Chapter 42 Monster Frenzy no.1fzy

Time was of the essence, so Fang Zhiyi hastily ate a couple of mouthfuls of rice, swallowed them whole, and looked at the light screen.

Daily survival tasks have been issued.

[After so much time building the campsite, it's time to see the results!]

Every day at 18:00, the camp will be subjected to a one-hour monster horde attack. Successful survival will yield generous rewards, so try your best to survive!

The last tilde, which seemed mischievous, just looked utterly irritating.

[Area] [Winter Survival] [45811/73000]

【？？？】

Isn't this supposed to be a single-player camp building mode? Why is there a competitive component?

Oh no, my defensive structures are broken and I don't even have time to repair them!

Survival is so hard, I don't want to live anymore QAQ

Since you don't want to live anyway, why don't you give me all the materials before you die? I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life (doge emoji)

【roll】

[You still have time to chat? Aren't you thinking about how to survive the monster horde first?]

The monster frenzy came unexpectedly, and the channel was in complete chaos.

Some passionately insulted the game, some sent messages asking for help... but most were quietly preparing in their camps to welcome the monster attack.

The one-minute countdown ended quickly.

A fierce wind howled, making the camp gate bang loudly, as if a monster was about to break in at any moment.

The campfire flickered, casting a somber glow over the camp.

The mouse carried back the last batch of ore, quickly burrowed into its nest, buried its head inside, and dared not move.

Fang Zhiyi added enough fuel to the campfire to keep the camp lit, so that there wouldn't be a scramble to deal with the burning wood later.

I looked up and the sky suddenly darkened. In the distance, roars echoed from the darkness, sounding particularly eerie.

I heard a wolf howling!

Rats are gnawing at my wall!

Damn, I don't even have a wall around me.

Fang Zhiyi grabbed the ladder and climbed up to the observation deck in a few quick movements.

The platform offers a wide view. Looking down from above, distant outlines are faintly visible, with only pairs of scarlet vertical pupils lit up, densely packed, and one can almost hear heavy, low breathing and teeth grinding.

Fang Zhiyi put on a miner's hat.

The miner's lamp on the hat lit up.

A ray of light pierced straight through the wind and snow, landing on the snow-covered ground and illuminating the monsters' faces.

Snow Wolf

【Tyrannosaurus Rex】

Lightning Leopard

The monsters resembled real-world wild animals, but with added mutated elements. The snow wolf opened its blood-red maw and spewed out a cloud of snow mist, the raging rock tiger was surrounded by rings of snow-white stripes, and the swift leopard vanished into the darkness, turning into a wisp of black smoke... They seemed to pose an even greater threat.

"roar--"

At a command, the monsters launched an attack on the camp.

Before they even got close to the camp, they ran into animal traps hidden in the snow. The snow wolf, being the fastest, charged ahead and triggered the traps first.

With a loud bang, the trap hidden in the snow slammed shut, its sharp teeth clamping onto the wolf's ankle. The snow wolf let out a mournful howl and fell heavily to the ground.

A patch of scarlet blood stained the snow.

The snow wolves struggled to break free, but the trap tightened its grip. The continuous pain and blood loss gradually weakened them, and they eventually disappeared in a wisp of white light.

The monster behind them paused.

The horrific scene before them did not frighten or deter them; instead, the blood ignited their ferocity, unleashing an unprecedented and unparalleled desire to attack.

The raging rock tiger strode forward, coldly looked at the snow wolf that was still on the verge of death, and bit off its neck in one bite.

Warm blood splattered everywhere. The Rock Tiger turned its head and let out a sharp roar.

The monsters behind it understood its meaning and obediently changed positions.

The one charging at the forefront became the Lightning Leopard.

The Lightning Leopard, entirely black like a dark cloud, sped along, its feet treading on lightning. Just as it was about to trigger the trap, it transformed into a cloud of black mist, dodging the attack.

哢哒.

The animal trap missed its target, bounced in the air, and fell to one side, losing its intended purpose.

Lightning Leopard led the way, and the other monsters followed in its footsteps, leaving a dense trail of footprints on the snow.

When Fang Zhi realized that the animal traps were ineffective, he immediately used a catapult.

The backpack contained enough stones and wood, and ample ammunition. Pulling the lever, the sliding bar shot up sharply, and stone projectiles rained down, splashing into the snow and creating a cloud of snow mist.

It seemed like a grand gesture, but in reality, it was all bark and no bite.

The catapult was simple in structure and powerful, but it was difficult to aim at the target. It failed to hit many monsters, only slightly slowing their advance.

Fang Zhiyi made a quick decision, abandoning the catapult and instead opening the weapon shop interface to look for weapons that could be used.

I skimmed through it, reading ten lines at a glance.

Got it!

[City Defense Cannon]

[Requires 10 Iron, 5 Charcoal, and 10 Energy Crystals]

Catapults are powerful but inaccurate, only effective at long range. City artillery, on the other hand, compensates for this shortcoming, enabling close-range attacks with a wide coverage area.

Fang Zhiyi could only be thankful that he had collected enough energy crystals. He took out the materials and immediately began to synthesize the city defense cannon.

The cannon barrel was mounted on the watchtower, its dark muzzle aimed at the horde of beasts below.

Looking down, a horde of monsters surged in from all directions, completely surrounding the camp, their crimson eyes gleaming.

Fang Zhiyi turned the cannon, lit it, and fired at the horde of beasts.

boom!

The recoil from the fired shell made my hand go numb, and I instinctively took a step back.

You used the city defense cannon to kill the snow wolf.

You used the city defense cannon to kill White Moon Fox.

The city's defensive cannons were quite powerful, but the monsters swarmed in, and they continued to advance with the cannons pointed at them. In no time, they had reached the outskirts of the camp.

Fortunately, a trench had been dug around the camp, which stopped the monster's advance.

Gazing at the camp so close at hand, the monsters grew increasingly agitated, their foul-smelling saliva dripping uncontrollably, yearning for the thrill of blood.

"Waaah—"

"Awooo!"

The pack of snow wolves parted, and a limping figure emerged.

It looks familiar; it's one of the wolves that raided the camp that night.

The lame wolf growled at the trench, signaling the other monsters not to approach, for there were sharp spikes hidden beneath, sharp enough to rip open bellies.

The monsters hesitated, glancing at the Rock Tiger.

The rock tiger scratched the ground with its claws.

Lightning Leopard shook his head.

The trench was more than a meter deep and two or three meters wide, with no footholds in the middle, making it difficult to jump across directly.

The Rock Tiger roared.

The monsters twitched, and the Lightning Leopard darted through the monster horde, driving out a flock of lambs.

"Meow."

The sheep, docile and harmless, trembled in fear as they were huddled among the monsters. The lightning leopard roared from behind, and the sheep, bewildered, were driven forward, standing precariously on the edge of the ditch.

The lightning leopard leaped over the sheep, then rammed them forward with all its might, sending them tumbling headlong into the ditch and crashing into the spikes hidden underneath.

"Meow!"

The sheep cried out in pain.

Undeterred, the lightning leopard continued to ram the sheep into the ditch. The sheep landed on its back, legs in the air, and the lightning leopard leaped across the ditch to reach the wall.

The walls are covered with barbed wire.

The iron spikes were sharp and curved, gleaming with a cold light.

Before Lightning Leopard could figure out a way to climb the wall, a red light landed in front of it.

Lightning Leopard: ...?

Lightning Leopard: What's this? Let's play with it.

Felines can never resist the allure of red dots. The Lightning Leopard forgot everything else, arched its back, and pounced on the red dot with a burst of strength.

The moment it landed, a burst of laser light struck the red dot, and a wisp of black smoke billowed out with a "whoosh".

Lightning Leopard jumped in fright, nearly falling into the trench. It retreated several steps, returning to the perimeter of the camp, and let out a series of meows.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex stared at the slowly rotating patrolling defensive tower in the center of the camp. The area covered by the red light was exactly within the wall, and anyone who got too close would be targeted and shot.

It let out a roar.

The monsters responded with squeaks.

A group of grayish-white rats emerged from the snow, quickly crossed the ditch, and gnawed incessantly at the base of the stone wall.

Even if red light falls, it's not a problem. The defensive tower can only target one target at a time, and it will only move on to the next target after the previous one is destroyed. And the number of rats is countless; as soon as one dies, another one will immediately take its place.

A faint tremor came from beneath the stone wall as the rats gnawed at it.

Hearing the roars rising and falling, Fang Zhiyi turned the city defense cannons and continued firing.

The monsters roared and charged forward.

The stone wall stood firm, covered with a layer of thorny barbed wire. Combined with the city's defensive cannons and towers, the monsters found it difficult to break through the defenses and fell one after another at the foot of the wall.

You killed the two-headed wolf.

You killed the night owl.

【you……】

A series of messages popped up.

At some point, a ranking system was added to the game. It ranks players based on their camp's defense value, number of kills, and survival time.

The one ranked first was none other than Fang Zhiyi.

His camp was the first to reach level 3, with trenches, stone walls, and defensive towers. He also placed spikes, barbed wire, and cannonballs on it, making its defense top-notch and difficult for monsters to break through for a while.

Monsters fell in waves, yet they continued to surge forward relentlessly, seemingly without end.

Fang Zhiyi's nose was sweating.

We still need to hold out for 30 minutes under the monster onslaught.

Under the fierce offensive, Shi Qiang was already teetering on the brink of collapse, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated.

This can't go on any longer.

The monsters keep coming, and killing more and more won't help. We need to find the key point.

Fang Zhiyi stopped attacking and quietly observed. Suddenly, he noticed that one monster in the group was different. A Rock Tiger stood proudly on the snow slope, surrounded by the other monsters, who seemed to revolve around it. Under its command, the monsters were carrying out their tasks in an orderly manner.

Attack the city, draw away the defensive towers' attacks, and block the cannonballs raining down from the sky...

Fang Zhiyi turned the cannon and aimed it at Bao Yanhu.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex dominates the monster frenzy. If you can kill it in one hit, the other monsters will fall into disarray and become insignificant no matter how many there are.

The shell traced a parabola, sparking as it flew through the air.

The Rock Tiger raised its head, its vertical pupils contracted, and stared directly at the cannonball. Just as they were about to collide, it took a deep breath, its chest expanding, as if brewing a deafening roar.

"roar--"

It emitted not only a roar, but also a cloud of icy mist that instantly engulfed the shell. Then, with a "thud," the shell froze into a block of ice and rolled onto the snow.

Bao Yanhu exhaled a breath of frost, slowly turning his gaze to lock onto the figure on the watchtower.

Fang Zhiyi felt a chill on the back of his neck. The next moment, a rustling sound came from the darkness, and a dark cloud drifted out.

No, not dark clouds, but a swarm of bats. They flapped their wings simultaneously and rushed towards the lookout tower.

Poisonous bats

A red light flashed in the bat's eyes as it swept through the air.

Fang Zhiyi hadn't expected an air raid, so he immediately changed direction and fired a shot at the bat.

The bats were hit by the cannonballs and torn to pieces, but they only remained scattered for a moment before they came together again and continued to rush toward the watchtower.

As the bat's claws, glowing with an eerie blue light, approached, Fang Zhiyi instinctively crouched down and covered his head to dodge.

Unexpectedly, the bats' target wasn't him, but the city defense cannon mounted on the platform. With a series of cracking sounds, the bats relentlessly attacked the watchtower, dismantling the city defense cannon into a pile of parts.

The bats, having succeeded in their attack, did not retreat, but instead swooped and circled around the watchtower.

Without hesitation, Fang Zhiyi took out his bow and arrows, drew out a burning arrow, nocked it onto the bowstring, and pulled it back forcefully. A streak of fire shot towards the swarm of bats, exploding into a firework in mid-air.

The bat was blown apart, its charred wings and claws falling onto the snow.

Take a deep breath and continue drawing the bow and shooting.

In an instant, the night sky was illuminated by countless shooting stars.

The arrow pierced the air, spinning rapidly through the wind and snow, its tail feathers trembling slightly, before it slammed into the ground with a "whoosh," creating a deep crater. The aftershocks of the explosion overturned the surrounding monsters, their fur scorched by the flames, causing them to roll incessantly in the snow.

The burning arrows didn't do much damage, but the flames caused a commotion among the monsters.

Before the riot could escalate, the Rock Tiger leaped to a high place and let out a roar.

The monsters trembled and lay prostrate, forced by the overwhelming force to continue attacking the city wall blocking their path despite the flames.

Fang Zhiyi had never felt an hour pass so slowly. Under the monsters' onslaught, he had no chance to go to the weapon shop to forge another city defense cannon; he could only keep raising his hand and firing arrows to block the monsters' advance.

I don't know how many arrows they shot, until their shoulders were numb and weak, and their fingers were bleeding from the bowstring. Finally, the monsters stopped moving, the red light in their eyes faded, and they looked around blankly, as if they didn't understand what they were doing.

【00:00:01】

Time is up.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex glanced unwillingly at the city wall that was about to be breached, then leaped down the snow slope and walked into the darkness. After taking a few steps, it suddenly turned back, glared fiercely at Fang Zhiyi, bared its teeth, and with a flick of its tail, disappeared into the darkness.

The monster frenzy has ended.

The campfire crackled and burned, and the scene was a mess as far as the eye could see.

The stone wall was crumbling, cracked open, a forest planted outside the camp was smashed to pieces, and the automatic logging machine was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.

Fang Zhiyi took a deep breath and swallowed the bloody taste in his throat caused by the excessive force.

After the monster frenzy, the number of players in the channel plummeted.

How is everyone?

Several friends on my friend list are now grayed out; I feel like crying.

[What a pity, since we're all going to die anyway, might as well give me the materials before we die (doge emoji)]

Are you even human? How could you say something like that?

Why wasn't it you who died?

Sorry, I'm not only alive and well, I'm thriving! Haha, you're probably furious, but there's no use being angry (doge emoji)

There's no point in arguing with this kind of person; the more you engage with them, the more excited they become.

[Wasn't there a reward for surviving? Where's the reward...?]

Fang Zhiyi was also thinking about this issue.

The camp is in ruins and will require a lot of materials to repair. Since monsters won't drop items when they die during the siege, it's a complete loss if there are no rewards.

[Monster Frenzy Results in Progress]

Rewards will be distributed based on ranking.

Fang Zhiyi opened the leaderboard and immediately saw her own name.

【no.1fzy】

[Rewards: 20 Survival Points, 1 Camp Renovation Voucher, 3 Basic Material Packs, 3 Supply Packs, 3 Selectable High-Grade Potions]

The rewards decrease in amount from highest to lowest based on the ranking, and Fang Zhiyi, being in first place, naturally receives the most.

The survival points are saved as usual, and together with the points earned from completing the previous world, there are now a total of 120 points.

[Basic Materials Kit]

[Opening this will reward you with 10 pieces of wood and 10 pieces of stone.]

[Supply Pack]

[Upon opening, you will receive 5 apples, 5 raw meats, and 5 pelts.]

[Select Advanced Potion]

[You can choose your preferred potion (Healing, Speed, Strength, Berserk)]

Campsite renovation voucher

Perhaps you want to move your campsite, or perhaps you want to renovate and change your style. Renovation vouchers can help you with a painless move in one stop.

Fang Zhiyi's eyes lit up when she saw the renovation voucher.

The camp is currently situated in an area with no cover whatsoever, leaving us vulnerable to attacks from both sides when monster hordes arrive. Now that we have renovation vouchers to move, we'll definitely want to find a better location.

As for where to move to, we still need to consider that.

Fang Zhiyi put away the renovation vouchers, opened the supply pack and basic materials pack, replenished the supplies in his backpack, and then took them out to repair the camp.

After more than half an hour of hammering, patching and mending, the messy campsite was finally restored to its original state.

Looking back, the bibimbap I had made earlier had gone completely cold; the rice was frozen solid and inedible.

Fang Zhiyi was too lazy to bother with it, so she simply used the last pickup quantity and took out a pack of self-heating hot pot.

Tear open each package, pour the hot pot base and ingredients into a bowl, add the self-heating pack, and soon a puff of steam will rise.

Upon opening the lid, a pungent, spicy aroma filled his nostrils. Fang Zhiyi picked up a piece of seaweed knot with his chopsticks and crunched it loudly, venting his frustration.

This lousy game is utterly unbearable!

Snowflakes drifted down slowly.

He slurped up the vermicelli covered in chili oil, his breath coming in gasps from the spiciness, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his nose.

He put down his chopsticks and let out a long sigh of relief.

After finishing a hot pot meal, Fang Zhiyi's gloom dissipated, and she immediately started planning what to do tomorrow.

Go into the forest to find hardwood and star fragments, and hurry up and upgrade your camp to level 4. Prepare more weapons to face the monster hordes, and find a suitable place to move... Time is tight, and there are too many things to do, so there's no time to worry too much.

There are 23 hours left until the next monster surge.