Chapter 72: Disbanding Quickly

"In fact, not only will they be dissatisfied with the price, they will also think that I am siding with professional players and purchasing food for them. That is indeed the case, but they are unwilling to understand that I am trying to resolve these contradictions." This is Yao Bing'an's current helplessness.

Captain Xiang knew the city lord's difficulty, "That's indeed the case..." He had no words to persuade the city lord to spend more money to purchase supplies, it would be a thankless task.

"To be honest, even though I'm a first-time player, I only have a few hundred gold coins in my backpack. I got that city-building order by chance in a lottery some time ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to build this city-state."

She and Captain Xiang had been fleeing together since the beginning of the apocalypse, and this city-state was built right before their eyes.

Captain Xiang knew that the city lord was unable to resolve this conflict and his financial resources did not allow it. "So, what are your plans for the future, city lord?"

Yao Bing'an was stunned. In fact, she had expected this day to come. Li Aoting had told her before that their city-state could not stand the test and its dissolution was a matter of time.

Only the city lord who truly has strength and financial resources can have the last laugh.

Yao Bing'an did not hide this from Captain Xiang. He had told him about it before. At that time, the two of them were confident that they could at least overcome the first difficulty.

"Actually, I want to go to Xuantian City. Li Aoting thinks so too." This was the place she thought of when she and Li Aoting talked about the fact that the city-state could not be preserved.

At least that city-state is really powerful. The food problem that seems difficult to solve for them will not be a problem in Xuantian City.

Hearing the city lord mention Xuantian City, he smiled and said, "We also want to go to Xuantian City. In this situation, we all want a city-state where we can live stably for a long time."

"Although I don't want to admit it, Wu Yu City can't survive. There's not even a beast tide besieging the city..." Yao Bing'an felt a little dejected, but she quickly cheered herself up. At least she still had a few hundred gold coins, and she could be a wealthy person if she went to other city-states.

"Then let's not disband our team. Let's go to Xuantian City before winter comes." Captain Xiang suggested.

After the city lord disbands the city-state on his own initiative, it will take a week for the city-state to disappear on its own. Another situation is that if a city has less than 100 people for 30 days, the city-state will be dissolved by default.

Yao Bing'an took a deep breath and nodded firmly, "Yes! I won't waste the residents' time. We'll disband on our own later, giving them time to find a better city-state to live in. If they insist on staying up until winter, it will only harm them."

It is early autumn now and there is still some time before winter.

With thousands of people living in the city-state, it was not a decision that could be made lightly to disband it. However, Yao Bingan anticipated the end of his city-state, so it was not that sad to disband it.

Yao Bing'an felt a little frustrated as she watched Captain Xiang leave. In fact, the city-state could install city-defending weapons, but she was reluctant to do so.

Now I am glad that I didn’t place it there at that time. Otherwise, after paying the money, the city-state would be disbanded within two days, and the money spent would not be returned.

After Captain Xiang returned, he told the other team members about this.

Cheng Yunhong immediately exclaimed: "Dissolve the city-state? Are you kidding?" It's just a city-state, and it can be dissolved if the city lord says so.

Captain Xiang punched him on the shoulder. "Actually, even if we don't disband now, it will be difficult to sustain in the future. It's not too late to disband now and settle in other city-states."

The other members were silent. Captain Xiang had mentioned to them before that the strength of each city lord varied, but they did not expect Wu Yu City to be disbanded so quickly.

"Has the city lord decided where to go?" Cheng Yunshi asked.

Captain Xiang nodded. "That's right. The City Lord and I both plan to go to Xuantian City. If you have other cities you're interested in, you can leave the team."

When Cheng Yunshi heard that it was Xuantian City, the image of Shen Jufeng's tall figure emerged in her mind, "Let's go to Xuantian City. The city lord there must be very strong and will definitely be able to survive the winter."

Cheng Yunhong certainly had no objection to this. At least Xuantian City was the most powerful city-state he had visited.

"Then if we all go to Xuantian City, we'll go together."

The team happily made the decision, and all the residents of Wu Yu City received the prompt.

[System prompt: Dear residents of Wuyu City, I regret to inform you of this news. The city lord has voluntarily disbanded the city-state. This decision is irreversible. Residents are requested to leave the city-state within one week. The city-state will dissolve on its own after one week.]

When the residents saw the news, they were stunned. The city-state was disbanded like this. It was too sudden.

After a moment of silence, the professional players thought about what happened today and roughly understood what the city lord meant.

Humans are highly adaptable creatures. After living in a city-state for several months, they can be said to have regarded it as their home. Now that this home is about to disappear, the residents are panicked and a little angry.

"Why did they suddenly disband? I paid a year's rent and it's not refundable!"

"That's right, the city lord didn't even give an explanation."

…

"Captain, let's quickly find a city-state and set off in the next two days."

"This needs careful consideration. As you can see, a city-state disbanded at will. Winter is about to arrive, so we must carefully consider finding a stronger city-state."

…

Yao Bing'an, the city lord, was carefully checking the account book of the NPC manager of the accommodation center, which recorded in detail the records of each resident's accommodation fees.

In fact, all this money has been deposited into her account. Now that the city-state has been dissolved, she wants to return the extra money in the name of the city lord.

There were thousands of residents who needed to be emailed one by one, and that was all she did that night, leaving everything else to Team Xiang.

First, she will recycle a small portion of the items in the store, and keep most of the rest in the store for residents to buy.

The NPCs are still there. They will disappear along with the city-state in a week. Now they are continuing their patrol missions, which means that at least they are still safe within the city-state.

Some residents were still cursing the city lord when they saw the email he sent them, saying that the overpaid accommodation fees had been refunded. The curses got stuck in their throats for a moment.

"Oh, the money has been refunded..." They were very happy to see the money, but soon fell into confusion. Even the money was refunded, so what reason did they have to scold the city lord?

Some people silently looked at the returned money and began to think about where to go next and who to travel with. There are wild monsters in the wild, and some of them are more powerful than before.

The middle-aged woman who had been arguing with a professional player outside the city today now had her son complaining to her at home, "Mom, you're too cruel! Now that the city-state is disbanded, we'd better follow them if we want to go somewhere else, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with wild monsters."

The middle-aged woman no longer had the aggressive demeanor she had outside the city during the day, and she also understood how dangerous it was outside. "How should I know? The city lord is so useless. He disbanded the city-state over such a small matter..."

She felt that the most useless person was the city lord. Everyone could quarrel, so why did he want to disband the city-state?

Seeing his mother still blaming the city lord, the middle-aged woman's son shook his head secretly and sighed slightly, "You should stop complaining about the city lord. Think about how our family can survive and go to other city-states."

(End of this chapter)