“Why don’t you just go kill people?” Xu Lang pinched Cao Yaxuan’s smooth chin.

“I can’t just kill people outright—the main god doesn’t approve.” Cao Yaxuan pouted. “Maybe It thinks even bad guys still have a chance to change. What a Madonna.”

Gu Ya’s face darkened, thinking Cao Yaxuan was throwing shade at her.

As the former royal advisor, she had always been genuinely concerned about the nation’s welfare, her perspective and thoughts differing from ordinary players.

After carefully discerning Cao Yaxuan’s intent, it seemed she hadn’t meant it that way. Gu Ya quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing there was nothing more here, she decided to head back to her room for her daily prayers.

“Don’t go yet, there’s still stuff to do.” Xu Lang grabbed Gu Ya and pulled her over.

Being held like this in front of everyone, Gu Ya instantly blushed.

“What else is there?” she asked.

“When we were shopping at the supermarket, I bought you all a lot of clothes, right? Try them all on. If they fit, give them to me—I’ll see if I can upgrade them for you.” Xu Lang smiled.

With that, he pulled out all the clothes they’d bought at the supermarket.

Cao Yaxuan was speechless. “It feels like you’re more eager to dress us up than to upgrade the dorm.”

“Exactly, we haven’t even upgraded the dorm yet,” Senior Sister Red Butterfly chimed in.

“Fine, fine.”

Now that the limiting factor for farming points was bed size rather than tenant slots, Xu Lang wasn’t as anxious as before.

Come to think of it, with three upgrade opportunities plus one from the Data Obelisk, it seemed he could directly boost the dorm building to level ten!

There was no way he wasn’t jealous of Pandora’s high-level dorm; he’d wanted a level ten dorm for a long time.

With that in mind, Xu Lang prepared to upgrade the dorm.

But just then, the doorbell rang.

Zheng Kai, Wu Huihui, Li Shuwen, Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and others stood outside the door, each accompanied by their trusted subordinates.

“Xu Lang, they’re probably here to discuss floor allocation with us,” Wang Yazhi reminded him.

With four hundred dorm units, many had been left empty.

Earlier, Li Shuwen and the others had tried to send people to claim the Dorm Owner positions first, but the Inspection Department had talked them out of it.

Such behavior—occupying a latrine without shitting—hindered the healthy development of the ecosystem and was detrimental to the Mad King Building as a whole. The Inspection Department’s group chat had briefly mentioned this.

“Lang, this isn’t a small matter,” Wang Yazhi continued. “If we forbid them from grabbing empty dorms, then we have to set up a specific allocation plan for them, so they can coordinate the turrets properly.”

Combined floor turret batteries were far more efficient than fighting independently.

Though this round of the game hadn’t shown it yet, for ordinary players, it was an extremely important matter.

Xu Lang hadn’t wanted to be the Dorm Owner before precisely because he didn’t want to deal with these trivialities.

“Fine, let’s go meet them.” Xu Lang stood up.

He still had a mountain of things to handle and resources to digest.

Other players, lacking the incentive of the Points Leaderboard rewards, seemed comparatively laid-back.

……

This time, because there were more people, they didn’t hold the meeting in Dorm 195 but instead used the school’s ready-made conference room.

All the main members of the Mad King Community Committee were present, including Zhang Dahai, the ranger who was rarely seen.

“Dorm Owner, this is our thirteenth floor’s request.”

When working, use the title. Li Shuwen handed a document to Zhu Yan, who then passed it to Xu Lang.

Seeing that he had already organized a document so quickly, the others gritted their teeth in frustration.

No wonder he’d been so eager to have everyone swap dorms—he’d been preparing all along!

Xu Lang took the file and scanned it, finding that Li Shuwen had quite an appetite. He actually wanted to take over the entire ninth floor.

Obligations were tied to rights. Taking over the ninth floor meant Li Shuwen would have the manpower and resources of two floors—an attention-grabbing move. But Li Shuwen seemed confident he could handle the pressure.

Moreover, he proposed other suggestions, like swapping the twelfth floor with the ninth. That way, his thirteenth floor could combine with the twelfth, making coordinated operations easier.

The twelfth-floor Floor Leader was Zhang Sanfeng, who sat there looking a bit distracted, probably still worrying about those brothers.

Those brothers, even if they hadn’t been killed by that mysterious creature, would have turned into Mad Vanguards or gone completely insane by now.

“As for the rest of you, if you have thoughts about swapping dorms, say it now.” Xu Lang tapped his index finger on the table, lazily scanning everyone with the Nightmare Eye. “Wu Huihui, you first.”

“I have no ideas. Keep things as they are. I manage the cafeteria, and the twentieth-floor players don’t want to go to other floors,” Wu Huihui replied.

After Wu Huihui finished, Pandora stood up, appearing just a little taller than when she was seated.

She had her thoughts ready. “Dorm Owner, I have no interest in Pioneering or territory disputes, but I want to be the Factory Head of the Soul Factory. I’ll pay the employees’ wages myself, and the highest command of the Building Guard remains yours!”

Everyone turned to look at her.

Some sneered. Some showed disdain.

The position of Factory Head might seem like a tough gig, but it was actually a cushy one. The Ethereal Form Building Guards inside were essentially resources and troops.

Pandora was nervous, feeling like her little schemes had been seen through by Xu Lang, yet also feeling he wouldn’t fight her over these scraps.

Xu Lang kept a straight face and sent a private message to Tong Qi.

He had reserved the position of Soul Factory Head for Tong Qi, after all, since her attributes matched.

【Tong Qi: I want to focus on cultivation.】

“Alright. Here’s the key to the factory. Before each game round starts, you need to ensure the Building Guard is at full capacity.” Xu Lang nodded in agreement.

Everyone’s eyes lit up, feeling that Pandora had opened up a new avenue of thought.

From then on, everyone’s demands expanded beyond dorm quotas, Pioneering points, and Safe Zone resources to also include factories.

Time slowly trickled by until the sky began to lighten.

Glancing at the dawn light filtering through the curtains, Xu Lang was secretly amazed.

He never expected this discussion to drag on for so long. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

It had already been several hours.

There was no helping it. If you wanted to build your own little empire, you had to be a good leader. When he had unified the two dorm buildings before, he’d already experienced the taste of this kind of office work.

Only back then, everyone kept their distance from the Twilight Building, and no Floor Leader was willing to move there—they all took a wait-and-see approach.

But this time, the interests were clear, so everyone was ambitious and fought fiercely. If Xu Lang hadn’t been holding them back, they’d all be seeing red by now.

Fortunately, after all this time, things were finally settled.