1117: Expansion mode

Electric Light City Army camp.

Originally, the Army under Li Changkong's command, excluding the Man Bull Legion, only consisted of over fifty thousand people.

In just one night, through telephone news and public opinion guidance, the total number of the Army directly expanded to five hundred thousand people!

Unprecedented efficiency was once again fully demonstrated under the influence of the telephone!

If it were in the past, when national warfare arrived, people joining the Army wouldn't even know who the opponent was or why they were fighting.

Information blockage greatly hindered the gathering of people's hearts.

After the arrival of the telephone, none of these were issues!

Li Changkong looked at the report on his telephone and felt surprised; the speed at which their Army expanded was unprecedented on the entire Magic Continent!

From the information, if five hundred thousand hadn't already been enough, even more people would have joined the Army!

"Five hundred thousand people, so many people, at least everyone should be equipped with a gun."

As he spoke, Li Changkong looked at the Medal Tree in front of him.

Below the Medal Tree, there were hundreds of Li Village villagers tirelessly picking off the Electromagnetic Rifles that were growing one after another.

And the Medal Tree's power consumption also surged like a wild horse that had broken free!

Although it was already fast, this was not the limit yet.

Li Changkong looked at the energy storage power station next to him, which showed astronomical electricity bills, gritted his teeth, and again called out to the distance: "Li Dian, run a few more lines from the three energy storage power stations and connect them to this tree!"

The great Army was approaching.

He didn't expect his subordinates to learn how to shoot with perfect accuracy in such a short time.

At the very least, everyone must have an Electromagnetic Rifle as equipment!

Otherwise, if they really fought against the enemy Army, it would be like hitting a rock with an egg!

Li Dian, as the key person in charge of Li Village's power construction, acted quickly after receiving the command from Li Changkong, the Village Chief.

As more than a dozen power lines were added to the Medal Tree, the entire Medal Tree suddenly erupted with large areas of blue and purple electric arcs at this moment!

The enormous amount of electricity even exceeded the Medal Tree's absorption limit, directly melting and evaporating the snow accumulated on the tree!

It was only after quite some time that these electric arcs on the tree gradually faded and disappeared amidst the large amount of evaporating moisture.

During this process, the production of Electromagnetic Rifles was like a fully operational super factory, running at high speed!

Inside the Medal Tree.

The Burial System was currently busy to the extreme.

It originally didn't know how to make Electromagnetic Rifles.

But it couldn't resist the BOSS giving it the template.

Under the current industrial production, because the BOSS provided the technology, it had to hand over seventy percent of the electrical energy, its own twenty percent couldn't change, so it was only left with ten percent of the electrical energy to produce Electromagnetic Rifles.

Compared to medals, due to Ye Tian's involvement, the unit price of Electromagnetic Rifles was eight times more expensive.

The Burial System couldn't understand why the BOSS's Host was investing resources even more frantically into such an uneconomical item!

"This tree alone can now account for eighty percent of our total power consumption."

Thinking of this, Li Changkong began to calculate his balance.

"Ding ~ Due to the imminent Black Abyss, the System has readjusted electricity prices and electrical appliance sales based on external factors, Host please check."

Ye Tian, as the System's notification sound, suddenly appeared in Li Changkong's mind, diverting his attention.

"Electricity prices have been adjusted?"

Hearing this news, Li Changkong immediately opened the System panel.

You don't know the cost of daily necessities until you manage a household; with so many power-hungry items in front of him, if electricity prices weren't adjusted again, he might really only be able to look at the items without being able to use them.

After the System panel opened.

On the electricity price section, the original price of one copper coin per kilowatt-hour had not changed.

However, on the other side of this price, a currency unit option appeared.

【 0.1 gram black crystal / kilowatt-hour 】

black crystal!

This item also became a currency that could offset electricity bills!

According to this calculation, the value of one ton of black crystal was equivalent to one hundred thousand gold coins!

Both could purchase one day's electricity for Electric Light City!

Compared to gold coins, the difficulty of collecting black crystal was greatly reduced.

This change finally allowed Li Changkong to breathe a sigh of relief.

After a pause, the Man then looked at the System's electrical appliance store.

The homepage of the electrical appliance store had an eye-catching title.

【 The Black Abyss is a more terrifying disaster than the Black World; only newly upgraded lighting equipment can cope 】

His gaze went down.

In the store, many electrical appliances had been updated.

The original three-kilowatt light bulbs were now directly upgraded to thirty-kilowatt versions, consuming thirty kilowatt-hours per hour!

flashlights also received ultra-large capacity batteries and high-intensity light!

Any electrical appliance related to lighting basically saw a tenfold increase in power!

Of course, this also meant a tenfold increase in power consumption!

In addition, there was a newly added product that made Li Changkong look twice.

【 Basic Firearms Learning Guide 】

This book, only a dozen pages long, could be distributed to the Soldiers when the guns were handed out.

It wasn't expensive; buying five hundred thousand copies was still less than the Medal Tree's power consumption in a quarter of an hour.

However, after the guns were distributed, these guns that relied on electrical energy for combat would be another huge expense.

...

"Black Abyss, a more terrifying disaster than the Black World?"

From this small update of the System, Li Changkong noticed this information.

Exiting the System panel, the Man looked at the electric lights in the Village.

He didn't know if it was because of this message from the System, but Li Changkong noticed that the electric lights in the Village seemed to be genuinely dimmer than before!

It was just that in the calm situation, he hadn't noticed anything before.

"Li Dian."

Li Changkong called out behind him.

"Village Chief, do you need to connect more power lines to the tree?"

Li Dian, having come here, could already answer automatically.

However, this was clearly the wrong answer.

"Replace all the electric lights in the Village, put on the new ones."

As he spoke, Li Changkong waved his hand and directly exchanged a large number of newly upgraded, super-powerful light bulbs from the System space using black crystal!

Since the System had told him that the Black Abyss, more terrifying than the Black World, had arrived, he naturally had to quickly replace all the lighting facilities currently used in Li Village with enhanced versions.

For Li Dian and the few trusted subordinates around Li Changkong, seeing the Village Chief conjure up so many things with a wave of his hand was already commonplace.

After receiving the order, they organized their subordinates and began to get busy.

An hour later.

The telephone time showed seven o'clock in the evening.

Electric Light City.

Standing on the city wall, Li Changkong looked at the Soldiers covering the entire land below, standing neatly, and nodded slightly.

Although these people were not elite troops trained by the System, and most of them were not Knights or Magicians, they were all young and strong men in their twenties and thirties.

Normal marching and combat were completely not a problem!

Moreover, after the Medal Tree began to grow Electromagnetic Rifles, in Li Changkong's eyes, his Army's combat style had undergone a great transformation!

He nodded to the San Ziye behind him as a signal.

The next moment, the San Ziye ordered people to distribute the guns.

After each person received a gun, they were also given a learning booklet.

And each Captain of a ten-person team was equipped with a telephone!

Although the telephone was as huge as a brick.

But for everyone, it was a truly portable item!

Just the function of the telephone being able to transmit sound over a thousand miles and receive commands had already brought the overall cohesion of this five hundred thousand strong Army to its peak!

Generally, to have the ability to transmit sound over a thousand miles, one would need to reach at least the level of a Magic Master!

And they would also need to assist with a half-meter diameter communication light sphere to achieve it.

This shows how Heaven-Defying the telephone was.

"I believe everyone has heard that our Electric Light City is about to face a powerful enemy!"

Li Changkong stood on the city wall, his voice loud and powerful.

Of course, the main credit went to the broadcasts spread around.

After all, there were five hundred thousand Soldiers here, and to make sure everyone heard clearly by shouting, one would need to reach at least the Holy Magic Mentor level!

"This group of enemies lives on the same land as us, speaks the same language; we were once citizens of the same country, and we originally always believed that everyone would work together to create a future for Vog Country!"

"However, after the crisis arrived, we were abandoned!"

"Even so, those who abandoned us haven't realized their mistake; they stepped on our heads, climbed to the peak, went to the part of Vog Country that wasn't stained by Darkness, enjoying the warm sunshine, while also fabricating lies, saying that our abandonment was our own betrayal!"

"When they discovered that we could actually survive in the Darkness, they became even more intolerant!"

"Now, they are bringing a large Army to overthrow and destroy us!"

"They want to strip us of our last right to survive!"

"Do you agree?!"

Li Changkong's voice was loud.

This was his first time giving such a speech in front of so many people.

Fortunately, before standing on the city wall, Li Changkong wore more than a dozen medals to stabilize his Aura, so after such a speech was delivered, it directly imprinted deeply into everyone's minds, completely mobilizing their emotions!

"We don't agree! We don't agree, we don't agree!"

Five hundred thousand angry Soldiers roared in unison.

Their eyes were filled with the flames of hatred.

"Right, we don't agree!"

Li Changkong's tone also contained intense emotion: "The Lord of the Western Main City of Vog Country is incompetent, King Vog is foolish; since they say we betrayed Vog Country, then we will betray them to show them!"

"In this battle, we must make the enemy suffer a crushing defeat and ensure they have no return!"

"Right, no return, make them have no return!"

Innumerable Soldiers and even the common people behind them were all red-faced, shouting upwards.

The immense sound even caused the sky to tremble!

"Ding ~ Host has successfully taken over the population and territory of the Western Main City. Congratulations, Host's territory has reached level 500, enabling the expansion mode."

"Effective immediately, the speed of all official construction projects within the Host's territory is increased by 100%."

"Electricity-stimulated food technology has begun to cover the territory."

The System's notification sound, in this moment of excitement, entered Li Changkong's mind.