Lords of Hegemony: Conquer from the Mermaids

Chapter 10 Territory Planning
Two small hills, ten meters high, were piled with various materials.

There are seaweed, seagrass, corals, shells, large and small stones, etc.

Two new mermaid huts have also been built and stand next to the original five huts.

As soon as Meng Zheng appeared, all the mermaids came to greet their leader.

"Clan leader!"

"Chief! You're back!"

"Hehe, Chief, I miss you."

Various voices entered Meng Zheng's ears, making him feel warm in his heart. The mermaids in front of him were all concerned about him.

Although it was only a few hours, all the mermaids present had already regarded this place as their home, and the patriarch was the person they respected and loved the most.

"Thank you all for your hard work! Go and take a rest!" Meng Zheng invited them to rest. Looking at the two hills in front of them, he knew how hard these mermaids were working.

The physical strength of mermaids is similar to that of humans. Although it is much easier to carry things underwater, it still requires a lot of effort.

"Chief, are you okay?" After the gray-tailed mermaids around dispersed and returned to the shack to rest, Cangyue, Cangjing and Cangmu came to Meng Zheng.

"It's okay, I went to look for the specialties of our territory and found a piece of yellow-grade sea spirit bamboo!" He waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and said to Cang Jing.

"Cang Jing, Hailing Bamboo is a treasure of our clan. Tomorrow, you will take two men and two women to the Hailing Bamboo Forest to garrison and protect the safety of the Hailing Bamboo. At the same time, you will arrange for people to collect bamboo, bamboo shoots and other materials and send them back to the territory."

"Okay! Chief!" Cang Jing nodded seriously in response.

Arranging Cang Jing to guard Hailingzhu was the result of Meng Zheng's careful consideration.

Cang Jing is Cang Yue's clone. Although he has independent thoughts, he is essentially Cang Yue's consciousness. Even if they are far apart, they can share what they have and communicate with each other.

"Well! Tell me about your harvest today! I think you harvested quite a lot!" Meng Zheng said with a smile, looking at the two hills of resources.

"I'll report first," Cangyue responded first, looking at Meng Zheng and saying in a delicate voice, "Chief, all the people from the merman hatching pool came out this evening, so I led them out together to collect supplies around the territory.

There are a lot of stones and wood scattered on the lakebeds around the territory. The tribesmen can easily carry a lot of resources back with just a few trips."

As Cangyue spoke, she made a pushing motion with her hand and playfully said to Meng Zheng:
"However, in order to improve efficiency, Cang Jing and I cast the Ode to the Waves to bring the supplies from the ten-mile area in the eastern part of the territory here. We then separated the stones, wood, and other materials, which greatly saved the time of running back and forth."

"I mainly counted the wood and stone. This time, I collected a total of 1200 units of wood and 1500 units of stone."

An ode to the waves?

Click on the Ocean Waves Song introduction on Cang Yue's skill panel:

By mobilizing magical power, a large amount of water elements can be gathered to form a wave, creating a powerful thrust that washes away everything it passes by.

Can you generate a wave directly?
Can waves be generated in water?
Meng Zheng was a little curious about this skill and said directly, "Cangyue, show me how to perform the Song of Ocean Waves!"

"Okay, Chief!" Cangyue followed the Chief's orders without hesitation. He raised his hands to his chest and began to draw magic power.

Specks of blue light continued to gather, and as Cangyue waved his hands, a small wave formed in the water.

The wave was dark blue all over, emitting little bits of light. Even in the water, one could see its clear outline, about one meter high and two meters wide.

Cangyue waved his hand towards the open space, and the waves rolled up a large amount of mud and sand, rushing out with a surging momentum.

Although it is only one meter high, its momentum is very impressive. Several small fish passing by are sucked into it, and the stones settled in the mud and sand are also swept up and carried away into the distance.

It wasn't until thirty meters away that the collapse gradually became smaller.

"Amazing!" Meng Zheng couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as he looked at the 30-meter-long slide in front of him.

"Chief, this was formed by me using one tenth of my magic power. If I mobilize all the magic power, I can form a ten-meter-high wave, which will be extremely powerful!" Looking at Meng Zheng's surprised expression, Cangyue was a little happy, and said to Meng Zheng with a sense of showing off.

"Okay, okay, that's amazing! Hahaha!" He laughed heartily with a look of delight on his face. Cangyue was very pleased with Meng Zheng's praise and said to Cangjing, "Cangjing, it's your turn. Tell me about your gains!"

Cang Jing didn't waste any more time and reported directly: "Chief, we collected 600 units of seaweed, 500 units of seagrass, and 500 units of coral today. Due to the lack of collection tools, the collection efficiency is a bit slow. If there are tools later, we can collect more resources."

"Very good, you did a great job today, providing sufficient material reserves for tomorrow's territory construction." Meng Zheng nodded with satisfaction. Such a large amount of materials is enough to build a hydraulic catapult workshop and a mermaid shack.

"It's my turn, it's my turn!" Seeing that Cangyue and the other two received praise from the clan leader, Cangmu couldn't wait to talk about his own gains.

"Don't worry, where did Mu Yu go? Why can't I see him?" Meng Zheng suddenly remembered that he had a blue-tailed mermaid. Why was she gone?
"Oh! Chief, Mu Yu is out looking for fish. It usually takes two or three days. Many fish like to appear at night, so they won't be back so soon."

"So that's how it is. I understand!" Meng Zheng nodded and signaled Cangmu to continue reporting.

"Chief, I have walked around the territory and have a general understanding of the situation around it."

"Our tribe is currently a level one tribe, with a population limit of 120. To upgrade to a village, we need people, so we need to build huts to meet the population housing requirements.

According to your request, the territory is divided into four areas: residential area, commercial area, industrial area and military area.

There are currently only five territory buildings that can be built in the territory. Mermaid shacks can be built by ordinary mermaids. After I plan the construction location, I will arrange people to build it.

Other exclusive buildings will prioritize the hydraulic catapult workshop, followed by the militia camp and the wall.

The tribe does not have the spiritual stones and many other materials needed to build the Water Spirit Guardian Array, so it cannot be made for the time being.

So I plan to build the wall based on the size of the village and reserve enough open space.

In the future, before developing to the county level, there will be no need to make too many changes to the territory planning, so as to avoid rework and redoing due to insufficient open space after the wall is built.

I will work overtime tonight to create a plan for our tribe, and tomorrow we will start building huts to provide housing for the new members."

As Cangmu spoke, he was drawing on the ground, trying to make Meng Zheng more clear about his thoughts.

"Well, very good. Let's do as you wish. Tomorrow, we will prioritize building five shacks, and then arrange for manpower to build a hydraulic catapult workshop."

Our territory is currently surrounded by enemies, and we need to quickly build a reliable military force to protect the security of our territory." After listening to Cangmu's report, Meng Zheng nodded and expressed his own thoughts.

He had no way of planning the tribe, but Meng Zheng had his own ideas about building priorities.

According to observations this afternoon, Meng Zheng discovered no less than three monster communities in the direction of Hailingzhu alone.

Now with the system protection, the monster groups are hiding and can't come out, but wait until the protection time is over.

The future travel of the people of the Canghai tribe will definitely be greatly affected.

Therefore, we must quickly build the hydraulic catapult workshop, start manufacturing equipment, and provide weapons to the mermaid soldiers.

Once the barracks are built, you can start training soldiers and prepare to attack the monster horde.

The territory currently has only 24 professional soldiers, patrolling the entire territory. Meng Zheng needs them to patrol the entire territory and guard the safety of the people at all times.

Unable to spare the strength to hunt monster hordes, they could only train a dedicated army to conquer the surrounding monster hordes.

Underwater is different from land. Danger may come at any time in the sky or underground. Not only do we need to guard in all directions, but we also need to arrange people to patrol the sky above the territory at all times.

It greatly increases the difficulty of defending the territory.

Only by building a territory defense formation in the future can Meng Zheng relax a little and not have to worry about sudden attacks.

Meng Zheng had already made plans. With the territory as the core and the Hailingzhu as the periphery, no monster group would be spared in this area. He was determined to create a safe zone without danger.

"Yes, okay, Patriarch, I will start making arrangements tomorrow!" Cangmu nodded decisively in response.

"Everyone has to build shacks tomorrow. Cangyue, come with me to clear out the nearby monster colonies!" Tomorrow's work has been arranged, and Cangyue is the only one left with nothing to do. Meng Zheng thought of taking this beauty to kill monsters and see if he can find any good stuff.

(End of this chapter)