Volume 3 Chapter 2 Land Reclamation and Construction (2)
When we returned to the city, most of the alliance members had arrived. At exactly six o'clock, I also gave a speech, and then led this large group of more than sixty masters and more than two hundred newcomers to the base.
When we arrived, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. At this time, some of the 200 people who were stationed at the station had gone offline, and some had come online after going offline, and the total number remained at around 150. With the addition of this group of new forces, the profiteer and I hurriedly organized them and put them to work. The progress of land reclamation was accelerated a lot, but the work area increased, and it was night again, and the difficulty of protection work also increased greatly. We piled up the shrub branches that could not be used as building materials cut during the day around and lit more than a dozen bonfires. In the dream, the flames did not have the effect of dispersing monsters, but under the illumination of the fire, the sight range was farther, and the monsters could be discovered with a little advance warning.
The patrol team members worked hard. At night, it was the world of predators! Various carnivores appeared much more frequently than during the day. Moreover, these monsters had high AI and knew how to avoid the strong and attack the weak. They often did not fight with the combat team members, but quietly pounced into the work team and bit a few to death.
But we can't stop working, because the night is when most people are online, especially since Fantasy has opened the sleep function, many people spend half the night sleeping in the game and the other half playing the game. Therefore, most of the alliance members are online in the first half of the night, and we can't waste this precious time!
In order to concentrate manpower and save energy, the profiteer and I also made a unified arrangement: all members who are online at night will work in the first half of the night, and then set up tents and sleep together in the second half of the night!
In order to deal with the harassment from wild beasts, I came up with a solution: I selected knights from all the combat team members, a total of 18 members, divided into groups of three, stationed in different parts of the work site, each group was responsible for monitoring a range, and wherever wild beasts appeared, the knight group responsible for that area would immediately chase and kill them. Relying on the fast speed of their mounts, the wild beasts were often quickly caught up and killed, and it would be difficult for them to cause heavy casualties to the staff!
At 2:30 in the evening, we asked everyone to camp and rest, and told the combat team members to wake up at 6:30 in the morning (there is a timer wake-up function), and go out of the tent to clean up the monsters that spawned in the middle of the night. The work team members came out half an hour later for safety reasons. After the alliance members went to bed, I checked the work situation today. I was very satisfied with the progress today. Nearly one million square meters of wasteland have been developed! In fact, a lot of time was wasted on the way here from Pojun City. Now the alliance members are basically all here, and the offline tents are set up here. Although this is a huge expense, tomorrow we will be at the station as soon as we go online, and we can start working immediately, saving a lot of walking time.
The profiteer hadn't gone to rest yet. He was collating and compiling the working hours of each member recorded today with red eyes. This was the basis for future remuneration. I was about to persuade the profiteer to go to bed early, but he looked up and smiled bitterly at me: "Blood, I'm afraid we are going to have an economic crisis!"
In fact, because I won the championship of the martial arts competition, the profiteer used the gang's funds to place a large bet and earned more than 400,000 gold coins. After deducting taxes ( gambling taxes), the net income was 376,000 gold coins! This money was deposited into the gang's account, and our construction funds suddenly became much more abundant. Even the profiteer who has always been careful with his budgets thought that it didn't matter if he spent more money to speed up the construction. Although this income could not be attributed to me personally, it was considered an outstanding contribution to the gang. After unanimous discussion and approval by the "board of directors", my shares increased by 5%. In fact, I also knew that this was their compensation for the fact that they thought I took less at the beginning.
I was shocked and said, "How is that possible? Doesn't our gang fund have more than 800,000 gold coins?"
The profiteer said, "The problem is that our previous plan was based on the general initial gang territory of 3 square kilometers! Now the territory has expanded three times, which means that it will take three times more man-hours to open up the wasteland. The high-level members who originally participated in the construction task could receive 5 gold coins per hour. When I realized that it was not right, Ah Wei had already advertised this condition when recruiting people! In addition, we cannot treat new and old players too differently. We also promised low-level players a reward of 3 gold coins per working hour. I calculated that these two expenses would cost 150,000 gold coins! In addition, there are subsidies for deaths in the work, various Expenses, etc., are not important. The key is that the territory has expanded, the defense area has also expanded, and the cost of building a defense wall is huge! Materials are far from enough. The price of buying from the system is very high, and the architects we recruited are too low-level and can't be used. We must hire a group of high-level construction NPCs from the system, and there are other expenses... In short, according to my budget, by the time the Thunder Alliance headquarters is established, we will have almost no liquid funds left on our books. Of course, the territory is large, and it will make money quickly, but we must make a sum of money to support the most difficult time, otherwise it is better to just disband. "
I was also frowning after hearing what the profiteer said. Yes, I have a cornucopia, and I can earn a lot of money every day by killing monsters, but that little money can allow me to live a good petty bourgeoisie life, but it is nothing when it comes to gang building. Are they really going to force me to sell the artifact?
Fortunately, the profiteer said, "There are ways to temporarily raise funds... Well, let's not talk about it now. It would be best if we can get some money during this period of time. If not, I will handle the fundraising."
Well, it's good that there is a way. The profiteers always keep their promises, so I feel relieved. Besides, there is still some time, maybe he can get something good like monkey wine and sell it for hundreds of thousands!
I advise the profiteers to take care of their health and go to sleep first. I also logged off afterwards. Although Fantasy has opened the sleep function, I still prefer my sleeping magic. After all, lying in bed is more comfortable than sitting in front of the computer desk and sleeping for a few hours, right?
The next morning, I got up and rushed back to Pojun City to organize the newly recruited members and the sacrificed members to go to the territory... Damn, I can't compare with others in terms of numbers and wealth. As a leader, I have to do everything myself. Compared with some bosses in online games that I know of, who give orders and have countless younger brothers running around to do everything for you, I have to work much harder. But there is also an advantage, that is, it is easy to build affinity among the initial members, but my level... The experience has not increased much in the past two days.
Yesterday, due to a slight increase in the pass rate, Bad Bad recruited over a hundred new members to join the alliance! However, Ah Wei's performance dropped sharply. The more than a hundred masters actually agreed to join the alliance the week before, and there were so many when they were accumulated together. Yesterday was the real new recruit, with only more than 20 people. And there were less than 10 masters who could rush to Pojun City to gather in the morning, and only 1/4 of the new members. But we can't just leave them alone, I brought a combat team back and escorted them to the base. Alas, it was troublesome before the headquarters was established, otherwise we could directly build a portal in the base, which would be much more convenient.
After walking for more than two hours, with less than 10 kilometers to the camp, we suddenly received a call from the profiteer: "Blood, return quickly, monsters are attacking the camp!"
My heart tightened. The thing I had been worried about the most happened!
In the process of developing wasteland, it is almost inevitable to encounter monster attacks, because human development has destroyed the natural balance of the local area, and the monsters nearby will eventually organize and attack humans, and it must be a large-scale monster attack! Moreover, at this time, carnivores and herbivores, who are natural enemies, will work together. They have only one enemy - the humans who destroyed their homes!
Before the base is built and the defense line is established, the only way to resist this kind of attack is to rely on the flesh and blood of the players. This is also a great problem faced by insufficiently powerful groups. Often, this kind of attack will cause a large number of low-level gang members to sacrifice, and it may happen many times during the process of opening up new land. What is the attraction of a gang that cannot guarantee the safety of its members? Naturally, many low-level players will withdraw from the construction of the base, which is too costly, so that a new gang will disappear.
I made a quick decision. At this time, the strength of every combat member is important! We can't waste time sending these thirty or so newcomers to the base. Besides, they would die if they went there. I immediately ordered them to set up tents on the spot and then led more than twenty experts to rush to the base!
Another knight and I were the fastest runners. After seven or eight minutes, we arrived at the edge of the camp. On the grassland, we saw countless deer, muntjacs, antelopes, bison, lions, leopards and other monsters. They formed a large black mass and launched repeated attacks on the allies who gathered on the developed flat land!
If all our allies are high-level players, facing such a group of monsters, even if they cannot annihilate them, they can always protect themselves or escape. However, the monster attack on the camp is actually a random task generated by the system. Once it is activated, players within the garrison cannot log off or enter the tent until the attack is over!
Now, in order to protect those low-level allies, it is difficult for our combat team members to exert their full strength. At least, their range of activities is limited to a very small area, making it difficult to implement guerrilla tactics.
The allies in the base have been surrounded by monsters. I can't see the situation inside clearly, but I can't panic. I remind myself to stay calm!
I recalled the information I learned during the internal test. This kind of event, which can be called a "camp raid mission", ends when all monsters are killed or all players in the base die or escape. If the monsters are killed, then humans will win. But if the opposite happens, it will be terrible. Shrubs and grass will reappear on the developed wasteland, and all previous work will be in vain!
Given the size of the monster swarm in front of us, it is impossible for us to win with our current strength unless all the alliance members are present. But it is morning now, and at least half of the high-level players are not online!
External aid, I must have external aid! This thought popped up in my mind without thinking. I said hello to the knight and immediately set up a tent on the spot and went offline, because if I rushed over and entered the garrison, I would join the battle and could not go offline.
I quit the game and called Ah Wei in reality. This was a helpless method. My character was in the garrison, too far away from the city. It was too late to run back to get help, and I couldn't use remote calls. I explained the situation to Ah Wei and asked him to contact Wanxing immediately and asked Wanxing to contact Xiaoyi on my behalf and ask her to help. I also explained the information of Bage to Ah Wei, but Ah Wei didn't have Bage's business card. However, he was recruiting people in Shenghua City. It was possible that someone knew Bage. If that didn't work, I would spend money to broadcast the system and find Bage and Bage's brothers. Anyway, I had to contact them. There was no other way. Now in the game, the only people I knew who had power were the two of them. Then, I told Ah Wei to do everything he could to call as many high-level players online and newly joined as possible to Pojun City and come to the garrison for rescue.
After finishing things here, I will go online immediately, but I can't rush in. I can break through the monster group, but how much can one person do? The profiteer has already issued an emergency gang communication. The two combat teams that led professional skill players to level up have received the notice and are rushing back at high speed. Together with the team I brought from Pojun City to protect the novices, I only need to wait for a while and I can accumulate a considerable force.
Soon, the Sixth Team arrived. I immediately asked Mouse to lead his men to launch a long-range attack on the monster group from the outside, attracting a small number of monsters to annihilate them. In any case, killing more monsters is always good.
Not long after, the first and third teams that were going to level up arrived one after another. Now, there are more than 60 high-level members gathered around me!
I changed the staffing structure. I personally commanded the melee professions; Fengyun and Lao Shu were responsible for the ranged attackers. The warrior took the lead, and the other professions followed. The God of the Divine Realm led ten agile warriors to cover the rear, and we formed an assault formation and charged into the monster group!
I was the first to charge, and there were four knights on my left and right. The five knights charged at the same time, and the momentum was as overwhelming as a tidal wave. The five knights rushed into the dense group of monsters and immediately broke through a gap. The infantry professions followed closely behind, stabbing with swords and chopping with axes, and immediately chopped down more than a dozen monsters. At this time, the magicians and archers following behind the warriors also launched their attacks, and arrows rained down, and various magics were even more powerful. Hail, fireballs, lightning, and strong winds, blood splattered and limbs were broken wherever they passed, and they forcibly opened a path through the group of monsters!
However, the monsters on all sides noticed our team and surrounded us from all directions. The pressure suddenly increased, and every step forward required a lot of effort. The ten warriors who were left at the rear had an even harder time, constantly using their bodies to block the monsters' attacks on their ranged professional allies!
As the spearhead of the entire team, I was under the greatest pressure. Countless monsters roared and pounced on me. The front, left and right sides of me were crowded with monsters. There was no room for dodging at all. I had to endure countless grabs, kicks and bites, and waved the Tiger Soul in my hand. With a flash of cold light, I chopped off the heads of the monsters one by one!
Fortunately, there are three priests in the team, and the white light of my healing magic never stops. After the blessing, my Tiger Soul is indestructible and unstoppable. As long as I can deliver a critical hit, it can basically kill instantly!
Under my leadership, the team members fought hard and advanced step by step, breaking into the depths of the monster group. However, if they were not careful occasionally, they would hear a scream from a team member. After all, for such high-level monsters, two or three of them attacking at the same time could easily kill a magician and an archer in seconds.
I don't know how many monsters I killed, but I was covered in blood. That was because the battle was too intense and the system didn't have time to eliminate the blood that splashed on me!
As I was killing, I felt that I had gathered enough energy. I shouted loudly and attacked with Hundred Splits. A bison, a deer and an antelope fell down. However, a leopard right in the center of my attack range was not dead yet. Instead, it pounced forward and grabbed me in the chest!
Oh my god, I lost more than 400 HP. It's the boss! Damn, it turns out that even carnivorous bosses will appear in the monster raid!
Without thinking, I thrust forward. I must get rid of this guy as soon as possible, otherwise he will attack other team members, and even the warrior class will be in danger!
Hupo didn't let me down. With a powerful and critical strike, the old leopard lost more than 8,000 HP and also had the effect of tearing the wound!
The players at the back row also noticed the danger, and long-range attacks rained down. The old leopard was hit more than ten times and was dizzy. I took the opportunity to use Tiger Soul to chop him continuously, not caring about the fierce attacks from the monsters around me. Relying on the triple effects of Life Water, Small Rejuvenating Pill and Healing Spell, I held on for more than a minute and finally killed the old leopard with my sword!
But in such a short period of stagnation, the team's casualty list added three more people!
Such a brutal battle can only be compared to the Battle of Imperial Mausoleum. Damn it, why is it so difficult to build a gang?
Finally, I led the team to break through the monster group and saw the allies in the encirclement, fighting fiercely with the monsters! Their defense line seemed to be in danger, with gaps in a few places, and some carnivorous animals with flexible movements and high AI had already rushed towards the gaps!
The profiteer saw us coming and shouted, "Reinforcements are coming! Hold on, brothers!"
This shout came at the right time, boosting the morale of the troops. Some relatively high-level players in the work team rushed out from the encirclement and blocked the gap. Although most of them died, it bought a moment of time, and the combat team members who had recovered their breath sealed the gap again!
Of the more than sixty team members I led, only two-thirds remained and followed me into the main position!
