Chapter 146 The plane crashed and Buddha appeared
"They've all arrived?"
Calm your mind, close your eyes, and train your mental strength. Ask questions after hearing footsteps.
The person who arrived was Lu Mingang. As the best errand runner on the same ship as Shen Dixing, he had been busy these days, just as much as he had been drinking coffee.
On the contrary, Chen Dixin, who only grasps the direction, has devoted almost all of his energy to mental power these days, paying little attention to what's happening in the channel, only taking the time to wander around and observe whether there are any unexpected situations.
"We've arrived. We can go straight to the meeting."
She leaped up nimbly, taking three steps in two, and headed to the meeting place, which was the only ship in the fleet with a Class 3 banquet hall.
Pushing open the door, I saw many familiar faces: the eager-to-try lava river, the composed spider toast, the calm and serious wind and water, and the disheveled Qi Mu who had finally crawled out of the arena...
Without exchanging pleasantries, Chen Dixin went straight to the point.
"Since you've accepted the invitation, I presume everyone understands the selection criteria. The top 100 players on the leaderboard can bring one additional player to the island. Recommending valuable candidates won't consume any slots, and there are also players who voluntarily accept replacements."
"Hand over the list."
Silently, everyone passed around the light, fluttering paper; a few black characters on it carried a weight heavy enough to determine a person's fate.
Tomorrow marks the second year of survival at sea. Shen Dixin has issued a secret invitation: the top 100 players in terms of overall strength can come to the First Fleet base to fight the enemy together.
They're not planning to leave the island this time.
The remaining players will arrive on the island at midnight, when the banquet hall refreshes its invitation count.
Although the stronghold can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and even hundreds of thousands if squeezed in, Shen Dixin cannot possibly bring all the players in the entire channel to the island. Even if all the invited people arrive, there will only be a little over a thousand people.
The space she made was to receive players from broken channels. When the number of surviving players in a channel is less than one-thousandth of its original number, the boundary will be automatically removed and the player will be merged into a nearby channel.
In this situation, those who can persevere to the end are generally players with considerable strength, and they can be recruited.
Shen Dixin didn't know how many people would ultimately survive, but the number didn't matter, because she firmly believed that she would lead all of humanity out of this damned prison, and no one would be sacrificed.
Therefore, this was a necessary choice, and Chen Dixin revealed an almost cold expression.
Before dawn, as the fleet leader, she personally came to the coast to welcome the last batch of players to the island.
The sea breeze was blowing, and Chen Dixin gazed at the sea surface. Her excellent eyesight allowed her to make direct eye contact with the sea monsters lurking at the bottom of the sea.
They come in various forms, but unlike others, they are no longer lifeless. Instead, they are very active, or rather, they are poised to strike. They are eager to tear the alien race to pieces!
Shen Dixin rubbed her temples, which was the real reason she came to greet them. She would have to cover the players as they landed on the island and fight the first wave of sea monsters.
I checked my wristband; time was almost up.
She drew her weapon, activated the mechanism, and launched a grappling hook that gripped the wall. With a single step and a push, she easily scaled two walls and landed in front of the crowd.
"Unless there are special circumstances, prepare to leave the city!"
The players nodded. They weren't part of the military; they hadn't undergone military training, and they couldn't possibly train anyone in such a short time.
Therefore, players leaving the city will fight in small teams, which can make full use of each individual's abilities and allow players with different roles in the same team to take care of each other.
Meanwhile, sentry posts rose from the stone city walls, with a small number of players who knew how to use bows keeping a close eye on the battlefield.
The activity inside the city walls was just as busy. The island's terrain was not flat, and the initial reclamation took a lot of effort. Now, the lowest point has been transformed into a large fishpond connected to the ocean, where small green leaf fish are raised. They are lively and active, and you can always see several leaping out of the water whenever you look over.
That's a product of specialized fish farmers; this type of fish matures quickly and is a high-quality backup meat source.
Raising a dozen or so ponds of fish, although the yield can't compare to farming, can still provide a change of pace.
Not to mention that fish farming directly liberates the productivity of fish farmers and fishermen, who no longer have to be buried in the soil all day long like farmers, fearing that going to the toilet will cause the emergence of top-level pests that will eat up the vegetables that have been raised for more than ten hours and are almost cooked.
Coffee suffered greatly from this. Since becoming familiar with everyone, mourning the ruined crops has become a daily routine, especially since he was in charge and was so busy that he had no time to take care of the crops.
So she worked hard and researched and cultivated a special rye variety to care for the plants she grew, and then promoted it to gardeners across the channel, so that you could see one every few steps in the fields.
Their efficiency is far lower than that of players, but a dozen or so plants can easily replace a farmer. Cultivating more of them is a worthwhile business. They will fertilize and water themselves when they are hungry or thirsty, which is also the capital for Shen Dixin to expand his farmland on a large scale.
Due to the leader's inexplicable fear of insufficient reserves, fishponds and farmland occupy three-fifths of the island, and a large portion of crops are left unattended and planted haphazardly outside the city walls.
If you have free time, go harvest your crops. Anyway, sea monsters usually only target humans and won't destroy ordinary vegetation.
Traps are set up between the stone and metal city walls. The area between these two walls is specifically designed for fighting sea monsters. With the stone walls blocking most of the sea monsters, the pressure on players to kill them will be much less.
If you can't win, retreat back to the city.
Players who are neither good at combat nor at production, such as fortune tellers or fish farmers, act as medics, using grappling hooks on the walls to rescue players who cannot retreat in time or to drop supplies out, much like lifeguards by a swimming pool.
All of this was arranged and trained in advance, and new players will quickly integrate into the system under the guidance of their seniors.
Logically speaking, there was nothing to worry about, but Chen Dixin still went over it in his mind again and again, looking for any oversights.
There were many others as tense as her. On the first day of the attack, even those players who weren't fighting outside the city had no desire to sleep. They were all working like crazy, like nuclear-powered donkeys, wishing they could sprout wings and see what the battle was really like outside.
"They're here!"
Boats suddenly appeared on the shore, so many that they almost blocked the sea monster's path. Coffee used a megaphone to direct the crowd to disembark, as the sea monster would attack boats with players on board. If they were any later, their homes would be destroyed!
Shen Dixin swung his arm and threw the bombs into the sea monster horde. The sea monsters were so numerous that they covered the entire surface of the sea, and every bomb hit its mark.
More than a dozen squads quickly cleared the sea monsters that had come ashore, their backs to their teammates, crushing the enemy like red-hot iron balls, leaving them powerless to resist.
Of course, this was because the leading sea monsters were all cannon fodder, and their levels were even lower than the average level of the players.
The new players each displayed their unique abilities; some donned invisibility items and abandoned ship to escape, while others with wings soared into the sky.
Flying vehicles are generally difficult to tame. They crashed onto the island like meteors. Shen Dixin looked away with a heavy heart, reminding the medics to pick up the people.
Her kind reminder lingered in the air for a long time, thanks to the effect of the A-level talent, Communications Officer, which can establish a communication network within a certain range, with an effect equivalent to regional broadcasting. Now, no one on the island is unaware that an idiot has crashed his plane.
One player, who was burning incense and praying to Buddha for a safe disembarkation, exclaimed: "Huh? Is that a shooting star? Buddha really did appear!"
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