Lu Yao answered a long phone call from home.
Mum first asked if he was coming home for the New Year, how his health was now, then how his work was going, and finally very naturally overstepped into personal issues.
How long will it take to get married? Is there a girl you’re seeing? Do you have a favourite in the unit? You don’t like men, do you?
Lu Yao’s scalp went numb at the question.
The whole process lasted for more than an hour, and it was as if every word of his mother was a hidden mystery, full of oppression comparable to that of the Lord God, making him cautious.
Finally, the end of the family’s regular urging, Lu Yao is already a cold sweat.
He returned to his computer.
That’s when a new prompt popped up in the simulator.
[Slavery is outlawed in Salt Lake City.]
[Because slavery has been outlawed, everyone’s attacks have been cut slightly and their defences have been raised slightly.]
In one phone call, a coup has actually taken place in Salt City.
The slave traders were executed or expelled, and all the city’s slaves were unconditionally released. The houses and property left behind by the slave traders also became public property in Salt Lake City.
A paddle schooner sails from the northern ocean into the still-under-repair harbour.
Merchant Lee, an old man with grey hair and a cane in his hand, returns to the city he once knew.
Citizens were surprised with question marks on their heads.
“Is this …… the old mayor?”
“Isn’t the old mayor dead?”
“You must have been blessed by the gods.”
“No, no, it’s a conspiracy of slave traders! They tried to get the old mayor killed ……”
Old Merchant Lee, blind in his left eye, arrives at the front of the library with a teenager in tow, and he says to everyone, “Citizens, please listen to me.”
The little people fell silent.
“Twenty years ago, I was chiselled and sunk by Shangji and the others, and almost lost my life at sea. But under the shelter of the Yao God, I was able to survive until today.”
“Salt City encourages commercial trade, but slave trading is never allowed!”
“Now we will right this cruel wrong.”
……
Next, Shang Li first visited the prophet Doronunu in the temple and received support. Then he quickly issued a series of decrees.
The first was that the slave trade was deemed illegal, and any human trafficking and slave trade would not be recognised by Salt City and would be severely punished and expelled.
The Northern Temple Army was officially renamed the [City Guard], retaining one hundred of its warriors, with Copper Sea as its commander. They were the first professional soldiers in Salt City, receiving regular pay and their duty was to defend and patrol Salt City.
The City Guards and Commander Salt Gale’s Corruptor Legion were two systems, with the former targeting ordinary human affairs and the latter targeting the transcendent group.
The Citizens’ Council and the tax system were retained.
The councils would elect representatives from various trades, including farmers, artisans, scholars, merchants, sailors, herders and others.
The tax system was also made more equitable, no longer having a direct bias in favour of merchants, but instead having additional tax increases for commercial trade ……
These policies were engraved on a stone tablet in the centre of the square, with two scholars beside it dedicated to explaining them, so as to avoid those who were illiterate not being able to read them.
Lu Yao didn’t look closely, he had a new object of concern.
–Great God, there is a believer who has performed a feat far beyond his peers, may I ask if he needs to be transformed into a hero?
The pixelated villain with the qualifications of a hero is named Coppersea and is 37 years old.
Lu Yao point is.
In the character stand-up, Copper Sea was a burly man carrying a hammer. He was clad in copper armour, with a square face and broad nose, and a thick beard around his mouth. In the picture, he stood on the deck of a ship and was looking into the distance.
Under the standing picture there is a sentence.
–I’m not a hero, I’m just a husband with a hammer.
……
[Hero Lv7] Copper Sea
Attack 7 Defence 7 Knowledge 0 Mana 0 Luck 1 Morale 2
[Ability
Warrior Lv1: Born with a talent for combat, capable of rapid growth.
Evasion LV2: Able to evade damage caused by some attacks. The probability of this is higher when compared to one’s weaker beings.
[History
Joined the Northern Templars after killing a slave trader when his wife, Maihaya, was sold at the age of 19.
At the age of 37, he led the Northern Templars in the conquest of Salt City, ending slavery in Salt City.
……
Sensing the god’s blessing, an exclamation mark lit up above Copper Hammer’s head, and he immediately knelt down on the ground, “Thank you for your gift, the omnipotent Lord Yao God.”
“Great God, your devout followers pray to you, can you guide me to my Maihaia?”
Lu Yao tried clicking with his mouse, and when he clicked on the name of Maihaia in the Copper Sea [History] column, there was actually a reaction.
The viewpoint suddenly switched to a forest outside of Salt City.
In the centre of the screen was a pile of scattered bones.
Maihaya was dead.
And the fact that it didn’t point to the ghost city of Saniro meant that when Maihaya died, Scotty and the others, who were in charge of receiving her, didn’t realise it. Causing her to sink completely into the Sea of Maitreya.
Lu Yao guided the Heroic Copper Sea here.
The Heroic Villain was silent for a while and picked up the skull from the ground.
“Maihaya, my dear Maihaya …… It turns out that you have gone to the other world.”
“I will come to you, but not now, please wait for me.”
Coppersea knelt down and prayed to the sky, “There are no words that can express my gratitude and reverence, thank you for your mercy, great god.”
He buried the white bones on the ground into the earth.
Next, Coppersea went to find old Merchant Li.
“Mayor, I am unable to serve as commander of the city guard.”
“The gods have given me revelations that Maihaya is dead.”
“But the slave traders have not disappeared completely. They are hiding overseas, still threatening the freedom of many, and I will continue to go after these vermin and free all the slaves of this world.”
Without persuasion, old Merchant Li gave his blessing, “Go, Copper Sea, go; you are a hero destined to go down in history, and I wish you all the best.”
The hammer-carrying hero boarded a paddle sailing ship and headed for the next battle.
……
Lu Yao pulled his perspective back to Salt City and entered the temple.
He had yet to see the White God after the Era Update and wondered what the situation of this Genus God was now.
In the temple in Salt City, the White God was arching around in the piles of offerings at this time.
Lu Yao’s face darkened as he watched.
It was also as if the vegetarian villain was unable to gaze at the gods, otherwise seeing a white boar swimming around in all sorts of food and treasures, eating and drinking indiscriminately, he was probably going to have his faith shattered.
Sensing the positive god gazing at him, the white god gave a fat piggyback and catapulted to his feet.
“Lord Zheng Shen! Your faithful subordinate god, ready to await your orders.”
Since you’ve taken the initiative to ask for help, it wouldn’t be right for me not to arrange something for you.
Lu Yao glanced at the White God.
Population: 2,942 Faith: 2,922
He called this a real lay to win. It’s a win.
The White God didn’t have to work very hard at all, earning faith while lying down. As long as the population base of believers under Lu Yao’s control grew larger, He, the God of Belongings, would be able to ride on the back of a big tree, and there would always be some believers willing to make offerings to Him in anticipation of obtaining the blessings of the God of Treasures.
Lu Yao ordered.
–To go to the southern new continent and develop believers.
The White God had a jolt.
However, He didn’t dare to disobey and immediately stated, “Yes! My subordinate will rush to the south to develop believers!”
It left the divine temple all the way and turned into a white shadow that rushed into the western sea, diving non-stop towards the south.
This local deity had a body, the benefit of which lay in the ease of movement and operation, itself being a movable idol.
After the change of eras, a new continent surfaced in the north and south of the sea.
Lu Yao pondered.
According to the reminder in the simulator, elves and symbiotic woods appeared. There were no changes at all in the forests of the western continent, the eastern continent also remained grasslands, and the north was an ice field, so the elves were most likely in the southern new continent.
Lu Yao tapped out the props bar.
Next up was one of his favourite parts.
The prop test!
[Firebox] and [Dwarf Fortress], one by one.
He moved his fingers and clicked on the spectacle [Egil’s Fire] first.
The meteorite inventory was still 1/5.
After thirty years in the Pixel World, it’s amazing that we haven’t been able to replenish even a single round of ammo.
Lu Yao dropped the [Firebox] into the [Egil’s Fire] and clicked the open option on the Firebox.
The black mountain range erupted volcanically all of a sudden!
The flames shot up into the sky, the smoke was so thick that the surrounding woods and grasses withered and dried up as far as the eye could see, and the forest elemental creatures and animals fled in all directions in fear.
Lu Yao dropped two rains around the area to avoid causing a forest fire.
At that moment, a burst of flames surged from the volcano, from which a crimson, hideous dragon head was drilled out, spewing out columns of fire from the sky! Half of the sky was dyed red in a flash.
Lu Yao noticed that Egil’s Fire had turned LV2.
