Chapter Fourteen: Developing the South

  Back in the game, I found that due to my fifth-level skill, my soldiers had increased by a lot. Although during battles, thanks to my tenth-level skill being useful, the population hadn't decreased much either.

  Guo Zhang is still in the newbie village PK leveling. Zhang Guo is grinding with Lü Bu. After I entrusted Zhang Guo to Lü Bu, he gave me a position similar to that of a deputy general (of course, only temporarily) based on my abilities. Since I often lead troops out to battle, I was again entrusted by Lü Bu with a higher position, so an hour later, I had already leveled up to 75.

  The Yellow Turbans' actual strength was very poor. Because Lü Bu's soldiers all exceeded level 130, I became the lowest-level member of the team instead. The highest-level soldier among the Yellow Turbans didn't even exceed level 70, not even as good as me. After all, they were just a newly formed mob. Usually, Lü Bu would take my original soldiers who were around level 60 out for training, and it was these people who, with Lü Bu's military strength and formation support, had combat power that far exceeded the Yellow Turbans. Now these soldiers have also long since surpassed level 80.

  With the presence of Lü Bu, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's banner, many players have joined our army. Looking at the rapid experience gain and level ups, many people are unwilling to do quests anymore. Because doing quests means giving up precious leveling time. After all, killing a batch of Yellow Turbans means there will be one less batch. Once the Yellow Turbans are pacified, the players' opportunities will also disappear.

  I took back the dominant power of the role from Lü Bu's hands, and the first thing I did was to send people to set up three clothing distribution points in Beihai, Tai'an Village, and Xiahou Village. As long as they are new female players, they can come and get their newbie clothes. Although it doesn't look great when worn, it's still better than running around wrapped in a few pieces of cloth.

  Through the political power I grasped, I posted an announcement on the system bulletin board, and all female players flocked to these three places. Where women go, men also go. So in my territory, not only are there countless NPCs, but also players, who are bustling about, thoroughly establishing the advantage of the player's continent.

  I now look down on the Yellow Turbans, my main concern is still my territory and financial problems. My own finances are not a big problem, I didn't spend a single penny, and I also have four states, although I actually control only two, but these two states, even if they can't make ends meet, will never be short of my small treasury.

  But I have to take care of myself. The long-term goal is that the two states must be stabilized. As long as they are stable, there will be a stable source of wealth. If you can't even make ends meet, no matter how many states you conquer, it's useless. Carrying your own little treasury around and running everywhere, without regard for the lives of the common people, what's the difference between that and being a bandit or a wolf?

  Fortunately, after opening the economic panel of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, due to Sima Hui's management, although during the war, the income and expenditure of these two states were still relatively balanced, and there was even a surplus. If Zhuge Liang can be found again, my two states will be as solid as gold.

  But now I have a new plan. I don't have time to do Zhuge Liang's task. The reward for building two cities given by the system has not been used yet, and I must build the city.

  Regarding the issue of city management, first I can view and bind attribute points without restriction by transferring implicit attributes to super cow people who have been copied. At the same time, I can also use the copied super cow people to hide on NPCs that have not appeared yet.

  I opened the city construction panel and started selecting a location for building. The system reward city doesn't necessarily have to be established in one's own territory, which made me very happy. Because this way, I will have new cities outside of my own territory.

  Soon I found that the city-building map given by the system was a panoramic map. In other words, not only can I establish cities in these states open to public testing, but also I can build cities into unopened states.

  But won't there be a problem with this? After all, events often affect the progress of the game. If I get an unfavorable influence at that time, it will not be worth it.

  I called out "Wen Jie sister", and my guardian angel, system teacher Wen Jie sister appeared in front of me with a smile.

  I told my concerns to Sister Wenji, and she kept praising me, saying that I was steady in doing things. It turned out that building a city in the new state would indeed trigger the system, and it would be a significant trigger. Of course, for confidentiality, Sister Wenji didn't tell me what kind of system it would trigger. As a system NPC, she also had her own principles.

  I let out a sigh: "Fortunately I asked my sister, so I'll just build it somewhere else then."

  "That's not necessary." My sister smiled, "I can help you temporarily disable the trigger system function. You can quietly establish a new city over there. Moreover, the war system has been opened, and when the time comes, you can occupy all the unowned empty cities with your army in your new city. Of course, the owners of all cities must be NPCs that you secretly inhabit. When the south develops, you can even give up your current two states to your hidden NPCs, such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao. At that time, others will see a map under NPC leadership, but only you know that all the NPCs on this map are actually yourself."

  Sister's words left me stunned. I really didn't expect my sister to have such a mind, nor did I think she would do this for me. Of course, this isn't actually cheating, she just helped me block the system, and as a game controller, it's not like there's anything wrong with that.

  My sister helped me lock down the system, and I can finally build freely in the south.

  After staring at the map for half a day, I finally locked my gaze on Changsha. This is Sun Jian's old haunt. From now on in the south, the most formidable one must be Sun Jian. When I hide my new role under Sun Jian's body, no one will suspect that this Sun Jian is not the original Sun Jian anymore.

  Because Changsha is originally a city, it cannot be built directly in Changsha. So I chose a place with convenient transportation near Changsha.

  But I still can't build the city, I have to establish a new role first. I gave this role the function of opening up hidden attributes and 500000 attribute points in the past. Then after the new role is established, use these attribute points to recklessly attack all hidden attributes except knowledge, and the final result is to fill up the core attributes, fill up all attributes, and then another super-perverted role was born. After birth, no need to upgrade, directly throw it on Sun Jian, Sun Jian's level will be inherited. Then throw Sun Jian into Changsha, everything is settled.

  Then I built a city on the designated address, and named this city "Wolong City", set the lord of the city as Sun Jian, set the force to Sun Jian, actually controlled by Zhang Haogu, everything was settled. Seamless. I was busy here, other players were still only playing small games in the public test area.

  Then I built a second city in the Jialing River Valley, named Huayang, and replicated a variant to throw at Liu Zhang.

  After building the city, the first thing to do is to use a variant method to replicate a new role, hide in Chen Shou's body, and throw Chen Shou into Huayang. Then, take out the treasure "Records of the Three Kingdoms" from Chen Shou's body, desperately search for characters inside, and summon all the famous figures of Shu and Wu states later on, except for Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Jiang Wei and a few other intelligent elites, as well as all those with the surname Zhang, through hiding and possessing their bodies, and throw them into these two cities.

  I don't dare to overdevelop Wolong City. In the future, when the public test ends and the game is officially operated, if players find that as soon as the map opens, there is a large city called Wolong City lying there, even the stupidest player will know what's going on. Huayang can be developed, but it's more important to take down other cities first.

  So after the artificial, I immediately let Sun Jian and Liu Zhang lead two people in the city to kill Changsha. Then these people slowly beat down all the cities on the unopened map. In fact, after beating Changsha, I just handed over the strategic plan to Sun Jian and Liu Zhang, and then entrusted Sun Jian and Liu Zhang to the system, and came back to do my own thing.

  After finishing off Sun Jian and Liu Zhang in the south, I began to think about the north. No matter what, I absolutely cannot let Cao Cao and Liu Bei appear according to the plot, or else it will be too late for me to regret. Following my old method, I brought out my avatars of Cao Cao and Liu Bei and threw them into the places where they should have appeared, entrusting them to the system.

  I kicked off the first wave of management in "Three Kingdoms". And I myself, can finally spare some hands to summon Zhuge Liang with dignity.