Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 10: The Battle for the Head of the Household

Donation?

No, he would keep this wheat field for now.

After wolfing down breakfast in a hurry, Li Wei immediately started building a fence for his wheat field. The materials were readily available - wooden poles he had prepared for constructing a perimeter wall. These were arm-thick, over two meters tall logs. While not abundant in quantity, they were more than enough to enclose the 150 square meter wheat field.

He even planned to build a stone wall around the outer perimeter later, since this was his personal property after all.

He worked continuously until noon before finally completing the task. At the very least, no wild animals would come to cause trouble before the seeds sprouted.

With that done and having breathed a sigh of relief, Li Wei ate lunch and was just about to enjoy a good nap when a series of messages flashed before him.

It turned out the house Penny was responsible for had finally been completed.

[House construction successful. Since the family is currently in turmoil and lacks a family head (father deceased), with the risk of disintegration at any moment, this house belongs to an individual rather than the family]

[Calculating rewards... Current total reward: 100 Construction Experience points]

[You participated in the house construction and contributed several important materials. You will therefore receive 20 Construction Experience points. Additionally, you have the right to rest in this house for free. When the house is donated to the family, you will receive 2 Family Contribution points.][Friendly reminder: Due to your insufficient participation in the house construction, you do not have the authority to voluntarily donate the house to the family]

[Apprentice Cook *** did not participate in the house construction. She will need to pay fees to reside there. You can earn 0.2 experience points daily from this.]

[Apprentice Craftsman *** has initiated a Plot Kill vote against you. If the vote succeeds, you will die from severe dysentery within 24 hours. At that time, all your memories will be erased, your Farmer Card will be stripped, you will be sent back to your original spawn point, and you will lose your awakening opportunity]

[Apprentice Cook *** has agreed to the Plot Kill vote against you. The Plot Kill has been approved. You have passively consumed 3 Family Contribution points. This Plot Kill vote has been forcibly canceled. For the next 30 days, you will have Plot Kill immunity]

[Your Family Contribution has decreased by 3 points. Current remaining Family Contribution: 3 points.]

[Friendly reminder: When a Plot Kill vote is not approved, you can continuously initiate Plot Kill votes as long as you have sufficient Family Contribution points]

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"Damn, these two bitches!"

Li Wei truly hadn't expected Penny to be so ruthless and decisive, nor that Fila would actually agree.

Damn, what was she thinking?

For a moment, Li Wei was absolutely furious.

However, when he looked up and saw Fila dozing off over there, his emotions quickly calmed down. From now on, he shouldn't get angry so easily. At this point, he had to admit one thing - voting for Plot Kills was actually the core setting of this mission scenario, part of the game rules. If he couldn't fight it, he could only find ways to adapt and strive for more advantages.

Taking a deep breath, Li Wei stopped thinking about these matters. He directly picked up his sheepskin blanket and entered the newly built house, found a spot, and fell fast asleep. This was his well-deserved right.

He slept straight through until sunset, and when he woke up, Li Wei felt refreshed and full of energy throughout his body. The hard work of this period hadn't worn him down at all - instead, it felt like he had been reborn.

When he stepped out of the house, he was surprised to see that on the empty plot near the campsite where he had originally planned to cultivate farmland, there were now about fifty mud bricks. Penny must have made all of these.

She had already impatiently started a new scenario, so was her next step to fire bricks, build furnaces, smelt iron, and take the industrial route?

"Wait, her Craftsman Card probably leveled up."

Li Wei looked at the rows of mud bricks with complex emotions. To be fair, the craftsmanship was quite impressive - this must be the enhancement brought by the Craftsman Card.

If his guess was correct, Penny's Craftsman Card was now two-star.

Her advantages were accumulating.

At the same time, Li Wei also understood why Penny had voted for his Plot Kill. In a family with limited resources, dividing efforts was most undesirable - you couldn't pursue both the industrial route and the farming route simultaneously.

Unless one side chose to submit, otherwise they would fall into a certain degree of internal conflict.

The problem was, they were all players, and they all wanted to develop and level up their core cards, so conflict was inevitable.

Because this was a battle of routes.

"George, I plan to build a brick kiln. Can you help me tomorrow?"

By the campfire, Penny held a bowl of wild vegetable soup and called out to Li Wei. It was a very ordinary sentence.

But Li Wei understood - this was Penny's ultimatum!

Either submit, or wait to be voted for Plot Kill!

In a sense, because their cheap father had died and the family head position was vacant, and Fila was sickly, the family head position could only be contested between the two of them.

This was the competition between them.

In that moment, Li Wei's mind raced rapidly. He actually considered surrendering - reducing internal conflict could be a good thing.

He didn't necessarily have to become the family head.

However, he also realized that simply siding with Penny wouldn't be enough - he would need to offer a pledge of loyalty. For example, if Penny initiated a Plot Kill vote against Fila, would he follow and vote?

Although he didn't like Fila either, he absolutely didn't want to see a new player appear, because that would mean more uncertainty.

So, he couldn't side with her.

Besides, why couldn't he become the family head?

"Sorry, Penny. Tomorrow I plan to go into the forest to see if I can hunt some rabbits. We need more food."

Li Wei refused in a formal manner. This excuse also fit the scenario logic and the family's development route - food was indeed running low, and those two bags of wheat wouldn't last long.

Speaking of which, Li Wei was quite curious - if Penny was so determined to pursue the industrial route, was she planning to buy food from outside?

But she had mentioned earlier that there was a plague outbreak outside.

Or was Penny only focused on leveling up her Craftsman Card, not caring about anyone else's survival?

"Oh, my dear brother, then you must be careful. The forest has more than just poisonous snakes."

After saying this, Penny gave Li Wei a meaningful look and stopped speaking.

Fila remained completely silent, neither opposing nor supporting.

But she was definitely no saint either.

Thinking back now, when Fila had agreed to Penny's Plot Kill vote earlier, it probably wasn't to vote him out of the game, but to limit his development - pretty words like "weakening your opponent equals strengthening yourself"!

"So this Family Contribution thing must be quite important. Only when Family Contribution reaches a certain value can someone become the family head?"

"It looks like Penny is determined to become the family head."

"Or maybe Fila is competing too. Although she's sickly, her core card is the Cook Card. Now that she cooks every day, her cooking experience must be skyrocketing. Tsk tsk, I need to be careful around her - she might be a sneaky player!"

In that moment, Li Wei's wariness toward Fila instantly increased severalfold.