Delta: Who are you saying has suffered a loss of strength?

Qi Yuzhe sat under the tree, his back against the rough bark, his helmet drooping down and covering most of his face, looking as if he were resting with his eyes closed.

But actually, I was listening quietly to the conversations on the platform.

As he listened, he suddenly remembered something else.

What would he be like now if it weren't for Han Che?

Those Asara prisoners, apart from being able to barely understand his own commands and fire a gun, had almost no fighting ability whatsoever.

At that time, in his mind, those prisoners were just disposable expendables. If they died, they died, and the system could just refresh them automatically. Although they were not very useful, they provided him with some cannon fodder.

It was Han Che who made him change his thinking; he really hadn't thought of the idea that manually reviving NPCs could make them stronger.

What if Han Che hadn't mentioned this to him back then?

Qi Yuzhe silently calculated in his mind that, based on his original personality and habits, he would definitely invest all his resources in his equipment and personal combat power.

Then they realized that the NPCs weren't strong enough because there weren't enough of them, so they used the remaining resources to frantically increase the number of prisoners.

If one hundred doesn't work, then two hundred; if two hundred doesn't work, then five hundred. Anyway, automatic refreshing has absolutely no cost.

The end result is that the Tide Prison is crammed with thousands of low-quality prisoners, who crumble at the first touch when they encounter elite player teams. And when those players manage to fight their way up to him and surround him, not a single one of his capable fighters remains.

He looked down at his hands, chuckled softly, a hint of self-deprecation in his voice.

When Han Che tried to win him over, he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that the warden was crazy. He was clearly his own camp's mortal enemy, yet he insisted on leaving him a way out on the battlefield and even took the initiative to come and talk to him about cooperation.

Qi Yuzhe muttered to himself, "If Han Che had been more concerned about the money and hadn't advised me to cooperate with him back then, I wouldn't have had any chance against the warden now."

Given the current strength of those prison guards, Qi Yuzhe no longer has the confidence to contend with the warden, and he probably wouldn't even be able to handle his personal guards.

Han Che's words from before flashed through his mind: Which side am I on?

"What a terrible warden he is..." Qi Yuzhe chuckled to himself and shook his head silently.

He suddenly stopped, a thought flashing through his mind.

Qi Yuzhe sat up straight on the tree trunk, his eyes slightly narrowed.

There were significantly more Asara soldiers at Dam Zero than he remembered.

He hadn't taken it seriously, assuming that the NPCs from Dam Zero had just happened to come to his side.

But if Said also came from another world like himself and Han Che, and if he also had a similar system and resource allocation mechanism, what would he do?

He didn't have someone like Han Che to tell him how to manually revive NPCs, nor did he have the logic of continuously investing in training soldiers. The only thing he could access was the system's default mechanism: recruiting soldiers, expanding, and waiting for the soldiers to refresh themselves.

In this logic, the most direct way to enhance strength is to expand the total size of the army, rather than to improve the quality of individual soldiers.

The result is the situation he sees now. There are significantly more Asara soldiers at Dam Zero than before, but they are still just as incompetent in combat.

That matches up perfectly!

"A commander without troops..." Qi Yuzhe muttered to himself, thinking of the vulnerable Asara soldiers.

He suddenly felt a light kick to his butt.

"Who are you calling a lone commander? One minute you're frowning, the next you're grinning like an idiot!"

Qi Yuzhe got a slap on the butt, but he didn't rush to get up. He looked up and saw that it was indeed Han Che.

The guy was standing next to him, backlit.

"You're only just getting here? You're so slow." Qi Yuzhe stood up from the ground and patted the dirt and grass clippings off the back of his trousers.

"Bad luck, I was teleported to the farthest place." Han Che pursed his lips, glanced at the platform, and said, "I came all the way from the visitor center, clearing out several waves of NPCs along the way, which took some time."

Qi Yuzhe looked him up and down. Han Che's tone was much more normal than it had been a couple of days ago; he was no longer so gloomy and even had a hint of a smile.

Qi Yuzhe then looked to the side and saw Xiaobai following Han Che.

When Xiaobai saw Qi Yuzhe looking over, she tilted her head slightly, blinked her right eye, and gave a smug smile.

She gestured to Qi Yuzhe, indicating that she had successfully fulfilled his instruction to "take care of Han Che" and had won him over.

Qi Yuzhe wore an expression of utter disgust and sighed silently.

I asked you to take care of him, so you should have just done a token effort, but you actually went and flattered him. "You two..."

"What?" Han Che didn't notice Qi Yuzhe's expression. His gaze was fixed on the groups gathered on the platform, counting heads.

Qi Yuzhe swallowed the rest of his sentence: "Never mind, it's nothing. I have something to tell you."

"I have something to tell you," Han Che said almost simultaneously.

The two of them froze at the same time and looked at each other.

Seeing this, Xiaobai chuckled softly, "You two chat first, I'll go to the platform and tell them we've arrived."

After she finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the platform with light steps, leaving the two of them standing under the tree.

"Are you feeling better?" Qi Yuzhe asked after confirming that Xiaobai had left.

"Okay." Han Che nodded. "It's alright, what's wrong? Just tell me."

"You go first," Qi Yuzhe said, leaning against the tree trunk with his arms crossed over his chest and smiling meaningfully. "Judging from your expression, something good must be going on. Don't ruin your mood after I've finished speaking, you go first."

"What are you thinking about? Let's get down to business!" Han Che said irritably, then said seriously, "Said is on the second floor of the large substation. He seems to know I'm here; it's like he's waiting for me."

Qi Yuzhe frowned. "How did you know? That guy surnamed Zhao from Fengming Team 1 just said that Said is near the substation, but the exact location isn't as specific as you described."

"That matches up." Han Che nodded.

"Why do you feel like he's waiting for you?" Qi Yuzhe asked.

"We stared at each other from over a hundred meters away. The guy's gaze wasn't particularly murderous; he probably had something to say," Han Che recalled the scene.

"That's perfect. My situation is also related to Said." He quickly organized his thoughts from the time he was under the tree. "I suspect that Said, like you and me, is also a time traveler. And his situation is probably similar to mine when I first arrived."

Han Che was taken aback: "Why do you say that?"

"Have you noticed that there are significantly more Asara soldiers at Dam Zero than I remember, but their strength hasn't improved much?" Qi Yuzhe gestured with his hand.

"If Said were like me before, unaware that soldiers could be manually revived and trained, he would most likely have poured all his resources into expanding his forces."