Chapter 72: The Cost of Development
"General...... Checkmate? ”
The call in his ears woke Qi Lin up.
"Am I asleep again?" Qi Lin opened his eyes and looked at the person in front of him who had awakened him.
"Yes, General......" replied with a nod from the man in front of him.
"Corpse...... Are the bodies buried? Hesitating, Qi Lin asked.
"General, the body was buried three days ago......"
"Uh, it's been three days?" Hearing the other party's answer, Qi Lin was stunned for a moment, and then remembered.
yes, it's been three days.
After the system vetoed his mention many times, Qi Lin finally gave the order to massacre.
Because he knew that if he did not do this, he would not be able to develop, and then he would be powerless to resist in the face of the Roman army that was likely to come in the future.
And Qi Lin also knew very well in his heart that he would have to pass this level after all.
But wanton slaughter is not the result that Qi Lin wants, after all, after living on the earth for more than 20 years, the habits developed in a harmonious society cannot be easily changed for a simple reason.
However, soon, with the reminder of the system, the problem was solved.
If you don't want to wantonly slaughter innocent people, what about those who are hostile to yourself?
Looking at the red markers representing this enemy on the map of the Age of Empires system, Qi Lin readily ordered the Rhodok soldiers to re-enter the crowd.
A few minutes later, dozens of men and women in ornate robes were captured, and after comparing the map with no mistakes, Qi Lin ruthlessly gave the order to kill them.
But even so, the population did not ease, that is, some more people had to be killed, and even if Qi Lin wanted to develop quickly, he had to kill all these Romans.
But looking at these people who were not hostile to themselves, and only had fear and dazedness on their faces, Qi Lin gritted his teeth fiercely.
This is the first time that I am faced with such a choice.
Is it to stop here, abandon the whole world, abandon your own plans, and abandon these two game systems.
Or be completely ruthless, ruthless to be a butcher, slaughtering these 100 innocent ordinary people.
This question, after Qi Lin thought about it for almost a whole day, finally figured it out.
As he had thought before, if Qi Lin really wanted to completely conquer a world, then this step, he had to take it.
Even if he gives up this world at this time, in the next world, in the next world, sooner or later, he will face this problem again.
Unless he completely gives up development, gives up the huge wealth at his fingertips, gives up the opportunity to become stronger, and gives up the system.
Obviously, Qi Lin didn't feel like giving up on these things.
So at noon the next day, the townspeople who had thought it was over were gathered again, and then they were greeted with a voice of despair.
"Kill!"
After a rain of arrows, looking at the number of people who had returned to zero, Qi Lin smiled, but he was also sick.
In fact, based on the body he has inherited from the game character, this body basically eliminates any possibility of illness.
But there is a good saying, illness is born from the heart.
Listening to the miserable wails of more than 100 people before they died, even if they had been prepared before, this scene still left a lot of shock in Qi Lin's heart.
After hastily giving the soldiers the order to bury him, Qi Lin left the square in a trance, and since then he has been depressed, often sleepy, and even falls asleep directly before he knows it, until someone wakes him up.
At the same time, Qi Lin also felt more and more that his memory seemed to be fading, and every time he woke up, he would always forget some things, and there were only some scattered fragments in his mind.
Under this mental torture, Qi Lin's state became worse and worse, and the time spent each time he fell asleep began to gradually strengthen.
If this goes on for a long time, Qi Lin is likely to die in this movie directly because of a mental breakdown.
At this time, the awakened Qi Lin knew very well his current state, but what could he do?
Qi Lin tried to deceive himself in his heart and let go of this matter, but unintentionally, he still remembered this matter, and every time at this time, the depression in his heart became more and more abscessed, and even faintly felt that he couldn't breathe.
Now the only way for him to put aside this matter for a while and divert his attention is the development of this town.
In order to make himself feel better, Qi Lin made the town Calradia, which is actually the name of the continent in which the game of horseback and slash is played.
Sitting upright in the chair, Qi Lin pursed his dry lips, took a sip of the ale wine placed next to him, and frowned.
Qi Lin doesn't like to drink, and in his life, apart from plain water, the most he does is drink some coke.
Drinks, he's really not used to it.
However, there is nothing else to drink here, and now this small town of Calradia is in a desert, with almost no water source around, and the most drinks here are only alcohol.
But apparently the liquor in this world is not as good as the ale directly purchased from the Riding Chop Mall.
After all, even if he didn't like to drink before, in some parties, under the deception of those unscrupulous classmates, he still drank beer a few times.
"Goo~!"
Swallowing the ale in his mouth, Qi Lin felt a lot more comfortable, then looked at the person standing in front of him and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”
This is a Central Plains man who looks to be twenty or thirty years old, with a mediocre appearance, with an authentic oriental face, which looks particularly strange in this world full of whites and blacks.
This person was naturally a peasant recruited by Qi Lin with the central town of the imperial system after the population recovered.
Hearing Qi Lin's question, the peasant saluted respectfully and replied, "General, the infantry camp has been built, and you said that you will report to you in time after it is built." ”
"Barracks? Oh...... Has it already been built? Hearing the farmer's words, Qi Linzhuo remembered it after a while, and he also had a trace of spirit in his heart, and hurriedly stood up with the armrest of the chair, and then said, "Let's go, take me to see." ”
"Yes, General, please come with me!" The peasant saluted Qi Lin respectfully again, and then took the lead and left the room.
Ten minutes later, after following the peasant to the outskirts of the town, Qi Lin finally saw the barracks.
The three-meter-high wooden fence blocked Qi Lin's view, covering an area of only two hundred square meters, and no sound could be heard through the closed gate.
"Is this the barracks? It doesn't look like anything special......" Seeing the appearance of the barracks, Qi Lin was a little disappointed, this is not as full of science fiction as the soldiers of the Red Police, and it is so mediocre that it can't even compare to the bungalow in his grandmother's house.
But he also knows that this will be the foundation of his struggle to dominate the world.
Summing up the system interface, the Age of Empires interface was opened, and Qi Lin quickly found the location of the barracks from the map.
Looking at the number of population caps, after three days of development, the population cap has risen to 500, and Qi Lin has only asked the peasants to build 8 dwellings.
Excluding the 100 people who had it at the beginning, almost every dwelling would directly increase by 50 people.
And Qi Lin later listened to the system's explanation, and this ceiling seems to be able to rise all the time with the increase of dwellings, and there is not a capped ceiling like in the game.
However, correspondingly, the construction time of the Age of Empires is no longer completely inherited from the game like the original Red Alert.
It seems that the lifting of the population cap is not unconditional.
"Let's make two hundred militias first." After Qi Lin opened the barracks, he looked at the only class in the construction list and thought.
After ordering the soldier's creation sequence, Qi Lin's mood also improved a little, turned his head to look at the peasants who were waiting by his side, and asked, "What about the problem of resources?" Is there anything to collect nearby? ”
"Report to the general, the partners who went out to search have not brought back any news, the surrounding area is deserted, there is nothing."
"In other words, can we only rely on RMB to develop now?" Hearing the peasant's answer, Qi Lin took out the magnetic card from the ring.
The above figure has stopped rising.
"It seems that the veins in the hobbit world have been completely emptied."