Chapter 416

A soul flame merged into Marquis Feiwo's body. The body of Feiwo Laiyin VI suddenly tensed and twitched crazily for a good while, then calmed down; the soul flame had already merged into his body.

"This... this is enough?" the people of the Laiyin family asked in disbelief.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si said dismissively: "What else do you want? It wasn't a very difficult thing to begin with; the people you hired were too weak, which is why they made it so troublesome."

After speaking, Nai Nai Ge Li Si began to drive them away: "Go, go, go, we need to perform a secret technique to accelerate the Undead Offering. Otherwise, the Undead Offering would take seven or eight days to complete, which is too slow."

After driving all the Laiyin family people out, each person was marked with a seal by Du Luo Ken as they left, and he said with a smile: "A small curse. If you say something you shouldn't say outside, they will take effect and turn you into ugly, rotten corpses, with your souls forever imprisoned in the corpses."

Everyone was terrified, nodding or shaking their heads frantically, and clamped their mouths shut tightly.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si leaned over and asked: "There's such a curse? I've never heard of it. What's it called?"

Du Luo Ken whispered in reply: "I made it up. It's just a detection seal."

After driving all the living people out of the tomb, including Jili, Ang took out the stone of the Death-Speed Aura and infused it with divine power, and the Death-Speed Aura spread out.

Marquis Feiwo's corpse, which had looked like it was sleeping soundly, began to dehydrate, wax, and toughen rapidly...

Under normal circumstances, the corpse should also swell and ooze fluids until the soul fire merged, at which point the giant appearance would disappear.

But the Death-Speed Aura accelerated the entire process, causing all the cells and bacteria to die rapidly before they could even swell. The corpse was already dead; what the Death-Speed Aura accelerated was the 'death' of the body's activity.

The 'death' process that would have taken seven days was completed in half a day, and Marquis Feiwo opened his eyes in a daze.

The Undead Offering was very successful; Marquis Feiwo's memories were not lost much, and he even remembered some of the situation after he stopped breathing.

After a person stops breathing, the brain doesn't die immediately, and hearing and touch also persist for a period of time, so he could hear what people were saying in his ear. It seemed to be his wife saying: "My dear, I'm sorry, your second son isn't yours, he's the groom's..."

Marquis Feiwo was shocked and instantly woke up.

But what met his eyes wasn't his wife, but a bunch of people he had never seen before; the one leaning in front of him wasn't even a person, but a brass dragon.

It took more than ten minutes for Marquis Feiwo to accept his current situation. He had originally been prepared for the Undead Offering, but he didn't expect the necromancer he hired to be so weak that he provoked the 'Undead Council'.

Well, even he thought that Ang and these people were from the Undead Council, because apart from those old monsters, no one could reincarnate a dead person into a lich within a day.

Yin Bi had specifically instructed not to activate him, but to activate him after he woke up.

Watching Ang cast a pure white light to restore activity to his shriveled skin and flesh, Marquis Feiwo knelt on the spot and was as obedient as could be.

"My lords, if you have any instructions, please feel free to give them. Feiwo and the Laiyin family will definitely obey, but please wait for me for a moment." Marquis Feiwo bowed respectfully and carefully went out.

Not long after he left the tomb, the manor outside became noisy. A bunch of people came running over to watch, only to see Marquis Feiwo leading guards and driving two men and a woman into the stables in the corner of the manor.

Jili, who had returned from gathering information, said with a gossipy expression: "Marquis Feiwo locked his wife, second son, and the groom in the stables, saying he wanted them to have a family reunion, hehehe."

"Hehehe..." Nai Nai Ge Li Si and the others showed knowing smiles.

Don't think that bidding for the position of City Lord sounds difficult; in reality, it doesn't require Ang to step in at all. He only needs to sit in the back, and Yin Bi can handle it himself.

For the next few days, it was Yin Bi and Marquis Feiwo actively operating the bidding matters. The one million from selling the Flame Emblem had only cost less than two hundred thousand, leaving eight hundred thousand.

Adding the six hundred thousand Yin Bi had earned himself over these days, they had one million four hundred thousand magic crystals they could use.

Marquis Feiwo also scraped together six hundred thousand.

"Why do you have so little money?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si asked suspiciously: "With only six hundred thousand magic crystals, you dare to bid for City Lord?"

Marquis Feiwo looked shocked: "Six hundred thousand is still little? That's cash! Who in the city can take out six hundred thousand magic crystals in cash at once?"

Yin Bi laid out the one million four hundred thousand magic crystal card.

"Uh, how would I, a small marquis, dare to compare with you lords," Marquis Feiwo said with a smirk.

After some conversation, Nai Nai Ge Li Si finally understood how much money six hundred thousand magic crystals in cash was.

For a noble in a remote city, assets are not small, but cash is not much because commerce is not developed. Marquis Feiwo's six hundred thousand in cash was already considered one of the best among the city's powerful figures.

"Doesn't that mean we can now mobilize two million magic crystals, making us the family with the most cash? I even wanted to introduce strategic investors," Yin Bi said.

"What strategic investors?" Yin Bi's words stunned everyone.

Yin Bi said: "The City Lord owns the entire city, but the most important things are only three: personnel, finance, and military. For other positions, the City Lord still has to arrange for other people to do them, such as city management, public security, commerce, agriculture, etc. Who to appoint to these positions? In the end, it's still appointing those nobles."

"Instead of us bidding for the ownership of the city and then having to appoint them to manage it, it's better to sell the positions to them directly from the beginning and use their money to bid."

"For example, Construction Officer, Chief Justice, Government Officer, Administrator, Finance Officer, Business Officer, etc. We only need to control the Administrator, the Tribune, and the Finance Officer; the others can all be sold."

Everyone gasped: "Hiss—this works too? Aren't you afraid they'll make trouble?"

"Hehe, with personnel, finance, and military all controlled in our hands, are we still afraid they'll make trouble?" Yin Bi said with a laugh.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si felt it was a bit unsafe and said: "We have money, let's not do this. It's safer to keep all positions in our own hands."

Yin Bi spread his hands: "Maybe, but can we find so many people to manage a city?"

Marquis Feiwo looked troubled. Thinking of his family who were at a loss the moment the necromancer died, manage a city? Don't let people sell them off.

"If we can't find enough manpower to manage it, we'll still have to invite those nobles out in the end. If we don't let them serve, and they lose the room for advancement in one place, these nobles will likely leave. Without them, the place will easily decline," Yin Bi said.

This isn't a world of equality and universal education. The illiteracy rate here is over ninety percent. Those who can read and write are basically nobles and wealthy merchants, who are undoubtedly the backbone of the whole society. If all the literate people in a city leave, it will be too difficult to develop.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si had a headache and said irritably: "Forget it, whatever, do whatever you want. First, circle out the fertile land with water sources; that's the most important thing."

Ang, who was so bored he was about to fall asleep, suddenly jolted and became spirited instantly.