Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

As for the reason why people who eat melon believe so firmly, it is actually very simple.

Because now we are in the crypt challenge, and we must be prepared to resist the attacks of crypt monsters at any time. No one can be immune.

Being able to still have the energy to carry out territory expansion tasks under such circumstances is enough to illustrate Zong Shen's strength. This guy is definitely a hidden boss!

This immediately aroused the enthusiasm of gossip among the melon-eating people.

The name Zong Shen quickly became a hot word on [World Channel]!

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In the Kugit Empire in the west of the continent, there is a large open basin area in the mountainous empire territory.

More than 7,000 surviving lords are scattered in this area, and the development of one territory is particularly eye-catching. It has initially formed a settlement with more than 200 farmers and 50 or 60 soldiers.

However, less than half of these soldiers are second-level light infantry recruited through barracks and training books.

There are only thirty or forty professional soldiers recruited through finished recruitment coupons.

Even so, this level of troops is enough to dwarf this area.

There are many arrow towers in the territory, guarding all directions. No city walls were built, but the territory was surrounded by horses and roadblocks. Occasionally, carriages would enter the territory carrying merchants and goods.

Selling some of the handicrafts and daily necessities they brought, and at the same time purchasing some livestock products such as poultry, eggs, cattle and sheep in the settlements.

This territory has also developed animal husbandry, raising some cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and has cultivated a lot of farmland around the territory. Unfortunately, due to the challenge of underground caves, these farmlands are in a state of neglect.

If you look down at the entire territory from above, you can find that this territory is beginning to show signs of prosperity.

This development progress is better than Zong Shen, especially the number of farmers. Zong Shen really can't envy him now. Being able to get so many farmers in a short period of time shows that he has already mixed up among the nearby aboriginal forces. Like a fish in water.

The fastest way to gain population is to rob, but this also means that you will be on the opposite side of the local indigenous forces. Just like the Calamity Raven Church in Odo Village, you will continue to be attacked by the indigenous people. The army's crusade.

Unless you are strong enough, this path will not work in the early and middle stages of development.

In addition to this, he has established good relations with the indigenous people, helped them solve their problems, and obtained the right to recruit local farmers on a regular basis.

Another option is to take in villages that have been destroyed by bandits, heretics or some kind of monsters, and take in villagers who have lost their homes. However, no matter which method is used to obtain the population, it cannot hide that the lord of this territory is an extremely strong man. fact.

The farmers are rich enough to train soldiers, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians is relatively more balanced.

For example, Zong Shen's territory only has a total of thirty-four farmers, but more than seventy warriors. This ratio is very uneven. Although there are more than two hundred kobold workers, they are actually of little use.

Kobold labor is equivalent to armed miners. It can solve the labor problem of quarrying and mining, but in the end it cannot replace the important position of the basic population of farmers.

Therefore, increasing the population is also one of Zong Shen's short-term development goals, but in this territory, this lord completed it one step ahead of Zong Shen.

At this time, just outside this territory, a man wearing light blue light armor and a chainmail hat was pulling the spear out of the head of a zombie.

Behind him were a dozen warriors, who were cleaning up a group of cave monsters with him.

The crypt monsters here are different from those in Zong Shen's area. They are a combination of ghouls and carrion beetles. There are also flying monsters in the sky, but they are not gargoyles, but night demons with two pairs of slender wings.

Its attributes are similar to those of gargoyles, and its level is also captain level. It's just that the types are different, but the overall configuration of crypt monsters is still the same.

At this moment, a red-beaked parrot suddenly landed on his shoulder. He stopped killing, took a few steps back, and left the range of the battle.

He reached out and took off the chain-mail helmet that protected his neck, and held it in his hand. Under the helmet was a very young man.

He looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. His expression was very indifferent, his eyes had no emotion at all, and his overall temperament was very stable and sophisticated.

After he took off his chainmail helmet, the parrot leaned its head next to his ear.

"Dear Lord Chen Rui, O'Donnell asked me to convey this to you, please check the ranking list."

"Someone has replaced your ranking. It is currently a fifth-level territory."

The parrot relayed it in a loud voice, and it made no difference whether it was heard or not.

At this time, it was already more than an hour after Zong Shen was promoted to the fifth level territory.

After saying that, the parrot waved its wings and flew away.

Chen Rui's expression changed a lot, and he who had always been calm actually showed an expression of disbelief.

He shook his head in confusion and took a few steps back.

The expression on his face changed from disbelief to deep confusion.

He stopped where he was and opened the [Territory Level Ranking List].

The one ranked first is Zong Shen, and his level is not level five, but level eight!

In other words, during the time when the news spread, Zong Shen was promoted to the third level of territory!

"This is impossible!"

"There was no such person among the top 100 lords in the previous life."

"How is it possible that I suddenly reached the first place now?"

"Has history been rewritten?"

Chen Rui regained his composure again, but there was still a puzzled expression on his face.

From the first day of landing, he had laid out all development trajectories and plans.

And everything was indeed similar to what he planned. He didn't look like a lord who came for the first time, but like an aborigine with rich experience.

Therefore, he developed extremely quickly and quickly accumulated goodwill among the aboriginal people. At the same time, he took the lead in exploring several ruins in the area, gained abundant military capital, and then relied on his soldiers to annihilate a group of plunderers. The bandits, who made a living by selling people to slave traders, acquired one to two hundred farmers at one time, laying the foundation for development.

There are two of them who are hero-level talents. His step-by-step detailed prediction has allowed him to reach the current development speed. Before that, all the situations were under his control.

What he was worried about was not that someone had reached Level 5 territory, but that there was a variable, a variable that he had never seen before. The wings of a butterfly were gently fluttering, and a storm might be born thousands of miles away.

Yes, he was a Reborn who died ten years after the coming of the Lord.

When the Adventers took control of most of the entire continent's population and resources, the real disasters and challenges officially began.

The entire sky was completely opened up and became some kind of passage...

He finally understood the meaning of the term "Earth", and also understood why the continental forces of the last era sadly withdrew from the scene. Everything was for the sake of a terrible dispute!

He originally belonged to a middle-level lord, relying on the thigh of a legion commander in the area, and his territory has developed to the level of a state city.

But under the catastrophe, he failed to resist for a few days and died tragically.

However, God did not kill him, and Chen Rui was reborn one day before the advent.

He tried to spread the news in advance and attract attention, but it was in vain.

The advent happened suddenly, and except for some small items such as watches, pendants, rings, etc., nothing else could be brought into this world at any time.

But Chen Rui's biggest advantage lies after his arrival.

He knows almost all the ruins in the entire area and knows how to obtain many treasures.

He also knows how to gain the trust of the indigenous people in the early stage and how to gain more people.

Although I don't know the situation in other regions, I know about the various major events and various alien strongholds that have occurred in the entire continent within ten years. Heretical forces and changes in aboriginal forces.

This is a great advantage for his development. Those legion commanders who can rise are all the overlords of a region, but in this life, the overlord of this region will eventually be his, Chen Rui!

Everything originally developed according to his expected trajectory, but now variables finally appeared.

"I don't know who this Zong Shen is."

"His name was not among the army leaders in all regions in the previous life."

"His name is not among all the giant city-level and imperial city-level lords."

…

"Variables have appeared. I must master all the resources in the entire area as soon as possible."

"Especially that ancient altar... we must take it down as soon as possible."

Chen Rui is indeed a man of two generations, and he quickly adjusted his mentality.

He was unable to change Zong Shen's rise and the emergence of variables. The only thing he could do was to accelerate development and master all the relic resources in the area as soon as possible, so as to take the lead.

Only when a catastrophe breaks out can he change his destiny.

It's not like he didn't try to tell other lords about the catastrophe.

But no matter what method he uses, he cannot speak out. The words he speaks will be silenced, and the notes and codes left behind will also be erased.

There was no way he could do it, it was like the laws of this world prohibited him from speaking out.

Therefore, the big layout cannot be carried out, and we can only try our best to develop ourselves.

Chen Rui's expression returned to normal, but his eyes became darker again.

He raised the spear in his hand, moved forward again, and stabbed the gap between the head and body of a corrosion beetle. This was its weakness. As a reborn person, he naturally knew the weaknesses of some monsters.

The battle was still going on. Chen Rui did not have any extreme reaction and seemed to accept this fact.

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At the same time, in Zong Shen's territory, the fifth-level territory was already a thing of the past.

The news fell out again in just an hour.

Because Zong Shen was promoted three levels non-stop during the time when the news spread.

Now that his territory has reached the eighth level, he stands out at the top of the list, which is in sharp contrast to the fourth-level territory of Chen Rui, who is ranked second.

After Zong Shen reached the eighth level territory, he decisively stopped the pace of expansion.

He still attaches great importance to the opinions of the strategy module. The strategy module recommends not to exceed level eight, and he is not allowed to take risks. Moreover, the eight-level territory is now enough to achieve his expected goals. In the open space outside the lord's courtyard, various beasts The corpses were piled as high as a hill.

There are hundreds of corpses of various beasts here, all attracted by the expansion mission.

If handled properly, it would be enough to feed the territory for a long time.

As for the corpses of some humanoid monsters, Zong Shen asked the wolf cavalry to take them a few kilometers away and bury them.

He didn't want the territory to become a mass grave. After he raised the level of the territory, the [Private Chat] was in an explosive state, and even the [Friends and Family Channel] was flashing.

As long as the territory is upgraded to the first level, the [Leaderboard] can be opened. Basically, as long as the lord is not too unlucky, he can quickly reach the first level territory.

So when the news that Zong Shen reached the top of the list came out, many people opened the [ranking list] to check it out, and the news immediately took off.

In this world, due to geographical isolation, it is difficult for the lords to have common topics of conversation. This time Zong Shen made the list, it is obviously a topic that makes the melon-eating crowd excited.

Zong Shen glanced at every channel. Whether it was [World Channel] or [Regional Channel], he could see the chat subtitles of Tu mentioning the word "Zong Shen" flashing by quickly.

This movement was much bigger than when Chen Rui rushed to the level 3 territory. After all, most of the lords had not yet upgraded their territory to open the rankings. The mass base this time is much larger than last time, and the scale of natural spread is not of the same level.

Not to mention Zong Shen’s [Private Chat], it’s already overcrowded, with many people chatting with him privately through the sale information in the [Market].

Jiang Yi also sent several messages one after another, expressing his surprise and admiration. Zong Shen simply replied and then closed other [channels].

Only the [Friends and Relatives Channel] was left, and he still had to properly reply to Aze's message.

As soon as I opened the [Friends and Family Channel], five or six messages popped up in a row.

These messages are sent at different times.

It perfectly explains Zongze’s psychological changes.

"Brother 666! Level 5 territory!"

……An hour ago

"Damn it, this is already level six!"

...40 minutes ago

"Holy shit, shit! It's level seven!"

"Brother, you are too fierce!"

...three minutes ago

"Level 8! In just a short time, we have reached the territory of Level 8!"

"Are you still missing some pendants on your legs?"

"I only have a third-level territory now, and the crypt challenges are getting more and more difficult, so I don't dare to expand!"

Seeing Azefa's words, Zong Shen could already imagine his expression.

My younger brother is not an energy-saving lamp, because he has seen Aze's third-level territory before, ranking in the top 100, which means that he has reached the third level relatively early, and he must still have some energy left.

Zong Shen's reply was very simple, and he didn't say much about the territory level.

"If you're short of resources, I'll give you some!"

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