Chapter 46: Arranging the Players
Ji Ye asked the rest of the players for their self-introductions.
“Li Qing, 37, used to be a scout when serving the army.” This was the man who stayed silent most of the ti.
“An Quan, 30, programr and designer. Gaming, to be exact.” This was the fat office man. The answer sowhat explained his hair problem.
The strange na reminded Ji Ye of another “outlaw hero” from Water Margin called “An Daoquan,” a skilled physician who served the emperor during the Song Dynasty. He wondered if this hero would show up soon.
“Qin Yueyu, Olympic Archer. I’ve won the national championship twice,” the short-haired woman spoke up next.
Ji Ye nodded in delight upon hearing her profession. This sounded like a wonderful job to have in the settlent, especially when they needed to confront a bunch of “Eagle n” across the abyss sooner or later.
“Xu Xue. I produced a few well-known songs and movies,” the “popstar lady” spoke while giving Ji Ye a suggestive look, as if she wanted sothing.
Ji Ye nodded slightly and looked at the next player.
“Su Nongying, business administration. Currently helping my company with human resource managent and logistics,” Su Nongying spoke in a very small voice that people barely heard her.
Ji Ye took an extra mont checking this woman, for he just noticed that she seed to be showing so particular signs of emotion as she spoke.
A professional HR sounded pretty good for the settlent in its initial developnt stage. Having her in the team was just as important as having a teacher and an engineer. Despite being the “master” of the settlent, Ji Ye still had not co up with a clear plan for properly shaping the settlent. It would be quite beneficial if sobody else helped him with this line of work, because he preferred focusing on training and self-improvent as much as he could.
However, it remained to be seen whether Su Nongying was up for the job when she was blushing so hard, even while talking to the other settlers.
Apparently, the “initial trial” of the new players had been easier compared to the trial done by their predecessors. Also, they were allowed to go ho after spending a month in the Land of Inheritance, not three months as in the first round.
None of them had any “starter items” upon coming, though they exclaid that the mysterious voice in their minds had already told them how to find so, which was by talking to the settlent core and paying 1 Honor point.
As for how to earn their first Honor point... This depended on what kind of work they preferred.
The quickest way to get so points was killing monsters around the settlent. They didn’t have to be powerful monsters; Ji Ye had already found out that weaker ones also yielded Honor points, albeit very slowly. It might be necessary to eliminate multiple monsters to gather one point.
Then there was another straightforward thod, which was teaching settlers useful skills. While searching for monsters and resources those days, Ji Ye had taken so ti to try this out and successfully earned a few points.
That was a lot harder than he thought, however, because of the poor educational level of the illiterate folk who could barely recognize any characters. Being rogues and peasants from the Song Dynasty only made the situation worse. Not to ntion that Ji Ye wasn’t really a teacher.
Ji Ye glanced at the two old n who were passionately exchanging their old stories. At least he had found a solution.
He believed he had figured out how the Land of Inheritance worked thus far. To gain an advantage in whatever was coming next, he had to build an army of capable people using what he had at hand. In this case, he would need players to teach NPCs new stuff and help the settlent grow.
After hearing his proposal, the old n accepted their new jobs without much of a thought because it was clearly the right thing to do. They couldn’t possibly go out there and find monsters to kill anyway.
As for the other able-bodied people, Ji Ye planned to take them all outside and let them see a few monsters regardless of their job intentions, especially the three male players.
“Sure, take with you!” Ling Qing the retired soldier agreed right away.
Jiang Wenming seed unsure about this since he wasn’t so good at fighting. He still complied in the end because his knowledge about snakes wasn’t of much use to the settlers.
On a side note, Ji Ye and Lu Zhishen thoroughly searched the Black Serpent nest but without finding any eggs, which ant it was a “he-serpent.”
“Can—can I stay behind?” the programr nad An Quan anxiously pleaded.
Xu Xue complained out loud before Ji Ye could answer, “Aren’t you gars fighting all sorts of monsters everyday? This is your thing.”
“But a programr does stuff with a keyboard, not fighting enemies for real! Besides, I mainly handle models and art. I don’t play gas much. It will be better if I remain here and help those two old n with chores and errands. They need that, don’t you think?”
“Art... you can paint?” asked Ji Ye. Speaking of art, he suddenly rembered that certain knacks such as painting and music could co in handy, since he had just gotten his hands on a musical instrunt which was also a weapon.
“I can!” An Quan nodded happily. “You know that ‘Crossgod VS Serpent’ video, right? I made it. From models to animations. I even drew the thumbnail picture all by myself.”
“Nice.” Ji Ye nodded. “Yeah, you can stay here.”
He turned to the female players next. “What about you four? Kindly tell your opinions as well.”
He didn’t an to discriminate against anyone. It was just that, having males handle physical labor while asking females to deal with supportive work at ho was human nature.
Also, it seed that the Land of Inheritance had also agreed to this matter because all the ladies were one rank lower than the n at the beginning.
“I’ll go with you.” Su Nongying stepped up first.
Qin Yueyu also followed up. “I have no problem with participating in so action. But can I take a bow and several arrows? The wooden one used by the guards will do.”
“I—I’ll go as well,” said Shang Yang. “I can be your field dic. But please don’t let monsters near ...”
“Give a weapon too!” Xu Xue asked excitedly. She made this decision because she had already learned from the forum that there were wonderful items she could find after killing monsters, such as expensive perfus no longer sold in reality.
Ji Ye was a bit surprised to see all of them willing to participate in the adventure.
“Find ten people and co with us. Bring your weapons too,” he said to the guards outside the shrine. “Oh and, Chief Lu, do you mind if I change the na of the shrine? I want to call it the ‘Shrine of Faith’ from now on.”
“Eh? Well, of course I don’t, master. And... thank you!” The big man looked excited for so reason.
anwhile, the two old n heard their conversation and quickly understood what that ant.
“This youngling... he’s really sothing, you know?”
In the original story of Water Margin, Song Jiang changed “Hall of Faith” to “Hall of Loyalty” before he submitted to the governnt and sold his brothers out. Wu Song and Lu Zhishen were the two outlaw heroes who suffered most during the incident.
Apparently, Ji Ye intended to prevent the sad outco from happening there.
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