Chu Fu naturally had no need to squeeze through the crowd, so she chose to return to her residence in Fengdu Town.
Then she flew out of town and quickly forced the spirit rice to mature.
She came back once every day to plant the spirit rice. There were a full six thousand mu of fields, so she absolutely could not let the goblins ruin them.
While Chu Fu and the others were busy, Lu An, Dream King, and Holy Healing Angel remained in Linjiang City.
“Are we still going to run dungeons?” Holy Healing Angel asked Dream King.
Dream King gave a bitter smile. “They’re all S-rank. The gap is just too big. We missed out on two enhancement opportunities. Wait, didn’t you two get enhancement skills?”
Those two had once been players from the Universal Studio!
Thinking about that, Dream King felt even more miserable.
It was all Wan Huanyu’s fault—and also that internet-addiction school Guan Youlong had opened.
“Forget it. We’re not running dungeons anymore. Dungeons won’t let us achieve a qualitative leap. Let’s see if we can find any hidden quests!”
Dream King returned to the city and wandered around for a while. As luck would have it, he discovered that the food in his backpack had run out.
He headed toward the snack street and soon heard an old woman selling rice balls.
“Delicious rice balls! Made from spirit rice produced by the wood-element mage of Fengdu Town! Only five copper coins each!”
Dream King immediately turned toward the old woman, his eyes shining.
“Granny, this is spirit rice from Fengdu Town, isn’t it? The teleportation array hasn’t been activated yet, right? How did you get the rice? Do you need me to help you buy some?”
The old woman’s eyes lit up at once.
“Sure, young man. If you help me buy one hundred jin of spirit rice, I’ll give you… I’ll give you two copper coins per jin as a purchasing fee. But you’ll have to pay for the rice yourself. This is only a small business, so I can’t advance the money!”
The entire deal was worth two silver coins. After making the trip, he would earn only two hundred copper coins, and he might have to spend two days on it.
Only an idiot would do it!
But this was a way back to Fengdu Town!
Dream King immediately said excitedly, “Yes, yes, Granny! I’ll definitely bring you the spirit rice.”
System Notification: You have accepted the quest “Purchase Spirit Rice.”
Dream King immediately notified Lu An and Holy Healing Angel.
The two of them hurried over and accepted the purchasing quest as well.
By this time, however, Shen Chi had already flown away. Still, he could come back for a second trip. After all, plenty of players were waiting for Shen Chi’s carriage to claim the remaining nine gold coins.
Shen Chi made quite a profit as well.
Of course, Dream King was not the only one to discover this type of quest. The players from Military Soul had found these quests several days earlier.
They had arranged for a group of area-of-effect and ultra-long-range classes to head to Fengdu Town.
Laoji Fuli was naturally among them.
But this time, no matter what price he offered, Little Sister Wu would not give up her spot.
Neither would anyone else.
Still, it was nice to make a little contribution in Fengdu Town.
Laoji Fuli also took Shen Chi’s second carriage.
By the time he arrived in Fengdu Town, only one hour remained before the town defense battle.
His first impression was that there were far too many people.
Looking closer, he was even more dumbfounded.
Almost everyone in Fengdu Town had golden equipment.
Some people were even fully equipped in gold.
Everyone’s enthusiasm was terrifying. Traps had already been set up five kilometers away from the town.
And they were still laying more.
The trenches had already been dug in five concentric rings.
Were they really this hardworking?
Little did he know that the players of Fengdu Town simply understood their fellow players too well.
If they did not build five rings of trenches, would there even be anywhere to stand?
With so many people, how were they supposed to get any kills?
Were they supposed to foolishly wait on the city walls?
They would not even be able to touch a single monster.
Building the trenches out to the fifth ring expanded the battlefield, allowing them to engage the monsters in advance. More importantly, it prevented the big shots from monopolizing all the monsters.
In short, these players had racked their brains to figure out how to snatch monsters and contribution points.
The moment midnight arrived, the system issued an announcement:
Fengdu Town is about to face a goblin invasion. All players, please take note.
System Announcement: The goblin invasion has begun. The contribution ranking is now active. Participants: 98,633. Preparations quests completed before the battle will also count toward the contribution rankings.
Laoji Fuli’s mind went blank.
“Wasn’t Fengdu Town merged from server 030? How does it have three times as many people as us? How long ago did they merge?”
No one answered him.
But everyone had their own measure of things.
This was actually the true value of the Thorny Guild!
They had defeated capitalist monopolies, upheld fairness and impartiality, and gained an excellent reputation with good treatment. People who had heard of them came flocking from all over.
That was what had led to Fengdu Town’s prosperity.
But with prosperity came a shortage of resources.
After all, the number of monsters in the goblin invasion was fixed. So were the available contribution points. But the number of players had tripled.
How could there possibly be enough contribution points to go around?
Just then, a vast goblin army appeared in the distance.
“Charge!”
The players of Fengdu Town actually climbed out of the trenches.
“Hurry! We can’t let Plant Master and the others get to the monsters first!”
“Get moving! I saw Wheelchair Boss dismantling the arrow towers. Their attack range is one kilometer. Don’t let him place them over by the trenches!”
“Sword Saint has already run to the very front! Kill them quickly!”
Ten million goblins were being divided among one hundred thousand players. Each person could only kill one hundred.
There were no weak players in Fengdu Town.
Everyone charged forward with bloodthirsty cries.
Chu Fu could not even bother with the plant formation she had prepared earlier.
These people had no sense of fair play.
They were trying to steal her monsters.
Chu Fu flew forward as well.
Plague Spread had now been enhanced to level 10, making its spread and infection even more terrifying.
Goblins collapsed in great swathes.
But the other players refused to give up. Chu Fu’s poison still needed time to spread, and they took advantage of the chaos to hack down countless goblins.
Back in Huaishui Town, Chu Fu had gained fifty million contribution points in a single wave.
But now, she had obtained only fifteen hundred.
What was more, the level-eleven goblin horde was completely wiped out in just five minutes.
The players were not even willing to wait the ten minutes before the next wave.
They continued running forward.
If you run, I run too.
Chu Fu did not stop either. After sprinting five kilometers, she came into contact with the second goblin army.
Another chaotic battle broke out.
The players held the goblin army twenty kilometers away from the town.
But when they advanced farther, they witnessed a strange sight.
Thirty kilometers away, the sky looked as though someone had slashed open a wound. The inside was pitch-black, while silver light representing spatial elements appeared along the edges.
It was a spatial rift a full kilometer long.
Goblins continued leaping out of it without end.
System Notification: Congratulations, player! You have completed the hidden achievement “First Glimpse of a Spatial Rift.” All attributes +1.
Achievement Description: During an invasion battle, be the first to investigate the source of the invasion and personally witness a spatial rift.
“Whoa!”
Everyone cried out in surprise.
Even Chu Fu was stunned.
This scene had never appeared in the original storyline.
Was this some new rule?
Or was it something even Chu Feng had failed to discover?
“So this is where the goblins come from?”
“They tear open a massive rift and send the goblins through. That makes perfect sense!”
“Hurry! Camp their spawn point and kill them!”
At least twenty thousand players charged forward and frenziedly pushed ahead, turning the level-twelve goblins into minced meat.
Before long, they had advanced to the area directly beneath the rift.
System Notification: Enter the special public dungeon, True Goblin Lair (Origin)?
