Looking at the skeletons and corpses covering the entire construction site, waving tools and digging the river seriously, the British engineers responsible for supervising the work were all confused.

This was the first time they had seen such an exaggerated and "unusual" worker, and everyone was greatly shocked.

Some people who believe in pious even took out their crosses and prayed loudly to God, reprimanding the evil to retreat while also asking for help from the British soldiers responsible for maintaining the order of the construction site, asking them to eliminate these evil corpses that were blasphemous.

However, these British soldiers had long been accustomed to the existence of these corpses, and seemed to be indifferent. They even "pleased" these engineers and asked Li Enfield to invite them back to work.

Faced with Li Enfield's kindness and friendly "comfort" with these British soldiers, these engineers returned to the construction site in fear.

In fact, British soldiers were also shocked by these undead workers at the beginning, and many even fired fire. If the officers had not suppressed and comforted him, they would have fought on the spot.

However, later Egypt sent skeletons, mummies, mummies, and fresh corpses over in batches. The British army was shocked at the beginning and afraid to the end of numbness, and now they were used to it.

After all, the number of workers required to widen the canal is not one or two, but tens of millions of workers. With such a large number, even skeletons will feel numb and feel nothing.

Of course, Chen Mo could not control such a large number by himself. Even the acolytes created did not have so many to control such a large group of undeads, so Chen Mo chose to erect an obelisk next to the river.

This obelisk is one of the products produced by Chen Mo to combine the knowledge of the necromancer in the magic book with the ancient Egyptian magic knowledge presented by Imodon. It itself is a kind of spirit gathering tower and requires four accompaniments to start. After activation, only one or two accompaniments need to continuously input mana power to maintain it.

After this obelisk is activated, it can cover a range of about seven kilometers. The undead whose coverage is marked will be controlled by the obelisk.

However, this kind of control is quite rough, and it can only conduct a general command without fine operation.

For example, you can order all or part of the undead to move forward or backward, attack or stop, but you cannot order a certain undead to do any fine work alone.

Therefore, on the construction site, an obelisk is set up on both sides of the river every ten kilometers. In this way, the four obelisks are unfolded together, enough to cover a river channel with a length of 20 kilometers, and to control nearly one million undead workers to use for construction.

There is an old saying that "there are ten thousand people, boundless and unobstructed, and hundreds of thousands of people are thrust into the sky." The scene of nearly one million undead workers working together is very spectacular, and it is even at the point where they can stand on the bank of the river and look at it, and there are skeletons everywhere.

Although these undead have low intelligence and are limited by physical problems, they are not very energetic, but nearly one million workers who do not need to rest work day and night, and do not need to affect the construction progress due to eating, drinking, defecation, and sleep. The construction efficiency of this canal widening project has been greatly improved.

As for where these nearly one million undead came from, it is naturally thanks to the funeral customs and natural climate in ancient Egypt since ancient times.

From ancient times to the present, Egyptians have had the habit of mummifying corpses, both nobles and civilians. However, the mummies of nobles are well-made, and the corpses can be preserved for a long time. The pharaohs can even build pyramids such as magnificent project to serve as their mausoleum.

But ordinary civilians can only dry the bodies like bacon, and they do not have good fabrics to wrap them in fine form, and there are no magnificent tombs, and they are buried just like this.

However, the blessing of Egypt's natural dry climate, these corpses will quickly dry under the influence of desert climate. If they are not damaged by activities such as tomb robbery, the corpses will remain underground and will not be damaged for thousands of years.

It is precisely because of this that after Chen Mo sent his subordinates to create a cloning technique, he quickly pulled out nearly 800,000 undead spirits from Cairo and sent them to the construction site in the canal area in batches.

Some of them were those who died during the previous battle in Cairo. The bodies claimed by some people would be taken away for burial, but the remaining bodies that were unclaimed or that had been beaten too bad and could not be identified would be transformed into undead laborers and sent to work.

This is also one of the policies Chen Mo planned to implement later. If someone is responsible for taking away and burying the dead body, it will naturally be allowed to be buried. However, no one claims that it needs to be handled by the public department, it will be transformed into undead laborers and then work for the country until it earns enough money for his coffin.

And even so, these corpses will still be dug out when the country needs them and transformed into undead laborers or undead soldiers.

In fact, Chen Mo himself wanted to collect a corpse tax, that is, after the death of Egyptian citizens, the corpse would still work for the state.

Of course, it would definitely not work if you do this directly. No matter how much the Egyptian tradition attaches importance to corpses, it would be too shocking to directly pull the dead to work.

What Chen Mo envisioned was to open up the service of resurrection after death. This is certainly not a difficult task for a necromancer. There are so many ways to resurrect corpses, he can take out seventeen or eighteen kinds of them at will, and arrange a large passive resurrection array in each city. When someone dies, he will automatically activate the resurrection program. This is not a very difficult thing for Chen Mo.

In this way, after the death of the Egyptians, they can be resurrected as the dead and continue to live, but as the cost of resurrection, the dead need to serve the country for ten years. If their family has money to pay the cost of resurrection, they can do not have to serve for ten years.

In this way, no matter the poor or the rich, they can still contribute to Chen Mo after death, but the rich contribute money and the poor contribute their bodies.

The undead after resurrection is not completely free, and there is no need for any additional investment, because both the corpse and the bones will gradually decay and damage over time.

If you are poor, as long as you serve the country, the maintenance fee will naturally be responsible for the state. You only need to add a maintenance fee to the service life. For the rich, you can only pay for the maintenance service yourself.

In this way, whether it is a large number of subordinate undeads or wealth, they can enter Chen Mo's pocket very smoothly.

The only limitation is just how much people accept the resurrection of the dead.
Chapter completed!