Chapter Seventeen: A Small Surplus

  Such an afternoon, more than a thousand bandits were led out to be killed. Those bandits who had surrendered to Yang Tian in the morning also returned to his side. All A-level and B-level NPCs have been taken back to the village's military camp for training. And S-level NPC Zhao Quan has been arranged to enter the primary medical institute.

  Yang Tian is now faced with a choice: should he bring all of his people back to the village, or leave some behind to continue acting as insiders in the bandit camp?

  Yang Tian finally decided to only bring back NPCs with C-level or higher qualifications, while the others secretly snuck back into the bandit camp to continue acting as internal responders. Yang Tian was not currently lacking in raw materials, so his demand for labor was not very strong. Leaving these people in the bandit camp might even allow them to reenact this afternoon's scene. As long as the leader of the bandit camp didn't notice this situation, these hidden nails could lure out some of the bandits who were eager for quick success and gain.

  The harvest of the afternoon was rich, with nearly a thousand pieces of equipment seized, including dozens of pieces of leather armor. Wuma and all the soldiers were promoted to level 15, while Daniu had already reached level 17 in the morning battle, and Yang Tian finally broke through the level 20 barrier. Ordinary players would not reach level 20 until at least a month later.

  But the most important gain is that more than 2,000 bandits were eliminated in one day, which can be said to have solved the urgent problem of the village. As long as things go smoothly in the future, their own village will also be temporarily preserved.

  Yang Tian brought everyone back to the village, anyway it was almost dark, and he just wandered around the village.

  Tomorrow, the medical institution will be able to produce primary golden wound medicine, which can greatly reduce the mortality rate of soldiers. Although there is no data on blood volume in "Tian Xia", if a person is injured and does not use medication, recovery will be extremely slow, and severe injuries will lead to rapid death. Therefore, even if this strategic material can be mass-produced, Yang Tian will not sell it for the time being.

  Yang Tian had just placed the newly acquired S-level NPC in the infirmary, with the goal of quickly cultivating a high-ranking doctor and manufacturing even higher-grade medicinal pellets. This was the only way to preserve his elite soldiers as much as possible. Although Yang Tian had achieved zero casualties in the battles over the past few days, compared to future battles, these current fights were just child's play. Even the strongest-looking bandit camp right now was just a group of low-ranking scattered soldiers and vagabonds, with almost no combat power. In future battlefields, soldier casualties would be unavoidable. What Yang Tian could do now was to minimize this casualty rate as much as possible.

  After making a round, Yang Tian once again moved the weapons and leather armor he had collected in the afternoon to the market for large-scale sales. Except for equipping each soldier with a close combat weapon and a wooden bow, there were only a few pieces of equipment left in the warehouse. Anyway, the ironwork shop, tailor's shop, and carpentry house in Baiyun Village have all started operating, but the growth of villagers is very slow, so Yang Tian doesn't need to worry about the shortage of equipment for the time being.

  The current situation with the sale of weapons has not changed, but the sale of raw materials has changed. The unit price of most raw materials has risen by one copper coin. This may be a legacy of Yang Tian's crazy buying spree at noon today.

  However, Yang Tian did not give up, because he knew that soon after, the prices of these materials would return to normal at 10 copper coins/unit, and the price of iron ore was even higher at 20 copper coins/unit.

  The entire process yielded over a million units of various resources for Yang Tian once again, with 600,000 copper coins remaining.

  Fortunately, the warehouse in the village head's office is a storage tool that comes with the system. Anything placed inside is just a number, otherwise it would be impossible to store so many things.

  Yang Tian looked at the long string of numbers in his wallet and sighed, wondering when he could become a rich man. Now he had almost a million copper coins, which was equivalent to nearly a hundred gold coins after exchange. But who let him stay in this godforsaken place?

  Today in the village's refreshed NPCs, Yang Tian only took a liking to 2 B-grade qualified ones, who have already been taken into the military camp for training.

  Back in the village head's office, Yang Tian began to cultivate his inner strength again.

  The next day, Yang Tian had Wu Ma continue to lead all the soldiers in the camp to sweep through the territory again, so as not to let the monsters inside accumulate too much and increase the difficulty of sweeping monsters later. More importantly, they needed to upgrade the levels of the more than 40 new soldiers added yesterday.

  When Yang Tian came to the outside of the bandit camp again, he found that there was nothing unusual here. The NPCs he had recruited were all alive and well, even the sentries outside had returned to their original state when he first arrived yesterday.

  "These mass-produced NPCs are indeed not very intelligent and don't know how to accumulate experience and lessons. It seems that I, Young Master, can reenact yesterday's great play once again." Yang Tian thought to himself with secret delight.

  Not unexpectedly, today's harvest was basically the same as yesterday, but it wasn't as lucky as yesterday, and only about 200 NPCs were recruited. Yang Tian brought back all the C-level or higher NPCs he had recruited today, as well as those left over from yesterday, to the village after all, the loyalty of the recruited NPCs was not very high, and leaving them in the bandit camp for too long would make it easy for them to betray, which was not what Yang Tian wanted to see.

  Today, a total of 212 NPCs were recruited and refreshed, including 7 A-level NPCs and 15 B-level NPCs. Of course, these people were also used to expand Yang Tian's army.

  Yang Tian's village now has a total population of 935 people, excluding those still in the bandit camp. With nearly 900 people, White Cloud Village is almost at the scale of a first-class town. If it grows a bit more, it will reach that level. It must be said that the phrase "good fortune and bad fortune are intertwined" makes perfect sense. Of course, Yang Tian's achievements today are ninety percent thanks to the village-building order. Without this order, there wouldn't have been SSS-level NPCs, nor would there have been the military strength to intimidate Black Cloud Mountain Stronghold, let alone temporarily alleviate the threat of the bandit camp. In the end, all of this is because Yang Tian can predict most of the game's intelligence within a year. His success is unreplicable.

  The villagers of White Cloud Village didn't have to worry about the civil affairs, Yang Tian still trusted Wang Liu's wisdom and loyalty. Tomorrow he planned to spend half a day going to the other side of the river to take a look, yesterday afternoon two warships had already been built, today three more were built according to need. As for the bandit camp, let Big Cow go kill the sentry first, by the time it's almost noon he can rush over himself. After two days of battle, Big Cow also gained some experience and wouldn't make any mistakes.

  Put all the weapons and equipment harvested today on the market for sale. However, today's market will be much softer, but Yang Tian did not lower the price. Anyway, he doesn't have to worry about players competing with himself for the time being.

  However, the procurement of raw materials is not very satisfactory. Now on the market, there are no materials with a unit price of 2 copper coins. About half of them are priced at 3 copper coins, and the rest are above 4 copper coins. It seems that most players have learned to be smart.

  The acquisition is over, and Yang Tian has gained nearly a million units of various resources, which is not as good as yesterday. It's not that the raw materials in the market are not enough, nor is it that Yang Tian doesn't want to buy them, but he simply doesn't have enough money. Even the copper coins left over from before have been used up. The reason for the lack of money is that only half of the equipment sold today has been sold, and many players are still waiting and watching.

  Yang Tian got tired of waiting for trouble and went offline to browse the forum instead.

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