Lords of Hegemony: Conquer from the Mermaids

Chapter 7 Coral Weavers and Fish Herders

Cangmu is a young blue-tailed mermaid boy. He looks very young, but his hands are very strong. You can tell at first glance that he is someone who works regularly.

Mu Yu is a little girl with green hair. She holds a long wooden stick in her hand and has a beautiful, slender blue tail with many silver stripes on it.

Meng Zheng knew very well that Mu Yu's bloodline concentration was very high. Once the silver stripes on her tail covered the entire tail, Mu Yu would be able to advance to a silver-tailed mermaid, which was full of potential.

Open the attribute panels of the two mermaids in front of you:
[Name]: Cangmu
[Race]: Merman

[Bloodline]: Bluetail Mermaid
[Occupation]: Coral Weaver

[Rank]: Yellow Rank 4

【Exercise】: Coral Guidance Method

[Talent]: Coral Spirit Language
You can listen to the corals' inner voices and make them work for you.

Skills: Coral Guidance, Coral Aura, Coral Cage, Coral Helmet, and Mermaid's Hymn.

Coral Weaver, the unique architect of the aquarium!

In the water, in addition to aquatic plants such as seaweed and seagrass, the most common are various coral organisms.

These coral polyps use their bodies to build one wonder after another, providing a stable habitat for countless creatures. They can be said to be the patron saints of countless aquatic creatures.

Coral weavers can communicate with coral polyps and guide their behavior to build houses and buildings that can exist in the ocean.

If there were no coral weavers, the house would be built with great effort.

It will decay and collapse rapidly due to water erosion, or it may be completely destroyed by a single undertow, making it unable to stand in the water for long.

Small, flat waters such as lakes are not so bad, as undertows only occur once in a long time.

However, if you are in large water bodies such as lakes, rivers, or even the ocean, you will face disasters such as undercurrents, tsunamis, storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions at any time.

Therefore, having a coral weaver is extremely important for an underwater territory.

Basically, any useful buildings need to be built by aquarium craftsmen such as coral weavers. Only they can build qualified and reliable buildings.

As for the mermaid shack, it was too simple to build. Any mermaid could do it, and there was no need for Cangmu to take action.

In the future, you will need to upgrade it to a mermaid hut before you will need the coral weaver to get started. The mermaid hut is ultimately just a transitional building.

Name: Mu Yu
[Race]: Merman

[Bloodline]: Bluetail Mermaid
[Occupation]: Fish Herder

[Rank]: Yellow Rank 4

【Exercise】: Coral Guidance Method

【Talent】: Ocean Resonance
Possessing the ability to form deep emotional connections with marine life, they can sense the emotions and needs of fish, allowing for more effective domestication and care.

Cangmu and Muyu are both functional talents that the territory is extremely short of. Without them, the development of the territory will face a serious crisis.

In particular, the profession of fish herder is related to whether the territory has the potential for rapid development.

For a territory, the importance of food is unquestionable. Without food, the people in the territory cannot feel at ease. Without food, the army cannot be developed and the population cannot be expanded.

It eventually leads to a vicious cycle, causing the collapse of a territory.

As an underwater tribe, the Canghai tribe obtains food by fishing and gathering aquatic plants.

The means of obtaining food are limited, and many fish schools swim over a very large range. The fish may even be faster than mermaids.

Therefore, if food procurement is not properly coordinated, a food crisis could easily occur. Tianyu Lake is a thriving biosphere reserve with numerous fish and abundant food, so there is no need to worry in the short term.

However, if you want the territory to develop in a positive direction, you must develop the breeding industry and make the territory self-sufficient in materials, and not rely entirely on the outside world.

If there is not enough food reserves, the Canghai tribe will need to arrange a certain number of people to hunt every day, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive and will slow down the development of the territory.

Fortunately, the system assigned Meng Zheng a fish herder on the first day, so he could quickly start the fish taming project.

Realizing the importance of this, Meng Zheng naturally wouldn't neglect Cangmu and Muyu. Instead, he greeted them enthusiastically, "It's a blessing for the Canghai Tribe to have two of you join us. If you have any problems in the future, be sure to contact me first!"

Cangmu looked a little reserved. After bowing, he waved his hands repeatedly and said, "You are too polite, Chief. It is our blessing to be able to contribute to the tribe. It is nothing."

Mu Yu nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Yes!"

Meng Zheng didn't care much about it. He had just traveled here for a day, and his attitude was still humble and easy-going as before.

But for the blue-tailed mermaids, the patriarch is a noble royal black-tailed mermaid. His identity and status in the tribe are unshakable, and he is respected and loved by all the tribe members.

Seeing Meng Zheng being so polite, they both felt nervous instead. This was actually due to the natural suppression and majesty of their bloodline.

"You're welcome. The future development of the territory still depends on you!" Meng Zheng waved his hand, asked them to relax, and arranged the work accordingly.

"Cangmu, you can take a break first, take a look at the general situation of the territory, survey the surrounding area of ​​the territory, and see where to place the workshop, wall and other buildings."

The resources in the territory were completely gone, so Cangmu couldn't start construction work. So Meng Zheng wanted him to have a good rest and start working again after the resources were in place.

Although he was a strategy game enthusiast in his previous life, Meng Zheng had no idea about territory planning. Most of the games he had played had fixed construction locations, and he could easily build a city with just a click.

Now that we have come to this world, we see nothing but bare ground. If we don’t make a good plan, we can imagine that our territory will be a mess in the future.

Every profession has its own expertise, so Meng Zhengcai will not try to be too boastful.

So I handed over the territory planning to Cangmu, believing that he could do a good job.

Of the five buildings that can be built in the territory, four need to be personally managed by Cangmu, and the other mermaids can only play an auxiliary role and transport resources.

The actual construction and building require coral weavers who use spiritual power to guide the movements of coral polyps.

"Okay! Chief! I'll go take a look and get a charter!" Cangmu was very excited about the task of exploring the territory. Being able to design a city by himself is definitely the dream of every coral planner.

"Then Chief, I'll go!" After receiving the task, Cangmu could no longer hold back, and with a string of splashes, he went to patrol the territory in a flash!

"Hey, give priority to the hydraulic launch tube workshop!" Looking at Cangmu's back, Meng Zheng hurriedly shouted to him!
"Okay, Patriarch, wait for my good news!" Cangmu's response came from afar.

Retracting his gaze, Meng Zheng looked at the green-haired girl in front of him and said with a gentle smile, "Mu Yu, the territory will need a lot of food soon. Catching and raising the fish will all be left to you. You have to shoulder this burden!"

Food is the top priority of the Canghai tribe, and Meng Zheng will not relax.

"After Cangyue and the others have gathered their food, you can pick a few people to hunt fish with you. Collect all the fish that can be raised and raise them near the tribe."

"Okay, Chief, just leave it to me!" Mu Yu was a very lively girl. After saying this to Meng Zheng with a smile, she also followed him to look for the fish.

The Canghai tribe is located on a lake bottom plain, and Meng Zheng deliberately chose a flat area.

The advantage here is that the territory planning is simple and there is no need to consider terrain issues in the early stages.

The disadvantage is that there are fewer fish schools. Many fish like to gather in coral reefs, kelp forests, rocky slopes and other places where there is abundant food and a complex natural environment to provide hiding places.

Except for a few small fish coming to the Canghai tribe from time to time, they would be scared away by the activities of the mermaids.

So if Mu Yu wants to find a suitable school of fish, he needs to look for it in a place far away from the tribe.

(End of this chapter)