Chapter 159: Li Qi's Puppet Rules
The capital of the kingdom is in the very center of the safe zone.
If you look down from the sky, you can see that the kingdom as a whole is a circle with the capital at its center.
All the capitals are built within the scope of the circle, and the distance between each capital is almost the same. After one layer of circles disappears, there is another layer.
Finally, there is the royal capital in the center.
Wangdu has no name. Maybe it did in the past, but after this city completely belonged to the royal family, it became just a name.
Royal city.
In the very center of the royal city is where the kingdom’s royal family resides.
At this moment, in the royal council hall, the current lord of the kingdom, King Shaxx, sat on the throne, looking down at the pink-haired loli who came to report.
"So, the people of the survivors want to build a gathering place on the first floor?"
The old king, with a face full of white beard and looking like he had walked out of the King of playing cards, asked while stroking his beard.
Carol nodded and said:
"That's what the current leader of the survivors said. He said he wants to make a deal with the kingdom. They will provide a suitable safe spot in the foggy area for our fog explorers to rest. In exchange, we need to give them the food and water they need to survive."
All the requirements put forward by Li Qi are based on normal human needs.
Although it is uncertain whether the survivors still need food and water, necessary transactions must still take place.
Otherwise, the kingdom will inevitably overthink.
Carol didn't say that the current patriarch is Li Qi, nor did she say that Li Qi was once a member of the kingdom.
She was just acting as an intermediary to convey the demands of the bereaved family. Carol would not mention other irrelevant things.
Shaxx stroked his shaggy beard and thought. He asked:
"Such a big thing happened to the survivors, so their relics..."
"Part of it was taken away by the Light Chasing Society, and part of it was kept by the last royal family of the survivors."
“Since the Light Chasers were able to take away their relics the first time, they can take away their relics the second time.
"Sir Carol, go back and ask the king of the survivors if he is interested in keeping the relics with us. In exchange, I can send people to help them build a city in the fog area as their new home."
Shax said with a smile, and it sounded like he was thinking about the survivors.
But Carol was not a real child, nor a fool, so she could naturally understand the hidden meaning of Shakes' words.
"Your Majesty, this...is not good..."
Carol stared at King Shax in disbelief. She had never imagined that the king would have such thoughts.
Shax responded:
"What's wrong with that? Do you want the Light Chasing Society to take away all the special relics of the survivors?"
"But the things of the surviving people..."
"Lord Carol, the survivors no longer exist. If they continue to keep those relics, they will only bring trouble to themselves. We are taking back the relics to protect them."
Shax said it righteously.
Carol opened her mouth for a long time but couldn't say anything.
Shax continued, "Just go back and tell them. I think they should know what to choose."
Shax said this and left the council hall, leaving Carol alone.
Carol stared in disbelief as the king was escorted away by the guards.
She didn't have much contact with the royal family, except that she would meet with the king before each exploration team set out.
In Carol's heart, she has a very good impression of Shakes. He is kind and gentle, and regards the people of the kingdom as his children.
Carol was also full of respect for His Majesty the King. Even though she was always hot-tempered, she was very respectful in front of the king and did not behave disrespectfully at all.
But today, Carol's filter for the king was slightly broken.
Faced with a tribe that had lost their homeland, King Shaxx's first thought was not how to protect them, but the relics held by their tribe.
Doesn't Shax know that the special relics left by the survivors are the key to their survival in the fog area?
Didn't he know that once the special relics of the survivors were taken away, it would be even more difficult for them to survive in the fog area? Carol believed that Shax must know this.
But even so, he still wanted to get the remains of the surviving clan into his hands...
"Now, how should I tell that brat Li Qi...?"
Carol left the palace, thinking in confusion.
Malu and the others haven't returned yet, and Li Qi has run into trouble again.
If the kingdom insisted on taking it away, Carol didn't think Li Qi could keep the relics of the surviving people, so what she needed to consider now was.
Should we try to persuade Li Qi to hand over the things, or should we stand on Li Qi's side and try to make the king give up this idea?
"Tsk, my head hurts from thinking about it, damn Maru, why hasn't he come back yet!!"
Carol cursed as she rubbed her long pink hair frantically.
In the past, whenever she had something difficult to think about, she would go to Maru to discuss it, but now Maru and the exploration team are still in the fog area and have not returned yet, so Carol has no way to find anyone to discuss it with.
But as she thought about it, Carol couldn't help but feel a little worried again.
Could something have happened to Maru and the others?
…
Li Qi had no idea what happened to Carol in the kingdom.
Because the kingdom is far away from the foggy area, even if Carol went to the kingdom to report the situation as quickly as possible, it would take more than a month to go back and forth.
In the past month, Li Qi has helped the survivors build a simple settlement in the first layer of the Immortal Forest.
The reason why the Eternal Forest is called the Eternal Forest is because the trees here cannot be cut down or burned.
Even if a tree is cut down, the cut part will disappear quickly, but the broken roots will grow rapidly and become a new towering tree.
Therefore, it is basically impossible to create an open space for people to live in this area.
However, in the process of studying the trees in the Eternal Forest, Li Qi discovered that if the center of the tree was hollowed out instead of being cut down, the hollowed-out part would not recover.
The trees will also remain alive.
So Li Qi came up with a solution. He asked people to build bridges between trees, hollow out the trunks of trees, and build tree houses.
Ronnie then went to the city to purchase some simple construction resources. In just one month, a small tribe built among the trees was formed.
The survivors quickly adapted to life among the trees. They took up bows and arrows and hunted among the trees as if it were a forest in a fantasy world.
Well, the word hunting should be put in quotation marks.
The meat of the fog beast cannot be eaten, one reason is that it tastes bad, and the other is that it is highly toxic.
The reason why the survivors picked up bows and arrows was to prevent the death-snarling birds flying around in the woods from invading the gathering place.
In the past, in the City of Disorder, there was a barrier created by Relic No. 4, so fog beasts could not enter the settlement of the Survivors, and the Survivors did not have to allocate manpower to prevent monster invasions.
The role of the guard is more to maintain order and prevent invasion by foreign enemies like the Light Chasing Society.
But now, the survivors live in a foggy area, and because of environmental problems they can only build tree houses and settlements in mid-air without even a fence around them.
This also means that flying fog beasts passing by can easily intrude into the territory of the survivors.
To criticize someone by name is to tell a dead bird to his face.
He was shouting "die" every day and flying around the gathering place, which made the guard captain Ai Lei very angry.
That's why she formed a new guard, had people make bows and arrows, and personally led people to hunt these annoying death-calling birds.
"Death, death, death" every day, too unlucky! The survivors have become the "elves" of the foggy world. Li Qi thinks this is good. At least it means that the survivors are very adaptable. Even if he is not here in the future, the survivors will probably be able to survive smoothly.
However, the gathering place has not been completely built, the transaction with the kingdom has not been completed, and the survivors are not completely safe yet.
So Li Qi has to stay here and be the king for a while longer.
Since he has to stay here for a long time, Li Qi can't just sit there doing nothing.
While studying the Surprise Treasure Chest, Li Qi used the Surprise Treasure Chest and the dead birds from those who were recently hunted by the survivors as basic materials, supplemented by his knowledge of alchemy.
Successfully created the same series of 'Relic Dolls' using the Surprise Treasure Box.
Li Qi called it "Multi-functional Auxiliary Doll Type 1".
The name sounds a bit long, but it perfectly describes the role of these puppets.
The purpose of their creation by Li Qi is to assist the survivors in handling some daily affairs.
Such as cleaning windows, mopping the floor, washing vegetables, cutting meat, carrying things, etc.
Due to material problems, Li Qi could only let them do these jobs.
Although they are not incapable of fighting, their overall strength is only equivalent to that of ordinary mist-level explorers, and they are not really suitable for fighting.
However, if there are service-type puppets, there will naturally be combat-type puppets.
At present, Li Qi has asked Ai Lei to send out a part of the guard team to collect the lives of the fog beasts on the second layer. He plans to use the fog beasts on the second layer as materials to make combat dolls to reduce the pressure on the guard team.
"But... this doll looks a bit creepy..."
Returning his gaze to the service puppet, Li Qi looked at the puppet's mouth and facial features without eyes or nose, and muttered softly.
The puppet heard Li Qi's voice, tilted its head, and asked in a very mechanical voice:
"Master, what do you need?"
“…Help me get that book over there.”
"clear."
It looked like a wooden puppet. It nimbly ran to a wooden table and handed the storybook on the table to Li Qi.
"But there is no problem with the instructions..."
Li Qi nodded slightly.
These relic dolls made by Li Qi are somewhat similar to Jinghua, and can be given certain instructions by their creator, Li Qi.
Including core instructions, action instructions, standby instructions and so on.
The instructions that Li Qi gave to these puppets were similar to those given to Jinghua.
First, everything should be centered around Li Qi, and you must obey all his orders. Second, you must not do anything to harm Li Qi. Third, without violating the above two instructions, you must not do anything to harm others. Fourth, without violating the above instructions, give priority to saving your own life.
In order to enable the survivors to use the puppets better, Li Qi added another one.
Without violating the first and second instructions, obey the orders of the survivors.
The above are the basic principles that Li Qi set for these relic dolls.
Reggie slightly narcissistically called it 'Reggie's Puppet Code'.
(End of this chapter)
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