Chapter Ten Harvest
"Congratulations to you, your call to surrender has been successful with the Black Cloud Village of the Shan Yue tribe. All villagers of Black Cloud Village have surrendered to you!"
It was worth speaking up for half a day after all.
When he saw that there were only over 200 people in the fake mountain, Yang Tian decided to try his luck. After all, even if he provoked the other party and they all rushed up together, he could retreat without any problems under the protection of the big cow.
So for the four people who came to the mountain stronghold at first, Yang Tian did not make a fatal move. After knocking them unconscious, he dragged them into a cave found in the nearby area that morning. And when the leader of the stronghold came out, he actually ordered his men to search separately, which was exactly what Yang Tian had expected.
In no time at all, the great cow had cleared out most of the people. A special-grade warrior with a combat strength of 90 was an existence that ordinary soldiers looked up to, let alone when it came to sneak attacks.
Fortunately, no one died throughout the entire process; otherwise, the chances of a successful surrender would have been much slimmer. After all, NPCs are highly intelligent and possess emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, as well as the ability to hate.
But in the end, they were successfully recruited. Isn't this a chance to immediately form a 4th-tier army? These are NPCs with the lowest level of 30, and if I say that I haven't reached the 4th tier, Yang Tian would never believe me even if he was beaten to death. Finally, I can get rid of the miserable task of leading low-level NPCs to practice leveling up. If I take these NPCs out now, wouldn't I be sweeping across the land?
Open the village attribute panel, and the population has become: 332/100. The number 100 is not the highest population limit, but the required population for upgrading the territory. The territory has no population limit, as long as there are enough civilian houses.
Yang Tian automatically filtered out NPCs below B-level, and found that this time's recruitment was really profitable. There were actually ten A-level NPCs, more than twenty B-level NPCs, and the leader Wu Ma was even S-level. However, this seemed a bit abnormal! When did the NPCs in the alien mountain stronghold have such good qualifications?
Name: Wuma
Qualification: S
Occupation: Intermediate General Reputation: 0
Identity: Villager of White Cloud Village
Merit: 0
Loyalty: 70
Level: 0 (0/200)
Commander: 10 Military Power: 7 Intelligence: 6 Politics: 5
Specialties: None
Skills: Intermediate Marksmanship
Equipment: Iron long spear, cuirass
Upon seeing Wu Ma's attributes, Yang Tian somewhat understood. Emotional NPCs, after being recruited, would have their levels reset to zero! Only their occupational skills would be retained.
"'Reincarnation' is indeed cunning!" Yang Tian sighed in his heart, thinking that his beautiful dream of sweeping across the world now cannot be realized.
However, it's estimated that the surrendered NPCs also enjoyed a one-level upgrade in their territorial NPC attributes after clearing the levels. Otherwise, this fake NPC attribute would not be so high. This is more exciting for Yang Tian than directly getting high-level NPCs.
In the previous life, Yang Tian obtained the first ordinary village construction order only after a month of opening. The stable development for nearly half a year only allowed his village to be upgraded to a level 1 town, with a military strength of only 100 people, and still the most ordinary four-stage soldiers. His luck was also relatively poor, and he didn't get an A-level talent NPC until he upgraded to a level 3 village, which had a 0.2% chance. Therefore, it wasn't until the last few days that he changed his profession to a high-ranking general. After changing professions, he happened to hear about the BOSS Lei Yun Hu and came with a group of subordinates in a lively manner. The result...
So in the previous life, Yang Tian was unable to successfully recruit an NPC. It's not just Yang Tian, no other players have heard of anyone successfully recruiting an NPC either. So it's normal that he doesn't understand the specifics of recruitment. However, there were indeed players who had done business trading NPCs before, and their levels were also reset to zero. At the time, most people thought this was a system punishment? They didn't dare trade NPCs randomly again, after all, leveling up an NPC is even harder than leveling up a player.
Yang Tian continued to look at the attributes of several A-level NPCs, and indeed their levels had all been cleared. However, a mid-level blacksmith made Yang Tian feel overjoyed. But thinking about it, it was reasonable - in this shoddy mountain stronghold, almost everyone had an iron-made weapon, so it would be hard to believe if there wasn't a blacksmith around.
"Global System Announcement: UK region player Charles I has established the system's third player village - Ireland Village, rewarding Village Chief Charles I with 100 prestige, one ordinary special building blueprint, and granting the title of "Third Village Under Heaven"."
As soon as this system announcement ended, another announcement sounded:
"China Region System Announcement: Player Xuan Yuan Jian has established the second player village in the China region - Yan Huang Village, rewarding Village Chief Xuan Yuan Jian with 10 reputation and an A-level NPC."
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"Damn it...! My third village in the world!" In the Qingzhou region of China, a player holding a long spear stood outside the village chief's office, sighing to the sky. The system prompt in his ear made him want to cry without tears.
"Congratulations on establishing the second village in China - Yanhuang Village. As the second player to establish a village in China, the system specially rewards you with 10 reputation and an A-level NPC."
"Whatever! An A-level NPC is good enough, after all, the recruitment rate is only 0.2%, and it can also lead other players by a step in the early stage... Zhang Cheng, you immediately take this reward NPC to level up, pay attention to safety, don't let him die heroically. He now has only one-third of his strength." It turns out that he knows the recruitment rate of A-level NPCs, it seems that it was obtained through special channels.
"Yes! Sir! Those monsters want to kill him, they'll have to crawl over my dead body first." A spirited young fellow stood at attention.
"China Region System Announcement: Player Fengliu Langzi has established the third player village in the China region - Liufeng Village, rewarding Village Chief Fengliu Langzi with 5 prestige and a free ordinary building (optional)."
"Damn! You're really close on our heels! You little rascals need to work harder, or you'll be surpassed by those guilds!" Xuan Yuan Sword said with a scowl.
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"Sorry buddy! If it weren't for me, Tianxia's third village would be yours." Yang Tian said with a mischievous grin.
The game has been going on for two days now, and some large guilds or organizations have begun to establish their own villages. After all, the tasks related to village construction in the early stages of the game are not very difficult, but rather a series of branch tasks that require a lot of time to complete, which would take at least a month for one person to do. But the power of the guild is strong, and they have completed everything in just one or two days.
I don't know how that freak Vander in the US region got the Village Construction Order in half a day, if it wasn't for dog shit luck, then it was a super powerful guild with tens of thousands of new players armed with iron swords piling up to kill a BOSS and luckily getting a Village Construction Order.
However, all of this has nothing to do with Yang Tian for the time being. He is now returning to the mountain stronghold with Wuma. Leaving behind Big Cow and five other villagers in the cave waiting for these people to wake up. Big Cow also had a responsibility to guard the pile of weapons in the corner, which are now Yang Tian's private property.
Arriving at the stronghold, Yang Tian's first destination was the warehouse. Now Yang Tian is really poor! He knew that the resources obtained from the first attack on the stronghold were very rich, although it was only a secondary stronghold.
Grains 5436, Stones 775, Woods 883, Iron Ores 189, Copper Coins 512, Iron Swords 21, Wooden Knives 16, Long Spears 14, Wooden Bows 12, Steel Long Spears 2, Pruning Shears 19 bundles, Leather Armors 37 sets, Chain Mail Armor 1 set, Medium-sized Martial Arts Hall Blueprint 1.
This is the entire warehouse's inventory, and Yang Tian's only feeling was that he had struck it rich. Adding to the 67 long guns, 35 iron swords, 30 wooden knives, and 11 wooden bows collected from the battle earlier, this was a huge fortune! Especially in the early stages of the game, selling weapons was pure profit. The value of leather armor wasn't any lower than that of weapons either. Thinking back to the villagers he had knocked unconscious earlier, Yang Tian felt quite frustrated - how could he have forgotten to strip them of their leather armor? However, now it was too late, and demanding private property from his own villagers would only lead to discontent among the people.
What good luck, I even have a blueprint for an intermediate private school, but it's useless now, my own primary private school hasn't even started yet! So this blueprint can only be put in the corner of my backpack for now.
However, he didn't find the Village Construction Order, which made Yang Tian somewhat disappointed. But thinking about it, this was normal, as the Village Construction Order could only be obtained by killing a BOSS, and now that fake BOSS was right behind his butt!
"Wuma, hurry up and instruct the villagers to move out the remaining items. We'll try to return to the village before nightfall." Yang Tian instructed, packing most of the raw materials into his own package and walking out of the warehouse. Although he had a system-issued package with 20 slots, only raw materials could be stacked up to 1,000 units, while everything else couldn't be stacked at all, making those weapons not even worth instructing NPCs to transport.
Arrived at the village hall of the mountain stronghold, the function of the village hall is equivalent to the office of the village head.
Standing in front of the counterfeit stone monument, Yang Tian was faced with three options: destroy, preserve, or occupy.
Destroying it can get some extra supplies. However, the stronghold is for players to brush up on their levels, and if you choose to destroy it, a higher-level stronghold will regenerate within a day, with an average level increase, and some fifth-tier soldiers will appear. The generals are also likely to become high-level, considering the game's progress, in a short period of time, I am absolutely unable to come here to brush up on my levels.
If it is kept, of course, there will be no extra resources, and the mountain stronghold will refresh again in a week. Of course, Yang Tian didn't think he had that luck to subdue it again. But as a training point, it's not bad either.
As for occupying, Yang Tian didn't think he had the ability to hold it down. This hilly area was the territory of the mountain barbarians, and if he were to set up a stronghold here, he estimated that it would be pulled out in less than two days.
