Chapter 125
While Baiye Town was upgraded to a level five territory, Ruilan Village and Luofei Village also completed their territory upgrades that night.
In the server-wide announcement, two consecutive messages appeared in the consciousness of every online player:
[Congratulations to Ruilan Town for becoming the second territory to be upgraded to a town!]
[Congratulations to Luofei Town for becoming the third territory to be upgraded to a town! ]
A night of fierce fighting had just passed in the territories of two cosmic civilizations. The difference was that the main forces fighting in these two territories were basically composed of players. This kind of cohesion was something that no other game guild could achieve.
Zeta and Ximo, who had just finished upgrading, opened the Lord Ranking at the same time.
First place, Bai Ye, territory score: 28867
Second place, Zeta, territory score: 10211
Third place, Ximo, territory score, 10078
Fourth place...
Both of them knew that Bai Ye appeared in the territory, and they also heard the news about the territory upgrading yesterday. Now, looking at the scores gradually narrowing, they both showed an expression of determination to win.
The various facilities that have been built in Baiye Town are no secret in the entire universe. After analysis by intelligence departments of various civilizations, it was found that in addition to the source energy crystals revealed through the energy crossbow, there are other unknown reasons for Baiye Town's high score.
However, even though the current score gap is still large, judging from the score increase of Baiye Town, the gap is gradually narrowing. If they continue like this, one day they will be able to catch up with this first territory.
Not knowing the ambitious ideas of the two powerful cosmic civilization masters, after receiving the server-wide announcement, Ye Bai just glanced at the rankings, and then arranged the finishing work after the upgrade, and then came to the Tree of Creation.
To upgrade to the fifth-level territory, a wave of points is naturally indispensable.
Ye Bai first opened the [Development Strategy] page, and the conditions for upgrading to the sixth-level territory appeared:
The territory's population reaches 600; the territory's general education coverage rate reaches 30%; and the territory's trade routes reach 5.
At the same time, three new strategy cards have appeared, namely [Commercialization I] which can enhance the productivity bonus brought by trade routes, [Homework] which can improve the training efficiency of general schools, and [Cooperative Armament] which can improve the production efficiency of weapons and equipment.
From these new strategy cards and the conditions of the sixth-level territory, we can roughly see that the development trend of the territory at this stage is in the economy and education, as well as a little military strengthening.
However, after careful consideration, Ye Bai did not replace any of the three strategy cards, but continued to use the previous old policy.
The productivity enhanced by commercialization can only achieve maximum benefits when there are enough trade routes. In comparison, it is more suitable for situations like Zeta and Ximo. Ye Bai paid attention to the issue of general education as early as when he was just upgraded to the town level.
The cycle of general education is not long, and the speed varies according to the potential of the residents. Generally, the younger the age, the faster the learning speed, but basically the education can be completed in about one game month.
The residents of the territory have been attending "night school" for more than a month. With the unlimited supply of paper and ink from the workshop, the general education rate of White Night Town has reached 57%, and this is based on the addition of more than one hundred refugees.
Therefore, Ye Bai does not need to assign [homework] to the residents for the time being, and the same goes for [coordinated armament]. The energy crossbows produced in the territory are completely sufficient.
Then Ye Bai opened the [Development Direction] page of the territory. In the technology tree of the level 5 territory, two very important technologies appeared.
When Ye Bai went to the God Realm, Baiye Town had accumulated a total of 28 points of productivity. After upgrading to the fifth-level territory, it received another 20 points of productivity as a reward, for a total of 48 points of productivity.
It seems that this amount of productivity is much greater than before, but correspondingly, for Ye Bai, the real "productivity-swallowing" technology has arrived.
[Primary Library] Unlocks the primary library building; unlocks the [Expanded Bibliography] project.
[Refugee Camp] Unlocks the refugee camp building; unlocks the [Refugee Shelter] project.
Lighting up the two technologies consumes 5 points of production each, and the following [Expand Bibliography] and [Accommodate Refugees] are "territory research projects" that are similar to improving the barracks training speed, and require production capacity to complete.
But correspondingly, the effects brought about by these two projects are important and necessary.
A library is a territory's 'knowledge base'. For a civilized force, knowledge is the most valuable spiritual wealth. A territory must have a library to accommodate the knowledge of the three major schools. It is an indispensable process for the territory to move towards urbanization.
To put it more directly, without the support of the library, the territory cannot upgrade various technologies that truly involve extraordinary applications.
It is still a primary library now. In the future, in order to carry more advanced knowledge, it will need to be upgraded to an intermediate or advanced library. The main city has an advanced library.
As for the refugee camp, it is even simpler. As the name suggests, it is a functional building for actively expanding the population.
After reaching the town level, the demand for population for territory development increases significantly. Ye Bai has the bonus of the title of the first lord, and each time he upgrades, he has to wait for refugees to join him. Other players who do not have this bonus and whose territories are not very attractive will be slow.
At this stage, relying solely on monthly recruitment as a source of population is naturally too simple. The refugee camp is an additional optional building, but at the same time, this additional recruitment is not without restrictions.
First of all, each time you carry out the [Accommodate Refugees] project, it will cost a full 10 points of production capacity. The project cycle takes ten game days, and after completion, a group of additional refugees will join the territory.
Because they are refugees, their hygiene is low and the probability of them carrying various infectious diseases is higher than that of normal refugees, which puts a greater test on the territory's hygiene and medical level.
Of course, correspondingly, the refugees recruited by the refugee camps are also subject to the same attractiveness as when migrants joined, and there will be the same probability of special talents appearing.
Whether the project will be carried out depends on how the lord makes the trade-off.
For Ye Bai, achieving population growth is definitely a priority. To solve the plague problem, one only needs to prepare a batch of special medicines in advance. Problems that require money to solve are not a problem.
In the one gaming month that Ye Bai had been away for the Divine Realm, the operation and expenditure of the territory had already turned a positive profit, and she no longer needed to pay out of her own pocket. The financial income for this month was nearly 10 gold coins.
Not to mention that Ye Bai is now extremely rich. His personal backpack is filled with rows of various legendary fish materials, all stacked to a maximum of 99 pieces.
After clicking on two important technologies, Ye Bai then clicked on three technologies that required 3 points of productivity.
【Basic City Wall】Unlock the basic city wall.
[Basic Expansion] Upgrade Hunter's Hut, Farmer's Hut, and Fisherman's Hut, increasing building storage by 30% and building production efficiency by 10%.
[Full-time School] Unlock the building of a full-time school, where you can select residents under the age of 25 who have completed general education to enroll as students.
The city walls in this technology are different from the previous fences. They are city wall structures that can undertake military defense. They require a large amount of stone and some steel materials. In the future, they can be further upgraded into intermediate and advanced city walls on this basis.
Because the upgrade of the territory requires a large population expansion, Ye Bai has always paid attention to expanding the agricultural structure of the territory. While the territory's agricultural production can cover it, he has continued to import storable grains. Now the territory's grain reserves are enough for two years, and this expansion can increase the population carrying capacity.
Full-time schools are an advancement of general schools. Students here can graduate after reaching the required knowledge proficiency. If they start working after graduation, they can become professionals more quickly and can also enter higher-level [colleges] for further studies.
The entire educational path for a territory resident is 'general school' - 'full-time school' - 'three major schools of thought college'.
The age structure of residents joining the territory each time varies, but most of them are young and middle-aged people. Ye Bai plans to send suitable residents to study after the school is built.
The study time varies from school to school. General schools take about half a month to a month, and full-time schools take at least six months. You can then increase your graduation speed by unlocking projects to consume productivity. Once you enter college, learning never ends, and it can be said to be a permanent deputy job.
In the Wanjie, the prerequisite for changing careers in the three major schools is to enter the academy for further study.
However, the three major colleges can only be built after the city is upgraded to meet the school's inclinations. What Ye Bai is doing now is laying the foundation in advance.
After doing all this, Ye Bai's productivity was left at 29 points, which was enough to complete two territory projects.
After lighting up the technology, the construction will naturally be arranged immediately.
The city wall was built according to the control range of the Tree of Creation, and it delineated a prototype surrounding the core area of the current White Night Town. This was a large project, and it was built slowly using idle labor.
Now it seems that this city wall covers most of the territory, but in fact, after the city is upgraded in the future, it will become the 'inner city' of the territory, and the scope of the outer city will continue to expand.
An important library was built on the open space reserved between the military zone and the industrial zone, near Ye Bai's mayor's office, and a full-time school was built in the residential area to facilitate residents' schooling.
There is no need to relocate agricultural buildings, just arrange construction workers to upgrade them. The final refugee camp is built at the outermost edge of the territory.
The refugee camp itself also serves as temporary housing. Building it on the periphery can prevent disease carriers among the refugees from infecting healthy local residents.
After dealing with all this, Ye Bai raised her head and saw that the entire territory was "moving" again under her planning.
The construction of the territory does not require Ye Bai to "do it herself", but there are still many things waiting for her to do.
Ye Bai first summoned Felix and Blaise to lead a team each to open up a trade route to the two nearest NPC towns. The explorers of White Night Town had already completed a high degree of exploration of the surrounding areas, and some of the exploration was completed in the form of issuing tasks to players.
It's like having a clear map. All you need to do is organize a caravan to open up the trade route. At Felix and Blaise's current level, they don't have to worry about any ignorant players causing trouble.
One game day later, the refugee camp and primary library were born with the highest priority and full staff of construction workers.
Ye Bai immediately spent ten points of productivity to launch the [Expand Bibliography] and [Accommodate Refugees] projects.
Then Ye Bai set off alone and headed for Melo City, the closest city to Baiye Town.
This time, riding on Ottophis, it took Ye Bai less than half a day to reach Melo City.
Arriving at the crowded and congested Melo City, Ye Bai changed Qianhuanyi into an ordinary hooded cloak, making Ottophis less visible. He then came to the familiar Melo City Library and found Anita buried in historical documents in a corner.
The last time he came to upgrade, Ye Bai was not far from Historian IV. After another trip to the God Realm, he gained a lot of historical experience from the ruins of the Deep Sea Clan and the Purgatory Fortress, and had already made up for the remaining experience.
"Teacher, I'm here to upgrade my career level again."
Anita: "..." If she remembered correctly, it seemed like only a month had passed since she last saw this history student?
Looking at Ye Bai's smiling face, Anita confirmed it and nodded. Then she seemed to remember her last experience and muttered softly, "Fortunately, this time it only happened once..."
The next moment, a flash of light appeared on Ye Bai's body, and his historian level was raised to the fourth level.
You have completed the mission 'Mentor's Expectations'
This time, after completing the expectations, the mentor's expectations did not recur. Anita looked at Ye Bai with emotion and said, "Congratulations, kid, you have completed your apprenticeship. You are already an excellent historian. Your future research will depend on your own exploration."
This was something Ye Bai had known for a long time. He nodded and said, "Thank you, teacher."
Secondary mentors such as scholars will only lead players to level four. After all, the professional mentor's own level is at this level. It depends on the individual to reach level five, and it will be automatically upgraded after meeting the conditions.
Ye Bai opened his deputy job page, and the information inside changed again.
Historian IV
Job Description: You have accumulated some knowledge about the subject of history. Now, combine your knowledge and wisdom to discover more truths buried in history!
Professional proficiency: 15/100
Professional Skills - Archaeology: Ability to gain experience by excavating historical information; ability to discover hidden mission clues from historical information.
Professional Skill - Scholar Temperament: By understanding the history of different factions/races, you can gain a favorability bonus with the corresponding faction/race. (Current favorability: Ancient Dragon 5, Undead 3, Deep Sea 10, Purgatory 1)
Professional Skills - Distinguishing the True from the False: Having unearthed too many historical truths, you can now use your intuition to distinguish the authenticity of the historical information you see.
Level 4 historians do not receive any additional item rewards, but their professional skills have been expanded to include one more ability than before, which is the ability to distinguish the authenticity of historical information.
After the upgrade, Ye Bai did not leave immediately, but looked at Teacher Anita, who was also the librarian of Melo City.
"Teacher, my territory has just built a library, and I want to purchase some suitable books. Can you recommend a purchasing channel for me?"
Hearing this, Anita paused slightly, then looked at Ye Bai for a moment before nodding: "I can write a letter of recommendation for you to the Magic Society of Melo City."
Ye Bai's eyes lit up immediately. She had originally just thought of Anita's identity and wanted to give it a try, but she didn't expect it to actually work!
“Thank you, teacher!”
Whether in terms of supernatural power or background productivity, books in the world are very expensive and cannot be bought with money.
The library is filled with documents through quests, collection from human monsters, purchases in high-level cities, and long-term writing by scholars conducting research in the academy of the territory.
Under normal circumstances, if one wants to make large-scale purchases to fill the library in Baiye Town like Ye Bai is doing now, in addition to money, one needs to reach a certain level of reputation in Melo City and complete certain prerequisite tasks.
Being able to save the middle link through Anita is undoubtedly a pleasant surprise.
"Don't be too happy yet." Seeing Ye Bai's expression, Anita smiled and reminded him, "Knowledge is a very valuable asset. Are you sure you have enough wealth to exchange it for it?"
"No problem." Thinking of the legendary materials that filled his backpack, Ye Bai answered confidently.
"You always surprise me." Anita raised her eyebrows upon seeing this, then took out a piece of white paper and wrote a few words on it, and then put it in a simple envelope. Then a slight magical light fell on the seal of the envelope, and Anita marked it with a magical emblem that could identify the identity.
"Go ahead, take this to Grant, the vice president of the Mello City Magic Society, and ask him about the purchase conditions."
"yes!"
Ye Bai has now reached level 60 and can see Anita's level through his insight talent.
This is a level 70 third-class magician. No wonder he has connections like the vice president of the Magic Society. A strong person like Anita is obviously also one of the senior members of the society.
Ye Bai happily said goodbye to Anita, left the library, and then went straight to the Magic Society in Melo City.
The Magic Society occupies a large area in the land-scarce city of Melo. The society is protected by a magic barrier and one cannot enter without a high enough reputation. However, because Ye Bai had Anita's letter of recommendation in his hand, he entered without any obstruction.
Then, with the help of the magical guidance provided by the letter of recommendation, he found the magic tower-like office where Vice President Grant was located.
Grant opened the letter of recommendation in front of Ye Bai. He was an old wizard with a long white beard and dressed in traditional wizard robes. He was very consistent with the classic image of a wizard in fantasy stories. In fact, he was indeed a powerful magician over level 70.
"Anita said you were her most outstanding student..."
After reading the letter of introduction, Grant looked up at Ye Bai and said, "But knowledge is not easy to acquire. How can you buy copies of the literature? In consideration of Anita's recommendation, I can accept gold coins for the elementary basic literature, but the maximum is 500 gold coins, which is about one-fifth of the original."
Five hundred gold coins is a huge sum of money for any player force at this stage, but these five hundred gold coins can only be exchanged for one-fifth of the "primary basic documents" mentioned by Grant.
But Ye Bai must obtain these documents because they correspond to the first-level knowledge of the elemental magic school.
The built primary library only comes with basic knowledge below the extraordinary level. Ye Bai spent ten points of productivity to unlock the library's [Expanded Bibliography] project. In other words, it is actually upgrading the "book categories" that accommodate this knowledge.
When it comes to extraordinary technology, the territory can only research and apply it if the library has relevant knowledge. At the same time, the library can only be upgraded to a higher-level intermediate library if the books in the filled categories meet a certain standard.
After a pause, Grant continued to Ye Bai, "More knowledge requires you to make corresponding contributions to the school's research in exchange. This is the foundation for the development of any society. So, which plan are you going to take?"
Hearing this, Ye Bai, who only had 11 gold coins on him, said slowly, "I have a new plan."
Then, Ye Bai took out a bottle of light blue liquid, a fish bone emitting golden light, and a faintly electrified fish scale from his backpack.
Originally, Grant frowned strangely when he heard Ye Bai's words, but as she took out these materials containing rich elemental power one by one, the old wizard's expression gradually changed.
“These materials…”
"Ice Soul Fish Blood, Golden Koi Fish Bones, Thunder Fish Scales. I want to use these elemental materials to sponsor the research of the Melo City Magic Society in the long term. Not only to exchange for elementary knowledge, but also for copies of subsequent advanced knowledge documents." Ye Bai pointed out the names of the materials one by one and stated his requirements.
This was naturally the fish material obtained with the help of the Kraken in the deep sea of the God Realm. Because the Kraken sucked in a large number of high-level fish in one storm, Ye Bai intercepted the highest-level legendary fish, cooked the fish meat for the Kraken to eat, and put the materials into his own backpack.
Because of the limited space in his backpack, Ye Bai could only choose the highest-level legendary materials to take away. Even so, there were more than ten rare high-level materials, and each one was stacked up to 99 pieces.
If you want to directly exchange so many high-level materials for gold coins, you may not be able to find so many wealthy buyers. Using them to exchange for school knowledge is the most cost-effective and efficient option.
"If you can provide three copies of each of these materials, I can directly exchange them for elementary basic documents." These advanced materials were rare even for Grant. He decisively agreed to Ye Bai's first request and paused, "But establishing a long-term sponsorship relationship requires further discussion..."
Listening to the second half of Grant's words, Ye Bai knew that the subsequent high-level levels were just a rigid reputation requirement of the Magic Society, which was commonly known as "something that money can't buy."
Originally, he could only give up at this point, but Ye Bai's eyes suddenly moved, and then, with the mentality of giving it a try, he used the special life skills he had just acquired during his trip to the God Realm on Grant -
Fraud
While using his skills, Ye Bai added, "I can guarantee a stable supply of these materials. These are all rare legendary fish materials, which are of great help to magic research."
The so-called stable supply means that all the knowledge of the Magic Society has been exchanged, and there are still a lot of materials left in Ye Bai's backpack.
The next moment, the old wizard's face was dazed for a moment. He then looked at Ye Bai, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, if you can ensure a stable supply of materials, I can agree to your request."
"Of course, thank you so much!"
While thanking Grant, Ye Bai also thanked Mr. Devil in his heart, who should be imprisoned in some purgatory fortress at this time.
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