Chapter 41

Cao Feng [It's me, Laozi, enough to deal with you two losers. My shadow leopards have been replenished to 30, and there are 5 centaur archers.]

Lu Yi [Cao Feng, that's enough, say less.]

Cao Feng [Zhao Chi, playing dead? Still not coming out, damn it? Waiting for me to send you a duel invitation?]

Lu Yi [Cao Feng! The Military Academy strictly forbids duels between lord students!]

Cao Feng [This isn't the Military Academy, this is off-campus, it's free, am I right, Class Monitor?] ===== CHAPTER 102 =====

Cao Feng became more and more excited as he spoke.

Next, he sent over a dozen messages in a row.

All of them were provocative words.

This time he was careful with his wording and wasn't muted by the system.

So that was what Yang Xiong and Lu Yi were messaging Zhao Chi about earlier.

Cao Feng's military strength was recovering quickly.

Either he used items, or he bought population from outside.

In any case, he was exerting his "money power."

A duel, of course, was an internal war between two lords.

The official level didn't encourage it.

But if there was a real conflict, one could register for a duel and sign a liability waiver.

Zhao Chi checked the settings.

He had previously set it to "receive messages, but no notifications."

So he didn't get a prompt for the messages.

He changed the private chat to normal mode.

Then sent a message:

Zhao Chi [Two intern lords dueling? Are you trying to make me laugh? Isn't the entrance test in 4 days? If you want to win the wager, why not just go by the results in 4 days?]

As soon as Zhao Chi sent the message, Cao Feng replied immediately.

He didn't know if he had been waiting for Zhao Chi the whole time.

Cao Feng [Finally dare to show your face? Fine, everyone in the group saw it, don't go back on your word!]

Zhao Chi [I always keep my word.]

Cao Feng [Keep your word? Fine, that's best. What's the wager?]

Zhao Chi [You can propose it, but I'm afraid you'll regret it.]

Cao Feng [I regret it? Are you not awake? If you lose, sign a vassal agreement with me, I want 20% of all your territory's income for 1 year, dare you?]

Zhao Chi [Fine, you have a "Race Improvement Book" you haven't used yet, right? It's too wasteful for you to use this item, let's use this as the wager.]

Cao Feng [Who told you that? Which bastard leaked my information?]

Zhao Chi [If you want to call it a bastard leaking the information, that's not wrong.]

Cao Feng [What do you mean?]

Kong Xiang [Brother Cao, you said it yourself last week.]

Cao Feng [...You're the only one with a mouth? Shut up!]

Zhao Chi [It's fine, if you don't dare, change it.]

Cao Feng [Grass, I don't dare? It's settled, whoever goes back on their word, their whole family dies.]

Zhao Chi [Good, it's settled.]

Zhao Chi closed the system.

Just as he closed it, the system made a notification sound.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

He opened it, and it was Yang Xiong.

Yang Xiong [Damn, you really accepted? Just curse him a few times, don't be provoked by him. He has money to buy troops, you're at a disadvantage competing with him.]

Zhao Chi [Don't worry, you focus on training.]

Yang Xiong [What's the use of me focusing? You're the one competing with him, otherwise... Grass! Let me send you some orcs?]

Zhao Chi [Haha, absolutely not, I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.]

Yang Xiong [Don't be a hero, try to cancel this wager, we're at a disadvantage.]

Zhao Chi [Understood, hurry up and develop your territory.]

Yang Xiong [Yeah, you too.]

Closed the system.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Another message.

This time it was Lu Yi.

Lu Yi [Zhao Chi, didn't I tell you not to be impulsive? Why did you engage with him? Why accept the wager? This kind of verbal wager doesn't count, just don't sign a formal agreement with him.]

Zhao Chi [Yeah, thanks for the reminder, I have a sense of proportion.]

Lu Yi [What sense of proportion do you have? His family is rich, didn't you see he bought 30 shadow leopards? And 5 centaur archers, maybe he'll buy more.]

Zhao Chi [I understand, thanks for the reminder, I'll be careful.]

Lu Yi [Why do I feel like you didn't take my words seriously at all?]

Zhao Chi [How could that be? I'm not an impulsive person, you know that.]

Lu Yi [...That's true, anyway, don't get carried away.]

Zhao Chi [Understood, thank you, Class Monitor.]

Lu Yi [You're welcome, don't call me Class Monitor, just call me by my name.]

Zhao Chi [Okay Lu Yi, keep developing.]

Lu Yi [Yeah, let's both keep going.]

Closed the system.

It was finally quiet.

Zhao Chi wasn't impulsive.

He had carefully studied the family situations of those around him.

On one hand, to understand this world better, on the other, to understand his own situation.

Especially since Cao Feng often looked for trouble, Zhao Chi had learned more details.

Cao Feng's family was rich, and Cao Feng could be said to be the Yang Xiong of his family, ranked low and not valued.

Him having shadow leopard bloodlines, plus the "Race Improvement Book," should be the limit of the resources he could obtain.

After all, his cousins and siblings were also in fierce competition with each other.

The pressure on the older generations to fight against beasts was also immense, requiring a lot of resources.

Zhao Chi had judged through other analyses that Cao Feng had strength, but not too much.

That was why he decided to accept the wager.

After all, the "Race Improvement Book" was too tempting.

Zhao Chi went out.

He saw that the 10 new women were all wearing clothes.

And the clothes on Gu Qing and the others were gone.

Instead, they had become short shirts and shorts.

It must have been Gu Qing and the female soldiers who gave their clothes to the new villagers.

This way, everyone had clothes to wear.

Zhao Chi asked these new villagers about their work intentions.

Only 2 had clear intentions, the rest followed Zhao Chi's arrangements.

Soon, Zhao Chi transferred 4 female carpenters, 1 female militia, and 5 female construction workers.

Construction workers could be transferred at will.

The job attributes were the same as others.

[Occupation] Construction Worker ===== CHAPTER 103 =====