City of Despair, Fourth District.

In front of the collapsed section of the wall, it has become a bustling place since the influx of players began some time ago, and it is very noisy all day long.

On the open lawn of almost tens of thousands of square meters that had been cleared out of the square area, on several smooth and open roads, magic locomotives and monster transporters transporting all kinds of stones, giant bones, sand, steel, etc., were like long dragons, and there was an endless stream.

In the vast open space, there are thousands of stands erected high and various instruments and tools. There are those who stir sand, there are those who burn fire to forge the bones of giant beasts, and there are monsters such as rhinoceros, bears, and cows that are used as power to carry all kinds of heavy materials. Nearly 1,000 players shuttle back and forth, so busy.

On top of the fence dozens of meters high, pulley hangers hang down and rise, and various materials for building the wall are stretched from the ground to the height, and some players act as plasterers, piling up various materials on the city wall.

In the busy construction site, the roar of various magic engines, the roar of monsters and the shouts and shouts of players are intertwined, a lively scene.

Beside a wide clearing where the mud was stirring, a tame titan behemoth was being used as a booster, dragging several long ropes and pulling an elliptical sphere that was fixed, with a cross-sectional area of about four or five meters and a length of seven or eight meters. The rattling of the gravel mixed with the characteristic stone powder used as cement made a harsh noise, which disturbed people for a while.

This mixer is a construction machine customized by the Ministry of Construction, especially towards the Ministry of Industry, there are five in total, far from the general construction site is not too much, but there are stupid and coarse. Originally, it was intended to be driven by magic energy, but after weighing the cost performance, I found that it was more time-saving and convenient to use the monster's animal power drive.

As long as these giant beasts spin in place, dragging a few ropes to pull the gears to form power, the power of a monster mixer is only stronger than the large diesel engineering equipment in another world.

"Damn, don't do it!"

At this moment, in front of the monster mixer, a player in charge of dumping stone dust and gravel suddenly threw a huge funnel in his hand to the ground, jumped from the top of the monster mixer, spat at the mouth and ran towards the construction site.

"I don't want to do it anymore!"

"Lao Tzu is here to play a game, not to experience life on the construction site."

"Let's go and fight monsters outside the city, where there are colorful spiders."

"Open a group, open a group, come together!"

Behind this player, five or six other players who were also busy shouting together, throwing away their tools one after another, and running out of the broken city wall in a hurry.

After these players left, some of the players who were responsible for carrying stones and forging the bones of the behemoths in several other places left their arms and followed them out of the city walls, or ran away in other places.

"Boss Xu, our city wall construction team ran a few more today."

In front of a battlement at the head of the Wall of Despair, which had been completed and repaired, a sturdy player watched those players leave their busy guys and run away regardless of it, and suddenly shouted at Xu Zhe next to him with some worry.

In the fourth district, in front of the construction site in full swing, a worried player shouted at Xu Zhe, who was looking around.

"This is the normal metabolic process."

Xu Zhe stood in front of the construction site, first looked left and right at the city wall under construction not far in front of him, and then slowly turned his head and spoke to the people beside him, "Lao Chen, you calm down, there are so many players pouring in now, there must be some who are not restrained." ”

"But this is too uncontracted!"

Chen Longxiang muttered a little dissatisfied, and his rough appearance was whispered at this time, but it gave people a different kind of interesting feeling.

"It's a different world, and people always want to explore something new."

Xu Zhe no longer calls this world a game, but directly refers to another world.

Looking at Chen Longxiang's aggrieved expression, he couldn't help but chuckle, the other party was a companion he had known since the jackals attacked the camp at the beginning, but Chen Longxiang had been tossing his "little villa" every day for a while before, and he had no intention of doing anything else.

Finally, when his "small villa" was almost done, he found that he had generally been pulled away by the level of players, and although the prices of many potions and weapons were reduced, as the number of players increased, the competition became a little fierce.

In the end, he entered Xu Zhe's construction department, and now serves as a leader in the city wall maintenance team of the city of despair. This is a continuous cycle of development, the population increases, the productivity increases, and the various materials obtained are more, but on average, it is much easier for individuals than before, but it is not easy to obtain everything overnight.

"Boss Xu, you didn't think of any punitive measures?" Chen Longxiang looked at Xu Zhe's calm appearance and asked again.

When everyone fought the jackals together, Xu Zhe's performance was not necessarily too prominent, but now the other party has grown all the way, as if he has become a big man in this world.

According to Chen Longxiang's understanding, the number of players is not too large now, if the number of players is expanding by tens or hundreds of times, and the tide is rising, Xu Zhe's current position is really high, and it is not inferior to those dignitaries in the real world.

It's just that in this world, except for about 100 aborigines, most of the people managed and restrained by Xu Zhe are players, and the binding force seems to be not so strong, and people come and go.

He used to stand in the perspective of a short-term worker, and felt that the model of the construction team of the Ministry of Construction was very good, but now he has become a small leader responsible for the progress of the project, and he feels the drawbacks.

Especially every time I watch a lot of players do it, either they suddenly lose their temper and destroy it, or they just pick their sons and leave, that feeling really makes him feel like he is looking at young people in the workplace.

"It didn't exist at first, but now it's almost there."

When Xu Zhe heard Chen Longxiang's words, he didn't feel that he had anything to hide, and said directly, "There are already some hidden punishment measures, such as these players fail to complete the work task after accepting it, or quit halfway, then it will be difficult for him to receive tasks and work in other departments in the future." Moreover, even if they go to fight monsters, when they sell them to the City Lord's Mansion, the price will be one or two percent lower than others, and the items they buy will be higher. Moreover, the punishment for destroying some tools, as long as it is reported to the City Lord's Mansion here, will be directly deducted from the player's account. ”

"Not really." Chen Longxiang's eyes widened slightly when he heard this, "Is there still a personal credit report here?" ”

"Of course." Xu Zhe smiled, "The red name and yellow name in the game are actually this. And then prestige, these are actually pretty much the same things. If the prestige is high, the discount is high, and if the prestige is low or plural, of course, there is a price. ”

"Damn, it feels really scary!" Chen Longxiang shrunk his neck, pointed to a few players who had happily left the city wall and ran towards the Forest of Bones in the distance, and said, "They don't know yet?" ”

"Some, I know." Xu Zhe was not sure, "But these things are actually a means of restraint, after all, not everyone is willing to be restrained." ”

"That's right." Chen Longxiang nodded, he watched the management system of this world be built step by step, and many players slowly became part of this system.

Chen Longxiang, as a person who has experienced social beatings and has worked in many companies, naturally understands that once this system is built, the role played by players as part of it is naturally extremely important, but when it comes to individuals, it is not necessarily so important.

This is just like some large companies, after the number of tens of thousands of people, in fact, except for some particularly core and important personnel, or the transfer of a large number of personnel, ordinary employees leave and come and go freely, which basically will not affect the normal operation of the enterprise.

Now the entire Desperate City Construction Department has about three or four thousand people, and it is the main department for players to complete various tasks and earn magic crystal coins and prestige, and the flow of dozens of people every day will not be too affected.

It's just that, as the person in charge of a small boss, I occasionally watch these players come and go, and I feel a little uncomfortable.

"According to the current progress, it will probably take more than a week for this section of the city wall in the fourth district to be repaired, and then we will be ready to face the demon tide."

Standing on the city wall tens of meters high, Xu Zhe overlooked the surroundings, compared to the walls of several camps that were at most five or six meters seven or eight meters high, the city wall of despair was dozens of meters high, not only could he see some movements in the forest of bones in the distance, but most of the collapsed and destroyed buildings in the fourth city could still be seen.

"I heard that a new summoning has begun, how many players are there this time?"

After all, Chen Longxiang next to him is an old qualified player, and he has already learned from many people that the Demon Tide is about to break out, this news is not deliberately promoted, but it is not hidden, and everyone basically knows that the time of the Demon Tide outbreak is very close.

"I think the total number of players will be about 50,000." Xu Zhe groaned slightly, and then said the news he said he knew.

Chen Longxiang was slightly surprised, "So many, there are a lot of them!" ”

Although there are many games that claim to have millions of people online, many players are distributed in dozens or hundreds of servers, strictly speaking, tens of thousands of players are crowded into one server at the same time, which is a relatively large scale for many games.

"It's not much, actually." Xu Zhe shook his head slightly, "Look at our despair city wall stretching for dozens of kilometers, such a distance, tens of thousands of people on it basically can't make any waves. ”

Although Chen Longxiang is a veteran player and has experienced many wars, he actually has more of an ordinary player's sense of substitution in this world.

But Xu Zhe has already pinned this place on his second life, and even if he is asked to choose between here and another real world now, there is a high probability that he may choose to live in this world directly.

There was no internet, no computer games, no delicious food, and no safe environment, but in this world he had achieved extraordinary things, and he had achieved the sense of accomplishment that he had ever dreamed of, and that feeling had to some extent replaced the helplessness and frustration he once had in real life.

Chen Longxiang didn't know what Xu Zhe was thinking, so he just nodded lightly and said, "That's the same, if 50,000 players are divided into such a long city wall, it won't have a big effect at all." ”

Speaking of this, he patted his head again, and suddenly realized, "No wonder, recently, the master and some of the people under your command are constantly opening up the road. ”

"There aren't enough players, so of course you have to move quickly." Xu Zhe looked at the urban area in the distance, and his face showed a little helplessness, "In fact, the industrial capacity can't keep up, if you can smelt enough steel, it would be even better to directly get a few to replace them with railways." ”

"That's right, it's fast, and the transportation capacity is strong. Hehe, however, it's easy to derail and be destroyed! Chen Longxiang said with a smile.

"So now it's probably another big trailer." Xu Zhe nodded, in fact, many industrial parties have train plots, this kind of transportation with super ground carrying capacity is really suitable for the city of despair to carry out long-distance deployment of troops and transport materials.

But unfortunately, after many considerations, the final use of the magic locomotive fleet for transportation.

The city of despair is defended by dozens of kilometers of walls, with 50,000 players, plus some aborigines, and if you want to completely defend it, you must have to make constant personnel adjustments. Fortunately, at such a long distance, the route of the monster's attack will not be completely dispersed.

Ordinary transcendent first-order and second-order monsters are basically difficult to break through in the face of fifty or sixty-meter-high city walls, and the key defense is basically enough in the transcendent third-order.

"By the way, Lao Chen, I'll go to the Twelfth City District later, the fortifications over there are also doing well, in fact, although the Thirteenth City District has been flooded by the inflow of seawater, on the whole, it is a good port. If we survive the outbreak of the demon tide, maybe we will be able to build a ship and go to sea in the future. ”

"That's a good feeling!" Chen Longxiang was a little excited when he heard this, "Actually, I feel that this world map is really too big, and so many people in a desperate city can't talk about exploring it clearly, hey, with the ocean map in the future, I don't know how wide it is." ”

"yes, the world is really big. Perhaps only by waiting for a vehicle such as flying to come out will we be able to further understand how big the world really is. ”

The area of the City of Despair is already the scale of a first- or second-tier city for players, plus a large number of unowned wastelands, it is really vast to explore with individual strength. Coupled with the information about the Eastern Continent that has been transmitted back now, think about the vast desert of tens of thousands of miles, and after crossing the cliffs of the heavenly moat, entering the Eastern Continent, it is a world that I don't know how big.

"Boss Xu, Brother Chen!"

As the two of them stood on top of the wall of despair, whispering about the direction of future development, while watching the busy players repair the city wall, a huge cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rolled up in the city in the distance.

"It's Sanjin and Corgi!"

The two people on the city wall saw a horse riding a monster mount, and they both had a smile on their faces, Xu Zhe stood on the battlement of the city wall and asked directly, "Where are you going?" ”

"Brother Gao asked us for help."

Lu Xin, who is under the city wall, has not only improved his personal strength since he led the team independently, but also seems to have undergone some transformation in temperament, and he said with some spirit, "It's a group of little monsters, just suitable for us to practice." ”

"Boss Xu, Brother Chen."

Ke Yuan on the side rode on a monster that seemed to be a velociraptor and looked at the two people on the city wall above his head, and also beckoned. Everyone is a player who has stepped into the transcendent, with sharp eyes, deaf ears and eyes, and it does not affect communication even after a long distance.

"Then you go first, by the way, be careful to get around, don't disturb the livestock who are helping me with the work." Xu Zhe looked at the mighty monster cavalry from above, and greeted with a smile.

These men had to pass through his construction site, and although the place was open, so many monsters passing by it would inevitably cause agitation among the monsters who had already been tamed.

"Don't worry, Boss Xu. Many of your monsters were captured and tamed by me. Lu Xin shouted with a smile, attracting the attention of many players who were busy around.

Now most of the people who are moving bricks in the construction site are rookie players, and they are all struggling to earn magic crystal coins and prestige, and suddenly see a team of players with mounts, and that kind of envious look is needless to mention.

"Haha, okay, you guys hurry up, and then stay here again, and hook up with my soul."

Xu Zhe noticed the movement of the players on the construction site, and waved his hand again and again to drive these people away.

"Haha......" Lu Xin looked at the envious eyes of many players, and drove the rhino king, who was larger than ordinary rhinoceros, and laughed, "If you want to mount, you can go to the tenth city district to report, our animal power department is still very short of people, as long as the performance is excellent, everyone will be assigned a mount ......"

"This bastard, because I took care of him so much before, I don't think our players can run fast enough!" Chen Longxiang watched Lu Xin take his monster cavalry before leaving, and he didn't forget to dig people, and he was so angry that he vomited blood.

"Don't worry, their animal power department can't accommodate too many players."

Xu Zhe looked at the construction site that was so messed up that he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.

Although Wenner's animal power department has expanded a lot during this time, it is limited by many monsters that cannot be tamed at all, so on the whole, it has not expanded too much, and most players go around and around, and finally they will find that moving bricks in the construction department is the most stable and simple source of magic crystal coins and prestige.

On the other side, the monster cavalry that was rushing all the way through the fourth district, and then crossed the third and second districts one after another, and rushed towards the first city under the Broken Life Mountain Range in the distance.