Judging from the comic strip drawn by the maid, the cat people live in the swampy area, and there is no shortage of food, but for the cat people who love cleanliness, the environment of the swamp really makes them a little miserable.

Then there is the problem of nocturnal nature, the cat people have also considered relocating to the Undercity before, but unfortunately they were rejected by the dark elves, on the grounds that the dark queen Fred is allergic to cats......

And now the birth of the Eternal Night City is a better substitute for the Cat People than the Dark City: the Eternal Night City flying in the sky not only maintains the characteristics of the Eternal Night, but also does not need to stay in the closed and dark underground for a long time, there is fresh air at any time, and you can go out of the city at any time when you want to enjoy the sun, which is really an excellent gathering place for the Cat People!

In fact, the maiden personally came to the Star Spirit Realm this time to help fight for Eternal Night City, and it also had the meaning of inspecting the environment of Eternal Night City for the clan.

The result made her very satisfied, especially when she saw the treatment of the blood clan after relocation, which made her firm in the idea of helping the clan migrate.

"Welcome."

For the maid's request, Mu You readily agreed.

The cat people are not like werewolves, they have conflicts with vampires, and they will fight every day when they stay together.

As for the cat people, there are no bad rumors at present, this is a very low-key race, with a total population of only about 700 people, for Sky City, which can carry hundreds of millions of people, their addition can't even make a splash.

"Thank you." The maiden held up the cardboard, and below the text was a 'relieved' emoji.

Immediately, the maiden left a teleportation array in the city, said goodbye and left, presumably teleporting back to the swamp to inform her people of the good news.

"Xiaoya, are you full?" Mu You went to find Xiaoya and prepared to let her leave some vacant seats for the cat people.

Xiao Ya was still at the desk in the center of the City Lord's Fort at this time, busy operating the City Lord's Book.

"No ......"

"How much is missing?"

"It's not ...... 1,240,000 ......"

"So much?" Mu You was stunned when he heard this.

The newly born city only has a population limit of 10 million, and it has been six or seven hours since the birth of Eternal Night City, and it has only accepted more than 8 million people?

When Dawn City was the beginning, every time it received people, it was basically full in seconds, even the recently born Starlight and Dark Night City took more than ten minutes to fill up people, but when they arrived in Eternal Night City, why did the speed suddenly change so much?

"What conditions have you set for accepting people?" Mu You looked at her strangely.

"There is no setting, everyone who signed up agreed......" Xiao Ya said aggrievedly, and showed the book of the city lord to Mu You as she spoke.

Mu You stepped forward and took a look.

As a result, the application interface is empty, as long as all the registrations are added, even so, there are still only so many people, which can only show that the willingness of players to apply for Eternal Night City is very low.

Mu You frowned and thought about it for a while, but he quickly understood.

The biggest reason is the environmental problems of Eternal Night City.

The eternal darkness of the city of eternal night is a paradise for the nocturnal race, but for ordinary people, it is a big trouble.

Ordinary players don't have night vision, and in Eternal Night City, they need to keep the lights on first at all times when they do anything, which will greatly increase the difficulty of mining and various actions, and reduce the efficiency of work sharply, so in the case of some choices, of course, no one wants to come.

Another important reason is that now that the twelve cities have been born, Dawn City has even gone straight to the fifth-level city, you must know that when you are promoted to a fifth-level city, the population limit will be raised from 50 million to 100 million, and there will be an additional 50 million places!

Instead of competing for the 10 million population limit in the special environment of Eternal Night City, it is better to wait for the 50 million gap in Dawn City after a while, no matter which point of view, Dawn City's advantage is completely overwhelmed by Eternal Night City.

Not to mention, other Sky Cities are also stepping up their level up, and it is conceivable that the demand for new players in each city will increase significantly in the coming period.

To put it bluntly, the population location of Sky City is no longer as scarce as before, and with a large number of cities to choose from, players are naturally starting to pick and choose.

Nowadays, many players who have not yet joined Sky City are actually 'waiting and seeing', after all, there are restrictions on joining and exiting Sky City, and most players will want to join the top cities as much as possible to enjoy more benefits and new features as soon as possible.

The combination of these two aspects is why the current predicament of Eternal Night City has emerged: the difficulty of collecting people.

Of course, the population of level 0 will definitely be full, but the people who receive it are basically low-level players, and as the level of the city increases, the population limit increases, and the gap between Eternal Night City and other cities will become more and more obvious.

"Boss, this ...... What to do? Xiao Ya looked at Mu You cautiously and asked.

She had also been the deputy city lord of Dawn City for a long time, so she naturally understood the importance of population to Sky City.

If there is no population, there will be a shortage of labor, and the development of the city will be hindered, and if the development is slow, others will be more reluctant to come, thus forming a vicious circle......

"Is this ...... If there is no population, let's create a population! Mu You pondered for a moment, and suddenly said.

"Huh? Create, create a population ......" Xiaoya blushed. In reality, she could understand it, but ...... Is it possible to create a population in a game?

"To be precise, to create labor!" Mu You corrected, and he also realized that what he said just now was somewhat ambiguous.

"Labor?" Xiaoya was puzzled.

"Just like in our store, there is no recruitment, and the problem of labor shortage is not easily solved." Mu You Tips.

"Oh, the robot ......" Xiaoya suddenly said.

Of course, she knows how easy the robots in the store are, and the labor force of a robot is comparable to four or five employees, which is simply a group of hard-working cattle and horses.

If you zoom in on the situation in the store and the entire city of Eternal Night, it seems that it can really solve the problem of labor shortage......

"But where can I find so many robots?" Xiaoya quickly asked new questions.

One of the biggest problems with the realization of this idea is the source of robots, and the number of robots needed to support the labor of an entire Sky City is really incalculable.

The second is the energy problem, several robots in the family consume magic crystals every month, and how much energy does it need to consume every day for robots that can support an entire Sky City?

"That's easy to say."

Mu You had already quickly calculated everything in his heart.

There is now a goblin alchemist in Dawn City, and he also has a previously captured goblin engineer in his backpack.

According to the little goblin's daily bragging, as long as there are enough materials and energy, it can build a georefining gold factory by itself, and even it can do it, let alone the alchemy master.

As for energy, he is even more lacking.

Mu You transformed into a mecha skin, removed the ancient power furnace from his body, and took out the forest spirit core that was used as an energy source from the furnace.

[Contaminated Forest Spirit Heart, current pollution level: 99.8053%. 】

Ever since the old goblin transformed the Ancient Power Furnace into an 'Energy Conversion Furnace', this core has been placed in his mecha skin, and all the energy that Mu You usually uses to fight with his mecha skin is absorbed from it.

The most expensive was the last time he fought against the Shadow God, when he blasted the charged cannon for an hour and a half almost non-stop.

However, even under such rough use, after almost a month, the pollution level of this core has only decreased by less than 0.01% compared to before, which shows how huge the energy contained in it is, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as vast as an ocean.

The task given to him by Sen Ling before was to use up 10% of this core within a year, and with his current consumption rate, it was obvious that he couldn't complete it, unless he didn't do anything else every day, and kept firing around with the mecha skin, it was possible to complete it.

However, this is too inefficient and too wasteful, how good is it to use such a huge amount of energy to do something that benefits the country and the people?

And now, a matter with a super high energy demand is placed in front of him.

Thinking of this, Mu You put away the power furnace and core, changed back to the vampire skin, and teleported to Dawn City.

In a tin hut next to the City Lord's Fort, Mu You found Turce Eugene, the 'crazy alchemist' he brought back before.

When Mu You entered the door, Eugene was sitting by the window in a daze.

When it heard a knock on the door, it came to its senses, moved its shoulders, and went listlessly to open the door.

"Is that you?"

Seeing Mu You at the door, Eugene was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly pulled his trouser leg and shouted: "You came just in time, hurry up and let me go, I have something to go back to the clan to see!" ”

In all fairness, Eugene stayed here and was not abused by anyone, Mu You provided it with sufficient material conditions, and did not restrict its personal freedom, it can go wherever it wants on Dawn City, to say that the only restriction is to close the barrier of Dawn City to it, so it can't get out of Dawn City, and even the death teleportation point is anchored on Dawn City.

So strictly speaking, it's actually under house arrest here.

When he first arrived, there was the subject of energy conversion, and Eugene had a sense of novelty, but after the energy conversion device was completed, Eugene had nothing to do every day, and this novelty quickly subsided.

He is known as a crazy alchemist, who can endure living in risks and thrills every day, but he can't stand this boredom and eating and waiting for death every day.

"I'm almost out of the birds here! You must let me go back today, that's what we said at the beginning! Eugene tugged on Mu You's trouser leg and didn't let go.

"Okay, I'll be honest with you."

Mu You had no choice but to shake his head and confess to it: "Actually...... Your home is gone! ”

“？？？” Eugene looked at Mu You with a confused expression.

"Seriously, the goblins heard that the Fool was coming back for revenge, so they ran away with Clockwork City overnight." Mu You spread his hands and glanced at it: "Your status in the goblin clan is not low, I think you understand what I mean." ”

The goblin once tricked a foolish ancestor and appropriated the fruits of his wisdom as his own, not to mention that everyone in the goblin clan knows about it, but some high-level goblins should know about it.

Sure enough, Eugene lost his mind for a while when he heard this, and subconsciously let go of the hand holding Mu You, and after a while, it reacted and sat on the ground with a pop: "It's over......"

"What's over?" Mu You asked.

"Goblins are a race of extremely cautious nature, and they must have made all the preparations to escape in Clockwork City, and they will hide in a place that no one knows, and they will not have any contact with the outside world for a long time...... In other words, we, the goblins who have been outcast, have been abandoned......" Eugene clutched his head in some pain.

Although it is isolated by the goblin clan and disliked and ridiculed by many clansmen, it is still a goblin at heart after all, and it still has a deep affection for race and Clockwork City.

Now the tribe has chosen Shenyin for self-preservation, and its wandering goblins have suddenly turned into rootless duckweed, which makes it extremely confused for a while.

"But even then, you'll have to let me go!" After being sad on the ground for a while, Eugene suddenly got up again and said solemnly: "This is what you promised!" ”

When it came back with Mu You, it only agreed to help him make an energy converter, and now that the promise has been completed, there is no reason to detain it again.

"Don't worry, if you want to leave, I won't stop you." Mu lobbied.

"That's good!"

When Eugene heard this, he immediately went back to the small iron house, dragged out a package that was larger than himself, tied it behind him, and was about to walk towards the exit of Dawn City.

"But are you sure you're going to leave like this?" Mu You looked at Eugene's back and suddenly spoke.

"Huh?"

Eugene frowned and looked back: "What do you mean by doing nothing?" ”

"I've helped you make an energy converter and verified my idea, it's an epoch-making invention!" Eugene said proudly.

"Your so-called epoch-making invention must rely on my energy core to work, and without the core I provide, your invention is still equivalent to waste."

Mu You looked at it and said, "What's more, just inventing such a thing, are you satisfied?" ”

"What do you mean?" Eugene's brow furrowed even deeper.

"Don't you have a higher pursuit?" Mu You asked.

"Pursuit?"

"For example, for those goblins like you, who have been abandoned by the race, build another ......clockwork city, or something like that," Mu lobbied.

"Rebuild...... A clockwork city?! ”

Eugene was stunned for a moment, then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly unwrapped the package on his body and ran back to Mu You's side quickly. Expectant asks, "How do you say that?" ”

"You've seen my energy core, it has almost unlimited energy in it, if I give it to you, do you have the ability to use it to restore a clockwork city?" Mu You looked at it with a smile.

"Of course I can!" Eugene blurted out.

Then he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "However, to build a clockwork city, you not only need energy, but also materials!" What about the material? ”

"Materials?"

Mu You looked at the city in the distance where he couldn't see the edge: "Isn't there everywhere in this sky city?" ”

The materials that can be mined by mining in Sky City include almost all types of alchemy materials.

"You want me to build a Clockwork City in Dawnlight?" Eugene looked at Mu You in disbelief.

Mu You shook his head: "The land in Dawn City is useful, there is not so much space for you, however, you can go to another place." ”

"Where?"

"Eternal Night!"

"Eternal Night...... You mean, the sky city of eternal darkness? Eugene's eyes lit up.

As one of the oldest alchemists among the goblins, he had certainly heard of the great name of the City of Eternal Night.

"Yes, that place should be better for you, right?" Mu You said with a smile.

"Take me there!" Eugene can't wait.

Although goblins are not completely nocturnal creatures, they are naturally good at mining underground, and have been in the dark all year round since they were born, so working in a dark environment is more in line with their habits and nature.

Mu You didn't talk nonsense, and teleported to Eternal Night City with it.

"Where shall I build my city?" After coming here, Eugene looked at the sparsely populated and ruined City of Eternal Night, and hurriedly turned back to ask.

Mu You directly took the map of Eternal Night City.

Like the other Sky Cities, the scope of Eternal Night City is a circle.

Mu You drew a quarter of the fan-shaped area on the map and waved his hand: "If you are sure that you want to build a city, this place will be handed over to you!" ”

Eugene looked at Mu You in shock, pointed to the map, and confirmed: "You mean, I can use the minerals in this area as I like?" ”

"As long as you have the ability to dig it out, use it as you like!" Mu You nodded.

"Your energy core, let me use it casually?" Eugene swallowed and asked again.

"Of course!"

"Aren't you afraid that I'll run out of energy for you?" Eugene looked at him with a strange expression.

Although that energy core is called infinite energy, it is not really infinite, and if you want to build an entire clockwork city, even if it is that thing, sooner or later it will be consumed.

Mu You smiled when he heard this, I'm afraid that you won't use it fast enough!

"Why don't we sign a gambling agreement!"

"What agreement?" Eugene was stunned.

Mu You took out the inky black forest spirit core and pinched it in his hand.

"This core, if you can use up its energy within ten months, I'll give you a new one!"

"What?"

When Eugene heard this, he came back to his senses in the middle of the ring, looked at Mu You like a fool, pointed to the core, and then pointed to himself: "I used up this thing, not only did you scold me for wasting it, but also gave me a new one?" ”

"Yes, but with a premise." Mu You nodded.

"What premise."

"The energy in this core must be used entirely for the construction of the City of Eternal Night, and cannot be wasted elsewhere!" Mu You emphasized: "If you can use up the energy of this core within ten months on the basis of ensuring the fastest upgrade of Eternal Night City, I will abide by the agreement and give you a new one." ”

"The question is, can you do it?" Mu You finally asked rhetorically.

"You're underestimating me! You are also underestimating alchemy! Eugene was immediately upset when he heard this, sneered, and said proudly: "Don't say ten months, believe it or not, I only need half a year, it is enough to use it cleanly, and I guarantee that there will be no waste!" ”

"Okay, then half a year!"

Mu You immediately changed his words and said with a smile: "Within half a year, use this core to build an alchemy factory in Eternal Night City, and produce enough robots for the construction of Eternal Night City until the energy of the core is used up." ”

"I voted for this project!"

(End of chapter)