Chapter 1824

There are 910 Frenzied Corpses.

All of them are tightly bound by massive amounts of Spider Queen's silk, unable to move at all.

Frenzied Corpses are very tenacious — being bound like this for a week without food or water wouldn't be a problem.

Human craftsmen, plus the Spirit Healers captured earlier, along with some human female slaves — altogether close to 5,800.

The most numerous were the elves.

The previous lord, Zuo Yan, had practically given away all her elves for free, and combined with the large batch of elves allocated this time, there were 17,500 in total.

So many captives that they almost filled the entire area outside Taoyuan Village.

But now that night had fallen, not a single torch was lit anywhere in the village.

Even the Frenzied Corpses couldn't make out what was happening around them.

All the captives were bound tightly by Spider Queen's silk, completely unable to move.

Coupled with the occasional screams and the scolding voices of the female soldiers, every elf curled up their body, drooped their ears, and didn't dare move a muscle.

The human captives sat on the ground as well, trembling all over.

Zhao Chi returned to his territory and saw that Li Ruanyu had sent a female militia member, who was currently guarding the captives together with Yang Lu and others.

After Zhao Chi thanked her, she returned to Li Ruanyu's territory to report back.

After that, there was nothing more to do.

The transport team could just slowly move things along.

At this rate, it would probably take until tomorrow to finish completely.

Even though Zhao Chi's side was transporting quickly, the others still needed time to haul large quantities of supplies from Pang Hai's territory.

Then he'd leave it alone for now.

Zhao Chi opened the system and saw that his territory's connection point had already returned within the formation range of Stream Village.

Back to the place where he'd once lived for two years.

Zhao Chi was genuinely a little sentimental.

But now he didn't belong to the Stream Squad — he belonged to the Jade Squad, and was only temporarily stationed in the village to help with defense alongside Li Ruanyu.

He'd have to leave afterward.

But the family group chat, and even the Stream Village group chat, had already exploded.

【Zhao Family Internal Group】:

Zhao Shizhang【Not easy at all, we're back again】

Zhao Qizu【Sigh, yeah, lived here for decades, and in the end we had to leave. Good thing we only left for a little over two months before coming back — let's just say the whole family went on a trip】

Zhao Qizong【Everyone don't go out for now, first take care of matters in the territory. Everywhere is chaotic right now. Since we're back, there's plenty of time to look around later. Today, everyone stay calm】

Jiang Qilan【Sigh, but our courtyard and houses have been wrecked beyond recognition, and the old houses are all destroyed too】

Zhao Qiye【It's fine, sister-in-law. If they're destroyed, we'll rebuild them — and this time, even bigger】

Zhao Qizong【Right, rebuild. Our family is now far stronger than when we first left — not just by a little】

Zhao Shizhang【Yeah, these two months we basically didn't lose any strength, it was all accumulation. Truly two golden months】

Zhao Huang【It'll definitely be the same going forward. Without the nobles and the werewolves, our burden is much lighter. The diverted magical beasts from the World-Breaking Army are also very reasonable. The future will be golden months too】

Zhao Shizhang【Haha, little Huang's confidence is up now, but don't forget the werewolves haven't left. Our situation later might not necessarily be easy either. Everyone keep at it — there are plenty more battles ahead】

Zhao Huang【Understood. But once Third Uncle's territory is rebuilt, our backbone will be back right away】

Zhao Qijia【Ashamed — at my age, I still wasted a World Stone. It should have gone to the younger generation】

Zhao Shizhang【It's fine, there are more later — I've already confirmed it. After that it's Zhao Huai, Zhao Jiao. Our family will only keep getting better】

Zhao Hong【Is our family staying in Stream Village from now on? Do we still need to keep taking in new lords?】

Zhao Qizong【Mm, keep taking them in. Our current target is 500 people — we have to expand the family's strength as quickly as possible. Stream Village is basically the front line now, we must have plenty of hands】

Zhao Hong【Understood, then I'll keep recruiting at Horn Cliff Town】

Zhao Jing【Uncle, what did the Commander say? They'll send people to garrison here, right? Otherwise our single squad holding the front line is still very dangerous】

Zhao Qizong【Don't worry. Horn Cliff Town is too crowded over there. This time our sortie was also to relieve the pressure on Horn Cliff Town — otherwise quite a few lords were already unable to enter the formation. Now that we've become the front line, another squad will be permanently stationed here. Plus Binghe County, Horn Cliff Town, and River Valley Town — these medium and large formations are already connected, forming one continuous stretch. Once a real fight breaks out, reinforcements won't be slow either】

Zhao Jing【That's great — the future looks bright】

Zhao Qiye【Don't be careless, and don't get complacent or underestimate the enemy. The World-Breaking Army is still much weaker compared to the werewolves, but right now we really do owe thanks to those nobles for holding the line. Before, we always wanted all the nobles dead, but now we genuinely want them to hold on a few more days】

Zhao Jing【Mm, I know】

Zhao Qizong【Alright, everyone get back to work. We just fought our way back — these next few days will be busy. Of the original four families, only three remain. Tomorrow we still need to hold a meeting with the Xiao and Qi families. Then the clan needs a meeting too. And we'll need to go meet with the World-Breaking Army as well. It might take several more days to settle everything, but those matters have nothing to do with you all. Develop well — you'll all be the backbone of the Zhao family in the future. The rise of our clan still depends on you】

Zhao Huang, Zhao Cang, Zhao Hong, Zhao Jing, Zhao Xi, Zhao Chen, Zhao Lu, Zhao Kong, Zhao Huai, Zhao Jiao【Yes】

Zhao Chi【Yes】

One could hear the joy of the Zhao family members.

Zhao Chi was also very happy inside.

The World-Breaking Army had originally been huddled on the west side of Snowfield City accumulating strength, absorbing massive numbers of refugees — lords and common folk from everywhere — and was now utterly overloaded.

The formation could no longer accommodate any more lords, so this sortie was in a sense a forced expansion of territory.

Moreover, the target of the attack was the relatively weak Heavenly King Army, which wouldn't provoke further hostility from the werewolves.

After all, they had just rescued the nobles last time and killed quite a few werewolves. If they struck at the werewolves again now, they feared the werewolves would abandon the nobles and come wipe out the World-Breaking Army first — that would be disastrous.

So finding an even weaker target like the Heavenly King Army to attack was the necessary choice.

This time they'd taken one county-level territory and three village-level territories, allowing a large number of lords to enter the formation's connection points and the protection of the formation.

The gains were indeed considerable.

Currently, the entire southwest and west had effectively fallen entirely into the World-Breaking Army's hands.

Across all of Snowfield City, the World-Breaking Army now occupied over 20% of the territory.

It could be called the undisputed number one resistance army.

There were quite a few other forces as well.

For example, the Blade Army of North Forest County, the Heaven Court Army of Cold Wind County, the Iron Blood Army of North Remote Town, and so on.

Adding in the remaining territory of the Heavenly King Army, these resistance forces together occupied roughly 30% of Snow Plain City's territory.

However, most of them were in the north.

And the remaining 50% of Snow Plain City was all werewolf territory.

Including the central 6th District.

Now Stream Village had become the front line of the World-Breaking Army, with South Forest Village to the east — werewolf territory.

The werewolves' main target was still the nobility, but small skirmishes at various positions never ceased.

Stream Village's position truly could not be taken lightly.

Close the system.

Now that the territory connection point had been linked into the formation, he should be able to contact Wei Li.

Hurry and have her take those frenzied ghouls away, to ease some of the guarding pressure on Gu Qing and the others.

Zhao Chi 【Wei Li】

Message sent successfully.

Wei Li 【Hey, I'm here】

Instant reply.

Zhao Chi 【Come over when you have time, I've opened access for you. Bring more people, and take those frenzied ghouls away】

Wei Li 【Okay, is it convenient if I come over now?】

Zhao Chi 【I'm telling you to come over right now, and bring some carts too. Also take away some meat chunks and corpses while you're at it】

Wei Li 【Oh okay… meat chunks? Corpses?】

Zhao Chi 【Right, I captured 385 tons of unidentified meat chunks from the frenzied ghouls' territory, probably all human and elven. Take them and feed the frenzied ghouls — it's all free. There are also several dozen corpses, take those too and feed them】

Wei Li 【Well, thanks first, so many tons of meat chunks are worth quite a bit of money… but my ghouls don't eat humans or elves, they only eat animal meat】

Zhao Chi 【Huh? They won't eat? Aren't ghouls and frenzied ghouls the same? And they have meat they won't eat?】

Wei Li 【No… this is my own habit. I've never let my ghouls eat people or other intelligent races. Kind of stupid of me, right? Haha】

Zhao Chi was genuinely dumbfounded.

How could there even be such a thing?

Not letting ghouls eat intelligent races?

Most lords who raised these fierce beast races would let them devour their enemies.

It both honed their ferocity and saved a great deal of food.