Chapter 1914: Chapter 1907: Illusion City Has Made a Name for Itself
The arrival of this group of Dao Realm city management team silenced everyone present.
Many people came to this Illusion City with many ideas; in this Endless Land, population represents status and wealth. In their view, a Martial Artist of the fifth or sixth grade Divine Cultivator does not deserve so many resources.
But now, this city management team undoubtedly made many dispel such thoughts in an instant. Five thousand Dao Realm experts, though far from the level of the Fortress Cities, are definitely not something these scattered survival teams can provoke.
They couldn’t understand why this city management team was willing to join this city and accept Zhang Menglong’s relocation order. Was it merely to enjoy the stability and peace in this city?
Not long ago, the first batch of Experimenters recruited by Zhang Menglong brought him many people. Of course, as the second batch of settlers, they enjoyed slightly inferior treatment, but it wasn’t far off.
The first group, apart from having to show up during city crises, otherwise were not subject to the City Lord’s relocation and enjoyed Deputy City Lord-level treatment.
The more than 5,000 people who joined later directly accepted Zhang Menglong’s orders, of course, not needing to stay constantly in the base. They adopted a rotation shift system. When no one was causing trouble, they could cultivate in the Cultivation Room prepared by Zhang Menglong, waiting for orders, only needing to show up when someone disrupted the peace.
When not on duty, they could do whatever they wanted. As for other benefits within the city, they also enjoyed Deputy City-level treatment.
However, Zhang Menglong didn’t expect that after learning about the effects of the Cultivation Room, they would scramble to be on duty!
It is worth noting that in this Cultivation Room of Zhang Menglong’s, one could improve cultivation speed by two to three times. Even more, Zhang Menglong freely disclosed an incredibly powerful Cultivation Technique, much better than what they practiced themselves!
With such conditions, who would want to leave? They wished they could stay there eating and living in the Cultivation Room every day!
This, of course, was also part of the plan Zhang Menglong had set up. Relying on those Experimental divine potions to force them to stay in the base was not as good as using this method to let them stay willingly. This way, not only was there no negative impact, but it also made them respect Zhang Menglong more.
Of course, some people had some crafty ideas.
But they found out that the method of refining the divine potions was only in the hands of Zhang Menglong, which almost equated to holding their lifeline. If anyone wanted to harm him, the rest would jump up and crush them!
And for this reason, this city management team became Zhang Menglong’s direct personal guard squad in Illusion City!
Zhang Menglong believed this was just the beginning. The 5,000 Dao Realm experts were just a drop in the ocean compared to the Dao Realm Martial Artists outside the Fortress Cities. In the upcoming period, more and more people would join Illusion City, and the size of this security team would expand rapidly.
"To be personally thrown out by my security team is quite an honor for you," Zhang Menglong sneered at the troublemaker.
The unlucky guy already wore a look of despair on his face; how could he dare provoke more than 5,000 Dao Realm Martial Artists!
Amidst a wail, he flew far out of Illusion City, and from then on, this city would have nothing to do with him.
"The rest listen up," Zhang Menglong warned, "This Illusion City is built by me; this Formation, this meat and vegetables are all provided by me. I have the final say in this city. If you want to enter and seek shelter, you need to pay Crystal Cores. I am not a Holy Mother and do not like doing good deeds; I just like making money. If anyone causes trouble, next time it won’t be as simple as just being thrown out."
"Continue!" Zhang Menglong said to the registrars, then turned back to the City Lord’s Mansion.
With this deterrence and warning, everyone evidently became much more compliant. They lined up to register for entry. With double verification of manual and intelligent systems, this process was very fast, handling information for tens of billions of people daily was no problem, and Zhang Menglong’s finances rapidly accumulated.
Zhang Menglong believed that when they returned, they could directly bring a huge surprise to the Divine Profound Hall!
"Brothers, start swallowing the Crystal Cores. We will upgrade to the peak of Divine Cultivation or even the Dao Realm as quickly as possible, then find a way to return and take revenge!"
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Illusion City was expanding at a very fast pace. With the substantial increase in population, the various demands within the city also began to grow more substantial, especially since everybody hadn’t tasted meat before. Even if working overtime 24 hours a day, now even getting a bite of meat required an advance reservation a day ahead, and currently, appointments were 12 days out.
Zhang Menglong couldn’t understand where these people got such purchasing power from. As someone who ate meat and drank milk tea every day, he might not understand why people were willing to empty all their savings just to eat a piece of meat.
Compared to Illusion City, those Fortress Cities seemed much more pitiable. Over at Fortress City Luosai, the City Lord sat in a half-damaged City Lord’s Mansion, face gloomy.
This time their loss was too severe, though the overall city remained, it was only slightly better than the ruins.
According to statistics, just in terms of Dao Realm Phantom Profound Beasts, there were over a million!
Among the 120 Dao Realm experts in the city, over 100,000 perished, and of the million Phantom Profound Beasts, they only managed to kill about 150,000. Most of the remaining Dao Realm experts were also injured.
As for Martial Artists of other levels, the losses were even more incalculable, the direct economic loss being astronomical, likely setting back the entire human development of the Endless Land by hundreds or even a thousand years.
"Alas, the loss this time is really too great, but having survived this period of spatial disorder, we can rest and recuperate for a long time," City Lord Vic comforted himself, "Compared with other Fortress Cities, our Fortress City Luosai has done quite well."
"City Lord, the calculations are complete. Restoring city construction to its original state will take about 20 years, population recovery might not take that long, but for the newborns to grow into a workforce, it will take hundreds of years."
"What about the other cities?"
"We’re all in roughly the same situation," the City Lord’s confidant said, "But City Lord, I’ve recently heard something; do you know about Illusion City?"
"I’ve heard of it," Vic said, "the city established by the young man Gu Xiao. I remember I asked you to keep an eye on his news. That Illusion City of his is probably gone by now, right? Where is he at the moment? If he’s in Fortress City Luosai, invite him over. I’m very interested in the origin of his meat supply and in him as well!"
"No, City Lord," the confidant said, "Illusion City is perfectly intact."
"What did you say?" Vic was shocked.
"I just saw the information, reportedly the city has a Formation capable of annihilating any foreign or internal Phantom Profound Beast attack with virtually no loss, capable of instantly defeating anything below Third Grade Dao Realm; now Illusion City has become famous!"
