Daily Life

Things went more smoothly than Xi Ye had imagined. Less than a month after the intelligent system's plan began implementation, more than five thousand D-Earthlings had already poured into the base.

They had all cheerfully signed that unequal contract, and even after selling themselves into servitude, they were still thrilled. Whether mining, farming, or tracking biological specimens, they worked incredibly hard without a single complaint. All they needed was for their workload to be converted into so-called Honor Points.

At the intelligent system's suggestion, he set up an Honor Ranking based on the points contributed. After that, the players worked as if they had been injected with stimulants. The player ranked first in mining was someone called King of Liver Kings, who logged off for only four hours a day. He worked even harder than slaves under threat of death!

Compared to them, those Federation workers who started demanding higher wages after working just eight hours were simply far too unprofessional.

Just look at them! What were wages?

At the thought, he could not help sighing inwardly: What a simple and hardworking race!

He secretly swore that once he became prosperous, he would treat them better... At the very least, he had to give them wages...

"Reminder to host: Population registration has exceeded five thousand. Based on the current scale, the second factory can now be opened!"

"Mm, good!" Xi Ye nodded in satisfaction.

The original plan had been to open the second factory at least half a year later, but the labor force had been far too capable. Combined with the exceptionally favorable environment on Mars, development had far exceeded expectations.

He checked the data. He now had a total of 5,134 subjects, and the number was still increasing every day.

The Green Titans were the most numerous. More than 3,700 people had chosen the Green Titan Gene, 1,300 had chosen the Wood Elf, and fewer than 200 had chosen the Developer bloodline.

Seeing these figures, he could not help marveling once again at the pure and simple nature of the people from this planet. Before the surgery, the selection guidelines had clearly explained the job assignments for each race!

The Hulks would initially be responsible for mining, transporting, and other manual labor. The Wood Elves would have to cultivate and tend crops amid Mars's dry winds and sand. Only the Developers would work indoors in comfortable surroundings. Yet he had never expected that after he allowed them to choose freely, ninety percent of them would choose the two more arduous jobs.

Originally, he should have assigned them himself, but the intelligent system had suggested allowing them to choose freely. Xi Ye thought of those miserable contracts for the D-Earthlings and ultimately agreed to let them make one free choice.

After issuing the order, however, he had worried about what to do if there were too many Developers and too few Green Titans to serve as basic laborers. Then the simple nature of the people on this planet once again resolved the problem in his heart.

With high aptitude and a strong work ethic, Xi Ye once again firmly believed that his ancestors must have saved the entire universe!

Xi Ye strolled outside the base. Mars's mild radiation and low gravity posed no problem for him at all. Forget someone with the bloodline of the Celestial Race—even a race with only a little survival ability could live quite well on this planet. Compared to the harsh environment of a Ninth-Grade Planet, this place was incomparably better.

Xi Ye had seen a Ninth-Grade Planet before. Its climate was so severe that in the morning, the frozen ground stretched across a vast, desolate landscape, while by afternoon, it became so hot that every drop of water in the entire ocean evaporated!

"Lord!"

The Elves cultivating crops outside respectfully called out when they saw Xi Ye. Xi Ye gave a slight nod and waved for them to continue working.

The crops were growing quite smoothly as well. Because the environment was favorable, most crops with strong survival abilities could be grown, such as the Hell Melons from Pengel Star and the Purple Rice Vines from Lainster Star.

Looking at the thriving vines, Xi Ye secretly swallowed. He had not eaten fresh fruits or melons for ten thousand years, surviving entirely on Nutrient Solution.

Once the agricultural foundation had been established, he planned to teleport back to the Federation and buy some Elf Tree seeds to improve the soil and expand the planting area. He would also buy some good biological specimens and try raising some local livestock.

"Hey, you lot!" Just as he was happily imagining the future, he suddenly spotted several Elf Balls whose entire bodies had turned bright red. His expression darkened at once. "Get back and rest! I don't want to see any corpses in my territory that have been sun-dried into Elf Jerky!"

"Oh... yes, Lord..." The moment they heard they were not allowed to work, the Elves replied listlessly. They trudged back toward the base, secretly grumbling, If we'd known this would happen, we'd have chosen the Green Titan. Elves earn points far too slowly in the early stages!

Unlike the Green Titans, who could run around Mars bare-chested, Elves had to use biological energy to wrap a layer of Biological Membrane around themselves whenever they went outdoors. This membrane consumed the water in their bodies. If they stayed outside too long without returning to the base for replenishment, they would eventually become a sheet of Elf Jerky and die beneath the sun on this red planet.

Sometimes, passing Green Titan players would even pick them up and crunch them down in one bite. It sounded horrifying, but there was a reason for it.

Elf Jerky gave off a strangely fruity aroma. The Green Titans had to replenish large amounts of Nutrient Solution whenever they mined outside, but that stuff tasted truly awful. So whenever they happened to catch that fruity scent, most Green Titans could not help being drawn toward it!

At first, no one had committed such a monstrous act. Then a player named G Ni Tai Mei became the first to eat an Elf Jerky person, and after that, such incidents began spreading everywhere...

According to the Green Titan players, it really tasted damn good! It had the flavor of both meat and fruit... As a result, whenever those Green Titans saw a lone Sprite afterward, they would grin maliciously...

Some Elf Players even claimed that they had seen the lord secretly eating Elf Jerky. It caused a massive uproar at the time, and the Elf Players protested as a group. But Lord Xi Ye vehemently denied it. Now, whenever he saw red Elves in public, he would order them to hurry back to the base and log off to rest!

Because they had to return in time to replenish their nutrients, Elf Players could work for no more than four hours at a time. After that, they needed to replenish themselves in the base for two hours before continuing. This put Elf Players at a major disadvantage when earning Honor Points.

Thus, many Elf Players immediately proposed modifying the Points System and increasing the number of points Elves received for each hour of work.

But the Green Titan players immediately objected. "You've got to be kidding! We work ourselves to death mining outside, while you furballs already have easy jobs. You work for four hours and then rest for two, and now you still want higher wages than us? Why should you? Do you really think we're laborers?"

Although, in truth, they were...

Since there were so many Green Titan players while the Elf Players were weak and outnumbered, Xi Ye did not dare offend the broad mass of miners. In the end, the proposal came to nothing.

After that, the Developers were the ones causing trouble. Few players had chosen this race in the first place, yet more than half of them began clamoring to undergo surgery again and become Green Titans or Wood Elves.

Actually, as long as their brains were backed up, their own clones could be replicated infinitely. If they wished, they could have one body from every race without any problem. However, if they did that, after the brain harmonized with multiple racial bodies, it would subconsciously complicate the evolutionary process, which would be extremely detrimental to future evolution.

In the Great Universe Federation, most wealthy families considered their children's future evolutionary paths and race choices when they were still very young. They would not change them easily. Only the poor, who could not afford evolution gene potions, would first choose a low-potential race to do manual labor and accumulate enough savings, then buy a better gene and start over.

However, the paths they could take in future evolution would then be limited. That was why it was difficult for the poor in the Federation to rise above their station. To become a superior gene family, they needed to accumulate resources over a dozen or even a hundred generations.

Xi Ye naturally could not stand by and watch his subjects, who possessed such potential, waste their talents. Thus, he directly rejected the players' request to change their genes!

Besides, there were only a little over a hundred Developers in total. If he agreed to let them change their genes freely, he feared fewer than ten of them would remain. Without them, who would operate all these instruments? Who would conduct research in the later stages?

He certainly would not allow that to happen!

After making a circuit and returning to the base, Xi Ye saw the Developers sitting beside the instruments with bored expressions. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly as he thought, Do the people on this planet really like manual labor that much? Maybe I should just call them the No-Labor-Will-Die Star People from now on...