Lords of All: The Moving Castle of the Dead

After capturing the city-state of Taker, Li Ziyu was not in a hurry to lead the undead army to move forward. He wanted to re-plan and make some repairs.

The city-state of Taker not only has the title of [fortress], it is also a gateway.

After this city-state, there is the real territory of the rat people.

It has a vast area and a large number of city-states.

If we move forward, we won't be able to run rampant and overwhelm the city as we are doing now.

According to the information given by Sayer, the construction sites of the rat-human city-states after Taker City-State were carefully planned.

The connections between them are very close. Attacking one city-state is often equivalent to attacking several city-states at the same time. They will help each other.

Therefore, if we attack again later, we may have to divide our forces and attack several city-states at the same time.

The division of troops is not good news for the undead tribe.

The undead clan under Li Ziyu is mainly based on quantity, and the number of high-end units is still not enough.

If you attack a city-state alone, there is no problem and you can crush it, but if you attack several city-states at the same time, it is a problem.

There are no high-ranking generals among the undead. They all obey Li Ziyu's dispatches and arrangements.

All the power was concentrated in Li Ziyu, so that the army could command it like an arm.

This also brought about a problem. Once Li Ziyu made a mistake in command, it would mean a chain reaction.

In addition, the rat-man army that had withdrawn before must be waiting for them in the rat-man territory.

You have to consider whether it is.

To sum up, Li Ziyu wants to make some improvements in the city-state of Taker, and change the city-state of Taker by the way, leaving a way out for himself.

The losses of the city-state of Taker were much greater than those of the previous city-states. After all, they firmly resisted the undead.

The rat soldiers guarding the city were all killed and injured, and there were only civilians in the city, and their number was not as large as that of other city-states.

When the undead entered the city, many civilians resisted and attacked frantically.

Li Ziyu could forgive those rat people and civilians of other races who surrendered, but there was no need to keep those who dared to attack the undead.

So the city-state of Takr went through a wave of purges.

The undead will faithfully carry out Li Ziyu's orders. Li Ziyu ordered them to only kill those who attack them, so they did so.

Compared with those life races, it is much better.

The undead will not plunder resources wantonly, rob or rape women, or do crazy things. After all, these things are more meaningful to the undead than sleeping.

They do not understand the value of money and treasures, have no concept of reproduction, and do not even compete for military honors.

As long as you don't fight back, don't attack, and surrender honestly, you won't die.

After the undead entered the city, they searched every house and drove the people inside into the streets.

There is no use hiding. The undead are extremely sensitive to the breath of life. They don't see with their eyes, but look for people through the breath of life. As long as they are alive, they cannot hide away.

When civilians in Thakor were driven out onto the streets, they thought the end had come.

But the undead just told them to kneel down, throw away their weapons, raise their hands, surrender and surrender.

Some frightened civilians couldn't help but launch an attack. It was of no use. It was just a few more corpses, which would be transformed into new undead.

And when they took the lead and threw away their weapons, they knelt on the ground and were surprised to find that the undead didn't attack them at all and just walked past them silently, they understood.

After cleaning up, the undead gathered the surrendered people and set up several places to guard them.

After the city-state of Taker stabilized, Li Ziyu and the others entered the city-state.

"This is really nice." Li Ziyu patted the solid stone wall next to her and said seriously.

"Their city walls are not simple." Zhang Peng also lamented.

If it hadn't been for Li Ziyu's undead army, it would have been really difficult to capture such a city-state.

They could see that all the walls were not simple. Every wall was engraved with a magic circle and had been blessed with strong defense.

The walls of Taker City-State are all made of huge stones, which is very rare in the wasteland.

Boulders are not a particularly scarce material in the wasteland, but they are definitely not easy to obtain.

So many huge boulders have consumed almost all the resources of the Taker City-State.

Year by year, this solid city-state was gradually formed.

As a result, Li Ziyu is now cheaper.

The city-state of Thakur is interesting.

They relied on the city wall and divided into many independent small areas.

Every small area has a farmer as a manager, which is equivalent to a small noble.

They owned independent manors and large fields.

The core part of each independent area is the manor of the small noble. The other villages and markets are all centered around the manor of the small noble.

Li Ziyu walked through several areas, and the more he looked at them, the more interesting they became.

Good guy, there are various cultures and customs in a city-state, and each area is a small village.

This is really interesting.

Walking all the way in, I looked at the areas with different customs. The further in I went, the richer they became.

Wealth is gradually concentrated.

All the way to the innermost part, Li Ziyu still had some unfinished thoughts.

The innermost layer is a large piece of land. It is not divided into various areas. Anyone who can live here is considered a noble.

Standing on the city wall, looking down at the innermost level.

"This city-state is valuable and can be built. Let the innermost layer be our base camp." Li Ziyu decided the future of Taker City-State in one sentence.

He was going to put down some buildings on the innermost level.

For example, the soul base station, prayer cemetery, temple of the dead, etc., as well as the obelisk of the dead for defense must also be prepared.

If the battle against the rat people fails, this place will become a fortress. At least it will win a lot of land in the rear for Li Ziyu, allowing him to obtain a lot of resources, and he will not lose anything.

Li Ziyu didn't look after herself.

Thanks to the Ratman's talent for digging holes, there are also underground cities under the city-state of Taker.

The area of ​​the underground city is not as large as the ground, but it is also within the scope of two city walls, which is not too small.

Li Ziyu asked Zhang Peng to take control of the underground part, use the Gopher Fortress to excavate, and connect the underground cities of several other conquered city-states.

Ratmen are better at building and maintaining underground cities than above ground cities.

When the city-state of Taker was captured, the underground city caused a lot of trouble for Li Ziyu, so he let the Fearless and the Black Warrior take the lead before entering the underground city.

The city-state of Taker, which is good at defense, also has layers of walls in the underground city, which are partitioned like the underground city, but the partition area in the underground city is larger.

The ratmen in the city-state of Taker dug deeper than the ratmen in other city-states, and the underground city seemed wider.

The underground cities in other city-states are more similar to a normal city, but here, they are uneven, with even bottomless pits, and towering stone peaks, like mountains.

There are many buildings, including fortresses.

What's even more surprising is that there are actually large tracts of cultivated land in the underground city, where the food that ratmen love is grown, and there are even fruit trees.

The food and fruit trees grown on the ground are somewhat similar to those on the ground, but different. They should have been cultivated by the rat people themselves.

For rat people who like to develop various technologies, cultivating food crops and fruit trees does not seem to be a particularly difficult task.

They diverted underground water, creating winding waterways in the underground city.

Waterways extend in all directions and are collected throughout the underground city. On the one hand, they provide water for the rat people living in the underground city, and on the other hand, they can water food crops.

There are several waterways that are extraordinarily wide and feel like rivers. There are stone bridges on them, and you can enjoy the beautiful scenery by crossing them.

Tucker's dungeon is a world unto itself.

If it hadn't been forcibly breached, the people inside would have been able to survive.

"It can be seen that they have worked hard." Li Ziyu stood on the top of a castle and looked at the underground city with emotion.

The castle where he is located is the highest place in the underground city, and it is also where the master of the underground city once lived.

The former owner of the castle was now thrown into the pile of dead bodies. After all, he brought his own private soldiers to try to resist the undead. In order to capture the castle, Li Ziyu also lost hundreds of black warriors.

After checking it out, Li Ziyu began to clean up Taker City State.

In the innermost layer, useless buildings will be demolished and undead buildings will be placed.

With the blessing of the system, undead buildings rose from the ground one after another, majestic and solemn.

In the center is the Temple of the Dead. Surrounding the Temple of the Dead are several prayer cemeteries in a circle, and the rest of the buildings unfold in sequence.

In the sky above, obelisks of the dead floated, solemn and quiet.

They will protect this place from intrusion.

The undead stood silently in the building. They made no sound or moved. The soul fire in their eyes burned but not intensely.

Li Ziyu could feel that they sent a reassuring signal, as if the familiar buildings made them peaceful.

In the underground city, Li Ziyu also arranged buildings and placed soul base stations to connect the ground and underground, greatly improving control.

In just a few days, the city-state of Taker has undergone earth-shaking changes, and a large number of buildings have been added to the additional layers of the city walls.

Especially the soul base stations, several of which are arranged on each floor, are designed to better transmit signals and make the soul network smoother.

Li Ziyu was busy on the ground, while Zhang Peng was busy underground, digging holes like crazy.

The undead were advancing too fast before, leaving him no time to lay out the underground passages. He would naturally have to make up for it when he had time.

Without the maze-like underground passages, Zhang Peng always felt uneasy.

He regards each underground city as an important underground node, and strives to connect the left and right underground cities to facilitate his movement underground.

As for whether these underground passages will be discovered by rat people in the future, Zhang Peng said that he is not worried at all.

In addition to the maze-like underground passages, as the Gopher Man's fortress was upgraded to a fortress, he had more defense methods, such as planting special plants, setting up various traps, and even raising monsters that could live underground, all of which allowed him to The underground passage created becomes very safe.

Even if the Ratmen can find those dungeon nodes through the heavily ambushed underground passages, so what?

There are also a large number of undead in the underground city, and as soon as someone breaks in, the undead in the underground city will rush down and kill all the intruders.

Nothing to worry about.

The residents of Taker City-State have recovered from their panic after a few days.

The undead have less strict control over them, and will let them go home as long as they prove not to be aggressive.

When they were first released, they all hid in the house and did not dare to come out for fear of being poisoned.

But as they saw, the residents discovered that even if they left the house, as long as they did not attack the undead, the undead would ignore them.

The undead just patrolled the streets mechanically.

Those extra buildings made the residents very curious, and they always looked at them from a distance.

The architecture of the undead seems a little scary and is always related to death and bones, but if you look closely, there is a sense of seriousness and a strange beauty.

Some residents are paying attention to the buildings, while some poor residents are worrying about food.

They didn't know what to do. The city was captured by the undead. Obviously, the undead didn't need food, but they did.

The lack of food has left residents somewhat panicked and filled with sadness about the future.

Until, a young girl, her mother became ill, sick from hunger.

The ignorant little girl resisted the fear of death, came out of the hiding house, and stood on the street.

She was dressed in rags, skinny as a stick, with no flesh on her body, her cheeks were sunken, her hair was dry and yellow, and her body was dirty, like a beggar.

The residents were puzzled when they saw the little girl standing in the middle of the street, until they saw the patrolling undead.

Even though they knew that the undead would not attack them at will, the residents were still afraid and hid in their houses and closed their doors.

The little girl didn't leave?

Through the cracks in doors and windows, residents saw the little girl still standing in the middle of the street.

They didn't know what the little girl was going to do, but they were nervous.

It was a group of patrolling undead, with pale skeletons, nine in a group, three in the front, holding shields and bone knives, and six in the back, holding crossbows, moving forward step by step along a fixed route. .

Directly in front of him was the little girl holding the corner of her clothes, with fear on her face and tears trembling in her eyes.

The road ahead was blocked. The undead stood still and looked at the little girl with beating soul fire, wondering why she blocked the road.

【Intercepted. 】

[No attack intent found. 】

【Bypass. 】

The soul network conveyed simple messages, but the undead didn't find anything special about her. After a pause, they took action again, trying to get around the little girl.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the little girl suddenly opened her arms and stopped them.

【enemy……】

[Interception. 】

[No attack intent found. 】

【wait. 】

The blocked undead did not attack, but stopped again and stared at the little girl.

The little girl closed her eyes, and the surrounding residents who were secretly observing her had their hearts in their throats. But after waiting for a while, they found that the undead was still standing there.

The little girl opened her eyes a little and didn't see any knives or arrows coming. Tears fell from her cheeks, but she breathed a long sigh of relief. Her bet was right, the undead didn't kill her.

"My, my, my mother is sick. She is very hungry. She needs to eat, otherwise she will die!"

"Please, please, give me some food."

"Please..."

The little girl stammered and choked up her words. At the end of her speech, she knelt down in front of the undead.

The leader of the patrol was a junior skeleton warrior. His intelligence was not much higher than that of ordinary skeleton undead. He could not understand most of what the little girl said, but he got the word "food" from many sentences.

【food. 】

【Send it. 】

A message passes through the soul network.

The little girl didn't know what the undead had done. She just looked at it in prayer. She didn't know who else to ask for at this time. Maybe the skeletons in front of her could save them?

She was too young and didn't know anyone. Even if she did, at this time, everyone would look out for themselves first and not take out the food.