Firewood capable of sustaining thirty-two villagers for one hundred and seventy-four days.
The only two who can be considered truly capable of fighting are Nossa and Lucas. The reserves of food and water are only about ten days.
Although Lucas can fight, he really can't help in these aspects. Nosa, or Wu Hui, can only find a way on his own (I'm really not used to writing Nosa, so I'll just call him Wu Hui from now on).
“It is impossible to sustain these reserves until the cultivation is completed.”
So the first step is through trade.
There are only two things that can be sold, people and firewood.
Wu Hui would definitely not sell people, so he planned to sell a few worker ants, about a month's worth of firewood, and Lucas' labor force.
From an outside perspective, the so-called firewood is nightmare fuel. And Lucas' combat power is roughly equivalent to that of a level five player. In this lightless world, the top experts are probably at the level of advanced players. The legendary gods and the Seven Kings mentioned in the opening quest may be stronger.
The level of level five players is already considered pretty good.
"It's okay if I work as a laborer..." Lucas did not refuse: "So your next step is to build a signal tower to attract highland businessmen?"
Signal towers are also firewood-consuming structures. But the consumption is not large. You can announce your presence to those around you. Passing merchants, refugees, missionaries and crow doctors can all see your location. At the same time, you can also feel the location of some other signal towers.
The fighting power of Wu Hui and Lucas is enough to defend such a small firewood. It's actually not appropriate to use days to convert. You have to consider that there are only forty people here, and the amount that needs to be consumed is very small.
It is really difficult to keep such a village alive.
There is also good luck. About the next day, a group of merchants passed by. They used gold coins jointly issued by several major lords to purchase and sell various supplies. Including food, firewood, population, architectural drawings, weapons...
The merchants who carried torches and wandered around the major camps prevented these villages from being completely closed to death. Of course, things like forced buying and selling, incorrect prices, and the like are inevitable.
Wu Hui first purchased grain and seeds. As for water, they had already found a river nearby. The water outside the range of light is polluted by darkness, and drinking it will speed up the death and mutation of humans.
Mutated animals or people are actually a treasure. Strange crystals will be produced inside their corpses, which can be used as spellcasting materials and materials for some buildings. Sun towers and signal towers are needed.
In addition, the babies of mutated animals and the seeds of mutated plants. It can also become an edible species if grown in a light environment. Some even possess magical powers.
So for this world, firewood is the hardest currency. Harder than gold. After all, even ordinary stones will turn into gemstones if exposed to light for a long time.
The entire world depends on firewood, and the supply of firewood continues to decrease.
So finding a way out is a must.
Traveling merchants cannot provide too many resources at once, so they can only buy them food for about a month at most. It will be even less as the population increases. After building a signal tower, you cannot immediately gain the trust of a large number of businessmen. Only a few people will come.
It usually takes several days to come across a batch. If you have any specialties here, they might come more often.
Without understanding the market, you are often easily ripped off.
Of course, the premise is that you have fighting ability, otherwise the traveling merchants may become a bandit. They have no moral integrity in this regard.
Specialties are available. Wu Hui and others carried a kind of medicinal seeds with them, which had been sown together with the grain. But it takes three months to grow. In other words, within three months they could only live in misery.
Unless you find open pits or shallow veins of minerals around.
Wu Hui took a deep breath. There must be no open-pit mines, but he would still have to spend time looking for shallow veins nearby. My glasses have a scanning function and were obtained during an expedition. Great advantage in finding resources.
Where firewood shines, there is a high probability of a mine being buried. It's just a matter of depth.
Lucas followed the caravan and Wu Hui asked him to find a place to make money as a mercenary. Wu Hui began to search for mineral veins around him. But with just a few people, it’s useless to find mineral veins. I hope more refugees will come as soon as possible...
Don't come too much either. Otherwise, you can't manage it alone. There was not even a third person in the village who could read.
Even though I have used all my worker ants, I still don’t have enough manpower. In short, Wu Hui was quite distressed when faced with a camp that lacked everything. He wanted to send this group of people to the town for shelter.
However, towns are different from wilderness camps like them. The population is basically saturated. After all, the scope of light is limited. You either become a slave when you enter, or you have very strict standards.
Wu Hui, who didn't even have a pen and paper and could only build a blueprint for the future on the ground and in his mind, sighed.
Fortunately, he found a shallow vein. A colony of mutant creatures - giant lizards - were also found living nearby. The latter can be used for hunting, or to capture cubs and tame them.
Well, the creatures were also active near firewood flames before. Perhaps the degree of mutation was not high, and the meat could still be eaten in the short term.
As for the vein, it's bronze, a metal that's relatively easy to smelt, so it's pretty good. If you can cultivate enough craftsmen to make tools, weapons, armors, etc., you basically don’t have to worry about resources for the time being.
Wu Hui is quite satisfied with this ending. But after Lucas left, there were only thirty-nine people, including a dozen worker ants, and there was still a serious shortage of manpower.
We hope that some refugees will come and join us. It would be nice if there were some reliable helpers among them.
Cell towers come in several different colors. Green represents welcome to outsiders and merchants, red represents exclusiveness, and yellow represents something in between.
In addition, there are black and white colors used by religious forces. Wu Hui naturally made the signal tower emit green light. But others may not immediately believe this kind of light. Because many robbers also use this green light for fishing.
There will always be people who are exhausted. Just like us before, no matter whether there is danger or something ahead, we can only move forward.
Commanding the soldier ants and using the ice ability, he successfully killed several mutated lizards and brought back more than a dozen eggs.
Build another sun tower over the mining area - when you have money in the future, you must buy more advanced sun tower blueprints. Lizards are also kept here.
There is no rush to hatch, there is no food to feed now that it has hatched.
In short, you have to find a way to accumulate resources.
Is this a business simulation game? Wait, what is a business simulation game?
Wu Hui looked at his medieval-style clothes and pondered, once again confused by the word medieval that suddenly popped up in his mind.
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