Lord of Rot

The tree man's pursuit did not stop, but it was obviously not easy to walk with his head instead of his legs.

The flames once again formed a high wall, and the ruthless high temperature twisted the body wantonly. The expanding and contracting wind was pushed away by the flames, bringing a burst of heat and sparks.

"Bah!"

Ma Wei, who had just peeked out from behind a rock, was hit by sparks on his clothes. He raised his hand in panic and slapped hard, extinguishing the sparks before the tattered and turned-out leather armor was completely ignited.

"How about it?"

"Good news, we burned out one of its heads. Bad news, it still has many spare ones."

The body splicing and assembly abilities of the tree people are really a bit excessive. Everyone kept using various methods along the way, but they failed to kill even one of the "five-in-one" tree people. They walked on their own heads, striding like stars. , the chasing group was in a panic.

During this period of time, Li Qi did not pay too much attention. The underground world was too vast and he had more important things to do, such as discussing the dress issue of Autumn and Little Leard with Miss Phoenix Eyes Lan. Or there are seminars on food research and development, and "business exchange meetings" organized by businessmen from major territories.

In particular, the business exchange meeting was carried out smoothly with Li Qi's strong support, and big businessmen were "happy" to attend.

The reason is that the nobles in each territory have tasted the benefits after trading with Li Qi. They can obtain various resources from Li Qi's territory in a cheaper way, and they can also sell the materials to Li Qi, which is far cheaper than doing it themselves. .

The most economical thing about buying Li Qi's products is that he owns most of the resources in the three places of East Gorge, Desert and Endor, so he does not need to pay additional taxes.

Li Qi can get the goods that belong to his own territory at the lowest price, and he also owns his own caravan and does not even need to pay taxes, which means that merchants in other territories have completely lost their competitiveness.

It's not that businessmen really admire Li Qi, but they have to come.

The meeting has lasted for several days, and not only the merchants from the East Gorge are attending, there are also merchants from Giant's Foot and the North. As for Endor? No businessman there dares to stand up now. Everyone knows how crazy that leopard-like woman is. She is definitely not a good person.

The content of the chat among the businessmen could not arouse the interest of Mr. Li Qi, so he wasted his boring time by writing and drawing on paper.

What is drawn on the paper is a hidden signal tower.

What he was thinking about was how to improve the "computing power" of ghouls such as Isis. He needed a kind of ghoul with only a brain. This may be a bit difficult, but it is not necessarily impossible. It just needs to be "cultivated at a designated location."

As the team of ghouls continues to grow, Li Qi feels more and more that the technology of necromancers may not simply resuscitate corpses. It may be a more advanced technology. The reason why corpses are used is because something is missing. It has the most basic "fertility" ability, so it can only pick up the "shells" that others don't use to build its body.

The higher level controls the lower level, in a strict hierarchical order, and Li Qi, as the highest level, can control all units downwards.

Strength is not important, level is everything.

Listening to the businessmen talking about false "people's livelihood" and how many people would lose their jobs without them, Li Qi almost ran out of patience. All the businessmen here were experienced in dealing with high taxes. Experts, their goal here is to get Li Qi to let go and get similar treatment as Li Qi's local caravan, tax reduction or exemption.

This group of people are good at contacting the leaders of local gangs, colluding with city officials, and even getting some key information from prostitutes. They have been busy in the past few days. I am afraid they have penetrated from all aspects and obtained some information that they think they have. critical information.

But they haven't figured out one thing now. This is not a matter of interests at all, but whether Li Qi wants to nod and let them continue to exist.

Ella Clarence, Li Qi's sister-in-law, holds a stack of information in her hand. Her long experience has allowed her to easily control the overall situation in meetings.

Before speaking, Aila glanced at Li Qi first and found that he was absent-minded. Then she said according to what she had agreed with Li Qi before: "How to let farmers survive is something that the lord needs to consider. I think you should consider it more. We Why do I want to do business with you? Provide you with raw materials and provide you with goods for market dumping?"

Li Qi's territory holds huge resources, not only raw materials and industrial products, but also territories such as Porcupine Territory, Iron Valley, and Water Stream Territory with strong consumption power.

"Those nobles don't understand business. Transactions are sacred!"

If he hadn't hoped to use these caravans from all over the world to open up the entire continent, he wouldn't bother to hold this meeting.

Troops entering the territory of other nobles will be resisted.

Caravans flying the porcupine flag will also be boycotted.

It seems that the nobles will happily trade with Li Qi, provided that Li Qi can always keep the price low. Small profits but quick turnover is not within the scope of Li Qi's expectation. He does better but cheaper than others, volume? Why roll!

But neither the locals nor the local nobles will refuse better products, and products produced by porcupines are better products.

The road to conquest with money and commodities may not be as good as guns and iron hoof charges.

People's sense of belonging is not that strong, and the noble lords do not have the concept of competitiveness and technical ability. Therefore, when people completely accept Li Qi, even if Li Qi truly travels to the continent of Leia, there will definitely be a minority of people willing to stand up against him.

Hearing someone start talking nonsense again, Li Qi simply closed his eyes and turned his attention to the corpse walking with the two hunters.

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From the rugged mountainous area with mine carts to the residence full of the little blue-skinned monster Gabalin, battles happen every moment.

Even if an extraordinary person has an iron body, he cannot support it.

Ma Wei, who was sitting on the pile of corpses with his sword in hand, turned to look at the person leading the way. Recently, the person suddenly became taciturn. Sometimes he wanted to open the person's head to see if there were two souls hidden inside. , how can one person be so divided.

"We can't stay here too long!"

Look, his attitude has changed again, as if he suddenly changed from a puppet on strings to a superior. Although his tone is very easy-going, it is full of attitudes that do not allow others to refute. It seems that as long as he is disobedient in the slightest, he will Will kill your whole family.

Ma Wei shook his scattered silver hair: "Isn't it too late for us to run back now?"

The other party looked at Ma Wei and said nothing.

"I know" Ma Wei nodded helplessly.

It was his own choice to ask people to help, and their team was sentry to explore the situation below. It was definitely not possible to return without success now.

The team moved on.

Suddenly a fat, round thing glided in front of the team.

After landing, the thing shook its short wings and tilted its head to look at Ma Wei and others.

"What kind of ugly bird is this?" Ma Wei kicked the ugly bird and knocked it away with a strong kick.

Ma Wei set up a pergola with his hands and watched the ugly bird fly away. The bad mood caused by the endless escape seemed to be improved a lot.

His voice was slightly surprised: "There are a group of flying things ahead! They are all the same as before!"