Chapter 20 Player’s Envy
After letting the poisonous scorpion warriors and the bandaged mummies stand guard together, Richard returned to the hall and opened the chat channel as a habit.
Two days have passed, and I wonder how the other lords are doing now.
"Fuck!! Today I attacked a small logging farm and encountered a 3-star elite wild monster. I killed the Husky. Why are there elite monsters in the small logging farm? Not a single unit of the troops I recruited is left. I gave them all away!!"
"You may not believe it when I tell you. Today I met an NPC caravan, which is the aboriginal people. You haven't seen it. Those aboriginal people use land dragons to transport supplies. They are a rare level of troops! I am so jealous that my eyes are filled with envy. Red.”
"What's up there? The NPC caravan I met planned to do business with me, but there are no specialties in my territory, so they took one look and left.
Bah, this is blatant discrimination! Huh, these bastards, I'll let them know! Thirty years to Hedong, thirty years to Hexi! Don’t bully young people into poverty! ”
"Where on earth can I get food!! My population has exceeded 300!! But I really can't afford it!!
This is the first time I know that eating for 300 people requires so much food every day. If anyone can lend me some food, I promise to pay it back tenfold when I become rich! ”
"Hahaha, I finally have an elite-level military base! I used half of the territory's population as cannon fodder, and finally captured the field military stronghold. But there seems to be nothing to be happy about, because all the residents have fled. , Mom, life is so hard!”
"You idiot game planner, don't let me know where you are! Why are you developing such a dehumanizing game? The residents of my territory rebelled just because they were hungry for a day!! Damn it, it's just that they haven't eaten for a day. Why are you rebelling? You’re rebelling, and you’re plundering my territory! Can you survive this day?”
"It's too difficult. Why is this world so difficult? How can we manage the territory? There is a lack of food, water, and resources, and there are powerful wild troops outside. It seems like a curse."
Richard watched for a long time and found that most of the players were having a hard time.
There are only a handful of people who can live comfortably, but there are many problems.
In comparison, Twilight City is so comfortable.
After only two days, he had already established a firm foothold in a forbidden place like the desert.
Although food is not rich and water resources are still scarce, it is countless times better than the miserable life of other lords.
After watching for a moment, he suddenly thought of something.
He took out two resource treasures - Elaeagnus elata forest and spring water fragments - exchanged for 800 units of food.
"Ten acres of Elaeagnus elegans forest matures once a month. There is no doubt that the earlier this stable food source is planted, the better."
"Although hunting is highly profitable, it is unstable. This is not a long-term development plan for the territory."
“But the problem is that the Elaeagnus elata forest must have enough water for irrigation”
"And there is only one spring water fragment. How can we get the other two fragments?"
"It's obviously unrealistic to open the treasure chest yourself. You still have to buy it from other players."
Richard had an idea while his thoughts were spinning.
"On the premise of ensuring the consumption of Twilight City, some of the food can be exchanged for spring water treasure fragments, and the planting of 10 acres of Elaeagnus arborescens forest can be started as soon as possible."
"A Elaeagnus elata forest that can stably produce food is of great significance to the city at dusk in the desert."
The desert is not a fertile place, and stable food production is a great guarantee.
Twilight City cannot always rely on hunting to solve its food problem.
Hunting is fine when the population is small, but when the population grows to three, four, or even tens of thousands, how many prey must be hunted every day to satisfy the population?
If a territory wants to develop, it must farm.
After Richard made his decision, he summoned Carew.
Without waiting for the other party to salute, he immediately asked the question.
"Karu, after finishing today's prey, do we still have a total of units of food?"
Karuna's slightly cloudy eyes looked directly at Richard, and his old voice was filled with weathered calmness.
"Master Richard, after processing today's prey, there are still 1,300 units of meat left, plus the 3,200 units of meat in the warehouse, a total of 4,500 units."
"But there will be a lot of loss when drying these fresh meats into dried meat."
"In addition, we originally had 500 units of semolina left"
"All the food added up can support the territory's consumption for half a month. If you save some, it can last for twenty days."
Richard's eyes narrowed slightly.
Half a month's inventory is far from enough for a territory, and its ability to resist risks is too weak.
But for the early stage when development opportunities are precious, there is no need to save so much and you can take out part of it for development.
A buffer of ten days is enough.
After having a plan in mind, he immediately got up and went to the warehouse of the lord's mansion, where all the supplies in Twilight City were stored.
Karu also arranged for several people to guard it day and night.
Richard took 1,000 units of fresh meat from the warehouse and posted a reward request in the reward area of the trading market.
1000 units of fresh meat bounty resource treasure: spring water or spring water fragments*2
This message immediately appeared in the first and second positions in the reward area.
The bounty areas are arranged in order of value.
Obviously, the system concluded that his 1,000 units of fresh meat were worth more than everyone else's bounty items.
In such a huge market, there are countless bounty materials.
But this is the first time I’ve seen someone use food, and it’s meat to reward resources and treasures, and this shot is 1,000 units of meat.
This made many lords who were short of food immediately turn their eyes red with envy.
Discussions quickly started in the chat channel.
"I just saw a big boss named Qingqiu directly sell 1,000 units of meat in exchange for a garbage resource treasure. What do you think this spring water is used for? The water in my territory flows out in vain every day. .”
"I can't afford it! Why only exchange it for treasures? Ahhhhhhhhhhh!! With 1,000 units of meat, I can feed the residents of the territory for 10 days. A bowl of broth every day is not enough to kill them!"
"People are more deadly than others!! The first shot is 1000 units of meat. This is just the beginning. Who is so generous?"
"This is the first time I have seen such a rich man. What kind of life does this big man named Qingqiu live??"
"Why do some people have so much food at this stage?? I don't accept it!! Why can I only drink porridge today"
These two pieces of information immediately caused a large number of players who were short of food to cry out. When they were still worrying about food, someone would exchange so much food, or meat, for a treasure like spring water, which is garbage to many people, which made them envious and jealous.
(End of chapter)