"Can you tell me everything about this place now?" Zhao Fu asked with a smile, pulling the woman into his arms as he sat in the chair above.
The woman looked at Zhao Fu with her beautiful eyes and said weakly, "Then don't hurt my father, the villagers, or my husb—no, Hong Li and Hong Dong."
"Of course. As long as you behave and tell me all the information, I'll treat them well," Zhao Fu said with a smile, agreeing directly.
The woman gave a satisfied hum and gently wrapped her arms around Zhao Fu. In a tender voice, she said, "Husband! My name is Hong Mei. As long as you don't hurt them, I'm yours. From now on, I'll serve you wholeheartedly."
Zhao Fu smiled and nodded, first asking about the gray pearl.
Hong Mei explained, "That is merely a Village-Building Pearl. It can establish a village, but its village attributes are very different from those in the Apocalypse World."
First, their villages had only three basic abilities. One was deterrence, which kept certain wild beasts from trespassing. Another was the territory effect, which could designate an area as territory. The last was the ability for Class Transfer—only these three simple functions.
They had none of the other village attributes, such as production, bonus attributes for villagers, attracting talent, or raising aptitude.
They did not even have a Land of Origin, yet the Land of Origin was where population was refreshed. Without such a thing, how could they refresh their population?
Only afterward did Zhao Fu learn that they could rely only on reproduction; they simply could not refresh population through villages. Every person also possessed a special ability: they could communicate with the lowest-level insect beasts and gather insect beasts together.
The little boy had stolen a village