Chapter 2857

Saying less can hide one's strength, play the pig to eat the tiger, and cause enemies to misjudge.

So Zhao Chi doesn't know the relatively accurate number right now.

But Yao Feng said without hesitation: "Snowfield City has at least over 20 million people."

"That many? Are all 20 million humanoid female soldiers?"

"Correct."

Zhao Chi thought rapidly.

Yao Feng was talking about population.

Even calculating at 5 fashion items per woman, that's a gap of 100 million pieces.

Add in the 5 pieces of a full armor set, plus weapons and shields, and the equipment gap is 140 million pieces.

Equipment and fashion items combined require 240 million pieces!

Snowfield City's Breaking World Army has 5 regiments, among which the White Tiger Regiment and the Black Tortoise Regiment are veteran armies with the most troops; after casualties, each now has 3,000 to 4,000 remaining.

The Desperate Grounds Regiment, the Glory Regiment, and the Dawn Regiment all joined later, are weaker in strength and fewer in number, but basically maintaining a scale of 2,000 troops each is still possible.

The lords added together indeed total 15,000.

Among them, town-level lords are the most numerous, county-level and village-level next, and those above commandery level drop sharply in number.

Zhao Chi isn't clear on the specific numbers and troop counts, but roughly estimating, if each lord has an average of 1,300 female soldiers, then these 15,000 lords would have 20 million female soldiers.

This number isn't exaggerated.

After all, which male lord doesn't have some female guards?

Female lords would have even more female soldiers.

Not to mention lords like Zhao Chi, Su Qin, and Lu Yi whose troops are mainly female soldiers.

Women have their advantages; after all, their intelligence stat is a bit higher, and many mages and healers happen to be women.

It seems the gap really is huge.

If Snowfield City's Breaking World Army has 20 million female soldiers in total, then the entire White Tiger Regiment roughly has 6 million female soldiers; even just arming the entire White Tiger Regiment would require 30 million fashion items and 42 million equipment pieces.

This number...

Back then Zhao Chi made over 4 million fashion items and over 2 million equipment pieces for the entire White Tiger Regiment, and at the time already felt it was a lot, but now it seems far from enough.

His own strength is still too small.

Must hurry up.

"Understood, Commander. Then I'll head back and change it right away."

Yao Feng nodded: "Then shall I wait a bit? Wait until you've finished on your end before using the authorization letter?"

"Sure."

"About how long will it take?"

Zhao Chi smiled: "After I get back, probably about an hour or so?"

Yao Feng smiled: "That fast? You wouldn't happen to be a Legendary Master, would you?"

Zhao Chi looked at Yao Feng's eyes in surprise.

Yao Feng's eyes held a smile; she was clearly asking, but that gaze seemed to have already decided.

Yao Feng guessed right again...

This woman really guesses accurately...

Yao Feng smiled: "I was just asking, it's fine if you don't answer. In that case, let Xiaoyu send you back. I'll just go collect more authorization letters while I'm at it, and you can authorize them to me remotely then?"

"No problem."

"Thank you, Zhao Chi."

Yao Feng extended her hand.

A delicate jade bracelet slid down her smooth white arm toward her wrist.

Zhao Chi stood up and took it.

The hand was very soft, but very strong.

Yao Feng said with feeling: "Today really is the happiest day I've had in a while. Xiaoyu, you don't mind if I hug him, do you?"

Li Ruanyu smiled: "Sister, you shouldn't have had me substitute for you just now. Even if you kissed him, I wouldn't mind."

Yao Feng smiled: "How could I do that? But a hug is still fine."

Saying so, she opened her arms and tilted her head slightly to look at Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi certainly didn't mind.

So what if she's a female commander? Isn't she still a woman?

And such a ripe, beautiful woman at that.

He didn't even know if she was a married woman or not.

Since Yao Feng took the initiative...

Hug!

Two mounds of softness lay between them.

Very ample and very full.

Zhao Chi felt his entire front was soft.

The situation was urgent now, and Zhao Chi didn't have other thoughts, but the problem was this feeling appeared right in front of him. Zhao Chi was normal, the feeling was objective, and he simply couldn't ignore it.

Fortunately, Zhao Chi was quite experienced; after all, with Gu Qing, Tang Ruan, Li Ruanyu—these equally abundant women—he had been tempered by them, and he didn't show any particular reaction.

Otherwise he would definitely have poked Yao Feng's lower belly.

"Be careful on the road."

Yao Feng let go and said with a smile.

Zhao Chi said, "We haven't added each other as friends yet."

"Oh, right."

Yao Feng added Zhao Chi to his contacts, and only then did Zhao Chi and Li Ruanyu leave.

Just like before, Li Ruanyu brought Zhao Chi back.

Twenty minutes later, they returned to Iron Bridge Village.

Li Ruanyu 【Zhao Chi, we're here. You can go back to your territory. I still have to go out, so I won't be heading back.】

Zhao Chi 【Okay】

Zhao Chi returned directly to Peach Blossom Town, then entered Penglai Town.

In the system, he activated the Tiangong Pavilion interface for Yunmeng County, spent over a hundred tech-improvement points, and unlocked a new template for all the outfits and equipment.

Then he slipped into the obedient body of Qi Yue and entered the garment factory.

To lower the outfits' durability, the only way was to cut corners on materials and workmanship.

But to cut corners while still maintaining an extremely high bonus — that was far more difficult.

This too counted as innovation.

It required an extremely high level of professional skill.

Especially for outfits made of tier-3 materials, it demanded superb craftsmanship.

Zhao Chi had it.

Not only did he have superb craftsmanship, he also had the invincible grey-text prompt.

So, it was done in no time!

Once the production was complete, it was as if an entirely new production process had been opened up.

Others could follow this new process to produce; the average difficulty of production hadn't changed, but the required error rate was lower.

If originally an error rate below 5% meant excellent quality, now it had to be below 2%.

It looked harder, but in reality it was actually simpler.

Because a great many steps were omitted on the durability side, the overall production time and steps were both reduced.

For example, Zhao Chi normally had to accompany seven women every early morning and satisfy all of them — that was the standard difficulty.

But now Gu Qing and the others all had things to do, leaving only Li Ruanyu as the one woman. Yet now he not only had to satisfy her, but had to satisfy her until she fainted from pleasure.

It looked like a greater difficulty — after all, making her faint would certainly take more effort.

But the total volume was reduced; Zhao Chi only needed to focus all his strength on giving Li Ruanyu a thorough going-over, and overall it was actually simpler, more time-saving, and less effort for him.

Put another way, before it was like doing 100 math problems and being required to get 95 of them right.

Now it was doing 20 math problems, but being required to get 19 of them right.