Global Plunder: Start with Heart of Darkness

January 22, Year 1, Week 4, Monday.

Early in the morning, Gu Yu started a new round of military recruitment.

Recruiting all the units that could be recruited in one go cost a total of 19,200 units of energy crystals and 352 units of life essence.

The population of Dark Sky City increased sharply from 166 to 256.

Among them, the output of the Night Sky Giant Wolf and Dark Poison Eye increased by 2 each due to the increase in the specialties of Gu Yu and Ajit.

The four cubs of the Night Sky Wolf grew extremely rapidly under the influence of Dark Sky City's spiritual energy, and are now about the same size as adult wolves.

The population has grown and the number of buildings has increased. The originally empty Dark Sky City is now slightly crowded, and the expansion of the castle is officially on the agenda.

Originally, Gu Yu had obtained the design drawings of the War Temple's castle and planned to study it for a few days. Unexpectedly, Sister Liu fell from the world and solved a big problem for him.

He really didn't expect that Liu Qing's innate ability turned out to be construction and manufacturing. She was responsible for the construction of the Iron Blood Alliance's castle.

Not only that, Liu Qing also has a unique skill in blacksmithing, and he is good at blacksmithing. If there is a review on the system, he is probably a high-level blacksmith.

Naturally, Gu Yu couldn't waste such a comprehensive senior talent, and immediately appointed Liu Qing as the general manager of the blacksmith house and concurrently as the foreman of the city's construction team.

In addition, Gu Yu also learned from Liu Qing that Mei Ninghua was also a design professional.

This made him overjoyed, and he immediately visited the thatched cottage, returned to the trading market again, and humbly asked for advice.

Then, Gu Yu realized that his original idea was naive.

He wanted to copy the design drawings of the Temple of War, which was a layman's approach, because a small difference in the drawings would magnify into a huge error in the actual construction.

Without professional design talents to modify the design drawings for him, once he starts construction hastily, he will probably suffer a big loss.

This was not because Wang Dong deliberately tricked him, because Lao Wang thought that Gu Yu was going to be handed over to the big force behind him, and there must be a professional design team, so he didn't remind him in any way.

Fortunately, although Gu Yu was a bit aggressive in this matter, he got it right by accident.

With the ready-made design drawings, Mei Ninghua only needs to make slight modifications, and then Liu Qing will check them before construction. The expansion of Dark Sky City can be officially started soon.

Both girls have important responsibilities on their shoulders and started busy early in the morning.

As the lord of a city and the head of a clan, Gu Yu certainly cannot be idle.

He immediately called Lao Ai over and began to assign combat tasks.

Seven timber mines, six stone mines, two energy mines, and one pig iron mine, a total of sixteen mines, were all given to Ajit to capture.

Gu Yu went to those three special places to find out.

This arrangement seems a bit unfair as Lao Ai's workload is too heavy.

But this is not the case.

The Shadow Thorns have already explored those sixteen mining areas, and the ones stationed inside are nothing more than some first- and second-level monsters. With the current strength of Dark Sky City, they can easily wipe them out.

On the contrary, no one can tell what hidden dangers there are in the three special locations.

Just like the two places Gu Yu has been to, the Evil Eye ruins are extremely dangerous, but the Hero's Prison is relaxed and pleasant. The outcome depends on the face.

Therefore, Gu Yu has to go there in person, with systematic assistance. If there is any huge danger at the scene, he will retreat immediately.

But if Lao Ai goes, he may take risks and attack in order to complete the mission, causing huge losses.

Based on the above considerations, Gu Yu decided to divide the labor in this way.

Gu Yu put a lot of thought into the distribution of troops.

This time Ajit's action was not very dangerous, but there were many low-level battles. It happened to be a good opportunity to train troops.

Therefore, Gu Yu assigned all 32 Night Demons and 44 Shadow Thorns to Lao Ai, and also assigned him 10 groups of Blue Demon Wolf Cavalry and 6 Dark Poison Eyes.

Such a combination of troops can completely sweep through the basic mining area. As long as Ajit does not make serious mistakes, it will not cause much loss.

Gu Yu also assigned an additional task to Lao Ai, which was to capture as many creatures as possible so as to increase the population of Dark Sky City.

Gu Yu, on the other hand, selected an elite force.

Including Capucillo, Mocha, Chocolate, Latte and his two younger brothers, as well as 6 Shadow Dancers, 10 groups of Blue Devil Wolf Cavalry and 8 Dark Poison Eyes.

There are still Mei Ninghua and Liu Qing in the Dark Sky City, as well as 6 Dark Poison Eyes and 6 Night Sky Giant Wolves staying behind.

The 32 newly recruited Ankong tribesmen will temporarily stay in the city to build houses or go to the blacksmith house to help. When a new mine is found, Mei Ninghua will arrange for them to go to work.

Gu Yu followed the marks on the map and found that the first destination was not very far away, only about twenty miles away from the Dark Sky City.

It took them about half an hour to find this small valley shrouded in black mist.

What Gu Yu didn't expect was that after passing through the thick fog full of dark and corrosive power, there turned out to be an ancient altar deep in the valley.

The altar was made of blue boulders. When he got closer, Gu Yu could feel the spiritual energy in the air becoming much richer.

While he was looking at the altar intently, a system prompt came to his ears.

Ding! You found the Wisdom Stone Altar. It doesn't look dangerous.

Wisdom Stone Altar?

What is this? Can it make you wise?

Gu Yu thought for a while and sent a message to the knowledgeable Xiao Huahua to ask.

You actually discovered the Wisdom Stone Altar? This is a good place. Everyone can get a spiritual energy injection to directly improve their strength.

Mei Ninghua responded quickly and was obviously very interested in the Wisdom Stone Altar.

How to use it? Gu Yu asked happily and shamelessly.

Stupid, just go up and relax your mind.

After Mei Ninghua found out the location of the altar, she ignored Gu Yu and hurried to find Liu Qing, then rode a giant wolf in the night sky and rushed over to gain experience.

Although he was despised by the little girl, Gu Yu didn't care. As the leader of the clan, he had a broad mind.

Without hesitation, Gu Yu stepped onto the wisdom stone altar and relaxed his body and mind.

Immediately, he sensed a large amount of spiritual energy gathering on the altar.

After a moment, a strong spiritual energy was injected into his body, just like the feeling of gaining spiritual energy after killing a monster, but with more energy.

Gu Yu's strength was originally at the third level of Bronze. After being injected with this spiritual energy, he quickly rose to the fourth level, and continued to soar until he broke through to the fifth level of Bronze.

Not only that, he also had some more understanding and experience of rules in his mind, which were actually more important to him.

It feels so good to be powerful!

Gu Yu experienced it for a while, and walked down the altar with satisfaction with the strength he had just gained.

Then he didn't give up and asked latte, cappuccino and mocha to take turns to try them, but there was no reaction at all.

So, Gu Yu stopped staying and immediately rushed to the second special place.

There seems to be something unusual there.