Chapter 2003 - 1996: Yan Huang City
The transformation of the Survivor Base lasted an entire night, during which everyone was extremely excited, and to their surprise, no one fell asleep due to exhaustion. Even if they were dead tired, they quickly downed a potion to restore their physical strength and spirit.
The next morning, a brand-new city emerged upon this land.
"Is this still our Survivor Base?" The martial artists at each Survivor Base incredulously looked at everything before them, even feeling as if they had left this damn world and returned to the bustling cities they once lived in.
This Survivor Base hadn’t existed from the start; it was not Ying Zheng who created it, but a martial artist who arrived here roughly 7,000 years ago.
The first batch of martial artists arriving here was actually the most tragic group. They had no guidance, no protection left by predecessors, and could only seek means of survival in this world by themselves.
In this world, there are indeed countless cities, but those cities weren’t built by these martial artists; they were erected by those rule characters.
Those cities inherited the bustling beauty of the cities everyone once lived in, offering extremely comfortable living environments and various high-tech amenities, but only those rule characters could survive there!
Of course, martial artists could also reside in those cities, but the cost was overwhelmingly high.
Take the nearest city to this Survivor Base, named the Great City of Aiville, as an example. It exists like the Main City in a game! There, you can enjoy various services and purchase numerous items, as long as you have enough Supreme Coins!
The city is extremely safe, with no attacks from warcraft, nor threats from extreme weather, but the cost to live there is unbearable for ordinary martial artists. Staying in the city for one day requires a payment of 500 Supreme Coins!
Of course, there’s another way: obtaining long-term residency in the city, in other words, buying a house there. But a house in that place costs no less than 10 million Supreme Coins, and everyone is desperately short on cash; who can come up with so much money?
To survive, martial artists not only strive to accumulate Supreme Coins every day, but also need to set aside 100 Supreme Coins as the fee to enter the city, or they risk facing various dangers by staying outside the city.
It’s said that back then, the city walls of Aiville were illuminated every night because, relatively speaking, it was much safer under the protection of the city than in areas rife with warcraft.
Later on, someone got a piece of information in the Great City of Aiville: martial artists could establish their own Survivor Bases anywhere! In a Survivor Base, martial artists have complete autonomy!
But establishing a Survivor Base is no easy task. First, a martial artist must obtain an item called a Land Order from warcraft, and with this Land Order and 10 million Supreme Coins, they can exchange for a plot of land spanning 500 meters in length and width within the influence range of any Giant City, resembling what Zhang Menglong saw when he first arrived in this world.
Besides four solid walls and a rule character, there’s nothing else.
But once they obtain this item, martial artists have a way to live independently from the Giant City and form their own forces.
The predecessor who built this Survivor Base had long since perished. He lived in this place for 14,000 years, pouring immense effort into creating this Survivor Base.
Never mind the low probability of obtaining a Land Order; just accumulating 10 million Supreme Coins was already an extremely challenging task.
However, because of this, he gathered a group of martial artists who were all very supportive of him. Here, they no longer needed to worry about other problems; their only goals were survival and saving money.
More and more Land Orders fell into their hands over time, and the number of Survivor Bases established increased, but by now, most Survivor Bases were similar to theirs. After all, no one would willingly spend Supreme Coins on non-essential projects.
But now, everything has changed; the city’s lavishness, although not directly comparable to a Giant City’s, is definitely beginning to take shape, reaching a level any martial artist would envy immensely.
The current Survivor Base has been expanded by Zhang Menglong to an area 16 times its original size, with all walls reinforced and various buildings established inside, such as hot pot restaurants, barbecue joints, internet cafes, massage parlors, etc.
All the service staff have been replaced by Artificial Intelligence. As long as you pay enough Supreme Coins, you can enjoy almost anything here.
Everyone’s residence has also been completely renovated, no longer in that dilapidated state that looked like it would topple with a gust of wind. That rule character has also transformed into a business guild Administrator.
To accomplish all this, Zhang Menglong spent nearly 2 billion Supreme Coins, all for the sake of making his stay in this place slightly more comfortable.
"This is simply Heaven!"
"Yes, after suffering for hundreds or thousands of years, we can finally improve our living conditions."
"Living in such a place, I suddenly feel like there’s hope for the future days."
"If people from other Survivor Bases knew we are living in such a comfortable place, they’d be green with envy!"
"Tonight, I’m treating. Let’s not leave until we’re drunk!"
After completing all this, Zhang Menglong brought out all the warcraft meat he had and handed it over to the Survivor Base’s restaurant for cooking, then bought a large quantity of drinks and snacks from the rule character there.
He didn’t notice that in the eyes of that rule character, there were many more emotions when looking at him—admiration, fortune, expectation...
With this spending spree, Zhang Menglong was left with only twenty or thirty Supreme Crystals and less than 1 billion Supreme Coins on him, but to Zhang Menglong, these Supreme Crystals are still far from his concept of "as much as possible."
His parents having reminded him, Zhang Menglong naturally had to do his utmost to acquire these things—whether ten thousand or eighty thousand is not too little, nor are millions or tens of millions too much.
"Brother Ying Zheng, I think our Survivor Base should have a name now," Zhang Menglong suggested.
"You’re right; it’s time we made a name for ourselves," Ying Zheng pondered for a moment before saying, "Since you built this city, you should name it."
"I’ve thought about it long ago," Zhang Menglong didn’t hesitate, "Both of us are from Earth, from Huaxia, descendants of Yan and Huang. Since this is a city led by us descendants of Yan and Huang, let’s call it Yan Huang City!"
"Yan Huang City?" This name made Ying Zheng’s eyes light up as well, "Good, what a good Yan Huang City! Hahaha, in this world where Myriad Tribes stand, let the name of us descendants of Yan and Huang resound throughout this world!"