4. Organize the harvest
◎10th place on the level-breaking list + Level 2 Potato Mine◎
[Ding! Congratulations to the challenger for successfully defending! ]
[Name: NO.10 Gu Ning]
【Survival days: 1 day】
[Talent Name: Another Draw (C-Rank)]
【Cumulative Experience: 2/10】
[Battle Rewards: Plant Jar x1, Breakfast and Dinner x1]
[Warm Preview: The zombie horde will arrive tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM! Challengers, please be prepared!]
[Ding! Congratulations on reaching tenth place on the leaderboard! The battle live broadcast function will be enabled for you!]
[Challengers on the leaderboard will start their battles 1 hour early every day, and the entire battle will be live broadcast. The battle rewards they receive after winning will be doubled.]
[Reward for reaching the top: Plant costume x1]
This time the number is more formal than the lonely number 10, and it clarifies the ranking. It seems that the ranking list is determined based on all the combat performances of the players in a day.
Gu Ning turned the atlas to the ranking page at the right time. The people had changed slightly, but he was still at the bottom, which made him feel very happy.
She did not feel embarrassed at all about being at the bottom. After all, 10th place was always better than 11th place, not to mention that there were more than 900 people behind her.
The rankings may seem to be ranked in order, but after checking the corresponding rewards, you'll find that everyone gets the same reward: a plant costume. This makes sense, considering it's early in the game, and all players are new. The gap between them isn't huge, so how good can the rewards be? Just having a costume is already pretty good.
As for live-streaming the battle? There was definitely pressure, but she cared more about the outcome. The thought of doubling the battle rewards and getting more plant jars was hard not to be tempted.
“Bang, bang!”
There was another knock on the door, and the operating table spit out the plant cards one by one. After putting the cards into the atlas, I found that the operating table was slowly sinking until it was perfectly integrated into the floor.
The first battle in the morning ended without any changes on the console, but the second battle in the afternoon was put away. This indirectly means that the existence of the console can be used to determine whether the daily battle is over.
While thinking, Gu Ning walked to the door, carried the two lunch boxes to the table inside the house, then returned with a wooden hammer, knocked on the plant jar, and got a brand new plant card.
【Ice Shooter: Shoots ice peas to attack】
[Level: First Order]
[Value: 175 Sunshine]
[Cooling time: 8 seconds]
[Features: The movement and attack speed of the zombies hit are halved]
HP: 300
【With upgrade: 1/3】
After putting the new card into the illustrated book, she picked up the rectangular gift box with a red bow on the side, untied the ribbon and opened it directly. Inside was a decorative card that was two-thirds smaller than the plant card.
【Sunflower Dress-up: Red Sunglasses】
[Features: There is a 20% chance of triggering a critical hit when planting, and 5 sunflowers will be produced immediately]
Gu Ning pulled out a sunflower card. On the left side of the card was information introduction, and on the right side was a blank area with a faint dotted frame, the same size as the decorative card. When she put the card on, she saw the sunflower in the picture and put on red-rimmed sunglasses. Even her smile seemed to become brighter and more charming.
After checking the rewards, I cleaned the venue. I ate a lot at noon, but I’m not very hungry yet. After cleaning up, I went back to the house and lay down on the bed to rest. By the way, I browsed the chat area in the picture book. It felt very similar to browsing on a tablet. As soon as I clicked in, I noticed that the number of people had decreased again. Now there are 953 people.
If the full capacity is 1,000, there were almost 50 fewer people on the first day, and the players' mentality also fluctuated accordingly.
[Bai Ze: I won't call this game childish anymore. Zombies are really deadly when they come...]
[Qite: They're actually using the zombie sea tactic this time. The flag zombies are bringing their families with them. They're so densely packed that I'm even getting panic attacks.]
[Zhou Xinyu: Although I usually like to watch some sports students, I don’t like sports zombies. They run so fast and beat people up that their heads are bald. I almost want to spit peas from my mouth.]
[Tan Chengde: Oh no, it's good that I can get through. Being alive is better than dying. I see that more than 30 people are missing this time.]
Chun Yuwen: I second the proposal. Contentment brings happiness. Being alive is a blessing.
…
Zhao Zhirui: Did you guys get the hint? Tomorrow the top leaders will be live-streaming their battles.
Rong Jiazhi: I see. I'm quite looking forward to it. The zombies the boss faces should be the same as us, right?
[Chai Mu: Of course, and they fought earlier than us. With a big guy scouting the way for us, we don’t feel that panicked.]
[Jing Zimo: I used to envy the players who made it to the leaderboard, but now I don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse?]
[Zhu Pingxia: Of course it's a good thing. There will be cosmetic rewards for being on the leaderboard, and it will also increase the chances of winning as a guard.]
[Lü Rui: Winning is naturally a good thing, but losing would be a huge blow, having to die in front of so many players...]
[Yan Cang: Don't dwell on those depressing things. If the big guys lose, the ordinary players will be doomed.]
[Du Zhengqing: That's right, but I'm more curious about the talent of the players who made it to the list. They must be really amazing to be on the list, right?]
[Chai Mu: Hehe, who knows, the secret might be revealed tomorrow!]
…
Gu Ning looked around for a while. The players who had just successfully defended were all in a relaxed mood. Most of them were chatting. They really had no other way to entertain themselves. Once a person relaxes, the body will enter the rest mode. She fell asleep while lying there.
When I woke up again, it was completely dark outside. I had fried noodles with soybean paste for dinner. The breakfast and dinner as rewards from the game were packed in lunch boxes. The lunch boxes had the function of keeping fresh and warm. I could eat them right after I opened them. I ate them with a "slurp slurp" and enjoyed it very much. The sauce was fragrant and the noodles were chewy. I ate up the whole bowl of noodles.
After the meal, Gu Ning leaned back in his chair leisurely, burped contentedly, and began to look through the trading area in the atlas.
Sunflowers and Pea Shooters are still hard to get, but now there are Frost Shooters and Double Peas. In comparison, Nuts and Potato Mine are slightly less expensive, but still in short supply.
Some players, unable to exchange for the plants they wanted, began to trade with real chips.
Xie Yuzhu: 500,000 for Pea Shooter/200,000 for other plants. I'll transfer the money when I return to reality. I'm an executive at X Group in S City, and I can also offer a stable, high-paying job.
[Qian Duoduo: My dad is the richest man in City A. He bought the Ice Archer for 1 million yuan. He keeps his word!]
[Bai Ze: Pfft, am I being too arrogant? I actually think the money is so little. Is this all the richest man can offer?]
[Zhou Xinyu: His father is the richest man, but he is not. The main thing is that we don’t know if he can live to see the day after tomorrow. I would consider it if I gave him 1kw]
[Qite: +1, no matter how much money you have, you still need to be alive to get it...]
Sensing the change in the chatroom's tone, Xie Yuzhu and Qian Duoduo followed suit and raised their prices. Even with the price of a plant reaching several million, a small number of players were still tempted.
However, Gu Ning was still not interested. If she could return to reality alive, the game also promised her a huge fortune. Wasn't it more reliable than those of them?
She was bored as she flipped through the illustrated book. Although her physical discomfort had disappeared, she had not recovered her spirits after working overtime for so long. She took a hot bath in the evening and went back to sleep. She spent this exceptionally quiet night in great comfort.
The next day, 7:30 AM
I got up, washed, and had dinner. I opened the breakfast box and found 8 dumplings and 1 cup of soy milk. The dumplings were stuffed with pork and cabbage, and were soft, fresh, fragrant, and juicy. I drank the sweet soy milk, and my stomach felt warm. I was fiddling with the illustrated book in my hand. I really went from being unable to put down my phone to being unable to put down the illustrated book.
Even after a night, there are still many players in the chat area, sending good morning messages to each other.
“Bang, bang!”
As the knock on the door sounded, Gu Ning stood up as usual, walked to the door and picked up the wooden hammer. When he opened the door, he saw two plant jars on the ground. He squatted down and opened the jars neatly, picked up the two floating cards and checked them.
【Sunflower: Producing extra sunshine for you】
[Level: Level 2]
[Value: 50 Sunshine]
[Cooling time: 7 seconds]
【Decoration: Red sunglasses】
[Features: Immediately generates 25 sunlight (1 flower) when planted, 20% chance of triggering a critical hit, and produces an additional 125 sunlight (5 flowers), and then generates 25 sunlight every 20 seconds.]
HP: 600
[Upgrade pending: 1/6 (Level 1)]*
[Note: Players can only draw first-level plant cards. To prevent confusion, the information will display the real-time level. Only the upgrade points will be specially marked and the first-level exchange rate will be used.]
[Potato Mine: Blow up single-cell zombies]
[Level: First Order]
…
【Upgrade pending: 2/3】
This is the second duplicate card that Gu Ning has drawn besides the sunflower. If he exchanges the sunflower for a potato mine, he can directly upgrade it to the second level, but the value of both is obviously not equal.
Thinking of the new challenges he would face today, Gu Ning felt a little uneasy.
From a long-term perspective, keeping the cards in hand can certainly be used for upgrades, but it is of no help in short-term battles. It is useless if you have the cards but don't have the life to spend them. Moreover, there are still 5 cards away from the first level of upgrading the Sunflower, which is a long way off no matter how you look at it. Gu Ning couldn't help but think about exchanging them.
She opened the trading area, selected the newly drawn first-level sunflower as the trading plant, and set the object of exchange as the potato mine + any other plant.
It would definitely be a loss to change one, but it would be a different story if you changed two. The value of the sunflower is about the same as that of the shooters, but given the current situation, even if you change another shooter, it cannot be upgraded to the second level, and it will be useless in the next battle. It is no different from not changing it. It is better to get a second-level potato mine.
Gu Ning has always been a cautious person. She wants to maximize her chances of winning and will never leave herself any room for regret.
After posting the transaction information, she found that the battle was about to start in 1 hour, so she went to the chat area and shouted a few words. This was also her first time speaking on the public screen.
[Gu Ning: Sunflowers for potato mines + any other plants. Interested parties can search the trading area.]
Shi Pengfei: One for two? That's a bit unfair, isn't it? Who's making the trade?
[Baize:? If you don't change it, someone else will. Please, it's a sunflower!]
[Qian Duoduo: @Gu Ning, do you support cash transactions? I'll give you 5 million yuan.]
[Ma Lili: I'll switch, I'll switch! It's over, I was too slow, I missed it! I hate it (bites the handkerchief)]
[Xiang Jun: Huh? That name sounds familiar. Isn't this the top ten guy on the list?]
Peng Hong: !!! I finally saw a player on the leaderboard speak up. You guys should keep a low profile!
[Ma Lili: The battle will start in half an hour. Although I didn't manage to grab the Sunflower, I still wish the boss a successful defense. @Gu Ning, it would be even better if you could think of me if there are more Sunflower trades in the future (winking)]
[Bai Ze: Tsk tsk, your abacus beads are about to fall on my face]
…
Gu Ning ignored everything, especially the one about cash transactions. It was really ridiculous. Only people who didn't see the situation clearly would be moved by money in this situation.
Soon, when she saw someone post a message saying that they had not gotten the item, she also received an email notification from the trading area, which meant that the transaction had been completed. The location was at the back of the trading area and she could see it by turning the page.
Her sunflower card was stuffed in here, and now it has been replaced with two different new cards.
[Potato Mine: Blow up single-cell zombies]
[Level: First Order]
…
[Upgrade pending: 3/3]
【Garlic: Smoke the zombies to other roads】
[Level: First Order]
[Value: 50 Sunshine]
[Cooling time: 8 seconds]
[Features: Forces the eaten zombies to reroute to the adjacent row]
HP: 400
[Upgrade pending: 1/3]
Gu Ning was somewhat surprised to see that it was actually a head of garlic. Garlic's presence was really too low. It was one of those plants that people would not remember unless it was mentioned. It was very unpopular and a very useless card for most players. However, Gu Ning already had a new idea.
Put the garlic into the first page of the illustration book, take out the three potato mine cards, stack them together, synthesize and upgrade them, and a white light flashes before your eyes.
[Potato Mine: Blow up single-cell zombies]
[Level: Level 2]
[Value: 25 Sunshine]
[Cooling down: 20s (-10)]
[Features: Quick installation skills are mastered, and the growth time is only 8s (-7), and it explodes at the touch of a button after it grows]
HP: 600
[Upgrade pending: 0/6 (Level 1)]
Planting cooling is reduced by one third, and the development period is shortened by half, which greatly reduces the disadvantages of potato mines.
【Author’s words】
Note: Players can only draw first-level plant cards. To prevent confusion, the information will display the real-time level. Only the upgrade points will be specially marked and the first-level exchange rate will be used.
How to upgrade: 9 first-level cards are required to reach the maximum level
3 first-order = 1 second-order, 3 second-order = 1 third-order (full order)
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