Hard work, I don't count

Chapter 86

Because the sky is full of evil spirits, the territory of the human race is mostly large cities. Some legendary cities can reach tens of millions of people. For example, the ancient city of Loulan has a population of 5000 million, while some corresponding small deserted villages may have less than 500 people.

The reason why this happens is actually quite simple.

Heisha.

Heisha makes all materials except ordinary basic materials such as soil and stones subject to corrosion.

If you want to build a giant city, in this extraordinary world, it is very difficult to rely on earth and rocks alone.

A huge city built of earth and rocks might be blown up by a monk at the Fate Wheel Realm with a single punch, and there is no defense at all.

Therefore, most of the city walls are protected by large formations, and they are mostly built with magical metals mixed with earth and rocks, and most of the infrastructure is also like this.

Back to the original question.

Heisha is constantly corroding. Not only does the city need to be built, but also subsequent maintenance is required, which is a huge expense.

So the more prosperous the city, the bigger it is.

The larger the number of people, the lower the cost of basic maintenance to everyone.

The deserted village is another look.

First of all.

The environment of the barren village is dangerous. This dangerous environment means that ordinary city walls are ineffective, and it also means that they need more time to harvest materials for their own survival.

Therefore, only the high-level people in the barren village have private property and can build their own stone houses.

And the outstanding ones in the deserted villages may annex the left and right on the basis of the deserted villages, forming large villages, large gathering places, and developing into small cities.

This process requires not only materials, but also strong people.

After all, this is a world where great power belongs to oneself.

Regarding the development of deserted villages, Weizhuang Village is the best example. The last time Wei Long went back, many earthen houses in Weizhuang Village were replaced by stone houses.

Because of the food crops from Damu Village, there is a relatively stable source of food and the population increases. The villagers in Weizhuang Village have surplus supplies, so they have time to build their own villages.

otherwise.

In a precarious environment, the means of production are very scarce, and it is impossible to build even if you want to.

"I found that besides our Guhua Chamber of Commerce, there are other forces 'funding' these deserted villages." Zhang Zixin took out a document from his room.

Wei Long was a little surprised.

He has long discovered that the dynastic regime in this world is not qualified, perhaps because it is the reason of the extraordinary world, and all problems can be solved by cultivating strong people.

In layman's terms, most of the energy of the desolation department is used to find talents in the barren village, train them, and finally protect the barren village.

Rather than changing the ecology of the entire human deserted village.

There is no benefit in doing business in a barren village, and few people do business.

Most of the strong people who came out of the barren villages directly moved the people of a village to build cities, rather than changing the barren villages.

However, the meaning of the barren village is to give the wilderness the fire of human civilization.

If they are all moved away, the unknown land will only continue to expand, even the steel wall cannot stop it.

In fact, Wei Long's thinking is different from ordinary people, "Isn't this a loss-making business? Is there anyone else doing it?"

"Yes, there are some. They are not very powerful, but some have persisted for hundreds of years." Zhang Zixin looked a little wrong.

Wei Long calmed down after hearing about hundreds of years, and asked, "How long has it been? Have they found any way to make money?"

"No, we have found four such forces in total."

Zhang Zixin said truthfully: "After our secret investigation, they secretly collected the blood of some villagers, and even took away some children whose fathers died of wild beasts in the name of adoption."

Wei Long took over the information collected by Zhang Zixin, who continued: "I want to find out the supporters behind them before I can tell you. I think this is not an easy matter. Some deserted villages that have been 'funded' by them will become stronger for the time being. But if it is traced to a hundred years later, some deserted villages may have been merged, or encountered other accidents."

After reading the materials collected by Zhang Zixin, Wei Long fell silent.

No one knows the deserted village better than him. Once the father dies in an accident, many mothers will remarry, and some children can be taken care of, and some are not recognized by the man whose mother remarried.

If the village is strong, it will raise the children to adulthood.

The strength of the village is poor, and those children who have lost their fathers will only fend for themselves.

very cruel.

But this is deserted village.

Never tender, or even scary.

In that kind of deserted village that can be said to be isolated from the world, it is not surprising that anything happens. If it is not for the supervision of the Department of Desolation, the dynasty has always maintained control over the deserted village, and many things will be more extreme.

People in the deserted village are very miserable.

Deserted villages are tough.

Life is hard for everyone.

But all this has no conflict with the darkness hidden behind the hardships and hardships of the deserted village.

"If those children are really adopted, it will be a good thing." Wei Long sighed after reading the information.

As for those deserted villages that declined after being funded, he didn't take them to heart. There are countless risks in the deserted villages, and it is normal for them to prosper sometimes and decline sometimes.

"What doubts do you have about them?" Wei Long asked Zhang Zixin.

Zhang Zixin thought for a while, "I just smell a hint of conspiracy. They have done some strange things, not only in deserted villages, but also in some remote small towns. No one cares about those places at all, even the Department of Desolation just left. It’s a cutscene, and no one knows exactly what they did.”

"That's a black box. Nobody can see what's going on inside."

Zhang Zixin said: "After our Chamber of Commerce grows, you and I know the price of doing business in a deserted village. It is a big hole. I don't think anyone will do such a useless thing for a long time."

"Do you think I'm special?" Wei Long smiled, feeling that Zhang Zixin was thinking too much.

"You are special, you are a true genius, a peerless genius."

Zhang Zixin is very serious, "I didn't quite approve of your business in the barren village at the beginning, but recently I gradually understand. Maybe we lost in business, but from the perspective of Dongtian, the control of the edge of the southern barren has even risen. At the level of the human race, slowly improving the quality of ordinary people, we have made money."

"Only by continuously improving the quality of barren villages, so that more children can eat enough and have a childhood to speak of, can more geniuses emerge."

"But geniuses like you, senior brother, are only a minority." Zhang Zixin said something.

"Recently, our chamber of commerce has also conducted a survey on the deserted villages. Less than [-]% of the children can survive to adulthood. As for the geniuses among them, even fewer. The number of geniuses who can grow up smoothly is even less."

"Unless you look so far away like senior brother, you are willing to gradually improve the quality of the barren village, and then slowly improve the quality of the entire human race. I can't think of the reason why other forces are so thankless." Zhang Zixin analyzed.

Wei Long thought about it.

indeed.

To be honest, geniuses like Wei Long are really rare.

Not only talent, but also vision and pattern.

There are very few people who can grow up smoothly in the wilderness, let alone geniuses.

Wei Tianhu is already the ceiling of the barren village genius.

"Let's check again." Wei Long believed in Zhang Zixin's judgment, which was the trust of years of cooperation.

Wei Long then exchanged ideas with Zhang Zixin, mainly to stimulate Zhang Zixin's potential and help him touch the threshold of Jindan, so as to break through the original bottleneck.

To put it bluntly, it’s all kinds of tricks.

Southern Wilderness and Northern Land, Shangban County of Xing'an County, Fengcheng, Liyulou.

Liyulou is an established faction in Fengcheng. It is engaged in the medicinal wine business. It is well-known in Fengcheng and even half of Xing'an County. It has been passed down for more than 200 years.

Its flagship "Pear Blossom Rain Wine" is even more famous in Nanhuangdu.

Many strong people, old monsters who have lived for many years, are emotionally dull, but after drinking this kind of wine, they will have a feeling like pear blossoms crushing crabapple.

Don't think of your first love on your own.

Think of some beautiful and memorable things.

Because of this, Liyu Tower has a very wide network of contacts. Although the host is only a strong person in the Jindan realm, she is exquisite in all aspects. Even the city lord of Fengcheng will give her three thin noodles.

Antique, green bricks and green tiles, a hundred flowers bloom in the attic garden, and even the air seems to be filled with a faint fragrance of wine, which makes people relax involuntarily.

This is the headquarters of Liyulou.

A not so gloomy basement.

An unknown oil lamp was lit, and the room illuminated was as warm as daytime. Although the entire basement did not see sunlight, it was not gloomy.

Flower pillows, bunk beds.Beside the bed, a little boy carved in pink and jade was riding a small wooden horse. His chubby hands, like lotus roots, were a little weak, but they still swayed.

"Yiyiya." The little boy heard the sound of the door opening, his eyes lit up, and he quickly ran down from the wooden horse.

A little impatient, he fell directly.

But he didn't cry, but stood up neatly, ran unsteadily towards the woman who entered the door, "Auntie, Mom and Dad"

The little boy's words were still a little awkward, but his enunciation was very clear.

The woman who entered the door was not very beautiful, but she was very attractive. She didn't wear makeup, but she had a gentle and pleasant atmosphere.

Smiling and hugging the little boy, "Aren't you having fun here, don't you want Aunt Bai Hui? Auntie is so sad."

Bai Hui's tone was very soft, as if it contained inexplicable grievances, influencing the little boy with strange power.

"I want my father, I want my mother." The little boy seemed to be extremely attached to the woman, and there was a flash of struggle in his eyes, but he still wanted his father and mother in the end.

"Wang Duoduo is disobedient!" Bai Hui held the little boy's hand slightly, and a small white candy appeared on her fingertips, and she stuffed it into Wang Duoduo's mouth, "Eat more candy."

"Be good, Duoduo, go play by yourself." Bai Hui gently patted Wang Duoduo's back.

Wang Duoduo looked at Aunt Bai Hui's familiar and warm face, giggled, shouted candy, gave a vague cheer, clapped his fat hands and climbed onto the small bed, picked up a little doll, and was happy again play up.

"Lord." Bai Hui walked out of the room, and a disciple stepped forward and bowed his head respectfully, "Ming Shenzi is here."

"Let that pervert wait."

Bai Hui sneered, her face was not as kind as before, and she looked cold, "I don't accept children over four years old, but I want to send Wang Duoduo to me! He wants to use this to coerce the Wang family and get a share of the mine." Soup, but you still want to catch up with us! Break the rules!"

Going out of the door is the aisle. There are many rooms on both sides of the aisle. There are some small windows in these rooms, which can be seen from the outside.

There were many young children inside, mostly around two years old, both boys and girls, but they were not treated as well as Wang Duoduo, a dozen of them crowded together, and seemed to have fallen into a coma.

As Bai Hui walked by, the fingertips filled with magic, as if invisible water droplets fell down.

This is her special magic, named 'Pear Blossom Rain'.

It is obtained from the previous host who is also a personal biography of her master, and it can be used as a charm. Some of those children are about to wake up, and then fall into a sweet dream again.

(End of this chapter)