Chapter 115: If you don’t become a family member, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are

Chapter 115: If you don’t become a family member, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are

"Okay, it seems that City Lord Ding's city planning skills are pretty good. Everything looks in order!"

Lecturer Ding has been busy for a while and feels quite accomplished.

In fact, he is not a high-end player in urban planning. He used to play similar games and often repaired the lines as if they were twisted. In construction games, he could only build matchboxes.

However, the game "Forsaken City" already has a ready-made city foundation. Although there is a lot of open space, the general partitions have been done, so even if you mess around, it won't be too bad.

At this moment, an event happened to be completed.

【Food problem solved! 】

[You generously used some of the stored grain to help the hungry people in the city. Although it was old and even moldy food, most of the hungry people were still grateful for it. 】

[This has slightly increased the people's satisfaction with you. In the future, a few of these hungry people may help you develop the city. Of course, it may also become a burden that brings down the city. 】

This is the prompt interface for the completion of the event, and a prompt box of "City Lord's Suggestion Manual" pops up on the right side of the prompt interface.

[City Lord’s Advice Manual]

[The voice of the people and the decision of the city lord]

[As a city lord, you will frequently hear various requests from the people, and your advisers will also provide you with various solutions. But remember, people often want the quickest and best solution, and they don’t think about cost – which in most cases is clearly beyond your reach. 】

[As the city lord, you have to weigh the overall situation and make the best judgment, without having to agree to all the people's demands. Sometimes, you can even go your own way and solve problems exactly according to your own ideas. 】

In fact, the first problem that Professor Ding solved was "shelter", but the shelter had not been completed yet.

"Food problem" was the second problem. Lecturer Ding still chose the "golden path" and took out a batch of old and moldy food to relieve the victims, and his satisfaction level increased slightly.

Lecturer Ding didn't care that he planned to continue handling other matters.

However, after closing these two interfaces, Professor Ding suddenly discovered that the little girl in the city lord's mansion had an exclamation mark on her head.

"Huh? Isn't the study mission over yet?"

Lecturer Ding moved the mouse and clicked the exclamation mark, and a new interface popped up.

[Father, why do you feed moldy food to hungry people? 】

[Hungry people are also human beings, and they should also enjoy the most basic rights. What's more, these foods may make them sick or induce more serious consequences. 】

[I think you should at least provide them with food that doesn't spoil, or if you don't have time to deal with such chores, I can do it for you. 】

[(Xia Mi’s favorability has declined.)]

"Huh? What's going on!

"Aren't you studying in the city lord's mansion? Just study hard and you don't care what I do with the food!

"Besides, if we don't give the hungry people moldy food, how can we give them fresh food? I don't even have enough fresh food to eat myself!

"I provide you with food, clothing, and education, but because I gave out some moldy food to unrelated hungry people, you still lose your favorability?

"This is really unreasonable!"

Lecturer Ding was speechless. It was as if he was playing a game when suddenly a man with a strong mouth jumped out and said, "What did you do just now? Didn't you have a double kill already?"

As a gamer, what he hates most is people who teach people how to do things.

What's more, in the view of Professor Ding, Xia Mi is completely unreasonable because he doesn't know how valuable food and rice are. This loss of favorability is completely unreasonable.

"Forget it, you are just a child who doesn't understand the world after all. I don't have the same knowledge as you."

Lecturer Ding didn't think much about it and just clicked off the prompt box. Anyway, it was just the little girl's personal opinion. If you lose some favorability points, just lose some. There are many ways to make up for it later.

The game progress continues.

Instructor Ding did not realize that the cultivation of the little girl Xia Mi was also one of the core gameplays of the game. His focus was still on the development and construction of the city.

Use limited resources as much as possible to deal with various emergencies.

As time goes by, there are more and more problems in the City Abandoned by God, and many problems occur in a chain!

For example, sudden changes in weather will cause a reduction in food production, and a reduction in food production will cause hungry people from surrounding villages to flee. Taking in the fleeing villagers will further deplete the food stored in the city, resulting in insufficient food for the God-Forsaken City.

The rich began to drive up food prices. Even if Professor Ding used the most severe means and laws to control food prices, it could not change the fact that people were starving to death every day.

So Lecturer Ding decided to use more stringent measures to force food collection and ration food.

However, this caused a continuous decline in people's satisfaction, and the hungry people began to riot. The church began to take this opportunity to preach that "this is divine punishment" and began to encourage the people to do some extreme behaviors.

Starved corpses left unattended will induce plague, and the continued spread of the plague will trigger panic, further exacerbating the shortage of manpower and causing trouble in the church...

Lecturer Ding demolished the east wall to repair the west wall. He was so busy that his head was spinning three times.

Of course, these problems have not always existed.

The good news is that every once in a while, these domestic issues are put aside for a while, and they may be put aside for a while and no longer need to be addressed.

The bad news is, it's because of the war!

Every once in a while, a war breaks out in the God-Forsaken City. Sometimes it is the Crusaders outside the city claiming to conquer heretics, sometimes it is rogues coming to plunder, and sometimes it is the hungry people and church rebellions inside.

Whenever a war breaks out, the game's internal affairs system will be temporarily put on hold.

The residents of the city fled back home and closed their doors, and the market in the trading area was also stopped. Lecturer Ding could only control the city lord and the garrison soldiers to fight the invaders.

After the war is over, some problems that were not easy to solve will be automatically solved. For example, some hungry people starved to death in the city before. If the corpses are left there, the plague will soon spread.

As for whether these corpses should be handled by the guards responsible for the garrison? Or should we pay the poor to deal with it? Or should we simply arrest the strong men and deal with it?

Players will really fall into a phobia of choice.

But now, the city is full of corpses!

Naturally, there is no need to make a choice. Everyone has to go together, otherwise the plague will break out soon if the corpses are transported slowly, and everyone will die together.

After the victory of the war, there will be a lot of internal affairs related to handling the aftermath of the battlefield. These internal affairs may override some of the previous affairs.

Moreover, the people's satisfaction with the city lord will rebound.

After playing here, Professor Ding somewhat understood why the history textbook said that "when the internal contradictions in a country become too great, war will be launched to shift the contradictions."

From the perspective of a ruthless ruler, the root cause of many problems is really too many people.

If you can eliminate some people without shaking the foundation of your own rule, that is really a way to alleviate conflicts.

Lecturer Ding was busy with his work. Although he was a little embarrassed, the city's population had dropped, and supplies had also decreased, but at least he had managed to solve several major challenges at the moment, and the game could still be played.

But what makes him a little annoyed is that no matter what kind of affairs he handles, this little girl Xia Mi will put forward different opinions, and her favorability will drop every time!

Don’t let disaster victims enter the city, and your goodwill will be lost;

Suppress riots and lose favorability points;

Failing to provide adequate heating conditions for the people under severe cold conditions, the favorability points were lost;

Even if the "Animal Migration" event is triggered and some small animals are not saved, the favorability will still be lost!

Until now, even Professor Ding himself doesn’t know how much favorability this little girl has left for him.

But considering that he is the adoptive father of a little girl, and he serves her with delicious food and drinks, even if his favorability drops a bit, there shouldn't be any big problem, right?

"Okay, since you like to be a strong-mouthed king and guide the country, then come out!

"I just happened to have received so much education, so I should finally have some governance skills."

Professor Ding glanced at the little girl Xia Mi in the city lord's mansion.

From the very beginning of the game, Professor Ding has been arranging various educational activities for Xia Mi, allowing her to learn knowledge and improve her living standard to the highest level.

Although her specific attributes are not currently visible, her avatar has changed, from the thin and pitiful little girl at the beginning to a healthy, cheerful, and determined girl.

Just this avatar portrait, if placed in other games, it would be a heroine!

Of course, it should count in this game.

Although Xia Mi had been playing devil's advocate before, Professor Ding felt that she should be released and given a try.

After all, if you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive food and firewood are. What if, after being asked to take charge of these specific matters, she realizes the difficulty of adopting her father and regrets it?

It's not impossible.

After all, the official said that the game "Forsaken City" also uses fake-AI technology. Although the perception of this technology is not strong due to the game mechanism, as long as it is used, there should be unlimited possibilities.