"Initial identity."

"Annual tax payment."

"Number of people reward."

"Territorial upgrade!"

Chen Kai is still talking endlessly about the origins of the identity system and the various changes this system has brought to the wasteland.

Sitting across from him, sipping a glass of beer, Somo's mind kept flashing through the nouns he summarized.

The wasteland outside the ruins only lasts one year in the apocalypse.

The term "territory" is still very vague on the game panel. It only roughly defines the group and gives it a name in advance, and does not involve specific gameplay and rules.

You can enter behind the ruins.

With the passage of time, and the changes of four versions in eight years, the territory finally gained more definitions, and gradually evolved into a complete set of game rules in the wasteland.

Eight years ago, a survivor came to the wasteland. In the short term, he had to face extremely dangerous survival dilemmas such as water shortages, food shortages, and approaching natural disasters. As long as these were solved, he could slowly get his life back on track and start to have success.

orderly response to disasters.

Eight years later, a new survivor arrived in the wasteland. Although humans did not worry about these survival resources in the short term under the complete territorial system, in the long term, their pressure was much higher than before.

Immediately after the arrival, everyone only has 10 initial trading points, and can only purchase the lowest level identity in the smallest territory.

If you can't quickly understand the situation, convert the points into identities, join a small territory and work hard to earn enough food.

Then it is very likely that due to consumption, the points will not be enough for the most basic requirements, and you will become a wanderer during a disaster, dealing with twice the power of the disaster.

And even if you have enough guidance, you can join the territory.

During every disaster, if you slack off even a little bit, you will be knocked directly to the bottom of the survival chain, and your life will be precarious.

On the other side, those who have an identity are not without worries.

Territory closure is a common occurrence in this chaotic era.

Maybe I just paid the trading points that I had saved up for a long time and bought my favorite identity.

On the other hand, due to accidents or natural disasters, the territory could not afford the high annual taxes and fees, leading to bankruptcy.

Once the territory is disbanded, not only will all the territory's initial purchase points be lost, but they will also have to find ways to generate a wave of funds and purchase identities to join the new territory.

All kinds of risks are still like the sword of Damocles hanging above our heads.

This makes no survivor dare to stop and accumulate trading points, and no territory dares to slack off.

Of course, such harsh taxes are not without corresponding benefits.

The more people join the territory, the higher the level of the territory will be, and the special attributes and various basic environments that can be enjoyed will also be different.

Take the simplest example of weather.

The Long Banner territory has the largest permanent population, with 40 million residents. There are no sunny days during disasters, and the highest temperature is only 28 degrees, which is very comfortable with the breeze.

In Wuya Prefecture, which has a population of 3 million residents, the highest temperature will not exceed 33 degrees Celsius in the same weather.

But in the Tianyuan Territory, which has only 500,000 citizens, the temperature often rises to 35 degrees or even around 38 degrees on sunny days, and the comfort level can be said to have plummeted.

As for those territories with smaller populations, there may only be tens of thousands or even thousands of people.

The temperature they can feel is even more terrifying. 40 degrees is a common occurrence, 45 degrees comes at any time, and it will break through to around 50 degrees at noon to challenge the limits of human survival.

Regardless of the weather, conditions such as the nutritional level of the land, the abundance of water organisms, the number of surviving microbial colonies, the diversity of the ecological environment, etc. will also be affected by the population of the territory.

The more people there are, the more fertile the land will be, the more stable the crop growth environment will be, and the more food will be produced every year.

The smaller the number of people, the poorer the fertility of the land. It is said that the yield per mu is two thousand catties. If you want to reach five hundred catties, you have to pray to gods and worship Buddha.

"Our Tianyuan Territory is now a fifth-level territory, with a total of 580,000 residents. There are three special bonuses drawn for the territory."

"The first one: Wind and rain are different. This one is easy to understand. It means that when it rains, there will be no strong winds, and when there is strong winds, it will not rain. It is the most basic astronomical type gain."

"Article 2: Robust newborns. This is available in most territories, and its attributes are also very simple. The physique of newborns who enjoy the gain will be greatly strengthened, reducing the probability of premature death to ensure the population size."

"Article 3: Metal Kingdom, this article is the treasure of our territory. The reason why stone engines and other technological products have been able to gain so many points to develop the territory in recent years is that this gain cannot be ignored. As long as

In one day, any minerals related to metals in our territory will slowly improve in quality, and even restore reserves at a small proportion."

The special talent of the territory was almost obvious, and Chen Kai did not hide it at all.

After all, compared with other large territories that often have seven, eight, or more than ten talents, Tianyuan Territory's talents are really less.

If the 'Metal Kingdom' hadn't been supporting the scene, its attraction to the outside population wouldn't be as strong as those large territories.

"Dragon Flag Territory, Northland, and Sun Kingdom. When the gains were announced last time, the Sun Kingdom had the least number of 19, and the Dragon Flag Territory had 27. Now it's been another year. Over there, Dragon Flag

The population has increased by more than five million.”

"I'm afraid we will break 30 this year~"

"So much difference?" After finishing his glass of beer, Su Mo felt a little sad.

If the population gap is only ten times, it will indeed make people want to catch up.

But territory gain is effective all the time, and every minute and every second the difference is rewritten to become even more exaggerated.

want to catch up

"The worst piece of land in Long Banner has a crop yield of more than 4,000 acres. What kind of concept is this? The wheat in that field will be crushed by the wheat stalks. I was almost frightened when I first saw it."

"Don't talk about the fields. The fish they catch in just one river are more than our entire lake or even one river. Moreover, each of those fish weighs more than fifteen kilograms. Their meat is delicious and rich in protein.

The growth rate is faster than that of a mouse, outrageous, really outrageous!"

"I went there before, and the trees were full of fruit. They were so sensible. I wish I could fill every gap with you."

"And the climate there is like spring all year round. It's much more comfortable than on earth when there are no disasters!"

When it came to the Dragon Flag Territory, several people at the table who were drinking with their heads covered finally came up with the topic and began to discuss it.

Forty million people, the annual status tax is already a terrifying figure.

If it weren't for these magical gains, which brought far more gains in all aspects than other territories, the Dragon Flag Territory simply couldn't afford such a huge amount of points to maintain its current situation.

Likewise, if a disaster strikes the entire New World, it would be beyond the current human capacity to cope.

The seemingly prosperous development momentum of the three major territories will be wiped out in an instant, and they will return to the miserable situation of the three years before the end of the calendar.

"Then let's put it this way, I would rather be a dog in Longqi than a small leader and overlord."

"Youzong, I won't tell lies to you."

"If you go to the Dragon Flag territory once and then come back to our territory, really, you may not be able to recover in half a year."

"Half a year?" The bustling scene of Fenghuo City at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night flashed through his mind. Sumo smiled, minding his own business and added a large glass of beer: "According to this, half a million people can buy their identities for the same amount of money."

Do I have to get out?"

"It's not that exaggerated. Even if half a million is calculated as a thousand points, it still costs 500 million trading points. How can you get enough by yourself?" Chen Kai shook his head quickly after knowing the income of Zizai Liangfang Xia Shuo.

"Our territory usually provides local subsidies and talent introduction standards. The proportion of expense reimbursement is also different according to different levels and status."

"If you just bring in some gangsters or people with little ability to make up the number of people, the reimbursement ratio will definitely be very low, and the initial start-up capital you have to bear will be a lot."

"But if you have the ability to find some people who meet the standards, as long as they meet the standards, the subsidy ratio can be up to 100%, and as long as the people you introduce next can pass the territory's ability test and obtain the corresponding ability rating, they will be given to you

It’s not impossible to get reward points for bringing in people.”

"That's it." After listening to what Chen Kai said, Su Mo thought about it and suddenly became interested.

According to what he said, the Tianyuan Territory in the eighth year actually did not have strict local control and had great autonomy.

To put it more vividly, the entire territory is more like countless small territories put together.

Normally, although the lord has 100% management rights over these small territorial lords, he does not actually manage them.

According to the rules of reward and punishment, if the small territory develops well, the overall strength of the territory will increase simultaneously, and naturally the lord will not be stingy with rewards.

But if the development of a small territory is poor and puts the whole territory back, then the lord will simply step down, take off his hat and replace him.

"In this way, since you Zong are from our Sangtian Town, on behalf of Sangtian Town, I will temporarily lend you five million trading points. When you take office, I will directly transfer the money to the account in Baoyu County from business to business. You first

Use it as starting capital, so you don’t have to pay it back in a hurry.”

After thinking about the predicament of Baoyu County and the current gap in the accounts, Chen Kai put down his wine glass and looked around. After exchanging glances with several other people, he spoke slightly louder.

As soon as he finished speaking, the other people sitting at the table also spoke out:

"You Zong, our Xishou County is a bit difficult this year, but it is not a problem to lend you five million trading points. You can rest assured to develop, our territory will definitely not treat people who are really willing to do practical things."

"Haha, then it seems that our Longkou County also has five million?"

"The situation here in Anhui County is better and there is nothing to spend money on. I can lend you eight million here."

"Eight million? Well, you, Chen Hou, are really rich. Unfortunately, my Tianyuan City has been running a deficit. This time, I can only borrow Youzong's two million to turn things over."

You say something to me.

Before Somo could say anything, in less than half a minute, the five people immediately gathered up 25 million points.

At the same time, the box next to them that was still noisy didn't know how they received the message.
To be continued...