Eternal Night

Chapter 45 Seven Days of Peace

"Tomorrow will be the sixth day in this dream world."

Wu Xianxiao looked at the Peace Hotel which was under construction in full swing. Even though it was already evening, the craftsmen and villagers were still working with all their might because of the lighting by torches.

In fact, the craftsmen and villagers were divided into three teams and worked in three shifts to build the Peace Hotel.

It’s nothing, just too much money.

Because Lin Heier and Xu Rongyu confirmed again and again that they could get at least 10,000 grams of gold every month. This amount of money might not be much for a large organization or a country, but it was a huge sum for the Red Lantern Society. Seventy percent of it belonged to Wu Xianxiao and the other two. They had nothing to spend at the time, so naturally they piled it up in the Peace Hotel.

The wages these craftsmen and villagers received for building the Peace Hotel were more than thirty times what they would earn for other equivalent labor. Working here for one day is equivalent to working day and night for a month somewhere else!

If Lin Heier hadn't solemnly, repeatedly and seriously reminded people not to pay these craftsmen and villagers more than the maximum wage, let alone thirty times, even three hundred times would have been no problem.

This is an era where the lower classes of people and society are so poor in material terms that it is unimaginable.

These villagers cannot even afford two meals a day. Their staple food is a thin soup with wild vegetables, which can hardly be called a meal. They are all pale and thin, with bent backs.

The craftsman was slightly better, but only slightly better, and there was only thin porridge in his stomach.

In fact, according to Xu Rongyu, building the Peace Hotel only requires providing food to the villagers. During this lean season, providing food is enough to attract the villagers, and this will not attract attention from the outside world.

But how could Wu Xianxiao possibly follow such advice?
He was afraid that the outside world didn't pay enough attention to him.

Until now, he still doesn't know what conditions are needed to upgrade the shelter, but it is always a good idea to increase influence in this world. And since he is going to build the Peace Hotel, he has to play the role of an invincible swordsman, so being generous and magnanimous is one of his character settings.

The poor are good at literature but the rich are good at martial arts. It is impossible to practice martial arts without money. If you can't even get enough to eat, yet you want to forcibly move your qi and blood, you are really seeking death.

So he is rich, powerful, and a martial arts master. As long as such a character is established, a lot of trouble can be avoided in this era, especially troubles at the official level. As for the underworld level... The biggest horse bandit leader outside the Great Wall and hundreds of his core subordinates are buried here. How many people would be blind?

On the contrary, those who are in the martial arts world are likely to come because of their fame. Experts, masters, and even grandmasters may appear. However, this is actually a good thing for Wu Xianxiao. He is now in a period of rapid progress. Fighting with these martial artists can make him stronger quickly. As for getting injured, it is not something he needs to worry about.

So, in exchange for thirty times the wages, they get a full bowl of thick white rice or noodles or steamed buns, chopped meat mixed with stir-fried vegetables and wild greens, and an egg for each person. What makes these villagers and craftsmen most jealous is that they actually have four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and if they work at night, they get a midnight snack!
They had never heard of such a boss!

People at that time were simple in nature, and even if they had some small thoughts, they were mostly simple thoughts of farmers. So, motivated by such wages and meals, these villagers and craftsmen worked really hard.

As a result, Wu Xianxiao, Yamade, Xu Shilan and Xu Rongyu seemed to have nothing to do. They didn't even need supervision. There were village elders among the villagers. Anyone who dared to act cunningly at this time would be stabbed to death by their fellow villagers.

Wu Xianxiao and others who had some free time found a few rocks and sat down in the distance. There was nothing important to do at this time, so they chatted and rested. Wu Xianxiao practiced martial arts when he had free time, and Xu Rongyu naturally followed him like a lackey. After hearing a few words of teaching, he was so happy that he scratched his ears and cheeks and started practicing as well.

Xu Rongyu is just a half-baked kung fu master. Although his father Xu Zhenshan has cultivated to the level of a master of dark energy, he himself is a self-taught person and did not dare to teach Xu Rongyu real kung fu, so Xu Rongyu does not even have obvious energy.

At this time, Xu Rongyu was standing there practicing his boxing stance, while Wu Xianxiao had just finished a set of Green Python Shedding Kung Fu, and his whole body was steaming with heat. He looked at the construction site, then at the night in the distance, and turned to talk to Yamade who was fiddling with some metal parts, and Xu Shilan who was looking through the account book.

The two paused for a moment, then went back to their respective tasks. Yamade said casually, "Yes, tomorrow is the sixth day."

Xu Shilan thought for a while and said, "According to your description, will nightmares start to strike tomorrow?"

When Xu Rongyu heard the word "nightmare", his breathing immediately became disordered and his boxing skills became a mess. He simply stopped practicing, adjusted his breathing, and sat down on the ground to listen to the conversation between the three people.

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "It's just that the probability of an attack will increase. It doesn't necessarily mean that a nightmare will strike after five days. It's not that you will be absolutely safe within five days. It's hard to say for sure."

The other three were listening to Wu Xianxiao's words, and Yamade suddenly blurted out: "Then what does this shelter... shelter mean?"

As the name suggests, since it is called a shelter, it should have some kind of shelter function, right? Moreover, the shelter was not a name given by Wu Xianxiao and other maintenance personnel themselves, but a name defined by the main brain. However, looking at its functions, it has no meaning of shelter, and it is even their weak point.

A first-level shelter needs to be guarded for ten days out of every thirty days, a second-level shelter is shortened to seven days, and the guarding time for third-level shelters and above is unknown. After these maintenance personnel stay in the dream world for more than five days, their location will be sensed by the nightmare of this world, and then the probability of being found by the nightmare will gradually increase.

During this period, if you are discovered and hunted by the nightmare, you cannot even reveal the location of the shelter, otherwise the nightmare will follow the shelter to the real world and wait for you to catch it... So what exactly does this shelter shelter? This is their biggest weakness. Wu Xianxiao also didn't know what this shelter sheltered, but he still said: "It's useless to think so much. We know too little about the dream world, all these changes, and even the main brain. What is a nightmare? What is weird? What is pollution? What is a 'weekend'? And what does this shelter mean? We don't know at all, so it's useless to speculate now. Survive, become stronger, and survive better. This is what we have to do now."

Yamade and Xu Shilan both nodded in agreement.

Nothing happened that night, and the next day Wu Xianxiao began patrolling the construction site and surrounding land. Another day passed without any conversation. On the seventh day after they came to this world, Wu Xianxiao became even more cautious, and Yamadea also joined the patrol. The two of them patrolled and checked for 24 hours without rest, and they spent another day safely, without even the slightest clue appearing.

At noon on the seventh day, a countdown reminder from the main brain appeared in the minds of the three people, telling them that their guarding mission in this world was completed and they could return to the real world at any time.

Wu Xianxiao breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Yamade and Xu Shilan and said, "Fortunately, we were lucky this time. We don't encounter weirdness or nightmares every time we guard. In particular, don't run around everywhere. This is the safest way."

Yamade didn't care, Xu Shilan was thinking about something, Wu Xianxiao said: "So, have you decided what building to buy? At present, it takes more than one or two days to build a power. The historical event will take at least four months, when Cixi fled to the west. So how about building a first-level shelter first and drawing a random reward?"

The first random draw for building a shelter must have some kind of screening mechanism in it. Generally, it is a technique, and it must be a technique that suits you. This is the case for Wu Xianxiao himself, and for several of his predecessors as well.

Now Yamade and Xu Shilan are still ordinary mortals. They don't even have the most basic baseline reality 0.9 skills, which is a very dangerous thing in the dream world.

Yamade naturally nodded repeatedly in agreement, but Xu Shilan shook her head directly in denial.

"No, we will not set up a shelter in this world. Brother Wu, take us to the world of Clay Buddha Yaksha." Xu Shilan said immediately.

Wu Xianxiao and Yamade looked at her in surprise at the same time.

Xu Shilan asked seriously, "Brother Wu, is the technique good?"

Wu Xianxiao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head frankly, "It's not easy. The Tiger Demon Skill and Green Python Shedding Skill that I know now were all rewards from the main brain. It's very difficult to find skills in the dream world. "

Xu Shilan sighed and said, "It's like passing on a thousand books and a single word. Even technology is like this, not to mention this kind of supernatural technique that gives you great power. If you want to obtain it in this dream world, it's probably dozens or hundreds of times more difficult than building a shelter. And the most likely channel for us to obtain supernatural techniques is the first shelter."

This is why Wu Xianxiao suggested to build a shelter immediately. He looked at Xu Shilan in confusion, and Xu Shilan said frankly: "But it is obvious that the strength of the base reality zero point seven dream world is far greater than the base reality zero point nine dream world, right? If there is no other way, we can only build the first shelter here, but don't we have you? You can take us to the base reality zero point seven dream world."

Wu Xianxiao was stunned at first, then he immediately understood and nodded happily, "Yes, yes, you are right. We really shouldn't set up a shelter here."

Wu Xianxiao had never thought about it in this regard before, but now with Xu Shilan's reminder, he immediately understood what Xu Shilan meant.

The deeper you go into the dream world, the more dangerous it becomes, but at the same time, the supernatural power becomes stronger.

As for the first shelter built by the maintenance personnel, the random draw they get will basically give them a set of skills that suit their own world because of the selection factors of the main brain.

Other newcomers naturally have no idea what to do. They either have to gamble their lives by relying on random penetration, or they can only build the first shelter in the baseline reality Zero Point Nine Dream World, just like Wu Xianxiao. Only with this shelter can they continue to penetrate smoothly.

But if there are senior people who have a shelter in the deeper dream world, they can take the newcomers directly to the deeper dream world and build the first shelter there. In this way, they can naturally obtain more powerful skills.

Although the danger is also great, because the first shelter is a deep dream world, the guarding mission will be life-threatening, especially since it needs to be guarded immediately within a month after obtaining the skills. This is actually a double-edged sword.

"...But Brother Wu already has a shelter in this baseline reality, the Seven Dreams World at Zero, so we can also build the first shelter in this world. We can fight side by side and support each other. Isn't this the best choice?" Xu Shilan said with a smile.

Wu Xianxiao and Yamade also naturally suddenly realized.

"That's right!" Yamadela laughed and agreed repeatedly.

Wu Xianxiao immediately gave Xu Rongyu some instructions on management matters, and then took the two of them to an uninhabited area outside the wilderness. In a flash, the three of them returned to Gaia, and without stopping, they immediately lay down in the hibernation capsule again.

"Mastermind, activate the Dream World Shelter Return, target..."

"The dream world of the clay Buddha Yaksha!"

(End of this chapter)