Chapter 1773

Zhuang Ya frowned, staring at them unhappily and asked: "My lord, can we beat them up?"

Zhao Chi nodded: "Go ahead, make them quiet, I'm really sick of it."

Zhuang Ya smiled charmingly: "Roger that, mission guaranteed!"

Over ten minutes later.

The entire forest was dead silent.

Zhuang Ya was already well-practiced at this sort of situation.

She could make even orcs completely obedient, let alone these delicate-skinned elves.

Still, there were tricks to it.

Namely, picking out the typical offenders.

She grabbed the noisiest few and started burning them.

They were already screaming anyway, so she just let them scream even louder.

Quickly, the screaming turned to wailing.

The wails stood out sharply among the chorus of screams, and the female elves stopped screaming, staring in shock at the burning female elf howling in agony.

Until she fainted and lost control, urine everywhere.

Then came the second.

And right after, the third.

Every time Zhuang Ya burned one, she would shout loudly: "Didn't you love screaming? Huh? Then I'll let you scream till you've had enough!"

"No more screaming, really no more, ahhh—"

They were female elves, after all.

Their innate constitution was very poor.

Zhuang Ya didn't actually burn them for too long, just as punishment.

But even so, they could hardly bear it.

After burning five, all the elves were cowed into submission.

Zhuang Ya pointed at the collapsed female elf on the ground and shouted loudly: "Anyone who dares make a sound and disturb our Lord, this is what you'll get!"

Still dead silent.

Only Zhuang Ya's voice echoed through the woods.

Very good, the effect was remarkable.

The opposing lord, Zuo Yan, was also trembling with fear, not daring at all to look at Gu Qing and Zhuang Ya.

She now deeply regretted being a lord, wishing she were just one of the elves—after all, that way she'd be inconspicuous.

A female lord who fell into the hands of an enemy male lord would, in most cases, be subjected to humiliation.

Especially after a brutal battle, the male lord would take out his anger by giving the female lord extra "attention."

Besides himself, he'd also hand her over to his subordinates to enjoy.

Zuo Yan was of course far inferior to Su Qin, but with the enhancement of her careful makeup, she could at least be considered to have a bit of looks.

Looks are a double-edged sword.

If it were Lu Yi's situation, multiple male lords would come to support her.

If it were Zuo Yan's situation, male lords would also come to "visit" her harshly.

If a female lord fell into the hands of an enemy female lord, it wouldn't be much better—possibly even worse.

After all, like repels like, and the torment could be even more terrifying.

Zuo Yan curled up into a ball, terrified that Gu Qing and Zhuang Ya would torture her.

She didn't even dare beg for mercy or ask to be spared, since Zhuang Ya had forbidden making any sound.

Besides, she was only a town-level lord, with nothing particularly valuable, and no intelligence worth trading.

She could only tremble uncontrollably on the spot.

Constantly thinking of ways to escape.

But she was overthinking it.

Gu Qing was not a lord.

And the real male lord, Zhao Chi, had no interest in her either.

Women are not like food.

With food, after eating too many delicacies, occasionally having a meal of coarse grain is indeed nice.

It provides variety, something fresh.

But with women, if you've grown accustomed to someone as flawless as Gu Qing—looks, figure, voice, personality, attitude, everything, all perfect—

Then it's very hard to accept an ordinary woman.

It's not that the body can't perform; there's genuinely no interest.

Unless it's another equally outstanding woman, that's fine—like Tang Ruan and the others.

As for this Zuo Yan...

Zhao Chi could do anything to her.

Even the three passes would be no problem at all.

But he truly didn't want to.

If he wanted that, Gu Qing had been waiting all along.

Tang Ruan's side could go on until the end of time.

Zhuang Ya, Qi Yue, Su Qin—any one of them would do, and now there's even Li Ruanyu.

There's really no need to spend time on Zuo Yan.

Of course, some time still needs to be spent emptying out her system space.

Just hand her over to Zhuang Ya.

Next came the routine of searching the territory and capturing the villagers.

Zhao Chi didn't bother with any of that.

Gu Qing was given full authority to direct and arrange everything.

Zuo Yan's territory was entirely populated by female elves—craftsmen, melee soldiers, all female elves.

And those few humans were women from the Greater World, friends of Zuo Yan who had come to fight alongside her.

All of them were to be taken back and slowly broken in.

Strip everything clean.

Zuo Yan's territory held nothing new—like most female lords, it was very ordinary.

The supplies from Meng Meng's territory hadn't been transported out yet, so for Zuo Yan's territory they only took the captured villagers for now, did a quick search of the lord's residence, and hadn't had time to look at the rest.

But there certainly wouldn't be too many good things.

After all, she was only a town-level lord with a little over 3,000 combat power—her ceiling wouldn't be that high.

They'd take another look once Zuo Yan's things were all pulled out later, but it was basically just that.

What did satisfy Zhao Chi greatly, though, was that the enemy really had all been captured, not a single one dead. A few seriously wounded elves had also been healed, so on the whole the territory had been taken intact.

That wasn't bad either.

After all, several thousand female elves was quite a considerable haul.

Next, Zhao Chi had the female soldiers continue sleeping and resting, while work squad leaders like Song Yun kept transporting.

Slowly waiting for the next battle.

After all, right now it could really only be considered the battle just beginning.

The great lords' battle would certainly take quite a while longer to finish.

Then they'd take the chance to rest.

Zhao Chi likewise went to sleep.

Wrapped in Gu Qing's enormous softness, he quickly fell asleep.

A little over an hour later, Zhao Chi woke up.

It was already past four o'clock by then.

The winter sun set early, and the sky would only grow darker.

Zhao Chi felt a strange, inexplicable emptiness, as if the whole world was very far from him.

But he had no time to dwell on such feelings, and immediately opened the system.