Chapter 501
A few days later, Tang Yu did not leave Gehrmann City.
The bridge fortress of the Dark Tide World had already been built. He did not need to personally do the rest of the things.
Zaber and Xie Yi had already set off for the capital.
Elaine, Winnie, and Luo Zhe returned to Tree Shade to handle the matters.
This trip was exceptionally smooth. In all likelihood, the few of them had only stayed in the alienated world for less than a day before they reappeared in the territory. Everything about Tree Shade was as usual. Except for Chen Haiping and a few others, no one knew that their City Lord had already taken a stroll around the alienated world.
Tang Yu stayed in Gehrmann City.
As a bridgehead, the importance of this city was self-evident.
With this territory, they could use a Return Scroll to avoid many fatal dangers.
Xiao Li and Xing Ling were sent by him to find another place suitable for building sub-territories.
“In this way, I seem to have become a widow… Oh, no, there is also Nancy.”
Nancy followed him like a little tail. When she saw him turn around, she also looked over, thinking that there was a mission.
Naturally, there was none.
In Gehrman City, there was no need to convince others with reason.
Elaine’s actions had chilled the last few n.o.bles from their bodies to their souls. Even though it was only her and Nancy at this time, these people did not have the slightest spirit of resistance. This made Tang Yu very disappointed.
If all the n.o.bles died, it would easily cause chaos. Now, these n.o.bles were plotting for the property of the dead n.o.bles. They were secretly arguing with each other, making the city much easier to manage.
Tang Yu asked Chen Haiping to take the teleportation array to Gehrmann City, and he promoted several people including Barkley, and several n.o.bles also honestly a.s.sisted in the management of the city.
The corpses of the dark creatures outside the city had already been cleaned up.
There was no soul force for Hunterss to absorb while killing the dark creatures here. However, there was also a chance of extracting Origin Crystals from the heads of the dark creatures. It was just that the probability was much lower than on Earth.
It also created a situation where the people here were poor.
Originally, the soldiers guarding the city did not have any salary. Only a general like Barkley would have a certain salary. However, there were very few of them. In areas where resources were scarce, most of the wealth was concentrated on the n.o.bles. Even the commanders and generals in the city would never have enough cultivation resources unless they were direct descendants of the n.o.bles.
Barkley could cultivate to the eleventh layer. Even if it took him twenty to thirty years, he was still considered an extremely talented genius.
After taking over the city, Tang Yu re-established the salary system and obtained the first source crystal in his life. The soldiers guarding the city immediately became more loyal to him, the new city lord… The direct descendants of the previous city lord and the direct descendants of the n.o.bles were slightly rebellious. For example, the commanders and generals of the First Army who belonged to the city lord had basically all died. These basic level soldiers were originally not loyal to anyone. Because their families were in the city, they took up their weapons and fought with the dark creatures without hesitation. If it were fora city lord, some people would start to worry about chaos. Now it seemed that the city lord was not only strong, but also considerate of the common people.
What a good city lord!
Tang Yu did not know that he had been given many good people cards and was commanding the soldiers to clean up the ruins of the outer city… His second task was to rebuild the outer city.
The inner city was too narrow. He found that many civilians ate and slept in the wind. In the outer city, there was only a small part of the destroyed city wall. As long as the collapsed part was repaired, it would not be difficult to reclaim the outer city.
As long as he spent money.
The few n.o.bles scoffed. Tang Yu knew that they were watching a joke and thought that he had done something without any benefit. However, this matter was not just him being kind.
As a bridge fort, the few defending legions were the core forces to guard the city in the future. Using the clearing of the outer city region, slowly integrating the strength of several corps, and then increasing the combat strength of these soldiers was one of the reasons.
Secondly,
Gathering psychic energy.
Ever since Elaine had taken care of the Dark Tide, sporadic amount of Psychic Energy had been produced. Over the past few days, he had been building houses to increase the salary of the warriors and give warmth to the civilians. It had even produced an immediate effect. His Psychic Energy had increased rapidly.
Originally, the territory was too small. Even if he expanded a part of it, it would not be able to cover the entire inner city. The system would not be able to collect the Psychic Energy Points produced by the civilians outside the territory.
However, Tang Yu had unexpectedly discovered the magical use of the ‘Mystic Tree Branch’.
Mystic Tree Branch In addition to the special formation set up by the City Lord Residence, it could collect ‘popularity’. In Tang Yu’s eyes, this kind of mysterious and invisible power was similar to’ perception ‘. It was just that its grade was a bit lower. The City Lord Residence’s method of using ‘popularity’ was also very crude.
He put the ‘Mystic Tree Branch’ back into the core of the formation. The ‘popularity’ he collected was then converted into ‘perception’, which was equivalent to collecting the perception of all the residents in the inner city… Although the efficiency of the ‘mysterious branch’ collecting ‘popularity’ was not as efficient as the territory, it was better in terms of quality.
At present, it had to be used in all aspects, so it had to be saved.
“Unfortunately, the inner city region only has tens of thousands of people. It is said that before the outer city was breached, there were two to three hundred thousand civilians in the entire Gehrmann City…”
The world of the Dark Tide… Alright, the place that was originally called the Enoch Continent had quite a large population… I heard that food was not scarce before the apocalypse. At that time, the population of Gehrmann City was close to a million.
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Discus is a serf of a n.o.ble family in the inner city.
As a serf, Discus did not have any freedom. The only thing he did every day was to help his master reclaim the land… He dragged his small and thin body that was malnourished.
When they learned that their master had died, and they were ordered to farm for the new city lord, the iron cake was numb, but it was just transferred from a young n.o.ble to a big n.o.ble.
Of course, he did not resist, and was brought to the vicinity of the city lord’s mansion. Along with him, there were dozens of former serfs or freedmen.
“In the future, you will be responsible for the crops in this area.”
A large piece of fertile land appeared in front of them. The iron cake with experience in planting was clear that this was different from the barren land he had planted before. It was really too big of a gap, and it could be seen at a glance.
Is the city lord’s land really different?
Wait, wait, I have an impression of this piece of iron cake. It seems to be the west side of the city lord’s mansion. There used to be magnificent buildings here.
He looked around in a daze and confirmed that the buildings of the city lord’s mansion had been flattened and turned into planted land.
“The seeds are all here. Today, your task is to complete the planting of this area…” The tea-haired middle-aged man, who was wearing a yellow vest and rolled up his sleeves, said, “Oh, right, you are a new batch of farmers. According to the rules, before you officially start working, you can receive a meal. In the future, every morning, noon, and day when the light completely disappears, you will have a chance to eat.”
The tea-haired middle-aged man was literate. He held a small booklet with the common language written on it. The rules… regulations on the other side were read to the farmers.
He was very curious as to why the serfs were called farmers, and why every word in the booklet was so square, as if they were measured to the extent of hair.
As a freedmen who had been promoted through an exception, the tea-haired middle-aged man soon got rid of his not-so-vigorous curiosity and brought this group of farmers to the ‘food storage and distribution center’, telling these people how to receive food.
A moment later,
Discus held the food he received and walked out.
The food he received was two long strips of bread, as well as a box of cylinder-shaped objects that he did not recognize.
“Gulu —“
Discus heard the sound of swallowing saliva coming from his side. He was also the same. His eyes were fixed on the two pieces of wheat colored bread.
The rich smell of baking made Discus continuously secrete saliva from his mouth.
He opened his mouth and took a bite.
Warm, soft. With the barren words in his mind, he did not know how to describe this feeling. He only knew that compared to the black bread that he ate before, which was hard enough to be used as a weapon, it was ten times more delicious. No, a hundred times, no, countless times more delicious!
Discus was very hungry. The long bread that was slightly longer than a palm was quickly swallowed into his stomach.
He was reluctant to eat the remaining piece of bread… Even though he had already been told that there would be three meals a day in the future, and the meals were all of the same level of food, Discus still could not bear to eat it.
This kind of food, how do I eat it?
Discus hid the long bread, and then looked at the cylindrical item in his hand. He did not understand it and did not smell it. He leaned in and bit it. Although it was not a hard bang, this layer of sh.e.l.l did not seem to be edible.
“Hey, this is not how you eat instant noodles.”
A voice came from the side. Discus looked over in shock. He saw a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes holding a cylindrical item in his hand. He pointed at it and said, “Instant noodles?”
“Didn’t you hear what they said about food?”
Discus recalled. When he just received the food, the person who led them to the tea center seemed to have said something about it. However, he was completely attracted by the smell of bread at that time and couldn’t hear what he was saying.
He followed the man with thick eyebrows and big eyes to the center of, in front of a tall metal box.
This is called a water dispenser… It is similar to a water fetching device in the house of a n.o.ble master.
The blue water outlet releases cold water, the red water outlet releases hot water…
“As for instant noodles,” The man said, “The red one seems to be called braised beef noodles, and the purple one is called pickled cabbage beef noodles. I heard that there are some mushroom stewed with chicken noodles, braised beef noodles, fresh shrimp and fish noodles…”
Discus’s eyes were wide open. He carefully reached out and touched the iron box that only n.o.bles could use.
According to the man’s words, first tear open the lid of the instant noodles, tear open the seasoning, pour it in, and then pour boiling water…
“Hiss -“
Indescribable deliciousness a.s.saulted his nose.
Ignoring the scalding heat, Discus slurped and ate, only to feel that his soul had already floated into the sky.
Such delicious food, even if he died, it would be worth it.
…
“The collection of Psychic Energy and popularity is increasing.”
“It’s time to train these soldiers.” Tang Yu glanced at them.
There were about three thousand soldiers guarding the city. They were divided into the First Army to the Fourth Army. They were the most number of armed forces in the city.
In addition, there were hired thugs and private soldiers raised by n.o.bles. There were not many of them, but they were more elite.
In total, there were about five thousand soldiers who could fight.
Tang Yu scattered them and rebuilt them, re-establishing the special forces of the Gehrmann City, from the first to the third.
There were only five hundred people in the special forces, all of whom he had filtered out. They were soldiers who were loyal, moral, and talented enough.
Barkley was the temporary leader, and his subsequent performance was excellent could be corrected.
On this day,
Barkley brought the five hundred special forces soldiers to a magnificent building.
At this time, they had changed their original armor and changed into dark combat suits. New weapons were hung on their waists or on their backs. The badges of the World Tree were engraved on their chests and were the most eye-catching.
It was the pride of the direct army.
“We will have a one-month special training here.”
To be honest, this was also the first time Barkley had entered this training camp.
In the past, the so-called training of the various legions was just shouting slogans and waving weapons. In the case that the outer city was destroyed and food became more scarce, the regular training was canceled – after all, wielding a sword and a knife required energy and energy consumption, and more food needed to be taken in. The original defense corps did not have that much food supply.
The n.o.bles, however, were drunk and dreaming every day, using the food that the civilians had obtained to open a banquet.
Barkley had long seen the true face of the n.o.bles, but his deep-rooted thoughts made it impossible for him to resist… He also did not have the ability to resist.
Until those few people appeared, everything had changed.
A sufficient amount of delicious food was provided to every soldier in the special forces. In addition, there were also Origin Crystals, cultivation resources, and equipment that were much more precious than the equipment worn by the City Lord’s personal guards… Now, there was even a training ground.
Barkley raised his head. Although the sky was still gray for thousands of years, he seemed to see the sun.
“Let’s go.”
All the soldiers of the Special Warfare Group were above the eighth level. There were no weaklings.
Tang Yu had also used his authority to modify this newly built training camp. He did not build it according to the proportion of the system.
There were almost no basic training areas. There was only a small testing area and the intermediate training area. Most of them were gravity rooms and training rooms. Each special secret room could be used by two to three people. All the members of the Special Warfare Group swarmed in, and there were some left.
There was also a spiritual s.p.a.ce that occupied almost half of the area, and countless rooms were lined up one by one.
According to the City Lord, it was a virtual s.p.a.ce similar to an illusion. In it, one could train to their heart’s content and not fear death.
Even though Barkley was an expert of the eleventh layer and had experienced many battles, he had not experienced many life-and-death battles… People who often danced on the edge of life and death were either dead or extremely tall.
He entered, and several options appeared in the gray area.
“…”
The explanation that Barkley’s gaze fell on was that he could fight unlimited battles with other Hunters, private invites, canyon battles, chaotic battles, and so on.
Barkley’s eyes lit up.
They were the first to enter the training camp, and none of the soldiers of the special forces were his match.
However, the background of the city lord and the others was mysterious. Since such a magical building was built in the city, it naturally existed in other places.
What about the subordinates of the city lord in other areas?
Barkley suddenly had a thought of comparing.
“In Gehrman City, I can also be considered a first tier Awakened. Even in the many regions controlled by the City Lord, I shouldn’t be too bad, right?”
He entered and chose to match his opponent.
“Only a 33% win rate. Looks like the opponent in the first round should be weaker…”