Chapter 60: Day 6 of the Wartworm Season (2) Urban Planning
After carefully studying the map for a while, Yu Luowei chose the opposite side of the small river that connected the boss point and the wheat field. The place she chose was just a short walk from crossing the river to the wheat field. Especially, there was a coal mine below.
After choosing a place, Yu Luowei took his base and used the map to teleport there.
It took only a few seconds to reach their destination. Yu Luowei, still in the shelter, felt nothing. After landing, she ran to the entrance of the base to observe. Seeing no major problems, she activated the city construction order.
The plants in front seemed to be suddenly pushed away by something, and the ground gradually turned into ordinary land. After a while, the surrounding flowers and plants disappeared from Yu Luowei's sight, and were replaced by a square area.
Yu Luowei's base is located at the back of the center of this area. The boundary of this area cannot be seen from the entrance of the base, so he had to take out the map and check it out.
The city-building order didn't cover the surrounding area, but instead tore out a new piece of land. Yu Luowei wanted to send the coordinates to her friends first, but she found that the prompt had flashed frantically several times, asking her if she wanted to make the city and its coordinates public.
Yu Luowei thought for a moment, realizing he hadn't fully researched the city yet, so he held off on making it public for now. He continued to send the coordinates to his friends and then left the base.
After building a city, the manual can be taken out of the base, but it should only be used in the city.
After going out, Yu Luowei saw an obvious dirt road. The areas on both sides were divided into different grids with length and width marked. The ones on the right were all uniformly 5 meters x 5 meters, while the ones on the left were of different sizes.
I don’t understand what these are for now. Yu Luowei just wants to find the detailed rules of the city. He just flipped through the manual but couldn’t find it.
Turning around, Yu Luowei was shocked. The base behind him looked very small from the outside. Outsiders could not imagine that there was a huge manor inside.
There is also a small room of 5 meters by 5 meters next to it, with the words "City Affairs Processing Center" written on it.
With the "shrinking space" experience of the base before, Yu Luowei was mentally prepared for the scene inside. When he went in, he saw that it was indeed much larger than it looked from the outside, and it was a small two-story building.
The first floor was arranged like a service hall, with a long table and a large screen on the wall behind it. Yu Luowei, a familiar reader of novels, knew that this was probably where missions were posted or staff were recruited.
To the left of the long table is a staircase with a sign next to it that reads:
[Only for the city owner and those authorized by him]
There is a large office upstairs, with the word "City Lord's Office" written on the top. Yu Luowei finally found the layout map of the entire city and the method to control the entire city here.
Through the layout map, Yu Luowei realized that the neatly arranged areas on the right were residential areas, while the ones on the left were commercial and defense areas. Currently, the city was at level one, allowing only twenty people to live there.
Before checking the upgrade conditions, Yu Luowei first spent materials to connect the second floor with his base. The manual was also integrated with some functions of the office so that he could use the manual to handle some easy things in the future, such as welcoming new residents. If he encountered any emergency, he would have to come to the office, which would be more convenient.
At this time, Fang Min, Lin Zhixia, and the others also gradually arrived around Yu Luowei. However, because Yu Luowei had not yet allowed them to enter, they could only temporarily set up shelter nearby. However, after joining the city, moving the base into the city does not count as teleporting and does not consume charges.
[Su Tang: Weiwei, we're already near your base. The system just told me there's a level one city nearby. Do you want to apply to enter? I clicked on the application, so please remember to approve it!]
[Fang Min: I applied too! Hehe, I'm really looking forward to what it's like inside!]
[Lin Zhixia: Everyone should have applied, but this is just entry, not joining.]
[Zhao Linlang: Shouldn't they wait until we enter before they can choose whether to join?]
Yu Luowei: I've already approved all of your applications, but I haven't had time to plan them yet. You might be disappointed when you see them.
[Jiang Nian'an: Hey, I'm coming in! ]
As soon as she sent it out, Yu Luowei heard a noisy sound outside. Knowing that her friends had come in, she picked up the manual and left to meet up with her friends.
The outermost part of the city is a fence exactly the same as the one surrounding the first-level base. It looks tattered, but it has a defense shield with a defense power of up to 1000, which can keep other survivors or monsters without the consent of the city lord out of the city.
Lin Zhixia and the others had already gathered together and walked in through the gate, looking at everything inside curiously. As they looked, Jiang Nian'an spotted Yu Luowei and waved to her excitedly.
Yu Luowei's speed attribute is very high. He ran a few steps to reach his friends. He first introduced the space compression function and the residential area to them.
Before Luo Wei introduced the next area, they were already choosing their locations, wanting to join in first. Yu Luo Wei agreed to their application first.
The residential area was arranged in a four-by-five pattern. The five of them occupied the innermost row, leaving the extra person in the second row, closer to the road. After choosing their spots, Yu Luowei agreed to their request, and the next second, five identical small rooms sprang up in those locations.
After saying goodbye temporarily, the five people went back to their rooms to pack their things. Yu Luowei also went back to check other functions, such as upgrade methods.
In addition to the 20 residential areas, the first-level city also has 5 locations in the commercial area and 2 in the defense area. The special building card "Watchtower" previously opened by Yu Luowei can be built on the city wall, but it is also considered in the defense area.
The city wall refers to the fence surrounding the city. However, it can also be upgraded, and currently no blueprints are needed. Yu Luowei used wood, stone, and iron blocks to quickly upgrade it to level 5, and the defense power also reached 5000.
On the city map, the shape of the city wall also changed from a simple fence to a real solid wall. Then, Yu Luowei upgraded the city to the second level.
To upgrade from level 1 to level 2, besides materials, the residential area needed to be fully occupied and the commercial area needed to have two shops. However, the prop cards Yu Luowei opened from the red treasure chest yesterday—the same ones that couldn't be used yesterday—contained a direct upgrade card to level 2, which helped Yu Luowei solve this problem.
The upgraded city's residential area has been expanded to 100 residences, and the commercial and defensive areas have been expanded to 10 and 5 locations respectively. In addition, a public facilities area has been added in front of the residential area near the city wall, and an acre of land and a fence have been added behind the city lord's base.
In addition to materials, upgrading from Level 2 to Level 3 also required fully occupied residential areas, at least half of the commercial areas to have functioning buildings, and half of the public facilities and defense areas to be filled. Yu Luowei could still come up with the materials by tightening his belt, but the other conditions were already far behind.
The city upgrade system also had a prompt, but because Yu Luowei hadn't named the city, the prompt was stuck for a while. Yu Luowei thought for a moment and named the city: Beishi. Although it had been upgraded to level two, the entire city still looked like a small village, but the name contained her beautiful vision of her city's future growth to rival the prosperity of the former capital.
The tip also stated that since she was the first to create the city, the materials used for both infrastructure construction and city upgrades would be halved. However, level two required item cards, and level three was still a long way off, so Yu Luowei turned her attention to the city's roads and greenery.
Greening is part of the infrastructure. Ordinary greening does not require drawings or other props. You only need saplings or grass seeds, and you can directly select the location on the map to use. The same is true for roads.
The points mall also has a city-specific shopping area. Yu Luowei first changed the original dirt roads in the city into stone roads - this is the highest level at present, and then bought special lawn seeds and covered the other exposed ground with grass seeds.
In addition, Yu Luowei also bought a basic waterway diagram and a basic circuit diagram to meet the current electricity and water needs of other urban facilities. The reason for buying only low-level ones is that the points mall only sells low-level ones. More advanced ones require professional personnel to carry out detailed planning.
The water and electricity cards were different from those used at the base; they were dedicated cards and could also be purchased in the points mall. However, there was a stream near the city with clean water, so Yu Luowei temporarily connected to it to pump water. He also bought five electricity cards, enough for the entire city for five days.
After finishing all this, Yu Luowei heard her friends calling her downstairs, so she went downstairs to find them, bringing a manual and some commercial building cards. She briefly explained what she had just done and the requirements for advancing to the next level. Yu Luowei suggested that she would go to the chat channel to recruit others later, and her friends agreed to help.
Now, it's almost 12 o'clock, and Su Tang wants to find a place to cook and have a meal together. After all, this is the first time everyone meets in the game, and they can discuss the specific division of labor while eating.
After hearing this, Yu Luowei rummaged through her special building card and found a special building for a restaurant. She didn't put anything in the commercial area just thinking that she could place it according to everyone's needs.
When Su Tang saw the card, his eyes lit up. After Yu Luowei placed it there, he liked it even more and rushed into the kitchen to start cooking.
The skill cards opened from the red treasure chest are advanced. The scale of this restaurant would be at the three-star level in Yu Luowei's native world. It is also equipped with basic ingredients, such as fifty portions each of flour, rice, and potatoes, as well as ten portions of seasonings.
After observing the kitchen, Su Tang asked Yu Luowei, "Weiwei, this restaurant definitely needs a chef to run normally, right? I can come here and be a chef! I love cooking the most!"
Indeed, as soon as the restaurant was completed, Yu Luowei's handbook prompted her to recruit chefs and waiters. After confirming that Su Tang wouldn't regret it, Yu Luowei temporarily hired her. As for salary, the system recommended 50 points per day—points were the city's common currency.
Su Tang first used the restaurant's own basic ingredients and the meat they had stored a few days ago to prepare a feast for everyone. While she was cooking, the others were also busy, discussing how to spread the word and attract others to come.
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