The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 136 - 52: The Current Status of the Territory (3k)

Chapter 136: Chapter 52: The Current Status of the Territory (3k)

The other items carried were just like when entering the dungeon world, where the Insect Swarm and other Transcendent plants all turned into cards, rather than directly piling up in the not-so-large tree hollow and bursting it.

Appearing with Bai Yi were only Bai Sheng, Bai Fa, Ju, and Shang Ji, who had also been transformed into a Hero Unit.

The rest, except for the clothes on their bodies, had also been transformed into the same cards. However, this time, unlike when entering the dungeon world, the cards did not appear on Bai Yi’s body but were automatically stored in the panel.

Bai Yi opened the panel to check, everything was still there, even including the 100 cubic meters of leftover soil that Bai Yi casually took away, which stayed in the panel in card form.

However, the 100,000 Erosion Worms had been divided, with 10,000 units each saved separately. With this game-like Sealing mechanism as assurance, Bai Yi was in no hurry to take them all out.

Only taking out one card, which is 10,000 Erosion Worms, he walked outside the tree hollow and released them, allowing the Swarm Consciousness to return to a familiarity level.

The Erosion Worms, born in the dungeon world, finally appeared in the territory for the first time, meeting with the network of the Insect Swarm in the territory.

After a brief lag caused by the exchange of information, the Insect Swarm quickly scattered according to Bai Yi’s will, finding everyone who had left the territory.

It was only then that Bai Yi had time to pay attention to the changes in the territory.

The most obvious change was the size of You. Over these ten days, it had not only grown despite the cold but had become even more massive, with its shade almost completely enveloping the clearing.

To support the increasingly massive crown, wooden vines had started to hang down around it, just like many banyan trees Bai Yi had seen before.

It was unknown how Zhan Yi and the others communicated with You, but they had already begun building tree houses on those lignified vines, connected by vine bridges.

The ground near the edge of the clearing also had some small buildings, whose functions were unclear.

"Master, you’re back!"

As Bai Yi released the dark, dense Insect Swarm, Zhan Yi, who was left to guard the territory, knew Bai Yi was back and immediately ran down from the "construction site" on the tree.

"How is it, Master? All of these were built by us. The clearing to the south that you mentioned before, we have also successfully conquered it, transforming it into our farmland with the greenhouse, and on the back mountain..."

While waiting for the others to return, Zhan Yi recounted the incidents of the past week or so. Although Bai Yi already knew most of it from the shared memories of the giant banyan, Zhan Yi’s description was more detailed.

Since Bai Yi’s departure, not only had the territory expanded externally, but also many buildings had been added internally. They even had time to build a single room house for every person, thereby earning quite a lot of survival points.

Although not comparable to those top-ranked Lords, they managed to maintain a position in the top ten, not too embarrassing.

This was largely thanks to subsequent contact and trade with the Sanctuary, obtaining enough machinery and furniture, which along with these details and Advanced Buildings helped raise the points.

But since entering the new Cycle Challenge a few days ago, something seemed to have happened at the Sanctuary, as Nong San hadn’t been in contact for many days, leading to her being the only one left in the territory now.

Nong Er and Nong Yi were on the small plain to the south, developing a new greenhouse. The cold weather over the past week had continually driven up the demand for food, preparing to increase production further.

Nong San was about to take the Insect Swarm to scout near the Sanctuary and had just set out not long ago, still on the way, when the Erosion Worms caught up to her and pulled her back into Swarm Network.

If they really needed to scout for news, now they had Fei Wen, who was an expert Reconnaissance Soldier, and this minor weather wouldn’t affect Fei Wen’s operations.

After waiting for over ten minutes, everyone in the territory finally fully reunited once again.

Since there were only 10,000 of the Insect Swarm, the network hadn’t returned to its former state and couldn’t connect them to truly enter the network and upload their memories. So, Bai Yi gave the Swarm Consciousness to Zhan Yi.

Exchanging experiences through Swarm Network, the few staying in the territory were amazed and marveled that their master had developed so rapidly in such a short time.

Combined with the changes in the panel, Bai Yi now fully understood the changes in the territory over the past week.

In terms of resources, other than basic resources like stone and wood, most others had been almost entirely depleted.

But it wasn’t wasted for nothing; they had all been transformed into buildings across the territory. Moreover, according to what they said, the relationship|requiredments with the director of the Sanctuary were still good, and they were getting ready to trade another batch of food.

But because they couldn’t make contact as usual, they planned to go and investigate.

However, now that Bai Yi was back, of course, all decision-making power was returned to Bai Yi.

But Bai Yi had been neglecting the dungeon for a long time, and it would indeed be somewhat difficult for her to handle now.

Such troublesome matters, of course, were left.toBe handed over to the newly acquired high-quality labor force, Shang Ji, to deal with~

This was one of the main purposes for which Bai Yi brought him into the territory, to handle all external affairs from a merchant’s perspective.

But these won’t have much impact on the territory in the short term, and naturally, before handling all external affairs, the harvest from this time should be taken out and celebrated properly.

The Abnormal Object-grade Bone Staff left for Zhan Yi, the Transfer Certificate prepared for Nong Yi, and for Nong Er and Nong San, the biggest gifts are, of course, those machines and the knowledge in the workers’ minds.

However, the workers and machines need to find a place before they can be released, plus those families, it’s feared that a small village will need to be built.

But the first two can be taken out immediately.

Following Nong Yi’s own wishes, Bai Yi chose for her a career oriented towards logistics, the final randomly chosen advanced career being an Alchemist, although it was somewhat different from what Nong Yi expected, she still accepted it.

Then Bai Yi took out all the Transcendent plants from the panel and handed them to them, letting Zhan Yi and Bai Sheng together arrange them within the territory.

Everyone ran off joyfully and soon only Bai Yi and Shang Ji were left in the room.

Fei Wen was already about to arrive near the Sanctuary, Bai Yi left the command to Shang Ji, making the Sanctuary the first task for Shang Ji after formally joining the territory.

And she herself began to prepare for the future arrangements for the Swarm and the territory.

Since it had been over a week since she left the territory, the Cycle Challenge before she left had already ended, and the preview for next week’s challenge had only one name, "man and beast", while this week’s challenge was called Hunting.

According to the background of the challenge, due to the ongoing cold, many powerful Mutant Creatures had no choice but to target the Lord due to the shortage of food.

In plain terms, this means that now there are quite a few wilderness bosses appearing, and the Lord can actively challenge them, and upon winning the challenge, rewards could be obtained.

According to the memories shared by Bai Yi, from the information collected by Zhan Yi and others in the channel, those bosses are of the strength from the third-tier to fourth-tier, regarded as the first step below the Beast King, being leaders of various small factions.

However, Zhan Yi, who stayed in the territory, made almost no progress on this task.

After all, Bai Yi’s territory lies within the territories of what should now be three Beast Kings, and with the reputation of the Tree King, no beast would be foolish enough to come into the territory to cause trouble.

Also, because of this relationship, it was difficult for Zhan Yi and others to actively hunt the subordinates of the Beast Kings in the woods, and their progress came only from actively sending the Swarm to the south bank of the Red River to find two Mutant Creatures that met the requirements and earned points.

This has resulted in the territory being almost at the bottom in this challenge.

But since Bai Yi has returned, and even brought a Swarm that has swept through a dungeon world and besieged a level 5 Transcendent, then this challenge against fourth-tier creatures naturally becomes trivial.

Although there’s only half of the challenge time remaining, with the strength of the Swarm, Bai Yi feels that catching up is not impossible.

Area 33, that is the size of White Poplar City, is far smaller than a country in the dungeon world!

Currently, the only limitation for Bai Yi is the weather outside.

It’s not the cold, but the thick snow layer that covers the land.

With these snow layers present, although the Fungus Blanket is cold-resistant, it couldn’t spread beneath the snow layer, and on top of the snow layer, the dark Fungus Blanket is too conspicuous.

The only option is to continue using the method thought of inside the dungeon, to thread the Fungus Blanket underground towards the entire Area 33 with worms.

This work will probably only require about a day to complete, after which the tentacles of the Swarm can be extended to every corner of Area 33 through these Fungus Blanket channels.

Due to the outdoor Mutant Creatures and various dangers, coupled with the fact that humans have all concentrated within the large and small Sanctuaries, nowadays White Poplar City could indeed be described as sparsely populated.

Apart from the original town and village ruins that still see exploration, other areas have long returned to the wild, and even now with the addition of the Lord, except for the first few areas, most cannot carry out outdoor exploration.

But to Bai Yi’s current strength, except for the territory of the level 6 gorilla which cannot be approached, other areas are definitely accessible!

Today’s White Poplar City, even if Bai Yi doesn’t show up in front of other Lords, still has large areas for her Swarm to occupy.

"Then let’s start by unifying the wilderness of White Poplar City!"

Bai Yi was habitually preparing to throw the plan to Bai Sheng to plan the detailed steps, just then she received a message from Shang Ji very close via the Swarm Network.

"Master, Fei Wen has arrived at the Sanctuary, but according to the situation currently understood, it seems that the Sanctuary really has trouble."

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Changning Plain: Located on the southern side of White Poplar Mountain, formed by a large impact from the Red River, but due to inconvenient transportation, only Changning Village is there making use of this fertile land for farming, which is one of the few grain-producing areas left in White Poplar City...