Activating Buildings and City Patrol (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

"The number of contracted undead has finally increased by one."

Seeing the situation before him, Gu Xi's mind immediately started working.

Luna's existence had brought him the city of Aryadovi, but her lack of combat power was also very obvious.

Why not take this opportunity to go to the Victoria City graveyard again and see if there are any suitable undead to contract?

As Gu Xi was thinking about this, the battle at the end of the Sewer came to an end.

As with the previous situation, when the last rat was killed, the black mist shrouding the end of the Sewer turned into a white, transparent light curtain.

When both ends of the Sewer were cleared, Gu Xi suddenly noticed that the pipes on both sides of the Sewer began to pour water into it. It seemed that the activation task on the Water Well side had been completed.

Gu Xi had no intention of continuing the fight for the time being.

He called out to Luna.

"Luna, let's go and activate the Candle Factory."

Luna quickly came to Gu Xi's side, followed by the Skeleton Battle Squad.

When Gu Xi and the others climbed up from the Water Well, they could see that the Sewer below was already filled with knee-deep water.

After coming out of the Water Well, Gu Xi handed the linen package to Luna.

"Luna, take a look at this."

Luna took the linen package and her eyes lit up. She immediately picked up the Hearthstone, which was most familiar to her as a former elf.

"Master, this is great news! Weren't we planning to establish an anchor point in Victoria City? This is a good opportunity. If we can have a residential building in Victoria City, I can use this Hearthstone to set up a fireplace. Then we can travel back and forth between the Council Hall and the residential building through the fireplace."

"Alright, let's act quickly. I'll go activate the Candle Factory first, and you go build the City Gate. We'll split up to speed things up."

Luna had no objections. After receiving Gu Xi's order, she quickly flew towards the Council Hall.

Gu Xi led the Skeleton Soldiers towards the Candle Factory.

The Candle Factory was still the same as before, without any changes. When Gu Xi arrived, he decisively poured out the Ghastly Rat Meat and threw it all into the pot where something was being boiled.

As the Ghastly Rat Meat was thrown in, Gu Xi noticed some changes beginning to occur in the Candle Factory.

The color of the Candle Factory turned white, and animal skins, now rat skins, were hung in front of the door. The things being boiled in the pot also turned white.

Most importantly, Gu Xi noticed that a wooden box had appeared in the corner of the Candle Factory.

Gu Xi stepped forward and opened the wooden box, revealing 30 finger-thick White Candles.

[White Candle (White): Special undead item, can generate a certain amount of Negative Energy, replenishing Life for the undead (has a very strong effect on Ghosts and Specters)]

As a Necromancer, Gu Xi felt the strong Negative Energy within the White Candle as soon as he picked it up.

As long as these candles were lit, a Negative Energy field would quickly form, and all undead illuminated by the candlelight would receive Negative Energy support.

In the eyes of the undead, this was like proper food, used to replenish stamina and Life.

It seemed that the choice of buildings in a city was not without reason.

Just then, Gu Xi heard a ding in his ear.

[City Gate construction has begun, with a total investment of 300 Negative Energy Points, 3 units of wood, 3 units of stone, and will be completed in 4 hours.]

Hearing this, Gu Xi felt relieved. Now that three buildings had been activated and the City Gate was under construction, half of Gu Xi's worries were gone.

Since there was still some time, Gu Xi thought he might as well take his men around the Street Block to see what was inside these rooms.

After all, not opening boxes after entering a room would really let down Gu Xi's identity as a player.

So Gu Xi immediately led the Skeleton Soldiers to start searching the nearby rooms.

Gu Xi discovered that James I was really rich back then.

To deceive people, he did everything to the best of his ability.

Everything in the rooms was arranged according to the original room layout.

Except for the absence of people and corpses, he had arranged everything else.

Like in each building in Gu Xi's area, there were all kinds of furniture.

In the houses closer to the main street, the furniture and such had been dragged out by Gu Xi's Battle Squad to serve as roadblocks.

However, the things that couldn't be used as roadblocks were left in the houses.

Gu Xi saw many old-fashioned clothes here, as well as rocking horses made for little children.

And in the houses further away from the main street, there were even more items. Gu Xi even saw weapons such as bows, swords, and Spears here, as well as things like chicken coops and dog kennels outside.

After taking his men for a few laps around, Gu Xi didn't move all these things out. He just took stock of the existing houses.

For now, without considering the issue of large, medium, and small buildings, there were a total of three hundred and sixty-two buildings used as background scenery.

More than half of them were two-story buildings, and there were also thirty-two three-story buildings and three four-story apartment buildings.

Apart from these three hundred-plus buildings, there were also some that had collapsed due to age. Those were the open spaces used to build other buildings.

Among the three hundred-plus buildings, the one-story buildings were all built near the Water Well.

From the layout of the houses, Gu Xi could also see that the area he occupied belonged to the edge of Aryadovi.

Therefore, of the five passages leading out of his city area, three led to different Street Blocks of Aryadovi.

These three passages all had corresponding checkpoints.

Gu Xi led the Skeleton Soldiers to patrol them one by one.

One of the passages required crossing a bridge over the river to enter the upper city area of Aryadovi.

Another passage had a City Gate blocking the way.

Without taking down the bridge and the City Gate, Gu Xi shouldn't even think about reaching those two areas.

The only simpler checkpoint was the passage located in the southwest corner of the city.

This passage led to a Street Block that also belonged to the lower city area. At the same time, this Street Block also had River Docks and Freight Track, belonging to the industrial area of Aryadovi City.

The only checkpoint on this road was a six-story tower, which didn't take up much space. It just looked like a barracks from a distance. It shouldn't be too difficult to take down.

Gu Xi calculated that after he had enough troops, he would take this area down first, and then expand his territory a bit.