Wow, this is great stuff!
Chen Kingdom, are you selling this magic weapon? Could you sell me one? Name your price!
The burly general was so enamored with Chen Mu's crosshair after using it that he excitedly asked Chen Mu for more information.
I want one too!
"Me too!"
Another general following Wei Shuang, Lu Xiaoyun, couldn't help but speak up as well.
Wei Shuang looked at Chen Mu, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
She naturally wanted it too, since it was incredibly useful for people on the march and in battle.
But Chen Mu had already helped her a lot this time, and she was embarrassed to ask Chen Mu for more. After all, her identity was special, and if she asked, the implications would become more complicated.
"It's alright, you can have all of these 'clairvoyance' devices!"
I'll make some more later and sell them at the Chen Capital Market. If you want more, remember to come visit Chen Capital more often.
Chen Mu laughed heartily, showing no intention of using his aim to gain any advantage.
The manufacturing process of the crosshair is not complicated. With the development of the Rune Research Institute, optical principles and technologies such as convex lenses and concave lenses are used in many places. He believes that even if no one has discovered it in the next few years, this relatively simple technology will definitely be cracked in ten or eight years.
Science and technology are such things that copying is far easier than creating. Simply guarding against and suppressing others is not very useful. Seizing the initiative and ensuring that you are always ahead of the competition is the only way to deal with crises.
In the Chen Kingdom, Chen Mu had already planned the promotion of technology, and the Rune Research Institute would become the sole authoritative institution for technology, leading the development of the technological path.
What? You've cracked the telescope manufacturing technique?
However, the telescopes produced by the Rune Research Institute are more accurate, have more functions, are more famous, and even cost far less than yours. What do you have to compete with them? If you give away the telescopes you make, they will find them pathetic.
It's like on Earth, two countries are at war, one country has a slight technological advantage over the other, so the other country builds an atomic bomb a day earlier and launches it.
The final result is self-evident.
In the realm of technology, as long as you maintain your lead, you can never be defeated.
Chen Mu's generous behavior won everyone's favor.
" Chen Mu, thank you!"
Wei Shuang immediately expressed her gratitude, a fleeting glint of admiration in her eyes.
When the others glanced at Wei Shuang and then looked at Chen Mu, their gazes held a more scrutinizing quality.
From an outsider's perspective, it's easy to assume that Chen Mu was only being so generous because of Wei Shuang. After all, this 'Thousand-Mile Eyes' magic weapon is incredibly valuable, so why would he give it away so easily?
Wei Shuang was born into a prestigious family and possessed unparalleled beauty and talent. Every year, countless princes and nobles would come to the King Who Guards the West's Residence's Mansion to propose marriage. Originally, no one had thought much of it, but Chen Mu's behavior and Wei Shuang's subtle expressions undoubtedly confirmed their guesses.
The three generals were all quite old to have cultivated to the Core Formation Realm. Only Lu Xiaoyun was younger, but they were all shrewd and could not hide Wei Shuang's little schemes from them.
However, they didn't intend to expose them and embarrass their boss, as that would certainly not end well.
"Look! The Demon Emperor Peng has made his move!"
Chen Mu had no complicated thoughts. After telling them he would give them the crosshair, he picked it up and kept watching the internal strife among the Otherworldly Demon in the distance. He discovered that the Otherworldly Demon Emperor, Luo Peng, had actually taken action himself.
Upon hearing this, the others quickly raised their sights, not wanting to miss this rare opportunity to watch the game.
Boom boom boom...!
It was clear that Luo Peng was furious in the distance. He held a long black whip in his hand and kept waving it. Each waving caused countless black lightning bolts to split off, creating blank areas in the gaps between the huddled Otherworldly Demon Zombie.
However, once the Otherworldly Demon turn into zombies, their vitality becomes extremely tenacious, and their strength is even greater than before they were alive, making them very difficult to kill.
Ordinary Otherworldly Demon, if they suffer even the slightest wound, will soon become part of the zombie population. As a result, the number of zombies has not decreased, but has instead been slowly increasing.
"Retreat! All soldiers below the rank of Demon King, step aside!"
Demon King, and your personal guards, follow me to kill the enemy!
After fighting for a while longer, Luo Peng finally realized something was wrong. Relying on ordinary soldiers to kill zombies was useless and would only increase the number of zombies.
However, if ordinary soldiers are not allowed to stop the zombies, it is impossible to kill them all by relying solely on powerful warriors above the Demon King level. The zombies will also chase after the ordinary soldiers, and the final result will be similar.
This conclusion gave him a huge headache, but there was no other way now but to minimize casualties among ordinary soldiers and then use experts above the Demon King level to slowly kill off all the zombies.
He was filled with remorse. If only he had taken it more seriously when the infected first appeared and killed off that small group of infected people earlier.
Even if internal strife breaks out at that time, with my own forces and numerous Demon King, the speed of killing will definitely exceed the speed of infection.
Seeing the horror of the virus, he felt a sense of relief. Fortunately, the enemy's witchcraft had no effect on the Demon King; otherwise, the war between humans and the Otherworldly Demon might have ended because of this witchcraft.
In fact, Chen Mu also wanted to research a virus that would be effective against Demon King and above, but unfortunately, whether it was a human at the Core Formation Realm or Otherworldly Demon King, they were all super species at the biological level, and viruses had almost no effect on them. In any case, Chen Mu had not yet discovered any virus that was effective against them.
Demon Emperor Peng led his troops to fight the zombies for an entire afternoon, even causing ordinary soldiers to flee. He and the Demon King, along with their elite legions, hunted down the Otherworldly Demon Zombie, which slightly reversed the disadvantage.
However, the Otherworldly Demon Zombie are very good at disguising themselves, and those elite legions sometimes experience outbreaks of zombie virus, which can cause massive casualties.
By Dusk, Chen Mu and his companions roughly estimated that half of the Otherworldly Demon soldiers stationed there had died, and the battle below was not yet over. In the end, more than two-thirds of them would likely perish.
A battle in which two-thirds of the soldiers have died can be declared a complete defeat.
"Young Miss, do you think they'll withdraw their troops tomorrow?"
Lu Xiaoyun asked Wei Shuang with a smile.
I don't know if they'll retreat or not, but their siege ships definitely won't dare come again tomorrow!
Let's go back and hold a celebration banquet to properly thank Lord Chen Mu.
The Otherworldly Demon forces did not suffer significant losses among their high-ranking generals, and if they persist in their attack on Suspended Sword Pass, they still have a chance of breaking through.
However, if they did that, they would definitely suffer huge losses, especially the loss of large siege ships, which would be absolutely unbearable for them.
Therefore, Wei Shuang was certain that the crisis at Suspended Sword Pass had been resolved and there would be no further danger in the short term.