Chapter 96

After putting Somes in prison, Ye Bai removed the outer effect of the Thousand Illusion Clothes and strolled around the territory wearing the equipment that was very familiar to interstellar players.

"Greetings, Lord!"

"Hello, Lord!"

When the residents on the road saw Ye Bai, they all came forward to greet him enthusiastically with happy smiles on their faces. It seemed that the happiness level in the territory had increased a lot during this period.

Occasionally, you can see players active on the road. These players who are doing tasks instantly turn into paparazzi after seeing Ye Bai, staying where they are and taking screenshots of her.

There was even the incident with the Dandi Civilization taking a photo last time. Although it was later proved that the Dandi Civilization was just trying to gain popularity and did not gain any substantial benefits from Bai Ye, the Interstellar Agent stepped forward to test Ye Bai when he saw him:

"Lord White Night, our civilization would like to purchase your strategy guide..."

Ye Bai directly rejected this in front of the other party and several other players nearby: "I don't have any needs in this regard at the moment."

Ye Bai is now in a typical seller's market. She clearly refused, and the other interstellar agents had no choice but to disperse. The more acceptable point is that Ye Bai not only rejected them, but also rejected all interstellar civilizations.

After the last Xibei of the Dandi civilization, during the ten days that Ye Bai was away, some players also deliberately committed some crimes to experience the effect of being in jail.

But they soon discovered that although the territory's favorability after being released from prison was negative like when they committed the crime, it was different from NPC towns. After being imprisoned in Baiye Town, the favorability would not be inherited from before, but would be directly reset to zero.

This means that you need to brush up on the territory's favorability all over again, and all previous mission opportunities and purchase discounts will be gone.

This was of course set by Ye Bai in the public security policy. Even if the death of the Ten Thousand Worlds would cause damage to the real mental power, she still had to take stronger restraint measures against the players.

Ye Bai is not like other interstellar civilizations. He owns an entire real civilization and has a strong real influence. He can only work hard in this area.

Opening the lord ranking list that he had not paid attention to for a long time, Ye Bai saw that Zeta and Ximo's territory scores were now 1280 and 1023 respectively, both exceeding 1,000. Without source energy crystal mines, their scores increased by leaps and bounds, which meant that they had already broken through the third-level territory.

Seeing this score, Ye Bai had no doubt that the two people's third-level territory had no shortage of infrastructure and materials. What was lacking now was only population and the six life-related professionals required to upgrade to the fourth-level territory.

Fortunately, in this hard rule, Ye Bai was ahead of all the lords.

Thanks to the effect of a higher-level territory, even though the gap is shrinking due to the participation of a large number of players, Ye Bai still maintains the first place.

Then, Ye Bai opened the territory page.

【White Night Town】

Lord: White Night

Current population: 218

Health: 89

Hygiene: 95

Entertainment: 97

Luxury goods demand: 100 (sugar, fine wine, furniture, fabrics, handicrafts)

Personal hobby requirements: None

Happiness: 92

Seeing the message, Ye Bai also curled up the corners of his mouth.

No wonder the residents on the street all have smiles on their faces; this happiness level of 92 is truly real.

This trip to change jobs and open the trade route took Ye Bai exactly ten game days. Calculating it, there were still seventeen days before the next round of refugees arrived at the territory. At this time, the territory had changed a lot compared to when she left.

The first and most obvious thing is that the previously planned sewer has been fully built. Walking on the neat stone road, you can sometimes vaguely hear the sound of water flowing from below. The sanitation level of the territory has been directly raised to an extremely high value of 95.

In addition, furniture factories, textile factories, wood carving workshops and stone carving workshops have been built and started production, which has immediately increased the demand for three types of luxury goods in the territory. Together with sugar and upgraded higher-end liquor, the entertainment value and luxury demand have been extremely satisfied.

In fact, in addition to keeping some of these luxury goods for consumption by the residents of the territory, the excess can also be sold to foreign caravans to make money.

At the same time, during the few days she was away, three new professionals were added to the territory, two tailors and a blacksmith. They were not special talents, but they were the first to engage in this profession. When their proficiency was filled up, they also became professionals.

Then Ye Bai opened the [Development Direction] page. During the ten days she was away, the territory had naturally accumulated 8 points of productivity.

Adding the 2 points of reward for opening the trade route this time and the 1 point left last time, Ye Bai now has 11 points of productivity.

The acquisition of productivity is related to a combination of factors such as the territory's population, happiness, and territory level. Currently, the productivity accumulation speed of Baiye Town is comparable to that of the peak town-level territories. However, the productivity required for town-level technology is also increasing accordingly, and the basic 'starting price' is 2 points.

Ye Bai was very unhappy when he saw that the health value of the territory was only below 90. He first spent 3 production forces to light up the [Advanced Herb Shop].

[Advanced Herb Shop] Upgrade the [Herb Shop] building and add two new herbalist apprentice positions to achieve higher treatment efficiency; achieve higher potion production efficiency; and add methods for making special-effect potions and powerful potions.

Special effect potions and powerful potions are based on the properties of the original potions, with the addition of new potion effectiveness speed and enhanced efficacy. The production will consume more herbs, but can improve the treatment efficiency.

The herbalist apprentice position can share the aura of Lucy as a professional and gain faster proficiency improvement.

After the territory construction period ended, there were still a lot of free manpower, so Ye Bai quickly arranged for two villagers to be apprentices in a high-end herbal medicine shop.

Afterwards, Ye Bai spent 3 points of productivity to light up the [Advanced Blacksmith Shop] and 4 points of productivity to light up the [Intermediate Mine].

[Advanced Blacksmith Shop] Upgrade the [Blacksmith Shop] building to add new crafting recipes for saddles, horseshoes, heavy gears, chain mail, etc.; achieve higher production efficiency; and obtain higher crafting levels.

[Intermediate Mine] Upgrades the [Primary Mine] building; improves workstations to achieve higher production efficiency; and can mine higher quality ores.

The high-level tailor shop has been upgraded last time, and the blacksmith shop is naturally indispensable. At the same time, the intermediate mine is also necessary. If it weren't for the insufficient productivity last time, Ye Bai would have opened it earlier.

After lighting up the technology, Ye Bai immediately arranged for construction workers to upgrade these buildings. Intermediate mines require a large amount of materials, so she naturally gave priority to source energy crystal ore.

The current level of source energy crystal ore production in the territory has been greatly improved after the previous technological upgrades and the addition of lighting fixtures. The output quality has been greatly improved compared to the beginning, from the previous 82:1 ratio of crude and fine to the current 46:1 ratio of crude and fine.

As for the rare quality of blue, digging up one was pure luck. Currently, there were only three blue source energy crystals accumulated in the territory, and they were all in Ye Bai's backpack.

After upgrading to intermediate-level mineral crystals, the probability of mining out inferior source energy crystals will be reduced to less than 10%, and they will basically be all fine-level source energy crystals. The probability of rare quality crystals appearing will be greatly increased.

After doing all this, Ye Bai walked around the territory slowly again.

The roads in the entire territory have now been replaced with wide and smooth stone slabs, and Ye Bai feels light-hearted when walking on them.

A tall building stands in the center of the residential area. This is the newly renovated theater in White Night Town. The performance has not started yet at this time, but you can hear the sound of orchestral music and actors practicing singing from inside. From the bakery not far away, the aroma of butter, flour and charcoal can be smelled.

Production in the industrial zone is in full swing. Thick smoke is emitting from smelting furnaces and blacksmith shops, the sound of sawing wood can be heard from the sawmill, the furniture factory next door is hammering, and the tools in the wood carving workshop and stone carving workshop produce a tinkling sonata.

In the agricultural area, the crops in the farmland are lush green, and the high-quality herbs in the medicinal fields emit bursts of medicinal fragrance. From the high-quality pastures next to it, the neighing of wildebeests and the bleating of black and gold sheep can be heard. In the ordinary pastures farther away, dairy cows and turkeys imported from caravans are raised, and the butter in the bakery is produced here.

A truck pulled by two trained wildebeests carrying supplies passed by Ye Bai, and the whole town was shrouded in prosperity and peace.

When playing infrastructure-type games in his era, every time he finished a large-scale construction project, Ye Bai would play at normal speed and watch the people in the territory work and live, filling the territory's warehouses with all kinds of supplies, from which he could gain a strong sense of accomplishment and fun.

The feeling of watching the territory you envisioned being built step by step, starting to operate, and the residents living happily in it is the reason why infrastructure enthusiasts love this kind of game.

Ye Bai also followed this tone when designing the infrastructure elements of Wanjie - of course, in the instructions to investors, it was emphasized that this element can greatly increase player stickiness.

Now, because of the pressure brought by Bai Ye's identity, she was blindly striving to catch up, but it had been a long time since she had stood from the player's perspective and felt the pure joy of the game.

After touring the territory, Ye Bai felt his mind was clear and there was an inexplicable positive change. He regained his vitality from his tense and tired state.

Back in the mayor's office, Ye Bai came to the finance department. After opening the financial page, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

The expenditure page remained the same as when she left, with no changes, but the income page began to show the territory's income.

"You've made some progress!"

Ye Bai had been away for ten days, and the income of the territory was much higher than she had expected. At this time, the income had reached 3 gold coins, 21 silver coins, and 31 copper coins.

The tax is of course still the same, just over 17 silver coins. The bulk of the income comes from trade. Whether it is sold to players or to other territories, the night clothes and marching boots are very popular. After deducting the purchase cost of raw materials, there is still a profit of nearly two gold coins.

The remaining one gold coin of income came from the consumption of the residents of the territory, theaters, furniture and fabrics, taverns, etc. Perhaps because Ye Bai's salary was high and taxes were low, the consumption level of the residents of Baiye Town increased. At the same time, as demands were met, production efficiency was improved, and the overall situation entered a virtuous circle.

It seems that Ye Bai doesn’t even need to wait for a second month, the territory’s income will be enough to cover the salary expenses.

Seeing this, Ye Bai stopped taking money out of her own pocket and put it into the fiscal budget. She spent 12 gold coins and 40 copper coins to open up the trade route to Larn City, purchase materials and hire people. Now she has 11 gold, 76 silver and 55 copper coins left. Compared with her peak period, it is not enough, but it is enough.

Because the territory has entered a period of stable development, Ye Bai plans to explore the divine realm next.

The currencies of the divine world and the myriad worlds are not universal, so gold coins will not be used on this trip.

This trip is not only to try to complete the paper man's mission, but also Felix's personal mission. Ye Bai also plans to look for clues in the divine world.

Of course, after the last experience, Ye Bai’s main goal was to use the characteristics of the historian to gain experience points in the divine world. Compared to the hard leveling, although the actions in the high-level maps were thrilling, the experience gained was also extremely huge. Once you experience it once, you can’t stop.

Not to mention that raising your level in the Ten Thousand Worlds can also lead to an increase in your real mental strength.

Ye Bai learned from Aurora about the improvement of other players in the Ten Thousand Worlds. No matter what level of mental power one has in reality, one will gain mental power improvement by participating in activities in the Ten Thousand Worlds, but the amount of this improvement seems to be the same for everyone.

Some F-level players were promoted to D-level after changing their jobs to the first level, but the same D-level players only felt that they had gained an improvement in level after the job change, but did not reach the level that could enable them to advance to the next level. Only a very small number of psychics who were already at the peak of the D-level were able to advance to the C-level.

However, those who were about to break through to higher levels above D level did not break through because of the improvement gained in the first transformation.

Researchers generally believe that this improvement is not enough for those with strong mental power in reality, and they need to improve to a higher level to achieve rank upgrade.

But improvement is improvement after all, and its reliability and stability alone are enough to attract all races in the universe.

Ye Bai's situation is special because his level is far higher than others, so he doesn't know whether it is because his actual mental power is too low or there are some other special reasons, but the stronger the strength, the better.

After packing his backpack and getting ready to set off, Ye Bai found that night had already fallen in Baiye Town.

Ye Bai walked down the stairs and came to the basement below the mayor's office. According to the design, this basement can be used as the lord's treasure house after future expansion.

However, at this stage, this place is naturally empty, with only an oil lamp and the [Well of Origin] in the center that only players can see.

The translucent Well of Origin stands there quietly, and the shape formed by the dim light still looks so mysterious.

Ye Bai walked to the well skillfully, and the system prompted again:

[Do you want to use the 'Well of Origin'? Current energy value (100/100)?]

Almost a game month has passed since Ye Bai last came back from the Divine Realm. Even if his energy value recovered slowly, it would naturally be full by now.

After scanning the backpack again and confirming that he was fully prepared, Ye Bai chose to confirm.

The next moment, a familiar light flew out from the Well of Origin, wrapped Ye Bai up completely, and then turned into a cocoon of light and fell into the well.

Ye Bai, who had been prepared, felt the strong feeling of traveling through time again, but compared with the last time, she clearly felt that her endurance had increased this time, and she lasted longer before losing consciousness.