Please ask the dream.

Chapter 652: Stereotype is the first rule of the dream world
Returning to the large map interface, Feng Xuedong looked around and confirmed that there were no interactive options. Then he clicked on the completely dimmed circle in the upper right corner.

This time, the golden finger did not give any hints, but went directly to the next round. This also made Feng Xue understand that there was really nothing to interact with.

"It feels like a combination of dangerous road mode and secret front." Feng Xue muttered to himself, but the screen had already switched between day and night, and the circle in the upper right corner turned to the second grid. Before he could make the next decision, the text popped up first -

[The storyteller in Baiyujing begins to promote you and your city, Prosperity +5, Reputation +4]

[A small group of beggars is attacking your city. Do you want to use up a point of action to return to the city to fight? Yes/No] (At the beginning of each day, you lose 1d100 points. Only when the points are less than prosperity will an attack occur... Although the Beggars' Gang has added 10 points of bonus, the probability of one in five is still a bit miserable)

"Fuck!"

Feng Xue stared with her eyes wide open, feeling terrible. The first one should be the result of yesterday's decision, and the second one...

Is it because of killing those two Beggars' Sect disciples?
Feng Xue frowned, feeling that something was not right. Although revenge for murder was common in the martial arts world, there were only four children alive yesterday. It couldn't be that those children did not go to Baiyujing, or that there were traitors among them who passed information to the Beggars' Sect, right?
Besides, it consumes a bit of action power here, isn't that too much of a loss?
Feng Xue himself has the characteristic of the city that never sleeps, so it doesn't seem too much for him to have a little more mobility every day. But if he runs in a conventional way, wouldn't he have to consume half of his mobility resources on fighting every day?

Feng Xue frowned and suddenly wanted to nod.

If the hero is invincible, even if the city is lost, as long as the hero is still there, there is still a chance to retake the city. Although if the guess is wrong, today's exploration will be declared a failure, but for this kind of thing, the sooner you try, the lower the cost of trial and error.

After all, the consumption of this 1 point of action power is not necessarily a fixed value. Now your chess piece is only three squares away from the city. What if the points consumed reach or even exceed 3 points in the future, or if the hero is too far away from the city to defend it, the cost of trial and error will be too high to understand it at that time.

As the thought came to mind, the golden finger popped up another line of prompts:

[If you refuse to return to the city to fight, the city residents will defend the city on their own initiative. Is this confirmed? ]

"Oh, that's what I told you! Otherwise, when I develop and there are enough enemies, won't I have to spend points on defending the city every day?" Feng Xue felt relieved when he saw this and confirmed whether to choose.

only……

[Failed to defend the city. The Beggars' Gang established a branch in your city. The residents in the city are overwhelmed by it. Prosperity -6. (Grass, maximum value for small-scale invasion)]

Seeing this new line of prompts, Feng Xue was not annoyed at all, but nodded slightly.

"I see. Different forces have different reasons for attacking a city. For example, the Beggars' Sect, even if they attack a city, they collect protection fees and extort money like the mafia, rather than destroying the city directly. From this perspective, if the enemy is relatively strong, but is just a martial arts sect, their tactics may fail. Although this will lead to a decrease in prosperity, they can still become part of the city's defense in the future. In a sense, their settlement can also be regarded as becoming a resident of the city?"

Having said that, Feng Xue did not intend to really let it go. Although the city did not have a value such as "public security", based on the negative effects of the previous entertainment capital, the public security environment would obviously change with the composition.

At this time, the pop-up window of the preparation stage had ended. Feng Xue first turned around and clicked Bai Yujing, but was surprised to find that the chess piece returning to the city only consumed a little action power!

"What's going on? Does it mean that no matter how far you go back to the city, you only get one point of action, or can you skip the path grids you've already explored?"

Feng Xue was a little surprised, but did not go back to the city directly. He clicked on the city icon, but there was no pop-up window about the special events of the Beggars' Sect. There were still the previous four options, but the war option was still grayed out.

Without making a decision, Feng Xue first switched the view back to the character, and then clicked the nearby [Jinshui Upstream] node. As the two-square Jinshui Upstream expanded, a background of a small fishing port came into view, and a pop-up window also expanded -

[You discovered Jinshui Upstream·Longmen Ferry, you plan to——]

1. Exploration

【2. Tips】

【3. Take a boat】

[IV. Occupation (not optional)]

"Occupation is not an option... Is there some missing condition? For example, using the main city to launch a war against this place first? Only after winning can it be occupied? Or is there any hard and fast requirement?"

Feng Xue looked at the fourth gray line and tried to click it first. When he found that there was no prompt, he went back and clicked on the city and found that the war option was still not selectable. He tried to click it again, and this time the prompt was no longer [No applicable object], but [Insufficient city prosperity].

"Well, starting a war requires a certain level of prosperity?" Feng Xue understood and began to analyze the other three points.

Exploration should be similar to selecting the main city of your home city as before. Stopping here means having a quick meal during the journey, but in the world of martial arts, it should not be as simple as just having a meal. After all, places like restaurants are often the places where incidents frequently occur.

As for taking a boat… considering this is a riverside ferry, it should be a form of fast travel, and looking at the map, it's probably heading to Baishiling or Feilong Waterfall, but if this route is all water, then it can even go straight over Zhushan to the upper and lower reaches of Mengjiang.

However, Feng Xue’s main idea at the moment is to try and error by going through as many nodes as possible, so he chose the less accurate method of taking the lead.

Still, the feeling of falling into a dream came without warning. With a moment of trance, Feng Xue was already sitting in a not-too-big shop. The shop was very simple, without even four complete walls. It was just a bamboo shed with an earthen stove, and a large freezer and a few chicken coops placed next to it. In front of the shed, there were a few wooden tables casually set up, on which sat some wanderers in classical attire. Looking into the distance, one could even see the river glowing with the morning light and the boats coming and going not far away.

"Sir, your dishes are ready!"

With the waiter's rhythmic shout, a set of food that could be called a classic hero meal was served on the table.

"Two catties of braised beef, a jar of daughter's red wine..." Feng Xue wanted to complain about the people in the riverside area who ate braised beef instead of fish, but considering that this stereotype was common sense in the dreamland, he suppressed the urge to complain and prepared to call the waiter to see if he could find out something. But before he could do anything, a guy at the table next to him, holding a ghost-head sword and wearing a bamboo hat, afraid that others would not know that he was a gangster, said in a voice that was not too loud but could be heard by everyone:

"Have you heard? The eldest daughter of the Su family in Wangjiang City is holding a martial arts competition to find a husband!"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? How many of the people along the way didn't come here for this? That's the Su family, who is known as the Su half of the city! Half of the industry in the entire Wangjiang City belongs to their family! Now that something happened to Old Master Su, the eldest lady can't beat those elders, so she wants to recruit a live-in son-in-law!"

"Bullshit! Miss Su is already a top-notch expert at the age of fourteen. She said that she was holding a martial arts competition to recruit a husband, but she was just trying to trick a few self-important fools into becoming farmhands! Don't forget that the conditions for participating in the martial arts competition to recruit a husband are that if you lose, you will be sold to others at will!"

(End of this chapter)