A Thorough Cleanup

Soon, Bai Xiaowen opened his eyes. His face showed a hint of shock.

"What's wrong?" Li Shuyi asked with concern when she noticed Bai Xiaowen's unusual expression.

"I'm fine, it's just that the news is too explosive, I need to calm down. The original plan needs to be slightly changed."

Bai Xiaowen gave Li Shuyi a look that said "wait a moment," then dispersed the bandit prisoners in the square and incorporated them into the White Stone Town guards. The original force of one hundred men has now expanded to more than two hundred.

Of course, this increase in numbers was not only due to the capture of bandits, but also included the people who responded to the call to join the White Stone Town Construction Corps.

It's worth mentioning that the loot from the raids on three medium-sized bandit groups actually yielded more supplies than Ian's Black Wind Bandit Group!

On the Lord Panel, the number of gold coins in White Stone Town has reached 607, and there are also a large number of valuable items such as gold and silver utensils and works of art, but they cannot be converted into cash for the time being.

In terms of food, the captured black bread, flour, grains, and other supplies were enough to feed the Production and Construction Corps for at least a week.

Building materials were being rapidly consumed as they increased, and the bandits and their servants built wooden huts. These bandits and their servants had naturally not studied urban planning or anything like that, but the houses they built within the area planned by Bai Xiaowen did not appear numerous or chaotic.

After a rapid initial rise, public sentiment in the territory entered a period of steady growth.

There's a reason why three medium-sized bandit groups reaped more spoils than the Black Wind Bandit Group.

According to Kitz, although "Boss Ian" was very powerful, he was somewhat "unprofessional" and his choice of targets for robberies was very strange. Most of them were in White Stone Town, a poor and desolate area where there was no money to be made.

This resulted in the Black Wind Bandit Group having the title of the largest bandit group in White Stone Town, but actually plundering less resources than other bandit groups. Because of this, members of the Black Wind Bandit Group, such as Kitz, often harbored some resentment towards Ian.

Moreover, Kitz and some Elite Tier bandits were also secretly discussing it. They felt that Lord Dio's actions were essentially no different from those of bandits; they had simply changed their leader, so they didn't feel much resistance.

Moreover, with the status of a legitimate lord of the Empire, Kitz and his men's plundering and looting activities were cloaked in legality, and they didn't have to live in a stinking cave... It was much more comfortable than their time under Ian's command.

Bai Xiaowen didn't care about the gold coins he had plundered at all. With a wave of his hand, he first distributed half of the gold coins as a reward, distributing them according to the standard that Elite Tier bandits received more than ordinary bandits, and ordinary bandits received more than servant bandits, which made the bandit guards of the construction corps cheer.

In fact, the gold coins on the Lord Panel cannot be taken out of the Spirit Realm —which is why Bai Xiaowen is so generous.

Bai Xiaowen changed his plans. Instead of continuing to investigate the Necrotic Plague, he immediately led his now much larger bandit guard to incorporate other bandit forces in White Stone Town.

The efficiency of this snowball effect was terrifying. Eventually, the small and medium-sized bandit groups in White Stone Town, seeing the elite force of over a hundred men behind Bai Xiaowen, didn't even have the courage to resist and truly "surrendered at the mere sight of him," saving Bai Xiaowen a great deal of time.

The only ones dissatisfied with this were the original leaders of the various bandit groups, who were naturally unwilling to be incorporated into the organization.

However, Bai Xiaowen's method for dealing with these troublemakers was very simple: kill! Basically, wherever he went, he would surround them, kill the boss, recruit his underlings, loot the vault and supplies, and pack them up and transport them back.

In just two days, more than a dozen bandit gangs, large and small, in White Stone Town were completely wiped out.

These past two days, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi have been enjoying themselves as if they were on a picnic, encountering virtually no resistance.

Inside the lord's mansion.

"I have a feeling that you're hiding something from me," Li Shuyi said. "With such a tight schedule, you still had the mind to recruit those bandits...and it took you two whole days!"

Bonita looked at Li Shuyi with some confusion. "This... isn't this great? They saved this town from the ravages of bandits in just two days. Although... although I still don't have a good impression of necromancers, such an achievement is still commendable."

Li Shuyi's expression shifted slightly, but she didn't say anything more. Instead, she looked at Bai Xiaowen.

She and Bai Xiaowen Bai Xiaowen were Awakened Ones, and the two days meant completely different things to them than to Bonita — Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi could only stay in the Kane Plane for a total of 15 days!

Moreover, the war Blackrock Line and the Remnants is the main event. In their original plan, the main quest "Recruit Your Army" was to be completed as soon as possible, and then they would rush to the Blackrock Line to participate in a higher-intensity war, which meant more benefits.

Therefore, the fact that Bai Xiaowen spent two days in White Stone Town was what puzzled Li Shuyi. To say that it was to save the town was just nonsense—saving the town and developing the economy were not main or side quests, so there was no benefit to be gained.

Bai Xiaowen understood Li Shuyi's thoughts and nodded, saying, "Indeed, I have my reasons for doing this."

The door was pushed open, and the eccentric Plague Spreader W-07, with a blank and dazed expression, walked in with his hands hanging down.

"I've reviewed W-07's memories and discovered a problem... The situation we face may be far worse than we imagined!"

Bai Xiaowen asked, "Do you understand the meaning of the designation W-07?"

Li Shuyi, Bonita, and the Zombie Doctor all shook their heads.

"The letters at the beginning correspond to the regions, and the numbers at the end are the identifiers of the spreaders operating in those regions," Bai Xiaowen said. "The Necrotic Plague is a viral war controlled and launched by an entity called the Overlord! Although there is no concrete information, I suspect it is related to the Remnants, because the plague virus targets ' Human Race ' and has virtually no effect on Orcs, Trolls, Dark Elves, and other races among the Remnants."

"Oh my god, this is outrageous! The Holy Light will never allow such a crime to exist." Bonita clenched her little fists.

Li Shuyi followed Bai Xiaowen's lead and asked, "Then does the letter 'W' correspond to White Stone Town?"

"No, it's ' White Stone Fief '," Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said, "Which is the fiefdom of the first generation of the Skellboom Family. It's not the area that has been reduced more than ten times. It still encompasses a large area, even including the current Redleaf Fief. In the Disseminator system, W-07 is the seventh-ranked Disseminator in White Stone Fief."