When Zong Shen arrived beside the large wooden chest.
Two lines of information appeared one after the other.
[Level 1 Territory Storage Box] (Level 1 storage box. It can hold 40 slots of supplies. Resources and food of the same type can stack up to 1,000 units per slot. Weapons do not stack, except for thrown weapons, bows, crossbows, arrows, bolts, and standardized equipment of the same type.)
Zong Shen looked over the tips and strategy guide, and immediately understood.
Then, with a thought, he opened the storage box.
Rows of storage slots appeared before him.
There were exactly 40 in total.
There were twelve kinds of basic supplies.
Eight of them came from the equipment and supplies included with his background selection.
Zong Shen took them out one by one.
[Dented Simple Kite Shield] [Quality: Damaged] [Shield Defense: 50] (A damaged kite shield. It will provide you with protection.) [Disheveled Leather Tunic] [Quality: Damaged] [Body Defense: 13] [Durability: 50] [Strength Required: 1] (A tattered leather garment that can provide basic protection for your body.) [Tattered Leather Boots] [Quality: Damaged] [Leg Defense: 10] [Durability: 50] [Strength Required: 1] (Tattered leather boots that can provide basic protection for your legs.) [Rusty Sword] [One-handed] [Quality: Damaged] [Slash Damage: 21] [Piercing Damage: 14] [Attack Range: 75] [Attack Speed: +4%] [Durability: 50] [Strength Required: 3] (A battered one-handed sword that can provide you with basic damage.) [Hunting Crossbow] [Quality: Common] [Piercing Damage: 33] [Durability: 50] [Strength Required: 8] (A roughly made hunting crossbow. Use it carefully, and it will be a powerful ranged weapon in the early game.) [Bent Crossbow Bolt] [Quality: Common] [Piercing Damage: 8] [Quantity: 30] (Bent crossbow bolts covered in signs of repeated repairs. Who knows, they might have been scavenged from some poor bastard's corpse. Make do with them.) [Old Travel Horse] [Quality: Common] [Charge: 3] [Speed: 4] [Armor: 25] [Health: 120/120] [Hunger: 68] [Requires Riding Level 1] (An old travel horse. Treat the old fellow well; when it matters, it could save your life.) [Smoked Fish] [Quality: Common] [Morale Increase: 4] (Your starting food.)
Those were all of Zong Shen's basic supplies.
"All that effort, and the quality's all trash..."
Zong Shen looked at the pile of junk in front of him.
The ideal was rich; reality was harsh.
But these were starting equipment and free supplies. What more could he ask for?
At that moment, he wore only a white short-sleeved shirt and white boxer shorts. He looked terribly shabby.
He hurriedly began putting on his gear.
Not only did the equipment carry a strange stench, but it was also coated in a layer of black grime.
"As expected of hand-me-downs..."
Zong Shen sighed. Gritting his teeth, he pulled on the leather tunic and boots.
He hung the quiver from his waist and slung the hunting crossbow over his back.
Then he picked up the kite shield and rusty one-handed sword.
All that gear weighed twenty or thirty pounds, yet Zong Shen found it surprisingly light.
Clearly, his physique had also been enhanced according to his attributes.
Zong Shen was now fully armed. The only thing missing was a greave.
He wore nothing but a pair of white shorts below the waist, which left him feeling terribly exposed.
Still, his equipment made the three foolish farmers envious.
Once he had finished checking his equipment.
His most pressing task was to gather supplies.
He looked toward the small courtyard.
With a thought, attributes and a strategy guide appeared.
[Newbie Protection Period: 71 hours, 48 minutes, 56 seconds] (Your courtyard will not be attacked during the protection period.) [Damaged Lord's Manor (Repairable)] [Durability: 1000] [Area: 230 square meters] [Damaged Bluestone Wall (Repairable)] [Durability: 1300] [Damaged Courtyard Gate (Repairable)] [Durability: 800] (Your starting home. It is recommended that you repair it as soon as possible. It will provide you with a safe place to live and is also key to establishing a city.)
Zong Shen opened the repair options.
[Repair Damaged City Lord's Mansion: Wood ×28, Stone ×30, Hemp ×14 (Materials can be submitted gradually for partial repairs)] [Repair Damaged Bluestone Wall: Wood ×10, Stone ×50, Hemp ×10] [Repair Damaged Courtyard Gate: Wood ×35]
Even basic repairs to the courtyard required a large amount of wood, stone, and hemp. Wood was especially costly.
As the saying went, if you wanted to get rich, you had to start by chopping trees.
The ancients had spoken the truth!
Perhaps because this was the beginner stage, Zong Shen saw no additional requirements.
It seemed that as long as he gathered the materials, he could make the repairs.
Aside from the supplies from Zong Shen's background, the storage box also contained [Iron Axe ×4], [Iron Pickaxe ×4], [Clay Pot ×4], and [Net Bag ×4].
These were all basic tools for the early game.
Zong Shen decided to set the farmers to work immediately.
"Tie Zhu, Gou Dan, Er Gou, form a squad. Tie Zhu will be your leader. Take the tools and go gather resources."
"Wood, stone, hemp, and any food you can find. But don't go too far."
The three foolish farmers immediately stood up straight.
"Yes, esteemed lord!"
Then, led by Tie Zhu, who seemed a little cleverer than the others, they each took some tools.
They left the courtyard and began exploring the nearby area.
As far as the eye could see, the area was covered in broad stretches of grassland, dotted with a few thin trees and shrubs.
Every so often, dark green hemp plants could be seen in the grass.
There would be no problem gathering basic supplies.
As for danger, Zong Shen hadn't spotted any yet, but he didn't dare let his guard down.
After all, the protection period only protected the courtyard. It didn't protect farmers who went outside.
If those three farmers ran into danger, he would truly be left with no one but himself.
Zong Shen watched the three foolish farmers, each equipped with an axe and a pickaxe.
They had also brought a net bag and a clay pot. About a hundred meters from the courtyard, they began chopping wood, mining stone, and gathering hemp.
He returned to the courtyard.
He set the shield on the ground and plopped down on it.
He wasn't slacking off. He still had plenty of functions and attributes to learn about.
He hadn't even had time to familiarize himself with some of the basic functions.
Again, he focused his thoughts.
Several basic options immediately appeared before him.
[Territory], [Build], [Craft], [Channel], [Inventory], [Personal], [Legion]. There were seven categories in total. The last category, [Legion], was grayed out and could not be opened. The others could all be selected. He opened [Inventory] first. It had twenty slots, but unfortunately, it was completely empty.
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