Chapter 3007

Basically all of them were bought over ten days ago, at Shubei Town.

So they still have resistance in their hearts.

Zhao Chi is actually very good to them — although they have to work, he provides plenty of good food and drink, distributes fashion items, and lets them soak in the Carefree Springs.

It's absolutely far better than their previous situation.

But honestly, ten-plus days of good treatment really can't reverse a captive's own thoughts.

The time is too short.

They wouldn't quite have hatred toward Zhao Chi, but they also can't have truly and completely submitted so quickly.

This needs more time.

However, they've all been tamed very successfully by the collars — obedience maxed out, working actively and hard.

They can be converted.

But Zhao Chi essentially doesn't want to convert them into subjects too early.

Because their obedience was raised before the Eternal Tree, raised passively through the collar's extreme effectiveness — it wasn't voluntary on their part.

Obedience and loyalty are two different things.

Female elves are a highly intelligent race; in terms of IQ, there's no difference from human women.

So they have their own thoughts.

Converting them into villagers under these circumstances, their initial loyalty won't be too high.

Some female elves with strong self-respect will even have lower loyalty.

They'll need to wait another stretch of time — let them adapt to the situation here — before their base loyalty can rise.

But Zhao Chi really wants to convert a county-level territory, so he can only convert them.

Low initial loyalty doesn't matter.

The female elves have already seen that Zhao Chi's place is a paradise.

There's no shortage of food — they can eat as much as they want, and as long as they don't waste anything, there's no limit at all.

Safety is also extremely well guaranteed.

Not only have they never experienced any combat, no one has abused them, and no male has touched them.

Zhao Chi did patrol when they went into the Carefree Springs to bathe, but he only looked — there was absolutely no actual behavior.

This is practically saintly conduct.

They were all bought back by Zhao Chi from various buyers.

Any female elf who becomes a slave is from the losing side — they've all experienced war, and they know female elves are quite attractive to human males.

And they've all personally seen what happens to other female elves.

They know Zhao Chi hasn't treated them that way.

If they're given status again, after becoming subjects their loyalty will naturally rise quickly.

Besides, they're elves.

They're all elves who personally watched the Eternal Tree grow.

The Eternal Tree is also a sacred tree to them — this carries great meaning for them.

Of course, what's important is the Eternal Tree, not Zhao Chi.

If Fuyao were allowed to become independent and convert these elves alone, the initial loyalty might be very high.

But it doesn't matter — Zhao Chi possesses the Eternal Tree, which also greatly boosts the elves' loyalty growth speed.

Even if loyalty is only around 6 right now, later converting them into the Eternal Race and making them nobles will add another 1–2 points.

These are all positive aspects.

But what Zhao Chi is considering is another side.

Converting such a large number of people at once — and people with somewhat low loyalty — will affect the territory's stats, especially Popular Support.

Popular Support mainly looks at loyalty, with mood value, morale, and other auxiliary stats as supplements.

But loyalty is the main factor.

Although their loyalty growth speed will be high, after all Zhao Chi has no other way to increase loyalty growth speed.

If their loyalty is really left to grow naturally, it'll take at least months.

Getting their loyalty to surge before month's end will be very hard.

So they can't all be converted at once.

Convert them in batches and see how it goes — confirm the stats won't fluctuate too violently — then do a large-scale conversion.

There's still time anyway, no need to rush; better to play it safe.

There are also 20,000 human women.

Also slaves, same situation as the elves.

Zhao Chi already doesn't want human women all that much anymore.

They aren't affected by the Eternal Tree, and get no extra obedience bonus.

And they're fundamentally different from the Taoyuan humans — they can't be reborn through the Eternal Tree either.

Rather than take so many humans, better to ask for more elves.

But they work hard too — although it's probably the collar's effect — and Zhao Chi really hasn't figured out what to do with them.

Either let them stay in the territory as female slave laborers, or give them to Li Ruanyu as female soldiers.

Li Ruanyu uses the human race, the same race as these female slaves.

That way, Li Ruanyu can convert them through buildings into Li Ruanyu's human race, letting them enjoy the bonuses on Li Ruanyu's side too.

That's also a good path.

Besides, following Li Ruanyu isn't bad for them either.

Li Ruanyu treats her subordinates well, and with Zhao Chi as a powerful backer, they'll never go short of food.

But not yet — Zhao Chi's territory also needs people to work. Once this werewolf crisis is over, he can send them over.

In addition, there are 4,000 male soldiers of various races, mostly orcs and humans, with a few strong orcs and other races.

These were the soldiers Su Qin had previously been in charge of for close combat.

Zhao Chi has no real use for them.

They can't wear female fashion, nor can they equip female gear — the gap with the female soldiers is just too big.

Zhao Chi plans to sell them off after the war; for now, he'll make use of them.

After all, 4,000 heavy infantry can roughly hold the line against 4,000 Tier-3 werewolves.

For now, let them stay in Qingzhu Town.

Apart from these, there are also some animals and magical beasts.

But they've basically been reduced to pets.

Pets in the truest sense.

The two dogs and those snow wolves eat until they're plump all over, about to roll into balls.

Dogs and wolves as fat as pigs.

They usually stay in the cattle shed.

Zhao Chi had worried they'd startle the feathered oxen, but the feathered oxen didn't care about them at all — they're just too big and too docile, completely unbothered.

The harpies have also become pets…

Though they're magical beasts, they're sentient ones, on the same intelligence level as the ratfolk.

Fed by hand every day, they can't help but grow close to the Taoyuan race — they're practically turning into pet birds.

The naga warrior women's intelligence is on the same level as the harpies'.

Though they're very combative, they're not stupid, and they have sharp instincts. They instinctively know that Zhao Chi and the Taoyuan race are far stronger than them.

So they're also very docile.

It's a submission born of total suppression.

Now the naga warrior women follow Wei Yu's fishing crew, catching fish every day in the Dahe River at Yunmeng County.

Naga warriors are naturally an aquatic race — water is their home turf — and they pull in several big barrels of fish every day.

They live quite well too.

After a quick look through the current information, Zhao Chi closed the system.

Only one day had passed in the Greater World; Yao Feng hadn't sent new supplies yet.

As mentioned a few days ago, he wants her to help purchase captives.