Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 260 Mental Elixir
this moment,
Li Wei's gaze swept over everyone, finally settling on Li Yue. He smiled slightly, his eyes full of doting affection. "You said you'd help me with all your might. Now it's time to see how you perform."

"Xiaoyue, August is coming up next, which should be the most stable and peaceful month of the year. There are many things we need to get done this month, but I would like to hear your opinion."

"Brother, actually I'm not that outstanding. Second Aunt is the second most meritorious in the family. I think the first priority this month is to collect more herbs and prepare one-star and two-star blood resistance potions. Apart from Second Aunt, no one else can handle it." Li Yue smiled sweetly, no longer pretending.

There's really nothing to pretend about; so far, everything is out in the open.

She has reached an agreement with Li Wei to help him fully for three months.

Meanwhile, that son of a bitch Liang Yuzhi also reached an agreement with her to fully cooperate with her, so what else is there to say?

"That's right, Auntie will need to put in a lot of effort in this area."

Li Wei nodded and smiled, but in his heart he was thinking that Li Yue was really bold. Liang Yuzhi did not donate the two-star blood resistance medicine. If she clearly refused to cooperate, there was nothing that could be done.

As a result, Liang Yuzhi showed a knowing expression and had no objection at all.

“Brother, I think the second key task is the construction of the city wall, not just the main body of the wall, but also the entire city defense system. Traps and mechanisms play a very important role in this. I have three kinds of trap blueprints, which I will give to Sister Xuanxuan in a while so she can be in charge of building them. The main body of the city wall can be given to Thomas, Zhang Jinjun, and some free people.”

"Furthermore, unlike conventional warfare, radiation zombies will attack from the sky and from the ground. First, regarding the sky, we need to install barbed wire above the camp buildings, so our blacksmiths will also need to be very capable. And blacksmiths rely on mining iron ore, coal, and so on. I think we can let Leon serve as the mining captain and lead a group of free people to the valley town to be stationed for mining."

"Okay, continue."

Li Wei nodded; this was the same point he had thought.

"In addition to barbed wire, we also need to build more powerful siege crossbows. They can be cocked by gears, which may be a bit slow, but if we build more, they can effectively suppress aerial threats at critical moments. Let's build thirty of them. I remember there are eight hunters among the free people. Let them operate the firing mechanism, and the others can help cock it. I can take care of that."

"After dealing with the threat from the air, brother, we must pay close attention to the sneak attacks from underground. But to be honest, it's difficult to defend against because these mutated creatures are usually plant-based, and their roots are very sharp and strong. I think the best way so far is to search a radius of 100 kilometers in advance, find these mutated creatures, and eliminate them. Otherwise, their strength will increase significantly when the radiation storm breaks out."

"There's one more thing we need to do. We need to create more lead-zinc alloys to seal and preserve some of our important machinery and supplies during a radiation storm. However, we have plenty of these materials in the underground base, and we've already transported them back. The craftsmen in the Free Citizens can then cut and reassemble them. They're very familiar with this, so you can just give the orders, brother."

"Finally, there's still one important thing: the Flame Duke to our west. We have to be wary of those superhumans. Brother, I suggest we find a time to take him down!"

At this point, Li Yue looked at Li Wei. Since they had already pushed the extra difficulty to 180%, they certainly couldn't be polite and should do their best to maximize the benefits.

That's a special BOSS, the kind of special BOSS that can easily wipe out your entire team if you're not careful!

Therefore, we must strengthen all friendly forces as much as possible.

"That's a good suggestion, but I still think that this month we should focus on building the city walls and defense system, especially the siege crossbows. Also, my boots don't fit well. Xiaoyue, you can come and alter them for me when you have time. As for Duke Flame, we can deal with that next month."

Just when everyone thought Li Wei would agree with Li Yue's suggestion in its entirety, Li Wei had a different opinion on the last point.

This surprised both Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi.

Because it's perfectly reasonable to take down the Flame Duke at this time, and to train and strengthen everyone. Do you think it would be embarrassing to agree to everything or what?

This is utterly inexplicable!
Li Wei naturally wouldn't explain; he had his reasons.

First, he believed in the existence of the Ice Duke and the situation in the Ice Dungeon; there was no reason for the centaur to make up such a story to deceive him.

Secondly, both the Ice Duke and the Flame Duke are post-apocalyptic forces that have survived many radiation storms.

Third, perhaps in Li Yue's and Liang Yuzhi's eyes, the Flame Duke was just a large-scale magical zombie BOSS, and killing him was no big deal. But based on the first two points, Li Wei believed that the Flame Duke was actually not simple.

Although the centaur and his companions called the Flame Duke a fire-obsessed fool, they did mention that the Flame Duke also imprisoned many natural beings, partly to train them into fire-obsessed fools, and partly to maintain their sanity by dividing them among themselves.

In short, this is definitely not a simple entity. We must not think of ourselves as superior to these natives. If we develop such a sense of superiority out of nowhere, it is a big taboo.

Currently, neither Li Yue nor Liang Yuzhi seems to take Duke Flame seriously.

Liang Yuzhi had previously urged Li Wei to go to the western county town to kill Duke Lieyan or find a team of superhumans to kill him.

Now it's Li Yue's turn. Although they are both five-star cross-border bigwigs, Li Wei has a different opinion on this matter. "There's one more thing, Xuanxuan, please take some time this month to forge a two-handed greatsword for Lyon."

"As for me, I will go out to cut down trees this month to prepare for winter heating. Of course, I will also focus on scouting the area around the camp. If I encounter any of those mutated plants, I will kill them on the spot."

"Okay, that's settled then. Anyone have anything to add? Feel free to speak your mind!"

Li Wei spoke in a relaxed tone, but no one said anything. There was nothing to add. According to Li Yue's previous advice, everyone had a lot of work to do. Did they think they didn't have enough work to do?

Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi remained silent. You've already refused to attack Duke Flame, so what's the point of saying anything more?

"Haha, alright then, let's proceed as we just discussed. That's our main task for this month. Oh, and we can add a few more things."

“Leon, I’ll make Nelson your vice-captain, leading 10 miners. You can be stationed in the valley town, and I’ll also give you an electric bus for transportation.”

"Thomas, you're the construction team leader this month, Zhang Jinjun is the deputy team leader, and you'll be assigned ten free men. Santiago, Javier, and Benjamin are all yours; they're all young and energetic lads, so you can make good use of them."

"Also, Xiaoyue and Second Aunt, you two are light sleepers at night, so you can patrol the camp from time to time."

After Li Wei finished speaking, he released the monthly main quest, but this time it only consumed 300 contribution points. There were two reasons for this: one was that the total number of quests was slightly reduced, and the other was that all the monthly main quests were very close to the camp, with the furthest one being a valley town twenty miles away. This would save a lot of management costs.

Conversely, the larger the territory, the higher the management costs.

Next, everyone left. Li Wei changed out of her boots and handed them to Li Yue, asking her to make the alterations. It was now certain that she had at least one four-star tailor card and one four-star craftsman card or blacksmith card.

If you don't use it, you won't use it.

Without his boots, he couldn't do anything else, so he took the opportunity to cut some arrow shafts, including the shafts of crossbow bolts needed for siege crossbows, which were all useful.

It is worth mentioning that last month Liang Yuzhi cut down a lot of one-star and even two-star trees. Most of them are now stored in the underground garage, while some were moved back by Li Wei and artificially dried, dehydrated, killed by insects, and shaped.

In short, he can handle these things with ease now. It's just that he doesn't have a carpenter's skill card, otherwise a carpenter's fate would be at least 20.

Li Wei worked tirelessly until late into the night. Just as he was about to go to sleep, he saw Liang Yuzhi walking towards him with a strange look in her eyes. She blocked him in the control room on the fifth floor, and the next second, a four-star conspiracy card was activated.

"You took the Spider Woman's life core?"

Li Wei looked at Liang Yuzhi, a woman who was used to being a rogue and throwing tantrums. At this moment, she was actually a little angry and anxious. If it weren't for her status, she would probably have already started murder and robbery.

You can tell she's enduring a lot of hardship.

So that thing is very important to her?
Li Wei remained silent for a good ten seconds before finally speaking, just as Liang Yuzhi was about to grit her teeth and glare at him angrily. "Your real intention in healing me was to obtain this trophy? You were scheming against me, and at the same time, you were scheming against Li Yue?"

Liang Yuzhi's eyes flickered like will-o'-the-wisps a few times, but in the end, like a defeated old hen, she resigned herself to her fate:
“Healing is not a lie, but wanting to obtain this trophy is the real reason. I discovered this spellcaster banshee on the third day of the first month. It was very helpful to me, but at that time, I was no match for it in a one-on-one fight. I also did not want to cooperate with Li Yue, so I kept my patience until last month when I racked my brains to trick you into helping me.”

"I lied to you that the extra difficulty of opening up side quests wasn't a big problem, but actually it was a big problem. But for me, being able to scheme against both you and Li Yue at the same time would be very satisfying. Most importantly, I got what I wanted. This thing is a very precious magical material that can be made into a mental potion that can permanently increase mental strength after being taken."

"I don't care about the position of head of the family at all. I just want to get a Scholar profession card with a rare prefix. This mental potion is very helpful to me because only with high enough mental power can I appraise various items. I thought my plan was foolproof because this thing is completely unremarkable before it is appraised..."

"But I never expected you could find it. Damn it, what did I do to deserve this? That's why I lost, I lost badly. Can you tell me how you found it?"

"Ah Dai found it. It likes to rummage around looking for delicious food, but I'm also curious, why didn't you put this in the resource card?" This was also what puzzled Li Wei the most. Liang Yuzhi's previous actions were too confusing.

"Because if I dare to put in the resource card, and I'm not the head of the family, it's like triggering the anti-smuggling regulations. You know, this kind of development mission is like an assessment, and there are countless eyes watching outside."

"I see! So you can make mental potions? You had a scholar card before?" Li Wei suddenly realized.

“That’s right. I used to have a four-star scholar card. Although I have a bad reputation, I’m not without real talent. My disastrous cross-dimensional mission wasn’t all bad for me. So, Li Wei, what do you want in return for transferring that to me?”

(End of this chapter)