I Become a Landlady in the Game World

Chapter 44 - 037: New Building·Prison

Zhou Bai was surprised to receive the message.

But soon, he understood that such an event was bound to happen sooner or later.

It might even be a good thing that it was triggered early!

At that moment, Diana noticed Zhou Bai's distraction and directly asked, "What happened?"

"New survivors have arrived, some of whom robbed others, and now they're all in the territory. The robbers were caught by the soldier team. I'm thinking about how to regulate the order within the territory," Zhou Bai said. Although she wasn't there in person, she had been following the changes of green dots on the territory map, and with what she had seen before, as well as the recent system message, she could deduce what had happened.

"Do you have any ideas?" Diana asked.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Zhou Bai countered, his mind filled with some ideas borrowed from real-world laws, but they couldn't be adopted in their entirety. He needed rules that suited the current situation in the territory.

"The territory I was in before had some regulations, but for the strong, they were virtually non-existent. Those probably aren't what you're looking for," Diana shook her head. Even though she had only been in the territory for a day, she had gleaned some background from snippets of conversations among the residents and understood why this territory and Zhou Bai were so unique.

She was looking forward to the territory Zhou Bai would build.

Zhou Bai understood Diana's point; the rules of this world primarily revolved around "the law of the jungle, where the strong are revered." As long as one isn't caught, it's hardly considered a violation; and if caught, if one is strong enough, there would be no repercussions.

In their real history, the nobles operated in the same way—old tricks!

Thinking about the incident, Zhou Bai decided to start with one rule which might trigger a system reward, it being a system requirement after all.

[Territory Rule (+)]

[Rule 1: Prohibit residents from harming others and damaging others' interests]

[Punishment: Defined by the severity, severe cases result in the revocation of residency and expulsion from the territory.]

Once confirmed, Zhou Bai immediately published it.

Soon after the publication, Zhou Bai received a "reward" from the system.

[Dear Host, you have established Territory Rule 1. Please select a suitable location for detaining criminals. Would you like to purchase a prison?]

[Item: Prison Blueprint]

[Introduction: A place to detain criminals, who will be monitored by the prison and are not allowed to leave the territory.]

[Purchase Price: 3 gold coins]

[Selling Price: 6 gold coins]

Zhou Bai didn't hesitate and chose to buy.

[Would you like to spend 5 gold coins, 1,000 units of wood, 1,000 units of stone, 1,000 units of iron ore, and the prison blueprint to construct a prison?]

"Yes."

[The prison has been constructed. Please proceed with placement.]

Zhou Bai placed the prison directly behind the army camp.

After completing all this, Zhou Bai continued to issue another task. @@novelbin@@

[Task: Collection of Territory Rules]

[Nature: Ongoing collection task]

[Reward: 1 silver coin]

[Participants: All residents]

Once done, Zhou Bai then turned to Diana and said, "I've established the first rule, let's see if the residents have better suggestions."

Diana, looking at her panel notifications, nodded in agreement, "That sounds good."

"I've just constructed a prison, and the robbers now have a place to be accommodated. But besides detention, I have another idea?"

"Yes?"

"I plan to lay a road outside the territory, deploy the soldier team regularly for patrol and cleanup. If survivors arrive at the edge of our territory, they can safely reach it without wasting manpower on rescue. I thought the construction was too massive before, but now with so much free labor, we can go ahead with it. What do you think?" Zhou Bai asked eagerly.

He had always been thinking about how to let more people outside the territory know about Hope Village's existence. Relying on system notifications was handy but limited in range. If there was a road with signposts, it would make it much easier for outsiders to find out about Hope Village first, and likewise, it would allow the residents within to venture outside.

To get rich, build roads first—this saying was equally applicable in territory development.

Before, due to the few residents in the territory, he hadn't scheduled it, but now he could.

Listening, Diana paused, then smiled, "That's a great idea! Go ahead with your plan!"

"Let's wait until the soldier team has sent the people to register at the prison and the prison has marked them; then I'll issue it," Zhou Bai said cheerfully.