The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

Seeing the skeletons and corpses covering the entire construction site wielding tools and earnestly digging the river, the British engineers who were in charge of the work on site were all stunned.

This was the first time they saw such an exaggerated and "unusual" worker, and everyone was greatly shocked.

A few pious people even took out their crosses, prayed loudly to God, and reprimanded the evil for retreating, but at the same time, they also asked the British soldiers in charge of maintaining order at the construction site for help, asking them to destroy these blasphemous and evil corpses.

However, these British soldiers had long been accustomed to the existence of these corpses, and they seemed indifferent. They even "pacified" these engineers and asked Li Enfield to ask them to go back to work.

Facing Li Enfield's kindness and the friendly "comfort" of these British soldiers, these engineers returned to the construction site tremblingly.

In fact, the British soldiers were startled by these undead laborers at the beginning, and many of them even shot and misfired. If the officers hadn't suppressed and comforted them, they might have fought on the spot.

But later, the Egyptian side sent over batches of skeletons, mummies, mummies, and fresh corpses in this way. The British army was used to it from the shock and fear at the beginning to the numbness at the end.

After all, the number of workers needed to widen the canal is not one or two, but tens of millions of workers. With such a large number, even skeletons will look numb and feel nothing.

Of course, it is impossible for Chen Mo to control such a huge number by himself, and even the number of acolytes produced does not have such a large number to control such a huge group of undead, so Chen Mo chose to erect an obelisk beside the river.

This kind of obelisk is one of the products made by Chen Mo by combining the knowledge of necromancy in the spell book with the knowledge of ancient Egyptian spells presented by Imerton. After activation, it only needs one or two acolytes to continuously input mana to maintain it.

After the obelisk is activated, it can cover a radius of about seven kilometers, and the undead who are marked within the coverage area will be controlled by the obelisk.

It's just that this kind of control is quite rough, and it can only perform a general command, but cannot perform fine operations.

For example, you can order all or part of the undead to move forward or backward, or attack, or stop, but you cannot order a certain undead to do fine work alone.

Therefore, on the construction site, an obelisk was set up on both sides of the river every ten kilometers, so that the four obelisks unfolded together were enough to cover a section of the river with a length of 20 kilometers, controlling nearly a million undead laborers for construction.

There is an old saying that "there are 10,000 people, there are no boundaries, and there are 100,000 people, the ground is stretching to the sky." The scene of nearly a million undead laborers working together is very spectacular, even standing on the bank of the river and looking at it, you can see it as far as you can see They are all skeletons.

Although these undead are mentally retarded, limited by physical problems, and not very energetic, nearly a million workers who don't need to rest are working around the clock, and they don't need to affect the progress of the construction because of eating, drinking, and sleeping. The construction efficiency of the secondary canal widening project has been greatly improved.

As for where the nearly one million undead come from, it is natural to thank the funeral customs and natural climate of ancient Egypt since ancient times.

From ancient times to the present, Egyptians have the habit of making corpses into mummies, both nobles and commoners. However, the mummies of the nobles are well-made, and the corpses can be preserved for a long time. Pharaohs can even build magnificent projects such as pyramids. as his own mausoleum.

But ordinary civilians can only dry their bodies like bacon, and they don't have good cloth to wrap them finely, let alone grand mausoleums, so they are buried in such an ordinary way.

However, thanks to the dry natural climate in Egypt, these corpses will dry quickly under the influence of the desert climate.

If it is not damaged by activities such as tomb robbery, the body will remain underground and will not be damaged for thousands of years.

It was precisely because of this that after Chen Mo dispatched his acolytes made with cloning technology, he quickly pulled out more than 800,000 undead from around Cairo and sent them to the construction site in the canal area in batches.

Some of them were those who died during the previous Battle of Cairo. Among them, the claimed corpses will be taken away for burial, but the remaining unclaimed corpses or those that have been beaten too badly to be recognized will be buried. Transform into undead laborers and send them to work.

This is also one of the policies that Chen Mo intends to implement in the future. If someone is responsible for taking away and burying the dead bodies, they will be buried naturally. Work until you earn enough money for your own coffin before being buried in the soil.

And even so, these corpses will still be dug up when the country needs them, and transformed into undead laborers or undead soldiers.

In fact, Chen Mo himself wanted to collect a corpse tax, that is, after the death of an Egyptian citizen, the corpse would still work for the country.

Of course, if you do this directly, it will definitely not work. No matter how much the Egyptian tradition attaches importance to corpses, it is still too shocking to directly pull the dead to work.

What Chen Mo envisages is to open up the service of resurrection after death. Of course, it is not difficult for a necromancer. There are so many ways to resurrect corpses. A large passive resurrection circle, which automatically activates the resurrection program when someone dies, is not a difficult thing for Chen Mo to do.

In this way, after the death of the Egyptians, they can be resurrected as undead and continue to live, but as the cost of resurrection, the undead needs to serve the country for ten years. If the family has money to pay for the resurrection, they do not have to serve for ten years.

In this way, no matter the poor or the rich, they can still contribute to Chen Mo after death, but the rich donate their money and the poor donate their corpses.

The resurrected undead are not completely free, and do not need other additional investment, because both the corpse and the skeleton will gradually decay and be damaged over time.

If you are poor, as long as you serve the country, the maintenance fee will naturally be borne by the country, but you need to add a maintenance fee to the service life, while the rich can only pay for the maintenance service yourself.

In this way, whether it is a large number of low-level undead or wealth, they can enter Chen Mo's pocket very smoothly.

The only limitation is nothing more than people's acceptance of the resurrection of the undead.