Wang Xiaohu asked Fang Yu to wait for him for two days; he planned to contact the military of the Duorong Federation to discuss the handling plan for this matter together.

As for Fang Yu, he had also arranged to meet with Lu Kun for a drink at a tavern.

On one hand, he inquired about Wang Chen's situation. Upon learning that Wang Chen's prison sentence was 37 years and is probably already picking up soap for the big shots in the Ocean Court's prison, Fang Yu sighed slightly with relief.

"Remember to pull some strings and get Wang Chen into the room of the muscular round-faced man with stubble. This guy looks delicate — just the type the muscle man likes."

Fang Yu took a sip of his drink and spoke slowly.

Lu Kun: ...

This damn... chasing him into prison?!

Lu Kun cleared his throat silently and mourned for Wang Chen in his heart for two seconds...

...

Subsequently, Fang Yu introduced Lu Kun to Wang Xiaohu, strongly promoting a collaboration among the three parties.

He only took responsibility for the final joint mission, leaving the headache of the ship sailing towards the West Qinghai Sea Region and what it implies to the parties.

As the middleman linking everyone together and seeing Lu Kun and Wang Xiaohu starting to figure things out, Fang Yu let them handle it while he busied himself with his matters.

Over these two days, besides following the instructor to continue training in firearm skills, Fang Yu also threw Dice twice separately.

The first time, he rolled rewards from the Ocean Court mission of experience and points.

2 points.

Not too bad, better than nothing.

Experience: 6000→12000

Ocean Court total points: 38→48/100 (F-level)

The second time, he first upgraded his Level to 12, with experience changing from: 25700/13000→12700/18000 (Level 13)

Then he continued to roll the Dice.

4 points.

Fang Yu used 1 point to upgrade himself, with Energy Level changing from: 10.6→11.6

As for the other 3 points.

Fang Yu allocated 2 points to [Magic Clone].

The Magic Clone skill was already at Level 4 before.

And as this Level upgrades to Level 5, a new ability is introduced: Magic Clone Explosion.

If not switching positions with the magic clone, it can directly explode, causing area damage.

After Fang Yu added 2 Lord Points to [Magic Clone], the changes on the [Magic Clone] panel were:

[Magic Clone lv.4→6]

Skill effects:

1. Release 1 magic clone to a designated location, limit on quantity: 4→6, magic clone speed: 4→6X captain speed.

2. Upon killing an enemy, creates a magic clone, gaining 16%→20% of the enemy's Energy Level within 50 seconds→2 minutes, and magic clones generated after killing can self-destruct, self-destruct Energy Level: 5X Lord Ability Level.

Maximum distance for magic clone switch: 4000 meters→6000 meters.

As for the last Lord Point, Fang Yu directly invested it in... Ma!

Ma's elite point: 4

With this one Lord Point investment in Ma, Ma's leadership skill instantly changed to:

[Shared Wealth]: Captain gains 20→200 silver coins, crew members get 10→100 silver coins.

Fang Yu invested in Ma because Ma's leadership points are resource-type.

It effectively increases the growth rate of the sea vessel indirectly.

Fang Yu plans to upgrade Ma's elite points to 5 so he can unlock a highly cost-effective experience skill.

Typically, captains invest resources in crew members in the early stages and combat power in the later stages to balance growth and combat strength.

The reason Fang Yu focuses on investing in Ma also includes:

Ma's skills provide considerable rewards for the crew members!

Through enhancing over the past two days, Fang Yu realized...

The sea vessel and crew members are essentially complementary to each other.

Improvement in the sea vessel's progress may not be useful unless the crew members' progress synchronizes to leverage the synergy of one plus one is greater than two.

Previously Fang Yu didn't think so, but now he realized if the task was not settled, some crew might be unable to use the enhanced components, so he devoted some attention to enhancing the crew's experience.

On this day...

While still on the sea vessel, Fang Yu saw Luu Yuan and the crew come back from the marketplace, laughing and chewing with oily mouths and a faint booze smell.

Fang Yu frowned and immediately canceled the crew's vacation.

This bunch, always doing nothing.

No way!

Go take on missions!

Fang Yu sent his crew either to the Ji Clan Trading Association to take on small personal tasks like carrying things or gathering materials, or to the Ocean Court to have Wang Xiaohu assign some personal tasks that had no points but had experience rewards.

Besides the captain, the crew has opportunities to trigger tasks through interaction and integration with the indigenous people.

Both Wang Xiaohu and Lu Kun are old acquaintances of Fang Yu. Seeing Fang Yu sending his crew, they immediately understood his intentions.

Alright!

Distribute tasks then, let's get serious back on jobs, time to end the leisurely holiday.

At this moment, Fang Yu transformed into an evil capitalist, chuckling as he urged his crew to earnestly complete small tasks.

Mainly...

Since Fang Yu has the Dice, his experience scale will gradually surpass his crew's, some day resulting in the crew not keeping up with his own Level and being unable to use upgraded components.

This is what Fang Yu does not want to see.

Hence, he forced the crew to take missions to catch up in personal experience and narrow the experience gap with Fang Yu, the captain.

The personal tasks triggered by crew members on land are not counted in the Lord tasks of the sea vessel.

After all, when crew members haven't located the sea vessel, they still need to survive. The panel permits them to accept small personal tasks on land.

The acquired experience only pertains to personal crew experience and can't trigger any sea vessel-related leader skills like [Shared Wealth].

The only inheritable aspect is the experience bonus originating from the Salted Fish's force Level.

This bonus doesn't come from the panel but from the force's internal Level system.

The crew wailed, feeling like the sky is falling; their happy holiday life seemed to vanish instantly as if they never had a vacation.

But there's no choice since Fang Yu has made up his mind. The crew must find ways to compensate for the experience gap caused by his dice rolls.

Now that he is Level 13 himself, while his initial four elite crew members only reached Level 10, the gap has appeared and can't go unchecked.

From the sidelines, Wang Xiaohu and Lu Kun peeked at Fang Yu's crew.

Casually cracking sunflower seeds, they delight in the scene.

With these crew members helping, truly, a lot of tedious work is cleared up. Even Wang Xiaohu can momentarily step out of the office, now that Ma, with a highly capable Brain Domain, is processing files, issuing tasks, and logging captains' mission acceptance.

Truly extraordinary, incredibly handy!

It leads veteran captains to think they walked into the wrong place every time they enter the Ocean Court office—realizing only after a thorough check...

This Salted Fish Captain Fang Yu... being recently titled as the "top local rascal" in the veteran captain group chat isn't unfounded.

He indeed possesses some peculiar and interesting connections...

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