Chapter 18
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Chapter 18: Luo Ji is About to Cry
Luo Ji wasn’t joking just now.
Although last night’s meal had earned him a lot of loyalty points, some people still hadn’t reached 80 loyalty.
So, Luo Ji couldn’t completely trust this newly acquired group of people and naturally had to take some precautions to avoid being overly optimistic.
After reassuring Luo Yong, this time, he could finally rest for a while.
Sitting by the fire, he scooped himself a bowl of hot water from the pot.
While organizing the next steps in his mind, he quickly opened his attribute panel to check the ‘Cartography’ project he had triggered earlier.
He quickly navigated to ‘Cultural Development.’
While he had accumulated a good amount of culture points second only to civilization points.
He had felt frustrated that the only option in this category was the ‘Surname System’ project.
Which is only useful for point generation, not practical development.
Finally, that changed, as ‘Cartography’ was now there.
[Cartography (Level 0): Increases the efficiency of drawing various blueprints by 10%. When you have the corresponding blueprints, the success rate of creating corresponding items, equipment, and tools increases by 10%.]
Looking at the bonus effect of ‘Cartography’, Luo Ji’s eyes immediately lit up.
He wasn’t sure yet what the benefit of increasing the efficiency of drawing blueprints was, but the success rate bonus at the end was clearly very useful!
And upon closer thought, Luo Ji found it very reasonable.
For example, if he wanted to make a piece of equipment, he would definitely draw a design blueprint first.
If the structure of the entire equipment and the design of the important parts were clearly drawn on the blueprint, and his thoughts were straightened out.
Then the success rate of making the equipment afterwards would undoubtedly increase.
Conversely, starting to build something based only on a rough idea in his head would inevitably lead to problems along the way, and the success rate would certainly be much lower.
Simply put, it was the difference between having a plan and not having one.
He glanced at the remaining culture points, which were 16.
Still quite abundant so he decisively spent 10 culture points and 100 civilization points to upgrade the ‘Cartography’ project to level 1 first.
After upgrading, Luo Ji wasn’t in a hurry to draw blueprints, as he hadn’t yet decided what equipment or tools to build next.
And he couldn’t make anything too complex anyway, since he wasn’t trained in that.
It was better to stick to the original plan and finish today’s tasks first.
Carrying a few new fishing nets made by the women, Luo Ji walked on the frozen lake surface.
While checking on everyone’s fishing work, he also planned to find a few more spots to open new ice holes.
As he walked around, Luo Ji observed the fishermen.
He wasn’t sure if their success stemmed from the upgraded ‘Fishery’ project or if everyone was just getting the hang of it after yesterday’s adjustment period.
Despite it being only morning, almost every fisherman already has a live fish in the wooden basin next to them.
One person even managed to catch 3 fish, which genuinely surprised Luo Ji, and upon closer inspection, he suddenly remembered something.
The middle-aged man who had caught 3 fish in such a short time was none other than the first fisherman he had appointed!
The first carp was caught by this man.
Based on experience, he was probably the most experienced among all the fishermen.
“Speaking of which, I don’t think I’ve checked his attribute panel…”
Squatting by the ice all day was also physically demanding work.
The physical exertion from morning till night meant that this man usually went straight to sleep in his tent after dinner these past few days.
And the times he checked the attribute panels of the tribe members were mostly at night.
Their schedules had coincidentally missed each other, resulting in him not having checked this person’s attribute panel yet.
While thinking this, Luo Ji casually opened the man’s attribute panel.
And in the next second, his heart uncontrollably twitched twice.
“Damn it! What have I been doing?!”
At this moment, a rather astonishing set of data was displayed directly before his eyes…
[Name: None
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Status: Calm
Loyalty: 96
Bravery: ★★
Intelligence: ★★☆☆
Spirit: ★★★☆
Endurance: ★★★☆
Leadership: ★★☆☆
Talent: Immovable as a Mountain: A calm personality makes him unyielding in any state, and the ‘morale’ of the warriors under his command will never drop below 60. When participating in defensive battles, as the defending side, the combat power of all warriors under his command increases by 20%, and there is a 20% chance that the morale of all attacking enemies will drop by one level (this talent is directly affected by ‘Leadership’)]
Although his ‘Bravery’ was only 2 stars, his ‘Intelligence,’ ‘Spirit,’ ‘Endurance,’ and ‘Leadership’ all had a maximum growth potential of 4 stars!
He had the highest overall growth potential among all his people currently!
Coupled with the ‘Immovable as a Mountain’ talent, he was clearly a great defensive general!
However, at this moment, Luo Ji had an impulse to find a wall and bang his head against it.
He didn’t dare to look down, even though he had already seen it…
In the skill bar below the talent, an exceptionally prominent, yet very mundane, skill icon was displayed ‘Fishing.’
“…”
A character who was clearly general-level had, due to his momentary oversight, become a fisherman, and even worse, had learned the ‘Fishing’ skill.
Luo Ji was on the verge of tears and was also a little worried.
He hadn’t fully figured out the skill mechanism yet.
What if such a character with incredibly high overall growth potential was wasted because of this mundane fishing skill?
There was no time to think further.
Luo Ji directly shoved the fishing net into the hands of the person next to him, then dragged his defensive general towards the shore.
Damn it!
He couldn’t let him keep fishing!
What if he learned another life skill?
This skill tree absolutely couldn’t be skewed any further!
The man’s calm and deep voice sounded behind him.
“Chief, did I do something wrong?”
Just from the voice, Luo Ji could feel the calmness that settled within him.
Although the man was a little surprised by Luo Ji suddenly dragging him away, he wasn’t at all flustered.
This only made Luo Ji more frustrated.
Why didn’t he discover this earlier?
He decided that he definitely has to find an opportunity to check everyone in the tribe one by one again!
If he missed another great general and they ended up as farmers or fishermen, wouldn’t he just spit blood and die from frustration?
Coming back to his senses, feeling the man’s questioning gaze, Luo Ji felt he needed a reason, or rather, an explanation.
As he thought about it, he fell into deep contemplation…
He was the one who told the man to fish before.
Now, should he suddenly tell him that he wasn’t suited for fishing and was better off as a defensive general?
Saying that felt wrong somehow.
After struggling for a long time, Luo Ji, who was getting a bit worked up, suddenly shook his head vigorously.
He figured it out, or rather, he had a sudden enlightenment.
“I am the chief.”
“Do I need a reason to change the position of my tribe members?”
