Global Lords: Me and My Calabash Kiddos

Chapter 111: Chapter 87: Island in the Lake, Fortune Beyond the Mist (Part 2)

Next time the Indigenous People attack, Yi Tian wants to test the effect of the saltwater lake.

”Daddy, a lot of water has appeared around us. It’s so, so big!” Second Child said to Yi Tian.

”Daddy knows, that’s something Daddy created. From now on, it’s all our territory.”

Yi Tian said, patting Second Child on the head.

”Daddy, the giant panda is trying to run away. Hmm... it ran to the water’s edge...”

”Daddy, the giant panda is staying by the water for a while, now it’s swimming, looks like it’s planning to swim away.”

After a while, Second Child spoke again.

Yi Tian smacked his forehead. All mammals can swim, of course the Yin Yang Giant Panda can swim too.

Who would have thought this guy was so strong but acted so cautiously.

The territory’s strange changes—don’t frighten the Yin Yang Giant Panda off so it doesn’t dare come anymore.

”Daddy, the giant panda swam for a few hundred meters, then came back...”

Yi Tian was very puzzled. With your strength, swimming dozens of kilometers should be a piece of cake. Why’d you just swim out a bit and then return?

Do you actually think there are monsters in the water that might eat you or something?

”Daddy, the giant panda is sneaking around in the mountains.”

”Daddy, the giant panda found a cave on a very hidden mountainside and squeezed in there...”

Second Child kept reporting the Yin Yang Giant Panda’s movements to Yi Tian.

”Eh, don’t worry about him. Go to sleep!”

Yi Tian hugged Second Child and went into the room. The other kiddos were sprawled all over the ground.

Yi Tian put Second Child on the bed, then lay down to sleep on the floor himself.

At night, after hiding in a cave in the western mountains for a while, the Yin Yang Giant Panda sneaked off again to the High Mountain Purple Bamboo Forest.

This place is really scary. Everything keeps changing. It can’t even tell east from west.

The water is so deep, and so salty. What if there are monsters in the water?

The Yin Yang Giant Panda decided to use its impressive stealth skills to hide out in this territory.

Later, I’ll go check on my little bamboos...

Morning.

After entering ”Unity of Heaven and Man” again, Yi Tian finally advanced his Celestial Ice Palm to the Great Success Realm.

Yi Tian had a lucky streak today and managed to cultivate two points of Spiritual Power Value.

The territory was ”in disarray and everything needs to be done”.

Apart from planning and building the outer city land and a new pasture, Yi Tian planned to plant 3.5 million various trees in the new north forest area, east forest area, and south forest area.

And on two continuous mountain ranges, Yi Tian planned to plant another 500,000 trees.

Of course, Yi Tian wouldn’t buy saplings at the auction house—saplings are way too expensive now, even if Yi Tian could afford them, he wouldn’t buy them.

He’d wait for the advanced trees to grow a bit more and use propagation methods.

However, some water-tolerant intermediate trees and willows by the lake could just be planted directly from cuttings.

These newly grown trees were highly vigorous.

”Waaa... the slaves revolted. I thought they were working too slow, so I scolded and beat them a bit, didn’t give them food. Woke up this morning—gone! All of them! Their Loyalty was over sixty, too.”

Yi Tian, eating breakfast, checked the district chat channel and immediately saw a Lord crying about it.

”Bro, Loyalty drops for slaves. Speaking of which, it pisses me off. I’ve run out of food lately. My slaves get one meal a day, so Loyalty drops a little. Damn, I’m eating only one meal a day too. Am I, as Lord, supposed to eat once and let them eat three times?” — Red Rock Star Qiong Clan Fei Yiming.

”You guys are lucky. Hasn’t there already been a few murders of Lords by slaves in the district? If it were just me, I’d put up with starving for a few days, but slaves are just fucking delicate. I heard D-level strength can command F-level slaves, and their Loyalty barely drops. Power is everything—if you take slaves, you have to act within your means.” — Wind Race Chief Feng.

”Supposedly, once slave Loyalty hits 90, they won’t betray anymore. Mine never gets past eighty, just hovers around sixty or seventy. I’ve treated them well, only making them work fifteen hours a day.” — Wing Race’s Kong Ming.

”Don’t say more! One of my slaves is shady—it was at 80 Loyalty in the morning, then 70 in the afternoon, then 60 at night! I always feel like it’s plotting against me. Can’t sleep at night because of it. Damn, the slave market is booming again—I’ll sell it right now.” — Deer Race’s Deer Biyong.

After the winter, as the Lords fought each other, the slave market changed overnight.

Slaves that used to be nearly worthless became hot commodities, with their prices doubling in just two days.

”Are we wrong to treat the Indigenous People as slaves and exploit their labor? I have a slave, very smart, deeply knowledgeable about many classics and stories from the Ten Kingdoms Region, knows astronomy and geography. We call them natives—they call us outsiders. We’re not really any nobler than them.” — Forest Elf Mumu Qingqing.

”Mumu Qingqing is right! There’s an old saying on my home planet—’Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.’ If you’re just a small Lord with a couple dozen slaves in your territory, it might be fine. But if you have hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands, and you keep doing this, they will unite one day and kill us all.” — Earth Human Race’s Yi Tian.

At this point, most Lords treat slaves by just giving them something to eat, making them submit, and killing them if they don’t.

Then, no matter what the job, slaves have to do it! They don’t even see slaves as people.

Lords, deep down, look down on the Indigenous People.

Yet the Indigenous People also have rituals and culture, a glorious history, deep heritage, and even Divine Spirits that the Lords look up to.

If Yi Tian wanted, he could bring some people from the Horn Alliance to heel. But he didn’t—he always draws a clear line.

It’s not that you can’t have slaves—since once there’s enmity, it’s hard to resolve.

Slaves are fine, but you must have enough power to keep them in check, like with the Horn Alliance captives.