"No one is allowed to approach this place without permission."
"From now on, this is a restricted area."
Chen Yu stood in front of the City Lord's Mansion of the city-state, his expression filled with unprecedented solemnity. Everyone listened and nodded, and Er Gou personally led men to patrol here.
Before leaving, Chen Yu looked at the lifeless City Lord's Mansion for a long time.
"Dead City."
"No wonder this city-state was never repaired after being abandoned."
Chen Yu murmured to himself as he walked on the city streets with his hands behind his back. Many people greeted him in low voices as they saw him, their expressions filled with fear.
Chen Yu didn't care about this.
From the beginning, he had no intention of taking a popular route. Those freed slaves had too much ingrained servitude. In order to let them live here with peace of mind, Chen Yu did not hesitate to become colder-blooded.
The fear of the citizens did not hinder the development of the city-state.
In just a few days, while Chen Yu was away exploring the underground monster phase, the areas within the city-state had been demolished and rebuilt. The entire city-state almost lacked the appearance of a city-state. Even when the necromancer was in power, the situation looked better than it did now.
But—
Although the city-state was demolished and ruined, the people in the city had smiles on their faces, which were filled with expectations and longing for a prosperous future.
It was just that when they saw Chen Yu, they all subconsciously restrained their smiles.
They buried their heads in work.
On the contrary, when they saw Kailin beside Chen Yu, the former slaves of the city-state could wave happily and call out "Hello, City Lord."
"These slaves really fear me to their bones."
Chen Yu murmured softly, and Kailin, who was smiling and nodding at the slaves, also smiled slightly.
"Su Ni has been subtly changing their deep-rooted ideas during this time. I believe it won't be long before they understand your good intentions."
"It doesn't matter."
Chen Yu didn't care whether he was understood or not.
He never did things to cater to someone's ideas, only to have a clear conscience. Whether they were refugees, slaves, or survivors, even if Chen Yu was an unforgivable villain in their eyes, he didn't care if he was pointed at by thousands of fingers.
Time would prove everything!
The position one stood at determined the problems and ways of thinking, and Chen Yu could understand and accept everyone's views.
However, he would never stop his steps.
"Tell Fang Xiu to lead people to repair a road as soon as possible." Chen Yu pointed at the muddy ground. "He came from outside, doesn't he know the saying that to get rich, you must first build roads? Now the city-state is in chaos, and a rain will make the city-state muddy. This also affects the efficiency of basic resource transportation and may even cause injuries."
"Okay."
"Also, tell the exploration team to expand their exploration range and explore as many city-states as possible. The procurement department should continue to purchase various basic materials from the explored city-states and increase the demand."
"Understood."
"Go busy. If you have other matters, find me at the camp."
Watching Kailin's retreating figure, Chen Yu slowly exhaled with his fists clenched.
Time was so tight.
According to his development plan, as long as his city-state traded with surrounding city-states in an orderly manner, it should be able to secure a place in the underground within about two years.
This was already quite efficient development.
Think about it, the development of any city took years and years, even ten years was a snap of the fingers for a city.
Chen Yu's initial conception of two years was already rocket-like progress.
Even so,
It still required his resource acquisition here to be unobstructed.
In his plan, cooperation with the Mermaid Kingdom was a very important part, trading with the Mermaid Kingdom through Ilya as an intermediary.
At this stage, Chen Yu's trading partners were,
Jiang Yaqing, Xu Nuo... Although they possessed the accumulations of their families from before the underground, and had many people working for them to obtain resources for leapfrog development.
For Chen Yu, it was still not enough!
Basic resources, Chen Yu himself did not have enough.
What he sold outside were relatively more expensive products, such as canned Flame Fruit and Perfect-grade equipment. The two of them could not consume the goods in large quantities.
Only the powerful figures in the underground could truly satisfy Chen Yu's export demand.
Moreover, they had to be trustworthy.
Chen Yu had been in the underground for too long, and his development had already seriously disrupted the development of outsiders within the current timeline. This led to his slightly awkward situation now.
He had goods, but he couldn't turn them into usable wealth.
After thinking about it, the Mermaid Kingdom, where Ilya was located, was the most suitable. However, Ilya had left the camp now, and he didn't even have a contact method.
"Man proposes, but heaven disposes."
Chen Yu sighed as he leaned back on the rattan chair, quietly rubbing his Silver-grade set.
The last night!
If the Silver set did not have the Lucky set, Chen Yu would not bother to wait any longer and would directly open the God-given treasure chest.
[Underground Reminder: Crafting Successful]
[Underground Reminder: Crafting Successful]
[Underground Reminder: Crafting Successful]
...
One Silver-grade equipment after another was crafted, but the Lucky attribute set still did not appear. It had to be said that the Lucky set was indeed a rare attribute. Given that he already had the White Dragon Jade Pendant, it was still so difficult to obtain the Lucky set. Back then, when he was in the early stages of the underground and had nothing, he obtained an Adventure-grade Lucky set.
He probably spent at least two and a half years of his lifespan on it.
"Fellow villager?!" Suddenly, the cute and docile panda Cai Wei came running, shaking his head, and squatted on the ground with anticipation in his eyes.
Chen Yu glanced at his private messages, searched for keywords 'bamboo', 'bamboo shoots', but did not see anyone wanting to sell them. However, there were many inquiries.
"Don't worry, I'm still collecting for you."
"No rush, no rush." Panda Cai Wei's eyes were slightly disappointed, but his eyes were still filled with smiles. "Are you crafting equipment?"
"Otherwise."
Chen Yu, bored, kept clicking the craft button, and Panda Cai Wei watched for a while.
"Is this Bright Silver equipment? Shall I help you?"
"You know how to craft Bright Silver sets?" Chen Yu raised an eyebrow, and Cai Wei immediately smiled. "Don't underestimate me too much. I'm a national treasure outside, and I'm also a rare bear here. To be honest, I have blueprints in my head. Let alone Bright Silver sets, even Vibranium sets, I know how to craft them."
Cai Wei patted his head twice with his paws.
When he was about to pat it the third time, Chen Yu raised his hand and stopped him, staring intently at Cai Wei's head with heartache.
"Go easy, this head of yours is mine!"