Aruba, who did not know the inside story of the problem that was troubling Zhang Lisheng, turned his head and came up with the answer that he thought was most likely. He could not help but whisper, "Raider, legend has it that the Mainlanders are very greedy and would often risk their lives for wealth.
I think that perhaps one of the Mainlanders on the big ship had these precious stones with him, but when he encountered the pirates in the sea, he was unwilling to reveal his treasures to save his life and swallowed the stones instead.
The pirates who did not gain anything killed him and threw his body at the bottom of the ship. In the end, his body was swallowed by the monster that occupied the wooden ship … "
"Aruba, you mean …" Zhang Lisheng's heart jolted as he asked.
"That's right! It's the Mainlanders who swallowed the glowing stones and the monster who swallowed the Mainlanders!" Upon seeing the Raider's agitated expression, Aruba was taken aback. Slightly regretting his rash action, he stuttered.
"The Mainlanders swallowed the stones? The Mainlanders swallowed these glowing stones …" Zhang Lisheng stared at the Gold Core fragment in his hand and muttered thoughtfully.
Aruba's speculation allowed him to see another angle of thinking. Gradually, he understood that the 'corpse pile monster' was probably not a mutated spiritual monster at all, but a smuggler or some other treasure carrier who felt that losing the Gold Core fragment was a fate worse than death after encountering the pirates, so he swallowed the fragment into his stomach. Together with the other passengers on the wooden ship, this monster was formed by the other passengers on the wooden ship.
They were killed by the pirates, and some of them might have died. After being locked in the cabin at the bottom of the passenger ship, the pirates smashed through the deck at the bottom of the ship and ignited a blazing fire. Thinking that they would definitely die, they left the wooden ship with the looted treasures in satisfaction.
To their surprise, the Mainlanders who swallowed the Gold Core fragment inexplicably mutated in the fire and turned into the core of the corpse monster, wrapping all of his burnt companions and blocking the big hole at the bottom of the ship. Turning into a parasitic monster on the passenger ship, he managed to save the wooden ship by a freak combination of factors.
Such an inference also explained a problem. In the eyes of the Mainlanders in the Shrimp World No. 2, the Gold Core fragment was likely to be a luxury similar to the top diamonds on Earth, whose price would make ordinary people speechless. This also meant that those 'civilized people' were likely to know their protectors better than the Hellfire people.
"Civilization and barbarism, stupidity and wisdom are sometimes very interesting things …" After Zhang Lisheng figured this out, he picked up the Gold Core fragment in his finger and looked at the corpse pile monster on the beach before looking at Aruba again. Then, he lamented.
At this time, a Tudenan warrior with two feathers on his head walked up to him and presented a small fragment with both hands before saying respectfully, "Raider, we've carefully searched the beach within a radius of a thousand steps and there's only this glowing stone left."
"Fifty-five pills are enough." Zhang Lisheng picked up the last Gold Core fragment from the hand of the short but strong aborigine in front of him and muttered. Without warning, he commanded the wizard gu that was wrapped around the dead corpse monster to transform into silk threads that filled the sky and reverted to the appearance of a four-faced spider.
Then, he jumped onto the back of the wizard gu and rode Ghostface back to the Tudenan tribe under the horrified gaze of the aborigines.
In the future, Zhang Lisheng would hide in the treehouse that he had already transformed into a standard laboratory in the tribe and would use various jungle animals on Shrimp B1 Island to conduct living experiments on Gold Core transplantation.
This was because the animals in the Shrimp World No. 2 and the creatures on Earth must have some differences in their genes. For this reason, this was a necessary optimization process.
When the finished products of various types of stabilizers were used up, he would reformulate them.
When the experimental materials were lacking, he would order the Tudenan hunters to capture them alive. He even used the tribe's Lohlos to directly replace the primate experimental subjects in the final forming stage. Finally, a month later, based on the stabilizer developed by Stephen, Zhang Lisheng formulated a potion that he thought was more suitable for the use of the foreign world's aborigines.
One could say that the reason why he could succeed was because optimization was thousands of times simpler than innovation.
After the reagent was successfully formulated, seven of the 55 Gold Core fragments in Zhang Lisheng's hand had already decayed and were scrapped. His appearance had also turned into a long-haired, disheveled, and exhausted person.
However, compared to these efforts, the harvest was obviously greater. For the first time in more than 30 days, the young man walked out of the study room. Facing the dazzling sunlight, he glanced at a special colorless transparent test tube between his fingers that contained a clear blue liquid. With a delighted expression on his face, he broke into the treehouse that enshrined the Tudenan tribal book of history.
"Great Raider, you, you came from the wooden house …" When the tribal headman, who was sitting cross-legged on the animal skin, saw the Raider suddenly striding in, he hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground and said, "Great Raider, you, you came from the wooden house …"
Before he could finish his sentence, Zhang Lisheng had already ordered loudly, "Tugra, go down and pass down my order immediately. I want to find some Tudenan tribesmen who are willing to accept the gift of spellcasting ability.
As for the conditions? First, I only want a young warrior with a feather on his head or a feather tied to his shoulder.
Second, they must be absolutely devoted to me.
Make it clear to all the tribal warriors that as long as their bodies are not strong enough or if they have any distracting thoughts towards my faith, they will inevitably die in the gift ceremony. This is a risk, but if it succeeds, the harvest will be very rich as well.
Other than amazing spellcasting ability, an ordinary warrior will be promoted to a chief. I'll personally give another feather to the chief warrior with a feather on his head. "
"Yes, Great Raider!" Upon hearing that the Raider actually wanted to give the Tudenan tribesmen the gift of spellcasting ability, Tugra's heart shuddered. Hastily, he crawled up from the ground and ran out of the wooden house.
At this time, the sun was hanging high above the aborigines' heads. Other than the 4,000 warriors who took turns to guard the tribe, the rest of the 20,000 warriors in the Tudenan tribe had already gone out to hunt.
The tribal headman waved his hand outside the wooden house to summon a warrior who was wearing a light half-body armor and only had a wooden spear as his weapon, riding on a giant millispidder with particularly long and slender legs.
Upon seeing the warrior turning over and jumping down from his partner to kneel in front of him, Tugra said in a rather dignified and solemn manner, "The Great Raider has given us an order. He'll give the Tudenan tribesmen the powerful ability to cast spells to guard the tribe …" Then, he repeated Zhang Lisheng's words.
When the warrior, who was in charge of delivering orders to the tribe, heard this incredible order, his body that was kneeling on the ground stiffened for a moment. Then, unable to hide the shock on his face, he stood up and jumped onto the giant millispidder before charging towards the groups of warriors patrolling outside the tribe.
Very soon, the news that the Raider would give the tribal warriors the gift of spellcasting ability spread out. By the time night fell, there were already more than 10,000 people who volunteered to accept the ceremony.
After learning this good news, the Tudenan headman, who had been busy for a long time, hurriedly walked back to the tree house and kneeled in front of Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the soft animal skin. Respectfully, he said, "Raider, your order has been spread to the ears of every warrior in the tribe. There are a total of 11,756 people who are willing to accept the gift ceremony."
The images of the Money Toad, nine-tailed lizard, and the Demon that were formed by the colorful smoke that was constantly transforming and disappearing behind him slowly dissipated. Zhang Lisheng opened his eyes and curled his lips before smiling ferociously. "11,756 people who volunteered to accept the gift ceremony? Looks like many of the Tudenan warriors boast about their devout faith in me without any distracting thoughts.
In that case, choose ten people from them to wait outside the wooden house that I live in. "
Upon hearing the ghastly voice of the Raider, Tugra secretly gulped and replied, "Yes, Sir!" Then, he stood up and walked out of the tree house. Not long after, he personally brought ten strong aborigines who had an ecstatic look on their faces under the envious gaze of their companions to wait outside the tree house that Zhang Lisheng was using as a laboratory.
After waiting for a short while, Zhang Lisheng quickly appeared in front of them.
Under the illumination of the fire, the young man swept a glance at the aborigine warriors who were standing solemnly. With a blank expression, he asked even though he already knew the answer, "Are all of you the Tudenan warriors who are willing to accept the gift ceremony?"
"We are, Great Raider!" The ten warriors kneeled on the ground and said in unison.
"I've said before that the gift ceremony is very dangerous. Whether it's a devout heart or an extremely strong physique, you'll definitely fail if you lack either of them. Are all of you still willing to accept it despite knowing this?"
"We're willing, Great Raider!"
"Very well! In that case, all of you shall wait for my order and enter the tree house one by one." As Zhang Lisheng was speaking, he chuckled in a low voice. His right arm transformed into a giant's arm and grabbed the neck of the leftmost aborigine before bringing him into the bark house.
At night, the wailing in the tree house continued to reverberate. None of the ten aborigine warriors who volunteered to accept the so-called gift ceremony were spared. All of them turned into ashes and disappeared.
The next day, Zhang Lisheng ordered Tugra to bring ten aborigine warriors who volunteered to accept the ceremony to his bark house. In the end, all ten of them died as well.
Just like this, another ten days passed by. Every day, there would be at least ten people to as many as fifteen people. The number of sacrifices in the 'gift ceremony' continued to increase. Finally, the original more than 10,000 native warriors who volunteered began to gradually decrease. Of course, the reason given was that they felt that their bodies were not strong enough.
Zhang Lisheng did not care about this at all. Instead, he was secretly happy about it. This was because those who could brace themselves to persist in such a situation must be true believers who were more devout in their beliefs. Naturally, it was the best choice to bestow the spellcasting power to these Tudenan tribesmen.
However, he was very anxious about the repeated failures of the transplantation experiment. Compared to using animals as living subjects to experiment, even though the Hellfire tribesmen would still turn into ashes in the end, they could persist for a much longer time. This caused the energy of the Gold Core fragment to decay faster. In just a short span of more than ten days, it was already more than what it used to be in a month.
Right now, there were only 40 fragments left.
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