["That's right! I haven't even dared to go outside these past two days. There's a pack of wolves howling day and night right outside my door! If the lord really has the ability, he should come over and help me kill the wolves, he should give us some weapons, give us some food so we can all get through this hard time together."]
["Can someone save me, I'm almost out of water and food! But I don't even have a torch, I don't dare go out at all!"]
["Sigh, having a lord or not is basically the same, I feel like I won't even survive until tomorrow…"]
The regional chat channel was filled with wailing everywhere.
Of course, there were also some people cursing Ethan for becoming the lord but not helping, calling him heartless, a white eyed wolf, and so on.
Ethan swept a glance over it. In this world there was always a group of people who liked to urge others to be saints.
As long as someone else was richer than them, they thought that person should unconditionally give to the poor. As long as someone else lived better than them, they thought that person should unconditionally share a bit with them.
But as soon as you told them to lead by example and be saints themselves, they would run faster than anyone else.
'Just block them.'
He directly dragged those few people who were trash talking him into the little black room.
Even though the more people in his region stayed alive, the higher the ranking would be, Ethan believed that having a few rotten apples in the team would only affect the final result.
So kicking out these real white eyed wolves first, then finding ways to help the other players in the region, was the right path.
["Ahem! I'm Ethan."]
Ethan spoke directly in the regional chat, ["Because too many things happened these past two days, I didn't have time to come online and talk to everyone."]
["Since there's still a bit of time before sunrise, I'll tell everyone about the extreme weather that will appear in 40 hours."]
["You must strive to build stone houses and fireplaces today, or at the latest by tomorrow."]
["That way you will have some basic ability to protect yourselves before the extremely cold night arrives. Otherwise when the extreme cold comes 40 hours later, you are very likely to be frozen to death right in your houses."]
["The cold wave night two weeks ago, I don't need to say much, everyone already experienced it. The next extremely cold night will only be worse and not better. So I hope everyone takes this seriously and doesn't throw away their lives here."]
After Ethan finished this long speech, the entire regional channel went quiet for almost a minute.
Until a woman named Very Sweet Girl sent a message.
["There's another extremely cold night coming? Upgrading my wooden house before already used up all my savings and all my inventory. I'm struggling just to survive now, how am I supposed to upgrade to a stone house."]
["Lord, I know you have a lot of subjects. Can you help everyone, have them dig some stone for us or something? Otherwise we really can't build stone houses."]
["That's right! Lord, think of a way to help us!"]
["It's not that I don't want to mine, it's just that the monsters outside are really too scary. They look a lot like giant gorillas, I feel like the moment I step outside I'll be torn to pieces."]
["This is really too hard! I only just managed to save up a hundred stones these past few days, but when I look at upgrading to a stone house it not only needs glass, it also needs some kind of earth type beast core! How are we supposed to get that!"]
["My god! This is going to wipe out the whole region!"]
Everyone talked all at once.
Quite a few people also felt that even Ethan as the lord would find it very hard to gather all these things, let alone help them. It was simply impossible.
["Everyone, don't panic."]
Ethan sent out a second message, ["I do indeed have subjects, and I have indeed found a mining area where a lot of ores can be mined, along with quite a few other materials. I also have both glass and beast cores."]
["That's great! Lord really is Lord, you're really amazing,"] Very Sweet Girl immediately cut in, crazily flattering him, ["Then Lord, can you 'lend' these things to us?"]
["Yes yes, Lord, please lend us all your extra materials! I promise that once I have the ability, I will definitely pay them back!"]
["And me too, Lord, count me in!"]
["Lord is truly a great person in the universe, I want a share too. I will set up a longevity tablet for Lord in my home and worship it day and night! I will remember your kindness every single day!"]
All kinds of flattery and requests to borrow materials immediately flooded the screen.
Even those people who had been crazily spamming the regional channel before, cursing Ethan for being heartless and calling him a white eyed wolf, now that they saw Ethan really had materials, also immediately wanted to speak up and ask for things.
But when he prepared a long piece of flattery that would make men fall silent and women cry, he discovered that he could not send it at all.
[System Prompt: The other party has already blocked you. You cannot speak in the regional channel for three days]
"What?"
That white eyed wolf guy was instantly stunned.
He hurriedly tried again, but the result said that today's number of messages had exceeded the limit and he could no longer speak.
'This…'
The white eyed wolf guy was completely dumbfounded on the spot.
Unable to speak for three days. By the time three days passed and he wanted to speak again, he would probably only be able to do it by appearing in someone's dreams.
He originally thought he was just saying things casually. Who would have thought the lord was actually this petty and directly sealed his mouth.
Now he was scared shitless and could only hurry to the world channel to @Ethan and beg for forgiveness.
Unfortunately, Ethan was currently brewing his third important speech. Where would he have the time to care about an idiot?
[Regional Channel]
["Everyone, I know stone houses need a lot of materials, but even I can't provide these things to everyone for free. Because I am not God, I am just an ordinary merchant."]
["But in order to take care of the players in this region, I will still relax some rental conditions."]
["You can rent from me all kinds of materials needed to upgrade to stone houses, including stone, mud, wood, vines, glass, and beast cores."]
["I can even rent you hunting tools, skill books, hunting equipment and so on."]
["But you must follow my rental terms."]
["All materials can be rented for three days. If you repay within three days, you only need to pay a ten percent handling fee. If you return them after three days, every extra day will cost an additional ten percent handling fee."]
["As for mining tools, hunting tools and so on, there is no handling fee, but I will take ten percent of what you harvest that day."]
["Isn't that quite a good deal?"]
[Shady Merchant Attribute ++++]
[Warning, Shady Merchant Attribute has exceeded the limit and has directly upgraded to Free Loader.]
'Huh?'
Ethan did not expect that just from saying a few lines, his Shady Merchant attribute actually went through the roof?
And it even upgraded into Free Loader.
'What the hell kind of skill is that, why are the skill names in this world all so weird?'
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