Chapter 114
**Flexible Work System**: The lord can extend the working hours of the workers by planning an "overtime" strategy (not exceeding 50% of the original working hours). To implement overtime, certain conditions must be met: additional wages, lighting, and meals. The multiplier for overtime pay will affect the workers' productivity during these hours (1x pay = 80% efficiency, 2x pay = 100%, 3x pay = 150%, 4x pay = 200%).
That's right, it's that bouncy!
With this policy in place, Ye Bai can set up additional "overtime" arrangements for various industry buildings in the mayor's office.
During overtime, as long as extra wages are paid, workers' proficiency will also grow normally. For manufacturing industries like tailor shops and blacksmiths, if one is willing to pay overtime wages, they can achieve double production capacity during this period, even better than during regular hours.
Of course, Ye Bai will only set the maximum overtime at 10% to 30% based on the situation; she’s not a monster. The NPCs have limited stamina, and the current overtime is mainly to quickly enhance skill proficiency and cultivate higher-level professionals.
Still, Ye Bai couldn’t help but ponder, “I should avoid lingering under the streetlights at night…”
Then, a flash of golden light appeared, and the current policy card for the territory transformed into: [Reward System III], [Traveling Merchant - Backpack Expansion], [Work-Life Balance II], and the notorious [Flexible Work System].
After completing all this, Ye Bai looked up and realized that evening had crept in unnoticed, likely due to the time spent planning the sewer system.
She stretched her limbs and left the Tree of Creation, wandering around her newly upgraded territory.
Bai Ye Village was still in a state of alert, closed off to players. After yesterday's display of firepower, many players, despite their curiosity, dared only to observe from a distance.
Meanwhile, the influx of new migrants into the territory had no chance to be idle. The grand construction projects kept these laborers fully occupied, with all the materials needed for buildings already piled high in the warehouses, making it no different from other civilizations where players worked as laborers.
At this moment, Bai Ye Town was like a car fueled to the brim, with Ye Bai, the lord, flooring the accelerator, operating at breakneck speed…
……
On the Star Network, it was no surprise that Bai Ye's name appeared once again in the cosmic news.
Especially this time, with screenshots as evidence, the shock and impact Bai Ye brought to players from other interstellar civilizations were immense.
[Bai Ye Level Estimate: Suspected to be a Second-Transition Professional]
[Bai Ye Profession Analysis - Can Elemental Mages Fly and Teleport?]
[Analysis of the Manufacturing Principles of Multiverse Energy Weapons - Referencing the Unknown Crossbow and Arrows from Bai Ye Town]
[Bai Ye Town's Current Territory Rating Has Reached 23,490! What Changes Come with Upgrading to Level 4?]
[Is Upgrading to Level 4 Territory Certain to Bring About Airborne Bosses?]
[……]
[The Jia Civilization is Offering High Prices for the Unknown Crossbow and Arrows from Bai Ye]
On the night of the territory upgrade, everything players observed made it to the news.
The hottest topic of discussion was, of course, Bai Ye's profession and level analysis.
This was the first time a close-up screenshot captured Bai Ye in action. As soon as she appeared in the cosmic view, she was estimated to surpass most players. The speculation that she had already transitioned during the public key reveal was largely accepted by many civilizations after this battle—
Even though no one had seen Bai Ye's damage output, just the fact that she could fly and teleport indicated that she belonged to a high-level or hidden profession unknown to them.
While there were players in the interstellar realm who discovered the Assassin faction, even those who joined it could not match Ye Bai's hundred kills at this stage, making it impossible for them to upgrade to the Black Cloak Assassin and access the faction shop, where they could discover [Shadow Step].
And while flying was impressive, what truly caught attention was the teleportation. Among the first-transition professions players were currently encountering, none included spatial teleportation.
In reality, true levitation was a hallmark of B-class psychics, while spatial teleportation belonged to the realm of A-class powerhouses.
Scholars in the interstellar realm were not wrong in their analysis; in the multiverse, aside from limited special faction skills like Shadow Step, anything involving spatial transfer indeed required at least a second transition.
The many speculations triggered by Bai Ye's actions also drew widespread attention from the cosmos, particularly regarding the soldiers of Bai Ye Town wielding obvious energy weapons.
Numerous scholars and experts were conducting structural analyses based on their appearance, and many civilizations proposed bulk purchases from Bai Ye Town.
Ye Bai's inbox on the Star Network was once again overflowing, even encountering lords willing to spend game currency to send her messages.
However, selling was out of the question. Even if she were short on money, she wouldn’t sell the energy crossbows. At this stage, they were strategic weapons, and unless she could mass-produce rare blue energy crossbows, Ye Bai wouldn’t consider selling them.
Moreover, with the upgrade of Bai Ye Village, now the first player territory had become the first player town, sparking a wave of infrastructure enthusiasm among players in the multiverse.
Many free players, who originally followed the adventurer path, began to experiment with the creation of their own territories by attempting to tackle the Seed of Creation dungeons in uninhabited wilderness.
Of course, this experiential construction was slow to develop and hard to gain traction. Soon, these free players realized that developing alone was incredibly challenging, leading some to return to Ye Bai's original intention of creating a personal little haven—though the journey home after activities in town was a bit far.
However, the truly capable lords, like Zeta and Ximo, who had built their territories early on, had already recognized the importance of various blueprints for their territories. Bai Ye's energy crossbow might have been constructed from blueprints, prompting them to gather funds for acquisitions.
Yet, once they acquired them, whether they could actually build them was another matter entirely.
……
As interstellar players stirred up a storm, Ye Bai remained unperturbed. The only annoyance was the interstellar agents waiting for Bai Ye Town to reopen so they could come in and take screenshots.
However, considering they could contribute a fair amount of game currency and help her meet the personal hobby needs within the territory, Ye Bai was willing to accept it.
The so-called personal hobby needs were actually various minor issues and emergencies that residents of the territory would encounter daily. The mechanism for these issues refreshed randomly based on the population of the territory, and if left unresolved for too long, they would affect the residents' satisfaction with the territory.
These issues could range from two delivery residents colliding on the same path to someone spraining their ankle and being unable to go to the herbalist for medicine… Some might resolve themselves, but others would not.
For those problems that couldn’t be solved on their own, Ye Bai could adjust the planning to change them, or she could personally run errands as the lord, earning five-star reviews from the residents and gaining a significant boost in satisfaction and loyalty.
To players, these matters were tasks—tasks that needed to be snatched up!
—Who knows, when players return to Bai Ye Town, they might find an increase in task opportunities and even thank Ye Bai for it!
As for the issue of poaching, there was no need to worry. Player territories, unlike NPC towns, naturally had talent protection mechanisms that wouldn’t allow the professionals players had painstakingly trained to be easily taken away.
As long as the loyalty to the territory was no less than 60, even if other players raised NPC residents' favorability to 100, they wouldn’t be poached.
The newly built mayor's office was a two-story building. Ye Bai took a game night’s rest on the bed in the second-floor lounge, fully restoring her stamina, and then moved to the adjacent room—this was the current finance department of the territory.
Simultaneously serving as the lord, sheriff, general… and many other roles, Ye Bai began her work today as the financial officer: planning the financial operations of the territory.
**Chapter 83**
Ye Bai walked into the "Finance Department," which, to be precise, was currently just an office with a desk, papers, and a safe.
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