Chapter 16 Surrender

The maid holding my leg suddenly had a cold flash in her eyes, and I realized it was too late. In a hurry, he raised his legs and tried to kick her out, but unfortunately he failed, and the other maids were not pretending. The maid holding my leg hung on my leg and wouldn't let go. Although she looks slender and slender, she is a ceramic person and cannot be measured by human weight. For her size, she weighs at least 200 pounds. My horizontal kick failed to throw her out, but another one rushed up from the other side. Now both legs were trapped, making movement extremely difficult.

In desperation, I raised my hands up a little, and with a squeaking sound, the blades and claws of both hands popped out. His arms suddenly pressed down, and his fists hit the heads of the maids on both sides at the same time. The first thing that touched their heads was the tip of the blade claw, but I suddenly felt a huge impact on my hand, and at the same time, accompanied by a harsh scream, the blade claw actually slid along the heads of the two maids. On both sides, there were only two sparks on their heads.

They all say that if you don’t have diamonds, you won’t get the job of porcelain. Regardless of the meaning of the idiom itself, if you understand it literally, you will know that only diamonds can cut the hardness of porcelain. It can be said that its actual hardness is comparable to that of glass. The only shortcoming may be It's just fragile. However, the brittleness is due to the inability to bend. After these dolls are created by magic, they can even dance. You can imagine how good their toughness is. Since it has good toughness and will not break, porcelain without this shortcoming is almost as good as diamond.

The weapons in both hands were disabled. The two maids raised their heads and smiled evilly at me. Then they each took out a dagger and stabbed me under my legs at the same time. Damn it, if you can’t beat me, do you want me to be a eunuch? You have to dodge this kind of attack if you can't avoid it.

A whirlwind suddenly flashed around me, instantly transforming myself into a silver moon state. "Solar Realm."

The ultra-high temperature instantly turned the entire cave into a crater, and the surrounding rocks were melting at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, there was no reaction to my real target. The daggers of the two maids were hit, but not my vital part. Because the Silver Moon is shorter than the Purple Sun. After changing numbers, the two maids aimed at the wrong target, and they all inserted themselves into my lower abdomen, narrowly avoiding turning me into a eunuch.

The maids around me quickly rushed up, obviously planning to surround and kill me. The solar field is fatal to most enemies, but there is no way to deal with these maids. The reason is that ceramics are high-temperature resistant materials. The temperature in my solar domain is indeed very high, but it does not really reach the temperature of the sun. Ceramics will of course be evaporated into steam on the sun, but it will not vaporize in my domain.

Seeing the porcelain maids rushing up again. I had to take another approach.

"The sun calls." The fiery red flames around me suddenly turned golden, and then they erupted like a volcano, and all my hair began to fly upward. The tip of the Sun Rod in his hand changed a little, the stick head turned into a pointed cone, and the Sun Rod became a Sun Spear. I plunged the spearhead into the first maid who rushed to her. She took advantage of her physical strength to fight the tip of my spear without dodging.

This time she made a mistake. Almost the moment before the tip of the gun touched her, her chest suddenly began to melt, and the tip of the gun penetrated in without any resistance as if it were piercing into liquid. Then countless golden arcs shone, and the maid melted into a puddle of reddish-brown mud with an unbelievable expression, and green smoke was rising from the surface.

I drew my gun without hesitation, turned the gun around and stabbed the maid holding my leg. She looked up at me in surprise, and the tip of the gun was inserted right into her mouth. It penetrated two feet before stopping, and then her whole body melted into the same material as before and pooled on the ground.

After taking care of two maids in succession, I gained some freedom, turned around and backed away a little to avoid the other maids. But it seems that there is no need for it anymore. At first, my magic pets thought that I could handle it alone. So I didn't come out to help. Now that I was in danger, of course I rushed forward immediately. Those maids who tried to get closer were blocked.

The battle situation suddenly became very strange. My demon pet and the ring knights fought one-on-one with those ceramic maids, but no one was missing from both sides after fighting for a long time. The attack power of the maids is too weak. Unless they attack vital points, they basically cannot break the defense, and they have almost no damage to my magic pet. But at the same time, when my demon pets hit these ceramic maids, sparks flew everywhere, but there was no damage effect. Neither side breaks the defense. This kind of battle can end only when one side is exhausted and unable to move, and then the other side uses vital attacks. We are all high-level beings, and it is unlikely that we can kill our opponents by relying on basic damage alone. At this frequency of attacks, the automatic blood recovery speed is faster than the damage, so it is impossible to kill them.

Lingling and I are the only ones who can really cause damage here. Lingling's holy sword is a bit difficult to cut ceramics, but at least one sword can create a big groove, and three or five swords can cut off an arm. I'll get rid of the last maid on my body first. He turned around and called Yeyue. Yeyue looked back at me. But all he saw was a ball flying past. When she took it into her hand, she immediately laughed. After I used Sun Summoning, the Sun Rod in my hand turned into a Sun Spear, with a real sun domain on the tip of the spear. Although this field only includes the scope of the spearhead itself, it is enough to make the spearhead indestructible. So I threw the extra eternity to Yeyue. After all, there were only three pieces of equipment of practical value among us.

The actual combat effectiveness of the ceramic maids is actually not high. These stone maids created by the Ghost King are basically the same. They have high defense but not enough combat effectiveness. However, people with this defensive characteristic cannot attack them. When facing these dolls, we are like a lion facing a turtle. Everyone knows that the lion is definitely stronger than the turtle, but there is nothing we can do against the turtle. The most annoying of these dolls are these porcelain maids. The hardness of ceramic is second only to the diamond figures among all the materials of these dolls, but they have many annoying characteristics that the diamond figures do not have.

Ceramics are resistant to high temperatures, ceramics are not afraid of acid corrosion, and ceramics have high hardness. In addition to the characteristics of the doll itself: not afraid of mental magic, firm will, not afraid of pain, and fast reaction speed. Basically, they have all the most annoying characteristics. If you fight against something like this, you won't be beaten to death, but you will die from exhaustion. On the forum, the number one creature on the list of creatures that players least want to fight is the high-defense magic doll. Either they cannot defeat it, or they are afraid of wasting time.

Yeyue immediately replaced it with a snake sword after catching my eternity. We also have three people here who can do real damage output. But as we change, our enemies will change even more. One of the maids suddenly turned around and took off her loose robe when I rushed towards her. Don't get it wrong, she didn't intend to use a honey trap. I saw her throwing the whole dress over with a casual flick, covering me in one fell swoop, and the dress blocked my sight. A few seconds after the robe leaves her body, it will change into the characteristics of ordinary ceramics. The hardened robe turns into a cover, covering the upper half of my body.

Although ceramic is brittle, you still have to have enough force to smash it! The ceramic robe now covers my head completely, with no gaps at all. There is no effort at all. The ceramic maid who threw away her coat immediately rushed up and stabbed me again on my exposed belly. The dagger that had just been inserted into my lower abdomen had not been removed yet. Now I would be stabbed again. The smell was really unpleasant. It was so dark under the robe that I couldn't see anything. I raised my leg and kicked based on the feeling of being hit, and I was really hit. While the maid was kicked away, I jumped up and threw myself towards the ground.

Snapped! What a crisp sound! Although I was thrown to pieces, at least the outer cover was broken. After I came out, I discovered that several of the men outside had their heads covered with hoods. The maids were all transformed into tight-fitting outfits, looking like assassins. It turned out that their large outer robes were specially worn to cover the assassin costumes underneath. This assassin's tight-fitting suit is filled with a variety of weapons, from climbing hooks to long-range crossbows. At first, they seemed to have normal figures, but now they look really slender and slender. With so many things stuffed in their clothes, they don't look bloated. They are probably the same people like them who are made of clay and ceramics. Normal people would not be so slim.

The large robes are not combat equipment. The maids who took off their coats were obviously very fast, flying over walls and flying over walls at lightning speed. Only now do I know that the Ghost King’s final trump card is not the four diamond men at all. But these porcelain maids. Those oil people and gold and silver people are equivalent to the emperor's soldiers and low-level officers, and the diamond people are just the type of generals. These maids are probably equivalent to the emperor's personal guards. In terms of combat effectiveness, these guards are more powerful. At least the Diamond Man did not make us so busy. In fact, we were unlucky enough to start the battle in the passage today. It would be nice if the place was a little more open and we could summon a large magic pet to help in the battle. What these maids are most afraid of is actually the super-large heavyweight monsters. No matter how hard the ceramic is, there is a limit. Being slapped by a big guy like a tank. I can’t even think about it.

In fact, the game "Zero" looks very unbalanced on the surface, but in fact it is just because it follows the cyclic balance route. Generally, online games require that each profession be balanced, which means that after excluding personal factors, everyone can achieve the same combat effect, no matter what profession they are. But the design idea of ​​"Zero" is cyclical balance, which is the principle that Chinese people are most familiar with: one thing reduces another. Today, this time the ceramic men defeated so many of our high-level combat forces, but if I had known from the beginning today that these ceramic maids would be difficult to deal with, I would have just summoned the birds immediately.

Why flying birds? Because he is the only demon pet that can use shock waves. The ultra-high frequency vibrating revolving door restrains hard objects. The harder it is, the more unlucky it is. Unfortunately I found out too late. You can indeed summon birds in this passage. But it was useless to summon him. Asuka has no vocal cords, and the ultra-high-frequency vibrations it emits originate from its exoskeleton system. Only during high-pressure flight, high-pressure gas is filled into the bone cavity, and then the muscles are vibrated, and ultrasonic shock waves are generated through the resonance of the bone cavity with high-pressure gas. Therefore, even if birds can fly in this cave environment, they dare not increase their speed. Too fast and there is no way to generate shock waves.

It is for these reasons that I say that "Zero" is a cyclical balance, one thing reduces another, and geographical factors are also cleverly integrated into the game. Unlike other games that say that they include geographical factors on the surface, in fact they are all Combat status is forcibly modified using attribute numbers. For example, in many games, cavalry will be forcibly increased by a few points of damage in plain battles. This is to attribute the terrain factors, not to truly create a geographical environment. affect the battle. However, it is understandable that other games are set up like this. After all, games like "Zero" are based on a physics computing engine. Without this physics engine, it is impossible to achieve real environment simulation programmatically. However, after running the physics engine, the load on the server will increase exponentially. Except for Longyuan's Nuwa series of super biological computers, there is currently no computer in the world that can afford this kind of transportation, so there is no way to use real terrain parameters to affect the game. This cannot be blamed on those game designers. They also know that a setting like "Zero" is the best, but they do not have such a server, so they can only abandon the best solution and adopt a relatively backward solution.

But for now, I would rather "Zero" uses a backward computing model without this damn cave. I have at least thirty ways to kill all these ceramic maids.

"Be careful." I was feeling depressed when the maid who was fighting against a bell knight suddenly turned and rushed toward me. I was attacked from both sides by two ceramic maids.

"Transform into a beast." I completed the account switch in an instant. After turning into Zuri, I quickly transformed into a werewolf. I stretched my hands to the left and right and held the heads of the two maids at the same time. Their daggers were still some distance away from my body at this time. This is one of the main benefits of becoming a werewolf, the arms are longer than those of humans.

"Lie down!" Lingling jumped over from a distance and split the maid in front of her in two with a leaping chop. I grabbed another maid and spun it around, throwing it far away and knocking over a maid. Switching back to the Silver Moon state again, he raised his hand and threw the Sun Spear. Just enough to wear two.

We all gathered together again, and the maids also returned to the Ghost King, but there were only three of them left, and including the Ghost King himself, there were only four.

"You know how powerful it is, right?" I looked at the Ghost King. "You are so brave to actually trick me into surrendering!"

The Ghost King said with a playful smile: "Isn't that because I'm overestimating my own abilities! Now that you've proven your bravery, how about I really surrender to you?"

I lifted the combat status and said to the Ghost King: "I really wanted to kill you at the beginning. If you really surrendered, I would kill you too." The Ghost King frowned upon hearing this. But I quickly said: "But your resistance made me change my mind."

As soon as the Ghost King heard that there was a way out, he immediately had hope again. "I wonder how you plan to handle this?"

I smiled: "Actually, it's very simple. Do you know how to spend money and eliminate disasters?"

"Understood." The Ghost King perked up as soon as he heard this. "But, I have no money!"

"Wealth is not equal to money. Gold and silver are indeed very useful, but there are almost as many things in this world that money can't buy as there are things it can buy. What I need now is what money can't buy, but this time I'm not Buy it not with money, but with your life.”

"What do you want?"

"How to make dolls. I got some from you last time. But the dolls I researched are always not as useful as what you made, and they are dull and silly in many aspects, and have little practical value. What's more, This time, you actually came up with several new varieties, especially the last ceramic maids, I like them very much. Judging from their performance, they should have above average intelligence level, and they are quite loyal. So good Of course I won't let you go. If you are willing to teach my people how to make dolls like yours, I will let you go. This is a deal. Your skills will buy your life. Buy and sell by force. I won't do anything like that. You can think about it yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't agree."

The Ghost King muttered in a low voice: "You don't want to buy or sell by force. If you don't sell, I will die. How dare you not sell!"

"What did you say?"

The Ghost King didn't expect that I had such good ears, so he quickly explained loudly: "I mean you are very tolerant and you actually took advantage of me like this. How can I hide my secrets anymore! I am very willing to complete this transaction."

I smiled and said: "Very good, then I won't take your life. I will also leave you with the lives of the three remaining maids, as a bonus. How do you plan to teach my people?"

"This teaching method is relatively complicated, and I haven't written any records. I probably need to meet the people who made it before I can teach it face to face."

"Okay then. Just follow me, but before that you have to wait."

The Ghost King didn't know why I asked him to wait, but he soon found out. This passage was about to be dug, but the Ghost King was blocked here. The reason was that a huge black steel rock crystal was dug out halfway and blocked the passage. This black steel rock crystal is a very useful ore. Although many people don't know what it does, everyone knows it as long as they know it in advance. Because this black steel rock crystal is the original black diamond ore. As long as you use a magic device to extract the black diamond core and re-forge it, you can get a top-grade black diamond, which is a super dark gem that is even better than black crystal. After the black steel rock crystal in front of you is completely decomposed, it can produce at least three or four kilograms of high-purity black diamonds. If anyone says in the market that I want to sell black diamonds, a group of necromancers will immediately break their heads.

Mining ore is not a big deal for me. Anyway, I still have more than 9,000 evil spirit knights and a pioneer to help. Soon we got this big guy down. It wasn't until it was removed that we learned he was actually much smaller than we had estimated. The area of ​​this black steel rock crystal is indeed very large. It took a long time to dig from both sides to reach the edge, but its thickness is too small, so the volume is not as large as expected. Press this volume. It would be nice to be able to pull out pure black diamonds of three or four weights.

After smashing this big piece and putting it into the Phoenix Dragon Space, we took the Ghost King and left the cave and went straight to find the weak point in the space.

The weak point between the underworld and the human world is like a passage between the two places. The number of monsters and ghosts gathering in such a place is very large, but not many people actually get there. There was no trouble in our time travel. The little dragon girl knew how to understand the underworld, so she could take her there as long as there weren't many people. I took back most of my demon pets, and it was not considered an overload for Xiao Longnu to take me, the Ghost King, and his three maids back to the human world.

Things will be much easier to handle after coming back. Let’s fly back to Fulcrum City first. Then teleport directly back to Isengard. Rose knew I was back when I entered Fulcrum City. When I arrived at Essinger, she was already waiting for me, and True Red and gold coins were also with her.

Zhen Hong looked forward to it when she saw me, but I could only disappoint her. "I'm sorry, there may be a problem with the information. When I got there, the other party was planning to harm me. I couldn't find the rb who carried the last bottle of holy blood. After that, we traveled from the human world to the underworld, and there was really no way to find it. "

Seeing Zhenhong's expression dimming, Rose immediately consoled her: "Don't be discouraged, Zhenhong. As long as the thing is still there, we will definitely find it. I will ask the intelligence department to work harder."

Zhenhong is also a relatively cheerful person. Although she is depressed, she does not have any overreaction. "I know this thing is hard to find, so you don't have to worry about me. Incomplete national utensils are also national utensils, and I won't care too much."

I promised with all my heart: "Don't worry, Zhenhong. I promise to help you find the last bottle of holy blood and help you complete the assembly of the national weapon. This is the first operation. If you don't find it, it doesn't matter." , If the shot is always on target, then our intelligence department is too powerful, isn't it? Anyway, with system protection, no one can wipe out the bottle of holy blood, so it can still be found."

Gold Coin also came up and comforted Zhenhong for a few words, and then left with Zhenhong. I turned around and pulled the Ghost King over. "Let me introduce to you, this is my new prisoner."

"I protest." The Ghost King raised a hand. "I made a deal with you, I should be a free man."

"The protest is ineffective. You haven't taught my people yet. Until then, you are still a prisoner."

The Ghost King was so depressed that he said no more. I said to Rose: "Although this guy is not very friendly, his skills are very good. Remember the servant I got back last time? Those are all his things. And this time he has a new invention. Let's go. We will take him to the design department now, and I believe we will be able to mass-produce the dolls soon. Although these things are not very powerful in combat, it doesn’t cost much to make them yourself. Once mass-produced, it will be just as good to outnumber them. .”

My rhetoric is quite good, but the actual situation is often not as simple as imagined, at least this is the case for mass production of dolls.

After the Ghost King was brought to our experimental studio, he ran around as excitedly as a child in a toy store, playing with this, looking at that, and constantly asking people around him what these things were used for, but our place The technician didn't know who this guy was yet, so he ignored him.

The Ghost King finally realized that he couldn't do anything without me here, so he ran back and begged me to introduce him. I clapped my hands to attract the attention of the researchers around me. "The golem research team is here to gather together and arrange some work for you."

Soon a group of people gathered around. The three leading ones are Woma, Lund and Noreen. Woma is the technical director of the guild and usually works at the Magic Crystal Power Research Institute. Two NPCs, Lunde and Nolin, one is the apprentice of Jiaha, a puppet expert, and the other is the most perfect puppet. Of course, they are here to help with research.

The Ghost King had no reaction to the two people in front of him, but when he saw Norin, his eyes suddenly widened three times. "You, you, you...are you an artificial creature?"

This time I arrived, I was a little surprised. "Can you tell?"

The Ghost King may have been too excited and forgot that his life was still in my hands. He said impatiently: "No matter how sophisticated the magic doll is, it is still a doll. The moment he can be called a human being, I will be able to It’s unrecognizable, but it’s impossible now. But her research is different from mine, and it seems that she used a lot of other things.”

"So what is your research like?" Noreen asked with great interest.

“My research is based on the soul.”

"Soul? Isn't it based on basic machinery?" Woma also asked.

"of course not."

Lund also joined in: "So you know a lot about it? Tell me what you think."

"Speaking of this...!"

Holy shit! I originally planned to introduce it to the Ghost King, but this was great, these guys were all familiar with each other, and they walked towards the work area while chatting, completely forgetting about me! Forget it, they are all serving my interests anyway. No boss would think that his employees are too hard-working, so let them communicate well!

Following them to the experimental area, the Ghost King saw a large number of things that he had never dared to think of before. Some of them were special materials that he had not been able to obtain before, and some of them were expensive super processing equipment. For example, the one-time mold filling equipment was something he never dared to dream about. That thing can process dolls in an assembly line manner, and can accurately control the characteristics of each doll. As long as what you create is still humanoid, it can be processed no matter what face or outfit you want, and by the way, it can be roughly dehydrated in the first pass. Ensure that the fired pottery has a certain degree of toughness but will not deform due to being too soft.

The Ghost King looked at it for a long time before saying: "Where did you get this thing? What an exaggerated ability!"

Woma said proudly: "Do you know what this is for?"

"I didn't know it at first, but after seeing it, I can roughly understand its function. But the more I looked at it, the more surprised I became. If I had one or two of such a good thing, my army of puppets wouldn't be able to... Oh! What a man! Not to mention how brave I was back then!”

I know what the Ghost King means. He wants to have this kind of equipment and the number of his servants will increase at least dozens of times. No matter how powerful I am, I will still lose against so many servants. At least I'm sure I won't be able to catch him. To be honest, I have seen the production speed of this machine before. Being a servant is like making rice cakes, one at a time, the speed is so fast.

Lund patted the Ghost King on the shoulder and said: "Why do you think of starting from the soul to become a servant? The devils I came into contact with before were all based on machinery, and the magic circle was only added for the convenience of command. Later, the president led We were really surprised to get back the kind of doll you made.”

The Ghost King recalled some vicissitudes of life and said: "I couldn't help it! I was still a young apprentice of the Immortal Sect at that time...!"

"Are you from the Immortal Sect?" I was stunned by the Ghost King's words.

The Ghost King said angrily: "Don't interrupt me."

"Okay, you continue."

"In the beginning, I was really just a little fairy boy. It was only two days after the master accepted me as a disciple. Unexpectedly, I encountered the Ten Thousand Demons Conference. After that, the demons began to unruly and kill innocent people everywhere. The fairy gate was also killed. There were few masters, but the gods became angry and started to work together to create the gourd of heaven and earth. The demons knew how powerful this gourd was. They wanted to destroy this gourd of heaven and earth in advance, so the gods fought with them to protect the gourd. That battle was really bloody. The fight lasted for three days and three nights before it ended. At the last moment, the gourd of heaven and earth was finally completed, and all the demons were sucked into it at once. However, I was standing too close at that time, and I was grabbed by a demon and brought into the gourd together. "

"Is that why I saw you in the gourd?" I finally knew why the Ghost King claimed to be a disciple of the Immortal Sect but entered the gourd pretending to be a monster!

The Ghost King did not answer me, but continued: "At that time, the gourd was full of demons. They were very angry and were sucked into the gourd. They happened to find me, a disciple of the Immortal Sect, and wanted to kill me to vent their anger. But one of the demons said that they would only kill me. It was too cheap once, so after they killed me, they injected evil energy into my soul to make my soul linger. I am a member of the immortal sect, and I will never be able to go back if I am exposed to evil energy, but I don’t want to I got mixed up with those demons, so I hid alone at the exit under the gourd. The Qiankun gourd was made in a hurry. The mana input channel at the bottom was not closed, leaving a big hole, which is the channel you saw later. Only I know this secret, but the monsters don't know it. I can't go back to the fairy gate because of the monster energy, and I can't be with the monsters, so I just guard this passage, which can be considered as a contribution to the fairy gate. But that passage The location is hidden, and the demons have never found that they can get out. So I said it was guarding, but in fact, nothing happened. When I was bored, I would make some clay figures and pour some mana into them to make stone servants. Then I thought about it. , it would be great if I could return to human form, so I began to study how to import souls into human servants."

Woma said: "So you will start your research from this side door, right?"

The Ghost King said: "It's not a side sect! The Immortal Clan's Weapon Technique and Paper Man Art actually have some similar abilities. It's just that people in the Immortal Sect thought these things were just gadgets in the past, so they didn't develop them. "

"That means you later came up with the results of your own research?" Noreen asked.

The Ghost King nodded: "As for Ziri, when he found me, we already had a lot of stone people."

I nodded and confirmed: "The samples I brought back to you were all made by him at that time. Of course, most of them were broken into pieces, and less than one thousandth can be brought back."

The Ghost King said proudly: "At that time, I had actually discovered many ways to improve the abilities of the stone people. It's just that the design of the Qiankun Gourd was to seal the source of the demon's spiritual energy so that they would gradually degenerate and all perish, so even a little spiritual energy inside the gourd was collected. No, so we can’t find the spiritual materials that are common outside, so we can’t enhance the stone man’s power.”

I nodded and said, "No wonder your puppets are so much better this time. It's because the materials were not good last time, right?"

"Of course, if I had the information now, I wouldn't have been kicked out by you."

"That may not be the case."

"No matter what you say, my manufacturing technology is the best."

Woma said: "Then quickly teach us how to do it?"

I originally thought it was time for the Ghost King to impart knowledge, but who knew he suddenly said to me: "I want to change the conditions."

I rolled my eyes and said, "This is outrageous. You still dare to raise the land price with me?"

The Ghost King hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, the professor still has to teach you, but I want to change my request. I want to be able to participate in your research here. The experimental equipment and materials you have here are all things I have dreamed of before. , now I finally see it, I just can’t help it. Even if I teach you, it’s not as good as what I do myself, right? Besides, you don’t care about me being another researcher, right?”

I thought about it for a moment, and the Ghost King was indeed right. You send international students to learn from others. It's definitely not as effective as bringing the other professor directly back, that's for sure. "Okay then. You can stay."

The Ghost King immediately extended another finger: "Last point, I hope you can keep it a secret for me. I don't want the Immortal Sect to know my news."

"OK."

After receiving permission, the Ghost King immediately happily guided our researchers. He first looked at the improved puppet we made based on his research, and then said: "There is really a problem with your research direction, but I have to say that you are really wealthy. It is obvious that the direction is wrong, but you are just throwing money at it. There is a way out. Now this puppet is really useless because of what you guys did, it is a complete hodgepodge!"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Woma said: "The attack power of the steel golems in our guild far exceeds yours, and the defense power is basically the same, but the size is larger and the reaction speed is relatively slow. The most important thing is The thing is that your doll has a very high intelligence, which is our biggest headache."

The Ghost King said: "I've already said it. Dolls are based on souls. Since they are people in the first place, they must have high intelligence. Big guys like you are all made of steel and have no souls, so of course they are bulkier."

"You mean every doll has to have a soul added to it?"

"right."

"Then how to find the soul?"

The Ghost King took a pen and drew on the white board next to him and said: "The best souls are those who voluntarily become dolls, like them." The Ghost King pushed the three ceramic maids he brought forward. "The souls in their bodies were originally tortured souls. They could not be reincarnated, but they wanted to have a body. So I helped them create this ceramic body. Dolls made from such souls not only have high intelligence, but also have independent thinking. , there is no problem at all in handling some difficult things, and apart from having no ambition, they are no different from normal people.”

"But such souls are not easy to find?" Woma asked a more practical question: "Our guild makes dolls for energy production and to fight on the front line. How can we mass-produce them if we need to specifically collect souls? "

"Actually, this is very simple. This kind of voluntary soul can retain intelligence and memory, but it has an extra body, so this soul does not lose anything, and there will be more volunteers. But I also know that such a soul may have no limit supply. But I have other ways. It was like this when I was in the Qiankun Gourd. There were only demon souls there. I was afraid that the puppets I made would cause trouble with me, so I chose to 'touch' their souls first. The wild soul will be fused again."

"Erase the wild soul?"

"Yes. There are three souls and seven souls in total. The desolate soul is responsible for thoughts. Once there is no desolate soul, the soul becomes an unconscious white soul."

"Can white souls be used to make dolls?" I became excited when I heard this. I don’t know about anything else, but we have a lot of white souls.

The Ghost King replied affirmatively: "It's a white soul. I turn the souls of monsters into white souls and then put them into dolls. The dolls created in this way have no independent thoughts. But they can understand your orders and They follow orders and have basic reflexes, so they are very suitable to be made into soldiers, and those willing souls can be made into high-level commanders."

"Is this okay?" I really admire this guy for being able to make dolls out of white souls.

The Ghost King said: "With the soul, half of the work is done, and the rest is much simpler."

Woma said: "I wonder why the dolls we made are so different from your original ones. It turns out they have no souls!"

The Ghost King said: "Now you go collect some souls first, and I will teach you the next steps."

Rose, who had been standing by silently, suddenly said: "Speaking of voluntary souls. Actually, I know a way."

"any solution?"

Rose's solution is to send free body advertising. Essinger was originally one of the three major underworld cities. Although it later became independent, the number of ghosts was still deadly. It can be said that more than half of Essinger are ghost residents, and other creatures are not even one-third. Voluntary doll making does not cause any loss to the soul itself, and it can also gain a body. This temptation is very big for most ghosts, so Rose attracted countless ghosts with just a little advertising. Even the Ghost King shook his head when he saw it and said we have a good mass base here.

There are so many willing souls. There are more white souls. Draw directly from the Spirit Gathering Tower, you can get as much as you want. Moreover, those souls are full of hostility, and the dolls made are even more murderous.

The first step in making the puppet was to prepare the soul. We quickly found the soul of the first experimental subject. According to Rose's idea, since it will be used as a doll for high-level things in the future, the quality of the soul must be higher. This ghost is a super elite ghost selected one by one from tens of millions of ghosts.

After the ghost was ready, the ghost king commanded to create a charm, and then asked the ghost to attach to the charm. Woma quickly carved a template according to the pattern. The Ghost King asked her what she was doing, but she said she would reveal it later. After the spell is completed, the ghost will possess it and then burn the spell to ashes. During this process, the ghost will need to endure some pain, but this is inevitable. There is really no way to omit it.

The third step is to mix the burned ashes with manufacturing materials. According to Ghost King’s experience, the quality of different materials has a great impact on the actual effects and abilities of the final doll. According to him, the best material discovered so far should be crystal, and black crystal is the best. However, although we are rich, we are not yet at the point where we can mass-produce black crystal. The Ghost King originally planned to use clay after knowing that the black crystal was hopeless, but he knew from his maid that this material was not bad. However, we did not follow his ideas, but experimented with new materials. According to modern experience, composite materials are usually better than single materials, so we used a clay mixed with a large number of special substances. In theory, people are still firing ceramics, but in fact there are many good things in it, including crystal powder. Our idea is to control the quality of the doll through the proportion of crystal powder added. Industrial production requires large-scale and controllable production. It cannot be intensively cultivated. It does not require the best, but it must be the fastest. The mixed powder addition method is the most reasonable method.

Mix this material, known as No. 1 Mixed Soil, and the ashes of the spell together, stir well, and then find a way to make it into the required form. In this regard, we decided to ask the ghosts themselves for their opinions, after all, it was the bodies they wanted to use. Changing the appearance to what they want has nothing to do with us, but it has a soul-soothing effect on them.

After the shape is determined, the color is adjusted. Don't think that the color of the ceramic is added later. These colors are determined before firing. The color and pattern must be added first. Start burning. These pigments were not colorful before. The color will not appear until it is burned, so it must be colored first before burning. This aspect, like the appearance, needs to be chosen by the ghosts themselves, but I require them to leave their guild's logo on the same place on their bodies as a military mark.

After the color is completed, it is the firing process. This process requires the selection of flame type and temperature control. Temperature doesn't really matter here. What really matters is the fire. The magic doll needs to be burned with spiritual energy to achieve the best effect, so we simply use the Samadhi True Fire. Anyway, Taishang Laojun uses this fire to make elixirs, so the spiritual energy should be enough.

The Ghost King is directing us here, and Woma is directing other designers to adjust some strange equipment, obviously preparing something else.

After the firing is completed, the most important final step is to use a special liquid specially made by the Ghost King to draw a magic circle in the air, and then recite the spell. There was a flash of light. The magic circle 'shot' into the body of the puppet, and the idol staggered back as if it had been punched, and almost fell down.

We all reacted at the same time, and if we could stagger back we were done. Otherwise it should just fall down straight.

The ghost ran around the room happily when he saw his new image. We finally got him to calm down for the test. The experiment was completed very quickly, and the result was that the characteristics of the new doll were obviously much better than those of the Ghost King's own ceramic maids, but the problem still existed. This doll still inherits the usual characteristics of these dolls - weak attack power.

I folded my hands over my chest and looked at this guy. "Ghost King. Is there any way you can improve it? This combat effectiveness cannot be improved. Isn't it enough to just have strong defense?"

Norin said: "I don't know if it would be possible to put the mechanical golem inside."

Woma said: "There may be a problem with the integration."

"Can you at least give it a try?"

The advantage of having sufficient funds for experiments is that you can conduct experiments wastefully. We smashed the newly fused doll into pieces so that the soul inside could come out. The guy got outside and was still complaining that he wasn't having fun, so he was pulled out.

The idea for the new experiment is relatively simple. First, complete the inner skeleton of the steel golem, and then pour mixed soil over the whole body to replace things like muscles. A puppet with steel skeleton and ceramic muscles was quickly made, and the experimental results almost made people faint. It's not that the fighting power is too strong, but that it can't move at all.

"Magic interference!" After Woma said this, he began to look at the devil in a daze.