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Ye Miaomiao touched her round belly and started to think about business after she was full.
She looked hesitantly at the territory to the west marked "Hillary Plains: Farming (Harvest x 200%)" which cost 400 points.
Now the "Hungry Hungry" shop can earn 200-300 points every day, plus the 350 points from guarding, she can buy another piece of land and upgrade the territory to a "village".
Once upgraded to a village, all buildings will have additional bonuses.
But...which land to buy?
Emotionally, Ye Miaomiao wanted to buy hilly plains that were good for breeding, and she really wanted to eat all kinds of meat. But rationally...
The central area will become more dangerous as the disaster progresses. She needs to quickly buy up the territories with wood and stone to prevent residents from going to the central area to collect resources.
Ye Miaomiao: I want them all.
It’s just a matter of time. We can eat meat in two more days!
Ye Miaomiao finally chose the territory with stone "Yellowstone Mine: Mining (Harvest × 200%)"
I only felt the ground shake slightly, the fence in the southwest did not extend out, and no mine appeared out of thin air in the vast grassland.
Ye Miaomiao: “?” Where is my huge piece of land worth 400 points?
When she walked over, she found that the quarrying site in the southwest had merged with the Yellowstone Mine territory, and it had changed drastically!
A neat fence encloses a few dozen square meters of land. A small stone hut on the east side exudes a working atmosphere. Various chisels, pickaxes, and hammers hang on the wall at the main entrance.
There were several large wicker baskets placed in front of the door, filled with various stones and minerals, and some stones were scattered on the ground.
A gravel path led to the central mine. The mine was large enough for several people to pass through, with wooden handrails on both sides. An NPC was standing at the edge of the mine, carrying a wicker basket on his back, preparing to go down.
Miner No. 1 smiled and said, "Lord, hello. I now have Level 2 Mining Skill. I can produce 200 stones per day. Since you discovered an underground mine, I can also produce 100 of various ores."
Ye Miaomiao: “!”
"What happens to my territory after I unlock it? How do I place buildings on the mine?"
The miner smiled and replied, "It's right down there."
You mean... going down?
Ye Miaomiao stood cautiously at the edge of the mine and looked around.
It was not dark below, but rather brightly lit by the torches. The ground was flat, and one could see that it was a road that stretched for a very long distance.
Ye Miaomiao looked at it hesitantly... It was clearly newly built, but the wooden handle looked like it had seen some vicissitudes of life. She held it up and shook it, but it was surprisingly stable.
"You lead the way."
I walked slowly towards the underground mine. After about ten minutes, the view suddenly opened up and I finally arrived in the center of an open space.
The clearing was several thousand square meters, open above, free of the potential safety hazards posed by various rock cones. In the center of the flat ground lay an underground lake, its water a light blue-green and slightly warm, like a natural hot spring.
At this moment, there was nothing on both sides except the torches fixed on the wall.
The ten slightly inward-facing grooves on the wall seem to be waiting for a new building to be built.
Seeing the miners crossing the lake and heading towards the other side, Ye Miaomiao asked hurriedly, "Is this the territory? Where are you going?"
The miner nodded. "Lord, all the territories that can accommodate buildings are here. The rest of the territory contains ore resources. Now is my working time. I will go collect resources."
Ye Miaomiao understood and let the miners go deeper into the next mine tunnel.
She touched the hot spring with satisfaction and looked up at the vast territory. She had already thought about what kind of building to build.
When walking out of the mine, Ye Miaomiao received a system prompt.
[You have successfully unlocked your second territory, now owning three territories in total. You are about to upgrade your territory to "Village"]
[Attention! Attention! Upgrade failed!]
[Your warehouse space is insufficient. The resources distributed during the "village" generation process cannot be delivered smoothly. Please upgrade your warehouse first! ]
Ye Miaomiao: “…” Her small warehouse couldn’t hold on any longer?
Although she stockpiles all kinds of resources every day, never throws them away, never sells them, and never wastes them, it shouldn't be possible for that "small dormitory" to be filled up in just two or three days.
Ye Miaomiao walked into the warehouse and took a look, then she discovered the clue.
Only a small number of shelves were piled with stacked stones and wood, with no space left. However, a considerable number of shelves were carefully placed with foods that could not withstand pressure. Most of the space was occupied by them, creating useless space.
Ye Miaomiao also found that several bunches of berries were placed in the corner, pressed at the bottom and forgotten. They were almost reaching the expiration date set by the system, and then they rotted and turned into dust!
Ye Miaomiao, who thought there was a system setting and no management was needed: "!" My food!
Her heart was instantly filled with pain beyond words.
If she hadn't known that the warehouse was full, she really wouldn't have come to take a look. Who knows how much food was unintentionally wasted!
Ye Miaomiao: Suffocation.
"Research team! Research team!" Ye Miaomiao chatted loudly with the research team, using most of the research points to unlock the "cellar" technology.
She immediately selected the largest cellar from the blueprints and integrated it into the warehouse. The moment it was completed, the ground shook slightly, and amidst a shimmering white light, a wooden gate appeared to the right of the warehouse's wooden door.
Ye Miaomiao opened the gate and went in. The moment she shivered with cold, she was surprised to find that this cellar was more spacious and orderly than she had imagined.
This is a square cellar, twelve meters wide and one hundred meters long.
The three mud arches in the middle divide the cellar into three "small cellars". Each part is a narrow square three meters wide and one hundred meters long, which can store different things.
Ye Miaomiao set up the cellar closest to the door to store "berries", "vegetables" and other perishable things, and set it to "sort by expiration date", so that the ones with the shortest expiration date are placed on the outside, and sorted in order to the inside.
Once set up, a variety of berries immediately appeared on the wooden shelves.
Even if all the berries and vegetables were filled, the cellar only took up about one-tenth of the space. Ye Miaomiao simply put the bacon in there as well.
Smoking meats requires special smoking racks, and the "cellar" building itself is equipped with these small buildings.
The moment Ye Miaomiao put the smoked meat in, two tall meat racks appeared out of thin air in the cellar. Rows of perfectly smoked meat were neatly hung on the racks, and the aroma wafted out, making it look like a special exhibition.
Ye Miaomiao: I feel comfortable.
She later set up a special space for the rice, corn and vegetables produced from the crops.
Ye Miaomiao also magically discovered that the shelf life of food in the cellar had become three times longer than before!
It's not her fault. When she was playing Civilization before, she liked to build a huge warehouse and see all the supplies neatly lined up. She never thought of building a cellar to hide the food.
Ye Miao Ou Miao, who had wasted a lot of food in the past: "..." I am guilty, please ask the police to arrest me.
After building the cellar, Ye Miaomiao still felt it was not enough, so she put the purchase information of "1 point to purchase 10 cement mortars" on the task board, rented out the "soil mixer" behind the warehouse, and wrote detailed information on how to make cement mortar on the details page of the task board.
Ye Miaomiao: Waiting for the right person.
Once she had enough mortar, she could upgrade the warehouse to level 2. A level 2 warehouse had two full floors, so she shouldn't be running out of storage space anytime soon.
As soon as I left the warehouse, I heard the system reminder——
[Your storage space is full, your territory will be upgraded to a "Village"]
[You have successfully obtained resources from the territory level "Village", please check it carefully.]
[Ground upgrade in progress——]
Ye Miaomiao only felt that the entire ground was shaking, as if there was an earthquake in an instant.
She rushed out of the warehouse and saw people all around her looking at the sudden white light in panic, with no idea what was happening at the moment. Some people even wanted to run out of the territory in fear.
But they soon calmed down because the earthquake stopped in just a few seconds.
But the white light didn't fade. The fence expanded as if stretched, instantly more than doubling the area's size. Bright torches appeared on the wall's pillars, spaced evenly, one meter apart.
Surrounded by white light, they saw that the normally well-traveled path had been paved with large stones, the smooth stone surface forming a wide and narrow path. Wildflowers and grasses grew diagonally on both sides of the path, giving it a rather rustic feel.
[Building Upgrading——]
"What is this!" someone exclaimed.
I saw a tall apricot tree appearing in the small courtyard of the residential house. There was a stone table and four stone benches under the apricot tree. The apricot tree was lush and leafy, giving people the feeling of "apricot flowers bloom in the autumn wind, and drunkards come beside the apricot tree."
"There's still a piece of land!"
There are several small plots of land, each about one square meter in size, in front and behind the kitchen door, on which commonly used condiments such as "onions", "ginger", "garlic", and "chili peppers" are neatly planted. They grow lushly and you can even smell the unique aroma of the spices when you get closer.
Almost all the buildings have undergone new changes, from simple wooden houses to more lifelike ones, which makes people overwhelmed.
A little yellow dog howled as it rushed in from the gate of the territory, startling everyone and causing them to exclaim in surprise.
"What happened!"
"What's going on!"
Some people speculated: "Is it an upgrade?"
But it is a good change after all. Now I can sleep on my butt no longer in the mud, and at night I won’t feel that everything is dark when I’m away from the campfire, and I won’t be afraid that something will come out.
Ye Miaomiao returned to the warehouse, happily took the "village" building, and walked outside happily.
Each time a territory is upgraded, the system will grant ready-made buildings, such as the "well" and "bonfire" when it is a "camp." However, when it is a "village," the territory has already taken shape, and the system cannot intelligently insert buildings into the territory, so it can only be directly distributed to players in the form of miniature models.
Ye Miaomiao happily took the "watchtower door", walked to the gate of the wall, and gently put it down.
The originally crude fence gate flashed with white light, and two wooden doors about two meters high appeared in front of him.
On either side of the gate stood two stone watchtowers, one meter long, one meter wide, and two meters high. The towers were connected to the wall, with four pillars supporting the "lid" that protected them from wind and rain, appearing quite sturdy.
As soon as the watchtower was built, the security team sent a message: [Hello Lord, do I need to be stationed at the watchtower?]
Ye Miaomiao said happily: "Guard it! Guard it tightly for me."
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