The sky had been gloomy since morning.
Soon, it started drizzling and fog rose in the forest. No one was certain of where the sky met the ground.
This was already the tenth day that Zhang Yang came to this world, and also the day that the Village Building Order successfully upgraded for the third time.
In the fortress, Zhang Yang stood silently in the rain with a solemn look. Behind him were Wu Yuan, the Four Tyrannical Bears, Qin Yidao, 14 other captain bowmen, and six captain spearmen, who had just successfully advanced, and five captain shield soldiers.
Farther away, in the middle of the training ground, 50 new recruits had finished training. They strode in, and Zhang Yang was going to strengthen them next.
20 spearmen, 20 shield soldiers, and 10 bowmen were upgraded to elites.
Finally, Zhang Yang selected 10 bowmen, 17 shield soldiers, and 10 spearmen to advance to the rank of captain because he only had 37 imperfect captain demon souls left.
But even then, Zhang Yang had 66 captains, one quasi-hero, and one ghost priest altogether at once.
The strength of this army could be considered powerful against the forces of the deer lord and jackal village chief.
Buzz!
A white radiance abruptly erupted. It was incomparably bright even amidst the rain and fog. The Village Building Order finally succeeded in the upgrade.
Countless white threads reorganized, expanding Zhang Yang’s village area from the original one square kilometer to five square kilometers.
At the same time, three brand new buildings were completed.
Level 5 Residential Houses were located on a flat piece of land behind the training ground, covering an area of 500 square meters. They were like courtyard houses, a kind of style on Earth that Zhang Yang was very familiar with.
However, there were some changes. Tall walls made up the four sides and the two-storey buildings seemed to enclose a rather small space. But this was normal since level 5 residential houses came with only 20 residents.
Next was the level 5 farmland that appeared in front of the fortress. Previously, trees had been cleared out in a large space of about ten acres. The level 5 farmland happened to be the size of ten acres and at its edge, 5 small wooden houses were also built to house the 20 farmers that came with it.
The last building was given for free to Zhang Yang because he used the Deer Civilization Code Drawing Fragment.
Level 5 Deer Barracks. It could be used to recruit new soldiers from the deer civilization. The recruitment requirements were one perfect deer demon soul, 50 x deer demon blood, and 1,000 energy points.
This time, Zhang Yang immediately thought of the heavy deer cavalry. He currently possessed 6 perfect deer demon souls.
Of course, this wasn’t the priority.
He first upgraded all the trained soldiers to elite, which his energy points were more than sufficient for. Later, he was left with 20 perfect green wolf demon souls, as well as the elite jackal demon souls he harvested the day before.
37 elites were upgraded to captains.
At that moment, Zhang Yang began to regroup his soldiers.
First, he set up a fixed patrol and hunting squad with Wu Yuan as the leader and members including the Four Tyrannical Bears, as well as newly-promoted captain spearmen, captain shield soldiers, and captain bowmen—four from each soldier type.
They were responsible for safeguarding an up to 10 kilometer radius of the forest, with the village as the center. Wu Yuan was also allowed to carry two ghost eyes with him every day and place them wherever he felt like, which was equal to having two additional eyes in the wild.
Of course, the effective time of the ghost eyes was six hours, and the maximum distance could not exceed five kilometers from the main body.
Later, Zhang Lang established a logging and reclamation squad, led by the newly-promoted captain shield soldier, Liang Duantui, and members including 5 newly-promoted captain shield soldiers and 10 elite shield soldiers. They were responsible for cutting down most of the trees around the fortress, digging out the roots, and turning them into flat land to use in the future to build houses or reclaim fields.
Next, he organized an anti-air squad with Qin Yidao as the leader and 19 members including veteran and newly-promoted captain bowmen. They would build strong arrow towers that stood at least 30 meters tall at the four corners of the fortress. They would take turns to guard the fortress just in case a large number of trees were cut down, making them exposed to the ground and demons in the air.
Finally, he set up a construction squad. Craftsman Zhao Tiezhu was the commander, while the team members included the remaining soldiers. They would continue expanding the fortress, compacting the foundation, and add a cover for the fortress on top of that.
After assigning all the personnel, Zhang Yang took out all the half-body iron armor he had harvested earlier for everyone to pick from. The half-body iron armors weren’t reinforced along with the upgrade of the soldiers, but were built by the jackal village and had a certain extent of defensive capability.
Judging from this point, the jackal village seemed to be developing quite rapidly.
Not only the jackal troops, but the deer lord’s troops were also clad in iron armor. Back then, Zhang Yang didn’t take it seriously. But now that he thought about it, he figured that be it the deer lord or jackal village chief, both of them had the ability to smelt iron. In other words, the development status of their villages must have entered the right track.
If the deer demon didn’t personally lead its army and die in Zhang Yang’s hands, perhaps one or two defeats wouldn’t have been traumatic for them.
I was too hasty in building the village back then and didn’t discover any iron deposits nearby. I have a lack of personnel, so I’m afraid it’s a little too late to take on the path of iron smelting now. I’ve decided. My next focus is to decipher the ‘Iron Wall’ battle mark on Wang Mumu and successfully enchant it. And until then, I will just have to make do.
At that moment, after the captains picked and chose their half-body iron armor, they realized that they couldn’t fit into them at all. Not only that, but the elites also had a hard time wearing them. Without a choice, Zhang Yang left the matter at that.
Once again, Zhang Yang instructed the squads to fulfill their duties.
He didn’t hurriedly research the ‘iron wall’ battle mark or enhance some Spears of Imprisonment. Instead, he went on to handle the level 5 farmland.
In the Village Building Order, the level 5 farmland also had its own attributes.
[Farmland
Level: 5
Area: 10 acres
Available crops: Wheat, potatoes, sorghum, grain, rice, buckwheat, oat, soybeans, vegetables, etc.
Growing and Harvesting Time: Twice a year
Current recommended crops: Wheat, acreage of about 540 kg. Oat, acreage of about 600 kg.
Number of accidents: 0]
Are you serious? Twice a year? This isn’t logical at all. Don’t you get to harvest once every month in normal games?
Zhang Yang instantly got a bad feeling. One had to know that he now had a large population under him that needed to consume food—especially captains who required at least 2 units of meat a day. Although he previously stockpiled nearly 20,000 units of demon meat, this amount couldn’t hold up to such rapid consumption at all.
According to his calculation, 10 acres of farmland wouldn’t be enough to feed them.
Looks like I need to micromanage the reclaiming of fields and hunting activities.
Zhang Yang pondered and came to a sudden realization that he didn’t have any seeds.
He ran over to the hut at the edge of the farmland and saw the twenty newly-recruited farmers chatting inside.
Hmm?
Farmer A: “Have you eaten?”
Farmer B: “Yes.”
Farmer C: “What did you eat?”
Farmer D: “I ate meat.”
Farmer A: “Have you eaten?”
Seems like these farmers are the true NPCs.
Zhang Yang opened the panel in the Village Building Order and checked out the attributes of one of the farmers.
[Name: Zhao Xiaomao
Class: Farmer
Talent: None
Skill: Planting Seed (Level 5)
Skill: Plucking Grass (Level 5)
Skill: Harvesting (Level 5)
Current status: Standby]
After giving a thought, Zhang Yang could only bring his attention to the wish fragment because other than that, he couldn’t think of anywhere else to get the seeds.
The good thing was that in the previous battle, he had harvested a total of 67 wish fragments.
Retrieving a gray wish fragment, Zhang Yang solemnly said, “I want wheat seeds that can fill one acre of land.”
Poof!
The wish fragment shattered into dust as the limit was exceeded.
Zhang Yang wasn’t surprised as he continued: “I want wheat seeds that can fill half an acre of land.”
Poof!
The wish fragment lit up in flames. He felt a weight on his hand as a small bag of wheat seed appeared above his palm. Not only that, but there was also a packaging label—Shandong Province, Jinan City, Licheng District: Nursery Seed Corporation.
Zhang Yang was left entirely speechless.