Mr. Zhou stepped forward, looked up at the many newbie players, and said, "I see, situations like this naturally require professionals."

With that, Mr. Zhou grinned, "To be honest, I majored in civil engineering, and the Divine Hall that we players use for job enhancements was spearheaded by me."

"Anyone interested can go over to the Divine Hall and take a look."

"With just a small effort from me, I can meet the aesthetic requirements of the construction task. That year, I drew on the ground with a single branch, and no construction task was my match."

"When it comes to architecture, Mr. Zhou here is absolutely solid."

"In any case, I can help my fellow brothers, but, of course, help is not free."

Mr. Zhou grinned, "This is a team task, right? Do you know how much the reward pool is?"

Upon hearing Mr. Zhou's words, many newbie players immediately sought confirmation from the Iron Black Pot.

Indeed, the construction of the Divine Hall was initiated by Mr. Zhou; there's no doubt about that.

Iron Black Pot, although suspecting that Mr. Zhou intended to exploit these newbie players, also recognized Mr. Zhou's skills and had no objections, so he naturally confirmed it for these newbies.

Some newbie players were quite curious about the Divine Hall and wanted to see it for themselves before making a decision.

To this, Mr. Zhou naturally agreed.

By this time, he had already extracted the details of the task reward pool from some players.

To be honest, it wasn't much different from what he expected. The construction of the Merfolk Base is a massive project, and the reward pool surely wouldn't be small.

A reward pool of 5 Gold Coins, which equals 500 Silver Coins—he wasn't greedy. He only needed one-tenth of it, 50 Silver Coins.

Later on, those newbie players could share these 50 Silver Coins among themselves and give them to him.

He wasn't worried about any newbie player defaulting; anyone who dared to would be blacklisted, and he would refuse to craft weapons and armor for them in the future.

Moreover, he could publicly expose the defaulter, effectively announcing their social demise. No player would want to interact with an infamous scammer.

Anyone rational wouldn't engage in such an unprofitable defaulting behavior.

Soon, the newbie players came back after visiting the Divine Hall, and each of them fully acknowledged Mr. Zhou's capabilities.

They all agreed with Mr. Zhou's terms.

Without delay, Mr. Zhou happily began drafting his sketches.

He started with an overall plan for the Merfolk Base.

After working for quite some time, Mr. Zhou finished organizing the overall concept and plan. Then he started directing the newbie players to get busy, beginning construction.

There was a large surplus of bricks and tiles from before, which came in handy.

However, according to Mr. Zhou's plan, the amount of remaining bricks and tiles was far from enough.

So, he directed some newbie players to excavate foundations and build constructions while others restarted making bricks and tiles.

Fortunately, these newbies already had a kiln available for them; they just needed to prepare the materials and start firing.

These kilns had all been modified with Fire Crystals by veteran players, making them easier to operate and significantly more efficient than before.

These newbie players were really in for a great benefit.

Meanwhile, Iron Black Pot and his group continued gathering Magic Potions and running errands to make money.

After all, his Bow and Arrow had already been promoted; the players were interested. Now it was just a matter of waiting for them to complete their team task, fill their wallets, and purchase from him.

Among them, Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching didn't continue gathering Magic Potions but instead went to forge weapons and armor to sell to the newbie players later.

He crafted uniforms with a standardized style, which were cheaper, aiming to meet the mass demand.

For custom designs, the prices naturally wouldn't be comparable to these uniform products.

Meanwhile, Fang Ka was in the Divine Hall teaching the Merfolk the process of Blood Pool Enhancement.

He didn't know the older players were causing mischief, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care much.

Making money through skills wasn't something he felt the need to interfere with.

Moreover, this could also promote the improvement of the players' economic system.

The Merfolk learned the Blood Pool Enhancement process very smoothly.

There were hardly any issues; they adapted to it quite easily.

Fang Ka's next request was to have them rotate shifts.

Each Merfolk would be on duty in the Divine Hall for 12 hours, fortifying based on the plaques players brought.

During their shifts, Fang Ka would ensure they got a meal delivered by Sea Flip.

Truthfully, Fang Ka wanted to complain about the Merfolk's everyday food.

Because it was really too casual and simple.

As far as those processed aquatic sashimi and aquatic plants were concerned, he couldn't stomach them at all.

Of course, there was a difference in physique between Merfolk and humans.

For example, Merfolk could eat these things without any issues, but it was different for humans.

However, at least their taste buds weren't too different. While there was no harm, it was undeniably unpalatable.

He speculated whether after the Merfolk tasted Sea Flip's cooked meals, they would never again be able to eat those aquatic plants and sashimi.

After scheduling the shifts for the Merfolk, Fang Ka left one Merfolk behind to start a shift, then led the others out of there.

On their way back to the Ancient Castle, he could see from afar the players busy and bustling at the Merfolk Base.

He smiled with satisfaction and then instructed the chosen Merfolk to follow the scheduled shifts for the Divine Hall and not to forget.

Then he let them go about their business.

Once the Merfolk left the Ancient Castle, Fang Ka issued a new update announcement.

"Maintenance-free update: From now on, Blood Pool Enhancement will utilize a Plaque System. Players needing Blood Pool Enhancement must first go to Mage Fang Ka to get a plaque, then bring the plaque to the Divine Hall for the Merfolk to conduct the enhancement."

"This update has improved the game's ecological environment, enriched species diversity, and enhanced Merfolk AI."

After releasing this not-so-nutritious update, Fang Ka got busy crafting a simple Alchemy Platform for Xia Lin.

Once the Alchemy Platform was completed, he could hand it to Xia Lin and then issue another update announcement.

Weapon Enchantment would also adopt the Plaque System.

This way, whenever players had needs, they would just have to come to him to deduct the respective points and Silver Coins, get a plaque, and then find the corresponding responsible person.

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