Bustling Recruitment Scene

It was normal for young men to brim with lofty ambitions.

As long as they recognized reality, that was enough.

The next part of the process was nothing more than Ning Zheng, acting as the Old Steward, explaining a few more matters requiring attention within the Mountain Villa.

Then he had Jiu Cai Rong take charge of planning the areas outside, sharing his general ideas on how to organize the construction of the dormitories.

"In my view, building the dormitories requires..."

As Jiu Cai Rong laid out his highly experienced architectural planning ideas, Ning Zheng nodded again and again. He felt he had not misjudged the man; at the very least, Jiu Cai Rong was far more professional than he was.

By the time Jiu Cai Rong had talked himself dry, Ning Zheng glanced at the sky and saw that it was already noon.

"Let's get to work."

He planned to finish today's work that afternoon if possible, so he could head down the mountain and go home.

Just as Ning Zheng led Jiu Cai Rong out the door, they spotted a group of newly arrived little sprouts outside the distant gates of the Mountain Villa.

This batch of Money Boys and Money Girls looked as if they had been carved from pink jade. They pounded on the iron gate outside the Mountain Villa, bursting with excitement.

"Master, Old Steward, I'll work at the Mountain Villa for free!"

"Please take me in, I'm begging you!"

"I'm not here to destroy you—I'm here to join you!"

"I don't want wages. I'm very good at working!"

"I'm an elementary school student, so I go first!"

"Add V to watch blockbusters (^_-)"

Every one of them hammered on the gate and shouted enthusiastically, veins bulging and faces like crazed demons.

The player slots, which had only held a little over twenty logged-in players before, were suddenly crammed full with one hundred players.

And the number of audience tourists Queuing to Log In had somehow also reached the limit of nine hundred, watching through the various Player Perspectives.

The full total of one thousand people was reached in an instant!

"Why are there suddenly so many people?" Ning Zheng asked Jiu Cai Rong.

Of course, Jiu Cai Rong knew what had happened.

You people are so embarrassing. Aren't you afraid of losing favorability? he cursed inwardly, then explained somewhat awkwardly:

"Um, probably because the treatment at our Mountain Villa is very good! They came to ask for work!"

"Those twenty-odd people went out and called friends and allies. We have a special way of contacting each other."

Those animals had logged off and summoned all sorts of friends to come pioneer the land.

Jiu Cai Rong had even guessed by now why this game did not need to spend huge sums on advertising.

With the quality of this game, it was bound to be an age-defining revolution for the entire gaming world. Did it even need advertising?

What a joke.

When flowers bloomed, these rutting dogs would come uninvited anyway.

To say nothing else, taste alone could support a super food city in this Blacksmith Mountain Villa. What staggering benefits would that bring?

Poor people might not be able to afford lobster, but could they not afford it here?

This game was ahead of its era!

In this game, they could gorge themselves on delicacies from land and sea.

The Old Steward had even said food and lodging were included!

Just look at that.

How conscientious was this?

Compared to those stingy pay-to-win games, the Mountain Villa's Old Steward listened sincerely to their opinions, taught them patiently, treated them so kindly, and even let them operate things themselves.

It was enough to make him cry.

The sincerity was overflowing, okay?

He was already looking forward to where the meal would be after they finished working.

He was ready to enjoy the first otherworldly feast the Old Steward had kindly prepared for them after they came to the Mountain Villa.

"Steward, can we let these people into the Mountain Villa to undergo an assessment?" Jiu Cai Rong asked cautiously.

"Then recruit them. The Mountain Villa has suffered devastation from demons and monsters; everything lies in ruins, waiting to be rebuilt."

Ning Zheng gave an instruction, then said seriously, "This afternoon, we can begin rebuilding. I'll supervise you while you work. Those who should dig dirt, dig dirt. Those who should lay bricks, lay bricks."

He intended to move a rocking chair over and sit beside them while they worked, getting in today's cultivation meditation while he was at it.

He was somewhat surprised that they had recruited enough hands in a single stroke. He had not expected it to be so easy; the rough workload was basically finished.

Hadn't Xiao Ai said there definitely would not be anyone?

It seemed the Little Ai assistant really was a little dim.

Ning Zheng immediately began entertaining thoughts of secretly slacking off while supervising them.

That afternoon, he would probably just supervise the dormitory construction for a bit, then clock out when the time came!

The day had been quite fulfilling for him. Seeing lively, living people had lifted his mood considerably.

Although his first impression of them had not been very good—after all, who came up and ate that kind of thing?

Still, seeing them work so enthusiastically and strive so hard made up for quite a bit of that impression.

All in all, they were fairly ordinary. Though they had their peculiarities, they were not too unusual.

At that moment, the young players who had logged off to call their friends and fallen asleep on the ground also began rising one after another as they returned.

They climbed to their feet one by one, their bleary eyes opening again.

Then one of them had barely logged in before suddenly shouting:

"My god, why did I pee myself? When you log off in this damn game, doesn't it take over AFK mode? If I don't go to the toilet, won't it control the body and make it go by itself?"

Jiu Cai Rong, who had been preparing to direct everyone to work, froze as well.

What the hell?

"Let me see." He turned around, pushed through the crowd, and looked at the man's crotch. It was already soaked.

Jiu Cai Rong frowned. "You just logged off, and you wet the bed? Is this game really that realistic? Couldn't your bladder try a little harder to hold it in?"

That player looked quite introverted. Scratching his head, he muttered softly, "How about cutting me open and installing an extra-large-capacity bladder? More volume for the same price?"

"I know how to perform C-sections. Let me do it." A female player eagerly volunteered from the crowd, shoving her way forward with sparkling eyes. "It's not that frequent urination and urgency can't be solved—it's just that enlarging the bladder is more cost-effective."

Jiu Cai Rong's frown deepened.

He ignored their unreliable ideas.

Being able to eat and excrete was understandable, but the system could not even handle it while they were offline?

Would they find themselves filthy all over every time they logged in later? Wouldn't that ruin the gaming experience?

Why not give them AFK control after logging off?

Or just remove the whole eating, drinking, defecating, and urinating system altogether. It was too realistic; nobody would play it.

Moreover, the situation Jiu Cai Rong feared most was likely not limited to that.

Since there was an eating and drinking system, would they log in after a few days only to find that their characters had starved to death?

That setting was utterly ridiculous.

They would have to log in every day. If they failed to log in for several days, their account would die and be permanently deleted.

Fine then. The planners sure understood daily active users.

Jiu Cai Rong felt his teeth ache.

Its strength lay in realism, but perhaps it would also kneel before realism.

This was going to flop.

In Jiu Cai Rong's eyes, if they could not resolve the fatal flaw of logging off to sleep, the game would probably be finished.

But could the planners possibly not know?

They probably really were going all-in on realism.

Sigh.

Jiu Cai Rong let out a sigh and thought to himself, No matter what, the Dormitory I planned for the staff will probably have to be redesigned.

He needed to find a way to design an integrated, fully automated AFK mode where the dormitory could clean them, feed them, and handle their excretion after they logged off.

Otherwise, this game simply could not be played.

Jiu Cai Rong looked at the leisurely Old Steward reclining in the chair nearby. This client boss's assignment was a little absurd.

But this Old Steward had a keen eye for talent.

Without a doubt! He was the one destined to perfectly solve this problem!

He was an enthusiast of home renovation, mechanical design, and agricultural planning.

But the conditions were a little too crude. How was he supposed to design this fully automated AFK dormitory?

What seemed impossible in ordinary people's eyes had, after countless thoughts turned in his mind, already yielded a rough solution for Jiu Cai Rong. His eyes, brimming with lofty ambition, fell upon the ruined dormitory:

Then let the Mountain Villa's first blacksmithing construction project begin with an all-automated AFK dormitory for logging off.