Chapter 117: Hollow Valley Manor

Tang Xin walked into the cabin and came to the study on the second floor of the wooden house, which was the core of the entire manor.

Open the manor owner's manual on the table, the function of this manual is a bit like an electronic address book, this is to facilitate players to take care of the manor, in reality, many players have not been managers, and modern enterprise management, also very large with the help of email, operation manuals, electronic commands...... These modern methods require players to meet their subordinates like the ancient manor owners, often communicate face-to-face, and it is certainly unrealistic to personally travel hundreds of kilometers to inspect the industry.

This manor owner's manual simplifies the management process, so that players can experience the fun of running a manor without spending too much time and energy on it, so that it affects the game experience.

By this time the servant had already brought the ledger.

Tang Xin looked through the account book and had a general understanding of the current situation of the entire Empty Valley Manor against the state of the manor in the manor master's manual.

The only basic building in the estate was a small wooden house that integrated a residence, office and warehouse, which was the dilapidated two-story building where she now lived, and there was no other construction.

There are no abandoned industries in the estate, there are two fields and a small vegetable patch in front of the cabin, a few acres of vineyards behind the house, and a mountain full of fruit trees on the back hill.

However, as Donald himself said before, the grain yield in the farmland is very low, basically only enough to meet the original Donald and his two servants to get basic food and clothing, it is impossible to sell for a profit, although the grapes in the vineyard can be grown, but the taste is sour, and the yield is also very low, the fruit trees on the back mountain are not taken care of, basically some cherry trees, apple trees and other miscellaneous fruit trees, which are original on the mountain, but basically do not bear fruit, and the original owner of the manor Donald has no intention of taking care of it.

According to the state on the ledger and in the manual, the current empty valley manor is basically in a state of abandonment, with an empty land covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, but basically has no output and no profit points.

Tang Xin naturally knew about these situations, and the reason why she came all the way to buy the Empty Valley Manor was not to cultivate the land and open up the wasteland, but for a rare resource hidden under this manor.

This resource is called the Silver Soul Stone, which is a very low yield and extremely rare gem mine.

One of the most important characteristics of the silver soul stone is stability and fusion, simply put, it can integrate materials that do not blend with each other, which can be regarded as a medium or fusion agent.

But compared with other solvents with similar functions, the difference between the silver soul stone is that it has a very wide accommodating degree, it can be said that when making magic props and strange object props, as long as the silver soul stone is added, it is equivalent to completing most of it, because the maker does not need to consider the complex fusion formula, and does not need to accurately calculate the harmony of the ratio of various materials, which can save most of the energy.

If this alone, the silver soul stone can be called convenient and fast at most, but it is far from a unique position, the more important point of the silver soul stone is that it can be integrated on the basis of various repulsive materials, but also can play the advantages of the essence of various materials, this kind of each material to rough extraction, combined together, it is definitely not a simple addition of one plus one equals two.

You must know that a magic prop with a sophisticated structure and complex materials, how many materials are used in it, and the combination between them is the best match researched by countless scholars and equipment masters, and the Silver Soul Stone can stimulate all the advantages of the material, which is equivalent to directly upgrading the equipment to a level, or even more than a grade......

"My lord, the notice has been issued, but the existing liquidity of the manor is zero, and it is unable to pay the wages of the employee." Another servant returned.

"Well, I've already made 1,000 gold to the manor account, and the mercenary money can be deducted directly from it, these drawings are prioritized to be built, and when the three long-term workers come back to report, I will set the location of the building." Tang Xin nodded in understanding, she had prepared the drawings for the first phase.

The drawings include a small cottage for residential and office use, a plan for a targeted mining cavern around an area where the Silverstone Mine is being mined, and a preliminary fortification for secrecy and defense against outsiders.

This fortification consisted of a number of arrow towers, trap towers...... Separately, it is just an ordinary fortification, but according to the drawings specially designed by Tang Xin, it can basically cover the entire area, and as long as the garrison is arranged, a basic defense system can be initially established.

Of course, in Tang Xin's plan, just this basic preliminary fortification is far from enough, but the buildings with a higher level of defense cannot be built with such fanfare, so it is not obvious to tell others that I have treasures and secrets here, so I only built so many fortifications?

Second, Tang Xin now has limited drawings on hand, and there are no assured construction workers, for the sake of time, she hired many temporary construction workers, including players and NPCs who don't know the details, Tang Xin doesn't think that he can block so many people's mouths, it is related to the extremely scarce resource of the Silver Soul Stone, and Tang Xin is not at ease to hand over the core building to these people.

There are also some lumberyards, farms, orchards, and fishing grounds built to cover the Silver Soul Stone Mine...... Drawings of these basic agricultural sites.

Tang Xin marked the order on the drawings, the first thing to build is a small villa and preliminary defense, and then there are farm facilities for cover, the mine for mining ore Tang Xin is not so anxious to establish, anyway, the manor is bought, the mineral deposits are rich in underground reserves, and she will not run, what she wants is long-term interests, and the confidentiality work should be given priority, and the mining of ore is not so anxious.

At this time, the three long-term workers also came back to their lives, they were comparing and gesturing, pointing fingers, and Tang Xin also spent a long time trying to figure out the location of the huge strange stone they encountered.

Tang Xin followed them over and carefully inspected the area around the stone they found, and determined that this should be the place where the Silver Soul Stone could be mined.

Before Tang Xin was reborn, this manor belonged to a small group of individual players, who bought the manor in the game in order to experience the fun of farming, farming, farming, raising chickens and cattle, and experiencing the life of the manor owner and the farmer.

This small group of casual players bought the manor in the second year of the game, and they found that the farm was very low in crop yields, but they just wanted to experience a different kind of farm life, not for profit, so this small group of casual players didn't care about this and still enjoyed themselves.

After a few game years, the members of this small group of casual players have rotated, and the number of members has grown from 5 to 15, and they have also bought several adjacent estates nearby.

If this is the case, the members of this small group of scattered players will just live a calm and leisurely manor life, looking for a blue sky, white clouds, and pure land that cannot be found in a real city in the game......

But when the people of this small group went out camping, they found a strange big rock, and they took a group photo next to the big rock, and decided to start the camping next to this rock.

By mistake, they discovered that this area could actually produce a stone like the Silver Soul Stone.

At that time, it was already a few years after the game was launched, and at that time, the Silver Soul Stone had been used as an extremely rare and expensive strategic resource, and only a few temples and countries with strong heritage could exchange these Silver Soul Stones with high contribution points and prestige, just like the Mage Guild and the Alchemist Guild...... This kind of organization basically only carries out the business of exchanging silver soul stones for huàn for high-level VIP members.

The dozen or so people in this small group of scattered players were overjoyed, and they planned to jointly develop rare resources and make a lot of money in the game......

But in the face of such extremely rare resources, faced with the fact that there is basically no profit and money, and the expectation of a large amount of money in the future, few people can control their desires, let alone a dozen or so people who know about it.

Naturally, the originally loose and spontaneous manor owner's leisurely organization immediately collapsed, and this group of scattered players fought for their own interests, all fighting for their own part of the interests, the scene was very good-looking, the original friends fought, betrayed each other, and took turns framing and attacking, this scene was very big.

Moreover, these people still think that their own strength is not enough, and they also win over the major guilds, trying to get the support of external forces to occupy more interests.

But this is basically equivalent to luring a wolf into the house, the bigger the guild, the greater the demand for the Silver Soul Stone, and all they have to do is to grab the Silver Soul Stone Mine from the hands of some casual players, which is simply easy and pleasant, and it couldn't be simpler.

Several major guilds tacitly took these scattered people in turn, sent small teams around the clock to harass them, and finally forcibly bought the land deed from the miserable and tortured scattered players.

This scattered player didn't even see what the Silver Soul Stone looked like, and he was cleared out.

And then the battle escalated, and suddenly it evolved into a scuffle between the major guilds fighting for land deeds and resource points, the scene was extremely chaotic, everyone was under the banner of rare resources and virtuous people, Tang Xin was also at that time, as a bounty hunter hired to kill, he learned about this manor located on the outskirts of Hollow Valley City.

In the end of the melee, the major guilds were greatly damaged, and finally reached a consensus to cooperate in mining, sign a system contract to share the benefits, and this big melee was stopped.

In front of such huge benefits, no one would not be unmoved, so Tang Xin knew that the first thing she had to do was to keep the secret of this Silver Soul Stone Mine tightly sealed, otherwise with her own strength, she would only be a mantis arm for the major guilds.

Tang Xin is still very self-aware, she is not afraid of provoking the major guilds, and only regards the so-called chase order as a fun toy, this is because she has the strength of that PK, against the people who chase her, she can play, and if she can't play, she has more ways to get out.

But when it comes to rare resources, manors, and territories, Tang Xin's strength is very small, she can't compare with the big guilds of hundreds and thousands of people, and she also understands that not to mention a few big guilds, it is the ice wolf guild of the wolf totem that she just played to death, as long as one or two regiments of people are all dispatched to attack the manor, Tang Xin will be finished immediately.

She is not afraid of being chased and besieged, forcing her to hand over the title deed or something...... If you want to block her, you have to ask her hammer if she agrees, right?

But the manor has been harassed by people for three days, and he can't do anything he wants, and there are all kinds of people watching from the sidelines, so this is not playing a game, but being played by a game, always being tossed and remembered, a bunch of people waiting to calculate your feelings, Tang Xin doesn't think it will be good.

After setting the coordinates of the construction drawings, Tang Xin handed over everything to the two NPC servants.

These NPC servants in the manor who are not high AI can still be trusted, this is the auxiliary personnel assigned by the system to the player to manage the manor, and the loyalty is the highest value by default, although the flexibility of these two servants and the ability to do things are relatively low, but what Tang Xin ordered, they can all complete it honestly, and there is no need to worry about betrayal.

After dealing with the affairs of the Empty Valley Manor, Tang Xin used the door key of her apartment to teleport to several major cities.

rented out all the shops under her name and Wen Er's name, some of Wen Er's shops were near the prosperous auction house, and the rent of those shops was very considerable, but she and Wen second-hand on the other shops in remote locations and next to the Huàn line in the future, the rent was relatively low, Tang Xin didn't care, and also signed a lease contract at the current market price.

There are now a small number of players who are wealthy, but they don't have enough money to afford a shop, and there are also some professional merchants in online games, whose job is to resell the game's equipment, items, and materials...... It is similar to Tang Xin's previous efforts to sell materials at a low price and sell them at a high price.

However, these professional merchants operate day after day, they don't have the plug-in of Tang Xin's rebirth, but with their own eyesight, they can also collect a piece of equipment at a very low price and resell it at a high price, and some are in the business of alchemy products, potions, special props or catering.

Tang Xin rented the shop to these players, but the expiration time of the contract was almost one month in the game time, and the actual time was about half a month.

This is because half a month has passed since the official operation of the game, and after half a month of real time and a month of game time, the system of soft sister coins to huàn game coins will be opened, and there must be great fluctuations in prices at that time, so the contracts signed by Tang Xin are basically just right to expire when the huàn system is opened.

After dealing with the shop, Tang Xin came to the outside of Stormwind City again.

The territory obtained from Abel is just outside Stormwind, and the territory is the territory inherited by the Abel family for many years, because it is not associated with the title, but the personal territory of the Abel family, so it is still preserved in the dispute between the princes for power.

There is also a manor in the territory called Hilton Manor.

Yo, the name is quite foreign! R1152