The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse

Chapter 323: Chapter 268, Failed Design

Two people carried the Iron Wolf Rake over.

With a clang, it stood upright on the ground.

“Your Majesty!” The two greeted before handing the Iron Wolf Rake to Qiangzi and then departed.

Qiangzi held the Iron Wolf Rake with one hand and scratched his head with the other, saying, “It’s a bit different from the original sketch. The previous one was too heavy, so we reduced the number and length of the branches, and this is the final result.”

Wu Heng carefully examined it.

On the main spear shaft, nine iron branches branched off.

Though it was called the Iron Wolf Rake, it now looked more like a mace with long spikes.

It was completely different from the original draft.

“Let me try its weight.”

“It’s quite heavy,” Qiangzi remarked as he passed it over.

Wu Heng picked it up and swung it through the air with whooshes on the open ground in front of him.

Qiangzi, standing by his side, had his eyes wide open, almost in disbelief, watching Wu Heng handle the Iron Wolf Rake.

What the two of them had carried together, he was swinging around like a stick.

“Too heavy to use,” Wu Heng placed the Iron Wolf Rake on the ground and said.

It wasn’t that it was too heavy for him, but rather for the Skeletons.

Even with his own strength of 34 points, he felt it was burdensome, let alone equipping it to ordinary Skeletons who would have to fend off hordes of zombies. It would be even more strenuous.

“This isn’t practical, but it looks pretty cool as an ornament. How about this, tell the workshop to produce more tridents with sharper blades,” Wu Heng said directly.

“Alright, I’ll have them take care of it when I get back,” agreed Qiangzi without any argument.

After standing the Iron Wolf Rake aside, Qiangzi took out the previous sketch and said, “Let me show you, we’ve been researching equipment for the Flying Dragon.”

Wu Heng leaned over. “Let’s see.”

“Based on the characteristics of the Flying Dragon, we made two conjectures. The first is to have the Flying Dragon drop bombs, like a plane dropping bombs. The second is to attach weapons to the dragon claws.”

“Go on,” urged Wu Heng.

Qiangzi pointed to the blueprints.

It depicted a Flying Dragon with several bombs below it, “The Bone Dragon could have its chest cavity designed as a bomb bay to drop bombs. Of course, we don’t have bombs, so our idea is to drop short arrowheads, or chunks of iron or stone.”

There’s no problem with designing the chest cavity as a bomb bay.

Throwing arrowheads has too little lethality, while iron and stone chunks are heavy, and the carrying quantity would not be much.

Neither solution was good.

“And the second proposal?” Wu Heng continued to inquire.

Qiangzi turned another page, revealing an even more exaggerated design.

From the dragon claws, extended blades, similar to Wolverine’s claws.

“We add hooks to the dragon claws, which, after a dive, could hook up zombies and lift them into the sky, then drop them to their deaths, or directly attach swords for a sweeping pass through the zombie horde, killing them.”

Um…

Wu Heng looked at the drawing, frowning slightly.

Qiangzi asked, “What do you think?”

“No good,” Wu Heng said. “With your first hook, what if it catches on some structure and the zombies pull the Flying Dragon down? And for the second, if you bind knives to the claws, it cannot land anymore.”

Wu Heng pondered for a moment and continued, “Focus on the bombing research. It seems more reliable.”

Qiangzi nodded. “Okay!”

…

As the two conversed, Li Yahong approached from the front, carrying a bag.

“Sister Hong!” Qiangzi greeted.

“What are you talking about?”

“Just updating His Majesty on some work, we won’t interrupt your chat,” Qiangzi said and then left.

Li Yahong handed over the bag, which when opened, contained some gold and silver jewelry.

She said, “The shelters are able to trade less and less gold, and soon it might be difficult to get much more.”

In the post-apocalyptic world, gold was indeed of little value.

But the shelters needed to have gold to bring it over.

If you search in safe places and kill some lone zombies, you might get some.

After these trades, however, it would be difficult to scrape together more gold and silver.

Wu Heng was aware of this issue and asked, “Any solutions?”

“It boils down to two aspects, either clear the roads outside so more shelters can come and trade, or give those survivors a continuous chance to obtain gold and silver.”

In other words, either clear the roads leading in other directions as well.

Let more survivors come safely to trade materials.

The second option is to provide them with some weapons and armour so they can clear the zombies themselves and scavenge more gold.

In the modern world, many wore gold and silver jewellery. If they have the ability to kill zombies,

they can make a profit.

Shifting their focus onto killing zombies to get gold and silver would also prevent the shelters from becoming desperate, keeping their attention off the auto repair shop.

“What kind of equipment do you think we should provide?” Wu Heng asked further.

“Currently, the most popular items are Strong crossbows and Arm Guards and Armor; both have good markets,” Li Yahong contemplated before answering.

Suddenly, it appeared that this world was gradually evolving towards a Different World format.

Strong crossbows and Armor had become desired items.

“Archers, can you use them?” Wu Heng took out a wooden bow and arrows from the Space Ring.

Li Yahong took them, fitted an arrow to the bowstring,

and with a thwack, the bowstring vibrated, but the arrow did not shoot out. It slipped from her grasp and clinked to a stop beside her foot.

That was close—it nearly hit her foot.

Li Yahong looked at the arrow on the ground, and with some embarrassment said, “It’s not quite like what they show on TV; I might need to practice a bit.”

Indeed, using a bow and arrow was not as simple as using a Strong crossbow.

Wu Heng nodded, “I will find a way to provide you with Strong crossbows and armor. We’ll make the exchange terms more generous, giving all shelters a chance to trade more.”

“Great!”

Wu Heng smiled. “Let’s go. We’re heading over to the Skeletons’ side.”

…

Afterwards, the two went to the residential area where the Skeletons were stationed.

Wu Heng handed over all 500 wooden bows and arrows he had purchased from the Dwarves to the Skeleton Warriors.

Li Yahong had arranged for targets to be set up in the residential area.

500 archers began their training.

The bows snapped taut, the arrows whooshing through the air towards the molybdenum targets.

The scene was still somewhat shocking.

Unlike Li Yahong, skeletons picked up bows and arrows and could shoot them, but with low precision.

Most of them missed the targets and flew off.

They needed some time to practice.

After watching for a while, Wu Heng took Li Yahong and headed back.

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll go to the plaza to clear out the zombies and push forward a bit,” Wu Heng said.

“Okay!”

…

In the dead of night, the temperature dropped a bit.

Wu Heng got up and closed the open window.

The sleeping Li Yahong awoke, hummed lightly, and lazily said, “What’s wrong, Couldn’t sleep well?”

“Just closing the window.”

After saying that, Wu Heng got back under the covers and lightly caressed her smooth back.

With a slight turn, he gradually pressed her beneath him.

“At this time, you’re not tired?” Li Yahong propped herself up slightly on his chest, her legs naturally wrapping around his waist.

“Are you tired?”

Li Yahong smiled, turned her head to the side, and said, “As long as you’re not tired, it’s fine. After all, I don’t have to exert any effort.”

“Mm!”

Li Yahong’s breathing gradually became heavier, her arms slightly tightened, and she burrowed into his embrace.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Sticking out her red tongue, she began to lick gently like a cat drinking water.

…

Next day, early morning.

According to yesterday’s plan.

Today, the cleaning of zombies along the road was to continue.

Gold and Silver Island was relatively stable, but the level still needed to be raised.

Li Yahong’s bus was parked outside while Wu Heng with his special skeletons boarded it.

Since the distance wasn’t far, just about two kilometers, they decided not to take the convoy.

“Get the skeletons out, ready to leave,” Wu Heng said directly.

Clatter~!

Dense footsteps sounded from one side of the residential area, and a large group of skeletons emerged from within.

They surrounded the bus in the middle.

“Let’s go!” Wu Heng said.

The bus started, moving slowly forward.

The skeleton army on either side quickly turned into a jog, following in the middle of the bus.

The bones rattled noisily.

…

About half an hour later.

The army passed the ‘Green Peak Living Plaza’ that had been cleared last time.

A large number of zombies began appearing ahead.

Roars sounded one after another as zombies rushed out from the side alleys and shops, converging into a stream and forming a mass.

Wu Heng opened the door of the bus and looked at the swarming mass of zombies ahead.

He commanded directly, “Archers, volley fire!”

Whoosh~!

Dense arrows were shot into the sky.

In such situations, precision was not needed.

As long as they shot forward and not at their own people, they could roughly hit their targets.

Thud thud~ clink clink!

The arrows fell like rain, and the charging zombies were instantly turned into porcupines, quivering all over from the impact and falling in heaps.

Before they could get up and charge again, they were trampled back to the ground by the surging zombies behind them.

A large mass of zombies fell, rolling into a bundle.

The relentless rain of arrows continued to fall, wave after wave of zombies kept hitting the ground.

The lethality brought by the arrows was still weak.

Even if the bodies of zombies were pierced through, it did not affect them too much.

They still advanced, arrows sticking out of them, continuing their attack.

The horde came within 300 meters.

Wu Heng gave another order, “Spear throwers, throw!”

Whoosh~!

Iron spears fell headlong, and once again a swath of zombies hit the ground.

After several rounds of long-range attacks, the horde’s numbers had nearly halved.

The next second~!

The zombie horde directly collided with the skeleton ranks, resulting in a heavy thudding noise.

The two sides began engaging in close-quarters combat.

The sound of the melee resonated across the entire area.

Ding~!

During the battle, suddenly, a system prompt appeared.

[Your level has increased to 11, Intellect +1, Perception +1.]

[Specialty Unlocked: Spellcasting Acceleration.]