Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 10 The Struggle for the Head of the Family
Donation?

No, he wants to keep this wheat field for now.

After a hurried breakfast, Li Wei began to build a fence for his wheat field. The materials were readily available; they were the wooden sticks he had prepared for building the wall. They were about the thickness of an arm and more than two meters high. The quantity was not large, but it was more than enough to enclose the 150-square-meter wheat field.

He even planned to build a stone wall around the perimeter, since it was his personal property.

I was busy until noon, and it was finally done. At least before the seeds sprout, no wild animals will come and cause trouble.

Relieved, Li Wei finished lunch and was about to take a long nap when a series of messages flashed by.

But the house that Penny was in charge of was finally completed.

The house has been successfully built, but due to the family's current turmoil and the absence of a head of household (the father has passed away), the house is in danger of falling apart at any time. Therefore, this house belongs to an individual, not the family.

[Calculating rewards; current total reward is 100 construction experience points]

[You participated in the construction of the house and contributed several important materials. For this, you will gain 20 construction experience points. You will also have the right to rest in the house for free. When the house is donated to a family, you will gain two family contribution points.]

[Friendly reminder: Due to your insufficient participation in the house's construction, you are not entitled to voluntarily donate the house to the family.]

[Since the trainee chef *** did not participate in the house construction, she needs to pay a fee to move in. You will receive 0.2 experience points per day for this service.]

[The trainee craftsman is currently holding a vote to kill you off. If the vote is successful, you will die of severe dysentery within 24 hours. At that time, all your memories will be erased, your Farmer Card will be removed, you will be sent back to your original birth point, and you will lose the chance to awaken.]

[The trainee chef *** agreed to the vote for your plot-driven death, and the plot-driven death has passed. You have passively consumed three points of family contribution. This plot-driven death vote has been forcibly canceled. You will receive a plot-driven death exemption for the next thirty days.]

Your family contribution has decreased by three points, leaving you with three family contribution points.

[Friendly reminder: If a plot-driven death vote fails, you can keep initiating plot-driven death events, as long as you have enough family contribution points.]

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"Damn, those two bitches!"

Li Wei truly hadn't expected Penny to be so ruthless and decisive, and that Fila would actually agree.

Damn, what's she after?

For a moment, Li Wei was almost driven mad with anger.

However, looking up at Fila, who was dozing off, he quickly calmed down. He decided not to get angry so easily in the future. Now he had to admit that the voting-based plot kill was the core setting of this mission's storyline, the game's rules. He couldn't resist it, so he could only try to adapt and gain more advantages.

Taking a deep breath, Li Wei stopped thinking about these things, grabbed his sheepskin blanket, went into the newly built house, found a spot, and fell asleep—it was his right.

Li Wei slept soundly until sunset, and felt refreshed and full of energy. The hard work he had done during this period had not destroyed him, but rather made him feel as if he had been reborn.

Stepping out of the house, he was surprised to see about fifty mud bricks on the vacant lot he had originally planned to use for farmland, not far from the camp. These must have been done by Penny.

She couldn't wait to start the new storyline, so her next step was to make bricks, build furnaces, and smelt iron, taking the industrial route.
"Wait, it must be that her craftsman card has been upgraded."

Li Wei looked at the rows of brick blanks with complicated emotions. To be fair, the craftsmanship was already quite remarkable. This must be the blessing brought by the craftsman card.

If I'm not mistaken, Penny's Artisan card is now two stars.

Her advantages are accumulating.

At the same time, Li Wei also understood why Penny had voted for him to die in a plot. In a family, due to limited resources, the worst thing is to divide resources; you can't simultaneously pursue an industrial path and a farming path. Unless one side chooses to submit, it will inevitably fall into a certain degree of internal strife.

The problem is that they are all players and want to develop and upgrade their core cards, so conflict is inevitable.

Because this is a debate over policy direction.

"George, I'm planning to build a brick kiln. Could you come and help me tomorrow?"

Beside the campfire, Penny held a bowl of wild vegetable soup and called out to Li Wei, a very ordinary sentence.

But Li Wei understood; this was Penny's ultimatum!

You either choose to submit, or you'll be killed off by a plot device!

In a sense, with the death of their adoptive father leaving the position of head of the family vacant and Fila being sickly, the position could only be filled by either of them.

This is the competition between them.

At that moment, Li Wei's mind raced. He really did have thoughts of surrendering; reducing internal strife would be a good thing.

He doesn't necessarily have to be the head of the family.

However, he also realized that simply siding with Penny wasn't enough; he needed to offer a pledge of loyalty, such as whether he should vote for Fila if Penny initiated a poll to kill her off in a plot.
Although he also disliked Fila, he absolutely did not want to see a new player emerge, because that would mean more uncertainty.

Therefore, one should not seek refuge with them.

Besides, why can't I be the head of the household?
“Sorry, Penny, I’m planning to go into the forest tomorrow to see if I can hunt some rabbits. We need more food.”

Li Wei gave a formulaic refusal, an excuse that also fit the plot logic and the family's development: food was indeed running low, and those two bags of wheat wouldn't last much longer.

Speaking of which, Li Wei was quite curious: was Penny's insistence on developing the industrial sector because she planned to buy food from outside?
But she had previously mentioned that there was a plague going on outside.

Or perhaps, Penny is simply trying to upgrade her craftsman card level? The lives of others are none of her concern?

"Oh, my dear brother, you must be careful, there are more poisonous snakes than just snakes in the forest."

After Penny finished speaking, she gave Li Weiyi a meaningful look and then fell silent.

Fila remained silent, neither opposing nor supporting the proposal.

But she's definitely not a good person either.

Li Wei now realizes that Fila's agreement to Penny's plot-driven death vote was probably not to eliminate him, but to limit his development, euphemistically called "weakening the opponent is the same as strengthening oneself!"

"So family contribution points must be very important, right? Only when the family contribution points reach a certain value can one become the head of the family?"

"It seems that Penny is determined to become the head of the family."

"Or maybe Fila is also vying for it. Although she's sickly, her core card is the chef card. Now that she can cook every day, her cooking experience must have increased dramatically. Tsk tsk, we have to be careful of her. She might be a shrewd one!"

In an instant, Li Wei's wariness of Fila intensified.

(End of this chapter)