"In other words, is the Monster Siege a threshold specifically for the player lord?" Ning Yuan lowered his head and pondered, "That's right, compared to the aborigines, there are indeed a lot more ways and opportunities for players to get a heart in the city, and it's a lot easier. ”

"Rules specific to you?" Qin Yirou raised her eyebrows slightly, and said indifferently with some kind of assertive tone, "Then the strength of the demon beast siege will definitely not exceed your ability to bear it." ”

"That's what I thought too." Ning Yuan nodded, raised his hand and knocked on his eyebrows, and said, "A month's time should be that the village has just been upgraded to a town in terms of the player's normal progress, and the Chosen Circle has a minimum of fifty people a day, and a maximum of 100 people, plus the outcasts outside and the captives after the bandits, etc., the population is not a problem for players in the early stage." The key is to have some necessary building facilities and upgrade the towers and walls that the town must build. ”

"From the point of view of the upgrade rules given by the city knot, the village must have shops, restaurants, workshops, schools and other corresponding supporting facilities to meet the needs of the residents, in addition to the city walls and towers that can basically reach the outside of the enemy, and then need source coins and some materials containing energy to sacrifice to improve the urban area of the city's knot. As far as the player is concerned, a month in the village is about the right time. ”

Ning Yuan thought for a while, looked at Qin Yirou and said, "From the outside world, as long as the location of the city chosen by the player is not some particularly dangerous territory, it is indeed not difficult to carry the attack of a demon beast with little strength with the help of the town guard troops sent by the superior alliance, but we have no outside conditions here. The factors of the Dragon Prisoner Jedi itself and the urban characteristics of the Dream of the Rim limit the growth of the population, and we have no superior affiliation alliances, so we don't have any foreign aid. In this case, to be honest, I don't have much confidence in carrying the demon beast to attack the city, even if the strength of the demon beast is not high. ”

"The original safe zone is five thousand miles west of the cliff of the Fulong Mountain Range in the east, including Longman Lake and Xiling, which is enough for a city to upgrade to the city level safely and safely, and can repel the city-level monster attack at a very small cost." Qin Yirou obviously understood what Ning Yuan meant, and explained lightly.

However, although we considered the fact that there was no regular displaced population in the Land of Dragons, we did not take the population factor into account too much considering the number of non-people in the western tribes. It would not have been thought that the urban character obtained by building a city here would naturally have the effect of population suppression. After all, we will definitely come to build a city with enough people to upgrade the city to the city level in a short period of time to be able to establish a firm foothold. ”

"But now everything is different." Ning Yuan said.

"Not bad." Qin Yirou said lightly in an inexplicable tone, "Everything is different. ”

"The Qin Alliance has disappeared into the long river of history, and you have obtained the legacy of the Qin Alliance. What wasn't a problem with population is now your city's biggest problem. ”

Ning Yuan nodded.

"Don't open the city before the monsters attack the city." Qin Yirou suddenly suggested.

"Why?" Ning Yuan frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "What Yuanmeng lacks most now is population, and without population, cities can't be upgraded, and if they can't upgrade, they can't get the blessing of the city, without a certain number of fighters and the blessing of the city, it's impossible for Yuanmeng to survive the monster siege, right?" ”

"Normally, it does." Qin Yirou nodded, "Even if the Four Gates Array has suppressed the danger of demon beasts to the minimum, the cluster of demon beasts still has devastating destructive power against towns that lack population. ”

Then he faintly added: "If it weren't for us." ”

Ning Yuan's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this.

"Can the guard puppet block it?"

"What is the scale of the monster siege?" Qin Yirou didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

Ning Yuan recalled the data on the forum and said: "All the demon beasts within a hundred miles around the city limits, there is no limit to the species, mainly the local demon beasts of ordinary strength, the demon beasts with the highest strength are the leaders, and there will be elites and leaders for the demon beasts with a population of more than 1,000 people. ”

"The duration of the siege?"

"Three days." Ning Yuan replied.

"I can't stop it." Qin Yirou said lightly.

"Can't stop it?!" Ning Yuan was surprised, "Then you ......"

Before Ning Yuan's words fell, Qin Yirou said lightly in the second half of his sentence: "Just rely on the words of the guard puppet." ”

"Ugh." Ning Yuan was stunned, a little unsure of what to say.

Qin Yirou glanced at Ning Yuan indifferently and said, "What do you think about holding an entire city with thirty guard puppets?" ”

"I'm ......" Ning Yuan choked again.

Truly. Regardless of the design scheme given by Tuyan, it must include the entire city-wide design scheme. Although Ning Yuan did not enclose the scope of the village to the maximum, it was by no means something that could be defended by thirty guard puppets. Unless these puppets can fly. Or when the demon beasts attacked the city, Ning Yuan gave up other facilities and directly concentrated the defensive forces in the most important sacrificial ancestral hall.

But in this case, Ning Yuan might as well push all the village construction activities to be carried out after the demon beasts attack the city. It was obvious that Ning Yuan was not willing to do this.

Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan's somewhat unwilling look, and said lightly: "The population problem can be slowed down first, after all, this place is special, although there are rules and regulations, but if the residents are attacked by demon beasts before they completely return to their hearts, even if at least half of the people who join the household registration will choose to break the contract and leave, and the vast majority of the civilians in the other half of the population will die from this demon beast siege." And neither population flight nor attrition is a good thing for a city. Especially newly built cities. ”

Seeing Ning Yuan's expression of listening, Qin Yirou continued: "This is the land of dragon hiding, and it is a treasure land that all forces want to enter. After the citizens defect, the news here will spread as soon as possible, which will be very bad for you. ”

"But as long as the Chosen is opened, the news here will inevitably spread, right?" Ning Yuan asked.

"Nope. You don't understand. Qin Yirou sorted out her thoughts and said, "After a city-state resident becomes a naturalized city-state, it takes at least one year to leave the city-state, and it also takes a year to join another city-state after automatically leaving the city-state. In other words, under normal circumstances, news will not spread here for one to two years. ”

"In one to two years, with the products here, as long as you don't mess around, it is enough to firmly grasp the hearts of the people." Qin Yirou continued, "If there is no demon beast attacking the city in the first month, or delaying the time of the demon beast siege by three months, I have no objection to you opening the Heavenly Chosen to increase the population, after all, it is easier to build a home together to make the people of the city return to their hearts." But time is too tight. Rather than sacrificing the Chosen Population in vain and releasing the news early to lower the basic popular sentiment of the city-state, then it is better to make sure that the Heavenly Chosen will be opened after surviving the siege of the demon beasts. ”

Ning Yuan pondered Qin Yirou's words and brought up what he didn't understand.

"You just said that the depletion of the population will reduce the basic morale of the city? What is this setting? What else is there to break the deed? Will the citizens of the city be automatically teleported back to the outside world after breaking the deed? ”

"What do you think the Heart of Rules is based on?" Qin Yirou asked rhetorically.

"Nature is the rule." Ning Yuan replied without thinking about it.

After finishing speaking, he was stunned.

"Noticed?" Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan stunned, and said lightly, "Rules, to be precise, the laws and laws between heaven and earth, all of these exist objectively, and they don't exist because there is no rule heart." Cities can still be built without rules, and some invisible blessings will also exist after the city develops. ”

"And there are no restrictions on the city's set, it's much freer." Ning Yuan thought along Qin Yirou's train of thought, "But why is the city-state built on the foundation and core of the city's knot? What is the difference between a city with a city heart and a city built independently? Ning Yuan raised his eyes and looked at Qin Yirou and said suspiciously.

"Do you know what you call the 'heart of the city' why we call it more of the 'heart of rules'?" Qin Yirou's eyes looked at the front of her indifferently, and the pupils in her eyes said to herself in a gentle tone as if they were out of focus, "Because it can concretize the rules of the Heaven and Earth Family and the artificially formulated rules, giving a strong binding force at the oath level." It can speed up the development of a city, reduce the difficulty of a city's management, enhance the cohesion of a city, the sense of belonging of the city's citizens, and give the city special capabilities. It is the heart of the city where rules are cohesive. ”

Raising his hand to straighten the green silk of his sideburns, Qin Yirou's indifferent eyes looked at Ning Yuan with a scrutinizing gaze and said: "Although the city established by the heart of rules has many limitations, the area of the city, the upper limit of the population, the strength of the cultivators and even the choice of urban functional buildings, it has to be said that it allows many people who are not proficient or even ignorant of urban construction to know how to build and even run a city through simple guidance, making the city the help and cornerstone of many cultivators' cultivation." ”

"The concretization of rules can make it easier for practitioners to understand and comprehend the Tao, so that the rules formulated by people can play their due role more effectively. It also allows a city to take shape earlier and have the corresponding power, and then naturally exert this power. ”

Qin Yirou paused, raised the little finger of his right hand again and swiped the green silk on his sideburns, his quiet and indifferent eyes glanced at the inexplicable distance, turned his head and looked at Ning Yuan again, who seemed to understand or not, and said, "Do you know how long it takes for a city of tribes and non-people to take shape?" ”

Ning Yuan shook his head slightly. He didn't even know what the tribe was like, let alone their urban development.

"It takes about five to ten years for a tribal city to go from design to construction to completion. Then the migration of the population takes at least two to three years or even longer. The integration and initial governance of the migrated population took at least five years, and the process from a small city to a prosperous medium-sized city-state took about fifty to a hundred years. During this period, there were various problems that needed to be constantly adjusted. ”

"Although the city built by the heart of the rules also needs to be constantly adjusted according to the situation, the journey from a village to a medium-sized city-state only takes five to ten years as long as the population source is stable and sufficient, the resources are abundant, and the quick success is urgent. And because of the rules, it is much easier to integrate and govern the population. As long as the lord of the city does not die, the city can naturally remain quite stable. ”

"What is the basic people's heart? This is the natural force for maintaining stability, which is the foundation of the people's will. Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan and said.

"Is it a manifestation of the concretization of rules?" Ning Yuan suddenly said to himself, "Do you express the subtle things in reality in an intuitive and patterned way?" It's really game-like! Ning Yuan, who was muttering to himself in a low voice, suddenly thought of something, frowned slightly, and said secretly in an undetectable voice: "No, it has been reported that the space compression technology and the automation construction technology of intelligent puppets have made a key breakthrough, if you think like this, I am afraid that in a hundred years, things like portable bases are likely to become the norm, and there may be many such devices already existing in the material warehouse of the shelter." And the construction of the city-state here is a rehearsal to some extent? ”

After thinking for a while, Ning Yuan temporarily put down his thoughts and asked Qin Yirou, "Then what's the matter with the city people breaking the deed?" ”

"The heart of the rules has a change in purity, you know, right?" Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan and said lightly.

Ning Yuan remembered the display information on the panel and nodded. There are indeed settings for purity.

"Although the city built by the heart of rules can bind the behavior of the citizens through a concrete oath of rules, it does not control the thoughts of the citizens. The purity of the heart of rules is the spiritual feedback of the citizens of the city to the city and the city owner, negative feedback will pollute the heart of rules and reduce the power of the heart of rules, and positive feedback will further enhance the power of the city. And the resentment brought by the death of the city's citizens is the force that can pollute the heart of the rules the most. The death of a large number of city citizens will severely damage the heart of the rules, and when the city citizens are completely disappointed with the city and the city lord, they can use the negative power in the heart of the rules to directly break the shackles of the city people, which is the destruction of the contract. After breaking the contract, the Heart of the Rules will assume that the person who broke the contract has never joined the city, and then teleports the original Chosen inhabitants directly back to where they were before stepping into the Chosen Circle. ”

Ning Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said secretly: "Is this a precautionary setting to prevent the city master from getting angry and angry after the city people break the deed?" ”

After knowing the information he wanted to know, Ning Yuan thought for a while, and then agreed to follow Qin Yirou's suggestion and put the opening of the Heavenly Chosen after surviving the siege of the demon beasts.

However, how to survive the demon beast siege, Ning Yuan still hadn't gotten a clear answer, so he asked Qin Yirou again.

"It is true that the thirty pseudo-'body ghost' guard puppets alone can't stop the all-round attack of the demon beast group, but with traps, formations and other means, as well as broken steel, their words are partially certain. If you can build some specific buildings within a month, you will have a better certainty. ”

Qin Yirou thought for a while, looked at Ning Yuan, and said bluntly, "But you are an unstable factor. ”

"Me?!" Ning Yuan raised his hand suspiciously and nodded at himself.

"The war between the demon beast and the city-state According to the laws of this world, as long as the city lord dies and is reincarnated, the city-state will directly lose all the blessing effects. At the same time, it directly determines the failure of the city-state. ”

Qin Yirou said with a hint of disappointment in her tone: "You are too weak. You may be able to fight with one or two monsters, but as long as there are more than ten monsters besieging you, you will be in a situation from which you will never recover. ”

Ning Yuan heard the words "You are too weak" again, and his face was still a little unnaturally red.

It stands to reason that he is already very fast in cultivating this thing, but it is true that he is still too weak compared to the plural demon beasts.

"Too weak?" Ning Yuan said to himself in the bottom of his heart with some self-deprecation.

Ning Yuan already understood what Qin Yirou meant. If only she and those puppets were sure to block the monster attack a month later, but because of the need to be distracted to protect him as a lord, this certainty was reduced to a certain degree of danger, and he must be within the scope of the city during the siege (when the player lord encounters the monster for the first time, the siege will be forced by the system to limit the scope of activities within the city, but only for the first time, and the later war players can act freely).

Ning Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Then is there any way for me to quickly improve my strength?" At least it won't be a burden when the monsters attack the city. ”

"You are cultivating the Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra, right?" Qin Yirou glanced at Ning Yuan and asked.

"Yes." Ning Yuan nodded, "Fan Xiu passed on the human and ground steps of my Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra. The previous practice was the "Three-Edged Gun Technique". ”

"Although the "Three-Edged Gun Technique" has been modified to have the effect of condensing qi, it is lacking in speed, and the condensed internal qi is biased towards the fire attribute, although the "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra" has the top qi speed, and the condensed internal qi does not have any bias but lacks a supporting combat method, the combination of the two is quite suitable in the early stage." Qin Yirou commented lightly.

Then he looked at Ning Yuan's eyes and said, "There is one thing I am curious about. ”

"What?" Ning Yuan asked puzzled.

"It's only been half a year since your group of players came to the Nino Continent, how did you go from an ordinary person who didn't know what cultivation was to the middle stage of a soldier in a short period of time? In your superficial memory, it hasn't been more than three months since you actually started cultivating, and this speed is a bit too fast even with the grace of the rules and the help of the secret realm. And it can be seen that your foundation as a soldier is quite solid, and there is no obvious performance of pulling seedlings to help grow. Qin Yirou's glowing eyes looked at Ning Yuan's body lightly and said suspiciously.

"Ugh." Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, he did have an estimate of his cultivation speed, after all, when he first cultivated the "Triangular Gun Technique", he directly condensed the "Qi Seed", and then it didn't take long for him to naturally open up the "Qi Sea", compared to the aborigines, his speed from ordinary people to mid-level cultivators was indeed abnormal, but in terms of self-feeling, it should be slightly faster than other players. But looking at Qin Yirou's meaning, she had a rough estimate of the player's cultivation speed, and Ning Yuan obviously exceeded the minimum value of this estimate.

Ning Yuan didn't understand why it seemed that all the aborigines knew the player to a considerable extent, and even better than the player in some aspects, but that didn't prevent Ning Yuan from thinking about the secret of his cultivation speed.

"Maybe," Ning Yuan replied after a moment's thought, "it may have something to do with my abilities and talents." ”

"My ability to awaken as a Huangsheng dream is 'past reflection', which can completely reproduce the details of past memories, this 'past' includes the ongoing 'present', and there is a very small probability that I can synchronize my own thinking with the thoughts of 'others' in my memory."