Chapter 116 A waste of money! (Third update of 8,000 words, please vote for me!)
“Okay, let’s see how she resolves these events.
"If I can really train this adopted daughter to be my right-hand man, doesn't it mean that I will only be responsible for the combat part in the future, and I can leave all the internal affairs to her?
"That's pretty good, guys. I love telling the truth."
I saw the little girl Xia Mi starting to walk around the city. Everywhere she went, she would enter the building and start handling the affairs here.
Then a progress bar will appear above the building. After the progress bar runs out, the incident will be successfully resolved.
Then Xia Mi started rushing to the next place non-stop.
"Ah? Is this solved?"
Lecturer Ding scratched his head, a little confused about the situation.
Because when Xia Mi solves these problems, no relevant prompts will appear on the screen, nor will her specific solutions be displayed.
If you don't care about the numerical changes on the screen UI, you won't even know that a transaction has been resolved.
"It means she handled this matter herself and didn't report it to me, so I didn't know about it?
"Oh, that's quite reasonable."
Lecturer Ding carefully looked at the changes in UI information on the screen. The first eye-catching information change that caught his eye was that people's satisfaction has increased significantly!
"Huh? This thing can be done well. I am much more satisfied than before!
"Why?
"Because I am a big, rough and vicious city lord, and she is a kind little girl, do I win more love points?
"Or is it some kind of special mechanism of the game? This little girl was used by the designer to assist players in handling internal affairs? Does she have special bonuses in handling internal affairs?"
Professor Ding had several guesses in succession.
There's no way around it. In many cases, Nitiantian's games don't clearly display all the information to players, and they especially like to use fake-AI, an AI model that even designers can't predict the behavior of, so players can't play it. Often I am confused.
It takes some time to explore the game mechanics before you can fully understand them.
Professor Ding clicked on Xia Mi's panel again and looked at it.
Although Xia Mi’s specific attributes and values are still not visible, the changes in Xia Mi’s favorability towards the city lord will be recorded here.
Every time a matter is handled, Xia Mi's favorability level increases.
This means that if Xia Mi is allowed to deal with it for a while, the relationship between father and daughter may be able to be repaired.
"It's really okay. If I had known, I would have let her handle these things!"
In any case, Xia Mi seems to be quite reliable, and there are too many affairs in the city. Even if Xia Mi shares a part of it, Professor Ding still has a lot of things to do, so he doesn't care too much about it. Continue to progress through the game as normal.
But while playing around, Professor Ding discovered that something was wrong.
"Huh? No, why does the food in my warehouse seem to be less?
"Brothers, have you noticed that it has become less?
"I know there is daily consumption of rations, but it seems like it shouldn't be consumed so fast, right?
"And aren't there a few church members who incited the people in my dungeon? When did they disappear?
"Dead in the dungeon? That's not the case. I didn't deprive the prisoners in the dungeon of food. They all have very strong vitality. They can't just die so easily, right?
"Wait a minute, why are there so many more shelters in this open space? Didn't I only build two?
"I didn't lose my memory, did I? I did build two!
"No, if this continues, it won't take long for the food in my city to be eaten up!"
While playing around, Professor Ding suddenly discovered that something was wrong with the data. Many of the data did not match his impression!
If he remembered these things incorrectly, what about the mysterious disappearance of prisoners in the prison and the shelter appearing out of thin air in the open space?
Lecturer Ding frowned. He temporarily put down the work at hand and carefully watched the changes on the screen.
Finally, he discovered the reason.
Obviously, this is all Xia Mi’s doing!
Every once in a while, new hungry people would appear outside the city. In the past, Professor Ding's method of dealing with them had been to only select some healthy hungry people to enter the city, and then give them limited expired food.
In the opinion of Professor Ding, this behavior is the optimal solution, because it can increase the population of the city without paying too much price.
As for the old, weak, sick and disabled, it doesn't matter if they die outside. After all, in this game's world view, what does it mean to die if a few people die?
He is not a god and cannot save everyone.
And this move will not reduce the satisfaction level too much, because the satisfaction level refers to the satisfaction level of the residents in the city, and the opinions of the hungry people outside the city have no impact.
However, this time he did not touch upon this incident personally, because there were more important things waiting for him to deal with, and this matter could be put on hold for the time being.
Unexpectedly, Xia Mi went to deal with it!
Professor Ding watched helplessly as she let all the hungry people in, sent the sick ones for treatment, and sent those who were not sick to the shelter.
The current shelters were obviously not enough, so she used the city's resources to build several new shelters.
As for the food for relief... of course, it also uses new food in the warehouse.
Professor Ding was stunned.
"This is a scam!!
"Prodigal thing, why did I ask you to handle my affairs like this?
“Giving free money to the poor is a sin!!
“No wonder the satisfaction level has increased so quickly!”
Considering that Xia Mi is the adopted daughter of the city lord, this is a "real cheat".
Professor Ding hurriedly stopped the loss. He nodded Xia Mi's head and asked her to terminate all affairs.
However, what he didn't expect was that Xia Mi disagreed!
[Father, I don’t think there is any problem with my handling. Why don’t you allow me to help you handle the affairs in the city and help you solve your problems? 】
[I want to continue to contribute to this city! 】
After clicking out of the dialog box, Professor Ding found that Xia Mi had no intention of stopping and was still running through the city, dealing with various things.
Lecturer Ding was stunned: "What do you mean? This NPC still has his own ideas? He doesn't listen to me!"
"You are still helping me solve my problems? Your existence itself is my biggest difficulty!"
Lecturer Ding ordered it several times in succession, but to no avail. After handling some affairs, this Xia Mi seemed to have learned the taste after eating the marrow, and did not listen to dissuasion at all.
What's even more outrageous is that every time Professor Ding clicks on her, even if she doesn't listen, her favorability will still drop!
"I'm so shameless to you!"
Lecturer Ding was a little crazy. At this moment, Xia Mi's cute face could no longer be cute, which was really annoying.
In the end, Professor Ding had no choice but to directly click on the "Special Category" menu.
The first option here is "ignore".
At first, Professor Ding thought that this option was just to ignore Xia Mi, but a closer look showed that this option actually allowed everyone who could be directly ordered by the city lord to stop obeying the little girl's command.
Originally, Professor Ding was still a little confused. Is it necessary to put Xia Mi under house arrest for this matter?
There is no need to worry now. Compared to "imprisonment" which seems a bit extreme, "ignorance" is obviously a more reasonable option.
Professor Ding nodded without hesitation.
The effect is naturally immediate.
Xia Mi was still running between various buildings, trying to deal with those matters, but her authority was obviously blocked, and the NPCs in the building no longer carried out her orders.
Xia Mi was still running around in the city, but the affairs in the city did not change.
Lecturer Ding let out a sigh of relief: "That's pretty much it!"
This episode seriously affected his originally planned development progress, and he lost a "good helper". Now he can only continue to deal with those trivial matters personally.
As a result, after just two clicks of the mouse, boxes started popping up in front of my eyes.
[Father, why don’t you let me handle these affairs? Even make the guards in the city stop listening to my orders? 】
[Another group of victims appeared outside the city. I must go to rescue them immediately! 】
[Father, answer me quickly! 】
[Father, I am going into the warehouse now to move grain. Please give me the key to the grain warehouse door! 】
Lecturer Ding would click × to close it without hesitation every time, but after a while, a new dialog box would pop up.
"Oh, you're crazy!"
Lecturer Ding was speechless. The dialog boxes that kept popping up almost broke the fourth wall. He could even picture the little girl pestering the city lord in his mind.
Professor Ding didn't want to be like Xia Mi, but now this situation has seriously affected his gaming experience.
It's like the small advertisements that keep popping up in every corner of the computer screen after installing various Family Buckets, which is very annoying.
What's even more outrageous is that even if Professor Ding has clicked "Indifference" to stop the guards in the city from obeying Xia Mi's orders, Xia Mi can still cause damage!
Even when Professor Ding wasn't paying attention, [the grain depot theft incident] happened.
The person who tried to steal the grain depot was immediately caught by the guards. It turned out that it was Xia Mi who did it!
If Lecturer Ding had not taken back Xia Mi's authority, then Xia Mi would have transported the grain away and distributed it to the hungry people without anyone noticing. But at this time, when the authority was taken back, Xia Mi forcibly stole the grain, triggering the incident.
Lecturer Ding was so angry that he was almost smoking.
"Don't force me! Even if you are my daughter, there is a limit to my patience with you!
"Don't challenge my bottom line!"
Lecturer Ding clicked on the special operations column again, and then selected "Imprisonment".
Lock it up!
The guards took Xia Mi away and put him in a dungeon.
The world is temporarily clean now.
"Oh, it turns out that women only affect the speed at which I make money! I feel like this Xia Mi is just a confusing item forced in by the authorities.
"I should have just ignored her from the beginning, otherwise the current situation wouldn't be so passive.
"A lot of food has been wasted. I hope I can withstand the next wave of war..."
Having solved the hidden danger, Professor Ding geared up again and prepared for a big fight.