Bayer listened and opened the door. The group rushed out almost desperately, gasping for air in big gulps. Seeing that their Experience Points hadn't dropped, they let out a long sigh of relief.
Prison is terrifying! It even comes with a level-dropping bug?
Afterwards, Bayer led Yu Ziming and his team to the tailor shop.
"Why are we coming here?" Yu Ziming couldn't help but ask.
"To change clothes and buy rain protection equipment."
Yu Ziming and the others: "..."
After that, they had no choice but to obey, emptying even more of their savings to buy equipment at the tailor shop.
Once they had their gear, they returned outside. Bayer waved his hand grandly, and countless Stone appeared on the ground.
"Cut these Stone, help the territory build roads. The first road—connect the Lord Mansion to the city gate. Once you're done, you can eat. Also, don't even think about slacking off. If you do, I'll send you back to the cell."
Yu Ziming and the others: "..."
If you want us to build roads, just say so sooner! Why bother going in such a huge circle?
But they realized that, if they hadn't gone through that ordeal, they probably wouldn't be so obedient now.
The next moment, the group, dressed in rain protection gear, braved the pouring rain, split up tasks and started working hard on the road, terrified that if they fell behind they'd be sent back to the cell.
There were only two words left in their minds: Work!
After arranging Yu Ziming's group, Bayer's gaze turned to the soldier team.
Zhengping, Xingteng and their group were swept by his gaze and couldn't help but tighten up all over.
This NPC was just too intimidating for them.
Seeing how obedient they were, Bayer asked directly: "You have a task too. Lead your team out to survey the territory's terrain and pick the best route to connect the territory with the outside. Can you do it?"
"No problem." Everyone nodded eagerly.
Bayer looked at their respectful attitude, a bit surprised.
He could tell that these people weren't obeying him just because of his Level, but willingly.
He couldn't help recalling what Lord told him when he was assigned to lead the soldier team: "They'll listen."
He thought that after becoming Undead, he could never be a Knight in Human Territory again, nor gain the respect of Human warriors—but...
Since there's space for him to shine, he's not going to slack off!
"Go ahead with your missions! I'll watch things here myself." Bayer gave the order calmly.
Zhengping and the rest quickly obeyed and left.
The vast territory, at the moment, only had Yu Ziming's group working hard.
**
Zhou Bai and Ding Qiurou came out of the canteen and saw this scene.
Ding Qiurou quickly looked at Zhou Bai.
Zhou Bai gazed at Bayer's figure from afar and said quietly, "It was my order. The ground in the territory is hard to walk on when it rains; once the road is built, it'll be better. Besides, I want the road to run all the way outside the territory so it's easier for other survivors to safely find it. Since we're getting free labor, might as well use it."
"You really know how to plan." Ding Qiurou laughed.
Punishing the wrongdoers while helping out the territory—it's pretty good.
Zhou Bai just smiled silently.
He then looked at Bayer with even more satisfaction.
The more Tool Men there are, the more things the territory can do.
Especially NPCs—they're worth ten people each!
Tomorrow they can summon two more Heroic Spirits; she hopes they're fighters.
Also, the soldier team needs more people.
After all, Territory War could break out any time, so the more prepared, the better.
As her thoughts wandered, more and more people noticed the scene and started gathering at the entrance to watch.
"What are they doing?"
"Looks like they're building a road?"
"Haha, once the road's done, we'll get around way easier."
"Those people deserve it, making them work after they did bad things."
"..."
Some newly settled residents saw how miserable they looked and felt even more gleeful.
But soon, their eyes went to some old residents wearing rain gear, like Zhong Yongnian's group.
"I hear your team goes out of the territory to hunt and gather, right? If you go out later, can you bring us along?"
Zhong Yongnian, who was watching the commotion and suddenly questioned, felt a bit strange, "You guys just got into the territory, shouldn't you rest up? Besides, with this weather, there's plenty of time to go out tomorrow."
"We just got healing from the doctor, our Life Value is full, so we're fine."
"We just want to go out to gather and hunt now. We don't have much Coins left."