Chapter 48

Next, Cheng Yang began to review today's gains. For him, the greatest gain was undoubtedly obtaining the Grafting Skill. However, this skill had been used no less than fifty times today, but the skill proficiency had only increased by 2%. Additionally, the skill consumed 40 points of Spirit Energy, which was not something an ordinary person could bear. Although the learning restriction for this skill was Apprentice Level 1, the 40-point Spirit Energy requirement made it impossible for Apprentice Level 1 users to use it.

For the Luo Feng Village settlement, the greatest gain was still the rescue of nearly three thousand more people. Adding those previously rescued from Hui Min Town, the total was over six thousand people. Including those who had not yet been rescued from Hui Min Town, the population of Luo Feng Village would soon exceed ten thousand.

Cheng Yang did not know how many people were required for the territory to upgrade to a town, but ten thousand was certainly not a small number.

Additionally, today's gains included wood. The combatants who had taken up the carpenter profession managed to cut down 250 units of wood through their efforts. The reason for such an excessive harvest was the dedicated personnel responsible for transportation.

With these 250 units of wood, Cheng Yang could construct two more living buildings. This time, Cheng Yang used 100 units to build a general store, and the rest to build Level 1 civilian houses.

Cheng Yang had considered using all the wood to build shops, but after they were built, their current function would only be to sell some items. As for learning living skills, there were very few people in Luo Feng Village who had enough Spirit Energy to buy the corresponding formulas or blueprints, let alone the Spirit Energy to buy living items.

Actually, Cheng Yang wanted to build a wall more. The Level 1 wall enclosed too small an area, and it was too fragile against attacks from higher-level monsters. However, building a Level 1 wall required 500 units of wood, which Cheng Yang could not gather in a short time, so he decided to use this part of the wood to build civilian houses first.

After these people donated the wood to the village, they each received nearly 20 points of Spirit Energy, including those responsible for transportation. In this aspect, the rules of the world were extremely fair.

However, the Spirit Energy points obtained by the woodcutters were all transferred to Cheng Yang, increasing his Spirit Energy points. Originally, Cheng Yang planned to temporarily leave these Spirit Energy points for them to use, but considering fairness, he still reclaimed the Spirit Energy points. Now, Cheng Yang's total Spirit Energy points reached 2,900, most of which were obtained from killing demonized beasts today, and the Spirit Energy points returned by these people were only about 400 points.

In the evening, after all the refugees were settled, Cheng Yang sent the five teams of Luo Feng Village out to hunt, specifically targeting demonized beasts that could be used to meet the food needs of the territory. As for the food and quick meals found during this period, Cheng Yang kept them for emergencies.

As for himself, after dividing 2,000 points of Spirit Energy into two parts and leaving them to the selected combatants, Cheng Yang led five people into the jungle. For combatants in the early stages of the apocalypse, every minute was incredibly precious, and the more Spirit Energy they could accumulate, the better it was for their growth.

The five people Cheng Yang led were either team leaders or deputy leaders, all of whom Cheng Yang needed to focus on cultivating. Besides lending them Spirit Energy for training, creating opportunities for them to gain more Spirit Energy was also very necessary. When these people grew up, they would inevitably provide more Spirit Energy feedback to Cheng Yang.

It wasn't until around 2 a.m. that Cheng Yang returned to Luo Feng Village. By then, his Spirit Energy points had reached over 1,700, enough for tonight's training.

The next morning, after completing the dungeon clearance and upgrading the profession statues, Cheng Yang led a team to Xiangcheng City to rescue people.

The morning operation went very smoothly, and they successfully rescued Li Wanshan's family and another combatant's family from five rescue points. However, in the afternoon, they encountered some trouble.

A combatant's parents were actually held hostage by someone.

The reason was simple: after the apocalypse, some strong and healthy people's inner evil desires erupted. They formed gangs, coerced people who could not resist, and forced them to search for food. These people themselves hid in safe places, living a carefree life. The combatant's parents belonged to the group of people who were coerced.

When Cheng Yang and his team arrived, they did not see Cheng Yang and his team in action. Although they knew these people were not easy to deal with, they were not particularly worried. Upon learning that the team was there to find people, they immediately held the combatant's parents hostage, putting knives to their necks and demanding that Cheng Yang and his team hand over all the food.

Was Cheng Yang someone who could be threatened? Of course not. Before the other party could react, Cheng Yang's body instantly turned into a stream of light, and in just a breath, he disarmed the two people holding the knives.

The rest was simple. Cheng Yang never showed mercy to such people. Magic missiles shot out one after another, and the bandits were quickly eliminated.

Cheng Yang's iron-fisted approach frightened many people, including some combatants. In the past, Cheng Yang often joked and laughed in front of them, although he was ruthless in killing monsters, he was very kind to people. Now, this completely changed their perception of Cheng Yang. He was not a good-natured person, and his good temper was selective.

This incident, which shocked others, was just a minor trouble for Cheng Yang. After dealing with it, he continued to lead his combatants forward.

Since Cheng Yang chose a route that deliberately avoided the main city of Xiangcheng City, they had not yet encountered any military personnel. However, as they got closer to the city center, Cheng Yang believed that meeting some military personnel would be inevitable.

Cheng Yang did not want to meet these people yet, so he became more cautious during the advance.

Until 4 or 5 p.m., Cheng Yang had not encountered any military personnel, indicating that he had overestimated their advance speed.

Now, most of the rescue points in the southern part of Xiangcheng City had been cleared. Cheng Yang decided to go around the east side the next day and directly enter the northern part of Xiangcheng City for rescue. Although this would take a longer route, it would allow more people to be rescued on the return trip.

In the evening, after returning to Luo Feng Village, the attributes of the four main profession statues had all been upgraded to Level 3.

Building Name: Mage Statue

Level: 3

Profession Research: Life Enhancement (Level 3, Unresearched): Increases the life strength of all mages under this statue by 11%. Upgrade Condition: 500 Spirit Energy Points

Mana Enhancement (Level 3, Unresearched): Increases the mana of all mages under this statue by 11%. Upgrade Condition: 500 Spirit Energy Points

Magic Attack (Level 3, Unresearched): Increases the attack power of all mages under this statue by 11%. Upgrade Condition: 500 Spirit Energy Points

Physical Defense (Level 3, Unresearched): Increases the physical defense of all mages under this statue by 11%. Upgrade Condition: 500 Spirit Energy Points

Magic Defense (Level 3, Unresearched): Increases the magic defense of all mages under this statue by 11%. Upgrade Condition: 500 Spirit Energy Points

Learnable Skill: Wind Bind: Traps opponents with lower attack power, lasting 2 seconds, with a 1-minute cooldown. Higher skill levels increase the duration and reduce the cooldown. Learning Condition: Advanced Magic Apprentice, 200 Spirit Energy Points.

Number of Transfers: 51/206

The changes in the Level 3 profession statues were significant. First, the attribute enhancements increased to 11%, which would only take effect after upgrading. Additionally, the Spirit Energy required for upgrading attributes greatly increased. To upgrade all four main profession statues, 10,000 Spirit Energy Points were needed.

Of course, the biggest change in the Level 3 statues was the addition of a learnable skill. This skill was different from Magic Missiles, which were automatically understood after transferring. This skill required spending Spirit Energy to learn. In this regard, Wind Bind was somewhat similar to the Priest's Angelic Inspiration, except that Angelic Inspiration was a legacy skill, while Wind Bind was a common skill.

The last change was the increase in the number of transfers, from 51 to 206, a more than fourfold increase. This indicated that Luo Feng Village's strength would greatly improve in the near future.

However, Cheng Yang was now in a dilemma: should he continue upgrading the profession statues or gather 20,000 Spirit Energy Points to upgrade the territory level?

After a brief consideration, Cheng Yang decided to continue upgrading the profession statues.

First, such upgrades would not consume all the Spirit Energy points obtained daily, leaving enough for a large number of people to transfer to combatants. Second, once all the transfer slots in the territory were used up, Luo Feng Village would have over 800 combatants, and the total Spirit Energy points they would gain daily would be a huge number. Once Luo Feng Village had a donation function, they would only need to contribute their daily Spirit Energy gains, which would greatly help the village's upgrade.

The more combatants in the territory, the more obvious the benefits of upgrading the statue attributes.

Without hesitation, Cheng Yang immediately chose to upgrade the Mana Enhancement of the four main profession statues and the Life Enhancement of the Priest statue.

Currently, the Priest statue had completed the Level 2 attribute research for Mana Enhancement, Magic Attack, and Divine Favor. Once the other three attributes were upgraded, the Priest statue would also reach Level 3.

Next, Cheng Yang began to arrange for people to transfer. The population of Luo Feng Village had already exceeded ten thousand, with today's increase coming partly from Xiangcheng City and partly from Hui Min Town. It was very easy to find several hundred people to transfer from these people.

PS: Request recommendations and collections. Starting from tomorrow, during the strong recommendation period, if the number of collections can exceed 500 daily, I will add an extra chapter, with a full 3000-word chapter.

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