After obtaining the Trade Gold Coins, Xu Fei spent 120 Gold Coins in the market and exchanged for 120,000 resources.
These resources were used to produce Zhuge Crossbows.
He had just tasted the sweetness, so he should take advantage of the victory and pursue.
If he worked harder and produced 300 Zhuge Crossbow Soldiers, he would be able to gather the resources he needed for a Level 4 City by selling them tomorrow.
Xu Fei then spent one gold coin in the trading market.
He bought a map of the Scattered Star Seas.
Buying a map was only for the caravan.
Now that the caravan had been built, the merchants had also been organized.
They couldn't just leave them in the city and waste resources. They had to play their role.
The key was that the level of the Caravan had increased. Through the trade of the Caravan, the city could also obtain a large number of resources.
He had to have a variety of channels to obtain resources so that he would not be easily controlled by others.
Caravans were not only used for this.
He also had the ability to record the map.
All the routes he took would appear on his map.
It was equivalent to opening up a map for himself and opening up the fog of battle formations on the map.
At the same time, high-level caravans often had the function of spies. They could obtain the coordinates and information of other cities.
Most of the time, the city lords would place generals from the Foreign Affairs Institute in high-level merchant groups.
He would seize the opportunity to go out into the wilderness and persuade those generals who had no allegiance to join his city.
However, that would have to wait until the level of the caravan increased. For his current level 1 caravan, it was better to forget about it.
Xu Fei was already very happy to be able to open up a map and return safely.
Caravans had such a huge effect, so for every ambitious City Lord, they had to build, develop, and level up.
After Xu Fei got the map of the wild city.
He found that the nearest wild city was actually 400 kilometers away.
It was established and maintained by a mountain bandit faction called Lianyun Stronghold.
From the simple introduction on the map that he had obtained.
The Lianyun Stronghold had already reached the level of a Grade 6 city.
They were very strong, and there were suspected orange generals in the stronghold.
The Lianyun Stronghold was friendly to the caravans that came and went.
On the map of the wild city, the safety rating of Lianyun Stronghold was excellent.
It seemed like it was worth a trip.
However, with the speed of his Grade 1 caravan, it would take at least a month to make a round trip.
On the way, there were all kinds of bandits blocking the way, which would delay or directly block the journey.
Their own caravan might even accidentally enter the territory of other city lords. These city lords did not mind sending troops to plunder, kill, and steal their own caravan's goods.
There was also the beast nest. If they encountered a beast nest in the wild, with the strength of a Grade 1 merchant group's guards, they would definitely be courting death.
Xu Fei estimated that the 400-kilometer distance was as dangerous as attacking a level 3 beast nest for his level 1 merchant group.
Whether or not he could come back depended on his luck on the road.
But even so, it did not change Xu Fei's determination.
Even if the entire caravan died outside, he would still go.
Not for anything else, but to open up this 400-kilometer map.
He was willing to pay the price of ten merchants for a caravan, 1,000 resources for each level, and a small team of guards to gamble.
Xu Fei could afford to gamble.
If he won, he would be able to open up a 400-mile map fog and obtain a trade route.
He could obtain the location of other cities along the way, information about beast nests, and the size of the bandit faction.
This would directly determine the direction of Xu Fei's future city attack.
Therefore, he was willing to use this small caravan to give it a try.
Even if they did not succeed this time, Xu Fei would send out a second batch, a third batch, until a safe trade route was established.
Then, he would follow this trade route in the future, conquering the cities along the way step by step and opening up the beast nests along the way.
Exterminate the mountain bandits on the road.
Xu Fei had already made up his mind!
This was because to obtain the map of the caravan, one of the people in the caravan had to return.
Hence, Xu Fei had arranged for the White General Yuan Shang to lead a hundred cavalrymen to protect them.
At the same time, he informed Shiqian, who was on a reconnaissance mission in the abandoned city.
Although Shi Qian was a one-star general, he had the ability to fly over roofs and walls.
He escaped very quickly and was very alert.
He did not need him to pry for information. He only needed Shi Qian to protect his life.
Therefore, Xu Fei only gave Shi Qian one order.
Once the caravan was in danger, everyone else could die, but he had to escape.
Not for anything else, but for this map.
Then, Xu Fei used gold coins to exchange for resources.
He took out 1,000 points and allocated them to the caravan.
He arranged for them to leave the city and head to the wild market of Lianyun Stronghold.
Just as he sent the caravan out of the city.
The City Building Assistant on the City Lord Sigil suddenly made a mechanical sound.
"Ding, you have received a message in the trading system.”
"News?"
"Who sent me the news?"
Xu Fei thought about it carefully before opening it.
He had just sold the Zhuge Crossbow Soldiers and did not know anyone in the market.
He had never interacted with the other city lords.
If there had to be someone, it would be the person who bought his Zhuge Crossbow Soldiers and the City Lord who monopolized the Zhuge Crossbow Soldiers trade.
Therefore, the person who came to find me could only come from these two options.
Xu Fei opened the City Lord Sigil and opened the trading function.
At the bottom left corner of the virtual screen, a message was flashing.
After choosing to view it.
The contents of the letter confirmed Xu Fei's guess.
It was written inside.
"Hello, I am also a city lord with Zhuge Liang. I saw that you were selling Zhuge Crossbows and wanted to invite you to join our Group chats. Please reply when you see me. Thank you!”
Good heavens, it was indeed these City Lords who monopolized the market who came knocking on the door.
Xu Fei tapped his fingers on the table twice.
He was thinking about whether he should reply to the other party.
From the words of this message, the other party's intention should be to invite him to join their monopoly alliance.
After all, there were very few City Lords who could recruit Zhuge Liang, and the number of Zhuge Crossbows produced was not too high.
Adding him would probably not harm their interests much.
Of course, this was just a guess.
Xu Fei had another guess, which was that there was a trap hidden in this message.
A new city lord suddenly appeared in the market and started to sell Zhuge Crossbow Soldiers. He must be a newcomer who was lucky enough to recruit Zhuge Liang.
This was because if it was an old city lord, he would definitely have joined the alliance. Most of the time, such high-level troops were absorbed by the alliance and rarely flowed out.
From this, he could tell that he was the new City Lord who had just built the city.
At this time, by inviting him into the group, he would obtain the coordinates of his city.
Taking advantage of the fact that he was still weak, he would force himself to join the alliance or directly force himself to become a subordinate city, and then transfer the ownership of the general.
Both were possible. Xu Fei even felt that the second possibility was more likely.
Therefore, he chose not to reply!
He didn't care at all as long as the other party didn't know his coordinates.
No matter how powerful he was, he could not follow the trading system and attack him!
Xu Fei, who had made up his mind to ignore it, was about to close it.
At this moment, another message lit up.
"Hello, I invited you to join the Group chats with no ill intentions.”
"The Group chats is a function of the City Lord Sigil. It's anonymous and won't reveal your coordinates. If you have any concerns, you can directly ask the City Creation Assistant.”
After Xu Fei saw it, he became even more vigilant. The more the other party said that he had no ill intentions, the more he was afraid that his goal was hidden.
He was still very weak, only a small grade 3 city lord.
For the sake of safety, it was better to keep a low profile and get rich quietly.
Less communication was what he should do at the moment.
Xu Fei directly chose to reject the message.
He blocked the other party.
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