Chapter 19
After all, Ye Bai thought to herself, as the lord, it was one thing to work overtime alongside the villagers, but it wouldn’t be right to have them “sleeping on the streets” like she did…
Now, the overtime artifacts she had collected in the dungeon, the “Ying Shi” (fluorite) and “Sui Rou” (shredded meat), were all used up. With the energy crystals she had embedded in her tools consuming a lot of stamina, she had leveled up three times. Now, the remaining experience points were only enough for one more level, and she could no longer provide the villagers with energy protection like before. Fortunately, all the gathering tools had been significantly enhanced under the effect of the energy crystals, allowing the territory's construction to continue at a rapid pace.
It was worth mentioning that with the addition of eight new mouths to feed, the territory's health dropped from 100 to 80, and sanitation fell from 95 to 90.
If Ye Bai hadn’t built the compost factory first, these numbers would have dropped even more. The influx of new residents brought not only labor but also the risk of external diseases. An increase in population would inevitably lead to a decline in sanitary conditions.
And this was just the beginning. With a hidden protection mechanism in place, once the first month passed, among the new migrants arriving each month, there was a chance—if they were “lucky”—to encounter someone infected with a disease. If the territory lacked medical facilities to control the situation in time, it could quickly escalate into a widespread plague.
Thus, once the territory reached level one as a village, medical buildings would be the first essential construction.
At that moment, Ye Bai received a system notification—
【Gained 1 point of productivity】
Under normal circumstances, the first point of productivity would be obtained around the sixth to seventh day of establishing a village. However, since Ye Bai had the professional Karli in her territory and had been the first to mine the first mine, the energy bar filled up a day earlier.
In the early stages of the territory, with a similar population, all lord players would gain productivity at a roughly equal pace.
But as the second and third batches of people arrived, differences in resource utilization and planning would become apparent, leading to significant disparities in productivity acquisition speed. Over time, even territories built simultaneously would experience technological disparities.
Now, with the population of Bai Ye Village doubled and the use of energy crystals that typically came into play much later, the future growth rate of productivity would surely outpace the current one.
Ye Bai wasted no time and opened the technology tree page.
She allocated this point of productivity to one of the initial technologies in the innermost ring: 【Adventure】.
Like talents, the most basic technologies were essential to unlock, as they were prerequisites for subsequent technologies. The only difference was whether to unlock them sooner or later. As the technology tree continued to climb, it would be time to make choices when advanced technologies requiring a large amount of productivity needed to be unlocked.
【Adventure】 allows villagers to explore the environment outside the territory; villagers gain basic hunting skills; receive 5 bows and arrows.
Currently, Ye Bai could only grasp a map with a diameter of six hundred meters around the Tree of Creation. Beyond that, the area was shrouded in “fog of war,” and she couldn’t obtain detailed information.
At this point, it was necessary to send out exploring villagers to understand the surrounding situation, discover nearby resources and dangers. Until this technology was unlocked, even if villagers ventured beyond the territory, they wouldn’t be able to relay map information back to the lord.
Although Ye Bai had a rough understanding of the nearby environment when she first enclosed the territory, the world was fluid. Wild animals like deer, bison, and mountain chickens would move in response to human activity.
If the territory was established in an area frequented by wildlife, it wouldn’t be long before these animals migrated away, unwilling to stay in the village for hunting.
Of course, one shouldn’t think of these animals merely as moving sources of meat. Once the crops in the fields matured, if there were no fences built for protection, they would come at night to steal the harvest…
Thus, unlocking this technology would also allow villagers to master basic hunting skills and provide them with five initial weapons in the form of bows and arrows. While it wasn’t much, it was better than nothing.
However, Ye Bai didn’t assign villagers to hunt just yet. With basic hunting skills, the efficiency was low, far less than sending the same number of villagers to gather berries and mushrooms for a greater yield.
Only after unlocking the next level of the Adventure technology, 【Hunting】, and constructing a 【Hunter’s Lodge】, could she assign dedicated villagers to work there, establishing a stable food source.
So, for now, Ye Bai only assigned one villager to take a bow and arrow and explore the surrounding environment.
“When you’re exploring, walk like this…”
Before the villager named Roman set off, Ye Bai took the time to guide him, teaching him a method she called the “Mosquito Coil Exploration Method”—to spiral outwards from the territory’s center.
Outside the territory, there were not only resources but also dangers. Predators like wolves, wild boars, and bears posed significant threats to early villagers. If one accidentally ventured too deep into their territory, that villager might never return.
Though the “Mosquito Coil Exploration” method was slow, it maximized the understanding of the surrounding environment while minimizing risks.
Ye Bai was unwilling to lose even a single villager.
Just as she watched Roman leave, she suddenly received two consecutive system notifications:
【Your villagers are dissatisfied with their current work】X2
Huh?
Ye Bai was taken aback, her first thought was that Roman was resisting this potentially dangerous task. But when she opened the lord page, she saw that Roman’s loyalty and satisfaction were perfectly normal, with no issues at all.
The next moment, Ye Bai noticed two names on the villager information page that had exclamation marks next to them—Sean and Lucy.
This meant that the notifications came from these two individuals.
Ye Bai was puzzled. Where did these troublemakers come from? How could they surface so early?
Normally, at this stage of a level 0 territory, villagers had a clear understanding of their living conditions. They would at least wait until the territory reached level 1 before their demands began to rise and evolve, with requests for entertainment, luxury goods, and personal hobbies gradually appearing. In the later stages, meeting the various demands of these troublemakers and improving living conditions would be a significant “pleasure” for lord players…
But this was not the time for that.
The current villagers were all hard-working and should not be like those typical “troublemakers” in some games who complain online the moment they move in!
Ye Bai couldn’t sit still any longer and immediately sought out one of the troublemakers, Lucy.
Lucy was a blonde girl who looked to be in her early twenties, currently chopping wood.
Upon seeing Ye Bai, she respectfully greeted her; her initial loyalty of 60 was no lie.
“Lord.”
Ye Bai, puzzled, asked, “Lucy, is there something about your current work that you’re dissatisfied with?”
Lucy appeared a bit shy in front of the lord but still honestly nodded, “I just feel like I’m not suited for this…”
“Uh, what do you mean by not suited?” Ye Bai, seeing that Lucy wasn’t complaining, grew even more curious. “What do you think you’d be better at?”
Lucy, however, was at a loss for words: “I don’t know… What do you think, Lord?”
What was going on? She had managed to handle high-level professionals like Karli with three initial god cards, yet she couldn’t figure this one out?
“I think… I think?!”
Suddenly, Ye Bai had a flash of inspiration and realized something.
The achievement title she had received, 【First Lord】, not only increased the territory’s population attraction by 15% but also raised the probability of rare talents appearing by 20%!
Ye Bai opened the talent page and used the talent points she hadn’t had a chance to use after reaching level 15, unlocking the third basic talent: 【Identification】.
【Identification】
Passive effect: Increases vision range by 5%
Unique active (Identification): Gain information about the target, no cooldown, no cost; (Information gained is related to the current character level)
A golden light flashed, and Ye Bai felt a jolt in her mind. Her vision became exceptionally clear, as if a nearsighted person had put on glasses, allowing her to see the surrounding environment more clearly and further away. She could even catch the fluttering frequency of nearby insects’ wings, indicating an enhancement in her dynamic vision.
Focusing her gaze on Lucy, Ye Bai used the “Identification” skill.
Character: Lucy
Identity: Villager of Bai Ye Village
Level: 1
Profession: None
Stamina: 87/100
Food: 99/100
Water: 99/100
Entertainment: -/-
Luxury Goods: -/-
Personal Hobbies: -/-
Loyalty: 60/100
Satisfaction: 100/100
Talents: Plant Affinity, Healing Light II
Seeing the newly added talent attributes, Ye Bai’s expression changed instantly—
Ah, forget about troublemakers; it turns out she’s a precious talent!
**Chapter 15**
Looking at Lucy’s two talents, Ye Bai couldn’t help but smile with joy.
Among the migrants joining the territory, there was a chance for special talents to appear, in addition to ordinary villagers.
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