Chapter 144
Ruilan Town and Luofei Town, two territories that are the focus of development of cosmic civilizations, have now become extremely large and are both level five territories like Baiye Town.
At this stage, the two lords, Zeta and Ximo, also realized that the requirements for upgrading to a level six territory involved population and general education rate. They also learned from the White Night Town and built general education schools and refugee camps to expand the population.
However, compared to Ye Bai, who knew all the conditions for upgrading the territory and started developing education as early as when it became a fourth-level territory, the two of them were still much slower. Now they have just completed the general education of the second batch of residents in the territory.
However, because in addition to NPCs, there are also a large number of players serving as additional labor in these two territories, the speed is still very fast. Once the third batch of residents graduates, the upgrade conditions for the fifth-level territory will be met.
Therefore, when the two lords and the civilization behind them saw that Baiye Town's score suddenly increased by 6,000 points in the lord rankings, the first thing they thought of was whether Baiye Town had been upgraded to a level six territory.
But the result was surprising. It was impossible to conceal the upgrade of a territory. Even though interstellar scholars speculated that White Night Town had once been upgraded twice, the increase in score this time was obviously not from the upgrade of the territory.
——Is it related to the library?
In addition to the refugee camp, the new technology added to the level five territory is the library. The refugee camp's function of expanding the population has been applied by almost all level five territories at the first time.
It's not just Ye Bai. For interstellar civilizations, population issues have always been a greater restriction on them. Through the construction of the refugee camp, the territories of the top few lords in the lord rankings that have reached level five have truly started to develop at an accelerated pace.
In comparison, although they also built a library, they definitely prioritized using productivity to expand the population. Unlike Ye Bai, they did not consume precious productivity to carry out the "Expand Bibliography" project.
Even though these territories have accumulated a lot of productivity from system rewards by having players open up a large number of nearby trade routes, there is still a certain gap compared to the steady and steady progress of Baiye Town, where the productivity of the entire territory comes from NPCs. Now, only Ruilan Town and Luofei Town can barely catch up with the natural productivity growth rate of Baiye Town.
There is no change in the refugee camp in White Night Town now. The territory is not open to players, the economic benefits have dropped a lot, and no new buildings have been seen rising from the ground. As the understanding of the Ten Thousand Worlds deepens, the relevant researchers are not fools and soon associated the changes with the library.
Where will the expanded bibliography come from? Will it be related to the school of thought that has not yet been clearly defined?
Experts and scholars found the key to the problem. These territories immediately sent players to various towns to gather relevant information, and then concluded that the expanded bibliographic content of the library would most likely need to be obtained from the three major schools, and the role of school tendencies became obvious.
Originally, finding clues was good news. However, based on intelligence gathered through communication with NPCs, the interstellar civilizations soon received bad news.
To gain knowledge support for a school, it is estimated that the tendency towards that school needs to reach more than 300 points.
Even though most of the territories of interstellar civilizations have opened up no less than twenty trade routes, these twenty trade routes do not involve a single school of thought, but all three major schools of thought. Every month, the main city-level territory can provide 10 points of tendency, and the ordinary town-level territory can only provide 5 points. The village-level territory has no such thing as a school of thought.
Nobles traveling to the territory can indeed bring certain school tendencies, but the player's town can hardly attract any nobles. At most, there will be one noble per month, adding 5 or 6 points of tendencies, which is about the same as a trade route.
A simple estimate shows that at the current fastest speed, it will take more than five game months to accumulate the necessary school tendencies.
So, the question arises again, if the increase in territory score is due to this reason - then how did Bai Ye do it?!
"Of course it's because I made a lot of money on this outing."
At the entrance of the library, Ye Bai answered with a smile when faced with Carrie's question about "Why has the territory been purchasing high-end materials in large quantities recently?"
At the same time, Jiaoma's trucks brought in high-grade materials such as obsidian bricks, golden nanmu, and source energy crystals from warehouses and merchant guilds. Construction workers had already begun erecting scaffolding and fences, preparing to upgrade the library.
During the building upgrade, previous learning will naturally no longer be able to continue.
Ye Bai turned his head and said to the others present, "The library is going to be expanded, so we're temporarily closing for two days. Everyone, please have a good rest during these two days."
"Very good!"
Felix and Blaise were the first to cheer, and the others also looked relaxed and happy.
Ye Bai expressed his gratitude to the paper man on the branch of life pendant: "Wuming, thank you for your hard work during this period."
"It's not hard. It's my honor to help Master Bai Ye." The paper man replied immediately. After a pause, his tone became subtle: "Besides... I think the profession of teacher is also quite interesting."
Ye Bai: “Hmm?”
The next moment, the paper man whispered devilishly to Felix and Blaise, who were grinning from ear to ear: "Felix, Blaise, I have homework for you. Please give it to me at the end of the holiday."
The smiles on the two people whose names were called disappeared and quickly shifted to the faces of the other people present.
While waiting for the construction of the library to begin, Ye Bai went to Dilina, Lucy, and Carly to check the finished products made from their previous [inventions].
Marching Cloak
Level: Rare
Defense: 40
Resistance: 40
Special Effect - March: When fighting with more than five units, increase attack speed by 20% and movement speed by 30%.
Description: You can use it to create an army as swift as the wind.
【Micro Energy Extractor】
Level: Rare
Attribute: Tools/Alchemy Equipment
Effect: The device can extract and store energy for collection, exploration, and lighting operations.
Description: A practical tool for mining energy ore.
【Eagle Eye Potion】
Level: Rare
Attribute: Potion
Effect - Eagle Eye: After use, you will gain an additional 100 meters of dynamic vision improvement, long-range weapon hit rate +80%, long-range attack damage +30%, and the duration is 20 minutes.
Description: Eyes like an eagle.
After seeing the attributes, Ye Bai showed a very satisfied smile.
This is the true meaning of "knowledge is power". Unlike blueprints of uncertain types and effects, the [inventions] obtained by NPCs in the territory after learning extraordinary knowledge are all extremely suitable for the situation of the territory.
Because these NPCs are members of the territory production profession, the inventions and creations they produce are naturally based on their own territory.
As for the different levels of the three inventions, it is because the professional levels of the three people are different. Dilina is a master tailor. Even with the first-level extraordinary knowledge, the equipment she invented is a precious purple equipment.
However, this level is the upper limit of production. For Baiye Town, the other two blue rare-level inventions are not bad at all.
[Marching Cloak] and [Eagle Eye Potion] can both be used on the territory's crossbowmen to greatly enhance their combat effectiveness. The [Micro Energy Extractor] invented by Carrie is the most suitable small-scale equipment for source energy crystal mines. It can greatly liberate the productivity of the mine and bring economic benefits that are even higher than the previous two.
Originally, Ye Bai expected that everyone's "vacation" would have to wait for a while, but she didn't expect that because the paper man was so powerful, she met the upgrade conditions for the intermediate library in one go.
Upgrading from a primary library to an intermediate library is different from other territory buildings. You can upgrade immediately as long as the relevant technology is lit up. Instead, you must meet the independent upgrade conditions of the library before you can light up the technology. Otherwise, the technology will always be in an unlit state.
The upgrade conditions for an intermediate library are: the library has at least one first-level school of knowledge and produces an invention.
This information requires deeper exposure to the three major schools to understand, and the intermediate library is a prerequisite for upgrading to the seventh-level territory.
That’s right, from the town level to the city level, Ye Bai is preparing to "upgrade two levels in a row" again.
This game month, due to the epidemic and overpopulation, Baiye Town cannot meet the general education rate required for a level 6 territory. Since we have to spend time to meet the conditions, we might as well prepare for the level 7 territory conditions together.
Starting from level five and up to level seven, it is the strength accumulation period of the territory gameplay. At this stage, the lord player needs to develop steadily, popularize education, accumulate wealth, resources, and the most indispensable school influence, spend several game months to complete the goal and meet the conditions for exchanging extraordinary knowledge.
Ye Bai was able to achieve "overtaking on a curve" because she had reached level 4 as a historian, had a large amount of legendary materials (money), various titles, and the status of a "legendary figure"... If she didn't have these gains in the divine world, she would have to honestly accumulate school tendencies.
But now, after paying a large amount of legendary materials, not only the first-level knowledge, but also the subsequent second and third levels are no longer a problem for Ye Bai.
Therefore, the current gap in ratings is secondary. With the 10,000-point bonus from the Well of Origin, White Night Town and other territories are actually similar in terms of hard power, and there is even a gap in the "extra productivity" of the players.
When other interstellar players upgrade to the sixth-level territory and realize that there is a layer of "soft power", they will truly discover the gap between them and Ye Bai.
By that time, Baiye Town would probably have become Baiye City.
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