There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 309, Not a God, But a Man

"Free labor, we have it."

Xiao Yang put a checkmark on this item.

Although the cemetery for the deceased was not yet established, the stewards who arrived at Xiao Yang's second estate quickly began recruiting workers.

There are quite a few dead people wandering in this city.

Skeletons crawling out of the sewers, zombies struggling to emerge from the mud.

Initially, this situation caused some unrest.

However, the commotion quickly subsided after Lena activated the power of the statue of the goddess of rest.

With labor available, the next step is resources.

The output of the City of Hope.

[Four portions of divine energy, one portion of soul essence, two portions of contaminated flesh and blood, five portions of living wood, two portions of living gemstones, twenty portions of metal, thirty portions of stone, and five hundred thousand spirit coins]

The production time for these resources is measured in months.

The most eye-catching is divine energy.

Perhaps it's because this place involves enough deities.

Plague Rats, Silver Tree, and now we'll add Rest Goddess and Scarlet Eye.

It can produce four portions of divine energy in a month.

That's already quite exaggerated.

To expand the scope of one's faith, one can use these divine energies as a means of consumption.

But using it this way is clearly a waste.

The area protected by the statue of the goddess of rest is not limited to just this one method of expansion.

It can also rely on the faith of believers to produce results.

It only takes ten thousand devout believers to expand the sanctuary to cover the entire Clock Tower City.

Thinking about it this way, my thoughts came to a standstill.

"Only 10,000?...?"

Well, this is quite a difficult thing, even though the faith in the goddess of rest has always been very popular in the Rotten Lands.

But the hardest part of achieving the goal of 10,000 devout believers might not be the number of believers themselves, but rather the number of 10,000.

Even if you include all the survivors in the shantytowns on the outskirts of Clock Tower City, the number would hardly reach five thousand.

"We can only take it one step at a time."

Once the city management model is implemented, things suddenly become much more complicated.

Arrange the search for unexplored urban areas, construct special buildings, plan settlements, and do all sorts of other miscellaneous things.

In the heart of Clock Tower City, an inner city was being rapidly constructed.

It's unrealistic to rely on such a small number of people to occupy such a large city, so it's better to start a new city altogether.

Using the relocation function of the stronghold module, Xiao Yang moved all the major libraries in the city to the city center.

With a large amount of spirit coins invested, a tall city wall rose from the ground, enclosing the somewhat messy and simple town inside.

The problems of food and water are easily solved.

Xiao Yang's personal savings were completely empty, but fortunately, he still had the monthly spirit coins produced by the Land of Origin.

He still doesn't lack spirit coins.

Xiao Yang made a solo trip to the Zhutian Trading Zone, and this time, he bought up all the dried meat in the zone.

As for the water source, the Well of Purity, which is currently loading, should be able to solve this problem.

However, something seems to be missing.

"correct!"

After he had finished preparing all this messy stuff, it was already the third day since he had recaptured Bell Tower City.

Standing in the center of Clock Tower City, outside the collapsed Silver Church, in front of his second stronghold, a simple sign was hung on the city wall.

"City of Hope!"

The urban planning has to be temporarily put on hold.

The remaining things, once planned out, simply require the passage of time; there's no rushing them, and you can't rush them anyway.

He wasn't a true lord player either; holding onto a stronghold for too long wouldn't bring him much reward.

Something somewhat unexpected happened.

The ghost maids recruited a figure that Xiao Yang found somewhat familiar.

A skeleton covered in shiny silver.

Silver Moon Skull

This epic boss, who once made Xiao Yang flee in terror, has now been recruited by the Ghost Maidens and become the core security force of Hope City.

This feeling is inexplicably subtle.

Not long ago, Xiao Yang wanted to come back and settle scores with this guy, but in the blink of an eye, it became Xiao Yang's subordinate, or in other words, Xiao Yang's little brother.

However, it is precisely because of its addition that Xiao Yang no longer needs to worry so much about the safety of Hope City.

Ask the gods about the game.

"If this place is attacked, will I be able to know immediately?"

The game will provide a warning when a player's fixed assets are attacked.

That way I won't be so scared.

No matter how far he runs, as long as there is a prompt, he can immediately jump back through the dungeon door.

There are five days until the next Crimson Moon arrives, and four days until the Well of Purity is completed.

You might get killed in the Crimson Moon, but you can also level up quickly.

The Well of Purity is likely not so simple; it is the only thing Xiao Yang has obtained from the World Will of the Decaying Lands, and the only connection he has made with it.

If the lingering will of the world still wants to do something, it will surely be on the day the Well of Purity is completed.

What follows will not be peaceful or easy.

The establishment of the City of Hope is merely the first step in his formal journey through the Rotten Lands.

Climb to the base of the Blood and Flesh Eye Tower.

This is the highest point in this newly established small city.

As Xiao Yang approached, the eyes on the Blood and Flesh Eye Tower began to spin, all watching him. Xiao Yang paid no attention to this strange scene.

No problem, he also has three eyes when he goes into god form.

Beneath him, the survivors who chose to believe in him were doing something.

Xiao Yang doesn't need their labor right now; the skeletons, zombies, and ghosts are the real beasts of burden. But these survivors are stubborn, so they just go with them.

"They seem a little uneasy?"

Do not doubt the perception of someone whose mental capacity has reached an abnormal level of 200.

Xiao Yang is very perceptive about everything, but he simply doesn't care about or ignores many things.

The survivors' unease only added to Xiao Yang's confusion.

Having keen perception alone does not necessarily solve problems.

To some extent, he was neither a qualified city lord nor a qualified leader.

At this moment, it is the survivors who need Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang himself doesn't have much need for the survivors.

All of this is done based entirely on one's own likes, dislikes, and thoughts.

Because he wanted to do it, Xiao Yang did it.

But that's what makes the survivors uneasy.

Xiao Yang's latitude is higher than theirs, so it seems that the two sides are never on the same baseline at any given moment.

What does this feeling resemble?
"Like a god."

Yes, at this moment, Xiao Yang, standing tall in the center of the City of Hope, did not seem like a person, but rather like a god.

Even gods need faith to interact with humans, but Xiao Yang wants nothing.

This is why he couldn't solve the problem even though he understood it clearly.

In fact, Xiao Yang had already roughly completed the planning for the City of Hope yesterday.

He will not be involved in the subsequent details and implementation; that will be left to Lena and the ghost maidens.

He should have left yesterday.

This problem troubled him.

That's the downside of the Rotten Land; even if you just want to do something, you encounter a lot of trouble.

It's not just about convincing the other side, but also about convincing those evil gods who are watching you, and even convincing yourself.

There cannot be even the slightest flaw.

Otherwise, you can't escape those high and mighty evil gods who are all watching you with a magnifying glass.

Xiao Yang felt that he had been a bit restless these days, and a question kept popping into his mind.

"Why are you doing this?"

It's hard to say whether it's some perverted voyeur watching me.

But now the answer to this question is about to be revealed.

A prompt suddenly popped up in the God Game.

Congratulations to the player for completing a round of acts of kindness.

No, it's not just one notification, but a continuous stream of notifications.

Congratulations to the player for completing a round of acts of kindness.

Congratulations to the player for completing a round of acts of kindness.

A barrage of notifications popped up, almost flooding Xiao Yang's screen.

This was quite an exaggerated scene; at least Xiao Yang hadn't expected such a situation.

His expression showed even more surprise.

Each prompt continues from this same section.

[Gain Glimmer Adviser career experience (3)]

Even though I haven't done anything, I'm gaining experience almost every moment, although the amount gained each time is really small.

Three o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock.

It won't exceed ten points at most.

But its advantage lies in the sheer number of them.

After a period of frantic notifications, the game automatically began to block them, and these pop-up messages transformed into the ever-increasing experience points on the Glimmer Advancer's job panel.

Xiao Yang was still somewhat stunned at this moment.

"He clearly didn't do anything."

No, it's not that nothing was done.

When his gaze fell upon the many busy figures below him, Xiao Yang knew exactly where these constantly popping-up notifications came from.

"Acts of Light".

Not only killing those corrupt and decadent followers of evil gods, but also saving the people struggling to live in this world can certainly be considered an act of light.

Okay, now we have a fulcrum.

"It's all for professional experience."

This is a good fulcrum.

Being too great makes one appear too fake; having ulterior motives makes one more stable, not so aloof.

It didn't have that superficial feeling.

Xiao Yang is not yet ready to become a god; he must make himself more like a human being.

After shouting that sentence, I breathed a sigh of relief and felt much more relaxed.

"Alright, it's time to get down to business!"

For someone who works hard, slacking off is a shameful thing.

Four days later, the Well of Purity will descend, and he will have to come back to check on it. He still has about four days left.

What should we do in this short time?
After thinking for a while, Xiao Yang quickly figured out what he needed to do.

As a dungeon king, of course I need to find a dungeon to relax.

"Kill!"

(End of this chapter)