure of the overseas expansion business group. As the honorary head, Lu Yan can safely enter and exit Gaoling City, and then the two deputy heads are actually in charge: Zoe and Hardy. The business group raised 5000 million bone cards and 200 million gold coins, of which Lu Yan occupied 50% of the shares, and Ah Jiu was the plenipotentiary representative of his investment funds.In fact, Ah Jiu's entourage also carried a lot of gold coins, but because many of the things she needed to buy were not used for commercial purposes, this part of the funds would not be included in the funds of the entire business group. Only then did the old Shanggu realize how strong Lu Yan's financial resources were, and he was not secretly surprised.

In terms of guards, Lu Yan himself did not mobilize his subordinates. In addition to hiring some retired skeletons, Lu Yan also sent a letter to Zerote, who was responsible for the safe escort from Gaoling City to the Varma Grassland. They also sent a group of Shi Ke warriors with less obvious characteristics as guards. In the end, both Zoe and Hardy said that they could also hire local mercenaries after arriving in the human continent, so Lu Yan felt a little relieved.

After the business group was finalized, it was more than ten days of preparation work. Of course, Lu Yan didn't have time to waste time with them. Finally, he discussed with Caton about the rent payment for the shops leased to the Shike people. Considering the scale The landlord has taken back all the land of these shops, and still needs to pay the land rent, so Lu Yan gave each shop a monthly rent of 100 bone cards.

Carton was very excited: "My lord, you are so kind, this is not rented to us, it is simply a gift."

"In the early days, they still have to pay the land rent. I don't need to pressure them so that they can't continue their business. At that time, York Fanny will cause trouble for me instead." Lu Yan waved his hand: "It's all trivial matters. When it comes to 'sending', I still I really want to give you a good thing."

"My lord, you still want to give me something, no, I definitely can't accept it."

"Don't rush to refuse." Lu Yan chuckled: "What I want to send you is a new city!"

Carton was shocked and dazed, so Lu Yan called Rui Sien over and told him to explain to Carton in detail. Half an hour later, Carton finally got a general idea of ​​Lu Yan's plan, and he said in a hesitant tone To: "My lord, your idea is really grand... But you have given me such a heavy task, I don't know if the Shike people can do it!"

"There is nothing in this world that can be done for sure, and there is no plan that is perfect. All I give you is the direction. Just try your best." Lu Yan smiled lightly.

Carton nodded heavily: "Understood, I will do my best to achieve the effect that adults want."

About 150 kilometers northeast of Gray Shadow City, there is Hirano City. This third-level city is one of the many branch cities of Drenthe. Jiang Gu has been transferred to Gray Shadow City, and there are only 5 bone knights left in the city to defend.

News of the city being attacked came from all over the place. Karen Val, the leader of the Second Gap City, seemed to be insane. He released his men to attack the city desperately, and his men were really talented. , and there are really many successful ones, which makes other city guards who are temporarily safe not to be alarmed.

"This city is not easy to defend. What do you guys think?" Five cavalrymen came to the top of the city in the twilight to observe the surrounding terrain, and one of them, a tiger-shaped cavalry named Jacos, spoke first.

Jacos is the strongest cavalry in Hirano City. Not only is he outstanding in individual strength, but he also has the ability to lead troops to defend the city and attack. The city in the north is gone, and it will be difficult for Lord Drenthe to take care of us."

"Except for the north, the other three sides are all flat land, and the city is also crudely built, and the soul gap has not been able to assist the city's defense. It is really easy to attack but difficult to defend."

"I heard that Karen Val has a fierce pictographic bone rider. The shock wave can directly destroy the city wall from a hundred meters away. If he comes to attack Hirano City...it's unimaginable."

"The pictographic riding bone is relatively easy to deal with, but the truly terrifying one is a worm-shaped riding bone with a bone technique that corrodes rocks. It is said that the purple mist controlled by him sweeps across, and the entire city wall will soften like tofu dregs that human slaves love to eat... "

The four knights were useless, they just complained and worried, Jacos secretly shook his head, the morale of the army was so unstable, Hirano City would collapse without the enemy attacking... But how to defend this city, relatively Compared with the pictographic riding bone and insect-shaped riding bone, Jacos was more worried about the humanoid riding bone called Lu Yan.

Jacos looked at his feet, the city gates were closed. He blocked the traffic of Hirano City a few days ago and closed all four gates. It is strictly forbidden for any human beings to come and go with the skeletons. He also repeatedly checked the strange skeletons in the city. Absolutely no Allow spies to enter.Unlike the other four bone knights, Jacos understood the strategic significance of Hirano City. He believed that some enemies would discover this soon, and they would be the first to attack Hirano City.

Although the city gate is closed, there are many skeletons and humans stationed outside the city, most of them are refugees from the surrounding villages. During the war, the wild will become more dangerous, but Jacos' policy of closing the gates and locking the city These skeletons were very desperate. After they were stationed for several days, they began to go north one after another. It is said that the Shike people on the Shiman plateau no longer took skeletons as slaves. Hit and miss.

"My lord, please open the door. Our soul-inducing water is about to expire. Let us sell it and leave. We will never keep it." There are many skeleton vendors outside the city gate. Seeing Jakos and other skeletons, Hastily asked for a risky request, they bet all their belongings to sell soul-inducing water from Gray Shadow City, originally wanted to go to the war-torn city in the east to make a fortune, but heard that the fighting was too fierce, so they turned to Hirano City halfway, who knew Hirano City However, the gates of the city will not be opened for a few days, and if they wait any longer, they will lose all their money.

How could a few merchants conflict with the important task of defending the city, Jacos ignored it.

"Uh, Jacos, why don't we let those traders in, and some of them look familiar, so they shouldn't be spies." Suddenly a rider spoke up. The director of the third division of the Bone Division and the Regulation Division is, to put it bluntly, a logistics officer.

Jacos said coldly, "Karen, if spies are brought in, can you bear the responsibility?"

Karen didn't dare to argue with Jacos, so he could only smile wryly: "Jacos, I can't bear the responsibility of letting the spies in, but all the soul-inducing water in Hirano City has been requisitioned by the army, and ordinary skeleton civilians have been without water for more than a month. , it used to be supported by water dealers, if we don’t let water dealers in, it would be tantamount to forcing these civilians to die.”

"This..." Jacos was startled. He was so focused on defending the city that he forgot that the civilians in the city also had to use soul-inducing water. You must know that the army in Hirano City has about 300 strong bones and 2 war bones. Compared to the 30 commoner skeletons in Hirano City, it is too few. The civilian skeletons are weaker than the war bones, but much stronger than the red bones. If they are forced to rebel, it is really not a trivial matter.

"Why don't you quickly take out the army's soul-inducing water supplies and distribute them to the civilians?" Jacos just had this idea, but quickly vetoed it. When he left the bone, he made it clear that he must use the soul ball to increase the strength of the entire army as soon as possible. Strength, if you distribute soul-inducing water to civilians, it is tantamount to disobeying the general's order, and that is a dead end.

"My lord, let us go in to sell water, the civilians in Hirano City are starting to lose their bones!"

"My lord, I have a certificate from the City of Gray Shadows, and I am definitely not a spy!"

"grown ups……"

Hearing the movement, more and more traders climbed out of the dark tent, kneeling on the ground and begging in the direction of the tower.Jacos looked around, and there were hundreds of water sellers just in front of the south gate of the city. It can be seen that the other two gates are not much different. Now the traders know that the branch city is short of water, and it is very profitable to send water from the main city, so They took huge risks to deliver water, and it was these vendors who guaranteed the life supply line of ordinary civilian skeletons in various branches.

In addition to delivering water, there are also many traders who sell food. Although slaves are not as important as the lives of skeletons, if all the slaves in a city starve to death, the life of skeletons in this city will be very awkward, so selling food is not as important as selling food. Water earns more, but it's a risky business venture.

"Jacos, why don't you shoot all these noisy traders to death!" A reckless bone knight foolishly prepared to order an attack.

"No!" Jacos immediately stopped him. He also knew that the civilians in the city were waiting. If the merchants outside were really killed, there would be skeletons rebelling immediately. Finally, he sighed: "Open the side door of the south gate. , Collect the water first, and then give the money to the vendors after we sell it."

Jacos let go, he wanted to only let in the water and not let the skeletons in, but he saw the soul-inducing water business as too simple, and if he didn't give money, those vendors would not bring in the water, only a few vendors would hand it over. took the soul water, and most of the others looked at Hirano City with a look of despair.

"This bunch of idiots, I'll take a team out to kill them all, and grab the soul-inducing water!" The reckless bone rider at the beginning made another stupid remark.

Jacos shook his huge tiger head: "No, if you kill the merchants, the commercial roads in Hirano City will be cut off, and you will also face the problem of water shortage in a few days. At that time, no merchants dare to come, and we will completely fall into passivity."

"Jacos, let the vendors come in batch by batch. I will organize the big households in the city to buy together as soon as possible. Besides, you are sending heavy troops to guard, so there shouldn't be any problems." Spectrum suggestions.

Jacobs had no choice but to allow it.

Ten minutes later, the vendors began to enter the city one by one.

Two hours later, the trading areas in the west and east of the city were also opened, and the lanterns and torches were brightly lit for overnight transactions.

Four hours later, the uncontrollable tide of skeletons buying water disrupted the formation of the army skeletons. The so-called heavy military supervision became untrue, and some stray skeletons even took the opportunity to escape into the city.

Five hours later, Lu Yan disguised himself as a coolie skeleton and easily sneaked into Pingye City.