Chapter 573

Chapter 573: Who Can Fight the Sun?

Regardless of the circumstances, Luo Ji managed to contain the locust plague in time.

The dish of fried locusts even became popular throughout his Myriad World Civilization.

Not everyone liked such a dish.

Some people certainly could not accept it.

But that did not stop everyone from wanting to try something new.

These locusts actually became quite sought after for a time.

Agile farmers could earn a small fortune by bringing a sack of locusts to a restaurant.

The locust plague once made people stay away.

What did it look like now?

Wherever a locust plague broke out, it felt like a festival.

Luo Ji’s worry about locusts becoming a protected species was not without reason.

Returning to the main topic, the locust plague problem was basically solved.

However, the drought problem remained.

A drought was more lethal than a locust plague.

After all, who can fight the sun?

While Luo Ji was pondering this, the team he sent to find new water sources returned to Mirror City.

Luo Ji knit his brows as he looked at the report and the map.

The team found a river located to the south of the Myriad World Civilization.

Normally, this was fine.

The problem was that it was too far.

It took over half a month to travel there on foot one way.

Based on this efficiency, even a cavalry unit would take about a week.

He circled the river area on the map.

Sending a large number of engineering teams there to build water conservancy projects and lead the water to his civilization was a stupid idea.

That was the wilderness!

Leaving an engineering team with basically no combat power in the wild for a long time?

How many troops would he have to send to protect them?

How long would the construction take? How would the logistics work?

If an accident happened, setting aside invasions from other players, even wild beasts or natives would be a massive trouble.

Under the current circumstances, the best way to get this water source was to expand his territory.

He should establish a branch city to occupy it.

However, building a city was no easy task.

Once built, that city would be the southern border.

Could he just build any random city in a location prone to invasions?

It had to be at least the scale of Shangyuan City or West Plains City.

Otherwise, putting a small city with weak defenses on the border was just asking for a beating.

Luo Ji rubbed his chin as his thoughts raced.

“Should I just snatch one?”

This was a solution.

By using the Territory Conquest skill, he could plunder a single city without swallowing the enemy’s entire civilization.

Then he could place that city to the south.

Wouldn’t the territories be connected?

However, doing this might expose his special civilization and cause suspicion.

Furthermore, stealing resources was one thing; moving someone’s city was a major grudge.

With these thoughts, Luo Ji pondered and thought of someone.

He quickly opened the invasion panel and searched.

He looked at the name appearing before him.

Luo Ji grinned with a cold smile.

It was destiny!

He couldn’t find this person before due to bad timing.

This time, he finally caught them.

Looking at the name “Long Taojia,” he hadn’t settled the score for being backstabbed yet.

An eye for an eye.

He had to settle this with interest.

He decisively clicked PVP.

He looked at the deployed troop panel.

Luo Ji pondered; he needed to bring more troops this time.

Since the goal was to occupy a city, he couldn’t just hit and run.

He had to occupy it until the seventh day.

Then he would take the city and retreat.

That was the only way to meet the goal.

So this wave of troops had to be fierce.

At the same time, he had to bring a variety of units.

This was to prevent being countered without a way to fight back.

Luo Ji’s gaze first landed on the newly acquired Goblin units.

Gawain previously mentioned that Goblin military expenses were very cheap.

Luo Ji looked and saw it was true.

One Goblin Crossbowman only cost 65 civilization points.

Human Crossbowmen cost 85 civilization points.

Goblin Engineers cost only 50 civilization points.

This was likely because they had no combat power.

As for the weak Goblin Warriors, Luo Ji had no interest in them.

He shifted his gaze to the large-scale weapons produced by Goblin Tech.

The prices were also much cheaper.

Take the Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow for example.

A normal one cost 30,000 points to deploy.

The “fragile” version made with Goblin Tech dropped the cost to 24,000.

Note that this was the cost under normal circumstances.

As a product of Goblin Tech, the deployment cost for such equipment was reduced by 45%.

The final calculated cost was 13,200 civilization points for each fragile Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow.

Luo Ji used to spend nearly 100,000 points just to bring three.

Now he could easily bring 10!

If these were normal ballistae, they would only cost a few thousand points each.

One could imagine how many he could bring.

No wonder Gawain could field such an exaggerated formation.

However, Luo Ji did not intend to bring dozens of Triple-Bow Bed Crossbows to scare people.

As mentioned before, large weapons were dependent on terrain.

If they encountered terrain where they couldn’t be pushed, they would be mostly useless.

As a veteran player, he would not make such a low-level mistake.

After some thought, Luo Ji selected five fragile Triple-Bow Bed Crossbows.

Ignoring the possibility of them breaking, he could now bring five without flinching.

Of course, to be safe, he added a team of Goblin Engineers just in case.

The Goblin Crossbowmen were very cost-effective; he brought 500.

That was about it for the Goblins.

For the main force, Luo Ji still planned to bring the beastmen army.

He brought two Elephantmen slingers.

They were expensive but powerful.

Most importantly, they were not restricted by terrain.

They could go anywhere on two legs.

For the front-line infantry, he brought 400 Minotaur infantry.

He added 600 Kobold Halberdiers to cooperate with them.

For the back line, he added 500 Red Fox archers.

Regarding the Wolf Tribe, Luo Ji did not plan to bring Swift Wolf Warriors.

Instead, he chose to have Li Yin lead the Wolf Riders into battle.

This was partly due to unit composition.

It was also due to some political considerations.

Luo Ji had taken enough care of the Wolf Tribe recently.

He helped with tribal construction and training special units.

The other four beastman tribes were likely turning green with envy.

Considering the balance of power, he had to give other tribes a chance to perform.

He needed to give them rewards as well.

He couldn’t keep showing such favoritism.

Otherwise, a rift would eventually form in the other tribes.