The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

Looking at the skeletons and corpses that covered the entire construction site, waving tools and earnestly digging the river, all the British engineers who were in charge of overseeing the work on the scene were dumbfounded.

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

Some devout people even took out crosses, prayed loudly to God, and scolded the retreat of the evil. At the same time, they also asked the British soldiers responsible for maintaining order at the construction site for help, asking them to destroy these blasphemous evil corpses.

However, these British soldiers had long been accustomed to the existence of these corpses, and seemed indifferent, and even "pacified" the engineers and asked Lee Enfield to invite them back to work.

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

In fact, the British soldiers were also startled by these undead laborers at the beginning, and many even shot and fired. If it wasn't for the officers to suppress and appease them, they would probably fight on the spot.

However, after the Egyptians sent skeletons, mummies, mummies, and fresh corpses in batches after batches, the British army was accustomed 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, Chen Mo couldn't control such a huge number by himself, and even the acolytes created did not have such a large number to control such a huge group of undead, so Chen Mo chose to erect an obelisk next to the river.

This kind of obelisk is one of the products that Chen Mo combined the necromantic knowledge in the spell book with the ancient Egyptian spell knowledge presented by Immorton. It is a kind of gathering tower and needs four acolytes to activate it. After activation, it only needs one or two acolytes to continuously input mana to maintain it.

After this obelisk is activated, it can cover a radius of about seven kilometers, and the undead that 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 carry out a general command, but cannot carry out fine operation.

For example, all or part of the undead can be commanded to move forward or backward, or to attack, or to stop, but it cannot individually command a certain undead to do fine work.

Therefore, on the construction site, an obelisk will be set up on both sides of the river every ten kilometers, so that the four obelisks unfold together, enough to cover a section of the river with a length of 20 kilometers, and control the nearly one million undead laborers for construction.

There is an old saying that "there are 10,000 people, no borders, 100,000 people, and the ground is tearing up." The scene of nearly a million undead laborers working together is very spectacular. All are skeletons.

Although these undead are mentally low, limited by physical problems, and their energy is not large, but nearly a million workers who do not need rest work around the clock, and do not need to eat, drink, and sleep to affect the construction progress. The construction efficiency of the secondary canal widening project has been greatly improved.

As for where the nearly one million dead souls came from, this is naturally thanks to the funeral customs and natural climate of ancient Egypt since ancient times.

From ancient times to the present, Egyptians have the habit of mummifying corpses, both nobles and commoners, but the mummies of nobles are well-made, the corpses can be preserved for a long time, and the pharaohs can even build the grand project of pyramids. as his own mausoleum.

But ordinary civilians can only air-dry the corpse like bacon, and there is no good cloth to wrap it finely, and there is no magnificent mausoleum, so they are buried in such an ordinary way.

However, thanks to the natural dry climate in Egypt, these corpses will dry quickly under the influence of the desert climate. If they are not damaged by activities such as tomb robbing, the corpses will remain underground and will not be damaged for thousands of years.

It is precisely because of this that after Chen Mo dispatched his acolytes who were 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 are people who died in the previous battle of Cairo, and the claimed corpses will be taken away for burial, but the unclaimed or beaten too badly unidentifiable corpses will be buried. Transformed into undead laborers and sent to work.

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

And even so~www.NovelMTL.com~ 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 levy a corpse tax, that is, after the death of an Egyptian citizen, the corpse would have to work for the country.

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

What Chen Mo envisioned was to open up the service of resurrection after death, which is of course not difficult for a necromancer. There are so many ways to resurrect a corpse, he can take out seventeen or eight kinds at will, and arrange one in each city. In a large passive resurrection circle, the resurrection program is automatically activated when someone dies, which is not a difficult thing for Chen Mo to do.

In this way, after the Egyptians died, they could be resurrected as undead and continue to live, but as the cost of resurrection, the undead needed to serve the country for ten years. If the family had the money to pay the cost of resurrection, they could not serve for ten years.

In this way, both the poor and the rich can still contribute to Chen Mo after death, but the rich contribute money and the poor contribute corpses.

After the resurrection, the undead are not completely free and do not need other additional investment, because both the corpse and the skeleton will gradually rot and damage over time.

If you are poor, as long as you serve the country, then the cost of maintenance will naturally be the responsibility of the state, but you need to add a maintenance fee to the service life, while the rich can only buy maintenance services at their own expense.

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

The only limit is just how acceptable people are to resurrecting the undead.