Chapter 24: Chapter 24 The Last Busy Night
Although it was night, Fang Jie had no intention of resting.
More and more orders were coming in, and Fang Jie could only watch with his own eyes, unable to do anything about them. Left with no choice, he decided to synthesize Hardwood first.
Hardwood synthesis blueprint: Recipe requires 2 units of Wood, needs a Material Warehouse.
While Fang Jie was synthesizing wood, he waited for his Skull Soldiers to return. Once he had synthesized enough wood, he would synthesize Solid Stone. As soon as both were ready, Fang Jie directly chose to upgrade the village.
Before long, the village level rose to level 2. Fang Jie discovered that the loyalty, which had hit rock bottom, had actually increased a bit.
"So that's how it is, the level of the Territory has the ability to gather the hearts of normal creatures. If loyalty can be increased, then morale can definitely be improved as well."
The Undead didn't have loyalty or morale and were very stable. Normal creatures, however, could explode with greater Combat Power and higher work efficiency when their morale was high.
Regardless, things were looking up now.
Origin Village Level 2: Territory Core Building, with a certain production capability, can produce Skeleton Labor.
Upgrading requires 300 units of Hardwood, 300 units of Solid Stone, 600 units of Bones, 500 units of Spirit Points, and a population of 1000.
With even more work to do next, aside from occasionally splitting the Skeletons, Fang Jie spent the rest of his time crafting these materials. Gradually, the number of Skull Soldiers around him increased, and Skull Soldiers from outside began to appear as well.
"Start from that side, one area at a time, and send the farmers into the Skeleton Conversion Field."
Fang Jie hurriedly ordered his subordinates to start the process, and the farmers were once again thrown into the Skeleton Conversion Field. Just when this process started, the farmers' loyalty collapsed.
The result was a massive escape of farmers, with some recaptured but others unaccounted for.
The escape and rebellion of forty thousand farmers truly frightened Fang Jie. The rebellious farmers cost Fang Jie a good number of his Skull Soldiers. Luckily, he was always surrounded and protected by Skull Soldiers; otherwise, he would have been attacked.
"Next time, I absolutely can't be so harsh; let's proceed with a thousand at a time."
Fang Jie watched as those farmers were dealt with and sent a part of the Skull Soldiers to capture the fleeing farmers, then posted up another thousand.
Unfortunately, as soon as he posted them, they were snatched up by others who had been waiting.
"Fang Jie, Boss, put up some more, we don't have enough to go around."
"Yeah, that's right, we'll pay a higher price, an even higher price."
"Sorry, but this is all the production capability I have for Skull Soldiers right now; even if I had more, I couldn't handle so many farmers."
Not only was production a problem, but there were simply too many farmers to manage.
Sending so many farmers to the Skeleton Conversion Field was also a big strain on the Transformation Field.
"Boss, it's too much hassle to use farmers. We'll give you food instead, that way you save time."
"Yeah, making farmers takes time, using food is the best."
Seeing all this, Fang Jie couldn't help but laugh; these people were really overstepping. They need time, and I don't?
"No thanks, creating Skull Soldiers requires Spirit Points and Corpses, not food. I can use farmers, but food won't work."
"What, you actually create Skull Soldiers with farmers, you're just too evil, how can you do such a thing." There are always do-gooders, no matter where you go.
A three-day protection period, and some people still haven't changed their viewpoint; it seems they have it too comfortable.
Fang Jie didn't want to bother explaining to such people, immediately adding them to the blacklist.
This blacklist was a new ability after upgrading the village, something others didn't have yet. Fang Jie decided that those on the blacklist would be refused any trade.
"Damn it, why can't I trade anymore, what's this blacklist? That damn Fang Jie, don't let me find an opportunity." A young man with a sullen face, full of resentment over the sudden change.
Beside him stood a large group of Skull Soldiers.
"What are you all doing standing around, get back to work!" The young man scolded the others. These were not farmers, but people from Earth just like him, who in his eyes were nothing more than tools.
"Boss, are you there? I want to trade for some Skull Soldiers."
Qin Lan suddenly sent a message. After all, she got a discount, promised by Fang Jie personally.
"You're trading so much, I'm almost regretting it."
"That won't do, you promised personally, and the time isn't up yet," Qin Lan revealed a beautiful smile. Fang Jie wouldn't destroy his reputation over such a small matter.
Especially when it was someone with starting items, who knows for what reason, perhaps they had some Talent.
Besides, being able to gather so much food and create a massive number of farmers in such a short period, no matter how you look at it, this person was not simple. Fang Jie completed the trade and then got back to his own matters.
After being so busy for so long, the materials were ready again, and Fang Jie directly upgraded the village to level 3.
Origin Village Level 3: Territory Core Building, with a certain production capability, can produce Skeleton Labor.
Upgrading requires 1000 units of Hardwood, 1000 units of Solid Stone, 2000 units of Bones, 1500 units of Spirit Points, and a population of 2000.
The need for materials was increasing exponentially, rendering Fang Jie speechless. Now it wasn't a matter of him producing Solid Stone and Hardwood fast enough; he simply didn't have enough Wood and Stone.
With no other option, Fang Jie had to manufacture more Skeleton Laborers to go out and gather materials.
As for Spirit Points and population, he wasn't lacking. However, after upgrading the village to level 3, a new special building became available, belonging to an extension of the Territory.
Wooden Wall: A wall surrounding the village, with certain defensive abilities, requires 1 unit of Wood per meter.
Fang Jie experimented and found that the Wooden Wall could only be used within the range of his own village; beyond that, it was unusable. It also could only be used to construct walls and nothing else.
Originally, Fang Jie had thought about creating a maze within the Territory to form special defensive effects.
It seemed, however, that this loophole was now closed.
Having finally stopped, Fang Jie had time to look around the Territory. At first glance, he was startled; a vast expanse of Skeletons, pitch black, was quite chilling to behold.
Since his class change, Fang Jie's eyesight had dramatically improved; he could now clearly see his surroundings even at night.
There were tens of thousands of Skeletons gathered together, and that truly was frightening, but strangely, such a large congregation of them gave Fang Jie a peculiar sense of security.