From refugee NPC to mythical general

Chapter 5: Weighing the Pros and Cons
The forum was very lively.

A thread owner named [大欧皇] posted a thread: "I am crying, there was a heavy rain in my village, damn! Three villagers are sick, please help me, what should I do now?"

After seeing this post, there was a heated discussion below.

"Upstairs, it is recommended to reopen."

"Haha, so happy. Luckily, the weather in my village is very good, unlike the OP. This is too miserable. When a civilian falls ill during the novice period, it depends on luck. If you can survive it, you can continue. If not, you can only start over."

"Luckily, the OP is fine. My NPC has been infected with the plague. Damn it, this game is inhumane! My 10 million bonus! My 10 million bonus!"

"Let me be honest. Don't be in a hurry to restart the game. After all, time is money. If you restart the game, you will fall far behind other players. After all, you just have the common flu, which may not kill people, unlike some non-African who has been infected with the plague... Hehehehe."

Comment: "Get lost! Woohoo, I'm crying so hard, I have no choice but to restart."

The person who posted this comment is undoubtedly the player who was infected with the plague.

[Big European Emperor]: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, one of the five refugees I recruited is a doctor."

"Wow! Damn the host!"

"Pretend to be struck by lightning!"

"Die! Die for me!"

Some NPCs with special professions are undoubtedly very popular in the game. For example, this player [Big European Emperor] recruited a doctor NPC. Although he is only a junior doctor, he can cure some basic diseases such as influenza and fever.

Once refugees fall ill, they will inevitably spend a lot of time recovering. As a result, both felling trees and planting food will be delayed. When the novice protection period ends, they may not be able to collect enough money to trade with the bandits. If the bandits are not satisfied, the village will basically be finished.

Therefore, in the game, any special profession is a treasure to the players!
Lemon Duck: "It rained heavily in my village, too."

"Isn't this like mistaking Li Gui for Li Kui's boss?"

"Hahahaha! Boss, you're really miserable. It's fine if you recognized the wrong person, but there was a heavy rainstorm in the village. How many villagers in your village are sick?"

Lemon Duck: "That's no one. I built a house for them."

Everyone was shocked when they saw Lemon Duck’s reply.

The previous popular post on the strategy made it very clear that time is money during the novice period, and resources are also money. Whether it is food or trees, they can all be exchanged for money. However, Ning Mengya wasted a lot of wood on the laborers to build houses.

In this way, he would waste too many resources, and when the novice protection period ended and bandits attacked, there would be basically no hope.

"I don't know what the OP is thinking. Why waste resources on building houses for civilians? Yes, this can certainly make your NPCs more loyal to you, but loyalty is useless! If bandits attack, can they stop them?"

Lemon Duck: "Yeah, so I plan to have two of the civilians become militiamen."

It is well known that NPCs in the game can change their jobs, but no one would choose to change the job of an NPC during the novice period.

There are two reasons. The first is that the condition for changing jobs to militia is a barracks, and building a barracks requires [wood] and [food], which are important resources in the hands of players.

These resources can eventually be exchanged for money and traded with bandits to prevent the village from being robbed by bandits after the novice period.

The second is that in the early stage, the probability of a civilian NPC changing his job to a militiaman is very small. As time goes by, the probability of a civilian NPC changing his job to a militiaman will increase.

When players heard that Ning Mengya was going to change her job to a militiaman, they left messages on the forum.

"The boss's operations are always so confusing." "Building residential buildings first has already wasted some resources, and now he's thinking about changing the job of the NPC."

"Boss, do you want to deal with bandit attacks after the novice protection period by converting them into militiamen?"

“I recommend you to read the pinned post.”

Ning Mengya was a little curious, and then found a post in the Wending forum.

[Trap! Be careful! Never change the job of an NPC during the novice period! ]

Below the title are the specific analysis opinions.

"I know that some players want to switch to militia to fight against bandits."

"This idea is not unacceptable, but there are three problems..."

Ning Mengya already knew the first and second points, which were issues of resources and whether the militia could successfully transfer jobs.

"Third, I want to ask everyone, even if you succeed in changing your job to a militiaman, can these basic militiamen really deal with the bandits? Will this anger the bandits and leave you with no way out? At that time, even if you want to trade for money, I'm afraid you won't have a chance."

"And I don't think anyone can successfully change jobs during the novice period."

Ning Mengya fell into deep thought after reading it. She asked Zhuge Liang and Wang Da about their intentions, and they seemed very interested in changing their careers to militia.

But now Ning Mengya is a little hesitant. If she really wants to change her job, if she fails, it will waste more resources. She has already wasted resources on building houses. Now she doesn't have many resources on hand, and there are not many gold coins that can be exchanged. When the novice period is over, if bandits attack, she has no idea whether these gold coins can satisfy the bandits' appetite.

If she continues to waste resources on the civilian NPC's job transfer, if it fails, she will be left with no resources at all!

If the novice protection period ends and bandits attack, all five of her NPCs will die.

Ning Mengya entered the game struggling over whether or not to change the NPC's job.

……

"Zhuge Liang, I think our lord is pretty good."

Wang Da was chatting naively with Zhuge Liang. They had been planting grains for the whole morning and were now sitting by the field to rest.

Li Er also scratched his head and said, "Yes, the lord is kind and kind. We are so lucky to have such a lord. We must work hard and cut down more trees and plant more food for the lord."

Zhuge Liang listened to the remarks of these two bootlickers and smiled bitterly.

It’s the same everywhere, appearance is justice.

Wang Da said again: "The Lord wants to give us two job transfers to militia!"

"If we succeed in changing our job, we can protect Dameng Village and our lord."

Zhuge Liang asked: "Can I really change my job successfully?"

He was a little unsure. If it was so easy to switch to a militia, then wouldn't it be very easy for any player to carry out a bandit attack after the novice protection period?
Wang Dadao: "Of course it's not easy, but I'm strong and have good physical fitness, so I'm sure I can succeed in changing my job."

Looking at Zhuge Liang's frail body, although Wang Da didn't say anything, his expression seemed to indicate that he had said everything.

Depend on!
Zhuge Liang complained in his heart. It turned out that the NPCs in the game really had their own intelligence, no different from living people. Moreover, Zhuge Liang found that the IQ of these NPCs seemed to be slowly growing with time and labor!
(End of this chapter)