By the side of the small river, I sat quietly with A Shui, watching the floating objects on the water surface.
Now, I have reached the intermediate third-level fishing skill. When I immersed my heart in the fishing technique, the speed of my fishing was not inferior to A Shui's advanced skills. Later, I had an imaginative idea and added the animal training technique to the auxiliary section. The effect was even better than A Shui's.
However, after I finally caught the only boss fish in the river, "Lian Fish", I began to lose interest. Since my skills couldn't be improved any further, there was no point in fishing any more.
I stood up and threw my intermediate third-level breeding technique into the river. This skill I learned from the Royal Library the other day has now been fully upgraded. However, I still maintained this habit of spending half an hour on breeding every hour of fishing. As a result, the fish in the river would increase day by day.
Suddenly, a sound like a cow's call came, and a huge turtle climbed onto the shore.
It was the Boss Nyan Turtle. The Nyan Turtles in this area had been encountered no less than ten times. According to the villagers' players, the refresh time of this Boss is no longer fixed. Moreover, this Boss doesn't drop good silver-level equipment, so they no longer come here to guard.
After investigating, it was level 29. Compared to when I killed it before, it had increased by four levels. But it should still drop silver-level equipment.
Even if it drops gold-level equipment, I have no interest. There are so many good things at home, and with my production skills all upgraded to intermediate third-level, I can even make goldware by myself.
Of course, the experience of the Nyan Turtle Boss is still considerable. I took out the magic staff and was about to use it, but suddenly I heard a cry from the little Nyan Turtle in the pet space.
Oh, my heart softened immediately. How could I kill the relative of my baby?
While hesitating, a water arrow from the Nyan Turtle hit me, knocking off 150 points of health. It hurt a lot. It seems that the system has made the Nyan Turtle evolve from a physical pet to a magic pet.
I quickly dodged and turned behind the Nyan Turtle. Unexpectedly, the Nyan Turtle's two hind legs swept out, and two sand arrows hit me again.
Ugh, it's so annoying and dangerous. I had to take medicine while summoning my baby to armor. Now my baby is level 25, giving me 350 points of health. Without it, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be qualified to be called a "pervert" by my friends.
The huge Nyan Turtle saw the little Nyan Turtle on my shield and suddenly cried out. Its gaze showed a friendly expression. But quickly, it turned its gaze fiercely at me, as if it was even more hostile towards me than before.
Could this guy have figured out that I was the one who killed the mother of the little Nyan Turtle?
The Nyan Turtle launched an "attack" at me. Don't underestimate it. The evolved Nyan Turtle is much faster, and it already has the same magic range as me. Killing it won't be as easy as before. But the most important thing is, I don't want to leave a psychological shadow on my pet baby.
I helplessly turned and ran away. A Shui also mounted his horse and ran away.
Getting rid of the Nyan Turtle, I couldn't help smiling to myself. Honest people are at a disadvantage. If I keep being so soft-hearted, how can I play the game? Is this still a professional player? When will I be able to earn those 2 million world coins?
Yes, I didn't get the money from the Sea Sky Club because I didn't sell the village.
When I said the village wouldn't be sold, Tadaaki was very angry. He said the consequences would be serious.
But I also told him not to do anything to my village. If he provoked me, I would sell the village to another group.
So, Tadaaki had to shut up. Later, through Senorita, through Columbine, through others, I found Baxter and persuaded him one by one. Finally, for some reason, Master Shi also secretly advised me once. After Master Shi helped me build the temple, Haishang would offer the price at 50 million, and told me that in three days, the group would be able to obtain the territory. After that time, my town would be worth less than 500,000.
However, I didn't pay any attention to him. I believed that I would soon be able to earn the money to treat myself with my own strength.
Back in the town, now my Feiyang had entered the semi-mature stage, and my riding skills were at the intermediate third level. With fewer monsters on the road and the roads being smoothed out by the players, it only took twenty minutes to return to the village.
Entering the town, I first opened the attribute window of the town to check: "Friendship Town, population 371, military power 452, culture 341, magic 542, economy 207, security 409, production 297, environment 502. Town ranking 157409 (out of 2000,000 towns in the continent)."
Well, nothing else changed much. The environment and culture have increased a little.
Friendship Town, this new name is a bit dull, but it has overwhelmed all the nice and stylish names. It was unanimously approved by everyone after I proposed it.
I shouted to the "villagers" who were working hard at forging in the village: "Guys, you're not working hard enough. I've been there for several hours, but the production only increased by 2 points!"
A dark-skinned guy raised his head, "Damn! Lord, if you have the ability, come and try it. We've been working non-stop for six hours!" This was Honey. This guy has a low natural intelligence and his skills increase like a turtle's pace. Now he has only reached advanced smelting and forging.
Next to him, a player laughed: "There's no way. The products we produce are of low value. Now equipment below gold items are in a slump and not worth anything. Just a 2-point increase is already good enough."
I actually understood that before these players reached the expert level in forging, they wouldn't be willing to use the precious ores. So, of course, they were only producing items below gold for practicing their skills.
Except for Honey, who was a fellow villager, the other iron-smelting players were just ordinary acquaintances or even had no acquaintance. It was not reasonable to ask them to consume precious ores to improve my town's attributes.
Looking around, Tiger King Baiyu wasn't there. They probably went to level up. Now there were ten magic pillars and arrow towers in the town. Even if a player from a league came to destroy it, there was no fear. So I even sent Louison to take my friends to level up.
Because it was night, Chico and Senorita were not online. But looking at the neat trees and various flowers outside and inside the town, one could tell how much Chico had contributed to my town. And Senorita, besides singing to encourage everyone every day, also personally sewed dozens of colorful flags for the town. The yellow platinum-level flag on the high platform was embroidered with ten stacked hands, which was our Friendship Town's town flag. Its additional attribute was: 5% strength and spirit bonus when players in this town team up.
The flag was good, but it cost me 20 gold coins to buy back the precious "moon silk", which was made from yellow rose petals as the dye. One flag used up half of the silk, and the rest was all given to Senorita to make new clothes.
The school sent out the sound of reading. Originally, there were only a dozen children in the town, and most of them were NPCs. So I didn't plan to build a school. But Chico persuaded his parents and bought two new helmets and joined the game. His parents were both teachers and wanted to experience teaching in the game, so I allocated 50 gold coins to build a school.
Unexpectedly, Chico's parents were immediately fascinated by this place. Not only did they do gardening and plant care with Chico as a gardener, but they were also very interested in fighting monsters and having fun. Of course, they didn't stop their main job. They taught the children with care and continuously improved the town's cultural value.
I built a church and a temple each, with the same functions. Players can apply for membership in them and gain 1 point of luck. Also, every time they die, they can get 1% less experience loss by immediately seeking a priest or a priestly leader. As the buildings are upgraded, the effect will become stronger and stronger.
In the town, a primary guild can be built. The NPCs inside can issue a few professional tasks. Because the magic furnace attracts many blacksmith players, I have set up a blacksmith guild.
I hired the Stone Master to build over a dozen types of medium-level shops. All of them cost me over a thousand gold coins. At the same time, I hired more than ten expert-level NPCs from the black market. Although I used the medium-grade "Negotiation Technique" on them, I still spent hundreds of gold coins every day.
However, things are not always smooth. Although the Sea Sky Society did not openly confront me, they secretly used powerful forces and had a great impact on us.
They mobilized all connections and used the gold offensive to make many players who had already settled in our village move away. On the other hand, most players collected things and did not trade in our village but sold them at high prices to the acquisition personnel of the Sea Sky Society in the neighboring village, making us unable to receive taxes and economic value. The shops I set up at great cost were unprofitable and had a poor business.
This situation did not improve even after the Sea Sky Society had its own territory. They were not forcing me to sell the town, but they wanted to punish me for being bold enough to ignore them.
At the same time, the remaining players were mostly those who intended to seize resources, so few people would sincerely help the village develop.
The players belonging to various forces or those with many friends had already formed "mine protection teams" and "boss-killing teams", occupying various resources, making the living space of ordinary players smaller and smaller.
Facing these bully players, my means were really limited. I merely expelled their town registration, preventing them from obtaining the town's preferential and additional attributes, and automatically returned their houses to the builders for resale.
However, this punishment was nothing compared to the abundant resources. These people continued to seize minerals and kill bosses, then use the teleportation array to store things in the neighboring village. Because they no longer belonged to the villagers, collecting things did not increase the town's production value, and I still lost money.
After Chico and Senorita angrily asked us to fight these players, everyone thought otherwise. As veteran players, we had become accustomed to this phenomenon in the game. As long as there was strength, seizing minerals and killing monsters were "legal", which was also an unwritten rule in the gaming world.
According to Baxter's suggestion, I still wanted to reach an agreement with these players. As long as they were willing to trade and process materials in our village, their town registration would be restored, and I would not care about their behavior of killing monsters. However, this suggestion was rejected by me. As the lord of this place, I was responsible for the other players within the territory and could not not explain to them. At the same time, I did not like the behavior of groups of players killing monsters. I had always had principles when playing the game, that is, not killing monsters or treasures.
Thus, our ambition and enthusiasm after establishing the town have somewhat diminished. Moreover, there are more and more advanced players in the game, and everyone must speed up leveling up and skill training, otherwise they will fall behind. However, due to financial constraints, I have dismissed some NPC in the loss-making shops and temporarily stopped the construction of the town.
The town's income is very little, and the newly-built facilities are cold and quiet. But I do not regret the decision we made at the beginning. I also have confidence in developing the town well. However, being suppressed by the Sea Sky Society, I am in a depressed mood. Just listening to Zhao Xue'er playing songs for me every day cannot eliminate it, so I went fishing with A Shui to relax. He had inspected all around and was about to go out to level up when a figure appeared in the teleportation array. Four or five players emerged and greeted him: "Hello, can you tell me something?"
It had been a long time since I had seen such polite players. I happily walked over: "Is there anything I can help you with?"
The handsome young warrior at the front bowed and said: "My name is 'Jean'. We are doing a mission. Do you know about the 'Hassan Tribe'?"
I was stunned for a moment: "Well, please tell me first. What is the mission?"
The five of them exchanged glances, and one of the big warriors laughed: "Anyway, this mission is only given once. We don't worry about him competing with us. Just tell him."
Jean nodded: "That's it. This mission is 'Free the Herdsmen'. We need to go to the Hassan Tribe and kill their cruel chief to rescue the herdsmen who are suffering from hardship and suffering."