Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 241 Negotiate Again
At this moment, Li Wei glanced at Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi again, then put on a gentle face and said with a smile, "Xiao Yue, Second Aunt, Lyon, Xiao Zhang, you can teach these free people as appropriate, so that they can adapt to the pace of cold weapon warfare as soon as possible."

"As for me, I will continue to stay at the camp this month, responsible for daily patrols and security."

After saying that, Li Wei chose to release the monthly main storyline. Lines of information silently appeared in front of the seven people, but this time, the free citizens did not receive it.

[Li Wei, the head of the family, has released a new monthly main quest. Due to the current overall strength of the camp and the importance of this month's main quest, his release of this quest will cost 500 contribution points.]

[Li Wei, the head of the household, is tasked with guarding the camp, scouting the surrounding area, and ensuring the camp's safety as a captain-level main quest. He will receive a base reward of 500 points at the end of the month. In addition, all contributions from the free citizens will belong to him.]

[Family elder Li Yue is carrying out a captain-level main quest, with a base reward of 500 points at the end of the month.]

[Family member Liang Yuzhi is undertaking a captain-level main quest, with a base reward of 500 points at the end of the month.]

[Family members Leon, Thomas, and Zhang Jinjun are undertaking a vice-captain level main quest, with a base reward of 300 points at the end of the month.]

[Family member Zhao Xuanxuan is performing a regular monthly main quest, and will receive a base reward of 200 points at the end of the month.]

The free citizens of the territory perform daily tasks and earn territory contribution points. Once they accumulate enough, they can exchange them for a one-star profession card and other valuable resources from the head of the household, Li Wei (this information is available to the free citizens).

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Once the monthly main quest was released, Li Yue, Liang Yuzhi, Zhang Jinjun, and Lyon, along with the ten strongest free citizens selected, jumped onto the bus and set off immediately, without wasting any time.

Thomas, meanwhile, took his tools and went to find Li Wei to discuss the construction of the city wall.

"Old classmate, that old man Nelson only provided the design blueprints for the composite gravity city wall, but he didn't draw up a plan for the main city wall of the entire camp. What are your thoughts on this?"

Thomas then asked that only Li Wei could make the decision.

In other words, Nelson was only responsible for figuring out how to build the walls to be stronger, while Thomas was responsible for ensuring the construction was not shoddy.

Only Li Wei could decide where to build it, what the perimeter of the city wall would be, and exactly which location it would surround.

He had indeed seriously considered it before and had talked to Nelson more than once, but as an ordinary person, Nelson could not offer any more advice. In his opinion, the underground base in the northwest was a more permanent solution.

He even wanted to build a completely enclosed watchtower!
But the price was far too high.

“The Central Green Park and Farm No. 5 can be abandoned. We should be able to salvage the crops on them before the radiation storm breaks out.”

"The hydroponic cultivation technology and poultry raising technology we brought back from the underground base can be used in our underground base. So the food problem is no longer so urgent. Even if Farm No. 5 is destroyed, it won't be a big problem."

"Therefore, the focus of this city wall construction should be on building around the camp building, which can also cover Farm No. 4."

"The specific plan is to build a city wall with a circumference of 300 meters. Let's go with that standard."

Li Wei finally made a decision. A circumference of 300 meters is actually quite small. Even the city wall that Thomas built in the newbie mission world was longer than that.

But you have to take things one step at a time; taking too big a step will lead to trouble. Since we don't yet know the scale of this monster siege, we need to be conservative.

"it is good!"

Thomas nodded and left. This composite gravity wall is about eight meters high and six meters wide. The outer layer needs to be made of piled stones, fixed with cement, and made into a huge cage with steel bars, serving as a four-meter-wide energy dissipation layer.

The middle section is a one-meter-wide reinforced concrete core for pressure resistance, and an elastic stress-relief layer will be built behind it, mainly composed of materials such as car tires and steel plates.

Overall, it can withstand the powerful bombardment of the rock giant.

During this period, Li Wei and his team need to first kill, surround, and divide the other ability users and mutated creatures, leaving the most destructive rock giant for last.

During this period, it is crucial to prevent situations where superhumans or mutated creatures consume the CPU and experience a sudden breakthrough.
That's roughly the idea.

Li Wei believed that if the difficulty of the extra side quests was kept at 90% before the monster siege, the number of five-star targets during the siege should not exceed three.

If there are more than three, their camp will inevitably be destroyed, and Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi will not be able to withstand it, unless Liang Yuzhi also recovers, but this matter still needs to be considered.

That woman had no sincerity in cooperating at all.

Let it sit for now!
Next, Li Wei returned to the camp building, changed into a full set of weapons and equipment, and began his routine night patrol.

He cannot go out to do work, nor can he leave the camp.

It was one thing before, but what if someone breaks into our house this month? That would be so unfair.

He walked silently and quickly. Ah-Dai did not follow him. At this moment, it was fast asleep in the camp building. It rarely took off at night and was not very willing to move during the day. It would just squat on the rooftop to pretend to be on guard duty.

They fly out for a patrol once each in the morning and evening, and those two patrols cover about fifty miles.

So it may seem lazy, but it's actually quite reliable.

With a radius of fifty miles, most risks can be detected in advance. Li Wei's current night patrol area is a ten-mile radius around the camp building.

It's called a night patrol, but it would be more accurate to call it a fully armed off-road adventure.

After jogging twenty kilometers in one go to warm up, he would return to the edge of the town, where there were piles of building ruins, various concrete, broken wood, bricks, occasional unrecycled steel bars, or other miscellaneous garbage.

But this is Li Wei's standard training ground.

Yes, training is still needed.

You can't say that if you increase your Agility attribute to the maximum of 31 points, or if your Hunter's Fate reaches 51, or your Lumberjack's Fate reaches 50, then everything will be fine and you'll be set for life.

The hunt never ends, and neither does the training.

What Li Wei needs to train now is to combine his balance, explosive power, and dodging ability with his perception increased by 1, so that he can gain a higher level of understanding of his own body.

For example—quickly drawing the three-star warbow amidst such complex ruins, and shooting a damned cricket hiding in the grass with a hardwood arrow…

Who can say this doesn't count as hunting?
Of course, most of the time, Li Wei shoots at fixed targets, at a distance of 400 meters, using projectiles!
Usually, they miss every single shot...

But he enjoyed it.

Because he discovered that there are patterns to be found in projectiles.

Whether it hits the target or not is not important, but it is very useful for his research on the making of arrows, finding the center of gravity of the arrow shaft, exploring the cutting and pasting of feathers, and various other craftsmanship details.

In addition, with more of this kind of projectile training, Li Wei would occasionally call on Adai, and by sharing the field of vision, the projectile accuracy could be greatly improved.

His best performance so far is from 400 meters away, by sharing the field of vision with Ah-Dai, firing 15 arrows in 10 seconds and hitting the target every time.

That's equivalent to creating a small volley of arrows.

However, the cost is that 200 stamina points are consumed directly, and it takes more than ten seconds for the person to recover.

These training activities usually end around midnight, which has been the norm for the past ten days or so.

Run 20 kilometers, practice parkour and knife throwing on the ruins of buildings, and then throw them 100 times.

Once all the hardwood arrows that had been shot were retrieved, Li Wei would draw a bucket of well water, wash himself clean, and then take out a clean soft cloth to maintain his armor and the three-star warbow.

Next, he would eat something, rest for a while, and then carve some hardwood arrows, as well as suitable arrow shafts or wooden spears. He would also make hardwood arrows, two-star sniper armor-piercing arrows, three-star sniper armor-piercing arrows, and so on. Occasionally, he would also carve some handy two-star axe handles and two-star hammer handles according to Zhao Xuanxuan's requests.

Around four in the morning, Thomas walked out of the camp building to start work. Zhao Xuanxuan, with her hair all messy and still sleepy, got up in the blacksmith shop to start her day's work. Only then did Li Wei go to bed and fall asleep quickly amidst the clanging of Zhao Xuanxuan's hammering. He was so quiet that no one could wake him up.

However, when the cook, an older woman, came to deliver breakfast at exactly eight o'clock in the morning, Li Wei would wake up on time. By the time he finished breakfast, Ah Dai would have already returned from his patrol, leaving behind fifty suspicious pictures before going back to sleep in.

Li Wei will use these images to compare with images collected in the past few days, create a 3D model, and construct a topographic map covering an area of ​​fifty square miles.

Of course, this is a bit difficult and cannot be done in a short time, because many times, Ah-Dai will repeatedly record the same location.

At such times, Li Wei would take a break during the day to go out for a stroll, fill in the relevant information, and also gain some reconnaissance experience.

As for the rest of the time, he only did three things: eat, sleep, and help Zhao Xuanxuan forge iron. He lived a fulfilling and carefree life.

Twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.

Nothing happened, but Li Wei felt uneasy.

Because so far, more than forty days have passed since those groups of superhumans were wiped out.

Why hasn't the Flame Duke in the west made any moves yet? Is he preparing a big move?
He wasn't worried about problems with the underground base, because based on his confidence in the strength of Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi, he wasn't too concerned.

Under the constraints of the rules, Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi cannot betray each other, so under normal circumstances, they can maintain stability no matter what.

On his side, if Duke Flame were to track down this place by scouting the electric bus's transport route, that would be a real problem.

With just him, Thomas, Zhao Xuanxuan, and a bunch of old and weak free men, how could they possibly hold out?
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

So on this day, when Liang Yuzhi returned from escorting a shipment of supplies, Li Wei took a one-star conspiracy card from Zhao Xuanxuan and seized the opportunity to conspire with Liang Yuzhi!
He couldn't hold on any longer; he had to talk to Liang Yuzhi.

As a result, Liang Yuzhi immediately withdrew from the conspiracy and casually threw out a four-star sincerity card, making a show of bravado but being weak inside.

"Damn it, who are you trying to fool with this one-star conspiracy card? Speak your mind, or shut up. If you still want to cooperate, stick to our previous agreement!"

(End of this chapter)