Chapter 2172: Are there pitfalls in the cooperation?

"In that case, let's use this small town as the center and search within a radius of 200 kilometers to see if we can find other small towns."

"You don't need to search that area; you can start searching from other directions," Zhuge Lingyuan said.

Without further ado, Lin Tianhao began searching for other towns with Zhuge Lingyuan.

Zhuge Lingyuan's powerful divine sense allowed him to probe from a distance, which saved Lin Tianhao a lot of time.

On the very next day, Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan found a new town about 150 kilometers away from the town where the woman in casual clothes was.

To Lin Tianhao's surprise, the new town had already reached a population of two thousand.

“This town has not only increased in population, but it also seems to be larger in area,” Zhuge Lingyuan said.

Lin Tianhao nodded slightly and said, "That's right, this town is twice the size of my Sweet Town!"

While Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan were observing, Zhuge Lingyuan looked up in one direction.

"coming!!"

As the sound faded, Lin Tianhao saw ten undead monsters dragging three undead monsters into the town in front of him.

That's quite special.

“These monsters seem to be controlled by someone,” Lin Tianhao said.

As Lin Tianhao's voice faded, a giant rock fell from the sky.

Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan took a step back to avoid the boulder.

The boulder fell, and on it appeared a refined-looking young man holding a staff and wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

The refined-looking young man raised his head, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, and said with a smile:

"You two look a bit unfamiliar."

Lin Tianhao stepped forward and said:

"Sweet Town Mayor, Lin Tianhao."

Zhuge Lingyuan followed Lin Tianhao forward, saying, "Mayor of Fengyue Town, Zhuge Lingyuan."

The refined young man smiled and nodded, saying:

"So we're all players. In that case, there's no need for further pleasantries. What brings you here?"

"Cooperation," Lin Tianhao said.

The refined young man hesitated for a moment, then said:

"If it's about cooperation, then I can only apologize. I will not cooperate with other towns, much less with players."

"why?"

The woman in casual clothes had previously refused to cooperate without even understanding what benefits would be gained from the collaboration.

"I know what you're thinking: cooperation and mutual benefit will make it easier to succeed in this challenge."

"After all, given what this level has shown so far, it's almost impossible to clear it single-handedly."

Zhuge Lingyuan nodded and said:

"That's right, that's exactly what we want to know. Why are you refusing to cooperate? Will cooperation trigger some hidden mechanism?"

The refined-looking young man opened his mouth, but ultimately shook his head and said:

"Not cooperating is not cooperating. There are no excuses or reasons. If you want to cooperate, that's your business. If I don't want to cooperate, that's my business. Understand?"

Lin Tianhao sighed, cupped his hands in farewell, and took his leave.

Zhuge Lingyuan gave a wry smile and said:

"It seems there are indeed some issues we are unaware of regarding our cooperation. However, it has been a very pleasant experience working with you. If one day we find that we can no longer cooperate, I still hope that we can remain friends, not enemies."

Lin Tianhao gave Zhuge Lingyuan a meaningful look and said:

"Having more friends is always better than having more enemies, but some things are beyond our control."

Zhuge Lingyuan hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

"Let's go and look for other towns to see if we can get any useful clues."

Next.

Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan found a new town more than 100 kilometers away.

Here, Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan encountered the same problem: the other party refused to cooperate, giving them no opportunity to discuss cooperation.

"How?"

Zhuge Lingyuan was starting to lose confidence. "In this level, there won't be any major problems with players cooperating with each other, will there?"

Lin Tianhao gave a wry smile and said:

"We'll see later. The fact that they refused to cooperate means they must already know about the problem. The fact that they're all doing well now suggests that while there might be penalties for cooperation between players, it's not as severe as we might imagine."

Zhuge Lingyuan nodded. "I hope so. Let's look for other places first and see if we can find another town. Maybe we can find out what the penalties are for players cooperating with each other from other towns."

For the next two weeks, Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan searched for other towns.

"Finally found it!!"

This small town is located more than 300 kilometers away from Lin Tianhao's town. The town is very small, with only more than 200 people.

However, the town had now been rebuilt in a magnificent manner and was very large in area.

"The town where that refined young man lived was large, probably because of the many buildings."

“The town currently has a population of just over two hundred people, so it shouldn’t be able to have such a large area.”

As soon as Zhuge Lingyuan finished speaking, Lin Tianhao already knew what Zhuge Lingyuan wanted to say.

"You mean that buildings can dispel the black fog, and as long as there are enough buildings and the population is not large, they can also dispel the gray fog and increase the area of the town."

Zhuge Lingyuan smiled and said:

“That’s right. Our current method of dealing with the fruit trees still requires someone to keep an eye on them. But if the town’s size increases and can dispel the fog, does that mean we can let the town be enveloped by the fruit trees and then snowball?”

"It seems feasible."

With the town's residents' survival issues resolved, developing the town itself seems like a good next step.

If the town is large enough, won't it eventually reach the edge of the gray fog and find the source of the disaster?

However, this was just something Lin Tianhao thought about. He had been walking for over a month without seeing the edge of the gray fog.

It is virtually impossible to build a town on the scale of the disaster.

"Let's go in and ask them if they know about the cooperation."

Lin Tianhao and Zhuge Lingyuan stepped into the magnificent town.

They had just appeared when a little girl with twin ponytails suddenly appeared.

"Invisibility? Flash?"

Zhuge Lingyuan frowned slightly, clearly not understanding why this twin-tailed loli had suddenly appeared.

"Does it matter?"

The twin-tailed loli revealed a playful smile.