Chapter 384 - 208: The First Divine Attachment Follower (Part 3)

There are already some unfavorable comments online.

But because of Baiyi’s fame and the genius filter, these negative comments haven’t erupted yet and it’s still relatively calm.

Setting up an outer city tax, establishing factories, reducing residents’ working hours, increasing civilian income, and enacting new laws are key.

All ordinary people are currently being exploited, and their least stressful time is when they are in school.

Once they turn sixteen and haven’t become Transcendents, they have to bend over backwards for a few Copper Coins, leading a life of fatigue and numbness.

So raising wages for everyone, reducing work hours, providing more diverse job opportunities, and ensuring their life security and dignity is the strategy to strengthen the populace.

With more free time, ordinary civilians will have more time to study and potentially take part-time jobs to earn more money for purchasing Extraordinary Knowledge.

But by then, the pressure on Dongwu City will rise.

Civilian wages have increased, work hours are shorter = capital costs more = capital is not happy.

The populace becomes powerful = higher wages = capital costs doubly = capital is not happy.

Enacting new laws = reduced Transcendent privileges = Transcendents are not happy.

Even the increase in Low-tier Transcendents means their value is being diminished, and various implicit benefits like competitiveness will disappear.

This is the real obstacle.

Baiyi can even foresee the outflow of Transcendents from Dongwu City, but it’s okay.

Matters of warfare don’t require these Transcendents, and with Dongwu City’s current military and official perks, it’s fine if these people leave.

Baiyi discussed with Sabo, with AI Zero also assisting, striving for a fast and simple path.

By the time Dongwu City truly develops, he believes those with vested interests will be silenced.

As time flew by, the Outer City District began to renew rapidly, with numerous simple yet warm houses appearing.

The Construction Division and Law Enforcement Team expanded crazily, with a large number of players participating in the construction, making the outer city seem to change with each passing day.

About half a month later, Baiyi was reading a book when he suddenly paused, a bit of relaxation in his eyes.

A pair of slightly cold hands covered his eyes.

An intentionally altered voice sounded in his ear: "Guess who I am?"

Baiyi pretended to ponder and asked, "Xiaohong?"

"Hmm?"

"Xiaolv?"

"...."

"Could it be...."

Slap~

Diane gave Baiyi’s head a smack and vigorously rubbed his face, asking fiercely, "What did you do behind my back?"

Baiyi, having achieved his cheeky goal, relaxed and laughed: "Hmm~ So it’s Little An, I almost couldn’t recognize you, it’s been so long..."

"First, tell me who Xiaohong and Xiaolv are," Diane said fiercely. "I couldn’t come out for your birthday, feeling guilty and planned to make it up for your twentieth birthday, but you actually...."

Baiyi was startled; he seemed to have been born on March 1st.... he had even forgotten about such a thing as a birthday...

Feeling the very forceful yet somewhat cold hands on his face, he suddenly felt a slight pang of guilt in his nonexistent conscience.

He quickly raised three fingers: "I’m joking, I swear!"

"I don’t believe aaaaaah.... Just tell me, who are Xiaohong and Xiaolv? Are they Elves? Xiaohong is from the Flame Tribe, right? Xiaolv is from the Life Tribe, right? How could you..."

Baiyi: ...This imagination, it’s a pity she doesn’t become a Law Enforcer.

Goddamnit using hair color to name....

"I’m really joking, just teasing you, I’m already Golden Middle Tier, how could I not perceive you coming?"

Diane stopped rubbing his face, walked to the front to look into Baiyi’s eyes, and asked suspiciously: "Really?"

Baiyi: ...

He spread his hands helplessly: "Really, really.... Isn’t Lady Alena here? Don’t you let her report my whereabouts? I told you you’re not believing, how can you trust that easily..."

The suspicion on Diane’s face disappeared, and she returned to her cheerful self, sitting on the armrest of the mechanical chair, pinching his face and earnestly saying: "I’ve told you many times, I’m not dumb!"

After saying that, she appeared a bit shy: "Although it’s late, but... Baiyi, happy birthday...."