Judging from the comic strips drawn by Maiden, the cat people live in swamps, and there is usually no shortage of food. However, for the clean-loving cat people, the environment in places like swamps really makes their lives a bit painful.
Then there is the issue of nocturnal nature. The cat people had also considered moving to the Undercity before, but unfortunately they were rejected by the dark elves on the grounds that the Queen of Darkness, Fred, was allergic to cats...
But now the birth of Eternal Night City is a better substitute for the cat people than the Dark City: the Eternal Night City flying in the sky not only maintains the characteristics of Eternal Night, but at the same time does not need to wait in a closed and dark place for a long time. Underground, there is always fresh air, and when you want to enjoy the sunshine, you can always go out of the city to wander. It is really an excellent gathering place for the cat people!
In fact, the virgin came to the Star Spirit Realm in person to help fight for Eternal Night City this time, and she also had the intention of inspecting the environment of Eternal Night City for the clan.
She was very satisfied with the result, especially after seeing the treatment of the vampire clan after they relocated, which made her determined to help the clan move here.
"welcome."
Mu You readily agreed to the virgin's request.
Unlike werewolves, cat people have conflicts with vampires and will fight every day if they stay together.
As for the cat people, there are currently no bad rumors. This is a very low-key race with a total population of only about 700 people. For Sky City, which can host hundreds of millions of people, their addition will not even make a splash.
"Thank you." The virgin girl held up the cardboard, and underneath the text was a 'relieved' emoticon.
Then the virgin left a teleportation array on the city, said goodbye and left, probably teleporting back to the swamp to inform her tribe of the good news.
"Xiaoya, are the seats full?" Mu You went to find Xiaoya and planned to ask her to leave some vacancies for the cat people.
Xiaoya was still at the desk in the center of the City Lord's Castle, busy operating the City Lord's Book.
"No……"
"How much is left?"
"Still short of... 1.24 million..."
"So many?" Mu You was stunned when he heard this.
The city that was just born only had a population limit of 10 million, but it has been six or seven hours since the birth of Yongye City, and it has only attracted more than 8 million people?
Back in Dawn City, every time we accepted people, it was basically full in seconds. Even the recently-launched Starlight and Dark Night City took at most ten minutes to fill up. However, when we arrived at Yongye City, why did the speed suddenly change? So much difference?
"What conditions did you set for accepting people?" Mu You looked at her strangely.
"There is no setting, everyone who signed up agreed..." Xiaoya said aggrievedly, and showed the Book of City Lord to Mu You.
Mu You stepped forward and took a look.
The result is true, the application interface is empty, as long as all the applicants have been added, even so, there are still only so many people accepted, which can only show that the players' willingness to apply for Evernight City is very low.
Mu You frowned and thought for a moment, but he quickly understood.
The biggest reason is the environmental problems in Yongye City.
The eternal dark sky environment of Eternal Night City is a paradise for nocturnal races, but it is a big trouble for ordinary people.
Ordinary players do not have night vision. In the Eternal Night City, they need to give priority to maintaining lighting at all times when doing anything. As a result, the difficulty of mining and various actions will be greatly increased, and work efficiency will be sharply reduced. Therefore, if there is a choice, , of course no one wants to come.
Another important reason is that twelve cities have now been born, and Dawn City has even gone straight to the fifth-level city. You must know that when it reaches the fifth-level city, the population limit will jump from 50 million to one. 100 million, there will be an additional 50 million quota!
Rather than competing for the 10 million population cap in a special environment like Eternal Night City, it would be better to wait for the 50 million gap in Dawn City in a while. No matter from which point of view, Dawn City's advantages are completely exhausted. Evernight City.
Not to mention, other sky cities are also stepping up their efforts to upgrade their levels. It is conceivable that the demand for new players in various cities will increase significantly in the future.
To put it bluntly, the population of Sky City is no longer as scarce as before. With a large number of cities to choose from, players have naturally become picky.
Nowadays, many players who have not yet joined Sky City are actually "waiting and waiting". After all, there are restrictions on joining and exiting Sky City. Generally, players will want to join the top cities as much as possible to enjoy more as soon as possible. Benefits and new features.
Combining the two aspects, this is the current dilemma of Yongye City: difficulty in recruiting people.
Of course, the population of 10 million at level 0 can definitely be filled, but the players recruited are basically low-level players. As the city level increases, the population limit increases, and the gap between Yongye City and other cities The gap will become more and more obvious.
"Boss, what should I do...?" Xiaoya looked at Mu You carefully and asked.
She has also been the deputy city lord in Dawn City for a long time, so she naturally understands the importance of population to Sky City.
Without a population, there will be a shortage of labor force, and the urban development speed will be hindered. If the development is slow, others will be even less willing to come, thus forming a vicious circle...
"What about this... If there is no population, then let's create a population!" Mu You pondered for a moment and then suddenly said.
"Ah? Chuang, creating a population..." Xiaoya blushed. If it were in reality, she could understand it, but... can it also create a population in the game?
"To be precise, it is to create labor force!" Mu You corrected, and he also realized that what he just said was somewhat ambiguous.
"Labor force?" Xiaoya was puzzled.
"Just like in our store, if we don't recruit people, it won't easily solve the problem of labor shortage." Muyou reminded.
"Oh, robot..." Xiaoya suddenly realized.
Of course she knows how useful the robots in the store are. The labor force of one robot is comparable to four or five employees. They are simply a group of hardworking cows and horses.
If the situation in the store is magnified to the entire Yongye City, it seems that the problem of labor shortage can really be solved...
"But where can we find so many robots?" Xiaoya quickly raised a new question.
If this idea is to be realized, one of the biggest problems is the source of robots. To support the labor of an entire sky city, the number of robots required is really incalculable.
Secondly, there is the issue of energy. Several robots at home consume magic crystals every month. How much energy does a robot that can support an entire Sky City consume every day?
"That's easy to say."
Mu You has quickly calculated everything in his mind.
There is now a goblin alchemist master in Dawn City, and his backpack also contains a previously captured goblin engineer.
According to the little goblin's daily bragging, as long as it has enough materials and energy, it can build a goblin alchemy factory by itself. Even it can do it, let alone the alchemist master.
As for energy, he has no shortage of it.
Mu You transformed into a mecha skin, removed the ancient power furnace from his body, and took out the forest core as an energy source from the furnace.
[Polluted Forest Heart, current pollution level: 99.8053%. 】
Ever since the old goblin transformed the ancient power furnace into an 'energy conversion furnace', this core has been placed in his mecha skin. Mu You usually absorbs all the energy from fighting with his mecha skin.
The most draining thing was the last time he fought Shadow God, he fired the charged cannon non-stop for almost an hour and a half.
However, even with such rough use, after almost a month, the pollution level of this core has only dropped by less than 0.01% compared to before. This shows how huge the energy contained in it is. Wang Yang can't describe it enough.
The task given to him by the forest spirit before was to use up 10% of this core within a year. At his current consumption rate, it is obvious that he cannot complete it unless he does nothing else every day and turns it on all the time. The mecha skin can only be completed by firing cannons in all directions.
However, this is too inefficient and too wasteful. How about using such a huge amount of energy to do something that benefits the country and the people?
But now, something with extremely high energy requirements was placed in front of him.
Thinking of this, Mu You put away the power furnace and core, changed back to his vampire skin, and teleported to Dawn City.
In a tin hut next to the castle, Mu You found Turs Eugene, the 'crazy alchemist' he had brought back before.
When Mu You walked in, Eugene was sitting by the window in a daze.
Hearing the knock on the door, it came back to its senses, moved its shoulders, and walked listlessly to open the door.
"It's you?"
Seeing Mu You at the door, Eugene was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly pulled his trouser legs and shouted: "You came just in time, please let me go quickly, I have something to go back to the clan to see!"
To be fair, Eugene was not abused by anyone when he stayed here. Muyou provided him with sufficient material conditions and did not restrict his personal freedom. He can go wherever he wants in Dawn City. The only restriction is The barrier of Dawn City was closed to it, so it could not get out of Dawn City, and even the death teleportation point was anchored in Dawn City.
So strictly speaking, it is actually under house arrest here.
When he first came here, there was a topic of energy conversion, which gave Eugene a sense of novelty. However, after the energy conversion device was completed, Eugene had nothing to do every day, and this sense of novelty quickly faded away.
He was originally known as a crazy alchemist. He could endure living in risks and excitement every day, but he could not endure the boredom and the days of eating and waiting to die.
"I'm almost out of sight here! You must let me go back today. This is what we agreed at the beginning!" Eugene held on to Mu You's trouser leg and refused to let go.
"Okay, I'll be honest with you."
Mu You had no choice but to shake his head and confess to it: "Actually... your family is gone!"
"???" Eugene looked at Mu You with confusion.
"Seriously, the goblins heard that the Fool was coming back for revenge, so they took Clockwork City and ran away overnight." Mu You spread his hands and glanced at it: "Your status in the goblin tribe is not low, I I hope you understand what I mean."
The fact that the goblins once tricked an ancestor of the Fool and took the fruits of his wisdom as his own was not only known to everyone in the goblin tribe, but some high-level goblins should know it.
Sure enough, when Eugene heard this, he lost consciousness for a while and subconsciously let go of Mu You's hand. After a moment, it reacted and sat on the ground with a thud: "It's over..."
"What's over?" Mu You asked.
"Goblins are an extremely cautious race by nature. They must have made all preparations to escape in Clockwork City like this. They will hide in a place that no one knows and will not have any contact with the outside world for a long time. ...In other words, we wandering goblins have all been abandoned..." Eugene held his head in pain.
Although it is isolated by the goblin tribe and is despised and ridiculed by many tribesmen, it is still a goblin at heart, and it still has deep feelings for the race and the Clockwork City.
Now that the tribe has chosen Shenyin for self-protection, a wandering goblin like it has suddenly turned into a rootless duckweed, which makes it extremely confused for a moment.
"But, even so, you have to let me go!" After being sad on the ground for a while, Eugene suddenly stood up again and said seriously: "This is what you promised back then!"
When it came back with Mu You, it only agreed to help him make an energy converter. Now that the original promise has been completed, there is no reason to detain it anymore.
"Don't worry, if you want to leave, I won't stop you." Mu Youyou.
"That's good!"
Upon hearing this, Eugene immediately went back to the small iron house, dragged out a package that was larger than himself, tied it behind his back, and headed towards the exit of Dawn City.
"But are you sure you want to leave like this without doing anything?" Mu You looked at Eugene's back and suddenly said.
"Um?"
Eugene frowned and turned back: "What does it mean to be inactive?"
"I have helped you make an energy converter and verified my idea. This is an epoch-making invention!" Eugene said with a proud face.
"Your so-called epoch-making invention must rely on my energy core to be effective. Without the core provided by me, your invention will still be useless."
Mu You looked at it and said, "What's more, are you satisfied just by inventing such a thing?"
"What do you mean?" Eugene frowned deeper.
"Don't you have a higher pursuit?" Mu You asked.
"Pursue?"
"For example, building another clockwork city for those goblins who were abandoned by their race like you, or something like that..." Mu Youyou.
"Build another... another clockwork city?!"
Eugene was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes suddenly lit up. He hurriedly unwrapped himself and ran back to Mu You quickly. He asked expectantly: "How do you say it?"
"You have seen my energy core. It contains almost unlimited energy. If I give it to you, will you be able to use it to restore a clockwork city?" Mu You looked at it with a smile.
"Of course I can!" Eugene blurted out.
Then he hesitated for a moment and then said: "However, building a clockwork city requires not only energy, but also materials! Where are the materials?"
"Material?"
Mu You looked at the city in the distance, where the edge could not be seen at a glance: "Isn't it everywhere in this sky city?"
The materials that can be mined by mining in Sky City cover almost all types of alchemical materials.
"You want me to build a clockwork city in Dawn City?" Eugene looked at Mu You in disbelief.
Mu You shook his head: "All the land in Dawn City is useful, there is not so much space for you, but you can go to another place."
"Where?"
"Eternal Night City!"
"Eternal Night...you mean, that eternally dark sky city?" Eugene's eyes lit up.
As one of the oldest alchemists among the goblins, he has certainly heard of the name of the City of Eternal Night.
"Yes, that place should be more suitable for you, right?" Mu You said with a smile.
"Take me to see it quickly!" Eugene couldn't wait.
Although goblins are not completely nocturnal creatures, they are naturally good at mining underground. They have basically stayed in the dark all year round since birth, so working in a dark environment is more in line with their habits and nature.
Mu You didn't waste any time and took it to teleport to Yongye City.
"Where should I build the city?" After arriving here, Eugene looked at the sparsely populated Yongye City, which was in need of development, and hurriedly turned around and asked.
Mu You directly took the map of Yongye City and came over.
Like other sky cities, the scope of Eternal Night City is a circle.
Mu You marked out a quarter of the fan-shaped area on the map and waved his hand: "If you are determined to build a city, this area will be left to you!"
Eugene looked at Mu You in shock, pointed at the map, and confirmed: "You mean, I can use all the minerals in this area at will?"
"As long as you have the ability to dig it out, use it as you like!" Mu You nodded.
"You can let me use your energy core at will?" Eugene swallowed and asked again.
"certainly!"
"Aren't you afraid that I will use up all the energy for you?" Eugene looked at him with a strange expression.
Although the energy core is said to have infinite energy, it is not really infinite. If you want to build an entire clockwork city, even that piece of thing will be consumed sooner or later.
Mu You smiled when he heard this, I was worried that you wouldn't use it fast enough!
"Why don't we sign a gambling agreement?"
"What agreement?" Eugene was stunned.
Mu You took out the dark core of the forest spirit and held it in his hand.
"If you can use up this core within ten months, I will give you a new one!"
"What?"
After hearing this, Eugene came back to his senses after a while, looked at Mu You like a fool, pointed at the core, and then pointed at himself: "I used up this thing, and instead of scolding me for wasting it, you gave it to me as a gift A new piece?"
"Yes, but there is a prerequisite." Mu You nodded.
"What premise?"
"You must use all the energy in this core for the construction of Eternal Night City and not waste it elsewhere!" Mu You emphasized: "If you can ensure the fastest upgrade of Eternal Night City, If the energy of this core is used up within ten months, I will abide by the agreement and give you a new one."
"The question is, can you do it?" Mu You finally asked.
"You underestimate me too much! You underestimate alchemy too much!" Eugene was immediately upset after hearing this. He sneered and said proudly: "Don't say ten months. Believe it or not, I only need half a year. Use it cleanly and make sure nothing goes to waste!”
"Okay, then half a year!"
Mu You immediately changed his mind and said with a smile: "Within half a year, use this core to build an alchemy factory in Yongye City and produce enough robots for the construction of Yongye City until the core's energy is used up."
"I voted for this project!"
(End of chapter)
