Chapter 15: The Farmers Can Only Suffer

[Snake Head Mushroom]: A common fungus in wild grasslands, it mostly grows in places where corpses rot. It has a moderate toxicity. Eating a small amount will cause hallucinations, and eating too much can lead to death.

Wow, red umbrella and white pole, let’s lie on the board together after eating.

Coincidentally, the snakehead mushroom also has a white stem with an unopened cap on top, which is somewhat flat.

At first glance, it does look a bit like a snake's head.

And there are quite a few of them, more than ten of them. If someone were to cook and eat them without thinking, I'm afraid someone would be in trouble.

Sure enough, it is human nature to love eating wild mushrooms.

Even though they know there is a possibility of poisoning, there are still many people who get poisoned every year from accidentally eating wild mushrooms.

What’s more, these farmers may not even know these mushrooms, so how can they resist the temptation of eating them!

Tonight, Mo Yu plans to use snakehead mushroom to teach the farmers a lesson.

"Da Zhuang, don't go out yet. It's getting dark."

"My lord, what do you want me to do for you?" Da Zhuang threw down the palm-sized stone in his hand and trotted over with a charming smile on his face.

Mo Yu glanced at him calmly, guessing that this guy had been slacking off in the afternoon.

However, he didn't care, as long as he had the ability to control the farmers.

"You arrange for four people to come and prepare to build the structure, and another person to cook these taro. This will be our dinner."

"Yes, my lord!" Da Zhuang bowed in response.

Soon, he called all the farmers over.

Four people stood in front of Mo Yu, waiting for his instructions, while the remaining two picked up the taro on the ground.

Mo Yu brought four farmers to the open space near the territory crystal.

Open [Construction] and select [Lord's Courtyard].

Suddenly, the shadow of a yard appeared.

It was a fairly ordinary neighborhood courtyard with a fairly neat house inside and a yard surrounded by a simple fence outside.

The whole courtyard is not big, probably less than 100 square meters in total.

Under Mo Yu's intentional guidance, the outer courtyard wrapped the territory crystal.

"You are responsible for building this courtyard!"

After receiving the order, the four farmers began to work busily on the shadow of the lord's courtyard.

The construction of the lord's courtyard didn't take too long, three hours, so it shouldn't be a problem to catch up in time for dinner.

"The resources are gone again!" Mo Yu sighed and lamented.

After building the lord's courtyard, his wood and stone prices returned to single digits.

Not enough, not enough at all.

But it was all worth it. After all, as a lord, he couldn't sleep in the wilderness.

No matter how hard it is, you can't make yourself suffer!
Currently, the buildings in the territory, except for the lord's courtyard and the crystal, as well as the refugee camp under construction, are the already built straw huts, wells and stoves.

The thatched hut and the well were built before he left, and they were completed when Mo Yu returned.

【Grass hut】

[Level]: Level 1 (unlocked for upgrade)
【Capacity】: 2 people

[Characteristics]: None

[Introduction]: The basic living building of the territory can provide basic living places for residents.

……

【well】

[Level]: Level 1 (unlocked for upgrade)
[Water Reserve]: 100/100 units, 1 unit can be restored per hour.

[Characteristics]: None

[Introduction]: The basic living building of the territory, which can provide basic drinking water for residents.

Of the two buildings, the straw shed was a very simple one, with a roof made of a row of unknown plant stems and a few wooden supports underneath.

There is not even half a wall, which can block the rain but not the wind.

There were two wooden beds placed side by side inside, covered with a straw mat similar to the material of the ceiling.

Although the straw hut can accommodate 2 people now, in fact, if the two beds are put together, 7 people can barely sleep together.

The farmers can only suffer.

By tomorrow, conditions will improve further.

The well is the kind commonly seen in rural areas. There is a wooden bucket hanging at the wellhead, which is a tool for drawing water.

There are currently 100 units of water reserves. Excluding water reserves, the well can produce 1 unit of water per hour, which is the daily consumption of one person.

According to the extreme value calculation, one well can provide water for about 24 people.

But this is without considering other consumption. If domestic water is added, it will definitely not be enough.

Mo Yu estimated that as living standards improved in the future, a well would be able to provide water for at most more than ten people.

As for irrigation water, don't even think about it.

The water for farmland cannot be supplied by one or two wells. If you really want to farm, you may have to find a water source near the territory.

There is no need to worry about the drinking water problem for the time being, but food is still a problem.

A normal human consumes about two units of food a day. With Mo Yu's over a hundred units of food, it would take about six to seven days to supply the current territory.

Although the grassland is rich in resources, neither hunting nor gathering is a stable source of food.

If the territory wants to develop in the long run, Mo Yu must find a way to farm.

The prerequisite for farming is to have plant seeds, irrigation water, and corresponding agricultural tools...

When I think about it this way, it seems that there is still a lot to do.

Mo Yu rubbed his dizzy head and stopped thinking about it. It was too early to talk about these things for a territory that had just been built one day ago.

"Let me sort out what treasures the cute little skeletons have contributed to me."

When he opened the backpack, it was packed full of junk dropped by the skeleton soldiers.

Even though their drop rate is very low, their quantity still fills up Mo Yu's 20-slot backpack space.

There was even a hard bone knife that he had nowhere to put, so he brought it back along the way.

Eleven hard bone knives, seven tattered iron shields... Well, these are the things that the skeleton soldiers seem to like the most.

The only other weapon was a tattered iron spear.

Slightly valuable are the two Skeleton Soldier Summoning Scrolls, which can summon first-order Skeleton Soldiers.

Mo Yu has no plans to use it for the time being, because undead creatures will affect the emotions of normal creatures.

Moreover, it is difficult for them to improve their strength if they stay in a place where there is no death fog.

This problem can only be solved if a nest for the skeleton soldiers is built so that they have a place to live.

The above are the dropped items. When it comes to magic energy, the skeleton soldiers are very generous.

Although five or seven points are not a lot, with the addition of quantity, Mo Yu's magic power reached 403 points.

The number of gold coins reached 51, and no other resources dropped.

From this perspective, it is not easy to accumulate 1000 gold coins to upgrade the territory.

Unless you can find a gold mine, it will probably take a lot of time to kill monsters alone.

"It's still too early for the territory to be promoted. There's no point in saving resources. It's more important to destroy more towers and improve our strength."

Mo Yu gave up thinking about the territory's advancement, and with the light shining in his hand, he began to transform the defense tower.

The Son of the Tower, doesn’t he rely on the Father of the Tower?

I hope I’ll be luckier this time and get two more hidden defense towers.

Come on, guys!

(End of this chapter)