Zhou Bai was surprised to receive the message.
But soon Zhou Bai understood that this kind of thing would come sooner or later.
Being triggered early might be a good thing!
At this moment, Diana noticed Zhou Bai's distraction and directly asked, "Did something happen?"
"A new group of survivors arrived, some of them robbed others, now they're all in the territory, the robbers were caught by the soldier team, I'm thinking about how to regulate the order in the territory," Zhou Bai spoke. Although she wasn't on the scene, she kept watching the changes in green dots on the territory map. Combined with what she saw before and the recent message from the system, it wasn't hard to deduce what happened.
"Do you have any ideas?" Diana asked.
"Do you have any suggestions?" Zhou Bai responded. She had some ideas in her mind, mostly borrowed from laws in the real world, but she couldn't fully implement them. What she needed most was rules that fit the current situation in the territory.
"The territory I was in before did have some regulations, but those were meaningless to the strong. I assume those aren't what you're looking for," Diana shook her head. Even though she had only stayed in this territory for a day, she could learn some background from the residents' words and understood why this territory and Zhou Bai's territory were so special.
She looked forward to Zhou Bai's construction of the territory.
Zhou Bai understood Diana's meaning. The rules of this world were probably "survival of the fittest, the strong lead," not considered breaking the rules unless caught, and even if caught, nothing would happen as long as you were strong enough.
In their real history, those Nobles were like that, old tactics!
Thinking about this, Zhou Bai decided to set a rule, it might trigger a system reward, after all, it was the system's requirement.
[Territory Rules (+)]
[Rule 1, Prohibit territory residents from harming others or infringing on others' interests]
[Punishment, Defined by severity, Severe cases result in deprivation of resident identity and expulsion from the territory.]
Upon confirmation, Zhou Bai directly published it.
And right after publishing, Zhou Bai received a "reward" from the system.
[Dear Host, you have set Territory Rule 1, please choose an appropriate location to detain criminals for your territory. Would you like to buy a Prison?]
[Item, Prison blueprint]
[Introduction, A place to detain criminals. Detained criminals will be monitored by the Prison and must not step outside the territory's boundaries.]
[Purchase Price, 3 Gold Coins]
[Selling Price, 6 Gold Coins]
Zhou Bai chose to purchase it without hesitation.
[Would you like to spend 5 Gold Coins, 1000 units of wood, 1000 units of Stone, 1000 units of iron ore and use the Prison blueprint to construct a Prison?]
"Yes."
[Prison completed, please place it.]
Zhou Bai directly placed the Prison behind the barracks.
After completing all this, Zhou Bai published another task.
[Task, Collect territory rules]
[Nature, Long-term collection task]
[Reward, 1 silver coin]
[Target, All residents]
Once done, Zhou Bai looked at Diana and said directly, "I set up one rule for now, let's see if the residents have better suggestions."
Diana looked at the notification on her panel and nodded in agreement, "Alright."
"I just built the Prison, now the robbers have a place settled, but besides detention, I have another idea."
"Hmm?"
"I plan to pave a road outside the territory and dispatch soldier teams to patrol regularly. If any survivors enter the territory's range, they'll reach the territory safely without wasting manpower on rescue. Before, I thought the project was too big, but now with so many free laborers, it's feasible. What do you think?" Zhou Bai asked, his eyes bright.
He always thought about how to make more people outside the territory aware of Hope Village's existence. Relying on system notifications was convenient but limited in range; if there's a road with road signs, it would be easy for external survivors to be aware of Hope Village's existence first. Even the residents inside the territory could explore outside.
To become wealthy, first, build roads. This phrase holds true in territory construction as well.
Previously, due to the lack of territory residents, it hadn't been scheduled, but now it's possible.
Diana listened, paused, then smiled, "That's great! Follow your ideas!"
"Once the soldier team sends people to register at the Prison and the Prison marks them, I'll publish it!" Zhou Bai said joyfully.