After a day's march, Bai Xiaowen could already see the tall city walls of the new Baishi City.
The fact that Baishi City could have such a large wall was thanks to the previous city lord, March. It was because of the hard work of his tireless plague spirits that the city's defense was so stable. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult to defend against the zombie tide that was spreading in the north.
"Stop! Who are you? "
The sentries on the city walls shouted loudly.
Kitts shouted, "It's the Lord! Quickly open the city gates! "
The sentries shrank back, probably to report.
Bai Xiaowen said, "Attack first. Kill the zombies near the city gates and clear out a safe area." He could see that near the city gates, there were groups of three to five zombies wandering around.
The group of soldiers roared in agreement.
However, just as Bai Xiaowen was about to advance, the city gates suddenly opened. A valiant female general in white armor, her cape fluttering in the wind, rushed out with a group of crossbowmen! At her command, the crossbowmen fired in unison, shooting down the groups of zombies.
The female general herself was very strong. She took out her longbow and shot arrows, specifically targeting the tall and strong elite zombies in the group of zombies. Almost every arrow she shot was able to penetrate a zombie's head.
The dozens of zombies wandering around the city gates all fell to the ground in less than ten seconds.
"Put away the crossbows, change to swords, and chop off the heads of these monsters!" The white-armored female general's voice was clear and crisp.
The crossbowmen drew short swords from their waists and ran towards the zombies that had fallen to the ground and were slowly recovering their HP. As long as their heads weren't hit, even if the zombies' HP was depleted, they wouldn't die. They would only lose their ability to move temporarily.
However, after the crossbowmen chopped off the heads of the zombies on the ground, they were really "dead".
"Cecilia." Bai Xiaowen smiled and nodded while riding on his horse.
"Welcome back, Dior." This female archer general was the female lord Cecilia. She rode her horse over, her face showing undisguised joy.
"I wanted to deal with them myself," Bai Xiaowen said. These were all Spiritual Energy Points.
How could Cecilia guess Bai Xiaowen's thoughts? She chuckled and said, "It's alright. These days, I've been leading my troops to sweep the area once in a while. Just treat it as training. You see, these crossbowmen were originally ordinary people, but now they can be considered soldiers. "
Bai Xiaowen nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work … Also, I'm sorry. You can't go back to your territory anymore. "
"No, I want to thank you," Cecilia said solemnly. "It was because of you that I was able to save some of the people in my territory, and the medicine that your subordinates provided gave them a second chance at life. Dio, I hope that you don't blame yourself for the Umbrella Plan. If it weren't for you, everyone in the northern border would have become the Undead of the Plague sooner or later, and I would have lost my territory."
Pausing for a moment, Cecilia said with a smile, "Now, I've at least protected a portion of the people in my territory, and I have a place to stay. Dior, you won't chase us away, will you? "
"Of course not. Baishi City will always be your home, Cecilia, "Bai Xiaowen said." Also, I won't be able to stay in the Northern Frontier … To be exact, in this plane of existence, I won't be able to stay for long. I still have to ask you to help me manage this territory … I don't know if you're willing? "
Cecilia had received hints from Bai Xiaowen before, and knew that he was a visitor from another plane of existence. Hearing Bai Xiaowen's request, she wasn't too surprised, but she said with a little sadness, "I'm willing."
Notification from the Spiritual Realm:
"Lord Cecilia has joined your territory."
"Detected that you have the permanent fief of Baishi City issued by the Crown Prince of the Gorse Empire."
"Detected that you have a level 2 city, Maple City, and you are in Maple City."
"Do you want to make Maple City your main city?"
Bai Xiaowen led his troops and entered the city side by side with Cecilia. At the same time, he said silently, "Yes, I want to change the name of Maple City to Baishi City."
Spiritual Realm:
"Modification approved."
"Your temporary Lord Page has been upgraded to Lord Console."
"Through the Lord Console, you can issue orders for city construction, personnel appointment, material allocation, military operations, and so on to Baishi City. This authority originates from the permanent fief of the Gorse Empire contract, and it will last until the Gorse Empire is destroyed. "
Bai Xiaowen multitasked and opened the Lord Console.
A slightly illusory map of Baishi City appeared in front of Bai Xiaowen's eyes. However, there were large patches of black fog on the map, and only a part of Baishi City and the original territory of Baishi Town could be seen.
In the visible area of the map, there were various icons: a castle icon representing Baishi City, a village icon representing Baishi Town, an iron ore icon representing the cliff iron mine, and a small icon representing Baishi Town's silver mine …
Bai Xiaowen clicked on the castle icon of Baishi City, and the console interface instantly switched to a bird's eye view of Baishi City. There was a row of options next to it: personnel appointment, city construction, material allocation, military operations …
Bai Xiaowen opened the appointment and dismissal options and found that there was only one appointment and dismissal of the Lord of Baishi City. He tried to appoint, and then the "Appointable Candidates" popped up. There were a total of ten avatars, and Bai Xiaowen himself was among them.
It was worth mentioning that Keats and Dr. Zombie were among the options for appointment and dismissal of the Lord of Baishi City. In addition, there was Cecilia and a few knights under her command.
"Li Shuyi and I won't choose … We can only stay for a few days and won't be here for most of the time. I'll appoint Cecilia. "
Bai Xiaowen clicked on Cecilia's portrait.
"Do you appoint Viscount Cecilia as the Lord of Baishi City? Note: After leaving the Cain Plane world, all your daily management instructions for Baishi City will need to be completed through the Lord of Baishi City. Please choose carefully. "
Bai Xiaowen chose "Yes".
"You have appointed the Lord of Baishi City as Viscount Cecilia. Please announce this appointment in front of the citizens of Baishi City, representing that you have once again given the authority to govern Baishi City to Viscount Cecilia. "
"Cecilia can already communicate with you mentally through silent communication, regardless of whether you are in the Spirit Realm or on Earth."
Cecilia, who was chatting with Li Shuyi, suddenly looked over with an "Ah" sound. She felt that there was an inexplicable mental connection between her and Bai Xiaowen.
Bai Xiaowen smiled at her.
There were also building options. There was more information in this column.
Mill (Level 1): Can produce food [Rye Bread].
"This is … the food used by the Awakened in battle, that kind of rye bread?" Bai Xiaowen was shocked and quickly asked. After receiving a confirmation from the Spirit Realm's rules, he became even more pleasantly surprised.
"However, after I leave the Cain Plane world, how can I get the rye bread produced by the mill?" Bai Xiaowen had a new question.
The Spirit Realm's rules prompt message: "You can check the supplies in the 'warehouse' in the 'Supply Allocation' option on the Lord Control Panel and choose to transfer the supplies to your private storage space. Hint: Transferring supplies will consume a certain amount of psionic power points. "
"How many psionic power points will it consume?" Bai Xiaowen gradually calmed down. If the consumption of psionic power points was too high, this function was actually very useless.
"The collection will be based on the value of the supplies themselves. The collection ratio is between 10% and 30%."
"Very good." Bai Xiaowen's heart settled. This ratio was not high!
Although all the supplies produced in the Baishi Region belonged to Bai Xiaowen, the Lord, and the extra fee to transfer them to his private storage space was somewhat unpleasant, one had to know that this was an interdimensional transfer!
How much was it to collect such a small amount of transportation? Not much, not at all.
Bai Xiaowen instantly filled in the blanks in his mind. It was only a level-1 mill now. When the building was upgraded to level-2, level-3, or even higher levels, the rye bread would definitely not be the only food produced, right? The high-grade food that he saw at the quartermaster of the Black Rock Fortress and the food that could increase buffs after eating it should also appear one after another.
Apart from the mill, there were other buildings in Baishi City that could produce other psionic power items. These items could be transferred to Bai Xiaowen's storage space by paying 10% to 30% of their estimated value.
Among them, there were tradable items, such as food. If he took them out to trade, wouldn't that be close to making a profit for free? Moreover, the Spirit Realm's rules had always been conservative when it came to valuations of items. The actual selling price was generally higher than the estimated value.
Bai Xiaowen, who owned a territory, already had the potential to become a wealthy Awakened!
As he developed in the future, the benefits that this territory could bring to him would only increase.
These thoughts instantly flashed through Bai Xiaowen's super brain. After 0.1 seconds, he continued to check the other buildings to confirm his guess.
Sure enough, below the mill, there was a blacksmith shop, a jewelry store, a stable, a research institute … There were many more buildings!
Blacksmith Shop (Level 2): Produces inferior gray equipment (unqualified product), standard white equipment used by low-level Awakened. Currently, it can produce white crossbows, short knives, and leather armor.
Jewelry Store (Level 1): Produces inferior, white quality jewelry and accessories. Currently, it can produce white rings and decorative earrings.
Stable (Level 2): Produces ordinary horses, ordinary military horses.
Research Institute (Level 3): Produces various potions.
There was a special place in the research institute. There were already several potions available, such as the Plague Nemesis series, WD-03 Camouflage Liquid, WD-03 Induction Liquid, and so on. However, the latter two potions were out of stock. There was only the Plague Nemesis on the shelves.
When he opened the research institute, he saw a person (?) (?) avatar. It was the Zombie Doctor's big head. Once he chose to let the Zombie Doctor leave the research institute, the research institute would immediately drop to Level 1. The various special potions produced would disappear, leaving only a "small health potion". Its effect was similar to the "silver light potion" in the potion shop on Earth.
"I understand … These special buildings require people with the corresponding secondary professions to work in order to upgrade the building's level!"
When Bai Xiaowen attacked the city and fought against the three leaders of the Undead of Pestilence, many of the residents of Maple City chose to run.
With the ability to run, they didn't have to worry about starving to death on the way, nor did they have to worry about losing their livelihood in a new environment. Many of them had a skill or were called "talents with secondary professions." And those who stayed with a nervous heart … were basically ordinary residents with no special talents.
Thinking of this, Bai Xiaowen felt a pang of pain. Why did you run? Haven't you all become zombies now? If you stay here, this lord can heal you all!
Therefore, Baishi City's current prosperity level was very low. The level of the special buildings was not high. Fortunately, Cecilia brought a group of people with her. Among them, there should be some talents with secondary professions to fill in some of the gaps, such as the blacksmith shop, the stable, and so on.
Moreover, with the current situation in the northern borderline, it was impossible to attract any talents with secondary professions in the short term. They could only rely on the talents in the city to research and upgrade their secondary professions.
At the back, there were also buildings such as the herb garden, the mine, the lumber mill, the barracks, the tavern, and so on.
The lumber mill and the mine were buildings that provided construction materials for the territory. They didn't need any professional talents.
Barracks (Level 3): Special building for recruiting and training soldiers. At present, Cecilia, the castellan, was also in charge of the barracks. The soldiers she could train were: archers, crossbowmen, and light cavalry. However, Cecilia's ability obviously didn't stop there. Above these two types of soldiers, there were "strong archers," "heavy crossbowmen," "heavy cavalry," and other types of soldiers. However, due to the level of the blacksmith shop, she couldn't train them for the time being.
Herb Garden (Level 1): Can grow some common spiritual herbs in the northern borderline. Current output: Cold Root Grass, Silver Thread Flower, all low-level herbs.
The more interesting thing was the tavern. It was a place to attract adventurers. It could recruit adventurers to join the White Stone Territory. It could also issue a task contract for adventurers to complete.
However, with the current situation in the northern borderline, basically no adventurers would come. There were only two kinds of people who could come to the White Stone Tavern. One was a fool with good luck, and the other was a master with unique skills. The ratio of these two kinds of people … was really too small compared to the entire adventurer community.
In addition to the above buildings, on the overlook map of White Stone City, there were some gray building options. They were all special buildings that had yet to meet the construction requirements.
For example, the inscription shop was used to make magic scrolls. However, at least one magic apprentice who had undergone systematic education was required to build it. This was the official statement. In other words, it required a talent with a secondary profession of inscription.
Bai Xiaowen concluded that this territory could be described as "a bright future," but at present, it was still in the stage where there were many things waiting to be done. Fortunately, there was Cecilia, a female lord with rich experience and high combat strength, so the territory could develop normally. He didn't have to worry about any problems after he left.
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