Chapter 10

The resource collection in Dashan Village is urgent, especially in the early stages of the game, where the amount of resources will be the biggest bottleneck for the development of the territory!

A beginner village can only accommodate 500 people. If the population limit is reached and no more people can be added, and if the resource reserves do not meet the upgrade standards, it will greatly restrict the development of the territory!

Large player guilds or organizations have an advantage in this area before upgrading to a town. After these large organizations establish a village, they can quickly reach the 500 population limit by adding players to the village. With the population, resource collection and basic construction will naturally be much faster!

Most importantly, each player is given 100 copper by the system when they are born, so the accumulation of money in a player-formed village is not difficult, and it can quickly meet the upgrade requirements!

Without the constraints of resources, player villages do not need to exert much effort to upgrade to intermediate villages, and upgrading to advanced villages is not very difficult either! The real challenge will only appear when upgrading to a town, at which point an official position from the system will be required!

Therefore, in the early stages of the game, the development speed of the villages and territories of large guilds and organizations will be very fast, far surpassing individual players like Yang Rui. Fortunately, Yang Rui obtained the village establishment order relatively early, and currently still has some advantages. As of now, the game has been running for nearly 10 days, and the number of player-established territories on the entire server is still in single digits!

However, it is not easy for Yang Rui to maintain his advantage and not fall behind. Even with his experience from the previous game, he does not have very effective methods to accumulate money.

The main ways to obtain money are basically these few: one is through trade, which is currently not very practical, unless selling some grain or wood resources, which Yang Rui would only consider as a last resort; the second is through mission rewards, which can be temporarily ignored; the third is by killing humanoid monsters, which is probably the only feasible method for Yang Rui at the moment!

Villages are usually accompanied by one or two bandit, pirate, or water bandit camps, and two or three monster camps. The total number of these camps is generally 3 or 4, and the bandit camps contain humanoid monsters!

These camps are designed for the village to train its troops, but after the new territory protection period ends, if the NPCs in the camps accumulate to a certain number, a monster attack on the village will occur!

Thinking and acting, on the tenth day of village establishment, Yang Rui arranged the villagers' tasks and led 13 first-tier militiamen out of the 20 square kilometer territory to search for bandit camps throughout the inner valley. Of course, he also looked for a suitable place to establish a stone quarry.

After a whole morning, Yang Rui and his group almost combed through a 30-kilometer radius around Dashan Village, killing many wild monsters, and finally discovered 5 bandits near Aolai Peak in the northeast of Dashan Village!

"Bandit: 1st Tier, Level 10!"

Finally found them! Yang Rui felt relieved. Since bandits have appeared, the bandit camp is likely to be somewhere nearby! However, these 1st Tier bandits look much worse than his 1st Tier militiamen!

Seeing the 5 scrawny bandits in front of him, Yang Rui wasted no time and led the 13 militiamen to charge forward. This is money!

A 10th level 1st Tier bandit is no match for a 16th level 1st Tier militiaman. Even at the same tier and level, bandits' attack and defense are inferior to militiamen, let alone with a difference of five to six levels and a 5 vs. 13 numerical disadvantage!

The 5 bandits were quickly and easily defeated by Yang Rui's group, and the golden copper coins scattered on the ground did not disappoint Yang Rui. Finally, they dropped money! However, there were no other drops.

When Yang Rui picked up all the copper coins on the ground, he found there were only about 10! They are really cheap, with each one worth only two or three copper coins. They are poor enough!

Yang Rui shook his head helplessly, not realizing that he himself was also very poor!

Continuing to search for bandits, after killing four or five groups of scattered bandits, Yang Rui's group collected over 50 copper coins and discovered the bandit camp from a distance!

"Beginner Bandit Camp:

Troops: 195

Tier: 1st

Characteristics: 1. When troops reach 500, they will attack nearby territories; 2. After destruction, it automatically upgrades to an intermediate bandit camp!"

The description of the bandit camp is simple, mainly introducing the number and level of bandits, as well as the possibility of a monster attack on the village! Yang Rui only glanced at it briefly before heading straight to the bandit camp.

With his experience from the previous game, Yang Rui naturally understands these settings. However, the official website of "World War" provides very little information, and there is no mention of monster attacks on villages. Others will not understand this setting until it is revealed on the forums, and many will suffer!

Yang Rui rushed to the bandit camp to lure the monsters, but to avoid causing too much commotion, he hid his militiamen at a distance.

Sure enough, as soon as Yang Rui appeared within 20 meters of the bandit camp's warning range, a small group of bandits immediately rushed out! There were about 10 of them.

Yang Rui did not delay. Seeing no more bandits coming out of the camp, he quickly led these bandits to the ambush position of his militiamen. The 10 bandits were completely within the capabilities of Yang Rui and his militiamen, and they were quickly eliminated, with copper coins scattered all over the ground.

This time, the bandits lured were slightly stronger than the previous ones, dropping nearly 50 copper coins for Yang Rui. In addition, they dropped a piece of clothing, but with only 5 defense, it was not much better than the clothing equipped by Yang Rui's militiamen, and had little value!

After tidying up, Yang Rui continued to lure more bandits. In about ten minutes, he lured and eliminated another group. Repeating this process, he spent most of the afternoon, luring and eliminating bandits 15 to 16 times. The bandits in the camp were reduced to less than 10, and Yang Rui's money collection reached over 700 copper coins, with about 10 pieces of clothing.

At this point, the camp was almost empty. Yang Rui brought all his militiamen to the bandit camp. Instantly, four or five bandits ran out of the camp, but the last one was equipped with a saber, which was different from the others.

Whether it is a 1st Tier bandit or Yang Rui's 1st Tier militiamen, they are currently equipped with wooden sticks! This bandit equipped with a saber is not a 1st Tier soldier! The saber indicates that there is a classification of soldiers, and it should be at least a 2nd Tier soldier.

"Bandit: 2nd Tier, Level 20!"

Indeed, the bandit with the saber is a 20th level 2nd Tier soldier!

A 20th level 2nd Tier bandit is roughly equivalent to the elite template of the previous bandits, possibly even stronger. However, Yang Rui is just estimating, as there is no direct comparison between the two, and it is purely based on his experience!

Of course, even with the presence of a 2nd Tier soldier, it is not difficult for Yang Rui's militiamen to take down the remaining four or five bandits, but to avoid casualties, they need to be careful!

The battle quickly broke out. This time, Yang Rui led 9 militiamen to isolate and surround the 2nd Tier bandit, while the remaining 4 militiamen dealt with the four much lower-level 1st Tier bandits, with no unexpected outcomes.