Tauren Overlord

If the Emperor hadn't kept this unfavorable news secret, even his Admiral would have lost his confidence in victory...

While the imperial troops were advancing, Lu Heng was certainly not idle either.

He was dealing with new problems, such as the reorganization of New Luna City, and the reorganization of the navy.

The first group Lu Heng dealt with were the remaining imperial surrendered troops under Estarofia's command. They were all required to camp outside the city.

It is relatively easy for the Luna people and the Taimenia traitors to coexist, but it is hard to say for the "noble gods and demons" from the empire.

As the Empire slaughtered people in the war of aggression, more and more demons had lives on their hands.

But for these demons, no, they prefer to call themselves "Gods".

Because the scriptures they believe in say that they are the only ones chosen by God.

It doesn’t matter if they kill other races, that is all killing permitted by God.

But if anyone doesn't like their way of killing, then that's "anti-God".

After all this, the image of the "Gods" in the minds of both the Luna people and the Taimenian people has become extremely bad.

Lu Heng deliberately separated them in order to avoid unnecessary internal friction.

However, based on Lu Heng's actual observations, the gods and demons are not without value.

At least Estarofia and her subordinates can still be used.

Anyway, the "God's will" believed by the demons has always been very flexible.

When they need to kill someone, "God" will say that the other person is not a good person who deserves to live, but a devil who deserves to die.

As for the criteria for judging "God", it is of course based on God's representative on earth.

It's not impossible for Estarofia to insist that "God is on the side of the Minotaur Overlord, and the God-Emperor is the devil."

Following the principle of judging by deeds rather than intentions, her subordinates actually switched sides, perhaps because they believed it.

And in the history of the empire, Estarophia was not the first demon to claim that her own kind were the devils.

Before the current Emperor of God ascended the throne, it was very common for demons to accuse their compatriots of being devils while believing that they themselves were God's chosen people.

To some extent, the difference between humans and demons is not that great.

It is not uncommon to find people who always believe that they are the good guys and are willing to trample on so-called heretics.

Therefore, Lu Heng did not intend to rely on reducing the number of races to maintain a certain peace and tranquility.

This idea has been proven not to work in ancient times when only Homo sapiens existed.

But judging from some of the "harvests" from the New Luna City, the God-Emperor was clearly planning genocide.

With the help of Estarofia, Lu Heng found many hatcheries for mutant creatures in the city.

These creatures are native to Fukumitsu Island in the Imperial headquarters, and generally have a body size larger than that of humans when mature.

There are several species of them, but all of them have the ability to easily hunt ordinary humans.

What’s even more horrifying is that the way they kill people can increase the pain of the victims.

For example, some creatures like giant leeches can slowly suck the blood out of the victim while he is conscious;

There is also a creature that resembles a giant spider. Not only does it have an extremely resilient web, it also lays eggs inside the victim's body...

These creatures generally have amazing reproductive abilities, and they are in great danger when they arrive in the Eastern Continent where there are no natural enemies.

Their only weakness seems to be that they cannot fully adapt to the geographical environment of the Maoergan Peninsula for the time being.

As for food, they need to eat more humans and rats in order to better adapt to the new "menu".

Even so, they cannot change their "taste" quickly, so Lu Heng can see these creepy hatcheries.

It will take one or more generations for these organisms to become better adapted to the new tasks.

"The original intention of the Divine Emperor was to wait for these things to grow up and then directly release them to the Maoergan Peninsula, or even the entire East Continent."

Estarofia collected these hatcheries and made the above confession to Lu Heng.

"These mutant creatures don't seem to pose much of a threat to powerful spellcasters, so I'm curious, why does the Emperor cultivate these things?"

"Could it be used to kill ordinary farmers? Or to kill women and children who lack the ability to fight?"

Unconsciously, Lu Heng had guessed very close to the truth.

Estarofia calmed herself down and said to him softly:

"Master, you are so kind."

"Kind?" Lu Heng looked at the girl whose head he had chopped off a few days ago and did not accept the compliment.

He knew that if he were in the old world, he would definitely not be considered a particularly kind person.

The truly kind people are those who volunteer wherever a disaster strikes.

They do not ask for anything in return, but only hope that no matter whether people encounter earthquakes or diseases, there will be fewer deaths and injuries.

Lu Heng admitted that he was still far from being a truly kind person and could not use this word to label himself.

Including the girl in front of him, Lu Heng was merely using her.

She was so beautiful, submissive, and comfortable to fuck, and she also contributed to his war.

In return for her cooperation, he saved her life and gave her another life to choose from. It was just an equal exchange.

But Estarofia obviously sees it differently.

"Master, the Emperor is indeed going to use these mutant creatures to exterminate the population of the resistance zone."

"The Divine Emperor's judgment is very simple. After the Empire achieves military victory, what will follow is bound to be a long security war."

"The spellcasters may be able to hide in the mountains and fight guerrilla warfare, but they also rely on the supplies provided by the producers."

"It may be difficult to ambush a spellcaster who appears and disappears elusively, but as long as their supply source is cut off, the guerrilla warfare will be unable to continue."

"The Divine Emperor is planning to use this method to win his battle for security in the Eastern Continent... and perhaps other regions."

"Compared to the God-Emperor who is planning to exterminate all the races, you are so kind..."

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354. Girl and the Dining Table

In response to Estarofia's evaluation, Lu Heng simply waved his hand, indicating that she should stop here.

He never thought of himself as a kind person, he just knew a simple truth:

If you kill them all, then what is the benefit of conquering this land?

Just to see the vastness of the world?

That expansion is lonely?

Whether it is slavery or promoting good governance, there must be talent to produce output.

There is no full automation in this era, and unless national interests are really not taken into consideration, even slavery is a very stupid practice.

Slavery is indeed very efficient when it comes to issuing orders, but it is very inefficient at the execution level.

The slaves themselves know that no matter how much they work, they will not get their share of the profits, so why not try their best to slack off?

Therefore, even if Lu Heng took prisoners, he would allow them to "redeem themselves" based on the progress of their mission.

This idea is very similar to the many "debt laborers" he met in his hometown.

That world is full of big debtors, and a worker might have to go without food and drink for several years to pay off the debt he owes.

Relatively speaking, Lu Heng doesn't seem to be particularly bad.

He would usually make prisoners of war who needed labor reform work for half a year or even two or three months so that they could pay off their "debt" and become free citizens.

The specific length of time depends on how hard these prisoners of war work.

Now that they have a goal in life, they naturally become more motivated and work harder.

From Artemisia Town to Thessaloniki City, and then to New Luna City, Lu Heng obtained hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and a large number of laborers.

In the production of weapons and ammunition such as the Rat-Terling machine gun and the Niu-Terling machine gun, the help of this labor force is really indispensable.

Fortunately, the Divine Emperor's genocide plan was discovered by Lu Heng in time, and these biological weapons were not used in actual combat.

Otherwise, Lu Heng's logistics production would inevitably suffer a widespread blow.

Of course, Lu Heng didn't get any lucky breaks.

The fact that the Emperor placed these biological weapons in a super fortress like New Luna City for cultivation was itself a sign of caution.

However, Lu Heng recaptured New Luna City too quickly, completely beyond the empire's expectations, which resulted in the God-Emperor's plan being unable to be implemented.

"Destroy most of them. It's dangerous to have too many of them. I only need a small part of them for special purposes."

Lu Heng didn't look at the disgusting stuff any further.

As for why we have to keep some, it is mainly because we are worried that the Divine Emperor might have raised these monsters in some other corners.

If we can keep some samples, we can carry out necessary scientific research.

For example, some mutant creatures use poison as the main source of their lethality, so it is easier to study how to crack it by preserving samples.

As for another relatively small function, Lu Heng intends to use them to scare people.

And in the south of the world, there happened to be someone who needed Lu Heng to scare.

There are currently four forces in the southern continent.

The weakest among them is the Empire's Beast Taming Province, which, like the Beast Suppression Province, is also a traitorous province established by the Lord of Taimenia.

The local governor had some self-awareness. Since the liberation of New Luna City, they had nominally chosen to surrender to Lu Heng.

But the governor was not self-aware enough, and he wanted to make some kind of conditional surrender, such as becoming an autonomous lord under Lu Heng.

In this regard, Lu Heng could only say that he owed an engineer of human soul to decorate his room.

The second weakest is the Tauren Marshal Balgron.

In theory he recognized Lu Heng as the head of the academy, but in reality he was an autonomous force.

However, he was generally obedient to Lu Heng and even offered Lu Heng the naval fleet he had built with great difficulty.

Before dealing with the Empire's Beast Taming Province, there was no need for Lu Heng to make things difficult for him at this time.

Next is Luna-kun Kingdom.

He formed the Alliance of the Living together with the Holy Fortune Empire and was definitely Lu Heng's enemy.

However, before the war between the Empire and the Sea Alliance broke out, they were supposed to launch an attack from the southeast, but they delayed in taking action.

It was not difficult for Lu Heng to see that the Evil Eye Tyrant who ruled the Kingdom of Luna-kun might also be a guy who was in two minds.

But this peace could not last long. With the demise of the Sea Alliance, the Evil Eye Tyrant began to stir.

Perhaps in a few days, he would lead his troops to launch an attack, trying to integrate the Luna people of the academy into his command.

If Lu Heng cannot defeat the Luna-kun Kingdom, he will be caught in the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.

And further south, there is the power of the Tomb King.

The Tomb Kingdom is said to be more powerful than the Luna-kun Kingdom, but for now, it is basically a neutral arms dealer nation.

Many magic items produced in the Tomb Kingdom are very popular, especially psychic scrolls with long-distance communication capabilities.