Chapter 16

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Chapter 16: Boosting Loyalty

Adjusting his mindset, there wasn’t much else to do today.

It was almost dark by the time they finished helping the new members set up their tent camp.

Although the population had more than doubled.

Thanks to hunting quite a few wild wolves, with so much wolf meat, everyone clearly wouldn’t go hungry for dinner tonight.

Not to mention, the people responsible for fishing had a good harvest today as well, although they were new to it, they still managed to catch 7 fish.

And among these 7 fish, it seemed there were two new species.

Although Luo Ji didn’t see them with his own eyes, he heard the system notification.

While receiving 6 production points, the two new species also successfully increased ‘Fishery’ development by 2 points.

This way, ‘Fishery’ development had already accumulated 3 points.

Luo Ji decisively opened his attribute panel and spent another 7 points to upgrade ‘Fishery’ to Level 1.

Its effect would increase their tribe’s fishing success rate and efficiency by 10% each!

This effect was undoubtedly quite direct.

As for the handling and distribution of these 7 fish, Luo Ji waved his hand.

“Just boil them all!”

With such a large lake right next to them, and the natural wonder even providing a 20% fishery development bonus, their tribe’s fishery development would be quite rapid.

So would they still need to fear failing to catch fish in the future?

Besides, this was a good opportunity to boost loyalty.

In Luo Ji’s opinion, loyalty around 70 points was still not enough to make him feel at ease as there was still the possibility of rebellion at any time.

In his view, 80 points was the minimum for basic good citizens.

However, what he didn’t know was that if other ‘Civilization Rise’ players knew about his idea.

They would definitely be so angry to the point of spitting up blood.

Under normal circumstances, when other players conquered an enemy tribe and then absorbed that tribe’s population.

If these newly joined people had 70 loyalty, they would already be thanking the heavens.

However, the reality was that most of them only had slightly over 60 points.

By the way, below 60 points meant there was already a hatred value.

80 points loyalty as a baseline?

This was simply a luxury!

So, for other players, during the novice period, maintaining internal stability in their tribe and avoiding rebellions within their own tribe was a major challenge.

Many players even saw their tribes perish before they could rise, due to the low loyalty of the internal population and several consecutive rebellions.

A talent like Luo Ji’s, which directly gave all people a default loyalty bonus of 10, was enough to make them envious to the point of wanting to kill.

As night fell, the aroma of food drifted through the tribe.

The barbarians who had just joined the tribe and hadn’t eaten their fill for several days, instinctively swallowed their saliva.

This time, Luo Ji was determined to boost loyalty and naturally wouldn’t discriminate.

In this era with a harsh living environment where everyone couldn’t eat their fill, boosting loyalty was not easy, nor was it simple.

Generally, as long as you gave them food and provided a relatively safe shelter, loyalty usually wouldn’t be low.

But it was precisely difficult to achieve both of these points.

Luo Ji clearly belonged to the luckier category.

At the start, he discovered the 2-star wonder Mirror Lake.

While earning a good amount of civilization points, he also easily obtained fish resources.

Under this premise, as long as he didn’t court death himself, this entire tribe wouldn’t fall into the predicament of running out of food.

He motioned for everyone to distribute the roasted wolf meat and boiled fish soup.

The barbarians who had just surrendered to them clearly hadn’t expected to receive such treatment right after arriving, and such a generous one at that.

Their previous days of not knowing where their next meal would come from, and never eating their fill, couldn’t compare to now.

The scene before them was simply too wonderful, so wonderful that it gave them a sense of unreality.

It wasn’t until the aroma of the food constantly entered their nostrils, stimulating their sense of smell, that they completely confirmed that all of this was real!

Their faces showed both excitement and gratitude.

After repeatedly thanking him, they all ate with eagerness.

The former barbarian leader was the same, except that after a brief period of excitement, a hint of complexity quickly flashed in his eyes.

He was also leading a tribe to survive in this icy and snowy weather, and the gap between him and Luo Ji was simply obvious at this moment, which made him feel a strong sense of frustration.

Seeing this, Luo Ji subtly opened a few attribute panels to confirm.

Then, the corners of his mouth immediately curled up.

Without a doubt, loyalty had increased.

Luo Ji, in a great mood, laughed heartily twice, then shifted his attention to the string of wolf meat in his hand.

Compared to the fish soup, he was clearly more interested in the wolf meat.

After all, in the world he came from, this was a protected animal, and generally couldn’t be eaten.

Unlike in this era, where wolf packs were rampant…

He opened his mouth and took a big bite, then chewed with great effort.

A few minutes later, Luo Ji’s smile gradually froze.

Damn!

His cheeks were sore from chewing, and he couldn’t chew it at all!

The meat was sour and tough, and terribly hard to chew.

Without seasonings and a pressure cooker, this wolf meat was simply inedible!

Looking at the tribal people who were eating wolf meat with happy faces, Luo Ji felt complex.

Just looking at their expressions, it seemed like they weren’t eating the same thing at all.

Of course, he also knew that for the tribal people, being able to eat meat at all was already a very happy thing.

Who would complain that this wolf meat was sour and hard to chew?

Forcing himself to swallow the large piece of wolf meat that he had been chewing for a long time without breaking down, Luo Ji hardened his heart and swallowed it directly.

Then he quickly drank two large gulps of fish soup.

He felt this one bite of meat would be enough for him to digest for the whole night…

For a short while, he had no interest in taking a second bite.

He was afraid of indigestion if he ate too much.

He had also been tired all day and planned to go to bed early.

After greeting everyone and telling them not to be careless while on night watch, Luo Ji crawled into his tent.

The night passed without incident.

The next morning, Luo Ji stretched and walked out of his tent.

He had gotten up quite early today.

The system notification for gaining civilization points every day served perfectly as his alarm clock here.

As for what he needed to do today, he had already thought it through before going to bed yesterday.

Continuing to dig for bait and make fishing nets to develop fishing was naturally a must.

Besides that, he also needed to make more stone spears and stone axes.

The tribe’s population had also increased, and the newly recruited warriors needed their weapons upgraded.

Of course, weapons would be prioritized for warriors with loyalty of 80 or higher.

After all, distributing weapons was completely different from distributing food.

For those whose loyalty hadn’t reached 80 yet, he would wait a bit.

Besides that, Luo Ji also selected the tribal warriors who had the ‘Old Hunter’ skill, and then added a few more people as helpers, forming a hunting team.

From today onwards, the hunting team would be specifically responsible for hunting and providing meat for the tribe.

Afterward, he distributed a few stone axes to the newly arrived warriors whose loyalty had reached 80 or higher.

And had them go cut down some trees around the tribe.

The previous tribal camp was too vulnerable.

If it were attacked by wild beasts or other barbarian tribes, the threat was simply too great.

Luo Ji planned to cut down more trees.

Clear a living space around Mirror Lake.

And at the same time, turn the cut trees into wooden stakes to surround the entire Mirror Tribe, forming a circle of defense.

This way, the safety index of their tribe would increase significantly.