Ruins of the past

After a while, Chu Qiguang and his party came to a living corpse more than three meters high.

The skin of this living corpse is black and white, with black lines on the white skin.

The muscles are as sharp and angular as marble, full of strength.

Seventy percent of the body was also covered with a layer of black bone armor, giving off a metallic luster.

Long bone spurs extended from the back and elbows of the living corpse, flashing with cold light.

Li Yaofeng introduced: "This is the living corpse that our workshop is going to transform. The goal is to carry 12 martial arts, so it is made into a human form."

"We plan to imitate some of the body structures of different monsters in the limbs, abdomen, back, and head to enhance combat capabilities."

"As you said, a cavity is designed inside, and it is intended to be controlled by the driver..."

Speaking of this, Li Yaofeng wondered: "Speaking of which, why should we leave it to others to control?"

Chu Qiguang said: "The farmers and laborers in the past were more than enough to do their work."

"The newly designed living zombies are specially used for fighting."

"In the ever-changing combat environment, the original simple command mode can no longer effectively respond."

"After all, we don't have AI on our hands yet..."

Li Yaofeng was slightly startled: "Hey, what?"

Chu Qiguang explained: "Living corpses have no autonomous consciousness, so there must be people who are good at combat to perform real-time operations."

"Otherwise, they will only follow simple orders and be unable to cope with various changing battle situations. No matter how strong they are, they will not be able to exert their strength."

"And for this version of living corpses, my ultimate goal is to reach the fifth realm. The cost of each one is very high, and they cannot be used as cannon fodder."

Li Yaofeng shrugged. He was not interested in how Chu Qiguang used these living corpses. Anyway, his purpose was just to use Chu Qiguang's resources to complete his research and practice.

These days, studying the blood pool, controlling monsters, transforming monsters, and dissecting monsters... made Li Yaofeng feel that she was constantly growing.

"correct."

Before leaving, Chu Qiguang said: "Let's make a batch of weakened versions first, or upgraded versions of workers. Just keep the strength in the third to fourth realms."

Li Yaofeng frowned and said, "Why? What's the point of something so weak?"

Chu Qiguang snorted and said lightly: "Do you know how much money the Blood Pond Workshop in the entire Lan River Valley costs me every day?"

"Every piece of meat and every drop of blood created from the blood pool here was fed by me with money."

"We can't keep losing money but not making money."

"In the future, every workshop must design products, manufacture products, and turn losses into profits. They should not just ask for money."

…

Yongan 19, early August.

Shuzhou, a barren mountain outside Jinrong Mansion.

The mountain road that was once overgrown with weeds has been cleared and paved with a layer of cement.

The originally abandoned temple has been transformed into the entrance to Night City.

Ning Kun followed a team to this place and said with some surprise: "How did this barren mountain become like this?"

Since Ning Kun joined the Bashu Chamber of Commerce and became one of the caravan captains, he has been responsible for delivering goods near Jinrong Mansion.

He came here today after being introduced by a friend, and was surprised as soon as he went up the mountain.

And when he stood in front of the gate of the Buddhist world and looked at the people coming in and out, he was even more surprised.

"Is there a monster?"

He saw a cat demon running out of the gate of the Buddha Realm and disappearing into the grass in the blink of an eye.

A friend on the side said: "Stop making such a fuss. There is no distinction between humans and monsters in Night City. Don't take action against monsters, otherwise you will suffer a lot."

Ning Kun lined up with his friends and stepped into the gate of the Buddhist world.

As soon as you enter the Buddhist world, your eyes instantly change from day to night.

As far as the eye can see, there are shops, restaurants, stalls with flashing lights everywhere, as well as shouting vendors, and monsters mixed in the crowd.

Although Ning Kun could feel that almost all the humans around him were hostile to monsters, and the monsters rarely paid attention to humans. Their eyes often looked at people with a faint murderous intent.

There was a strong sense of threat between the two sides, but it was as if a pair of invisible hands were pressing on them, preventing them from drawing swords against each other.

Ning Kun looked at this scene in shock: "Here..."

The friend on the side smiled: "This is the City of Night. I heard that it was renovated by Buddhists in the past and sells many good things."

"It was first discovered by a few people in the world. Later, the news became more and more widespread, and many people from near Jinrong City came."

"Mainly because there are a lot of good things sold here."

"Don't you feel that the road is not peaceful recently and want to buy some weapons for self-defense?"

Ning Kun followed the other party on the main road of Night City. After a closer look, he discovered that the area with flickering firelight was not large, only the size of a small town.

It's just that the town is full of shops and restaurants, and there are no residential buildings at all.

Further away, hidden in the thick darkness, it seemed that many tall buildings could be vaguely seen.

The friend pulled Ning Kun's arm and pointed to several living corpses standing at the border: "Don't go there. We can only move around where there is fire. If we go out, we will be beaten by these guards."

Ning Kun followed his friend to a shop with a curious look on his face, only to find that someone had already been waiting here.

He vaguely recognized the identities of several of them. They were all stewards and servants of some big families in Jinrong Mansion.

Just when Ning Kun was wondering what they were waiting for, more than a dozen giants over five meters tall slowly walked out.

Seeing these giants with huge bodies and ferocious faces, Ning Kun was startled and almost turned around and ran away.

But a friend on the side reached out and grabbed him.

Immediately afterwards, Ning Kun was shocked to find that everyone around him was paying high prices to buy these giants, and even some monsters who obviously came from the snowy mountains also joined in...

…

In the cave.

Chu Qiguang was praying silently towards the statue of Taoist Xuanyuan in front of him. As he prayed, the power of faith continued to pour into the bones of unfaithfulness in his body.

Chen Gang on the side was reporting to him: "...there are still some problems with the original design of Night City. After all, the contradiction between humans and monsters is still great, especially many monsters escaped from the snow mountains and hate the people of Shuzhou. Deeper."

"Although we were watching, several conflicts broke out."

"Later we divided the areas between humans and demons, and the conflict was finally reduced."

Chu Qiguang nodded when he heard this: "It's true that I was negligent and underestimated the local contradiction between human beings and monsters. Where are the goods? How are they selling?"

Chen Gang said: "It's very popular. The shops are now selling farmers in large quantities. Ten of them are sold every half month. Now each one has been sold for thousands of taels."

"However, they have very high requirements for the blood-congested living corpses. Some hope that we can set up more blood-congested blood pools around Jinrong Mansion, and some hope that we can build them in their homes."

"The name of Night City is gradually spreading from Jinrong Mansion. Some big families want to suppress the news, but with us adding fuel to the fire, they can't stop it at all."

Chu Qiguang asked: "Where is the crooked person?"

Chen Gang said: "The Bai family of Jinrong Mansion tried to grab something, but Hercules killed them. Since then, no one dared to take random actions."

"There were still several people who secretly followed us, but they were all taken down by the Demon Suppression Division."

"Do some extreme natives also want to buy living corpses and sell them to them?"

Chu Qiguang smiled: "Why not sell it? Not only the farmers want to sell it, but all the living corpses of the generations that will be sold in the future can be sold to them."

"But you have to remember, it is Night City that sells Qi Blood Machines, and it must not have anything to do with us."

Chen Gang nodded to express his understanding, but his heart was also in turmoil. As far as he knew, the number of living corpses produced in the Blood Pond Workshop was growing crazily every day.

Now Night City is still in a state of testing the waters. Once all shipments are made and these living corpses are sold continuously, what will the entire Shuzhou look like? It was really hard for him to imagine.

Chu Qiguang then ordered: "You and others should prepare, the second phase of Night City can begin."

His eyes flickered slightly, as if the flames of Buddha were surging.

Now the efficiency of his subordinates in collecting knowledge is getting lower and lower, and he has a lot of things to do every day.

In order to quickly master the "Dragon Elephant Great Freedom", Chu Qiguang plans to start recruiting people in the City of Night to collect Buddha Fire for him to extract the knowledge of the Buddhas.

With that said, Chu Qiguang looked at the monks on the side and asked, "Please tell me more about the situation underground."