["Ethan, what are you here for?"], The scarecrow's voice suddenly rang out in Ethan's mind, ["It's the middle of the night. Don't you have anywhere else to go? Why are you coming to disturb me and Miss Attendant Lady's sleep?"]
"Pfft! You think you're worthy of sleeping with Attendant Lady?", Ethan shot back, "With you like this, you can't even move. Who's sleeping with who isn't even clear."
["Mind your own business. If Miss Attendant Lady sits on top and moves herself, wouldn't that work!"]
"Heh! Heh! Heh!"
Ethan let out a cold laugh, "Believe it or not, I'll have Attendant Lady send you to the garden in a bit and stick you there so you can 'freeze' all you want in the wind."
["Sorry! I was wrong my lord."]
The scarecrow knew when to back down.
While the two were bickering, Attendant Lady had finally finished getting dressed. She walked over and opened the door, saying respectfully, "Lord, what brings you here so late? Do you need something from me?"
"Nothing. I just came to take a look, see if you're getting used to the new place."
Ethan didn't tell Attendant Lady that he was recording a video.
Mainly because he didn't want players on the world channel to feel like the people in this world were stiff or unnatural. What he wanted was a sense of authenticity. That relaxed, natural feeling could actually be conveyed through the video for players to experience as well.
Sometimes, the most genuine things are the best things.
"Lord, please come in and sit first."
Attendant Lady quickly pulled the door open and invited Ethan inside, "This house is really too comfortable. Even in weather this cold, the room is still so warm."
"If not for you building such a good house for us, even if we wouldn't exactly be freezing at night, we'd definitely be too cold to fall asleep."
"I had already made plans before."
"Originally, when this extreme weather arrived, I was going to gather everyone together and light several more bonfires. I figured we should be able to get through it."
"It's just that even I didn't expect that you would upgrade our living quarters so quickly, and make them this warm and comfortable."
"I… I…"
"I don't even know how to describe it…"
As Attendant Lady spoke, she looked like she was about to start crying too.
That immediately startled Ethan, making him wave his hands repeatedly, "Uh, Attendant Lady, I won't sit down. I still have some other things to do. I'll head off first. As long as you're comfortable living here, that's good."
As he spoke, Ethan backed out.
At this moment, the residents in the building somehow found out he had come.
One after another, they poked their heads out from rooms, from the stairs, from all directions, calling out excitedly, "Lord, what brings you here?"
"Lord, are you here to see us? Do you want to come sit at my place?"
"Lord, this house is so comfortable! It's so warm inside that you don't even need to wear clothes. It feels just like spring, it's amazing!"
"Lord…"
In the end, surrounded by countless residents, Ethan made his way out of the residential area.
Only after he returned to his villa did he replay the entire video he had just recorded. Once he confirmed that he hadn't missed capturing the equipment on the residents or the various monster-hunting trophies hanging in their homes, only then did Ethan upload it to the [World Channel].
And he added a striking line of text.
[Caption: "They say documentaries are the most real kind of film, so today I'm sharing an unedited, completely authentic 'Resident Diary' for everyone to see. As for how you think my residents are living, I won't say more. I'll leave it to you to judge."]
[World Channel]
When a video from Region Seven suddenly appeared, the entire world channel exploded!
Even the lords who had been fiercely competing to recruit people all fell silent at this moment.
Because they realized that no matter how much they tried to lure players with words, the other side had directly brought out the real deal, laying a box of money right in front of the players, and casually beckoning them over, "Come! If you want a better life, just come here, and you'll easily get everything you want."
At this moment, the lords watched as the number of people in their regional channels dropped rapidly.
Each of them felt a sharp pain, yet there was nothing they could do about Ethan. Because they hadn't just lost in terms of material conditions, they had also lost people's hearts.
What kind of video was it, if you said it was a show-off video, then what filled it instead was the harmonious life between the lord and his residents.
It seemed, that what Ethan entered weren't just buildings of residents.
It was more like he was walking into a neighborhood where everyone knew each other, greeting neighbors warmly. Although the residents respected Ethan, there wasn't the slightest trace of fear toward the lord on their faces.
This showed that Ethan must get along extremely well with his residents.
In contrast, their own residents, each one, upon seeing their lord, was like a mouse seeing a cat, shrinking back, trembling, looking as if they might be sent to their deaths at any moment.
This made it so that even if those lords recorded videos, they simply couldn't show them.
And tonight was already destined to be a sleepless night. Those players who still had some firewood and food left at home, having nothing better to do, started playing a game of picking apart the video.
["Don't be fooled by how plain this video looks. There are actually a lot of hidden details inside,"] Player Patriarch Jealous analyzed, ["I don't know if you noticed, but the residents all seem really happy when they see the lord. Calling it idol-chasing wouldn't even be an exaggeration."]
["Just this point alone is strange to me. After all, shouldn't the relationship between residents and lord be more like boss and employee?"]
["And the factory kind at that, where workers are treated like machines!"]
["But from what I see, the relationship between this lord and his residents is more like neighbors. There's even a bit of blind admiration mixed in. That's really strange!"]
["What's so strange about that?"], Player B laughed, ["You probably don't understand the lord of our Region Seven. That guy treats his people incredibly well. I once saw the lord post a screenshot. You know what it was? A group of residents eating a buffet."]
["Holy crap! A buffet!"]
Most players in the world channel weren't having an easy time. Even after struggling for so long, while most people weren't completely starving, they were basically eating whatever they managed to get.
Some people had eaten nothing but fruit for seven days straight.
Others who were a bit luckier hunted a larger animal and ended up eating roasted meat for seven days in a row.
But no matter how good roasted meat tasted, eating it for seven days straight would make anyone sick of it.
Not to mention they didn't have any seasoning at all.
So… at the moment they heard that the residents under the Region Seven lord were actually eating buffet meals, one after another couldn't help but start drooling.
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