CHAPTER 252: CHAPTER 253 DOMINEERING PEOPLE

What?

Lin Yue looked at the message conveyed by Fei Yue and the text on it and finally understood why Fei Yue hadn’t replied for such a long time.

That Third Master, Meng Yutang, has passed away?

He glanced at the chat messages from Meng Yutang, and sure enough, his avatar had already turned gray.

Lin Yue scrolled through the chat history with Meng Yutang.

The last time, this Third Master Meng Yutang wanted to hand over his Refugee Village of over one hundred people to him, letting him become the leader of those people.

But Lin Yue refused.

The reason couldn’t be simpler.

What he needed was not the position of leading hundreds, thousands, even millions of survivors.

Leading these people to overcome numerous obstacles, to transform this Otherworld, eventually allowing humanity to thrive here once again.

This was not what he wanted to pursue.

Personality is part of the reason.

As Liu Kai once evaluated him, he is a lone-wolf type player, not fond of teaming up with others, passively receiving the complex emotions from complex people.

Ability is also part of the reason.

He admits he might have some cleverness in survival, and can fully utilize this system of exploding treasure chests a hundred percent to his advantage, making it a power he controls rather than being influenced by it.

But leadership, he has none whatsoever.

Originally, he wasn’t this type of person, not even holding any position in his school years of over a decade, let alone in the orphanage where he was always the one ignored.

Lin Yue thought that even with five people he might not lead well, let alone hundreds or more.

If he were to lead humanity forward, should he indeed have this idea, then it would only be him fighting alone at the front, bearing all the burdens on his shoulders.

Rather than together with a large group.

The human heart is very complex, one is enough for him.

If humanity were really to welcome the moment of past glory’s revival, then he would hide within the crowd, being the most unnoticeable one.

Neither his own personality nor the ability he has now of a system that explodes treasure chests a hundred percent allowed him to make such a choice.

Think about it, what would happen if one more person knew he had the system of exploding treasure chests a hundred percent?

By then, no matter how strong his fighting power, he probably wouldn’t be able to withstand the swarm of survivors coming for him.

This ability, from the moment he got it, destined him to accept the identity of the lone wolf and must survive with it.

Third Master Meng Yutang has passed away.

Lin Yue had heard this name before on television news.

A respected elder with extraordinary abilities.

At that time, during their private chat, Lin Yue had already felt his prowess and wisdom.

Now, the man is gone, and saying anything more is meaningless.

What does Fei Yue’s talk of domination mean?

Fei Yue said he was already a leader, so why is there talk of "domination"?

What’s on his mind?

Lin Yue was puzzled by this.

He already refused.

"Condolences." He replied.

"Thank you, before Third Master passed away, he kept talking about you, and we accept Third Master’s last wishes, wanting you, Lin Yue, to become the overlord of our Refugee Village." Fei Yue quickly conveyed back the message.

He repeated the meaning of the previous message once again.

"You are already the leader; how can I still dominate?" Lin Yue, although he didn’t want to take up the role, still wanted to understand it a little.

"Here’s the situation, let me first introduce our Refugee Village status. Our Refugee Village currently has 122 people, 74 able-bodied adults, 11 elderly, and the rest are minors, with a roughly 1:1 gender ratio. Our food supply is ample, and water is somewhat guaranteed. Every day, some lone survivors send us messages requesting asylum, so the population may continue to rise."

Lin Yue shows a puzzled expression, asking what’s going on?

"After Third Master passed away, I was appointed as the leader of this Refugee Village. I am responsible for overseeing the normal operation of the entire village, including hunting, gathering food and water, Secret Realm collection, and Underground Ruins exploration, etc., while all of us want you to become the overlord of our Refugee Village. We are relatively independent and self-sufficient in food and other needs, but in other aspects, like collecting special materials from the Secret Realm and Underground Ruins, everything will be collected according to your ideas. Of course, we still trade vegetables and fruits with you as before. Lin Yue, that’s the idea."

Lin Yue reacts in surprise.

Good heavens.

Third Master’s wisdom... indeed, his maneuver is quite high level.

The condition is indeed tempting enough.

You don’t want to be our leader? No problem.

You become our overlord, we’ll activate all our forces to specifically find what you want, and exchange those things for the originally provided fruits and vegetables, etc., mutual exchange.

Calling him an overlord is more like being a task publisher, suddenly making him active rather than originally passive.

Want cams, hydraulic actuators, various alloys? We’ll help you find materials, and specifically, find these things!

If you don’t accept, then we maintain the status quo. Whatever we find might happen to be what you need, we’ll exchange. If you don’t need it, we’ll keep it ourselves.

Lin Yue, after thinking it through, couldn’t help but admire this Third Master.

If he wants to pursue better outcomes, then becoming this so-called "overlord" is naturally the best.

It could even accelerate his current farming speed further, and unlike before where he had to think about how to manage a hundred people and worry about their daily needs.

Seems, quite tempting!

He looked at the two robot dogs working hard.

If there were twenty, even a hundred and twenty, how spectacular would that be?

Additionally, if that indeed becomes the case, efficiency would not just increase linearly.

Even building that food processing plant and cold storage would merely be a matter of time.

Cost?

Lin Yue currently sees no cost.

It’s essentially making him a hands-off manager, letting his subordinates do the work, while he only holds the position of a ruler rather than someone who needs to consider everything, stressing him out.

"I’ll think about it." Lin Yue pondered for a long time, thinking this proposal could certainly be considered before deciding.

"Then we await your good news."

Fei Yue must have other affairs to attend to, hence he didn’t say much more.

Probably also busy with the various handovers to take care of after Third Master’s passing.

Lin Yue once again inquired with the leaders of other Refugee Villages he added as friends last time if they had what he needed, but failed to receive the good news he wanted.

The things needed for robot dogs are complex, vast, and not easy to find.

But if deliberately searched...

Emmmm...

Very tempting indeed.

This old fellow, Third Master, he slipped him a move.

He still placed his resources on the trading panel and emphasized what he wanted, then closed the system panel once more.

Looking at the robot dogs working hard, they’ve already collected quite a large pile of natural sulfur ore.

"Seems, really need to think carefully about this." He sighed.