[Cave Reminder: Cloth +2]
[Cave Reminder: Inferior Leather +3]
[Cave Reminder: Cloth +5]
...
Chen Yu sat in his chair, silently dismantling the pile of clothes in front of him.
No money was obtained.
However, quite a few clothes were stripped from these beastmen mercenaries.
Chen Yu absolutely would not wear these clothes.
All of them were dismantled.
Tread tread tread—
The sound of light footsteps approached from the side.
Chen Yu glanced sideways slightly and saw the Bee Woman jogging to his side.
"It's all counted."
"Speak."
"Ahem..." The Bee Woman, Nuo Ya, coughed lightly, holding the sheepskin scroll in her hands, and said softly, "Resource tally, lumber totaling 32111, soil 16548, stone 25636, iron ingots 12525, copper ingots 11154, silver ingots 6533, gold ingots 6632, obsidian 357, Water Elemental Fragments 6775, Fire 7852, Earth 7114, Wind 6996..."
After listing the basic resources, the Bee Woman paused and looked up slightly.
"Should I read out the other resources?"
"No need, just bring them over for me to see." Chen Yu reached out and took Nuo Ya's record. Seeing the data on it, he couldn't help but be a little moved.
The resources were absurdly abundant!
"Why are there so many basic resources?"
Chen Yu murmured.
To his surprise, he was met with the Bee Woman's confused gaze.
It was as if she were saying—
Who are you asking?
Grinning at the Bee Woman, Chen Yu lowered his head to look at the resource tally on the sheepskin scroll, calculating in his mind.
The replenishment of basic resources mostly came from the absorption by the wristbands.
He glanced at the wooden barrel beside him.
Chen Yu had acquired a total of 279 survival wristbands from the beastman mercenaries. The reason it wasn't over 300 was that some of the mercenaries acted in teams.
Having one person in the team with a survival wristband was sufficient.
After absorbing most of the beastman mercenaries' wristbands, the resources were quite meager. However, among them, there were not a few with high resource reserves.
Among them, Jareths's wristband was the richest.
When Chen Yu absorbed the resources from his wristband, the basic resource reserves had already reached five figures, and the elemental fragments were innumerable.
After absorbing it, Chen Yu regretted seeing these resources.
As expected.
Jareth's wristband's camp level was definitely not low. He could have turned it into his main camp. It was just a pity that it had already been absorbed, and the camp had been dismantled into resources.
What's done is done, and Chen Yu couldn't be bothered to think about it further.
Swapping camps was like buying an account.
Although buying a ready-made account was more convenient, it didn't provide the same sense of belonging as leveling it up oneself.
The number of wristbands.
Ultimately directly affected the quantity of resources held.
"It's not a loss."
Looking at the data tallied by the Bee Woman, Chen Yu's lips curled into a slight smile.
Although he was intercepted.
And lost a bit of currency, the replenishment of resources was not diminished in the slightest. These resources alone were enough for Chen Yu to make a major upgrade to his camp.
Moreover—
The 279 survival wristbands were enough for Chen Yu to expand just by establishing sub-camps.
"Sir Knight, how should these resources be handled?" Nuo Ya gestured outside the camp.
With tens of thousands of basic resources pouring in.
Chen Yu's camp warehouse was already overflowing, and various resources were piled up like mountains in the wilderness.
"A minor issue."
Glancing at the resources outside, Chen Yu smiled slightly.
Piling up resources was the easiest problem to solve.
Expansion!
If the camp warehouse couldn't hold them, the resources could be piled up in the sub-camps. Although his seven sub-camps were all currently in use, he did not lack wristbands now.
[Cave Reminder: Absorption Successful]
[Cave Reminder: Absorption Successful]
[Cave Reminder: Absorption Successful]
In an instant, Chen Yu absorbed three survival wristbands, bringing his sub-camp count to ten.
Of course—
Ten sub-camps were still far from Chen Yu's desired standard.
He couldn't possibly devour and absorb all the wristbands. With hundreds of sub-camps, his energy would not be enough to manage them, nor would he have enough resources to expand and utilize them.
Thus, the surplus Level 1 sub-camps would be a burden to him.
His target standard was twenty-four.
That is, on top of the current seven camps, he would expand outwards by another ring.
However,
When Chen Yu prepared to absorb more wristbands to expand his sub-camps, he received a cave reminder.
[Ding]
[Cave Reminder: Detected that you hold 10 sub-camps. Further sub-camp expansion requires more wristbands.]
[Current Requirement: 5 Wristbands]
Chen Yu: ???
There was such a restriction.
After a moment of thought, Chen Yu could understand it.
If sub-camp expansion always cost only one wristband, then later, when survivors' conditions improved, everyone could possess hundreds of sub-camps.
Or, the native inhabitants of the cave.
Those nobles and powerful families who possessed resources would definitely have incredibly large camps. If all their sub-camps were laid out, the entire cave might not be able to accommodate them.
"Hmm?"
Abruptly, Chen Yu's expression tensed.
He seemed to have sensed a very important piece of intelligence.
Territory!
What they needed most now was to occupy territory, or perhaps to expand sub-camps in the early stages, and in the later stages, to fully deploy their camps to determine their respective territorial ranges.
After all, the cave plane was currently being divided.
It wasn't so before!
Now that the plane had been disrupted, could it be interpreted as the cave providing a novice protection for outsiders? After a certain period, the plane would be restored.
At that time, whether outsiders or natives, they would all be in the same world, vying for dominance.
"Sigh, I'm really overthinking things..."
Chen Yu suddenly chuckled and shook his head, not delving deeper into his previous thoughts. He took out a few wristbands from the wooden barrel and began to absorb them.
With the expansion restriction, after absorbing one wristband,
In the camp interface, the sub-camp display at the bottom showed 20%, meaning that absorbing one wristband only yielded one-fifth of a sub-camp.
No matter.
Chen Yu had plenty of wristbands now.
After absorbing a total of 120 survival wristbands, Chen Yu's sub-camp count successfully reached twenty-four.
Survival Wristband Reserve: 156.
He would save these wristbands for when his resources were more abundant in the future, or when he had surplus resources to slowly expand. What he needed to do now was to expand these twenty-four camps.
Among these twenty-four sub-camps, seven had already been expanded.
Currently, seventeen needed expansion.
[Cave Reminder: Expansion Successful]
[Resource Consumption: All Elemental Fragments -170]
The consumption seemed not particularly high, but remember, this was only the upgrade from Level 1 to Level 2.
[Cave Reminder: Expansion Successful]
[Resource Consumption: All Elemental Fragments -340]
[Cave Reminder: Expansion Successful]
[Resource Consumption: All Elemental Fragments -680]
...
Due to Chen Yu possessing Level 2 Efficient Learning and Level 2 Rapid Manufacturing, camp expansions were completed instantly. For each level of sub-camp expansion, the required resources doubled.
Until Chen Yu's sub-camp upgraded from Level 5 to Level 6.
[Cave Reminder: Expanding]
[Resource Consumption: All Elemental Fragments -2720]
The consumption of 2720 All Elemental Fragments was equivalent to 10880 total elemental fragments. Calculating at 300 per elemental fragment, this wave of expansion cost him 3.26 million.
"Heh..."
Calculating this figure, Chen Yu couldn't help but let out a snort.
"Ridiculous!"
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Author's Notes:
Good evening, have you eaten?