Chapter 95: All for Food (I)
Chen Kai, who had stayed up on the high platform all night, walked off the high platform with red eyes and a yawn, of course, there were other people who also didn't sleep well all night. Because the houses in the entire castle have just been built, there is basically no decoration. Except for the ornate marble carvings on the floor, there are no decorations in the corridors of the entire castle.
So when it was dawn the next day, they began to renovate the castle according to the drawings that had been planned overnight. The decoration of most rooms is very simple, that is, laying out the carpet and hanging oil paintings. In fact, by the time they left Berkner Manor, they had basically removed all the contents of the manor's rooms, except for the immovable beds.
Because the system did not remind them that these items could not be moved, and before Chen Kai and the others left the imperial capital, the Berkner Manor was Chen Kai's private property, so they could be tossed wantonly. Except for those large items that can't be moved, such as beds, cabinets, etc. Paintings, carpets, tapestries, and armor ornaments that could have been removed were all looted by Chen Kai and the others, and now they are placed all over the castle.
Of course, in addition to the items looted from the Burkner Manor, there were also delicate items that Chen Kai and the others had brought back from the Rohan Empire that they had not sold. For example, gold and silver vessels produced in the north of the Rohan Empire were fired with a special glaze to create unique patterns. In this way, gold and silver vessels were also difficult to buy in the Rohan Empire, because it was much more difficult to depict the firing patterns with glaze on gold and silver vessels than to inlay gold and silver on other materials. Therefore, the price of utensils like Hansting is nearly twice as high as that of the Rohan Empire, and some of the fine products are even more difficult to buy, and the things that Chen Kai put out cannot be said to be unique, but they are also extremely rare boutiques. If it wasn't a boutique, Chen Kai would have sold them for money a long time ago, and only those rare things Chen Kai would put away, and now serve as decorations for the castle.
In order to completely decorate the entire castle, not only Chen Kai and the others did to help, but also Su Xinghe's friends and Huang Dao's classmates were also busy all day, and it took a whole day to finish the decoration of the entire castle. However, the problem of the beds in the castle is still not solved, because the Imperial Civil Mage Corps does not care about this. As a result, the first commercial project in the whole town of Burkner to flourish was not the grain merchant. It's a carpenter. Because there is no furniture seller in the whole town, and there is no bed, everyone can only make a bunk on the floor sadly, which is why Chen Kai did not sleep all night. It's not that he doesn't want to sleep because he is excited, but when he opens the door and goes in, he finds that there is only a platform for a bed in the room, but there is no bed, let alone a quilt. In this case, Chen Kai couldn't think of any other solution to sleep than sleeping on the floor.
However, Berkner's commercial development was destined to be tortuous, because there were not many qualified carpenters among the players. Of the nearly 3,000 players in the city, only about 40 have a side job as carpentry. And there are only three qualified carpenters. There is only one carpenter who can make wooden bed furniture, and he himself is a worker in a furniture factory.
As a result, in reality, this is just a low-level technician who struggles to earn less than 100 yuan a day, and he earns more than 3,000 gold coins in three days in the game world. This is still just a deposit, and basically every player who has slept enough on a hard floor in order to sleep in a good big bed is not stingy with gold. Of course, in order to keep those militiamen in the territory safely, Chen Kai also had to take out gold coins to order a bed from that player.
But this player only has one pair of hands and feet, and making zuò items in this game is not as simple as in other games, just a few clicks to read a note. An ordinary wooden bed would take hours to come out. And it's the kind that hasn't been planed, painted, or even the wood has dried. The worst thing is that you don't dislike this kind of wooden bed, it's good to have it. As for the cabinet, it is even worse, even the latch is simple. If you want to work finely, you need to wait, or you can only continue to sleep on the floor. …,
In the end, Chen Kai was forced to have no choice, he had to send people to the player's territory on the side to buy furniture, and furniture trading became the earliest foreign trade business activity in Burkner Town. It's just that the development of the surrounding players is not very good, after all, the players in the Hugodi territory are only able to gain a firm foothold, and the business development can be said to be a toddler. It's just that their luck is better than Chen Kai's, because they directly obtained a large number of people who have been relocated from the city of Hugodi. Although the largest number of aboriginal nobles are still occupied by the alliance of the aboriginal nobility. But in the end, it is better than Chen Kai, who is poor and white, and does not have a single aboriginal civilian, if Chen Kai has thousands of aboriginal civilians who are not soldiers, then the commercial activities in the city will be more prosperous. At least you won't see people shopping at night, and you won't see a ghost in some urban areas during the day. However, there are also advantages of fewer people, at least in the early stage of urban development, Chen Kai does not have to worry about the occurrence of chickens and dogs in the city. Because in the entire city, except for Chen Kai's troops, there are only those players who have been forced to leave the original place to beg for a living. Although these players took over the task of attacking Chen Kai's troops, they have now become Chen Kai's helpers. At least for the sake of gold and experience, these players are very dedicated to helping Chen Kai patrol the neighborhood, cleaning up the rats and flying monsters that sneak into the city from outside. The so-called flying monsters are endemic creatures of the Great Rift Valley not far from the town of Burkner, and are giant bats from the dark world underground.
When these bats are in the Underworld, they are the enemies of ordinary Underworld residents. Because they not only suck blood, but also devour the brain. As for why the giant bats living in the underground world appeared in Chen Kai's territory. The reason is simple: it was all the sins of the former lord. Because the former Hugodi lord completely opened the passage to the underworld in the Great Rift Valley, and then fled inside. Then the trade routes of the entire Rift Valley became what they are now. Not only do you have to face terrible natural dangers, but you also have to watch out for the attacks of the monsters of the underworld, as well as the troops of the former lords who fled into the underworld and wandered out.
Of course, the player's advantage in attacking flying creatures is not obvious, because bats can fly very fast, even giant bats. Far from slowing them down, their sheer size increases their impact when diving. Coupled with their thick skin, a crossbow bolt with a normal strength of less than 100 pounds could not penetrate their skin for ten meters. If Chen Kai was allowed to turn the heavy crossbow on the city wall, he could easily shoot those bats, but only if the crossbow arrows could hit the target. In fact, the best way to deal with these bats is fishing nets or arachnios, so when Chen Kai sent people to other territories to buy furniture, those player lords first hoped to exchange a large number of arachnican scrolls from Chen Kai.
It's just that compared to the bats in those players' territories, Chen Kai's Burkna town is much safer. Because in the past, the civil mage group stationed here to build the city had no mercy on these bats. Many of the players and indigenous civilians who wander around rely on the bat corpses killed by the mages to earn their living resources, and many of them fight each other for some of the corpses. It's just that with the departure of the mage group, Chen Kai and his team have to take on the heavy responsibility of destroying the bats themselves. Thankfully, under the slaughter of those spellcasters, only a small number of bats dared to enter the city to attack humans, and these bats could not even make a splash under the player's slaughter.
In fact, the main force to kill bats is not the player with crossbow arrows and torches fishing nets, but the two little flying dragons of Chen Kai and Su Wan. Already growing to more than three meters in length, they are now learning to fly, and every night is their time to practice flying, and their opponents are giant bats flapping their wings in the sky. …,
It's just that the first night the two little guys were basically caught by bats. If it's not thick enough on the scales on the body, there are other players below to help. It is estimated that Donnie and Kim will be directly sucked into wyvern jerky by the giant bats, but by the next day, as they gradually become familiar with the flying attitude, they will start chasing the giant bats in the air. But the final result is that the crash ends, fortunately, their skin is rough and thick, even if they fall from a height of more than ten meters, the skin will not break, and the bone roots will not be broken.
By the time Chen Kai and the others began to completely master the third night of Burkner Town, the two little guys had already thoroughly mastered the skills of high-speed flight pursuit after suffering all the hardships. Jumping and flying, he used his tail to knock the first bat out of mid-air. After that, the entire sky of Berkner became a paradise for the two juvenile wyverns. Although they are only level 4, the two-headed wyvern with the elite template can easily defeat ordinary giant bats with the particularity of dragon creatures and special bloodlines. Even though some of the giant bats were as elite as sixth-order creatures, they were still just prey in the eyes of the even larger wyverns.
It's just that the bat meat is too thick and poisonous, and Donnie and Kim basically don't touch the corpse, and they never use their teeth to bite but use their claws and tails to attack. But after all, the two little guys are alone, if they encounter a large giant bat, they still turn around and run, fortunately, there are almost no large bat colonies around the entire town of Berkner, and the largest number is only a dozen small troops. The large swarms of bats had been slaughtered by the spellcasters who had built the city, and all that was left was a few fragile crooked melons and cracked dates.
Because the town of Burkner is not infested by giant bats. As a result, the original Hugodi residents scattered in the surrounding fields began to slowly move to live in the town, and the arrival of these residents finally made the city a little more popular. But the total number of inhabitants scattered in the wilderness around Berkna was less than 3,000, and they were all poor peasants with no property or poor people who had lived in the city of Hugodi. These people have little craft, and they don't have much ability to make a living, so they are abandoned by the aboriginal nobles or not accepted by the player lords. Only Chen Kai, a hungry lord, will absorb them, and then allocate land for them to cultivate, of course, if they can't even farm, then Chen Kai can only let themselves perish. Fortunately, although these poor people did not have much ability, they were at least relatively industrious, and the day after Chen Kai allocated the land to them, they began to reclaim the ground and prepare for farming. The land that Chen Kai gave them was farmland less than two kilometers from the city. Somewhere north of the city, of course. The area to the west was the land that was to be given to the families of the soldiers in the future, while the area to the east and south was near the Great Rift Valley, and basically no one wanted it.