Chapter 580

Chapter 580: Where the Hell Is My Oasis?!

Meanwhile, on Long Taojia’s side.

Although he was mentally prepared for the failure of the defense war.

The moment the system notification rang out.

His entire heart still twitched violently.

This was a massive loss!

Just by looking at the emptied warehouses in Boulder City, he knew the other 2 cities would likely not escape being plundered.

At this moment, he was desperate to confirm the losses in Oasis City and Yellow Sand City.

Therefore, he was currently leading a squad of soldiers and rushing toward the 2 cities in a frenzy.

However, after nearly a day of travel, there was still no sign of Oasis City.

Long Taojia wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He couldn’t help but feel a bit strange.

“Is Boulder City really that far from Oasis City?”

With his thoughts spinning, he unhooked the waterskin from his waist.

At the same time, he opened the system map.

He dragged the map around carelessly while drinking water.

However, as he continued to scroll, his face gradually changed while staring at the system map.

As if realizing something, Long Taojia scrambled down from his camel.

He looked at the map, then looked at the empty yellow sand before him.

After repeating this action 5 times.

Long Taojia almost went insane on the spot.

“Fuck!! Where the hell is my oasis?! It should be right here, where is that huge oasis?!!”

Clearly, within his own world, Long Taojia could forget about finding the oasis from his memory.

Most likely, no matter who it was, they would go crazy encountering such a thing.

The squad of soldiers following Long Taojia was also completely bewildered.

Even Long Taojia, a player, couldn’t figure out how his oasis had vanished into thin air.

How could these ancient people serving as soldiers possibly understand it?

In their eyes, this was simply seeing a ghost.

How could such a large oasis just disappear?

On the other side, within the Myriad World Civilization, Luo Ji’s mood was the exact opposite.

The smile on his face was not just because this invasion was highly profitable.

It was also because the drought problem in his Myriad World Civilization would soon be solved!

He quickly summoned He Shu and Zhang Ze, who were in charge of hydraulic engineering.

After confirming the location of Oasis City on the map with them.

He directly signaled them to dig another river channel from the water source of Oasis City, leading straight to the artificial lake outside Giant Wood City!

This way, with the support of 2 water sources, the Oasis and Song River.

They should be able to pull through, right?

If they still couldn’t hold out.

It didn’t matter!

There was another river outside Yellow Sand City.

They would go dig there too!

With 3 water sources available, Luo Ji really didn’t believe they couldn’t beat this!

After confirming the information from Luo Ji, He Shu and Zhang Ze naturally set off immediately, heading to Oasis City to confirm the specific engineering route.

As for the manpower for the hydraulic engineering.

There were plenty of people in Oasis City and Yellow Sand City.

These desert people originally lived in the harsh desert environment.

They had a very strong adaptability to this extreme weather.

It was perfect to use them as laborers.

Then, after a few months, based on their work performance, he would consider granting these desert people official status.

Making them formal citizens of Myriad World Civilization.

Of course, if their performance remained unsatisfactory, they could only continue as laborers.

This was Luo Ji’s consistent practice.

It was also a very effective method.

A tactic of using both the threat of punishment and the promise of a reward.

Bitter first, then sweet.

Only after tasting hardship would they know how good the treatment of a formal citizen was.

Citizens who came through this way were generally much more honest and hardworking.

As for those laborers who were always dishonest or lazy.

Then they could just stay as laborers forever.

Luo Ji never minded having a few more sources of cheap labor.

His principle of conduct was simple.

In his Myriad World Civilization, those who contributed and sacrificed had human rights.

If you had no contribution or sacrifice, it was equivalent to having no value, and the human rights of his Myriad World Civilization would not cover you.

The manpower issue for the hydraulic engineering was clearly no longer an issue.

At the same time, Luo Ji also quickly dispatched troops to officially take over Oasis City and Yellow Sand City.

In addition, considering the safety and smoothness of the roads, the post station between Yellow Sand City and Hot Sand City naturally had to start construction immediately.

Coincidentally, during this period, the Grand Opera House projects in other cities had reached a temporary conclusion.

He could just transfer a Goblin construction team directly from there.

After arranging all the urgent tasks.

Luo Ji leaned back in his office chair in the Hall of Political Affairs and gave a powerful stretch.

Only then did he shift his attention to other matters.

Opening his system inventory, the Silver Treasure Chest earned from the invasion war was lying quietly in its slot.

He clicked it open casually, and out came a silver-grade ‘Government Affairs Processing’ skill book.

It was quite good; skill books of the government affairs series were considered among the most useful.

If placed in the auction house, it would probably be worth 600,000 to 700,000 Civilization Points.

However, Luo Ji had already used a ‘Government Affairs Processing’ skill book on himself before.

As for Lu Yang, as his assistant official, he had long ago realized the ‘Government Affairs Processing’ skill through his own outstanding talent.

He didn’t need this skill book either.

He decisively kept it for now, to be used on some good government affairs talent in the future.

After opening the treasure chest, Luo Ji rubbed his chin and began to ponder the issue of rewards.

In this wave, the 5 beastmen tribes could all be said to have contributed.

Among them, Li Yin had even slain the enemy general.

However, Luo Ji had already invested enough Beastmen Points into the Wolf Tribe panel.

He had opened 2 special units and 2 special buildings in succession.

It would be difficult to have further development in the short term.

Thinking of this, after some deliberation in his heart.

Luo Ji simply rewarded Li Yin with some money and a custom-made suit of armor.

As for the other 4 beastmen tribes.

Clearly, they needed to be developed seriously as well.

To prevent them from feeling resentful.

He first checked his Beastmen Points.

In this wave, Luo Ji used the beastmen army as the main force, capturing 3 cities in succession, and fighting 2 small-scale battles and 2 large-scale battles.

Although the total number of enemies killed hadn’t been seriously calculated, it definitely exceeded 3,000.

And they had captured over 1,000 soldiers.

Undoubtedly, this wave had farmed plenty of points.

His fingertips slid across the screen, decisively clicking out the Totem Poles for the other 4 beastmen tribes first.

He would give each of them a special building to pacify them for a while.

Among those with greater contributions were the Elephantmen who suppressed the enemy’s War Elephants, and the Minotaur Infantry who served as the main front-line unit.

The contributions of the Elephantmen and Minotaurs in this invasion war were undoubtedly significant.

Luo Ji intended to further develop these 2 tribes as a reward.