Chapter 84: The traitor exposed on the seventh day of the Wild Beast Season
Day seven of the season.
The difficulty of the beast tide has increased again, and the time of its appearance is no longer fixed.
Yu Luowei released the drone in advance and asked some people to take turns standing guard on the lookout tower to convey information to everyone in a timely manner.
She herself was not idle either. Thinking about the fact that there were more flying monsters in the beast tide on the fourth day, Yu Luowei was worried that burrowing monsters would appear today. She started making traps last night and was setting them in the city at this time.
The map function added to the survival manual is very convenient. Every time Yu Luowei places a trap, he can mark it on the map. The map will remind other citizens when they pass by to prevent them from being accidentally injured by the trap.
Before they had finished setting the traps, the manual announced the arrival of the first wave of beasts. Yu Luowei was too busy with her work to read the manual. It was only when the surrounding citizens rushed out that she realized what was happening and quickly came to the treetops.
Only then did she have time to take out the manual to check the information. After reading it, Yu Luowei's expression gradually became serious. Although there were no burrowing monsters in today's beast tide as she had expected, there were some changes: the monsters no longer came from afar like waves as before, but were randomly generated outside the city in large groups.
Because the update was sudden, the original strategy hadn't been adjusted, and part of the planned area was overrun by spawned monsters. Fortunately, the drone operator and the guards reacted quickly, eliminating the nearest monster group in time, giving the newly arrived citizens some time to recover.
Yu Luowei also used a skill card on the treetops against the monsters outside. Although there were many monsters gathered in groups, it made it easier for Yu Luowei to aim, and he could destroy a bunch of them at once.
After the initial confusion, the citizens gradually adapted to the new way the beast tide came, and were no longer confined to the originally designated area, but explored a lot outward.
The terrain outside was varied, but the areas near the city were mostly forests, with poor visibility and the occasional lone monster attacking. This made the difficulty much higher.
Besides monsters, there were also some ordinary animals in the forest, like sheep and chickens. Someone wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to hunt and replenish their food supply, but they didn't expect these animals to become much more aggressive. As soon as they saw people, they rushed over like cannonballs, attacking them crazily with their feet and beaks.
Although they do not have special abilities like monsters, there are quite a few of them and they can cause some damage when people are not prepared.
By the time they had completely dealt with this beast tide, the number of injured people was greater than the total number of people who had been injured before. By the time they had treated the wounded, heavy rain suddenly began to fall from the sky.
Ever since time in the game resumed its natural flow, the sun had been shining brightly at noon for the past few days, and Yu Luowei had assumed the weather would remain unchanged. However, the branches and leaves of the Tree of Life couldn't shield it from the wind and rain, and the sudden downpour nearly drenched Yu Luowei.
Yu Luowei bought an umbrella from the points mall and hurried outside the city. Together with Lin Zhixia and the others, they erected hundreds of large parasols, enough for seven or eight people to temporarily shelter from the rain for those exploring the city. The observation tower did have a roof, so there was no need to worry too much about those on the city wall.
Fortunately, the drone is waterproof and can still be used. However, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping. Not only does it seriously affect the vision, it also affects the use of some skill cards.
There was no way to blow away the dark clouds, so Yu Luowei could only pray in her heart that the rain would stop soon. Unfortunately, she was not a high priestess, so her prayers were useless, and she still welcomed the second wave of beasts in the rain.
The monsters this time were mostly water-type, which were more effective in the rain. But Yu Luowei's ice magic—no, ice-type skill cards—were superior, perfectly suppressing these water monsters. And perhaps because the environment was harsher, the game compensated by reducing the number and level of monsters this time to less than last time, which resulted in no one getting hurt.
The rain ended with the second wave of beasts. Whenever this happened, Yu Luowei felt the charm of the game's refresh: no need to clean up the battlefield or the monster corpses herself.
There was another wave in the evening. This time, Yu Luowei thought there would definitely be undead monsters involved, so he told everyone in advance that it would be best to take fire skill cards, as the monsters at night might look more terrifying. This also prevented everyone from being too frightened when they first saw the undead monsters.
Ma Tuan didn't like water very much, so he didn't participate much in the second wave of beasts, just controlling the water element to launch a sneak attack on the city wall. Now he was ready to make a move, and he showed his skills in the beast tide at night.
Today's beast tide was twice as difficult as the previous few days. After finishing the last wave, everyone was exhausted. I wanted to rest early, but I didn't expect another big drama to unfold in the channel:
[Fei Xing: Brothers, don't you think that every day we fight the beast tide for the entire city, but we only get a small amount of ranking rewards. The payoff is too unbalanced?]
Wang Peng: Exactly. Without us, the City Lord wouldn't be able to sit there in peace and contentment, right? And she's number one on the leaderboard, so she should give us some extra rewards.
[Fei Xing: I heard that other city lords would give extra rewards to the top few in the city rankings. Our city lord is too stingy.]
[Shen Ming:? Huh? What are you talking about? Are there still idiots in the game at this time?]
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[Yu Fan: Well, first of all, you don't have to fight the beast tide. You can take care of logistics in the city like Sister Linlang or Sister Su Tang, and you'll still get points and leaderboard rewards. But if you don't want to do anything, then you won't get any rewards, just one reward for first place in the city—and speaking of which, if you go to other cities and do nothing, you'll get even less.]
Zhou Xia: That's right. If we don't work hard to deal with the beast tide, we'll be like us before, nearly homeless. If Sister Luo Wei hadn't been so kind as to take us in, who knows what we'd be facing. And if that happens, Sister Luo Wei will definitely find another city to take us in, but you might not be. Besides, Sister Luo Wei didn't intervene before because we could defeat her. She even saved me once these past two days.
Cao Zhi: Are these two spies from other cities? I've always been near the top of the city's leaderboard, and they've been chatting with me privately, spreading rumors about our city. Oh, and the city lord also gives those of us at the top of the leaderboard extra rewards.
As soon as these words came out, many people came out and said that they were harassed by Fei Xing and Wang Peng. For a time, the two became like rats crossing the street, almost being scolded to death, and some people were so angry that they wanted to block them at their door.
Seeing this, Yu Luowei felt that it was a bit outrageous: someone didn't do anything secretly, but used this despicable slander trick. This made Yu Luowei's long-standing worries and assumptions about whether these two people would do something big become a joke.
The two men were also feeling miserable. Their boss had assigned them two tasks: gathering intelligence on North City and inciting its inhabitants to defect. However, the citizens of North City, being generally loyal, were wary of their inquiries. Meanwhile, the newly arrived citizens, while less loyal, didn't know much about North City either. Over the past two days, the mission had made no progress at all. They'd tried to make things more difficult for North City and make it harder to deal with the beast tide, but robots seemed to be everywhere. Every time they tried to do something, they'd appear, peppering them with questions like "Why?" and, with surveillance, they were completely unable to act.
Posting these words on the public chat channel today was a necessary move—after two days of no progress, they'd already been reprimanded numerous times by the boss. But what they hadn't anticipated was that North City and their city had different ways of earning points. North City strictly distributed points based on contribution; as long as you contributed, regardless of the area, you'd earn points. A few days ago, when Wang Peng and Fei Xing were pretending to go to the front lines, some kind-hearted citizens, seeing they couldn't get involved (actually, they were trying to figure out how to accidentally injure others), offered them the front position, hoping they'd attack more and earn more points.
But in their city, points were awarded only for participating in defeating the beast tide, and points were awarded based on the number of kills completed. Therefore, rather than painstakingly slaying monsters themselves, everyone preferred to steal others' heads. If it weren't for their boss's military suppression, their city would have likely perished in civil unrest. Others were sent to disrupt other cities, but those cities, already plagued by head-stealing incidents, were already stretched thin, and their "colleagues" completed their missions in a day or two.
Yu Luowei hadn't known of any other points distribution methods. The three small cities merged into North City, whose lords and citizens were all of good character, had the same points distribution method as North City. Someone in the chat had already arranged to go to the two men's base and capture them. She stopped pondering the reason for their folly and, while sending the patrol team the coordinates of the area to capture the two men, she tried to reassure everyone in the chat to avoid any accidents.
The two were quickly apprehended by the patrol. The prison, empty since its construction, finally welcomed its first resident. Lu Zhi volunteered to take on the interrogation, after all, they had once been from the same district. Yu Luowei agreed and dispatched the small robot that had been monitoring them to follow Lu Zhi.
This minor incident was quickly resolved. After learning the two had been captured, everyone went back to their business. But Yu Luowei was still a little worried. With nearly 100,000 people, even without an intelligent butler, it would take quite a while to monitor their loyalty. While these two were clueless, there was a chance some would be seduced by their words. Yu Luowei instructed the intelligent butler to screen out those with a loyalty score below 20 and focus on them, making sure not to increase the difficulty of dealing with the beast tide.
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