Man Datou glanced at the villagers of Shitou Village, completely unconcerned.
A bunch of weaklings, these skinny villagers? He could take on hundreds of them!
Wang Yi, however, brightened. He drove his Repeating Crossbow Motorcycle in front of the villagers and said, "You are the villagers of Shitou Village, right? Let me introduce myself, my name is Wang Yi, and I am a great Chaos Lord. This is my territory. Now I am recruiting temporary workers. Those who are willing to work here, stay; those who are not, leave. This Lord promises that if you work for me, you will get to eat golden roast chicken. Work hard, and there will be rewards!"
"I'm willing!"
Zhang Xiaohu immediately raised his hand and shouted, then turned to the people behind him and said, "Mom, Dad, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, Second Aunt, see? I wasn't lying to you! The roast chicken is so delicious. I've never eaten anything so good. Let's quickly help the Immortal God with work, and then we'll have roast chicken to eat!"
With a thud, a white-haired old man knelt directly on the ground, muttering, "Am I, Old Man Zhang, dreaming?"
A little boy, about the same age as Zhang Xiaohu, stared at the roast chickens piled on the ground, drooling. He wanted to run over but was tightly held by the collar by a woman behind him, crying out in frustration and muttering, "I want to eat roast chicken, I want to eat roast chicken!"
There was also a white-haired, hunchbacked old man who stared intently at the roast chicken and said, "If this old man can eat a bite of roast chicken, he'll die happy!"
A few bolder ones tentatively asked Wang Yi.
"Sir, are you serious?"
"As long as we work, we really get roast chicken to eat?"
"What kind of work do you need us to do?"
Wang Yi raised a hand to signal for silence and then said, "Those who want to stay and work, come report to me."
A middle-aged man gritted his teeth, stepped forward, and with a thud, knelt before Wang Yi, saying, "I am Huzhi's father. I am willing to stay and work!"
"Good!" Wang Yi was delighted and asked, "What is your name? Do you have any special skills?"
"My name is Zhang Dashan. No, no special skills!"
"Then you go move stones and collect wood. Datou, give him a roast chicken first, let him eat his fill before starting work!"
"Alright!"
Man Datou responded and casually tossed a roast chicken to the middle-aged man, saying, "Eat quickly, and get to work once you're done!"
Zhang Dashan was stunned, then overjoyed. He clumsily tore open the roast chicken's packaging and took a bite of the chicken. His eyes lit up, but he didn't continue eating. Disregarding the grease, he carefully tucked the roast chicken into his embrace, then quickly kowtowed to Wang Yi, saying, "Sir, I can start working now!"
"Go bring stones over!"
"Alright!"
Zhang Dashan immediately got busy.
The others, seeing that there really was roast chicken to eat, immediately scrambled to kneel before Wang Yi.
"Sir, my name is Zhang Mazi. Give me a roast chicken, and I'll give you my old life!"
"My name is Yang Xiaobao, I want to work too!"
"My name is Liu Cuihua, can I work here too?"
"Sir is generous. Whatever you want this old man to do, this old man will do it…"
Wang Yi saw that this group of villagers was honest and simple-minded, and he was pleased. He said, "Good, good, good, then all of you stay and work. Eat roast chicken first, then work!"
"Alright!"
"Sir is generous!"
The villagers cheered excitedly and immediately crowded around Man Datou, waiting for their share of roast chicken.
Wang Yi felt content. These villagers were so good; they were grateful for a bit of food. Compared to them, the lazy and cunning employees at his own company were all like lords.
Soon, the villagers of Shitou Village began to work. They had happy smiles on their faces. Although they were all sallow and emaciated, they worked very hard.
Wang Yi drove his Repeating Crossbow Motorcycle, directing from the site, which mainly involved having the villagers collect wood and stones from the surroundings.
Wood was not easy to collect.
Although there were trees everywhere in this wilderness, without tools like axes and saws, they could only pick up branches and the like.
As for stone, although there was no quarry, there were still many loose stones in the wilderness, so Wang Yi had the villagers carry them back to the territory.
Wang Yi also chatted with these villagers to understand the surrounding situation through them.
The villagers were subtly afraid of Wang Yi, but when asked, they answered everything they knew.
Wang Yi quickly learned that about two li south of his territory, there was a river, the Emerald River.
Following that river for about 100 li, one could exit the river valley and reach Kaiyuan County.
Within the Emerald River Valley, there were three other villages like Shitou Village, named Waguan Village, Huangni Village, and Hulu Village.
The situation in those three villages was similar to Shitou Village; each had about a hundred people, constantly starving and living a hard life.
Through the brief exchange, Wang Yi gained a preliminary understanding and knowledge of this game world.
However, the villagers were actually very confused.
Moving stones? Collecting firewood?
What kind of work was that?
They simply didn't understand what that 'Wang Yi' lord wanted to do.
If someone else had told them that moving stones and collecting firewood could be exchanged for roast chicken, they wouldn't have believed it for anything!
How could such a good thing exist?
But today, it had actually happened to them.
However, these villagers had been starving for a long time, were malnourished, and had extremely poor physical strength. After a few hours, they were exhausted and collapsed, groaning and not wanting to move.
Wang Yi encouraged them with roast chicken, causing their hands to blister. By nightfall, they finally accumulated 1 unit of wood and 10 units of stone.
During this process, Wang Yi also saw 'wild vegetables' from another world.
These were casually gathered by Zhang Xiaohu and others while picking up stones. They were few in number, called 'Jicai,' resembling bitter chrysanthemum, and there were only about ten plants in total, probably not enough to fill one person's stomach.
Wang Yi exchanged half a roast chicken for those wild vegetables, threw them into the Gourmet Processing Plant, and they were automatically processed into 6 cups of 'Wild Vegetable Soup.'
The Wild Vegetable Soup came in 500ml sealed paper cups, warm, delicious, and on the salty side. Wang Yi and Man Datou quickly consumed them.
"This Wild Vegetable Soup is quite productive!"
Wang Yi sighed and then said to everyone, "It's getting dark. Let's stop here for today. Come back early tomorrow morning, and bring more people. Whoever has an axe or a saw, bring it; we'll be cutting trees tomorrow! Datou, give each of them another half a roast chicken!"
Wood and stone were both resources.
Although there was now enough to build the Chaos Warehouse, Wang Yi felt it was very necessary to hoard some, so that if he got more construction blueprints in the future, he wouldn't have to worry about materials.
The villagers, at this moment, were cheering with joy.
They had exerted themselves all day and hadn't been this tired in a long time, but when they thought that a day's work had earned them a whole roast chicken, they felt it was a huge profit and were very satisfied.
"Thank you, Sir, we'll come again tomorrow!"
"Sir is truly a great benevolent person who saves the suffering!"
"Haha, finally we can eat our fill!"
The villagers knelt and kowtowed, then happily returned to their village.