Volume 3 Chapter 1: Land Reclamation and Construction (1)

The group was teleported to Pojun City, then rushed out of the city and headed straight to the west.
The environment outside Pojun City is completely different from that near Shenghua City. Although it is not a desert yet, it is also a Gobi wasteland. Bushes grow in the gravel ground, and countless small beasts of level 20 to 30 roam around. It is rare to see players, but this does not affect my confidence. Shenghua City is currently overcrowded, and it is difficult to find a suitable leveling place near the city. The flow of people will eventually disperse, and Pojun City will also develop.
The sound of rushing river came from afar, and the Gobi Desert beneath our feet gradually transformed into grassland. The level of monsters also gradually increased. We are almost at the base!
It was already dark at this time, the clear night sky was shining with stars, and the chirping of various insects on the grassland could be heard one after another. The cool breeze at night dispelled the summer heat and was extremely refreshing. It was a great outdoor scene!
However, the green eyes of the beast in the distance looked a little scary, especially the two girls in the team, who snuggled up to Lonely and Hanjiang respectively...
We try not to provoke monsters, but if they rush towards us, we don't have to be polite. We can use swords, axes, magic bows and arrows to beat them indiscriminately. At our current level, it's not easy to kill them.
Soon, we have arrived at the angle where two rivers meet. The Wuding River from the Tianshan Mountains in the north and the Xianling River from the Kunlun Mountains in the southwest meet here. The river water rushes and flows southeast. Our station is on the triangular impact plain formed by the Xianling River and the Yuelong River after the confluence. Going north, crossing the Yuelong River and crossing the Tianshan Mountains, you can reach the ice and snow continent, but this road is tortuous and difficult to travel, passing through many glaciers and snow peaks, and the climate is also unpredictable. It is not the best choice for business travel between the east and north continents; going west, crossing the Xianling River, along the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, entering the great desert, and going west all the way to the Western Fantasy Continent. Although there are various dangers in the desert, it is a relatively easy road to travel. If it is managed properly, it will become a major trade route.
Because it is now past 10 o'clock in the evening and the sky is completely dark, even with torches, it is not suitable for terrain inspection. I decided that everyone should fight monsters in the vicinity first to get a feel for the monsters' strength, distribution, refresh rate, etc., so as to use this as a basis for dispatching personnel when the construction officially begins.
Because there were so many people, in order to scout monsters in a larger area, we were divided into two groups. One went upstream along the Xianling River and the other went downstream along the Yuelong River. After killing a certain distance, we turned around and moved towards the center, and finally met at the center of the base.
The group I led, including Hanjiang, Xiaoniao, Fatty, Awei and Shitou, fought their way up along the left side, that is, the Xianling River. At night, many animals go to the river to drink water, so the river bank is the most densely populated area for monsters. After walking a few steps, we found a group of more than ten wild deer, which is a level 40 monster. Compared with us, it is too low for leveling, but in order to test its attack and defense capabilities, we still rushed up.
I chose one and didn't rush to kill it. I let the deer butt me first to try... Damn, without any reinforcement, it only lost a few dozen points of health. If you think about it, a warrior profession above level 15 has no chance of being killed instantly. So, this monster is not a big threat to our future "opening team", but how about its defense?
The golden-red tiger soul, emitting light at night, is like a leaping flame, which looks even more terrifying. One slash... an instant kill! It's terrible. I habitually used the thrust, how could such a low-level monster withstand it?
Without using any skills, Tiger Soul used three swords to kill another deer. Well, its defense is very average, and its health is not too long. A level 20 warrior should be able to fight alone. However, this kind of monster appears in small groups, which needs to be paid attention to.
I was analyzing various values ​​in my mind to assess the threat posed by wild deer to the land reclamation work. The remaining eight or nine had already been divided up by Han Jiang and his team...
Continuing forward, we encountered another group of muntjacs. These creatures were level 42, with a slightly higher agility than deer, but otherwise nothing special. For low-level players, they were not monsters that they could not handle.
Suddenly, dozens of green lights appeared in front of us... It was a large group of monsters! I rushed forward first. It turned out to be a group of more than 30 antelopes. They were only level 35, and even for level 25 players, they were a very suitable monster for leveling. Naturally, they posed no threat to us, but they would cause trouble when we were clearing the land. Although antelopes have low attack and defense and little HP, they move fast and are large in group. Once they rush into the queue of low-level players, it is very easy to cause the death of novices at levels 15 to 20.
After killing all the antelopes, we continued to move forward and encountered various monsters one after another. Some were easy to deal with, but some high-level monsters, such as wild horses and bison, took us some time to deal with. For novices, these monsters are deadly!
Generally speaking, the problem of herbivorous animals is easy to solve. As long as you are not too close to them, they generally will not actively attack you. So newcomers just need to be careful not to provoke them. After discovering the monster, they should promptly notify the masters of the guard team to clean it up, and then the impact on the development will not be great.
What is really scary is the carnivorous animals that haunt the grassland like ghosts! We found 58-level lioness, 65-level male lion, 60-level cheetah, 55-level leopard, etc. There are not many of these monsters. After all, this is not their gathering area. Only one or two will appear occasionally , but this is the most dangerous. If you really want to arrange people to sweep, it is difficult to find one or two monsters in such a large area. When the newcomers start working, a lion may jump out of the bushes and bite the newcomers one by one. By the time your guard team arrives, the entire work team may have been sacrificed!
What reassures us a little is that there seems to be no carnivorous monster bosses here, and as for the bosses in the monster group, such as the bison leader and the white stag, as long as we conduct a major sweep beforehand, we can at least guarantee safety for six hours.
After walking four or five kilometers, we reached the edge of our territory. We turned and walked towards the bottom of the triangular plain. I told the bird not to participate in killing monsters, but to pay attention to recording the density of monsters, refresh frequency, species distribution, etc.
After running through most of the territory, we finally met up with Lonely's group at two o'clock in the morning. We sat down to rest for a while and exchanged what we had discovered. Wenxin built a bonfire and barbecued for us as a midnight snack. Haha, there are abundant raw materials here, with meat from all kinds of animals, and even the best parts are selected!
After eating and talking about the gang building plan for a while, everyone felt a little sleepy. Besides, most of them had to go to work or school on Monday and would have to be back by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. So I suggested that everyone take a nap and try whether the sleep function in the newly opened Fantasy game is as effective as advertised.
The tents were taken out and everyone fell asleep peacefully.
The next morning, when it was still light, everyone woke up! Everyone felt refreshed and energetic. The game sleep function really works! With this function, most players will have more time online in the future!
At this time, a red sun was rising from the east, right in the middle of the Yuelong River, and the glow dyed the river surface into golden waves. This magnificent scenery stunned us! The Tianshan Mountains in the north, with snow-capped peaks towering into the clouds, and the snow on the peaks that never melted all year round was clearly visible; while the Kunlun Mountains in the southwest are thousands of peaks, most of which are also shrouded in clouds and mist, making it difficult to see their true appearance, making them even more magical and magnificent.
After watching the sunrise, we were even more excited. Doesn't this symbolize that our gang is also rising like the sun?
After returning to the city, everyone went their separate ways. Awei and Huaihuai contacted the people they had recruited and informed them to gather in Pojun City tomorrow to prepare for action. I took out the distribution map of the monsters in the city recorded by Xiaoniao, and together with several experienced people such as Momo, Hanjiang, and the profiteer, I studied in detail how to assign people to achieve the highest work efficiency.
In the afternoon, I said goodbye to everyone one by one and made appointments to meet again. After sending them off, I immersed myself in the gang building plan.
At 8:00 the next morning, the first batch of gang members gathered in Pojun City! These were players who had plenty of time to play the game, so they could arrive in the morning. As for those who had to work or study during the day, I scheduled them in the second batch and gathered at 6:00 in the afternoon. The details were all stated in the gang announcement and released.
After the competition, Ah Wei's work of recruiting high-level players went much more smoothly. Yesterday alone, he recruited hundreds of players who had agreed to join the alliance after the competition. Together with the players who had originally been recruited, the number of players above level 25 who joined the Thunder Alliance was close to 150, and most of these people had time. 112 people came in the morning. In fact, if we had not strictly controlled the conditions, we could have recruited far more people. This point was opposed by the profiteer. He believed that those powerful groups might have tens of thousands of members once they were established. Our advantage was only that we were ahead in time. If we did not develop the gang in time, how could we fight against others? However, I insisted on ensuring the quality of the alliance members, and Lonely also supported my point of view. The final compromise was: as the first batch of members to be recruited and conduct the initial gang construction, we must strictly control the quality and rather have no members than have too many. These members are the core of the future gang. The Thunder Alliance was also developed by these people. Naturally, they would have a centripetal force and loyalty, and high-quality members could form a good atmosphere in the alliance. After the completion of the first phase of construction, the conditions can be relaxed appropriately, more people can be recruited, and the size of the gang can be expanded. At that time, even if some good and bad people join, they can be restrained by strict rules and the bad apples can be expelled from the alliance. The remaining members will accept this punishment when they see that the veteran members can abide by the rules, and it will not lead to a demoralization.
Of course, no matter how strict the control is, there are bound to be loopholes. I am afraid that there are many spies from various forces who have infiltrated the Thunder Alliance. We cannot eliminate them one by one, so we can only be more careful.
Huai Huai and his team worked for a week before the competition, so they naturally recruited more low-level players. However, although the online time requirement was put forward, since the levels of these players were so low, most of them would not be online for more than 6 hours a day, except for those who got the accounts in the recent batches. Therefore, among more than 300 people, only more than 100 were online in the morning. This number of people was indeed difficult to complete the task of opening up the wasteland in a short time. I have already told Huai Huai to slightly increase the passing rate when he continues to recruit people.
Standing in front of these two hundred players, I announced loudly: "Dear brothers and sisters, welcome to join the Thunder Alliance! As you all know, the Thunder Alliance is the first gang in Fantasy, and our goal is to become the first alliance in Fantasy in the future! But now, except for an undeveloped territory and a few hundred members, we have nothing! For the development of the gang, for our future... we need everyone's joint efforts, sweat and blood to build our Thunder Alliance! I promise that everyone's efforts will be rewarded, and in the future, every brother will be proud to be a member of the Thunder Alliance!"
"What we are going to do now is the early development of the base, that is, the land reclamation. Old players and those who have read online strategies should know that this is a hard job, especially for the later development. Our base is chosen to be in a place relatively remote from the city, where there are many monsters and their levels are not low. It is very dangerous for low-level players, and some people may die. But each of you has gone through a strict selection before joining the Thunder Alliance. You are all elites in the fantasy game. With so many of us working together, is there anything we can't do or do well? I believe that we will be able to develop the base with the least loss and the fastest speed, and truly build a gang headquarters. After that, whether it is leveling up, hunting for treasures, or buying and selling, it will be more convenient. You will definitely get more than what you pay today! This is the promise made by me, Blood Sky, the leader of the Thunder Alliance!"
There was warm applause from the audience. Haha, when I was in college, I was an expert in public speaking and debate. It was no big deal for me to deal with this kind of situation...
"Next, arrange everyone's tasks."
It was the morning working hours, and Momo, Hanjiang and others had not arrived yet. The core members around me were Wenxin and Badao, except for a few people like the Cangshang, and the combat members were only. Although a few people like Awei were online, they continued to recruit people. Which one was more important, and I was worried about letting these new members do it.
Therefore, according to the levels of the alliance members, I temporarily appointed several squad leaders to lead the combat troops.
The God of the Divine Realm, a level 36 warrior, was originally a lone ranger, but later became acquainted with profiteers through buying and selling equipment to them many times. He was recommended by the profiteers and strongly invited by Awei to join the alliance. He is the highest-level among the new members and was appointed by me as the captain of the first combat team.
Wuwuwu, a rare female player at level 35, and a warrior! She has many years of online gaming experience. It is said that she joined our gang where she doesn't know anyone because she had a falling out with her old friends. Now she has a good relationship with Shuijing, but whether she is really trustworthy remains to be seen. But her gaming skills are really good, so I appointed her as the captain of the second combat team.
Fengyun of Fengyun, a level 34 magician, captain of the third combat team; Weiwoduzun (he was able to register this ID, which shows that he was definitely one of the first few players to enter the game), a level 34 warlock, captain of the fourth combat team; 120 (just look for him if you get hurt, it’s right), a level 33 priest, captain of the fifth combat team; Mouse who loves corn (his wife is called Pure Corn), a level 33 magician, captain of the sixth combat team.
The first five teams have 20 senior players each, and the sixth team has 12 people temporarily, and will be supplemented when more members come online.
Players from level 15 to 25 were also divided into 7 working teams, each with a captain assigned.
The specific task is that the first combat team is responsible for clearing the road and clearing the monsters on the 70-kilometer section from Pojun City to the garrison. The work team follows the first station team, and the sixth team is responsible for the rear protection to prevent sudden refresh. The second, third, fourth, and fifth teams advance to the garrison as quickly as possible and start the mopping-up work, so that they can immediately start the land reclamation work after the work team arrives.
Wenxin is responsible for the safety coordination of the large army's advance, Badao is responsible for the overall command of the battle to clear monsters in the garrison, the Conqueror, Lao Zhou, and Bu San Bu Si will go to the garrison with the team and will be responsible for the specific assignment of tasks for each team. I will stay in the city, waiting for some members who may be late or the newly recruited members of Awei and others to arrive, and then go to the garrison after organizing them.
Around 11:00 noon, nearly fifty players arrived one after another. Most of them were low-level. However, the Sixth Team returned immediately after reaching the base and used the return scroll as soon as they entered the 50-kilometer range of the city. They were already back in the city at this time. Together with several new high-level players, they finally formed a complete team. I issued a gang announcement, stating that the later arriving members should wait for the afternoon gathering before being organized to go to the base, and then I personally led this group of people to set off.
Although our combat team had fewer people this time, the small monsters along the way had been cleared, and the newly spawned monsters were not dense. We did not waste much time on the road and arrived at the base safely. However, the low-level players moved slowly, and it took us nearly three hours to walk the 70-plus kilometers, and we arrived at 1:30 in the afternoon!
When we arrived at the base, we saw that the profiteers were well organized. They started from the top of the angle, concentrating on reclaiming a small area. Two teams were deployed on the periphery of the work area, monitoring monsters in the distance to prevent monster groups from rushing into the work team; the other two teams were divided into groups of four, patrolling around the work area, searching for and killing the few monsters that had escaped the raid, especially the carnivorous animals lurking in the grass. Once a group of monsters were found to be refreshing, they would immediately gather into a large team to encircle and kill them, and would never allow the land reclamation work to be disturbed.
Even with such strict measures, three low-level alliance members were still sacrificed on the way over by the first group of players; after the work at the base began, eight people were killed in a monster attack and a major refresh, but after these alliance members were resurrected in the city, they all returned to the base with the second team I organized.
Another team, according to the pre-planned plan, went to level up with several members with professions such as architects and craftsmen. These professions will be of great use when the wasteland is developed and buildings are constructed.
The members of the work team are now working hard to open up wasteland, cutting wood, weeding, and digging stones in different categories. Useful materials are collected and piled up in designated locations. After a morning of hard work, about 200,000 square meters of wasteland have been developed. At this rate, about 500,000 square meters can be developed every day, and 10 square kilometers will take 20 days to work. Of course, with the increase in personnel later, this speed can be greatly improved. In fact, under the current situation, a considerable number of high-level members can also be put into the work of opening up wasteland without affecting defense, but in the long run, division of labor and cooperation can enhance the sense of cooperation among the members and develop the habit of performing their duties, which is beneficial for large-scale activities or even wars that may be carried out in the future. Besides, as the number of people recruited by Huai Huai increases, the proportion of novices and masters among the members will increase. When the work area increases, I don’t know if so many people will be enough for protection.
I asked the profiteer and learned that all the staff had not eaten lunch yet! I told them in advance that they did not need to bring any dry food. I asked them to be honest. In addition, Bad Bad also hired two chefs with levels 25 and 6 in the skill profession. I asked them to prepare food for everyone and all the staff took turns to eat. I took the initiative to take on the task of defense command.
Being able to eat fresh and hot food in the wild has greatly increased the enthusiasm of the alliance members for work. Details like this were proposed by Crystal. As a leader, you must make the members of the group feel that you care about them, then you will win their love.
In the afternoon, when the work was intense, a dangerous situation occurred, a major refresh, three herds of bison appeared in the work site, and one of the herds had a Boss bison leader!
Badao led a team and intercepted a group of bison in time. Then another team patrolling nearby went to help. It should not be a big problem for 9 people to deal with a group of bison.
I rode on the Black King and charged towards the bison leader. With one slash, the leader lost more than 3,000 blood. Then I chopped left and right and injured several bison. The herd was immediately furious and fought with me with red eyes. I didn't want to fight either, so I rode away and led the herd of bison out of the work area.
However, the location where the other group of bison spawned was unfortunate. Several patrol teams were at a relatively far distance, and were rushed into a work team by the bison. Fortunately, there were three members above level 20 in the work team, who each led away one or two cows, but the remaining six or seven bison trampled on them wildly, causing heavy casualties to the novices!
Naturally, I didn't care about what was happening here. The bison were level 55 monsters, and I was alone against a group of them, including a boss. I had to be careful too!
Seeing that they had already run a hundred meters away, these wild bulls should not turn back to attack the members of the work team. I reined in my horse and turned around, slashing out with a hundred cracking thorns. The tiger soul transformed into hundreds of knife shadows, and the golden light burst into the herd, killing one and injuring three! Many members saw my extremely powerful attack and immediately burst into thunderous cheers!
Then, I swung my long sword and killed the two injured bison closest to me with two thrusts, then turned my horse and ran away. I looked impressive, but I had withstood several attacks and my HP was only 1/3 left. If I hadn't wanted to establish my authority in front of the alliance members, show my strength as the leader, and boost their confidence, I wouldn't have used such a stupid way of fighting! But if I died, I would not have established my authority, but would have become a laughing stock.
After rushing out a few steps, the effect of the Life Water and the Small Huandan also replenished my blood. I turned back again and attacked with the Hundred Ripping Thorns. The Tiger Soul was indeed extraordinary, and with the Cornucopia, its power was brought to the fullest. The fatal blow killed three of the five cows I hit and injured two!
The buffalo leader still had five followers left, so this was easy to deal with. I withstood two rounds of attacks, and when I had gathered enough energy, I used another Hundred Splitting Stabs! Although this time it was only of normal power, I narrowed the attack range, and the two already injured buffaloes were "specially cared for" by me, and were chopped into pieces, like they had just come out of a slaughterhouse.
I retreated a little and took a breath. I didn't have time to use the Hundred Splitting Stabs this time, but the lethality of the charge against a single attack was still very strong! I slashed a bison through the neck with my sword, and the head fell to the ground. I turned around and there were only two bison and a leader left. I could fight them!
After using a Hundred Ripping Stabs and a Thrust, the buffalo leader was now left alone. I showed no mercy and slashed him with my Tiger Soul sword one after another. Even though the leader had thick skin and blood, I still chopped him into pieces in less than three minutes!
As for my cornucopia item, it gained a +3 effect... I don't know what to say. The night before last, I teamed up with Han Jiang and the others, but it didn't show much. Today, I killed all the bulls by myself. Silver coins dropped in piles, and the monsters dropped a piece of equipment. The leader generously gave me four white equipment, four attribute equipment, and one gold! There were actually more than 200 gold coins. You know, bison are poor monsters!
When my allies saw how powerful I was and how I had taken care of a herd of cattle and a boss in just a few minutes, they applauded loudly. I didn't even have time to pack my belongings and hurried back on my horse, only to see that there were only three cattle left in the herd that Badao and the others had been dealing with, and the other herd had almost been killed by other team members. The profiteer reported to me that we had lost twelve allies in this monster hunt!
I ordered Bu Si to pick up the equipment and gold coins I had obtained. At the same time, I announced that each ally who died during work would receive 30 gold coins as compensation!
This accident did not dampen everyone's enthusiasm for work. Except for a few members who went offline for some matters (we distributed tents to everyone and they went offline so that they could start working immediately the next time they came online), the rest of the staff became more efficient at work because of the improvement of their life skills.
Around 5:00, seeing that everything was going well, I led the sixth team back to Pojun City and organized the third batch of alliance members to go to the base.
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