Chapter 2042: Time Flies

At the moment a certain day dawned, the girl doll walked out from the home she shared with the soldier doll, holding a small child in her arms.

Another female doll also came out from the home she shared with the farmer doll, likewise holding a child.

Thus the population became 22. Moreover, a child doll previously had grown a little taller.

Of course, dolls under six still cannot be operated; those aged 7–14 can be arranged to study, and those over 14 can be assigned to productive work or military training.

The population grows by two per year, but these two will need fourteen years before they can work—so one can imagine how long this hegemony game will be.

Fortunately, we can still keep reproducing this year!

Xiao Feng kept operating, continuously accelerating development.

In the second year, the population again increased by two, but this time two different dolls—specifically, two somewhat mature married-woman dolls—gave birth.

Xiao Feng noticed that his resource accumulation speed seemed considerably inferior to that of the alien faction.

However, the morale value of the human faction's populace was much higher than that of the aliens.

Clearly, this difference stems from work pressure.

"Should we increase everyone's demands?" he thought to himself.

If resource accumulation is slow, it will be disadvantageous for later hegemony; once far behind, one is likely to be eliminated.

As the first batch of members of the human faction, these dolls apparently cannot be too lax.

Xiao Feng thought: "Let them retire at sixty; before sixty, schedule more work… oh wait, it's actually sixty-five now!"

Thus, starting the third year, all the little dolls became busier—currently no doll exceeds sixty-five years old, the eldest

The oldest is only sixty-two.

Xiao Sui began leading the army out of the city to drill, hunting nearby beasts, instantly gaining food upon leveling up.

Besides serving as an official, Xiao Chao occasionally went to the training ground to practice, raising his experience level.

The girl had no time to go shopping with her husband; she spent every day doing handicrafts and chores.

The man also had no time to accompany his wife—farming, mining, logging nonstop, then coming home to busy himself making dolls; his days were full yet hopeless.

But for Xiao Feng, the data looked great!

In just a few years, the population rose to thirty, a fifty percent increase!

Moreover, various resources were finally sufficient to upgrade the city to level two.

Upgrading to a level-two city takes one year, and also requires time.

After the upgrade was completed, ten dolls suddenly appeared outside the city; they were wild humans who had seen this good place and came voluntarily to join.

Among them was an independent NPC named Xiao Nong, a farming expert who also knew medicine, quite talented; Xiao Feng quickly appointed this worthy person as the city's sole 'doctor,' and strictly forbade him from eating herbs indiscriminately!

The population increased again, and the city became more prosperous.

In the blink of an eye, another ten years passed.

The earliest old doll died, his body turning into a small grave mound in the wilderness, symbolizing that a thousand people had left the world.

Meanwhile, the earliest-born child had now grown into a youth, was conscripted into the army, and began training.

Together with another conscription in between, there are now three soldier dolls.

One day, Xiao Feng just let the youth soldier doll and a girl doll finish sleeping, then the next day he dispatched the army to the neighboring

city, preparing to conquer it.

Those "unbuilt" cities must be attacked before they can be constructed, meaning that area was originally occupied by savage forces—perhaps beasts or monsters—and cannot be taken without fighting.

Xiao Sui took on three opponents alone; four dolls went together to fight, but in the fray all three were wounded, and Xiao Sui, relying on his strength trained to level sixteen, turned the tide and won the battle.

They rested on the spot; after three days, two healed, but the other died.

That seventeen-year-old youth became a small grave mound in the second unbuilt city, and the girl who had been sharing his hut thus became a widow.

Nevertheless, the city was considered captured.

Eight residents of the first city migrated to the new plot to engage in construction and development.

When the new city was built to level one, four wild dolls joined, and prosperity began to rise steadily.

Xiao Feng paid attention for a while to that girl doll who had become a widow.

I had thought she would naturally develop and find a good match, but after a year she still hadn't gotten close to any male doll, and moreover gave birth to a baby.

Thereafter, over a dozen years, the faction continued developing; the third city was also taken, the three cities mutually supported each other, forming a small state.

And the widow's child also grew up, still a boy, and when a new round of conscription came, he again became a soldier doll.

Xiao Feng felt a myriad of emotions.

To him, a few hours amounted to thirty or forty years for the dolls in the hegemony game.

Over those thirty or forty years, many dolls died of old age, in battle, or from beast attacks.

Also many dolls were born, defected, and joined the city.

Generation after generation came, generation after generation

People pass, yet the whole civilization continues to develop, becoming ever more prosperous.

But these dolls live very tired lives—at least from a god's-eye view.

Each day filled with labor, training, and combat, their schedules are packed, leaving little leisure time.

Many dolls never left the city their whole lives, toiling until they became small grave mounds, forever departing this world.

Even so, after some years those grave mounds would refresh and disappear, leaving no one to remember them.

However……

Xiao Feng thought, the system is trying to wipe out dead dolls so that players forget them.

But the dolls' friends—those other dolls—will certainly not forget.

Just like that girl doll who lost her husband, even as she became a middle-aged woman and then an old lady, she never grew close to any other male doll.

This means she never forgot that person; even as she aged, her heart might still cherish the memory of that spirited youth. The youth doll remains in her heart forever, frozen at his finest moment.

It's just that all of this seems so trivial to others; if Xiao Feng hadn't paid special attention to her, he wouldn't know these.

One doll represents 1000 people.

Perhaps those 1000 people are not all that infatuated.

But in the vast sea of people, there will always be such 1000 people existing.

These dolls are microcosms of the countless beings in the vast world; whether good or bad, one can find a similar one in this world.

Xiao Feng played for a few more hours.

The world of the hegemony game had passed 100 years.

When January 1st of the 101st year arrived, he pressed the pause button.

At this point, looking at the data again, the human faction.

Already there are 36 Chengshi, as the population grew, expansion speed became faster and faster, development also became better and better, total population exceeded 3000.

The dolls are increasing, and Xiao Feng can't pay attention to each one.

In the sea of people there are many men and women, and many children grow day by day into old men and old women; they are all different, each with their own life trajectory.

Although many people seem to have lived ordinary lives their whole lives, even ordinary people are contributing to this game world, slightly promoting the development of the human race faction.

This is the trend of the times; unless encountering an uncontrollable major change, development is the inevitable result.

After the 36th Chengshi was occupied, the border of the human faction gradually began to approach the giant beast clan.

The giant beast clan initially had four cities, not four concentrated together, but four different giant beast clan forces, each developing and spreading in different directions.

The one that Xiao Feng encountered is the weakest among them; relatively speaking, it's better, and can be dealt with.

But he also knows that once war begins, the number of those 3000 dolls will surely sharply decrease.

The soldier dolls will surely have sacrifices.

I don't know how many more female dolls will become widows.