Chapter 73: The Fourth Day of the Liesha Season (3) The Lost Golden City…
Congratulations, you will have two options:
A. Merge the city. All buildings in each area, city warehouses and the number of surviving citizens will be merged.
B. Disband the city. You can choose half of the buildings to convert into special building cards, and obtain half of the supplies in the warehouse and half of the materials for upgrading the city walls. The surviving citizens will automatically become ordinary survivors.
Glancing at the Golden City, now in ruins due to the numerous deaths, Yu Luowei considered the matter and decided not to merge. While the city would expand after the merger, the existing urban planning would have to be redesigned. Furthermore, the newly awakened citizens might not be willing to join North City immediately, and their loyalty would undoubtedly be low, which would also be problematic.
Yu Luowei first took the special building cards for the Prison, Grocery, and Weapon Shop, then disassembled the other buildings, including the City Processing Center, into materials and points. He had originally intended to keep the city wall, as it was only level three and the materials it would yield weren't much. However, once you've chosen to disassemble it, you can't undo it separately, so after a few minutes, the wall vanished.
After the prison became a special building card, the corpses and other debris inside were left on the ground. Without the city walls and other facilities, the rainforest outside was revealed in its entirety, and the calls of various rainforest animals could be heard one after another - this made Yu Luowei clearly feel how good the sound insulation of the city walls was.
The Golden City vanished into the rainforest. Fortunately, the open space created by the city's construction remained intact. Yu Luowei gathered as many innocent survivors as possible, telling them that if they wished to stay, they could use this place as a gathering place.
After communicating with each other, the others understood Bobby and Jin Yu's actions, and knew that the woman in front of them was their savior, so they obeyed her words and pieced together some props to thank Yu Luowei.
These people had almost completely plundered all their supplies, and a lot of the half of the warehouse supplies Yu Luowei took came from them. Therefore, Yu Luowei only symbolically accepted a few of them and returned the rest to them.
She didn't tell them that she was from North City. After all, the reason why Yu Luowei didn't launch a city expedition was that she didn't want other people in the district to know that she had annexed the Golden City. For this reason, she specially brought a gas mask before entering the prison.
It was only three o'clock, and the tropical rainforest was an area that Yu Luowei had never explored before. He left the remaining base gathering places and went to explore deep into the rainforest alone.
One survivor wanted to keep Yu Luowei, believing she was so powerful that she could protect them. But they were quickly stopped by someone nearby. They thought, "She's so powerful, she could live well anywhere. She'd have to protect others if she stayed. How could she possibly stay?" After being reminded, the person reluctantly looked in the direction Yu Luowei had left, then joined the others in collecting the bodies.
Regardless of what happened next, Yu Luowei followed the path left by Bobby and the others and explored deep into the rainforest.
The trees in the rainforest are naturally taller and denser than those in ordinary forests, and after the specialization of the game, they are even taller and reach the clouds. There are also many animals. In the past few moments, Yu Luowei has seen more than a dozen bird species, various frogs, sloths, gorillas, and more.
On the fourth day of the game, the disaster hadn't yet severely impacted the rainforest. The air was still moist, and some of the large rivers still had water, though less. It was foreseeable that if Yu Luowei hadn't arrived, this season's disasters would have been much easier for the Golden City.
Yu Luowei spotted a glittering resource in the rainforest. She approached and realized it was a large-fruited fig. She wasn't familiar with the plant, but after the system's prompt, she learned that its fruit could be eaten raw, its pectin could be made into ice jelly, and its tender leaves could be stir-fried.
The fruit was ripe, and clearly quite a few had been picked. Bobby might have placed some protection cards, but with his death, they were no longer effective. Yu Luowei didn't have any transfer cards, and figuring they would be savaged by the drought and heat if left there, he put them to good use—he simply dug up several large, fruit-laden banyan trees.
Leaving some for others to use, Yu Luowei left the resource point. There were still many mushrooms in the rainforest, such as Alstonia, Coral Mushroom, Boletus, and wild wood ear mushrooms. Yu Luowei did not hesitate to dig up most of them.
As he walked, a huge tree appeared in front of Yu Luowei. Its diameter was more than twice the size of Yu Luowei's when he spread his arms, not to mention its height.
In the middle of this giant tree, there was a tree hole, and the shadow of a treasure chest could be vaguely seen in the tree hole. Yu Luowei was ready to take the treasure chest and teleport back to the city.
With his previous experience climbing cliffs, Yu Luowei only needed less than a minute to enter the tree hole. However, as soon as he stuffed his whole body into the tree hole, Yu Luowei made eye contact with the native resident - a bird as big as an eagle.
Behind the big bird, the purple treasure chest lay quietly. The big bird was very angry at Luo Wei's sudden intrusion, and quickly took an attack stance, flapping its wings and raising wind blades, trying to drive Yu Luo Wei out.
The bird wasn't very high level, so Yu Luowei quickly stabilized himself and "returned" the wind blade to the big bird. Unexpectedly, the opponent wasn't a pushover, and the big bird was hit several times by his own wind blade, leaving bruises on its wings.
Yu Luowei was just about to strike while the iron was hot and kill the big bird in front of him in one fell swoop, but the big bird suddenly showed human-like flattery on its face, jumped to the side and curled up, revealing the purple treasure chest behind it.
Seeing that Yu Luowei didn't move, the bird stood up, stretched out its wings, and pointed in the direction of the treasure chest. Yu Luowei was indeed shocked by the bird's flexibility. She faced the big bird cautiously and took the treasure chest.
Seeing that Yu Luowei didn't believe it, the bird actually felt a little aggrieved. It got a vine from somewhere and tied its two wings together.
Yu Luowei was truly at a loss for words. This was the second humanoid monster she had encountered, besides the mushroom tiger. She truly didn't want to kill the giant bird. However, remaining cautious, she erected an ice wall between herself and the bird to prevent a sneak attack. Then, she used the teleport card and returned to the stream outside North City.
It was a rewarding trip. Yu Luowei stretched his body with satisfaction. The water level in the stream had dropped a bit during the day and was almost dry. The surrounding plants had also almost completely withered.
Seeing this, Yu Luowei teleported to the original wheat field resource point and the brocade flower resource point. Fortunately, the protection card was very powerful, and the resource points were not affected at all, and the water level of the Black Abyss entrance lake did not drop at all.
Reassured, Yu Luowei returned to North City with the main force. Quite a few people had already gathered in the park and by the fountain, enjoying the cool air—without air conditioning, the base and shelter weren't as cool as those two places.
Because there were so many people but not enough space in the grocery store, everyone took the opportunity to open a small market between the park and the fountain, and everyone brought supplies they didn't need to exchange them here.
Because the city walls not only blocked the monsters that lurked at night but also reduced the speed of mental power, the night in the city was not scary. Therefore, the market usually stayed open until after eight o'clock - this was what Yu Luowei learned from a new face.
Yu Luowei also wandered around the market out of curiosity, unable to resist buying some oddities—like ceramic tableware and stuffed animals. Selling things in a grocery store requires a stall fee, so most people only sell regular items. Unused gadgets like these were brought to the market.
More and more people, having finished their meals, arrived. Some were setting up their stalls, while others had picked out items they liked and were bargaining. These sights and the doll in her hand gave Yu Luowei the illusion that she had returned to Blue Star. However, she regained consciousness when she put the item into her bracelet.
Shaking her head, Yu Luowei bought another set of paintbrushes and returned to her base. Ma Tuan, who had been away for a day, rushed towards Yu Luowei and almost hit her waist.
He took out the giant panda doll he had just bought for Ma Tuan. Ma Tuan was very curious about this doll that looked very similar to him and was quickly attracted to it. Seeing Ma Tuan like it so much, Yu Luowei's fatigue from killing people today was also washed away.
Having not eaten lunch, Yu Luowei made herself a big meal, put it in a lunch box, and went to the third floor of the processing center - the special building card she got today still needed to be placed.
In her private office on the third floor, Yu Luowei opened today's purple treasure chest and received a snack bar card. Finally, she could reduce Su Tang's workload. Yu Luowei installed the snack bar on the other side of the restaurant to make it easier for everyone to choose.
When Su Tang was told the news, she was also very surprised - she was really tired these days, and any hobby that becomes a job will make people lose their original interest.
Su Tang was very excited and took on the task of recruiting new people. Trusting Su Tang's ability, Yu Luowei gave her the job and continued to work on other buildings.
Everything else was easy. Weapons were laid out in the commercial area, and prison cards were installed in the announcement facility area. Yu Luowei also updated the city announcement by the way. If the rules were violated twice in a row, the prisoner would be kept in jail for seven days.
As for the grocery store, since there was already one in North City, Yu Luowei took it to see if he could upgrade his own store. As expected, it worked, and the grocery store had twice as many slots.
Many new people have arrived today, and the city is slowly filling up. Now, standing on the third floor of the processing center, I can no longer see the city gate in the distance.
From time to time, a few citizens strolled along the road. This warm scene formed a sharp contrast with the Golden City that he had dismantled with his own hands. Yu Luowei made up his mind that he would never let himself become like Bobby, and he would never let North City be dismantled by others.
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