All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

Chapter 137 Recruiting Abyss Citizens

The small gift pack is self-explanatory. The medium and large gift packs are essentially enlarged versions of the small gift pack. The probabilities of the basic and advanced rewards remain the same, only the quantity has increased, but the final grand prize has become slightly more interesting.

Rare quality blueprints can be built without workers, while precious quality blueprints don't even require materials. If this gap continues, will extinct quality blueprints not even require construction time? This is a question worth considering.

Yang Fei has a rare blueprint, and it's a unique blueprint for the Abyss Nursery Pool. Unfortunately, his Sky Island quality is not up to standard, so he can't see the specific attributes or construction requirements and therefore can't test it.

As for whether there are any even more outrageous gift packs than the big gift pack, Yang Fei was a little unsure. But after opening all these gift packs, Yang Fei was certain of one thing: never pin your hopes on verifying the probability of success on this, because that negligible probability can really drive people crazy!

Yang Fei opened a small gift pack of 320 city wall construction cards and obtained 959 initial city wall construction cards and one gray-quality city wall upgrade card. The probability of this advancement reward is close to one in a thousand.

Yang Fei opened the 30 gray wall building card gift packs and got 900 wall building cards, all of which were basic rewards, without any surprises; not to mention the big wall building card gift pack, which only contained 300 basic wall building cards.

This probability left Yang Fei speechless. He could only put away the "precious" city wall upgrade card and then use up all the city walls one by one. It seemed that he had really gotten lucky when he opened the similar resource pack and got 10 gray quality stones.

Otherwise, given this probability, even if I opened all the current resource packs, I might not be able to obtain those 10 gray-quality stones.

All 2159 wall-building cards were used for expansion, and Yang Fei's original 1390-meter wall rapidly extended to both sides. This did not require Yang Fei to deliberately operate it; the wall had an extension attribute, and as long as there were resources, it could be extended according to the lord's plan. This was especially convenient when using wall-building cards that did not consume resources.

Soon, Yang Fei's city wall expanded to 22980 meters. Including the city gate, Yang Fei's city wall reached 22990 meters. This length is quite exaggerated, to the point that it could no longer fit at the edge of Yang Fei's sky island.

Helpless, Yang Fei took out four gray-quality Sky Island Core Stones and expanded the Sky Island's radius to 4000 meters before finally placing all the city walls at the edge of the Sky Island.

Yang Fei had initially thought that the side length of his previous sky island was ridiculously long, and that it would take him quite a while to cover the entire edge of the sky island with walls. He hadn't expected that this time, simply using all the gray wall construction cards at once would fill the entire edge of the sky island. By the time he realized it, it was too late to back out.

There's no way around it; all the wall construction cards have already been put in. The wall's pre-set self-expansion feature does make it convenient for the lord to use, but it's impossible to take out the invested resources.

During its extension, the lord can only adjust the strategy and direction of the wall's extension, and cannot stop it at will, which can be considered another price to pay for its convenience.

Yang Fei then realized that once the quantity increased, nothing was impossible, especially in the architectural field. Once the quantity increased, the level of trypophobia might be more terrifying than some insects, and it could really make people's scalp tingle!

"Sigh! The road home seems even longer now."

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The distance from here to the core cabin is nearly 4 kilometers, which is quite a distance. It would probably take a normal person almost an hour to walk there. Even if Yang Fei is a martial artist and can walk faster, it would still take him more than half an hour. The problem of transportation has once again come to Yang Fei's mind, and it must be solved as soon as possible.

However, this was also part of Yang Fei's planned expansion. He needed to build more houses and spirit fields, and with the addition of the refugee camp on Qianwu Star and the Elf Hills, the area of ​​Yang Fei's sky island was no longer ideal.

In particular, the Elf Hills and the Refugee Camp, one with a vast area and the other with a large population, are even larger than the spirit fields and houses built by Yang Fei combined. This is quite unreasonable for Sky Island, whose productivity is still in the "agricultural era".

Having unwittingly fulfilled the expansion condition ahead of schedule, Yang Fei decided to relax and take out the three gray resource packs he had previously obtained, intending to use them one by one to enrich the basic materials of the Sky Island and prepare for further expansion.

Yang Fei used 60 resource packs first, and finally obtained 2400 units of wood, 2000 units of stone, 1500 units of iron ore, and 10 units of gray quality iron ore.

Adding to what Yang Fei already possessed, his current ordinary material reserves have reached 2689 units of wood, 3700 units of stone, 1700 units of iron ore, and 1650 units of iron ingots.

With these resources, Yang Fei felt more confident. He had five construction workers selected from among those who had joined him on Qianwu Star. Together with his 15 inferior demons, they spent two wooden house blueprints, 2000 pieces of wood, 200 pieces of stone, and 20 crystals to begin building new houses near the previous residential area.

It wasn't that Yang Fei didn't want to build more, nor was it that he lacked resources and blueprints; rather, he simply didn't have enough construction workers. Including the wells and ports still under construction, Yang Fei had already deployed 45 inferior demon workers.

He only has 198 lesser demons under his command, 100 of whom are still fighting alongside him. The remaining lesser demons have other jobs and are too busy to spare any time for him. As for the elves and the Qianwu aliens, it's even more impossible for him to help them.

If one's own lesser demons are all-rounders with mastery of basic skills, then those elves and humans are ridiculously unbalanced. As mentioned before, elves are better at crafting than building, so there are few construction workers.

On the human side, the majority were students and women and children, with few adult males working as construction workers. Moreover, not all of them had become his subjects yet, so being able to spare these five people was already quite good.

Yang Fei was genuinely short of construction workers, so this was the only option. Having three construction teams working simultaneously was quite a lot, and he wasn't too dissatisfied. Although he was anxious, he had to respect the actual conditions of the Sky Island and couldn't develop blindly.

"Damn!" Could I use copper coins to recruit these Abyss citizens? I've always wanted to use recruitment cards to recruit citizens, and I've forgotten about the original function of the recruitment hut. You can recruit once for 50 copper coins!

Just as Yang Fei was preparing to give up on building houses and focus on preparing for the upcoming battle, he suddenly realized the problem.

"Why have I never realized this problem, and why have I always subconsciously ignored this simplest method?" Instead of rushing to spend money to recruit people, Yang Fei began to think about it.

Furthermore, all the subjects Yang Fei recruited using recruitment cards were Abyss species. Yang Fei had never liked these Abyss species before, but after gaining a deeper understanding of Succubi and Lesser Demons, he found these Abyss species to be utterly outrageous.

Succubi are a given, being the only way to deal with those Void Treasure Chest Monsters. As for the Lesser Demons, who are always looked down upon by the Abyss Demons, their basic skills are incredibly comprehensive. Normal species are lucky to have one or two class skills, but these Lesser Demons are almost omnipotent.

Almost every lesser demon possesses the five most basic skills: farming, cooking, logging, quarrying, and building. Some lesser demons even know some material processing and advanced cooking. It's absurd that a demon from the resource-poor abyss can make food that tastes better than me, a "master" who has been learning to cook since childhood.

"It seems that these inferior demons, no! I should say these demons, really understand the human heart of intelligent beings. As their lord, I subconsciously ignore these guys from the dark side of the world because I am human."

"They may be conspicuous to other intelligent life forms, but because their loyalty to me was unwavering from the beginning, I don't feel that sense of fear etched deep in my soul. I just dislike them out of cognition, so I always subconsciously ignore them."

Yang Fei's divergent thinking worked at a rapid pace, and he actually found a few reasons why he would subconsciously ignore the option of recruiting people with money: "First, he has lost the concept of money, which leads him to subconsciously ignore that he is very rich, or he has been used to saving money for many years and has not realized that he is very rich."

"Secondly, the experience of my predecessors tells me that recruiting people in the early stages is a waste. It's better to save the money from recruiting a person, buy more defense towers, clear more waves, and get the daily challenge limit. That's the way to go. I always wanted to use recruitment cards to get people for free."

"Thirdly, as an intelligent being in an ordered world, the innate fear of abyssal creatures is ineffective against me. In fact, because of their excessive loyalty, coupled with the existence of the succubus sisters, my understanding of these lower-level demons is too insignificant." Their abilities are also relatively average, with nothing outstanding, which leads me to always overlook them.

In fact, it is precisely because they are so average in all aspects that they are meaningful to us. In the early stages of the development of the Sky Island, we do not need any highly skilled talents or too professional technicians, because we have nothing and the Sky Island is barren. Instead, we need basic talents who can help us farm, cut down trees, quarry stone, and carry out construction.

Having thought everything through, Yang Fei no longer hesitated and opened all the remaining 240 basic material gift packs, obtaining another 29000 units of wood, 29000 units of stone, and 14000 units of iron ore. There were no surprises, but his basic materials were abundant once again.

Yang Fei still has 8 gray ordinary quality house construction blueprints and 7 gray ordinary quality spirit field construction blueprints. Due to the lack of seeds, the construction of the spirit fields can be delayed, but the construction of the houses can be completed within the next two days.

After this wave, the number of treasure chests will definitely continue to increase, and it will be even more troublesome to open more blueprints. Therefore, before this wave starts, I must use all the usable blueprints.

Eight house blueprints can build 80 wooden houses, requiring at least 80 workers. Yang Fei could afford to support 80 lesser demons, so he directly invested 4000 copper coins into the huts and, unsurprisingly, recruited 70 lesser demons and 10 burrowing beasts.

It seems that my recruitment hut wasn't affected by the green-quality recruitment card, but could recruit these abyssal species on its own. This is a bit strange. It's not the recruitment mechanism I'm familiar with.

According to explanations from Tower Defense World and its predecessors, isn't this supposed to be random? Why are these abyssal creatures clinging to me? Am I destined to become the abyssal lord?

After spending another 500 copper coins to complete the remaining 10 inferior demons, Yang Fei finally gathered 80 construction workers, costing 8000 copper coins.

After using 1 unit of wood, 800 units of stone, and 80 gray energy crystals, construction began on these 80 brand-new wooden houses.

Subsequently, Yang Fei spent 2000 copper coins, 2000 wood, 1000 stone, and 200 iron ingots to upgrade his four level-three lumber mills to level four. Since he had made up his mind, it was best to upgrade these resource-based buildings to the highest level as soon as possible.

"Lumber Mill (Initial Level 4): A basic resource building that can be rebuilt at a cost after being destroyed, but requires starting the upgrade process again. It can produce 90 units of basic wood per day."

Ten citizens are required to work, each working 8 hours a day, and each citizen must be paid at least one copper coin per week. Increasing the salary will further increase the citizens' favor and loyalty.

Lumber Mill (Upgradeable): Can be upgraded to level 5 by spending 1000 copper coins, 1000 wood, 500 stone, and 100 iron ingots.

Increase the daily production of common timber to 100 units, increase the production of gray quality timber to 10 units, and provide an additional job.

Note that this building is a basic building and has reached the quality cap. The next upgrade will raise it to gray quality. The level cap can be raised along with the core building upgrade. Once the corresponding level is reached, the quality will be improved, and high-quality wood will be produced.

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The lumberyard has reached its level cap. The next upgrade will be a quality upgrade. Although upgrading these basic buildings won't lead to any upgrade challenges, it will still add some burden. Upgrading to level 5 will produce gray quality wood, but it's not very meaningful to me.

I have the Lost Jungle, which produces gray-quality wood every day. But since I'm not upgrading my Sky Island, some of this gray-quality wood is practically useless. Upgrading the lumber mill will only increase production a little, it won't bring about a qualitative change!

However, on the other hand, if upgrading the quarry can produce gray quality stone, I can upgrade it myself. After all, I am still building a well, and the well must be upgraded, so the quarry must also be upgraded to level 5.

Since that's the case, it doesn't matter. After all, I still prefer symmetry. The quarry is already planned to be upgraded to level five, so these logging camps should also be upgraded to level five, so I won't always feel uncomfortable.