Ark Journey

Judging from their clothes, they should be the troops that were defeated here by the Military Commission. Unexpectedly, under the influence of the natural disaster, they have become things like this with blue skin, slow movements, no intelligence, and are almost no different from animals.

And the points they get are very few, about the same as Originium Worms.

Just as Xue Zhi released his magic, several creatures crawling on the ground slowly approached him, but after taking a few steps, blades falling from the sky froze them in place.

Looking at this mass of matter made up of a mixture of Originium and organic and inorganic substances, Xue Zhi didn't understand how they were produced and survived. Perhaps this was the masterpiece of Originium and radiation.

After clearing away all the weird things here in an almost sweeping manner, Xue Zhi began to dig source stone crystal clusters again, but every time he dug for a while, a large group of these things would crawl up and approach him, making him feel like he was mining in a mine without torches.

In the early morning, before the sun shone for the first time, Xue Zhi washed herself and flew back to the base. She didn't get much this time, with points only reaching about 200 million. Anyway, it was much less than what Xue Zhi expected, mainly because the fragments that fell from the large source stone crystals could provide very few points.

Landing quietly, Xue Zhi walked into the tent carefully. After taking off her clothes, she lay down beside W, hugged her tightly and began to take a nap.

With more points, she had to buy some things. After taking a short nap, Xue Zhi thought about what to buy while cooking in the morning.

The first thing is an arcane bath and a large amount of arcane bath salts. These things are very important, just fill them up and give them to Hedley when the time comes.

Exchange it for a large backpack, then 5 Arcane Baths (200 points/each), and finally 53 sets of Arcane Bath Salts (100 points/each).

These cost a total of 340210 points, which was just a drop in the bucket for Xue Zhi, who already had a huge sum of 200 million yuan.

His system panel now looks like this.

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Name: Xue Zhi

Race: Human [Spirit + Void Infection] (Stable)

Time: 6:51 (am)

Score: 1670210

Currency Points: 0

Food Points: 10086

Drug points: 9997

Shop

warehouse

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The days passed quickly. These days, Xue Zhi worked in the fields during the day and went to night school to give lectures at night. As a person who had experienced the orthodox information age and knew a little about all kinds of knowledge, many people were willing to listen to his lectures.

A surprise attack on the people in charge of the mines has also been scheduled, waiting for them to learn the commonly used characters.

Although we didn't learn anything, the surface coal can still be mined very safely. After being modified, those flatbed trucks have almost become specialized for transporting coal.

The first warehouse for storing coal was also successfully built. During this period, several apprentices who were learning to make bricks also participated. Although they damaged a lot of raw materials and finished products, fortunately Xue Zhi had no shortage of these things, so she let them make as much as they wanted. Without restricting the use of raw materials, they made rapid progress.

The general framework of the town government was also established. Not to mention other departments for now, the Security Department, also known as the police station, was actually handed over to Xue Zhi. However, he was not responsible for its specific operations. He was only responsible for the daily supplies of these full-time soldiers. The people who were really responsible for this were W and her three team leaders.

It's nepotism (real).

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When I was in junior high and high school, I was not good at writing Chinese compositions, but after entering college I started to like writing something. At first, I wrote short stories about voice actors’ CPs on Bilibili, and I also promoted them there. I wonder if there are any brothers from there, my author name is also related to that.

The first time I wrote a long article was last year, but it was only 16 words and the deadline was 200. Plus the pressure of the approaching postgraduate entrance examination, I gave up. I said I would come back to update it, but the pressure of not being able to pass the national line in a single subject kept me from getting interested. Everything disappeared until the results came out.

Then this book came out. Although the performance was not very good, it is after all my first book that was successfully signed. Besides, I had nothing to do after finishing my graduation thesis, so I will try my best to complete it and show you the Terra world that I imagined.

I won’t say much more. See you tomorrow at 12 noon. There will be at least five updates.

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Chapter 69: Good Development (1/5)

An interesting thing happened today. When Xue Zhi and the others were working in the fields, a vendor drove a van along the road that they had paved when they went to the Tower of Babel and came to this small village.

It seems that the situation outside has really stabilized, and business has begun to gradually recover.

Because there hadn't been any peddlers here for a long time, many villagers put down their work and went to see if there was anything new or useful that they could buy.

Feeling it was interesting and wanting to trade with the outside world through him, Xue Zhi also followed the crowd.

In the open space at the entrance of the village, the peddler had opened the compartment from the side, and the van instantly turned into a small shop.

From a distance, Xue Zhi could see that there was more than just the driver in the car. There seemed to be a woman busy working there. Perhaps it was a husband-and-wife shop.

Kazdel does not have its own currency, and dog tags that can be used in Scar Emporium are obviously difficult to obtain in these places. The villagers can only use currencies from various countries that have been in circulation for who knows how long to trade with peddlers.

Fortunately, the knowledgeable peddler would not care about these things. As long as the currency was not severely damaged, he would accept it.

Buy some clothes or cloth, some seasonings, or some Originium energy for household tools, or some gadgets to entertain the kids, anyway, there is always something worth getting.

After looking for a long time, Xue Zhi even found that there were books for sale on the bus, but those books were not very serious.

Xue Zhi waited until the villagers had finished their purchases and left before she went up.

Seeing another customer coming, the boss greeted them warmly:

"What do you need?"

Xue Zhi pointed to the book at the top of the shelf with a scantily clad Sarkaz girl on the cover.

"I want to read that book."

The boss looked in the direction his finger pointed and then gave a smile that all men understand.

"Be careful, this book is not cheap."

"Ah."

After taking the book, Xue Zhi quickly flipped through a few pages and was very satisfied when he found the various kinds of jewelry worn by the girls in the book.

After closing the book, Xue Zhi placed a piece of gold on the counter.

"Red gold transaction?"

"That's fine, but it's too much. Do you have any smaller pieces?"

Xue Zhi did not put away the gold, but made other requests. He planned to use Longmen coins as currency here first, and then change them if other currencies were issued later.

"Do you have any Longmen coins? Exchange the extra red gold for it."

"Yes, I do, but it's not worth the value of your gold."

The boss was very honest, which made Xue Zhi feel that she could do something through him.

"It's okay. Just think of the rest as asking you to do me a favor. Don't worry, it's not a bad thing." Xue Zhi laughed and pointed to the village behind him and the mercenary group's base next to the village. "We have just started to develop here. We need a lot of things and have to sell some things. All of these are related to money and businessmen. If you have more connections, you can introduce him to come and have a look."

Then Xue Zhi took out several pieces of coal. They were all controlled by telekinesis and were slowly rotating. They were not placed on the counter.

"This is our main cargo at the moment, coal. As you can see, it's of good quality. I wonder if you're interested in buying some or if you know anyone who's interested in this kind of stuff?"

The boss and his wife looked at each other. After a brief silence, the boss spoke:

"If they are all of this quality, we can buy some now. After a while, a friend will come here. We will tell him then. As for whether he comes or not, it is not up to us to decide."

"No problem. You can also accept this piece of red gold as a commemoration of our transaction."

Xue Zhi, who had made her first deal, smiled and stretched out her hand to shake hands with the boss, then took out the drone operating terminal and sent a message to Hedley.

Soon, a flatbed truck came over carrying coal.

After weighing and paying, the boss gave all the Longmen coins he had on him to the quartermaster who was temporarily in charge of the money.

Xue Zhi said that during this time, she melted the red gold into a round commemorative coin and engraved a Chinese character "卡" on it. It might not be suitable for making complicated jewelry, but it could be used to make small items like this.

After placing the commemorative coins on the table, Xue Zhi asked another question:

"One more thing. Can you contact someone who sells vehicles? It doesn't have to be high-end, as long as it works."

"We will try our best to help you contact them. As you know, it is difficult to produce such delicate things in Kazdel."

"Ah."

The transaction was a happy one for both parties. Before leaving, Xue Zhi asked the peddler to bring more Longmen coins next time he came, so that he could exchange them for red gold. The peddler and his wife happily agreed.

After they left, Xue Zhi took out a few wooden boards, hammered them together to form a huge signboard, then wrote a few words on it in Kazdel language, and finally placed it next to the intersection leading into the village.

When the above words are translated into Chinese in a faithful, expressive and elegant way, they become "Kazitun" (Le).

At night, while W hadn't come back yet, Xue Zhi took the book she had bought and started reading. A ball of molten gold and some small granular gems were floating in the air, constantly changing their shapes.

To be honest, it's a bit difficult to make jewelry for W. Some Sarkaz wear ornaments on their horns, but her horns grow downwards, not upwards as usual. Another thing is that her ears are not the pointy ears common to Sarkaz women, but the ones that are almost the same as those of normal humans, and are covered by hair and horns.

No wonder this girl doesn’t wear jewelry and only applies nail polish. I guess she either doesn’t want to buy any jewelry or can’t buy any.

After putting away all the things, Xue Zhi lay on the ground and began to think about what to do next.

Except for the newly reclaimed ones, the farmland is basically almost finished. After finishing this side, he will go there personally to catch the wild animals. Before that, he has to build a strong enough fence.

You don't need to worry too much about the farmland at the back. Just plant another wave of green manure crops in autumn about a month later. After they grow well, turn them into the soil. This way, the farmland will be much more fertile next year.

As for the new crops to be planted later, Xue Zhi plans to see how much land will be available at that time, and then decide the planting ratio of food crops and cash crops.

The first transaction was completed, and preparations were made for the future. The mine had already reached its maximum output, and the mercenary group had no extra manpower to send to mine. Everyone had things to do, and perhaps some villagers would go there to work later.

The artificial forest is growing well. Perhaps it’s because he planted the saplings himself and from Minecraft, they are growing very fast.

The bamboos have already sprouted. I believe it won't be long before they grow into a bamboo forest. It would be nice to make some handicrafts to sell then.

By the canal, some mercenaries have begun trying to weave nets to catch fish, but no one in the village knows how to do it, and the mercenaries who explored on their own have broken several nets; fishing is better, but they often come up empty-handed as they don't have much bait.

Overall, the scene of thriving vitality and flourishing development is still before our eyes.

Chapter 70: Capturing Livestock (2/5)

In the next few days, after finishing the work in the fields, Xue Zhi found a few influential people in the village and talked about fencing off land to raise livestock. He could make direct decisions on many matters regarding the mercenary group, or should it be called the town now, but he had to discuss matters involving the indigenous people here, although the two parties should be integrated in the future.

Sitting on the edge of the field, several old men chatted with Xue Zhi while smoking.

"Raising livestock? That's a good suggestion. But you also know that we don't have fences here, and there isn't enough pasture nearby. Every household has some leftover food in their cellar, but I don't think it will last long."

"I can handle all of these. It just depends on whether you can spare the manpower to raise them."

The mercenary group is currently developing wasteland to solve the food problem and cannot spare manpower to solve the problem here, and they don't know how to do it.

Domesticating livestock is a delicate job. The best Xue Zhi can do is to bring back all those animals. It takes the experience of the village veterans to truly transform wild animals into docile and usable livestock.

"If that's the case, then there's no problem."

"Well, you guys pick some people, I'll go and fence off the pasture now."

After getting a positive answer, Xue Zhi stood up and stretched. It was quite easy to discuss the matter here.

Because they have just started, the mercenary group and the village are still somewhat separated. Perhaps after a while, when the mercenary group has built houses and the word "town" becomes a reality, the two can be combined into one.

In fact, it is almost the same now. Xue Zhi's influence has penetrated into every corner of this place, the fields, the canals, and his treatment of the villagers has made him feel like he has rebuilt this village. He is also a member of the mercenary group, so integration into the group will not be difficult.

In an open space outside the village, Xue Zhi exchanged a lot of cobblestone fences. This unremarkable building block was very cheap, and when placed on the ground, the huge height of 1.5 meters and sufficient thickness were enough to trap various livestock and defend against possible predators.

Looking at the large tract of land that had been vacated by the previous afforestation, Xue Zhi took out the operating terminal and counted the number of wild animals that the drone could now find.

Not many, the number of all visible wild animals including their cubs does not exceed 50.

"With this number, a 300 x 300 area should be enough. They won't reproduce by feeding them some wheat, resting and then continuing to reproduce the next day."

After making the decision, Xue Zhi immediately started to act. He floated in the air and put down fences one by one, just like he was building something. It was a pity that he didn't have a building wand, otherwise it would have been faster.

A bright gray and white mixed line gradually emerged on the gray-green ground, followed by the second and third lines, and finally they formed a square.

The work was not over yet. After landing, Xue Zhi took the iridium drill and began to replace the ground blocks. The grass blocks with soft green grass on them replaced the wasteland soil with little green.

A large number of grass blocks were evenly spread in the 9 square meters of pasture. Xue Zhi then exchanged a large amount of stored bones to synthesize bone meal to green the area. A handful of bone meal could make the surrounding area within three or four meters become lush and green.