Chapter 383
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Chapter 383: Funeral and Development
Thus, without Luo Ji’s knowledge, he unexpectedly became well-known among Bronze-tier players.
Of course, the main reason for his widespread reputation was that he had successively defeated several Zongheng Tianxia players.
As for His Majesty, the Underworld King, Wang Kang, like Wang Dong, sensibly chose to remain silent.
Meanwhile, time in Luo Ji’s world continued to flow.
On this day, the morning sky, which had been bright, suddenly began to drizzle in the afternoon.
At this moment, within an independent cemetery in Iron Wall City, a funeral that was underway did not stop due to the light rain.
Figures led by Luo Ji, Zhao Pan, and others stood rigidly, watching an urn of ashes being buried in the grave.
On the erected tombstone, seven large characters were written in exceptionally upright calligraphy:
“Tomb of Marquis Liu Zheng, the Hero!”
Luo Ji and Zhao Pan hesitated for a long time on where to bury Liu Zheng.
Finally, Zhao Pan suggested burying Liu Zheng here in Iron Wall City, and Luo Ji agreed.
However, Iron Wall City had been undergoing large-scale renovations recently, so the funeral had been delayed until now.
“Your Majesty, the rain is getting heavier. We should return.”
Zhao Pan said, stepping forward a couple of paces as he felt the intensifying rain.
Though grief-stricken at his old friend’s funeral, he was also somewhat concerned about Luo Ji’s physical condition.
Standing before the tombstone, Luo Ji slightly tilted his head back, allowing the falling rain to splash onto his face and dampen his cheeks.
After gazing blankly at the overcast sky for 2 seconds, he spoke.
“You all go first. I want to stay a while longer.”
“He Liang, you and your men should withdraw as well.”
Hearing this, He Liang, the captain of the guard, exchanged a look with Zhao Pan.
Ultimately, everyone retreated as per Luo Ji’s wishes.
The entire cemetery was soon left with only Luo Ji.
Gazing at the characters on the tombstone, he raised the jar of tiger bone wine he had brought, knocked off the sealing mud, and took two large gulps directly from the jar.
He, who never touched alcohol, undoubtedly found these two large mouthfuls of strong liquor quite potent.
He poured the remaining wine over the tombstone, watching it slowly flow along the characters.
Luo Ji’s slightly subdued voice echoed in the cemetery.
“Those beastmen, I’ve brought them all into my ranks. Will you blame me?”
Luo Ji murmured, his voice pausing slightly before his expression quickly became resolute.
“Never mind. Blame me if you wish. At worst, when I die someday, I’ll come and apologize to you.”
With that, Luo Ji turned and left decisively.
With the dead now laid to rest, the living still had to press forward!
Without lingering in Iron Wall City, Luo Ji rode Liaoyuan Huo back to Mirror City that very day.
Time passed quickly.
A few days later, Luo Ji seemed to have returned to his normal state, fully immersed in his daily busy work.
During this period, the changes in Myriad World Civilization were undoubtedly immense.
The addition of the five beastman tribes, as well as the news of Liu Zheng’s death, continuously impacted the entire civilization.
As the supreme ruler of Myriad World Civilization, Luo Ji was currently frowning deeply as he read the document report in his hands.
He was clearly very concerned about the development of the five beastman tribes.
Luo Ji directly handed over the military training of the beastmen to Luo Yong and Li Ke.
Since human soldiers couldn’t be recruited for now, he had to focus more on the beastman soldiers.
The beastmen’s poor discipline led to low training efficiency.
Simply put, weren’t those guys untamed and disobedient? If so, couldn’t they just send an instructor who could beat the crap out of every single one of them?
For now, Luo Yong, who had personally trained the Xuanjia Army, was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.
Therefore, Luo Ji was relatively carefree about the training aspect.
His concern was the integration of human and beastman societies.
According to his initial plan, he would first assimilate the beastmen through commercial trade, gradually and progressively drawing beastman society into human society.
However, the implementation was not ideal because no merchants within Myriad World Civilization were willing to go there.
On one hand, merchants were concerned that their personal safety would not be guaranteed, and on the other hand, the impoverished beastman tribes offered no perceived profit.
Transporting goods, setting up shops, hiring staff, and maintaining operations, the combined expenses for these were no small sum.
Opening a shop in a beastman tribe? Was it really possible to recover costs?
It would be good if they didn’t bleed money.
Even Emperor Luo Ji could not demand that the merchants of his Myriad World Civilization engage in unprofitable ventures in the beastmen tribes’ territories.
This problem left Luo Ji a bit vexed.
The key was to make the beastmen tribes valuable.
To put it more directly, they needed some local specialties or resource points.
However, he had visited those five tribes and, frankly, they were extremely primitive.
Although he had psychologically prepared himself for the backwardness of beastman civilization, when he actually saw it, it still successfully redefined his worldview.
Nevertheless, just to be sure, Luo Ji decided to call Li Ke over and ask.
When suddenly questioned by Luo Ji, Li Ke fell into contemplation.
After thinking for a long time, he finally spoke in an uncertain tone.
“All sorts of strange stones?”
As soon as he uttered this, Li Ke felt he must be crazy.
What use could stones be?
They couldn’t be used as weapons or food.
But he vaguely remembered that when those stones were first discovered, their former Great Chieftain, Li Yuanjie, was incredibly excited, acting as if he had seized several warehouses full of food.
At this moment, Luo Ji was undoubtedly quite interested in the strange stones Li Ke mentioned.
He had basically confirmed in his mind that they were likely ores or similar materials.
These should be of some use, but it also depended on the type.
“Tell me, what kind of stones are they?”
This question plunged Li Ke back into contemplation, as in his memory, this was a very long time ago.
Furthermore, due to the low productivity and technological level of their beastman civilization, even if they discovered ores, they basically had no smelting technology.
Over time, ores basically became the most useless things within their beastman civilization.
It was no exaggeration to say that, except for coal which could be burned, other ores would be ignored by beastmen even if they were left on the roadside, let alone wasting effort to mine them.
“There are many kinds of stones, and I no longer remember many of their names, General.”
“The only one I remember is a stone that, when first discovered, made the Great Chieftain particularly excited.”
“And that kind of stone would sparkle under the sun. It was called… it was called diamond…”
