Having your own little house in the apocalypse and finding a team can easily make people feel the joy of surviving a disaster.
Seeing that everyone was happy, Ye Miao opened the warehouse and took out some materials collected in the past two days, and asked players with cooking skills to make some food for everyone.
Her shelter didn't have any kitchen utensils for the time being, but as she'd expected, everyone who came to the shelter had brought all their belongings with them. Hu Hao and Miao Lin had previously brought a safety vehicle, and they'd also brought all the necessary living supplies from it. Hearing Ye Miao wanted to cook, Hu Hao immediately pulled out an induction cooker, bowls, chopsticks, and several pots and pans with different functions from his backpack.
He Kailai from the Xin Moufang Cooking School nearby looked at the ingredients Ye Miao had brought out and had already arranged a menu based on the food-related skill cards he had on hand: "Bones can be used to make bone soup, 3 grams of rice, 1 gram of soy sauce, and 2 grams of Chinese sausage can be used to make clay pot rice..."
Soon, everyone got busy. He Kaizi, with a cooking skill of level 56, naturally became the head chef, with Hu Hao and Miao Lin, both in their 20s, helping out. In less than an hour, dinner for twenty people was ready.
Fragrant and delicious bone soup, sweet, salty and fresh clay pot rice, cool and delicious plum yogurt... Many people have not eaten such decent food for a long time since the beginning of the apocalypse. They are already hungry just by smelling the food, and when the food is in their hands, they don’t care about their image at all, and pick up the bowl to eat it up in no time.
While everyone was eating, Ye Miao lit a bonfire in the center of the courtyard. According to the game's settings, players could sit by the bonfire to keep warm and restore their physical strength. It was perfect for them to warm up by the fire while eating.
At eight o'clock in the evening, everyone was full and yawning, ready to go back to their rooms to rest.
"Wait." Sun Chen was about to stand up and leave when Zhang Xu pulled him back. The others couldn't help but look over, and Zhang Xu did the same. "We don't have barrier stones in the shelter. Let's take turns on duty tonight. Otherwise, if we get wiped out in our dreams, we won't even know what's happening."
"That makes sense." Sun Chen took a deep breath and sat back down. "Then we'll form two teams. My brother and I will be in the first group. You guys can handle it."
Hu Hao nodded immediately. "Then my wife and I will be on the second shift. Call us later."
To ensure safety, everyone agreed. Aside from Fang Shuqin, who was older and had zero combat skills and couldn't participate in this defensive project, the others quickly assigned shifts, with two people forming a team and each shift lasting an hour.
Ye Miao smacked his lips and yawned. "Before you guys came today, I was out killing monsters and I'm exhausted. I won't be joining the rotation. Go for it, you guys."
She spoke confidently, but everyone also expressed enough tolerance for the territory founder: "Okay." Zhang Xu, who proposed the shift proposal, nodded first and said with a smile, "You are the boss, you should sleep well."
"Thank you all for your hard work!" Ye Miao responded with a sweet smile, stood up and walked towards her thatched hut.
With a level 100 combat skill, she wasn't worried about the shelter being looted. However, considering the potential troubles that might arise from revealing too much of her personal strength, she didn't want to show the panel directly to everyone, so she simply let them take turns guarding it.
If she really ran into trouble, she would just step in to solve the problem. As for her actual combat effectiveness, that was anyone's guess.
Ye Miao went back to the house and fell asleep peacefully. In another room not far away, Hu Hao turned around and closed the door. He took out the sponge bed he had brought from the RV from his backpack and replaced it with the straw bed. He also took out the barrier stone and hung it on the wall.
The most basic barrier stones can protect the safety of an area of 20 square meters. They cannot help the shelter avoid danger, but they can protect themselves.
As the night deepens, the whole world becomes quiet. In the early stages of the game, there aren't many nocturnal creatures, and most monsters return to their nests after nightfall.
The bonfire in the center of the shelter was still burning, its warm yellow light illuminating the area. The people sitting by the fire yawned, thinking as they passed the time, and an hour passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, the guards had already taken their fourth or fifth turns. It was past midnight, and the world grew even quieter.
At the foot of the cliff immediately behind the shelter, several dark figures crept along the cliff face. With only a few dozen meters left, they temporarily retreated behind a large rock. The mage who had been waiting there looked back and asked, "Are they all here?"
"Hmm." Wu Wei glanced at the nearby shelter illuminated by the bonfire and asked the mage in front of him, "Have you figured it out?"
"I've figured it out." The mage nodded. "It's a newly built shelter, without any barrier stones. It's hard to judge the members' combat level, but I don't see any decent equipment, so they probably can't fight well."
Generally, players who focus on combat will first try their best to get good equipment to improve their level, so the level of equipment can also reflect the player's strength to a large extent.
Wu Wei nodded: "Where are the resources?"
"There are about twenty small rooms and a warehouse," the mage said. "I watched for a few hours. They had a dinner that night and it was delicious. They should still have quite a bit of food in stock, and the kitchen utensils look quite plentiful as well."
"That's great!" Wu Wei was overjoyed.
In the end times, besides being brave and fighting to eliminate dangers, the most important thing is to collect all kinds of resources to keep yourself alive.
There are two ways to collect resources. One is to spend time and effort to collect them in the wild, or accumulate some random dropped food when fighting monsters; the other is to steal what others have collected.
In comparison, the second one is of course simpler and more efficient.
The shelter before them not only had food, but also kitchen utensils… A greedy gleam filled Wu Wei's eyes. He waved his hand, and the squad immediately continued to move forward, approaching the shelter that was unaware of the danger step by step under the cover of night.
The two people on duty by the campfire were both college students and had been roommates before. After the end of the world began, they felt more dependent on each other.
Su Xinran warmed herself by the fire and yawned. "You said... this shelter doesn't even have a barrier stone. Is it okay? I still want to find a safer place."
"I want to, too." Lu Weiwei sighed, "But where can we go? We're both veterinary majors, so we only have animal training. We've visited several shelters, and they're all..."
Before she could finish her words, there was a whoosh sound. Lu Weiwei groaned and collapsed.
"Weiwei?!" Su Xinran was shocked. She turned around and saw two more silver darts flying towards her. She dodged in a hurry, but one still lodged in her shoulder.
"Night attack!!!" Su Xinran covered her shoulders and ran towards her thatched hut in panic. Countless skills chased her and hit her, stirring up a cloud of dust behind her.
"Night attack!!!" Chaos broke out in the shelter, and the players were awakened from their sleep. Those with combat level picked up weapons and went to fight.
On the straw bed, Ye Miao suddenly opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and stood up indifferently.
After a busy day, can she have a good sleep?
She picked up the dagger and pushed the door open. The courtyard, which was quiet and peaceful a moment ago, was now in chaos.
Across a fence, players from both sides were frantically casting spells. On their side, Hu Hao and a few other boys stood in front, desperately trying to prevent the enemy from breaking through. However, the opponents outside the fence clearly possessed a wider range of combat skills: warriors capable of taking damage, mages with control skills, and archers and assassins with ranged damage output.
The strength of the forces was revealed in just a few seconds, and the entire row of fence walls was losing health rapidly.
"Get out of the way!" Ye Miao drew his sword and ran towards the fence.
The men standing in front subconsciously turned their heads and saw a figure leaping up, with the tip of his shoes stepping over the fence, and his body swiftly climbing over it, landing directly outside the wall in the next second.
"Boss! Don't be too reckless!!!" Hu Hao's mind buzzed.
——Before he finished speaking, Ye Miao swept his foot across and kicked away the three soldiers who were taking damage.
"Fuck it!" The soldiers felt that the kick did not cause much damage but was extremely insulting. They stood up with anger and were about to go up and beat him up when they noticed the numbers above their heads one after another.
-300
-300
-300
…
"Hey, I accidentally kicked it too far." Ye Miao said in a low voice.
The negative effects of "Nightmare Invasion" are effective on enemies within three meters. If they leave the three-meter distance, the effect will disappear after five seconds.
She could only sigh helplessly and began to provoke: "Come here! Don't be a coward!"
——Under the night sky, the little girl with twin ponytails said such words with her arms folded, her cuteness was somewhat creepy.
"She has an effective skill!" one of the warriors trembled, "Priest!"
The priest a few meters away came to his senses and immediately cast a healing spell. Green light came and the three of them recovered their health.
At the same time, Wu Wei gritted his teeth and waved his hand: "Archer!"
Ye Miao glanced over, and the next second, several arrows shot out from the woods not far away, accompanied by a strong wind.
She dodged a few arrows, and then stopped dodging the next wave, using the Night Demon's heavy armor to withstand it head-on.
Ignoring the loss of more than a thousand health points, Ye Miao strode towards Wu Wei.
Wu Wei, a mage himself, hurriedly used control skills to try to stop her, but he saw two words pop up above her head:
【invalid】.
Ye Miao took another step closer, and [Night Devil's Invasion] began to take effect. Wu Wei saw the prompt:
-300
-300
…
Ye Miao didn't wait for him to react, and spun around and kicked him. The people outside the fence saw the 1.85-meter-tall burly man being knocked down by the 1.5-meter-tall little girl with a kick, and they all let out an exclamation that was comparable to the sound effects in the game: "Ah——"
Wu Wei was about to stand up and fight back when Ye Miao pressed the dagger against his jaw: "You have the final say here?"
She smiled and said, "So, do you want to take them away directly, or do you want me to kill you to scare them?"
"You..." Wu Wei was furious. After a moment of silence, he yelled, "What are you standing there for? Kill her!"
At the same time, the staff lights up again and the skill is about to be released.
"Swish——" With a not-too-obvious sound, the dagger turned in his hand, cut across the throat, and blood spurted out.
【-4200】
A huge scarlet number popped up, and the value was higher than Wu Wei's total health. Wu Wei stared at her in disbelief with his eyes wide open, and died in an instant.
No one expected that she could kill Wu Wei with one blow, and the surroundings fell into an eerie silence.
"Bang." Wu Wei's body disappeared, and materials and equipment fell to the ground.
Ye Miao glanced at him calmly, then raised his eyes and said a classic line from an early martial arts film: "One-on-one or together?"
The author has something to say:
The attacker: This place has no barrier and no arrow tower. Which idiot built this?
Ye Miao: You idiot are going to kill me.
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