Chapter 40 Arrow Tower
Jiang Baiyue returned to the cabin and first received all the supplies that Bai Yunduo had sent her via private message. Then she opened the warehouse panel and the base attribute panel at the same time.
She looked at the arrow tower in the base building section.
Arrow Tower
Level: 0
Function: Releases arrows to protect the base when monsters approach within a certain range.
Energy Configuration: -1- Energy Crystal / -2- Level 0 Player / ...
Upgrade materials: 100 wood, 80 stone, 17 nails, 20 scrap iron, 200 feathers, 3 rubbers
Upgrade cost: 80 coins
Prosperity Value: 100
Energy configuration... can it also be used by players?
Jiang Baiyue was startled. After clicking to view the details, she realized that the arrow tower could absorb and convert the player's source energy to operate.
It sounds like some kind of evil magic.
Jiang Baiyue shook her head and looked at the building materials. Apart from the feathers, there were enough of the other materials.
She plans to build at least 3 arrow towers to defend most of the base; and at most 5 arrow towers to defend all the edges and corners of the base walls.
There were only 103 feathers in the warehouse, so she first sent a private message to her major client who didn't use an umbrella in the rain.
This person buys healing potions every day and also deals in supplies; he might be a base administrator.
"Rainy Day Without an Umbrella: Making a Bow and Arrow? Or...?"
Jiang Baiyue had some suspicions, and couldn't help but think more about what the other person was saying.
"Lying-down Salted Fish: No. How many feathers do you have? I need a large quantity."
The other party did not reply immediately, but sent a message a few minutes later.
"No umbrella in the rain: It's been raining on and off lately, and I feel something's wrong. If you're the base administrator, we can exchange supplies regularly."
"Rainy Day Without an Umbrella: [Trade - Feathers*600]"
It seems this person has confirmed her identity. Although Jiang Baiyue knew she would be suspected sooner or later, she didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
Upon closer examination, her arguments were indeed full of flaws; any intelligent person could have guessed them after observing her for just a few days.
Because she's been trading for materials, and most players are struggling to survive on hunger, so trading for food and weapons is the main activity.
Many people don't even have a wooden house to live in, and their backpacks have limited space, so it's impossible for them to buy a lot of various materials.
Moreover, she had a medicine-making station and a work station, which was already quite high-profile. She thought that if she didn't have two mercenaries with her, someone might have already targeted her and robbed her.
Beep beep!
Another message came from the other side, asking Jiang Baiyue to exchange 200 pieces of wood for feathers. She sent the wood over and then put the feathers into the warehouse.
With all the materials ready, Jiang Baiyue immediately pulled up the 3D projection map of the base and selected three arrow towers to build on the left and right sides of the base gate and the front and back of the base directly opposite the gate.
The familiar clanging sound rang out, and the construction of the arrow tower had begun.
She looked at the other unlocked buildings. Perhaps because she couldn't receive messages from the base in the instance, she didn't receive any mechanical voice notifications even though the general store, restaurant, and sewing shop were ready to be built.
With only one investment promotion card, which building should be constructed?
Or...should we wait a bit?
Jiang Baiyue was afraid that something big might happen tomorrow, so after hesitating for a long time, she decided not to build any other buildings yet, but she needed to build two solar streetlights.
Because of the lack of sunshine these past few days, the initial solar streetlights' energy supply has reduced their illumination time to less than 3 hours.
If the base falls into darkness and the protection period ends, the sounds of the night-stalking monsters can be heard inside.
This little monster, besides being seductive, has no offensive capabilities and is not vicious, but it can amplify the negative emotions in people's hearts.
Its existence must not be ignored.
Jiang Baiyue clicked on the details of the solar street light and examined it carefully.
Solar street lights
Level: 0
Prosperity Value: 5
Architectural effect: Illuminates the darkness
Lighting time: 12 hours
(Note: 12 hours is the initial energy consumption time for construction.)
Lighting instructions: --】
This solar street light has 5 prosperity points, while the initial configuration of the street light has 0, so building it doesn't mean it's a waste of land area.
She accidentally selected most of the base's land while building the arrow towers, and was prompted that the number of buildings she could build was full and the base area was insufficient.
She suddenly realized that the seemingly large base area was not as large as she had thought, and that it could not accommodate many buildings.
There was a lack of solar panels to build the solar streetlights. Jiang Baiyue only had one warehouse, so she built one and placed it in a location slightly off-center from the base, next to the warehouse.
The lighting command is associated with the first light.
...It's surprisingly intelligent.
During the game demo, so many people were fighting over resources and control panels that she didn't even get to fully understand the base's control panel.
I don't know if it's new content or something that was there before.
She then posted a notice in the shop offering to buy solar panels, specifying the types of goods that could be exchanged.
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Day 7 of survival, 00:00:01 at night, temperature 1°C～5°C, zone 301, number of survivors 98354/100000.
[The 7-day protection period for White Moon Base has ended. The protective shield has been removed, and the base will be vulnerable to monster attacks at any time.]
A cold, mechanical sound jolted the sleepy residents, who were drowsy and barely able to keep their eyes open, into a shiver.
The people in the tent immediately unzipped their pants and climbed out, the people lying in the mission hall sat up, and the people in the cabin opened the creaking wooden door.
One by one, they looked surprised, somewhat unable to believe what they were hearing, and repeatedly asked others to confirm whether they had misheard.
"What's going on? Did you guys hear that mechanical voice just now?"
"I must have misheard you, you didn't hear it either."
"I...I don't know! The base is reminding me to pay the check-in fee!"
"The protection period is over!! Is this why our base hasn't been attacked by zombies every night?"
"It's highly likely. That explains why the hunter camp was attacked, but our base wasn't..."
"Does this mean we can't sleep tonight? What if the zombies break in... Ugh, that wooden door doesn't look sturdy at all."
A middle-aged woman panicked and ran out of the mission hall to look at the base's main gate. She then noticed the extra building structure next to it and her eyes widened.
The middle-aged woman exclaimed in surprise, "Look! What's that? It wasn't there just now!"
A young man came out of a nearby wooden house with a wooden bow to investigate, and then shouted excitedly, "Arrow towers! Come and see, two arrow towers! Can we sleep peacefully now?"
Hearing the exclamations, the others, taking advantage of their numbers, also ran out to watch.
"The base has been upgraded again?"
"It doesn't look like it. The base area hasn't expanded. An upgrade should make the base area bigger, but with such thick stone walls, it should be relatively safe tonight..."
"Whatever, with the arrow towers, the base will definitely be safer..."
"That's great! In just the last minute or two, I thought of more than a dozen moving plans... Every single one of them was dangerous. Now we probably don't have to move, right?"
In the spring, Ya squeezed through the crowd to the main gate, looked at the arrow tower, and felt at ease. When she turned around, she noticed that there was also an arrow tower on the back of the base.
She said to the newly sprouted sunflower, "Let's go back. The base has three arrow towers; we definitely can't break through them tonight. The arrow towers will automatically attack zombies that get close to the base."
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