Chapter 48: Guarding the Outpost
Whoosh～～Bang!
Just after reading the mission introduction, Shi Li saw a firework-like flare draw a curve, fly high into the sky and explode.
Specially made fireworks are still eye-catching even in daytime.
It's just that this method seems a bit primitive.
Then he saw several lines of prompts appear above the sentry post.
[Next wave of enemies attacks: 00:14:59]
[Current annihilation wave: 0/100]
A countdown, and a progress indicator.
"This dungeon is quite interesting. It's a tower defense type."
"I know this well, just follow my instructions."
While speaking, Director Xiu waved his hand and opened his deck panel.
Dozens of card shadows surrounded her. These were the cards she often used in tower defense dungeons.
"First, you need to choose a suitable position for your follower card based on its characteristics."
“The effects of the same minion card in different copies may sometimes be slightly different, which you need to pay attention to.”
As she spoke, she took out a card and pressed it on the ground on top of the sentry building.
Buzz!
A blue light descended from the sky, and a double-barreled light turret appeared beside her.
Seeing this, Shi Li opened his own deck.
There is a difference between follower-oriented cards and equipment-oriented cards.
Take the follower-type [Kung Fu Sheep Rabbit] and the equipment-type [Iron Stick] as examples.
Follower cards can also become equipment cards. For example, when he is equipped with [Kung Fu Sheep Rabbit], his boxing and kicking skills can be improved.
However, when equipping a minion card, the item will not be materialized. However, when equipping an equipment card such as [Iron Rod], you will get a materialized item on top of the effect bonus.
Conversely, minion-type cards can materialize into minions when acting as minion cards, but equipment-type cards cannot materialize into minions directly.
Of course, there will be some two-way special cases, which can be perfect for both equipment and followers.
Since this is the tower defense world, the first card that Shi Li thought of was the [Giant Zombie].
After all, this card is large in size, so it should be able to defend a fairly large area.
So I looked and found that it was indeed the case.
"This is a tower defense instance, so your cards should all have an activity range and an attack range."
"The activity range refers to the area where your followers can move around the card. This is a feature of the tower defense dungeon."
"There's no need to explain the attack range. It's easy to understand."
At this time, Director Xiu began to introduce.
Shi Li looked at the card of [Giant Zombie Beast] and indeed saw two numbers.
However, this card is difficult to move, and its only means of attack is ordinary fists, so its range of movement and attack is not large.
[Giant Zombie]: Reduces a certain amount of damage when attacked
It also has a passive effect that looks pretty good, suitable for tower defense.
After thinking about it, he jumped off the sentry post.
Then press the card on the yellow soil near the sentry post wall.
[Ahhh!!!]
The blue beam of light descended and transformed into the upper body of a giant zombie beast.
The cards themselves do not have intelligence, but when they act as followers, they can understand and execute the instructions given by the player to a large extent, like emotionless machines.
"Sure, this card of yours can act as our meat shield."
Director Xiu expressed his satisfaction with this big follower.
"If there are any ranged cards, it would be more appropriate to put them on top."
Then she gave everyone some advice.
Following her suggestion, Shi Li returned to the top of the sentry building. He did have a few ranged cards that were suitable for him.
【Meow～】
The first thing he released was the fat cat.
Even though it was a cat, he found that this guy's range of activities was also pitifully small.
It is even smaller than the [Giant Zombie], almost the size of a card, equivalent to 0.
Probably because he is lazy by nature and doesn't want to move.
"What do you have on this card?"
Secretary He asked curiously when he saw the cat squatting against the wall without moving its butt.
"Hmm... Every 10 seconds, it can make targets in an area [Fear] for 3 seconds."
Shi Li explained.
"But according to the dungeon description, the enemies should be robots, right? Will they be [feared]?"
Mushroom expressed doubts.
"If it's a high-level mechanical life form like me, I will be afraid, but if the other party is too low-level, then I won't be afraid."
Sweeper No. 2 stepped forward to explain.
"Is that so?"
But when Shi Li looked at the other person's trash can-like body, he didn't feel that it was advanced at all.
In addition to [Wild Fat Cat], [Fox-Headed Guardian] and [Brotherly Funeral Beast] are also suitable for long-range use.
The attack method of [Fox-Headed Guardian] is to release vines to whip the enemy from a long distance, and can also cast [Entangle] when necessary.
It is quite surprising that [Brother's Beast] is a ranged card. From the description on the card, it seems that as a follower in this copy, it does not have the ability to make people [blind], but how it attacks specifically is not shown. You can pay attention to it when the enemy attacks later.
Next, Shi Li arranged his own defense line around the meat wall of the [Giant Zombie Beast].
The ones in the back row on the podium are:
[Wild Fat Cat], no attack power, low defense power, and no activity range.
Pure control role.
[Fox-headed Guardian], strong attack power, low defense power, medium activity range, and large attack range.
Can control while attacking.
[Brother's Funeral Beast], medium attack power, medium defense power, medium activity range, and large attack range.
In front of the sentry post, the following items are arranged on the ground:
[Giant zombie beast], strong attack power, strong defense, and extremely small range of activity.
It occupies a large area and has damage reduction, making it suitable for blocking the enemy's advance.
[Kung Fu Sheep Rabbit], strong attack power, medium defense, and medium range of activity.
She is a close guard who performs martial arts with fists and feet, which is equivalent to a cloth armor high-attack profession, but her agile body movement should allow her to have good survivability.
[Mourning Beast Dog], medium attack power, low defense, and large range of activity.
It can serve as a support roaming role, and its mutated bloodline gives it stronger self-healing ability.
[Ugly Chef], low attack power, low defense power, and small range of activity.
This is a melee control card. When placed after the [Giant Zombie], it is responsible for releasing [Taunt] and attracting enemies to be dealt with by teammates.
[Wilson's Fire Boy], low attack power, no defense power, and extremely large range of activity.
This is a follower card that will die if touched by someone, and may also die even if no one touches it. Its advantage is that it moves very fast and can act as a reconnaissance unit without overturning.
[Guard Adjutant], low attack power, low defense power, medium range of activity.
It is relatively agile, but not as good as the Zombie Hound and Kung Fu Sheep Girl. Its greatest function is to detect hidden units within its range.
[Two-headed Captain], medium attack power, medium defense power, medium range of activity.
It should be the main output + blocking unit of the cards in his hand, because it can summon two teams of recruits to form a small-scale combat team.
The above is Shi Li’s lineup. He has no choice, after all, he only has ten follower cards, no more, no less.
Under the guidance of Director Xiu, the others also arranged their own card lineups one after another.
Among them, the most conspicuous is the straw man's defensive lineup.
Its few burning garbage cards actually have the dual attributes of followers + equipment.
But to be honest, it's useless even if it has bidirectional attributes.
At this time, these burning garbage were piled together and turned into a pile of burning garbage , which seemed to have no defense capabilities.
On the contrary, it itself, holding a fire extinguisher, may be the main force to resist the mechanical rebels.
There is another card lineup that must be mentioned, which is Mushroom's.
All cards added to its deck will be forcibly transformed into mushroom cards.
Therefore, the ten followers it displayed at this time were all mushrooms.
At first glance, it looks like mushrooms fighting zombies.
After everyone finished placing their cards, they saw that there were only 10 minutes left, so they began to explore the surroundings.
Outside the outpost is just pure yellow land, with nothing to explore. Their main exploration area is inside the outpost.
The internal structure of the outpost is quite simple. The most eye-catching thing is the base of a device for absorbing and refining energy.
The huge crystal placed on the base of the device is the main source of energy for the entire outpost.
And their mission is to protect this thing.
This large white crystal is 1.5 meters in diameter and 3 meters in height.
Half of this thing is in the sentry post and half is on top.
The exposed part is protected by a special force field defense membrane.
Apart from this, the interior of the entire outpost is quite simple.
There wasn't much equipment, not even food or water.
After all, the original garrison here was composed of robots, so they certainly didn’t need this kind of supplies.
The ten of them were assimilated into the identity of robots by the copy, so naturally there was no need to replenish them.
【Wuhu! The enemy is coming! 】
Just when everyone had finished their exploration, they heard loud shouts coming from outside.
"It's my follower card."
As soon as Shi Li heard it, he knew it was the cry of the will-o'-the-wisp boy.
So they quickly climbed up to the sentry platform and saw smoke and dust rolling in from all directions.
"Director, you are right."
Secretary He originally thought that the enemy would only attack from one direction, and suggested waiting for the enemy to appear before making quick arrangements.
Director Shixiu asserted that the enemy would inevitably surround them, and asked everyone to spend time and effort to set up the defense line in advance.
"This wave of enemies is of a very simple type. It shouldn't be difficult to deal with."
Sweeper No. 2 took advantage of its electronic eyes and was the first to see the incoming mechanical rebels.
Not long after, Shi Li also saw their faces clearly.
These were a group of four-legged machines painted in yellow camouflage, somewhat similar to the mechanical dogs he had seen at the Blue Star Technology Exhibition.
At that time, there was a saying that those mechanical dogs could easily be turned into weapons of war, and now it turns out to be true.
However, their means of attack seemed somewhat primitive. There was something similar to a bayonet installed on the front of their heads, and a crossbow on their backs, but with only one crossbow arrow.
"Be careful, these guys may be able to attack from a distance."
"We'd better hide in the sentry post and observe first."
As soon as Director Xiu finished speaking, everyone saw the mechanical dogs shaking their backs.
Whoosh!
The crossbow arrows flew high into the sky, drawing an arc and shooting towards them.
“Ga ga ga!”
Uncle Tiaotiao couldn't speak and was frightened and screamed on the spot.
"Quick, hide in the sentry post!"
Fortunately, Director Xiu had foresight and had already opened the manhole cover on the platform and signaled everyone to go in.
Everyone filed into the passage one after another, but it was still too hasty and some people were slow.
"I was hit by an arrow, damn!"
When the straw man climbed down the passage, his forehead had been pierced by a thick crossbow arrow.
But looking at it, it still looks full of energy.
"Phew, luckily you don't have a brain."
Mushroom breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you talking about, shit!"
The straw man was somewhat dissatisfied and pulled the crossbow arrow out of his head in front of it.
The crossbow arrow was clean and had nothing on it , which indirectly proved that there was nothing in its head.
However, this type of piercing attack poses little threat to the straw structure, so it is not a big deal.
"No, why is there one missing?"
At this moment, Shi Li suddenly felt something was wrong. A familiar green jelly was missing among the crowd.
As soon as he finished speaking, the broadcast rang in everyone's ears.
[Ding Dong! ]
[Slime, OUT! ]
[Slime, OUT! ]
This is a prompt that only teammates can hear.
"Uh..."
"That unlucky kid, is he dead again?"
"It's only been a short while since the dungeon started. It's so short-lived."
"It's not good news if the number of personnel is reduced too quickly."
For a moment, everyone was speechless.
"It's safe. These mechanical dogs seem to only have one crossbow bolt."
At this time, Secretary He had already seen the battle situation outside through the observation window.
"Then let's go out quickly. After all, only if we lead the team personally can the follower cards play a greater role."
The parrot suggested.
So everyone climbed out of the passage again.
At this time, the mechanical dogs were already fighting with the follower cards below.
Although the Slime's departure caused the defense line to lose a corner, it can still be dealt with by supplementing it with the surrounding minion cards. We can just reallocate the positions after this wave of battle.
What everyone is most concerned about now is to check whether the core crystal is intact.
【993／1000】
When they saw the remaining energy value displayed on the force field, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
One wave of crossbow fire only consumed 7 bars of energy, which was acceptable.
The average drop per wave is 7, so 100 waves is only 700.
As long as the force field does not disappear, the core crystal will not be damaged.
"You all need to pay attention. The safety of the players is the most important thing in this kind of dungeon."
"The minion card is killed. It can be summoned again after a cooldown period."
"But once the player is gone, his entire team of minion cards is gone too."
“So we have to protect ourselves.”
Director Xiu once again emphasized safety.
Next, everyone began to clean up the platform under her command.
At this time, the place was littered with scattered or upside-down crossbow arrows, which seriously affected their movements, and they had to clean them up.
