Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1859 The Pragmatic Jackal

As it stands, the jackal's physical strength is not much different from that of an adult male, but its digestive system and vitality are truly exceptionally tenacious.

If human soldiers had such digestive and absorptive abilities, their recovery speed after training or illness and injury would be significantly improved.

According to Shi Lei's previous plan, the jackals were to work with the sand control department for the first month.

But plans are static, people are dynamic.

Seeing how well they had recovered, Shi Lei decided against following the original plan and issued an order to formally incorporate the jackals into the desert forces.

Rounding up, this is equivalent to directly getting a government job in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The jackals had no objection to this.

The past two weeks have given them a profound understanding.

Where can you find a day like this where you can eat your fill three times a day?

Previously, they wouldn't have even dared to imagine it!
Why did their entire gnoll tribe work so hard, hunting from dawn till dusk every day?
Isn't it all for a bite to eat?!

And they still can't get enough to eat; they often go three days without eating nine meals.

Now that they have submitted to the Great Zhou, they immediately realized what kind of awful lives they had been living before!

At this moment, the jackals had no more doubts.

From now on, they will do whatever the Great Zhou asks them to do!
After joining the army, discipline became stricter and the workload increased every day, but looking at Xie Liancheng standing there, they had no complaints.

Not to mention, after joining the army, they quickly discovered that Xie Liancheng was not the only one they could not defeat.

There are plenty of people here they can't beat...

Faced with absolute power, even the most arrogant person must rein in their temper.

Not to mention that the gnolls, who primarily hunt in groups and fight in teams, are not inherently arrogant.

They don't care about superficial things. Surprisingly, for pragmatists, the six words "have something to eat and be able to eat their fill" are more reliable than anything else.

In comparison, the exceptionally talented Flying Claw is the one among the gnolls who is most focused on personal strength.

After solving their food problem, most of the jackal people were content with their comfortable lives.

After finishing training and eating each day, they would start preparing for childbirth. Over time, many female jackals became pregnant.

You can sense that their ultimate pursuit at this stage is "a wife, children, and a warm bed," which makes sense.

From Shi Lei's perspective, this is, in some ways, a good thing.

After all, this meant that they wouldn't cause any trouble, and at the same time, they had stabilized their situation within the Great Zhou.

Among this group of gnolls, Flying Claw is currently the only one who, after finishing his daily training, has begun to pursue personal improvement and is putting in extra training sessions.

Shi Lei and Xie Liancheng were happy to see this happen.

Having a four-star valiant grappling hook gives you a good chance of reaching the Vajra Realm. From the perspective of the Great Zhou, would they complain about having too many high-end combatants?

However, Jie Liancheng definitely has no interest in being a sparring partner for the grappling hook.

Fighting a Vajra Realm martial artist against a Hundred Refinement Realm martial artist is like beating a child; it serves no training purpose whatsoever, not to mention that Jie Liancheng is currently in a bottleneck period.

Fortunately, they didn't need to worry about this. There were quite a few martial artists at the Hundred Refinement Realm in the army, and they usually trained and sparred with each other.

Seeing that Flying Claw was also at the Hundred Refinement Realm, they naturally called him along. During this time, Flying Claw's strength improved rapidly. When he first arrived, his strength was only Bronze One Star, but in the blink of an eye, it had improved to Bronze Two Star.

Xie Liancheng understood this clearly.

Given the inherent limitations of the grappling hook, even with ample resources, one would need to cultivate it to at least the Bronze Three-Star level of the Hundred Refinements Realm before encountering any bottlenecks.

Previously, Chun Chun's strength had stagnated at Bronze One Star because her body couldn't keep up due to long-term malnutrition.

After arriving in their Great Zhou, he was well-fed and nutritious, and his body grew stronger day by day. It was normal for his strength to improve rapidly in a short period of time.

Or rather, this is the true performance of a healthy grappling hook.

During this process, after receiving formal training for a period of time, the Gnoll Desert Sentinel Team was officially formed.

The undead soldiers have the advantage of being able to lie in ambush directly under the yellow sand and ignoring the effects of the desert climate.

However, when it comes to action, it lacks flexibility and speed, making it more suitable for fixed-point vigilance, that is, staying at one vigilance point without moving.

However, gnolls are able to move flexibly in the desert, perform more tasks, and adapt to the desert climate.

This can be considered as achieving complementarity to a certain extent.

Meanwhile, news from the Saint Laurent border quickly reached Zhou Xu's ears.

Zhou Xu didn't think much of the fact that their undead officer had brought back a group of gnolls.

Their Great Zhou is a very inclusive country, with many races such as elves, dwarves, centaurs, lizardmen, dragonmen, and the undead. So what difference would it make if they added gnolls?

Not to mention that the other side also has the advantage of being able to adapt to the desert climate, which is advantageous to their Great Zhou's desert border.

At this moment, Zhou Xu was actually focusing more on the intelligence about the goblins.

Are they goblins?

Upon hearing this word, an image quickly came to mind for Zhou Xu.

Compared to his stereotypical image of goblins, the goblin image described in this intelligence report is both accurate and inaccurate.

Those who fit the description include, for example, being short in stature and having pointed ears.

For example, in his stereotype, goblins have green skin, but the intelligence reports describe them as having brown skin.

Of course, Zhou Xu was also aware that what he knew before, even if rounded up, was mostly hearsay.

He must now rely on facts and not let stereotypes solidify his thinking.

From what we can see, this goblin is a typical example of someone who is involved in technological development, and even in cutting-edge technology.

In terms of firearms development, it is estimated that we are no less advanced than them, and there is even a certain probability that we surpass them.

As for the mecha, he had already figured out the general idea, so there was nothing more he needed to think about now.

As his thoughts quickly cleared, the image of the goblin faction gradually became clear in Zhou Xu's mind.

A race that relies on technological equipment but doesn't have much combat power itself.

If two technological forces clash, and one side gains an advantage in technological development, the side at a disadvantage is likely to be severely suppressed.

[If we were to clash with them later, it would be safer to find a breakthrough on the magic side rather than risking a direct confrontation with our technology-based forces...]

(End of this chapter)