Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

In the land of Shem, the morning light is warm.

Lu Meng sat on the grass, with a shallow shadow behind him.

And he was checking the progress of his panel.

[Achievement: Create a new stronghold]

The success of this mission was different from the previous ones. It was no longer aimed at Lu Meng himself, but was measured by the development of the stronghold in the material world.

Players' strongholds are divided into five levels according to their scale and characteristics:

Buildings, villages, outposts, towns, cities.

This achievement requires Lu Meng to build a new level 4 stronghold, a "town", which will upgrade him to A-level authority and unlock a universal module slot. The effect is self-evident.

Undoubtedly, occupying existing towns, such as Stone Town, Rotten Town, etc., will not work.

The purpose of the achievement is obvious. It requires Lu Meng to build a city that has never existed in this world. Essentially, it also requires him to test the city-building system. This is considered his job as an internal beta player - of course, there is no need to share it now. So clear.

It is also Lu Meng's current personal needs.

He always put this first.

In fact, it is very difficult for any force to completely build a new town. On this continent, everyone inherits the legacy of ancient civilizations in the past. If a town is destroyed, there is a high probability that it will be destroyed forever.

For example, in Admark in the Stan Desert, the current Shaq people must have long since lost the ability to level mountains and rebuild cities on high mountains.

Bayan once promised to rebuild "New Kalalia", but in fact it cannot be as prosperous as Kalalia in the past. It was just a military fortress to house berserkers and defend against human-skin spiders, that is, " Outpost" level.

Even for "villages" like Huangshui Village, their metal exterior walls cannot be replicated by ordinary people.

Over the past thousands of years, the number of new towns built on the entire land can be counted on one hand, but the number of destroyed towns is unknown - it is gradually becoming desolate.

Fortunately, this time the mission was accomplished,

Lu Meng is not required to become a fat man in one bite.

The appendix column of the panel clearly displays:

[Phase 1: Construction (Completed)]

[Reward: Stronghold exclusive module slot +1]

It divides the entire city-building task into different stages according to the level of the stronghold, and rewards are given at each stage - although it is not direct help, Lu Meng will not get nothing.

but……

"That's okay..." He rubbed his chin.

Not far behind Lu Meng, a large white tent slowly unfolded, using hundreds of pieces of cowhide alone. Its octagonal tent was held up by bamboo wood, and the interior was covered with soft sheep felt.

The style is a common nomadic tent.

However, it is more than ten times larger than the average herdsmen's residence.

This is not a new building in Lumeng.

In fact, it is the chief tent of the Beifeng clan.

Just outside the tent, a middle-aged man stood in front of the tent with a smile on his face, but there was a hint of panic in his smile.

For a long time, he looked at the back in front of him and couldn't help but said:

"Your Highness the Red King, if you want to rest, come and sit in the tent. I have already ordered people to light the charcoal fire..."

"No need." Lu Meng thought about it and responded casually, "By the way, the fire is also out. Let's see which livestock is infected with the disease. Send the charcoal there - I don't need it."

"Yes..." The middle-aged man had no objection.

He is the leader of the Beifeng Clan, and this big tent was demolished and rebuilt by the Beifeng Clan from their own camp in compliance with Lu Meng's order.

This large clan that once controlled the western part of Shandi now actually obeyed Lu Mengyan.

——But this is easy to say.

In the past, the Beifeng Clan controlled dozens of small wandering tribes. This was not only because they were the largest tribe in the western part of Shan Land, but also because the Beifeng Clan was the agent recognized by the Sand Bandits.

The offerings of each small tribe are collected by the people of the Beifeng clan.

Similar to a tax collector.

In the previous battle, the Beifeng Clan and the bandit commanders robbed small tribes such as the Farstrider Clan and used them as cannon fodder to prepare for the attack on Rotten Town.

Lu Meng took the dozen or so small tribes back to the time of flashback.

Inevitably, he was discovered by the hunters patrolling the North Wind clan.

At first, the Beifeng clan thought that these small tribes had escaped from the Sand Bandit Army on their own. Because they were afraid of the bandits' revenge, they were so frightened that they quickly brought people to intercept them, clamoring to take all the herdsmen back to Commander Matt to apologize.

However, after Lu Meng casually cut down several hundred households, the other party became honest.

After learning about the battle situation, everyone's faces were even more pale.

The Beifeng clan is as afraid of the sand bandits as a tiger.

So when those who have defeated the Sand Bandits stand in front of them in person, you can imagine what their attitude will be - almost giving and receiving.

Lu Meng was not polite, and immediately ordered the northern clan to double compensation for the losses of the small tribes affected, and dismissed all tribal officials responsible for maintaining contact with the sand bandits... and also took away their clan's head account.

The status and strength of the Beifeng clan have plummeted.

But for them, it's good enough not to be settled by the Queen of Autumn.

And Lu Meng doesn't need a large local tribe to replace him and manage like sand bandits.

"Demolition and reconstruction." Lu Meng thought, "At least it is feasible at the 'building' level."

He tried the judgment range of buildings, such as the shacks of scavengers and the tents of drifters... Things that can only provide shelter from wind and rain are not enough. A gust of wind and sand can cause him to run away.

Even the tents of ordinary herdsmen cannot trigger the judgment.

It is estimated that the scale is not enough.

There is no doubt that an earthen masonry hut can complete the first phase of the task.

But that also takes a lot of time.

Therefore, Lu dreamed of taking advantage of the migration characteristics of nomads, packing up the largest building that could be found in the west of Shendi, the Beifeng clan's patriarch's tent, and then rearranging people to build it here.

Sure enough, the judgment was triggered.

At least Lu Mengbai got a special module slot.

With B-level permissions, many modules no longer directly affect Lu Meng himself, or require him to play an indirect role. They directly change the external material world.

This is also consistent with the logic of task achievement.

As for the [Fortress Exclusive] module, the anchor object is not Lu Meng, but his new stronghold, and its effective range is also related to the scale and level of the stronghold.

The simplest ones, such as strengthening buildings (increasing blood volume), increasing construction speed... are all included in this list, but since the authority has not been increased, the modules that can be selected are still within B-level effects.

After unlocking the first stronghold-exclusive module slot, even if Lu Meng himself does not use this white tent, the subsequent construction process will undoubtedly be smoother.

It's a snowballing process.

"The Red King, the messenger from the Baimei Clan has arrived." A herdsman approached Lu Meng and said slowly.