Chapter 14
The addition of eight new people immediately alleviated Ye Bai’s urgent need for labor.
Ye Bai assigned a total of four people to the Source Energy Crystal Mine to keep the mining efficiency at around 15 blocks per day. The fields were undergoing the first batch of breeding, so it was enough to leave one villager to take care of them. The number of people gathering food increased from one to five. After all, the population of the territory had almost doubled, and the demand for food was even greater.
The remaining labor force, except for two who were left to build the blacksmith shop, were all assigned to collect trees, stones and ores.
Judging from the number of refugees in the second wave, Ye Bai can be sure that there is no problem with the plan to upgrade the village on the tenth day. Therefore, the focus of the territory's work in the next five days is to clear ground resources and build blacksmith shops and residential houses.
After all, Ye Bai thought that as a lord, it would be fine for him to work overtime with the villagers, but it would be inappropriate for him to make them sleep on the street like him...
Now, the overtime artifacts 'Fluorite' and 'Minced Meat' that Ye Bai had obtained in the dungeon in the early stage have been used up. In addition, inlaying source energy crystals into tools consumed a lot of physical strength. She has leveled up three more levels. Now the remaining experience reserves are only enough to level up one level. She can no longer use energy protection for the villagers as before. Fortunately, all the gathering tools have been strengthened several times under the effect of source energy crystals, which is enough to keep the territory construction running at a high speed.
It is worth mentioning that with the addition of 8 new ports, the health of the territory dropped from 100 to 80, and the hygiene also dropped from 95 to 90.
If Ye Bai had not built the composting plant first, the reduction would have been even higher. The addition of new population would have brought in labor but also external diseases. The population increase would have been accompanied by a decline in sanitary conditions.
This is only the early stages. There are implicit protection mechanisms in place. After the first month, among the refugees arriving every month, there may be "lucky" people infected with the plague. In that case, if there are no medical facilities in the territory to control it in time, it will quickly spread into a large-scale plague.
Therefore, after the territory is upgraded to a level 1 village, the medical building is the first necessary building.
At this time, Ye Bai received a system prompt——
Gain 1 point of productivity
Under normal circumstances, the first point of productivity can be obtained on the sixth or seventh day after building a village. Because there is a professional named Carrie in Ye Bai's territory, and she was the first to mine the first mine, the energy tank is filled up one day earlier.
At the beginning of the territory, when the population is similar, there will not be much difference in the speed at which all lord players gain productivity.
However, with the arrival of the second and third waves of population, differences will appear in the utilization and planning of territory resources, and the differences in the speed of acquiring productivity will become obvious, gradually widening the gap. In the end, even territories built at the same time will form a technological crushing.
Now that the population of Baiye Village has doubled, and it has also applied source energy crystals that are generally only used in the late stages, the future productivity growth rate will definitely be much faster than it is now.
Ye Bai did not delay and opened the technology tree page.
Then, this productivity point was invested in one of the initial technologies in the innermost ring, [Adventure].
Just like talents, the most basic technology is definitely a must, because it is a necessary prerequisite for subsequent technologies. The only difference is whether to click it first or later. When the technology tree continues to climb and reaches the advanced technology that requires a lot of productivity to light up, it is time to make a decision.
[Adventure] Villagers can explore the environment outside their territory; Villagers gain basic hunting skills; and receive 5 bows and arrows.
Ye Bai can now only grasp the map of the surrounding area with a diameter of 600 meters through the Tree of Creation. The areas farther away are now in a "fog of war" state and detailed information cannot be obtained.
At this time, you need to send out villagers to explore, understand the surrounding situation, and discover nearby resources and dangers. Before this technology is turned on, even if the villagers' current activity range exceeds the territory, they cannot feedback map information to the lord.
Although Ye Bai had a general understanding of the surrounding environment when he first enclosed the land, the world is a dynamic place. Wild animal resources such as deer, bison, pheasants and rabbits will move due to human traces.
If the territory is established in an area where wild animals are active, these animals will soon migrate to the surrounding areas and will not stay in the village foolishly to be hunted.
Of course, don't think these animals are just a mobile source of meat. When the crops in the fields are ripe, if you don't build fences to prevent them, they will come and steal the crops at night...
Therefore, while unlocking this technology, villagers can also master basic hunting skills, and 5 initial weapons and bows are given as gifts. Although it is not much, it is better than nothing.
However, Ye Bai did not arrange for the villagers to go hunting. With basic hunting skills, the efficiency of hunting was very low, and the harvest was far less than sending the same number of people to collect berries and mushrooms.
Only after you unlock the next level of adventure technology [Hunting], build a [Hunter's Hut], and arrange special villagers to work, can you obtain a stable source of food.
So Ye Bai only assigned one villager to take a bow and arrow and explore the surrounding environment.
"When you're exploring, walk like this..."
Before the villager named Roman set off, Ye Bai gave him some special instructions and taught him a set of "mosquito-repellent incense exploration method" - exploring around the territory and gradually extending outward.
There are not only resources outside the territory, but also dangers. Prey will spawn, as well as wild wolves, wild boars, bears and other ferocious beasts that are very dangerous to villagers in the early stages. Once a villager accidentally goes deep into the opponent's territory, he will not be able to come back.
Although the progress of 'Mosquito Coil Exploration' is not fast, it can help you understand the surrounding environment to the greatest extent while avoiding danger to the greatest extent.
Ye Bai is unwilling to lose even a single person.
Just after watching Roman leave, Ye Bai suddenly received two consecutive system prompts:
[Your villagers are dissatisfied with their current jobs] X2
Um?
Ye Bai was stunned. Her first reaction was to think that Roman was resisting this potentially dangerous job, but when she opened the lord's page, she saw that Roman's loyalty and satisfaction were normal, with no problems at all.
The next moment, Ye Bai saw two names on the villager information page and an exclamation mark popped up -
Sean, Lucy.
It means that these two pieces of information came from these two people.
Ye Bai was surprised. Where did this troublemaker come from? How could he show up so early?
Normally, at this level 0 territory stage, villagers have a good idea of the conditions for their own territory. It's only after reaching at least level 1 that their demands for the territory gradually increase and become higher. Things like entertainment, luxury goods, and personal hobbies will gradually emerge. In the later stages, satisfying the various demands of the unruly people and improving the living conditions of the territory is also a great 'fun' for the lord player...
But all in all, it shouldn't be now.
The villagers nowadays are all hardworking and should not be like those typical 'troublemakers' in certain games who post bad reviews and complaints online all day long as soon as they move in!
Ye Bai couldn't sit still anymore, and immediately found Lucy, one of the troublemakers closest to her.
Lucy was a blonde girl who looked to be in her early twenties, and she was currently cutting wood.
After seeing Ye Bai, she saluted respectfully. The initial loyalty of 60 was not fake.
"My Lord."
Ye Bai was puzzled: "Lucy, are you dissatisfied with your current job?"
Lucy looked a little reserved in front of the lord, but nodded honestly: "I just feel that I'm not suitable for this..."
"Uh, what's wrong with you?" Ye Bai saw that Lucy didn't seem to be complaining, and his doubts deepened: "What do you think you are suitable for?"
Lucy was confused and couldn't articulate the reason: "I don't know either... What do you think, Lord?"
What's going on? Three early-stage god cards took out the high-level professional, Kali, and they still can't take you down?
"I think...I think?!"
Ye Bai suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized something.
The achievement title of [First Lord] she obtained not only increased the territory's population attractiveness by 15%, but also increased the probability of rare talents appearing by 20%!
Ye Bai opened the talent page and activated the talents that he had not had time to use after reaching level 15, lighting up the third basic talent [Identification].
【Identification】
Passive effect: Increases vision range by 5%
Unique Active (Identification): Obtain target information, no cooldown, no consumption; (the information obtained is related to the current character level)
A golden light flashed, and Ye Bai felt a shock in his brain, and then his vision became extremely clear, as if a myopic patient wore glasses. He could see the surrounding environment farther and more clearly, and could also capture the frequency of the fluttering wings of nearby insects, which meant that his dynamic vision was also improved.
Ye Bai set his sights on Lucy and used the 'Identification' skill.
Character: Lucy
Identity: Baiye Villager
Level: 1
Occupation: None
Physical strength: 87/100
Food: 99/100
Drinking water: 99/100
entertainment:-/-
Luxury goods: -/-
Personal hobbies: -/-
Loyalty: 60/100
Satisfaction: 100/100
Talents: Plant Affinity, Healing Light II
Seeing the last column of newly added talent attributes, Ye Bai's expression suddenly changed -
Ugh, what a troublemaker! Turns out he is my precious talent!
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