32: Chapter 32 Warriors, Clothes, and Girls

Sure enough, shortly after the age of empires subsystem deducted the resources, the transformation points also dropped by four. Could it be that producing life required consuming transformation points?

If that were the case, the zerg rush strategy was completely unviable, though Zhao Feng had never intended to become a tyrant who treated his subjects' lives as mere numbers.

The addition of the new Farmer sped up the construction of the barracks, and by the time it was completely dark, the barracks were finished.

During this process, Zhao Feng made another discovery: the Farmers appeared as one male and one female. It seemed the System had some other motives.

Because the Farmers possessed their own intelligence, Zhao Feng had the male Farmer share a room with the Shaman, the two female Farmers share a room, and he himself shared a room with Xiao Luo.

After assigning the three residential houses, Zhao Feng summoned the animal legion to the Town Center to stand guard; there were no spiritual lights or Leopard Dog Ancient Trees here.

After ordering the barracks to produce a warrior, Zhao Feng took Xiao Luo into the small wooden cabin.

The small wooden cabin still held a faint woody scent. It only had a simple gate made of fences, so by the light of the campfire, one could vaguely see the situation inside.

There was no furniture inside the cabin, only two simple garments hanging on the wall.

Zhao Feng took the garments down and examined them in the light, discovering they were indeed the linen clothes worn by the Farmers.

The linen was not soft; on the contrary, it felt quite rough. But compared to leaves, it was certainly the softest fabric.

"Xiao Luo, here is some clothing. Change into it; these leaves are poking you to death."

"Mn." Xiao Luo agreed in a low voice, took the clothes, and then retreated into the darkness, the rustling sound of changing clothes ensuing.

"Go to sleep after you've changed. I still need to Cultivate." Zhao Feng steadied his mind.

"Mn." Xiao Luo replied again in a low voice.

Ever since the Small Heavenly Circuit was cleared last time, Zhao Feng had been able to barely perform internal observation.

When entering a deep state of meditation, he could vaguely see colorful currents of Qi flowing through his Governing Vessel. After entering the Conception Vessel, they turned into liquid droplets and flowed into his Dantian.

The liquid droplets in his Dantian were constantly increasing, but at the current speed, it would take about a year to fill his Dantian.

These droplets rotated at a slow speed, like a colorful ring.

Apart from circulating his Qi through his circuits, Zhao Feng had not given up on the Nine Palaces Visualization Method. The cold sensation in his brain during his last breakthrough was very likely from the Nine Palaces Visualization Method.

After another eighty-one breaths, Zhao Feng exited his meditative state using the Eight Methods of Withdrawing Talismans. After taking a deep breath, he clasped his hands in front of his abdomen and opened his eyes.

Xiao Luo had already fallen into a deep sleep, and Zhao Feng could hear her steady breathing. What a guileless child. Zhao Feng smiled, lay down on his side, kept his intent on his Dantian, and began to sleep.

When he woke up in the morning, the air seemed a bit fresher. Perhaps it was just an illusion. His nose caught the scent of wooden planks; sleeping on wood felt significantly more comfortable than sleeping directly on the ground.

Zhao Feng stretched, exhaled a breath of stale air, and saw that it was already broad daylight. He didn't know where Xiao Luo had run off to.

Overnight, the environment had undergone a great change.

Besides the Town Center, residential houses, barracks, and a few other buildings, there were already specks of new green on the land near the Bodhi Spirit Tree not far away.

Those were the trees planted by the Planter last night; what a miraculous growth rate.

Perhaps before long, these trees would be able to provide timber. Of course, that required Zhao Feng's land purification to keep up with the speed.

Two Farmers were busy building something; a small section was already completed, and it looked like a wooden wall.

"Master, there is a big black guy outside." Just two steps after stepping outside, he heard Xiao Luo's cheerful voice.

He glanced to the side and saw Xiao Luo skipping over; behind her was a massive building.

The area of this building far exceeded that of the Town Center, being about four times the size of the Town Center. It was an all-wood structure. Thick timbers were connected by mortise and tenon joints, making it very sturdy.

The barracks were rectangular in shape and enclosed by three-meter-high wooden walls. These wooden walls had four gates in the east, south, west, and north. At the four corners of the wooden walls, four watchtowers stood tall, providing a wide view from above.

Entering the barracks, the first thing one saw was a huge training ground. The training ground was about two hundred square meters, with simple training facilities around it, and a commander's platform at one end.

At this moment, only a burly warrior stood on the training ground. He was holding a huge wooden club and standing at the very front of the training ground. Seeing Zhao Feng enter, he strode over.

This warrior was about 1.9 meters tall, burly, and looked like an iron tower. He ran over with large strides, and the ground emitted a sound like muffled thunder.

"Leader!" His voice was not dull, but full of masculinity.

"Leader, I am the warrior captain, Meng!" The warrior quickly came before Zhao Feng, stood at attention with a snap, and said loudly.

This warrior actually had his own name and position! No wonder his words were not rigid.

"Meng, hello, I am Zhao Feng. This is Xiao Luo. Can you show us around the barracks?" Zhao Feng also put away his joking manner and said seriously.

"Yes, Leader! Please follow me." He strode forward to lead the way. "Look, that first room over there is the armory; it contains weapons and equipment."

Walking into the armory, one could see a pile of large wooden sticks neatly placed inside! The other pile consisted of leather armor simply made from animal skins.

Zhao Feng rubbed his eyes; just now, Meng had stepped on the ground and kicked up some yellow dust, which had accidentally fallen into his eyes.

"Let's go, let's see the next room."

"This is the barracks, Leader." The next room was covered in thatch and filled with the smell of hay. The conditions in this barracks were simply too poor!

Zhao Feng's expression was somewhat ugly. The buildings of this Dark Age were really too poor. It seemed he needed to upgrade the age quickly.

After instructing Meng to pay attention to patrolling the surroundings, Zhao Feng left the barracks with Xiao Luo. Upon stepping out, he met the Shaman; this old man was elusive all day long.

"Leader, I have already arranged for Sun Yi to plant fruit trees and some other trees, so we will soon have a stable source of food and timber."

"Well done, but shouldn't you tell me before doing something next time?" Zhao Feng said expressionlessly.

"Ding! Do you want to exit idle mode?" The subsystem's prompt gave Zhao Feng the answer; it turned out this subsystem even had an idle mode.

"No!"

The three residential houses consumed 60 wood and 30 stone; the barracks consumed 100 wood and 50 stone. The four Farmers consumed 40 food, and one warrior consumed 20 food, leaving less than 140 food remaining.

Before the Planter's plants could fully produce food and timber, he still had to be frugal.

Based on the consumption situation, eight people couldn't even consume one unit of food in a day. One unit of food was about twenty kilograms of fruit or ten kilograms of meat; he hadn't calculated the specifics in detail, so the remaining 140 units of food were still quite ample.

He checked the requirements for upgrading the age; 500 units each of food and timber was not a small amount. There was still a long way to go.

The Planter had already planted vegetation on all the purified land. Zhao Feng controlled the animals so they wouldn't eat the small seedlings and began to transform the Bodhi Spirit Tree.

As his power grew, Zhao Feng no longer worried about transformation points and could transform things freely.

A Bodhi Spirit Tree definitely had to be planted by the lake; this was not far from the Town Center, making it easy to look after. Moreover, with clear water, the ecology in the vicinity would gradually improve.

There also had to be one near the Town Center; firstly to provide lighting, and secondly, once farmland appeared in the future, it would also need good land.

That was it for now; if he planted them too far away, he wouldn't be able to look after them, and he still didn't have enough manpower.

Awoo! Awoo! While Zhao Feng was earnestly transforming the Bodhi Spirit Tree, several Leopard Dogs that were working suddenly began to howl loudly. "Please, please!"