Chapter 31 Upgrading your home
Select the moment to confirm the upgrade.
The system prompt sounded again.
"Ding~Please clear out residential buildings."
Richard waved to the residents around him and asked them to call out everyone who was still in the house.
After a while, about twenty people left the house. They all looked at Richard in confusion, wondering why they were all asked to leave.
But he didn't dare to ask any more questions and just stood aside and listened to orders.
In just a few days, Richard has established authority in the territory.
After confirming that it is correct, select upgrade again.
There were no surprises this time, and the resources on the property panel were cleared instantly.
Then, under everyone's gaze, a light like yellow sand rose from the earth, covering the residents' houses like a sandstorm.
The crowd's vision became blurry, and they could only vaguely see changes happening inside.
The originally two-story building rumbled up from the ground, and a third floor appeared.
10 houses were raised simultaneously, making the earth tremble.
This huge movement immediately caused the crowd to marvel.
"Gods above."
"This is a power that only a lord can possess."
"According to legend, the gods gave each lord unparalleled abilities, and building houses quickly was one of them."
"No matter how many times I see it, this scene is still shocking!"
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Amidst the exclamations one after another, the refugees were also attracted to the scene.
All of them had complicated expressions.
They no longer have a home
The light of the yellow sand lasted for a full ten minutes before gradually dissipating.
"Ding~ Residential residences have been upgraded successfully."
With the improvement of the system, a brand new residence appeared in front of Richard.
The 10 residential buildings have expanded from two floors to three floors, and the area has reached 70% of the 10*10 meter space.
From the outside, the rough exterior walls have become much more delicate, with some prototypes of exquisite architecture, but the roughness of the desert is still noticeable.
Residential (1 space)
[Level]: Intermediate (upgrading requires 5,000 units of stone and 5,000 units of wood. Note: The current level has been raised to the upper limit. It can be upgraded again after the territory is upgraded to a small town.)
[Maximum number of people allowed]: 30 people
[Characteristics]: None
[Introduction]: Ordinary residential houses can be used by civilians.
After reading the attributes, Richard was a little surprised.
The number of people per house has been increased from 10 to 30.
It has tripled, directly solving the housing problem for the newly arrived refugees.
However, upgrading from intermediate to high level requires more resources. The next upgrade of 10 residential buildings will require 100,000 units of resources.
The landlord's family has no surplus food.
At this moment, he finally realized the bitterness of other Lord players.
He hunted so much food to exchange for resources but still found it difficult, let alone those lords who could only rely on resource points to accumulate resources.
He turned around and looked at the refugees who cast envious and complicated looks at the residents of Twilight City. He thought about it and stepped forward.
Richard, who was in the center of attention, immediately attracted the attention of the crowd, but the refugees who caught his gaze immediately lowered their heads in fear.
Facing the master of this land, they felt tremendous pressure.
One word from the other party can determine their life or death.
That is the powerlessness of destiny being controlled by others.
Richard didn't speak, just stared at them indifferently.
Hundreds of refugees felt uncomfortable at first, then gradually became frightened and uneasy, and finally developed infinite fear.
Could it be that this lord wanted to expel them directly?
As for the worse, they dare not think about it.
"New residents, I am the lord of Twilight City, Richard."
Richard's sudden opening made the already extremely nervous crowd raise their hearts in their throats.
He immediately raised his ears and listened attentively to his next words.
"I understand your feelings of fear, confusion and helplessness about the future."
"No one can remain indifferent after losing their home, relatives and friends."
"After all, that was our sustenance, all our hope."
"We have all experienced the pain of broken hope."
The crowd looked at Richard quietly and became a little closer.
Richard kept talking.
"But are we going to sink because of this, give up, and lose hope?"
The tone suddenly became high-pitched.
"No!"
"Never!!"
"These sufferings are the thorny road that each of us must walk!"
"No matter how great the pain is, we must look forward!"
"This must be what our relatives and our families want"
"If you were in danger, wouldn't you want your lover and family to sink forever?"
Richard's firm tone was full of inspiring power and incitement in this special context at this moment.
"What doesn't kill us will eventually make us stronger!"
"As long as you step through the thorns, there will be light that pierces the darkness."
"As long as you have hope in your heart, you will always see a sky full of bright stars when you look up!!"
Looking at that tall figure, the crowd was silent at this moment.
The inner emotions began to roll, roll, and make huge waves.
The impassioned words injected a powerful energy into them, and their depression and confusion were quickly fading at this moment.
Aboriginal people who have not been baptized by the information explosion have almost zero resistance to these inspirational words.
Even if modern people have experienced countless baptisms of information, certain words can still make people feel excited.
Because we are not old yet.
The blood is still hot.
Carrying a long-handled copper hammer, Andel stepped out of the lord's mansion at some point.
He stared blankly at the young man's back with a complicated expression.
A low murmur came from his mouth.
"As long as you have hope in your heart, you will always see a sky full of bright stars when you look up."
"What doesn't kill us will eventually make us stronger."
The dim eyes gradually gained light at this moment.
Richard's brief pause was heard again.
"My friends, this is the City of Twilight, a city built in the desert."
"Although the territory has just begun to be constructed, it is full of vitality, full of hope and full of future."
"No matter what your previous status was, no matter what job you had before, no matter your age, Twilight City will accept you."
"If you are not willing to spend another few months and risk encountering sandstorms across the desert full of death and dryness, then you are welcome to join the Twilight City."
"Every one of you is needed here, and it can also provide you with a safe haven."
"At the same time, I promise you that I will do my best to help you find your friends lost in the sandstorm."
"Of course, if you don't want to, I will never force you. I will provide you with food and water so that you can continue to cross this desert of death."
Having said this, Richard paused and glanced around the crowd.
"My people, welcome you."
After speaking, he bowed slightly sideways to everyone.
Then without saying another word, he turned around and entered the lord's mansion.
When he passed by Andiel, he didn't even look at her.
Wait until Richard's figure disappears.
The surrounding residents felt as if the fire in their chests was ignited at this moment.
"The lord actually bowed to us? Gods, am I dazzled?"
"I feel like I would be committing a crime if I didn't do something for this territory"
"Yes, why don't we stay in the Twilight City? Why do we have to cross the desert that contains so many threats? I don't want to encounter death again!"
"But isn't this a desert? There will definitely be sandstorms in the future"
"What do you know? Did you see the power that the lord showed just now? Those sturdy houses are enough to withstand the threat of the storm! And the territory will inevitably expand in the future. With the strength of the lord, he can definitely protect us!"
"Mom, the lord is so handsome. I must marry such a handsome hero when I grow up."
"Hahaha, okay."
"Mom, I want it too."
"Go away, you are a man, wake up!"
"What should we do? Stay here or go to the Templar Empire?"
"Go and discuss it with Miss Andele."
Hearing the comments from the surrounding people, the old residents became a little unhappy and began to take the initiative to interrupt.
A young man said to several people around him.
"You people are so blessed that you don't know how blessed you are. It is your honor to be a member of Twilight City!"
A middle-aged man was unconvinced, "How did you say that?!"
The young man sneered: "Haha, what do you think is the most important thing in a territory?"
The middle-aged man hesitated, "This prosperity and power?"
The young man dismissed it, "Does a prosperous and powerful territory have anything to do with us?"
"The prosperous ones are the lords and the nobles. We are just the slaves they oppressed. Have you never been oppressed by those lords?"
Another person interjected, "Then what did you say!!"
The young man's face showed a bit of pride, "The most important thing in a territory is the lord!"
The middle-aged man was thoughtful, but still asked, "Why do you say that?"
The young man spoke in a high-pitched tone, "Master Karu said that a lord is the soul of a territory. How a territory is, whether it is cruel, crazy or warlike, all depends on the lord.
"And a benevolent lord with outstanding abilities, an open mind, and full of potential, even if he is weak now, is not ten thousand times stronger than those lords who control a prosperous territory but treat the common people like pigs and dogs?"
The others immediately fell into deep thought after hearing this.
"What you say makes sense. But there is no such lord."
The middle-aged man suddenly shut up mid-sentence, and several people subconsciously turned their heads to look at the place where Richard disappeared.
What doesn't kill us will eventually make us stronger.
The words rang in my ears again.
The fire in his chest grew stronger.
Their blood is not cold either. (End of chapter)