"That is to say, is the monster siege specifically aimed at the threshold of the player lord?" Ning Yuan lowered his head and thought, "That's right, compared to the aborigines, players have more ways and opportunities to get the city's heart, and it is not easy. less."

"Regulations specifically for you?" Qin Yirou raised her eyebrows slightly, with a certain assertive tone indifferently, "Then the intensity of the monster's siege will definitely not exceed your ability to withstand it."

"I think so too." Ning Yuan nodded, raised his hand and tapped his eyebrows. "A month's time should be just to upgrade the village to a town in terms of the player's normal progress. At least 50 people a day in the circle of choice. At most, there are a hundred people, plus the refugees outside and the captives after the suppression, the population is not a problem for the players in the early stage. The key is some necessary construction facilities and the towers and walls that must be built to upgrade the town."

“From the perspective of the upgrade rules given by the city’s heart, a village to be upgraded to a town must have shops, restaurants, workshops, schools and other corresponding supporting facilities that meet the needs of residents, and there are also city walls and walls that can basically resist the enemy. The tower then requires source coins and some energy-containing materials to sacrifice to increase the city range delineated by the city’s knot. From the player’s point of view, it takes about a month for the village to rise to the town."

Ning Yuan thought for a while, looked at Qin Yirou and said, "As long as the city location chosen by the player is not in some particularly dangerous territory, with the help of the guard troops sent by the higher-level alliance, it is indeed true that I want to overcome the weak monster siege. It's not difficult, but we don't have external conditions here. The factors of the "Dragon Prisoner Jedi" and the urban characteristics of "Yuanmeng" restrict population growth. In addition, we do not have a higher-level affiliated alliance, so there is no foreign aid. Under such circumstances, to be honest, I don't have much assurance that the monster beast can attack the city, even if the intensity of the monster beast is not high."

"The safety zone set at the beginning was a range of five thousand miles west of the precipice of the East Fulong Mountains, including Longfan Lake and Xiling. It is enough for a city to be safely upgraded to the city level and can be repelled at a very small cost. The city-level monster attacking the city." Qin Yirou clearly understood what Ning Yuan meant, and said lightly.

"However, although I considered that there is no conventional migrant population in the Longzang Land, considering the number of non-inhabitants in the tribes in the west, I did not take the population factor into consideration too much. I would not even think of building a city here. The characteristics of the city will naturally bring about the effect of population suppression. After all, when we come to build a city, we will definitely bring enough population to upgrade the city to the city level in a short period of time to have a stable foothold."

"But now everything is different." Ning Yuan said in a joint.

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

"The Qin Alliance has disappeared in the long river of history, and you have gained the legacy of the Qin Alliance. The population problem that was not a problem has now become the biggest problem in your city."

Ning Yuan nodded.

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

"Why?" Ning Yuan frowned, and asked inexplicably, "Yuanmeng now lacks population most. Moreover, cities cannot be upgraded without population, and cities cannot be blessed if they cannot be upgraded, without a certain number of combatants and cities. Blessing, Yuan Meng can never survive the monster siege, right?"

"Normally, it is true." Qin Yirou nodded, "Even if the Four Sect Array has suppressed the danger of monster beasts to a minimum, the group of monster beasts still has devastating power to the towns where population is scarce."

Then faintly added: "If we weren't there."

Ning Yuan's eyes brightened when he heard this.

"Can the guard puppet block it?"

"What is the scale of the monster's siege?" Qin Yirou did not answer, but instead asked.

Ning Yuan recalled the data on the forum, and said: "All monsters in a radius of a hundred miles around the city are of no limitation. They are mainly local monsters of ordinary strength, with the strongest monster as the leader, and the population exceeds a thousand. There will be elites and bosses in monsters."

"The duration of the siege?"

"Three days." Ning Yuan replied.

"Can't stop it." Qin Yirou said lightly.

"Can't stop it?!" Ning Yuan said in surprise, "Then you..."

Before Ning Yuan's words came to an end, Qin Yirou said lightly in the second half of her sentence: "Only the words of guarding the puppet."

"Uh." Ning Yuan was taken aback, some not knowing what to say.

Qin Yirou glanced at Ning Yuan indifferently, and said, "What do you think you want to defend an entire city with thirty guard puppets?"

"I..." Ning Yuan choked again.

indeed. No matter what kind of design scheme Tuyan gives, it must be a design scheme covering the entire city. Although Ning Yuan did not maximize the scope of the village, it was by no means all 30 guarding puppets could defend it. Unless these puppets can fly. Or when the monster attacked the city, Ning Yuan gave up other facilities and directly concentrated his defense power on the most important sacrificial ancestral hall.

But in this case, Ning Yuan might as well push all the village construction activities after the monsters attacked the city. Obviously, Ning Yuan was not willing to do this.

Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan with a 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 restrictions, if the residents encounter monsters attacking the city before the residents have fully returned to their hearts, even if they join the household registration. At least half of the people will choose to destroy the contract and leave, and the majority of the civilians in the other half of the population will die as a result of this monster attack. And neither population fleeing nor depletion is a good thing for a city. Especially Newly built city."

Seeing Ning Yuan's expression of listening, Qin Yirou continued: "This is the land of the Dragon Hidden, a treasure that all forces want to station in. After the city residents defect, the news here will spread immediately, which is very important for you. unfavorable."

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

"No. You don't understand." Qin Yirou sorted out and thought, "After a city-state citizen has naturalized a city-state, it takes at least one year to leave the city-state, and it takes a year to join another city-state after automatically leaving the city-state. Time. That is to say, the news here will not spread out within one to two years under normal circumstances."

"In one to two years, with the properties here, as long as you don't mess around, it will be enough to hold the people's hearts firmly." Qin Yirou continued, "If there is no monster attacking the city in the first month, or the monster will be attacked. The time for beasts to attack the city is postponed for three months. I have no objection to you opening Tianxuan to increase the population. After all, it is easier for the city residents to build a home together. But time is too tight. Instead of sacrificing the Tianxuan population in vain, the news is advanced. Released and lowered the foundation of the city-state's popular support, then it is better to be sure to survive the monster siege before opening the heavenly selection."

Ning Yuan thought about Qin Yirou's words, and brought out what he didn't understand.

"You just said that the depletion of the population will reduce the basic public sentiment of the city? What is this setting? What else is there to destroy the contract? Will the city residents automatically send back to the outside world after the breach of the contract?"

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

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

After speaking, he was taken aback.

"Notice it?" Qin Yirou stared at Ning Yuan and said faintly, "The rules accurately refer to the laws and laws between heaven and earth. All of these are objectively existing, and it is not because there is no heart without rules. There is no rule. The heart can still build a city, and some invisible blessings will also exist after the city develops."

"Moreover, there are no restrictions on the setting of urban knots, so there is much more freedom." Ning Yuan thought along Qin Yirou's thoughts. "But why are city states built on the basis and core of urban knots? A city with urban knots. How is it different from a self-built city?" Ning Yuan raised his eyes and asked Qin Yirou in doubt.

"Knowing what you call the'urban knot heart', why do we call it the'heart of rules' more?" Qin Yirou's eyes calmly stared in front of him, and the pupils in his eyes seemed to have no focus in a gentle tone. Said to himself, "Because it can concretize the rules of Tiandijia and the rules made by humans, and give it a strong binding force at the oath level. It can speed up the development of a city, reduce the difficulty of management of a city, and improve it. The cohesion of the city and the sense of belonging of the city residents give the city special abilities. It is the heart of the city where rules are gathered."

Raising his hand to adjust the green silk on the temples, Qin Yirou's indifferent eyes looked at Ning Yuan with a scrutinizing gaze: "Although the city established by the heart of rules has many restrictions, the area of ​​the city, the upper limit of the population, the strength of the cultivators, and even the city The choice of functional buildings, but I have to say that it allows many people who are not proficient or even ignorant of urban construction to know how to build and even operate a city through simple guidance, making the city a boost and cornerstone for many practitioners to practice. ."

"The visualization of the rules can make it easier for practitioners to understand Tao, comprehend Tao, and allow people to formulate rules to play their due role more effectively. It also allows a city to take shape earlier and have corresponding strength, and then Naturally exert this power."

Qin Yirou paused, and once again raised the little finger of his right hand across the blue silk on the temple, glanced at the inexplicable distance with his calm and indifferent eyes. How long does it take for a city of the people to take shape?"

Ning Yuan shook his head slightly. He didn't even know what kind of tribe existed, let alone their urban development.

"It takes about five to ten years for a tribe city from design, construction, and completion of construction. Then the migration of the population takes at least two to three years or even longer. The integration of the migrated population and the initial governance will take at least five years. The process from a small city to a prosperous medium-sized city-state will take about fifty to one hundred years. During this period, various problems continue and require constant adjustment.

"Although the city established by the heart of rules also needs to be constantly adjusted according to the situation, the journey from a village to a medium-sized city-state will only take five to ten years if the source of the population is stable and sufficient, resources are abundant, and quick success is achieved. And because of the constraints of the rules, the population Integration and governance are much simpler. As long as the city lord does not die, the city can naturally maintain considerable stability."

"You just asked what is the basic people's sentiment? This is the natural stability maintenance force is the basic people's sentiment." Qin Yirou said while looking at Ning Yuan.

"Is it a manifestation of the concreteness of the rules?" Ning Yuan muttered to himself suddenly, "Does the imperceptible things in reality express in an intuitive way? It really feels like a game!" Low Ning Yuan, who was muttering to himself, suddenly thought of something, his brows narrowed slightly, and he secretly said in an undetectable voice: "No, there have been reports that space compression technology and the automation construction technology of smart dolls have made key breakthroughs. If you think about it, I am afraid that things like portable bases may become the norm in a hundred years. Perhaps many such devices already exist in the material warehouses of the refuge. And the city-state construction here is a preview to some extent?"

After thinking about it for a while, Ning Yuan temporarily let go of his thoughts and asked Qin Yirou: "Then what is going on with the city people destroying the contract?"

"You know the purity of the heart of rules has changed, right?" Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan calmly.

Ning Yuan nodded, remembering the information displayed on the panel by City Knot. There is indeed a purity setting.

"Although the city established by the heart of rules can restrain the behavior of the city citizens through the concrete vows of rules, it does not control the minds of the city residents. The purity of the heart of rules is the city residents’ feedback on the city and the city’s spirit, negative Feedback from will defile the heart of rules and reduce the power of the heart of rules. Positive feedback will further enhance the power of the city. The resentment brought about by the death of city residents is the power that can most pollute the heart of rules. The death of a large number of city residents will severely damage the rules. When the city people are completely disappointed with the city and the city owner, they can use the negative force in the heart of the rules to directly destroy the city people’s shackles from the city. This is the breach of the contract. After the breach of the contract, the heart of the rules will default to the person who broke the contract. Never joined the city, and then directly teleported the original chosen residents back to the location where they were before stepping into the circle of the chosen heaven."

Ning Yuan's eyes flashed and he said to himself: "Is this a preventive setting to prevent the city owner from getting angry and getting rid of the city people after they destroy the contract?"

After knowing the information he wanted to know, Ning Yuan thought about it for a while, and agreed to follow Qin Yirou's suggestion to open the Heavenly Choice after going through the monster siege.

However, Ning Yuan hadn't got a clear answer on how to survive the monster siege, so he asked Qin Yirou again.

"It is true that only thirty pseudo-ghost guarding puppets can't stop the all-round attack of the monster group, but if you add traps, formations and other methods, as well as broken steel, you will be partially certain. If it can be in a month If you build some specific buildings inside, you will have greater confidence."

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

"Me?!" Ning Yuan raised his hand and nodded himself in doubt.

"The war between monsters and city-states is based on the laws of this world. As long as the city lord dies and reincarnates, the city-state will directly lose all the blessing effects. At the same time, the city-state is directly judged as a failure."

Qin Yirou said with a faint disappointment: "You are too weak. You may be able to defeat one or two monsters, but as long as more than ten monsters besiege you, you will be in a situation where you will be invincible."

When Ning Yuan heard the words "You are too weak" again, his face still flushed unnaturally.

The strength of the cultivation base is reasonable to say that he is already very fast, but it is indeed still too weak compared to the plural monster beasts.

"Is it too weak?" Ning Yuan muttered to himself somewhat self-deprecatingly.

Ning Yuan already understood what Qin Yirou meant. If only she and the puppets were the only ones who would be able to block the monster siege in a month’s time, but because of the need to be distracted to protect his lord, this certainty was reduced to a certain degree of danger, and he had to be in the siege during the siege. Within the range of the city (when the player lord encounters a monster for the first time, the siege will be forced by the system to limit the activity range within the city range, but only for the first time, and later war players can move freely).

Ning Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Then, is there any way for me to increase my strength quickly? At least it won't become a burden when the monster sieges the city."

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

"Yes." Ning Yuan nodded, "Fan Xiu passed on the human and ground levels of my "Nine Refining Qi Zhuan Heart Sutra". The previous practice was "Triangular Spear Technique"."

"Although "Triangular Spear Jue" has been modified to have the effect of condensing Qi, its speed is lacking in terms of speed, and the condensed internal Qi is biased towards the fire attribute. Although "Nine Refining Qi Zhuanxin Sutra" has the highest Qi gas speed, and The condensed internal energy does not have any bias but lacks the matching combat methods. The combination of the two is considered appropriate in the initial stage." Qin Yirou commented lightly.

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

"What?" Ning Yuan asked inexplicably.

"You guys came to the Nieno Continent only half a year ago. How did you become an ordinary person who didn’t know what to practice to become a mid-soldier in a short period of time? In your shallow memory, you haven’t really started to practice. For more than three months, this speed is a bit too fast even with the help of regular grace and the secret realm. And you can see that you have a solid foundation in the soldier, and there is no obvious performance that is encouraged by the seedlings." Qin Yirou Glowing eyes faintly looked at Ning Yuan's body and said in doubt.

"Uh." Ning Yuan was taken aback. He did have an estimate of his cultivation speed. After all, when he first practiced "Three-Edged Spear Technique", he directly condensed the "Aura", and then it didn't take long to develop naturally. In the "sea of ​​air", compared with the aborigines, his speed from ordinary people to mid-soldier level repairers is indeed abnormal, but in terms of self-feeling, it should be slightly faster than other players. But looking at what Qin Yirou meant, 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 had a considerable degree of understanding of the players, and in some aspects they even knew better than the players, but this did not prevent Ning Yuan from contemplating the secrets of his own cultivation speed.

"Maybe," Ning Yuan thought for a while and replied, "maybe it has something to do with my ability and talent."

"My ability to awaken as Huangsheng’s dream is the'image of the past', which can fully reproduce the details of the past memory. This'past' includes the ongoing'now', and there is a very small probability that my own thinking will The thinking of the "others" in the memory is synchronized."