Chapter 509: One Year
Time flies, and a year has passed since the magic disaster in Caines.
Humans are a forgetful race. An event with a large number of casualties, under some kind of subtle guidance, has become a topic of conversation in the outside world for a year.
Not only in the human world, but also in the realm of adventurers, human society is always experiencing large and small issues that attract attention, such as wage imbalance, price increases, gender opposition, education policies, financial dishonesty, entertainment scandals, etc.
There are all kinds of major events in human society waiting for the public to denounce and participate. Well, there may be differences, such as some places can only quarrel, and some places can participate to a certain extent.
And the magic disaster in Caines City has gradually become a wave of past waves in time that should be warned but not brought to the table again.
More issues closely related to their own lives have attracted the attention of the public. During this period, in the eyes of some people with higher social status, the north of the Magic Empire seems to be surging with undercurrents.
In the Bridges of the Magic Empire, the old and new ruling factions frequently fight.
The well-known adventurer organizations that have established company bases in the north of the empire have tacitly ordered their members to temporarily stay away from the human world. Many team managers have always stayed in their courtyards where they have more roots.
Compared with the various unknown meanings in the outside world, as the source of the phenomenon, the city of Caines has undergone a rapid development in this year.
Ghost City, because there are a large number of ghosts with legal citizenship here, Caines City, to some extent, seems to have become a city of the dead that is a little purer than the "City of Eternal Life" of the Seventh Kingship.
Of course, there must be ghosts in the sphere of influence of the Seventh, but those ghosts are more tools, or even spellcasting materials. And the scale of a regular city is obviously not comparable to that country.
Speaking of the development of Caines City, it should have been the opportunity of the Youth Potion, right?
The youth potion, which is regularly listed in Caines, priced uniformly by the city hall and authorized to be sold publicly by the Malz Magic Materials Store, has attracted many high-end consumers to Caines.
The number of youth potions provided by Caines accounts for a large market quota in the entire Loren Star, but even so, there are still too many people and too little porridge, and it is difficult to get a bottle.
In this case, after the city councilors studied and deliberated, Mayor Nick did not adopt the auction form of the highest bidder.
A small number of youth potions are determined by lottery to determine the purchase right, while others are based on outstanding contributions to Caines City as the priority purchase standard.
When the resolution was first made, regardless of how many people were alive in Caines City at that time, various municipal engineering biddings were quite smooth.
Factories, restaurants, supermarkets, shopping malls and other enterprises related to people's livelihood have sprung up in Caines City, including clothing, maintenance, housekeeping, and entertainment industries have registered one after another.
After having a modern living environment, whether working or settling down, they really attracted some people to Caines City.
A dose of youth potion can be said to have revitalized a ghost town, and also made this ghost city's negative image outside to a certain extent reversed. Following closely, Caines' local social welfare measures also began to be gradually adjusted and introduced.
Well, social welfare, no matter whether it is national or regional, the so-called work salary is what normal people deserve, and they pay a lot of taxes, so that thing can't be called welfare.
And no matter whether it is lazy or disabled, the so-called social welfare, the so-called sense of security, is nothing more than not working and not afraid of getting sick, and being able to eat well and sleep well.
It seems absurd at first, but humans have the need to prove their own value. Unless they have completely lost hope in the future, the proportion of people who are really willing to eat and wait for death is actually not high.
Social welfare can be said to be a bottom line guarantee, and the height of the bottom line also largely determines the height of the region's new attraction to the grassroots people.
Of course, this is a link in cultivating a sense of belonging. If you run it seriously, it is inevitable to spend money. As for managers who want to make money even in this link, just treat it as awesome. Caines City can't afford such talents for the time being.
It is precisely because of this link that Mu Hua's tax commission as a lord has not been able to be put into his pocket for the time being. He barely didn't have to spend much money, which is enough to prove Nick's intentions.
More than 2,000 black-armored skeleton generals engraved with the corpse mark cooperated with the security team on duty and patrol in this ghost city. They largely made those guys who wanted to make money in a side way put away their ill intentions.
These black-armored skeleton generals were not directly derived by Mu Hua. Mu Hua came to Loren for two years in the outside world for one year, and the earliest skeleton warriors derived by him have been lying in the Abyss Island for forty or fifty years.
Under the grinding of time and environment, the skeleton warriors derived by Mu Hua in those years have basically evolved. The black-armored skeleton generals who are on guard duty in the city of Caines are the best among those skeleton warriors.
Most of them evolved to skeleton generals on their own. In order to be more deterrent, Mu Hua invested a batch of philosopher's stones and simply turned them all into black-armored skeleton generals.
During this year, Mu Hua selected some more trustworthy ghosts to enter the Abyss Island so that they could grow quickly.
As for the authorized ghosts, there was no need to worry too much about them leaking the situation of the Abyss Island. Except for the ghosts who had surrendered to Mu Hua, these ghosts were basically bound to Mu Hua's interests, and most of them were abandoned by their families and relatives.
Mu Hua did not dominate them, and even allocated private land to them on the Abyss Island, so that they could freely dispose of their living income through planting and breeding.
For these ghosts, the Abyss Island was not Mu Hua's secret, and Mu Hua did not need to emphasize that they should keep it secret. Instead, Mu Hua became their secret and became the existence they needed to protect.
Because only by guarding Mu Hua could they guard everything they had.
After experiencing the benefits that the Abyss Island brought to them, they did not need Mu Hua to explain it repeatedly, and they would even monitor other ghosts not to talk nonsense outside.
They were ghosts with long lives, and they also needed a place where they could live in peace. These ghosts attached more importance to the Abyss Island than Mu Hua did.
Not to mention losing the trust given by Mu Hua, in a good living atmosphere, they could not bear the result of being excluded and targeted, or even secretly judged and executed by other ghosts.
The outside world knows that there is a group of human ghosts in Caines City that are growing rapidly and are loyal to Mu Hua. In addition to a few elemental evil spirits and banshees, there is even a faceless man and a wailing banshee.
They organized a ghost club called the "Wall of Sighs" to manage the ghosts in Caines City to a large extent.
They laid the foundation for the name "Ghost City", but they are still undead after all, and most people in the outside world are definitely more afraid of them than curious.
And in just one year, as if to dispel this fear, Caines City suddenly increased by 20,000 magical lives.
These magical lives can barely be regarded as people confirming that although the rulers here are weird, they do not simply value the undead. The rulers here are indeed trying to create a ghost city suitable for human life.
Well, yes, weird, 20,000 magical lives, but they seem to be carved out of the same mold.
20,000 silver-haired, cheerful, and pretty women with a bit of ladylike temperament.
These magic life forms named "Aili" all have their own numbers behind their names, and there seems to be a nickname "The Sin of the Magician Killer". Mu Hua usually calls them number individuals.
They basically work in small shops or small and medium-sized companies in Ghost City, and their figures are everywhere in Ghost City.
'Mu Hua can create magic life forms, and he has enough financial resources, but he probably lacks manpower. 'This is the outside world's perception of Mu Hua. After all, if it is not a last resort, there is no reason to create 20,000 number individuals with the same image.
Although they are all beautiful, if these young girls and wives are all gathered together, it would be scary at first glance. . .
Well, Mu Hua got a limited number of demon brains, but he did not find Daryl Enterprises, but got 20,000 intermediate magic brains from Besero, as well as a small number of advanced magic brains.
The magic life forms that are flooding the service industries in Caines City are basically intermediate magic life forms, and their prototypes are taken from 'Einzbern'.
As for the number individuals, in fact, both 'Misaka Sister' and 'Three No Goddesses' should be ranked before 'Einzbern' in Mu Hua's original conception.
However, this batch of magic life forms is to bring vitality to Caines City. It is basically no different from destroying the place to bring those two out, right?
After many hesitations by Mu Hua, adhering to the respect for the magician killer, and also to form a CP for his own Friday, he finally got the current group of number individuals.
Friday? Well, this question is not urgent.
The personalities of the 20,000 number individuals are all cheerful, but there are still some problems here. After all, their number is a bit too much, and Mu Hua also created two Terra to manage them.
With the number individuals, the magician killer's family's serious wife is naturally indispensable, and the one who manages most of the Alice is the more serious 'Alice Phil'.
Because they will not interfere too much in the private lives of these 20,000 magicians, they can be seen to have obvious differences in appearance from the Alice Phil in Mu Hua's family. Generally speaking, that Terra is more mature than the numbered Aili.
As for the other Terra who manages some of the numbered individuals, probably to make up for the regret of Misaka Sister, Mu Hua wanted to make a Misaka Sister.
But when it came to Misaka Sister, Mu Hua's little head shook with a cleverness. Misaka Sister, was she created to fight with her cousin?
Why create a junior high school student when there are college students with outstanding figures? Misaka Sister is too righteous to be shown, and hugging and hugging is not very harmonious.
As a result, with big breasts, liking famous brands, not having a good drinking habit, and managing a group of numbered individuals who tend to work in intelligence, Misaka Sister was artificially matured by Mu Hua, and directly changed from Mikoto to Meiling, and from Misaka Sister to Misaka Sister's mother. . .
The two Terras manage the 20,000 intermediate magic life forms created by Mu Hua. Although they are numbered individuals, they all have their own independent consciousness and thoughts. They are in the human world during the day, and those who don't want to be lazy and roll around, dance and race at night will go to the Abyss Island to practice and study.
In addition to the numbered individuals working and living in Caines City, Mu Hua also sent hundreds of Aili with high-level potential to various countries in Loren Star.
They took over the dandelion hotels that were almost abandoned. Their main task was to help Mu Hua collect low-level magic stones and send them to the Abyss Island in time.
And their existence also let more people in the outside world know that there are such a group of magic life forms in Caines City that are almost carved out of the same mold.
After asking around, I heard that they might all be created by Mu Hua. Although they look delicate and lovely, many people still complain about Mu Hua's weirdness and carelessness in creating magical life.
Because there are a lot of them and they are not bound by contracts, even the Star Patrol Fleet sent them invitations to recruit them to form a Star Patrol Guard.
As for Mu Hua? Maybe a little weird, but he always thought he was too serious.
He created them because he was serious, and he even applied for portrait protection, not allowing other puppeteers to imitate them, not even magic puppets!
And how was Mu Hua's situation this year? Well, nothing happened. He was blind and had been blind for a year.
Although there were rumors that Mu Hua had cultivated some kind of very powerful magic eyes, most people regarded such rumors as a joke.
There was almost no news of Mu Hua leaving Caines City this year. At least when people occasionally saw Mu Hua on the streets of Caines City, he was always holding a guide stick in his hand, and he looked like he was blind. . . (End of this chapter)