Chapter 274: Famine and War (1/2)

In the illusory world, the unbearable winter finally passed.

Due to the recovery of spiritual qi in the world, many things changed. The climate everywhere in the continent of the Nine Provinces was abnormal.

This wave of winter lasted exceptionally long. After eight months, the temperature rose.

Even though they had already made the best preparations, Zi Yao's village had a certain number of casualties.

This was unavoidable. Under extreme conditions, the original fate of this backward village was to be completely wiped out.

During the winter, she did not idle and brought people to build a brick kiln furnace.

The entire village usually did not stop working at all.

Using these burning bricks, more than ten simple water storage towers were built.

As soon as spring began, she ordered people to shovel snow into the storage to store water for the subsequent drought.

The ignorant villagers did not know her good intentions. They even tried to resist, but were forcefully suppressed by Zi Yao.

Although she looked like a weak girl, cultivators were cultivators. No matter what, they could not be bullied by mortals.

The fields near the village had also been modified by her. She dug out trenches and buried them in wooden slots before mixing them with the snow and soil that had yet to melt.

When the snow melted, the soil in the wooden trough would remain moist for a longer period of time, and more food could be planted here.

On the other hand, Jiang Li was living as comfortably as possible under the effect of the illusion techniques.

Not only did the remaining villagers not die, they even ate until they were full.

All the women of suitable age in the village were pregnant.

This was because Jiang Li requested that they had to expand the population as much as possible, even if they did nothing else at all.

If he wanted a place to develop, population was the first factor. He believed that in the assessment criteria, population also played a huge role.

In order to better deal with the army and beast tide later, he also needed a lot of people as soldiers.

In addition, Jiang Li, who wanted to cheat even more, also discovered that other than Qin Shuman who was directly attached to him,

If he wanted to pull other ghosts in, they had to have a physical identity in the illusion realm to enter.

”Young Master, there are 20 refugees outside the village.”

Just as Jiang Li was idling and trying to cultivate the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra in the illusion, Qin Shuman reported this to him.

”There are actually refugees in this game, cough, this illusion realm?”

Jiang Li went out to take a look. There were only 20 refugees in ragged clothes.

When asked where they came from, they only said that there was a great drought in the north and that they had come all the way south to seek a way out.

On Zi Yao's side, she had already erected a road sign to indicate that they were recruiting refugees and using them to actively cultivate the fields.

He had to take advantage of the precious time before the drought to plant as many crops as possible.

Jiang Li saw that this was a good method to increase the population.

He directly recruited these 20 refugees.

Then, they got the village to cook a few large vats of rice and a large amount of chicken, duck, and fish. The group of people moved to the main road at the entrance of the village and gathered there to eat.

At this moment, Zi Yao, who was next door, was stunned.

All the refugees who passed by this path were attracted by the fragrance of Jiang Li's food. No one came towards her.

Not only that, but the few refugees that they had just recruited also disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Even the villagers were complaining. They were very envious and wanted to join the other side.

All this time, Jiang Li did not seem to have done anything, were they really in the same situation?

In the illusion, time flowed very quickly. In his senses, a year would not make Jiang Li feel that it was long.

Not long after, the snow melted, but not a drop of rain fell from the sky.

Under the scorching sun, the ground cracked from the heat.

In a thousand miles of land, the vegetation was withered and yellow, and all things were on the verge of death.

On Zi Yao's side, she gathered a batch of sweet potatoes and beans before the crops withered.

Instead, she abandoned a large area of ordinary farmland and used the snow water that she had left behind earlier to water the plants bit by bit in the wooden trough.

There were more and more refugees on the main road. They formed groups and seemed to be endless.

Because there were too many people, Zi Yao also recruited many refugees. However, after the number reached 1,000, she stopped recruiting because she could not afford to feed more people.

However, the cheater did not have such worries.

Jiang Li's village did not reject anyone.

On the main road, he would act like a deity everyday, turning thin air into food or houses.

Under his simple operation of using the cheat code, the village quickly became a town, and the town quickly became a county city.

It was a thriving paradise in this chaotic world.

The first batch of ghost soldiers under Jiang Li finally reincarnated in the illusion realm.

Those babies that were born could grow to three feet in a day.