Extraordinary Puppet Master

January 16, 552, cave under the lake.

Five years have passed, and the entire underground base has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The ground of the large hollow is no longer just bare. Bustling people are flowing back and forth in the streets. The branches of blood crystal trees in the central square are flying in the wind, and the blood tear crystals on the branches are emitting bright light.

After five years of construction, the diameter of the large hollow has expanded outward by more than one kilometer, and a bustling town has been formed on the ground.

The Keeper Holy Grail statue has been moved to the underground space. In addition to the one found by Carlin, in order to meet the needs of a large population, they have also opened five underground ceremonial underground palaces dedicated to placing the Holy Grail.

The caves leading to the mining area have also been transformed into solid tunnels. People come and go at the entrance of the tunnels, and batches of vampires who are either mining or looking for fallen ghosts to practice their skills come in and out of the tunnels.

The entrance to the underground space of the base has also been transformed into a mechanical lift shaft.

With the friction of the brass hinge, the lift shaft went all the way down.

The first floor, the second floor, the third floor, until the sixth floor, which is 60 meters deep, is the end.

In a conference hall on the sixth floor, a monthly summary meeting is in progress.

A familiar or unfamiliar face was reporting to Carlin on all aspects of the base over the past year.

"The data for November this year has been calculated. A total of 359,844 blood tear crystals were produced in November, an increase of 23 percentage points compared to last year."

"The output of fog crystal is 2.59 tons, which is an increase compared with that of the previous year."

"As of yesterday, the base population totaled 157,845, but the new population yesterday was only 54."

Hearing this, Almeida suddenly frowned and interrupted the others' reports: "Why are there only 354 people?"

Carlin on the side also felt that something was wrong. When he planned it five years ago, the conservative goal was to have a population of 100,000 in five years, but the actual situation exceeded it by a lot.

Thanks to the strong productivity of the base and the rich minerals in the cave mining area, the base is enough to support a larger population, exceeding half of the estimate.

Since the second year, the vampires have been able to get on the right track, and Karin and Almelda have also begun to slowly let go of being nannies and worrying about everything.

The same goes for increasing the population. The base has specially set up relevant troops to teleport to the ground through mistletoe and abduct people under the nose of the coalition government.

They just listen to other people reporting data every month, and don't worry about the rest.

But the data reported just now is obviously wrong. Yesterday was the day when the Order District deported its population once a month this month. Another five thousand vampires without memory were thrown into the wild area. How could it be possible that only a few fifty people were abducted?

Hearing Almeda's question, the mentor-level vampire who reported the population data before immediately replied: "No vampires were exiled from the Order District yesterday. The specific reason is unknown. It cannot be ruled out that the coalition government is aware of our existence!"

In an instant, everyone in the conference room became serious.

Carlin thought for a while and said: "This matter is temporarily suppressed, and others can continue to report."

After ignoring this sensitive topic, the next vampire continued to report as instructed.

"As of yesterday, there are 69 instructor-level people in the base, 149,311 professional-level people, including 3 legendary seeds, and the rest are newborns below the professional level."

“Firearms and ammunition consumption in November.”

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While listening to the data from a vampire, Carlin was thinking about the question just now. The existence of the base may have been exposed.

In five years, the base has developed step by step according to his plan and developed into the behemoth it is now. If it were not for the legendary powerhouse at its command, it would have been a regional overlord even if it were thrown into the New World.

The power of hundreds of thousands of vampires who are at least professional level, highly organized, disciplined, and have maintained high-intensity military training is frightening.

Kalin spent five years and even postponed the construction of his alchemy workshop, and now he has received huge rewards.

After the first phase of the industrial zone planning was completed, the base no longer used his alchemy workshop as an industrial base, but instead began to feed back to Carlin.

Instead, the vampire engineers began to help Carlin produce a large amount of equipment and supplies. In less than a year, his alchemy workshop and blood laboratory were completely completed.

And every day, countless resources are transferred to his virtual kingdom of heaven and Ameda's secret realm to be hoarded. Now Carlin can boast that he is as rich as any country in the world.

Hundreds of thousands of vampires were frantically collecting resources in the wild areas of the Queen's District, and 30% of them were handed over to Karin and Almeda.

This made Carlin a little reluctant to leave in such a hurry, otherwise he would have entered the order zone a year ago.

And now that he realizes that the base may be exposed, Carlin is no longer prepared to wait.

Half an hour later, when the heads of each department reported, Aimeda simply said two sentences as a summary.

Just when everyone thought the meeting was about to end, Carlin suddenly said: "There is one last thing today, which is the previous issue about population increase.

Regardless of whether it is a countermeasure taken by the coalition government after learning of the existence of the base, we must start preparing for war immediately! "

In an instant, everyone's eyes lit up, looking at Karin with excited eyes, and they were all gearing up in their hearts.

In the past five years, no matter how their strength and equipment have changed, many people have become numb except for killing fallen ghosts. Looking at these ugly and ferocious fallen ghosts, they feel that they are somewhat delicate.

Now when I heard Carlin talk about preparing for war, I knew that I was about to take action against the order area.

Almeida was stunned for a moment, looked at Karin, and reacted after seeing the other person nodded affirmatively.

Seeing the excitement among the others, they raised their hands to suppress the restlessness in the hearts of the vampires: "Yes, now that we have developed to this point, it's time to show our cards to the order zone. I believe everyone doesn't want to stay underground for the rest of their lives."

As soon as Almeida finished speaking, the voices in the conference hall became louder and louder again.

"Of course not!"

"Hmph! Why can those bastards from the coalition government stay comfortably in the safe order area, while we vampires in the wild area have to pay blood tax!"

"I once swore that if I had the chance, I would cut those guys into pieces!"

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"Everyone be quiet for a moment."

In an instant, the conference hall fell silent. Facing the expectant eyes, Carlin spoke with a serious expression.

"Five years have passed since I and Almelda came to the Queen's District, and it has been five years before I knew it!

I've been very happy with you for five years, but then we're going to war with the coalition government.

War is cruel, and everyone here may die. Tell me, if that moment really comes, will you regret it? "

With a flick of the brush, all the vampires in the conference hall stood up uniformly and roared in unison.

"No regrets!"