Ever since Yang Rui bought a yurt from the market, he had asked Chi Zhong to keep an eye on this type of equipment.
Yurts could only fit five people at a time. They were not used for marching or fighting. Instead, they were used for housing. The frequency of them appearing in the market was not very high. Therefore, after many days, Ike Zhong only managed to buy three of them from the market.
These tents could only fit 10 to 20 people. It was barely enough for small scale operations, but it was far from enough to be used as a base to attack the NPC camps. Without enough accommodation for the soldiers to rest and recover their stamina, they would not be able to farm monsters from afar.
Yang Rui had also tried to find out if there were any player villages nearby. If there were, he could try to negotiate with them and set up camp in their inns. Unfortunately, these two NPC camps were located in a remote area. There was not a single player village nearby.
If he had communicated with Han Laixiang earlier to use his village to farm the Wenshui Pirates, Yang Rui could have saved the Water Origin Village Creation Token. It could have been put to good use now. However, since the Water Origin Village was closer to Wenshui, it might have other uses in the future.
It was possible to buy the Village Creation Token to build a new village. However, the Village Creation Token was still a rare item. It would cost a lot of money to buy it. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so few and sparsely distributed villages on such a large map!
These two NPC camps could only be set aside for now. The humanoid NPC camps could satisfy the needs of Mountain Town for skill books and equipment in the short term. There was another matter that gave Yang Rui a headache.
Ever since the end of [Efficiency Scroll Month], the drought and locust plague that ravaged Yan Zhou had also arrived in Mountain Town. The drought was easier to deal with. There were mountains and rivers around Mountain Town, so the water was abundant. However, the locust plague was abnormally strong. It looked like more than half of the sweet potato seedlings in Mountain Town had been eaten.
Fortunately, the Gourd Valley was humid and foggy, so the locusts did not come. Or maybe the locusts did not like to eat Lingzhi, so the Lingzhi planting was not affected.
Yang Rui had already expected to encounter a plague of locusts. He had also done some preparatory work, such as preparing firewood for smoking, as many players had summarized. However, when faced with the locusts that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, there was simply no time to take any measures. Large areas of sweet potato stems and leaves had already been eaten by more than half!
It was worth mentioning that sweet potatoes were indeed a crop with high tolerance and adaptability. Even though they had been gnawed to pieces by the locusts and only a few broken branches and leaves were left, their yield had only been reduced by 60%. That was still 40% of the harvest, which was 20% lower than the average yield of 80% in the entire Yan Province!
With this kind of harvest, coupled with the large amount of sweet potatoes in stock, they could basically maintain the sweet potato trade with A pint of incense. This was already a very good result! Then again, now that the sweet potato business had been launched, it might not be a bad thing to reduce the supply. After all, the rarer something was, the more expensive it was.
In fact, Yang Rui was not worried about the food shortage. Big Mountain Town had been buying food from the market, and the stock was not small. It was enough for Big Mountain Town to get through this special period of food shortage! What he was concerned about was that the entire Three Kingdoms Civilization Area and even the surrounding civilization areas were currently in a state of food shortage. The price of food had greatly increased, reaching the level of 20 copper per catty!
Although this price was still a far cry from the highest price of 40 copper per catty in his previous life, it still created a lot of obstacles for Yang Rui to purchase large amounts of food. As Big Mountain Town's funds were currently tight, they knew that there was still a lot of profit to be made, but they could not purchase large amounts of food!
At this special time, people from Waning Moon found Yang Rui, and they also mentioned the problem of food.
Yang Rui had heard of Waning Moon's reputation in his previous life. Especially on the forums, there were a lot of discussions about it! Waning Moon was a very special gaming group. It was formed by only ten people, and the names used in every game were from "Cripple? One "to" Cripple? Ten ". They had never changed.
Moreover, in all the previous games, Waning Moon appeared as an assassin group. They received benefits from others to help them kill characters in the game, or complete some missions for a living! These ten people's gaming skills were very good, so their reputation slowly grew.
What others were talking about was that Waning Moon had changed their previous characteristics in the game "War of the Worlds" and focused on being a Lord player! Moreover, the number of players in their territory remained at the level of ten people, and they did not absorb any other players!
It was this kind of ten-person territory that quietly squeezed into the top 100 of the Three Kingdoms Rankings! Especially after the Yellow Turban Uprising storyline, Waning Moon was the first to upgrade to a small town!
Most importantly, players knew of Waning Moon's existence, and also knew that their territory was within Qingzhou, but no player had ever seen their territory! Many players had a guess — — that Waning Moon's territory was not on land, but on some island in the sea!
"Cripple? Greetings Constable Blazing Sun! "
After being invited into Ao Lai Valley, the cool young man in front of him called himself Cripple? Nine only said this one sentence after meeting and did not intend to say anything else. If it wasn't for Yang Rui's interest in Waning Moon's mysteriousness and the fact that he was not very busy, perhaps he would have just greeted him and left.
Under Yang Rui's initiative to talk, Cripple finally came to Nine's understanding. Only then did Jiu slowly understand the purpose of his visit. Furthermore, he only spoke one sentence after Yang Rui spoke. By the time they reached the topic of food, almost an hour had passed!
"Cripple? Brother Nine, please forgive me. My Mountain Town is currently very tight, and we don't have any surplus food. I'm afraid you've come for nothing. "
When it came to food, Yang Rui naturally had to refuse! Previously, there were a few player factions that came to Yang Rui's door, wanting to exchange some food, but they were all rejected by Yang Rui with the same excuse. Among these players, there were several top ranked player factions like Dragon Soul!
The reason why these factions lacked food was not because of their lack of financial resources or lack of foresight. The key was that after the first system update, the storyline had been pushed forward by two years! This made everyone somewhat unprepared, but they had no other choice!
"Constable Blazing Sun, take a look at this!"
Cripple? Nine replied concisely, at the same time throwing a window at Yang Rui.
"Dilapidated Ship: It was once a very powerful flagship, but now it no longer has oars and sails. It doesn't even have a rudder, but it can still occasionally hold some things … …"
Yang Rui only glanced at it and lost interest. He thought it would be some rare skill book or equipment that would interest him, but he did not expect it to be a dilapidated ship from who knows where!
"Clang!"
Just as Yang Rui's heart was filled with disdain, a loud sound rang out from outside Ao Lai Valley. A dilapidated ship appeared in front of Yang Rui, stirring up a circle of dust!
"Sometimes it can be used to smash people!"
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