However, at least in the eyes of Shi Hao and Zhang Yang, Wei Wentong had no chance. Therefore, Shi Hao readily took a hint. Shi Hao knew that Zhang Yang also wished to upgrade his village to a town. Although the development speed of Tranquil Water Village was not as explosive as Twin Dragons Village, it was also moving steadily ahead. It was only a matter of time before Tranquil Water Village was upgraded to a town. Therefore, Zhang Yang must plan in advance. He couldn’t just wait for Divine and Mighty Alliance to give him an Upgrade Soul. That, however, depended on connections and resources. It was not sure and hard to say!

Shi Hao said generously: “Not a problem. Twin Dragons Village will strive to get two Upgrade Souls. At that time, Tranquil Water Village will get one of them.”

Shi Hao’s words ensured his own benefit as well as gave Zhang Yang hope. As long as there were two Upgrade Souls, there was no harm to give one to Tranquil Water Village. But if the information was wrong, or he failed to captured Wei Wentong, then he could do nothing about this matter. Twin Dragons Village would use the only Upgrade Soul.

Zhang Yang naturally understood the meaning of Shi Hao. It was normal, and he didn’t mind. Moreover, he had great faith that Wei Wentong would be captured. Because he had met his close friend a few days ago, and that friend had carefully researched West River Dragon Pond in the past. To put it bluntly, his close friend was familiar with West River Dragon Pond like his own back garden. In fact, the method Zhang Yang told to Shi Hao to defeat Wei Wentong was determined after his discussion with his close friend. Zhang Yang was very confident in this method. Therefore, as far as Zhang Yang was concerned, Shi Hao’s words were equivalent to getting an Upgrade Soul.

Zhang Yang said looking very happy: “It’s fine like that! This Zhang thanks you, Village Chief Shi.”

Zhang Yang left Twin Dragons Village, and Shi Hao returned to his busy schedule of training soldiers. The days passed like this. Feng Tianhao went to farm BOSSes and elite monsters every day by himself, whereas Pei Yuanqing and Li Yi took turns to lead soldiers to level up, and Wang Fu steadily handled various administration affairs of Twin Dragons Village. The vitality of Twin Dragons Village was getting more and more vigorous, which would make people jealous. At this point, perhaps, someone might recall that Stargazing Platform’s CD of 1 month had already expired and think why not use it quickly?

This was a good question. Shi Hao also wanted to quickly use Stargazing Platform. But he endured and didn’t use it. He wanted to upgrade Stargazing Platform to level 2 before using it. Now, Twin Dragons Village had already reached level 3. According to the setting of the system, every building within the village could breakthrough 1 level per every 2 levels of the stronghold. Level 2 Star Gazing Platform was definitely better than level 1 Stargazing Platform. Therefore, Shi Hao had to wait. However, he didn’t need to wait for a long time. Only after a few days, Shi Hao came to Stargazing Platform by himself.

“Level 2 Stargazing Platform is domineering!” Level 2 Stargazing Platform had two floors, and that transparent ball used to trigger the stargazing function was placed on the top floor. Shi Hao stood in front of that transparent ball with a smile. He then placed his hand on that transparent ball like before. In his heart, he thought that his bearing should be amazing. Just the level 1 Stargazing Platform made him easily obtain Pei Yuanqing. This time, with level 2 Stargazing Platform, Shi Hao estimated that even Zhuge Liang wouldn’t be able to run away. Heh heh. [TN: Zhuge Liang – famous Chinese Strategist from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms]

Unfortunately, Shi Hao was too optimistic. Do things like lucky win happen again and again? Of course not. If it happened, then it wouldn’t be luck!

“F***! It’s actually a D grade historical NPC. Is there a mistake? I want to return it.” Shi Hao’s eyes turned dark. He had especially waited for a period of time and spent a lot of resources and manpower to upgrade Stargazing Platform to level 2. Could it be that he had done so much for just a D grade historical NPC? Yes, it was a D grade.

In fact, Shi Hao shouldn’t complain. Did Shi Hao know what other people’s villages looked like now? There was nothing much to speak about. Just look at the third player village of Qin Zheng! Last time, when writing the post, Feng Tianhao had seen a post about it in passing.

Qin Zheng’s Xianyang Village had barely reached level 2 after exhausting its resources (Twin Dragons Village was also level 2 at that time).

Moreover, Qin Zheng’s side also had a historical NPC. By the way, since we are already talking about this matter, we might as well explain a bit more about it in passing.

The only historical NPC under Qin Zhen at present was called Feng Xi, a C grade historical NPC, and his profession was fighter. Feng Xi was a military officer under Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period. His strength was not outstanding, but he once served under the chief commander Liu Bei to subjugate Wu State, and Feng Xi also had a contribution in the utter defeat of Wu State. However, in >, Feng Xi’s special skill was not bad. It was called Spear and Shield Unity.

[Skill Name: Spear and Shield Unity]

[Skill Grade: historical NPC’s skill, no grade classification]

[Skill Type: Passive, no consumption]

[Weapon Restriction: None]

[Current Rank and Mastery: Level 2, 110/400]

[Skill Effect: Increase one’s block rate by 24% (the higher the percentage of block rate, the lower the technical requirement for a successful block; 100% block rate, however, doesn’t represent that you will block with a 100% success rate! It just means that the difficulty of blocking would be very low; if the user is a klutz or a moron, he will not be able to block)]

To sum up, Feng Xi was a very good tank. In order to recruit Feng Xi, Qin Zhen, who didn’t know the hidden recruitment method, had to pay a big price. Feng Xi was obviously a fighter, but he liked to lead cavalrymen. Without cavalrymen, it was impossible to recruit Feng Xi with a regular recruitment method. But Qin Zhen’s Xianyang Village still couldn’t produce warhorses. And Central Flower Village also had no player village like Twin Dragons Village which sold warhorses. Therefore, rich and imposing Qin Zhen straightforwardly spent 20 million RMB to purchase two B grade Village Building Orders. He then exchanged them for 100 level 1 warhorses, which didn’t have any bonus stats, from Divine and Mighty Alliance. It truly hurt Qin Zhen to recruit Feng Xi. However, Qin Zhen also became the player to get the third historical NPC after recruiting Feng Xi. Last time, the system announcement Shi Hao heard when he was on his way to Hibiscus County was triggered by Qin Zhen.

The special item reward Qin Zhen obtained was called Blood Sweat Horse! Blood Sweat Horse and Shi Hao’s Cloud Mist Beast were both epic grade mounts.

[Name: Blood Sweat Horse (Epic)]

[Level: 1]

[Agility: 10, Attack: 10]

[Attached Skill: Extreme Dash, CD: 1 day, teleport 100 meters away]

Okay, let us return to the topic.

Thinking about it, even the domineering young master Qin Zhen, who was one of the world’s top wealthy people, had to spend the entire 20 million RMB to get hold of a C grade historical NPC. But Shi Hao, he could easily get a D grade historical NPC via the hidden recruitment method. Moreover, he had gotten a SS grade historical NPC, Pei Yuanqing, without any cost in the past. With such a cheap advantage, what else could he complain about?

One should know that insatiable greed was not a good thing. People should be content.