The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 145 - 61: Preparation for Territory Promotion (3k)

Chapter 145: Chapter 61: Preparation for Territory Promotion (3k)

"You want to hire them?"

"Yes!"

Bai Yi nodded emphatically in affirmation.

It wasn’t until the evening that Bai Yi’s swarm failed to find Ju. In the end, Ju teleported back on its own, seeking out Bai Yi.

Bai Yi immediately shared his strategy with Ju, prompting the latter to ponder.

"How about it, Ju? Do you think they will agree?"

"If the food and meat you mentioned are in place, they will surely be open to discussion.

This time, the cat went around all three of them, and the influence of the cold disaster is indeed significant. Apart from the monkeys storing some dried fruits and mimicking humans in roasting and smoking meat, the other two parties have no reserves at all.

Especially the big birds; unlike the Black Snake, they can’t hibernate through winter and must hunt in the cold.

And even for the monkeys—given the many days of the cold disaster, with their population being the largest, their food has long been depleted, and they’ve already joined the hunting ranks.

If you can find them, the big birds will definitely be the first to respond, followed by the monkeys, but you can forget about the Black Snake."

The orange cat relayed the intelligence gathered without offering any further opinions.

However, with two parties likely to be persuaded, Bai Yi was quite satisfied. He immediately settled on tomorrow’s plan with Ju to take Shang Ji to negotiate with the two Beast Kings.

At least the most crucial part of his plan was now complete—what came next were simply the terms.

With this cooperation, he would officially establish a connection with the two Beast Kings, which meant he could directly contact and converse with them through the swarm network in the future.

Now that the Beast Kings were practically no issue, Bai Yi prepared to take advantage of the night when the Lords in the channel were getting active to spread the news.

He opened the panel, and the channel was still discussing the increasingly elusive mutant creatures of the past two days, complaining about having no outlet for their strength, unable to snatch Challenge Points.

The chat history indicated that today there had already been incidents of Lords clashing over prey.

"It seems that as the Lords develop and their reach expands, encounters and conflicts are becoming more frequent..."

Bai Yi contemplated the tasks and territorial expansion associated with advancing in Lord Rank. Having "started" in a sparsely populated area was why her territory expansion had gone smoothly.

For those Lords who landed in the ruins of cities, with close proximity to each other, territorial expansion would naturally lead to an expanded exploration area.

Otherwise, just within their territories, even Lords like her focused on cultivation wouldn’t be able to support themselves, and it was necessary for the Swarm to expand several kilometers out. Now, it had even expanded to encompass the whole White Poplar City.

Other Lords who mainly relied on hunting would require significantly more, certainly expanding several kilometers beyond their own territories.

Conflicts between Lords were bound to arise sooner or later.

However, the cold disaster had forced all Lords to enlarge their hunting areas prematurely, accelerating the process.

Otherwise, Bai Yi surmised that conflicts might not start until the leading Lords had promoted their territories to Rank 3, and the majority of other Lords had reached Rank 2.

She even suspected that the game might eventually begin to encourage Lords to challenge each other, speeding up this process.

But this was just her intuition, without evidence.

After looking through the chat records, Bai Yi didn’t forget her original purpose and posted in the channel:

Fan Mao: "Just a heads-up, the mutant creatures in White Poplar Mountain have recently started to rampage, and it’s not on a small scale."

Fan Mao: "I’ve been fending them off all day, and they’ve temporarily retreated, but there’s a high chance they will sweep into the surrounding areas tomorrow. Lords near White Poplar Mountain, be careful."

Lingxing: "Holy shit, long time no see Fan Mao big bro!"

Lulu Cat: "A rampage? My territory is right next to White Poplar Mountain!"

Bai Yi didn’t continue to issue more warnings, appearing just to remind others, like most mystery-enshrouded top-ranking Lords.

As for why I say most...

It’s because among the top Lords, one oddity stands out: Iron Blood, who seems to have never entered an instance and remains active in the channel.

Unlike other top-ranking Lords, he’s very lively on the channel, like a chatty elder brother.

He occasionally offers advice to other Lords, teaching combat techniques or training methods.

Bai Yi realized she had never really tried to understand this Lord and specifically looked up his past statements, her expression quickly turning strange.

This Iron Blood doesn’t seem as nice as he appears...

Although he’s currently not bad and has been assisting other Lords, to be honest, that assistance is like "I’m willing to offer you every kind of support except for anything substantive."

Claiming it as support, but in reality, it’s of no use to the other Lords.

In the current era, where significant development has been made and most Lords have begun to rely on soldiers for combat, there still exists a focus on teaching methods to enhance the Lords’ personal fighting strength.

It can’t be said to be completely useless, only that the improvements are marginal.

Moreover, even trade is rarely seen, essentially limited to some bulk transactions, for example, trading Barracks weapons and other items with other ranking Lords, and the prices are not cheap.

Not to mention, unlike a few Lords familiar to Bai Yi, there are occasionally some inexpensive basic materials or food items for sale.

For instance, Jun Lin continues to sell his high-quality tools and weapons, and Landon is also selling the architectural blueprints he researched in the previous Challenge...

"Hmm...

Come to think of it, ’I’ haven’t sold food for a long time.

Since entering the instance, Zhan Yi and the others have taken the surplus food to trade with the Sanctuary, and when she returned, due to the affairs of the Sanctuary, the food in hand had to be prioritarily supplied to the newly established ’Eternal Life City.’

Even after more harvests, it still has to be provided firstly for trade with the Beast King..."

Thinking about it this way, Bai Yi really found that in the short term, it seems she won’t be able to resume selling food and has to give up temporarily.

After exiting the panel, Bai Yi was about to introduce the Potion she researched today to Ju, but received a message from the Swarm Network.

It wasn’t an emergency, but Shang Ji wanted to organize an event, inviting Bai Yi herself to come to Eternal Life City, to let all the citizens meet their new Queen.

Additionally, to transfer the reverence the citizens had for the Insect Swarm and the regularly appearing administrators onto Bai Yi, letting them know who truly brought change to their lives.

After all, those citizens had been in this place for an entire day, and Eternal Life City had been officially established, yet they still hadn’t seen their titular and actual King.

And most importantly, using Bai Yi’s image to alter the citizens’ impression of the Insect Swarm, for it’s hard to say that the Swarm’s image is friendly and deeply rooted in people’s hearts.

But if they knew that Bai Yi, who controls the Swarm as the Insect Swarm Queen, was a white-haired, legitimate loli, it would be different.

Then secretly spread some semi-credible rumors through humans already parasitized—saying that Bai Yi also had to use these ugly Insects to survive, that the food they consume is all a result of Bai Yi’s efforts...

And at the end, Bai Yi could personally cultivate some plants for Eternal Life City.

It might even be necessary to add a few filters to the Insect Swarm, giving the impression that behind each Insect there’s a beautiful and sweet-voiced Bai Yi, eliminating the last bit of unease the citizens have about the Swarm.

From Bai Yi’s perspective, she approves of this plan.

Although it would achieve a similar effect if everyone was directly parasitized by Facehuggers, once parasitized, they would be deemed Swarm units and lose their Human attributes, naturally, they would no longer be considered for quest requirements.

Therefore, at least for the short term, Bai Yi is not planning to parasitize them.

Moreover, Bai Yi had another consideration: now that promotion to 4th Rank territory already requires a population of ten thousand, won’t advancing to 5th Rank territory require even more?

So Bai Yi doesn’t intend to permanently parasitize, otherwise, there would be no need for establishing rules and forming a council; just let Shang Ji and the others enforce parasitism after promotion.

What’s the need for a council when you’re part of the Swarm?

Pondering over this suggestion, Bai Yi suddenly has an idea.

She realizes that all the requirements needed for her Lord’s territory Rank promotion tasks could become part of this event.

While enjoying the spotlight of all the citizens and their reverence converging upon her, have Bai Sheng and the others pre-capture a 4th Rank Mutant Creature and slay it in front of everyone, pushing the atmosphere to its peak.

The occasion could be officially termed "Celebrating the Foundation of the New City," somewhat resembling the old Emperors’ slaying of the Black Snake as an auspicious sign!

And at the climax of the Swarm’s celebrations, grant all citizens a favor, then use the peak of the event’s atmosphere to promote the Lord Rank and conveniently raise the territory Rank as well!

After all, completing the promotion tasks covertly would yield the same results, so why not make these tasks serve a greater purpose.

This strategy could deeply engrave her image in all citizens’ minds, greatly gathering their loyalty, and perhaps, with the help of this event, let the citizens completely forsake their original memories and fully integrate into this city.

Considering she still needs to arrange for Shang Ji to negotiate with Ju tomorrow, the event definitely can’t take place in the morning.

Sending her plan, now with increased demand, along with the new mission back to Shang Ji for approval, Bai Yi suddenly feels a trace of guilt.

"Why does it feel as though I’m a capricious client altering demands? At least I won’t keep changing requirements only to end up using the first version...

Tsk tsk, the thought alone feels tragic.

After sending the proposal to the boss, not only does it come back with additional requirements, but also a new mission crops up.

Yeah, I need to prioritize Shang Ji’s exclusive Potion as well..."

Muttering to herself, Bai Yi takes out her newly researched Potion to share with Ju, and the night quickly passes.

The next morning, Ju, along with a sleepless Shang Ji, enters deep into White Poplar Mountain.

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Awakening Soup (4th Rank/Blue): Rapidly replenishes the nutrients the body needs, reduces fatigue, and clarifies the mind. Of course, its stimulating taste is also a good remedy for waking up. After use, it restores 100% Life Value, up to a maximum of 1000 points, but then every 5 seconds, 1 point of Life Value is lost, continuing for 30 minutes...

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