Li Weizheng took out his notebook and prepared to record everything carefully.
Thorn City was the first city to face a city defense battle.
In the future, all one thousand servers and cities in China would have to face the same problem.
That was why this battle was such valuable intelligence.
There was nothing wrong with tagging along for the rewards.
More importantly, they needed to gather enough information to prepare for what was coming.
What would the monsters in the first wave be? What about the boss? He still had no idea.
And then there was that terrifying black fog, which looked almost like a forbidden spell.
Could it strengthen the undead legion?
Chu Fu gave him a shy smile.
“You mean that? That’s one of my skills. It’s just a little big and a little powerful, that’s all. It lasts for a little over an hour before disappearing, and I need to keep replenishing it. It’s barely usable!”
Li Weizheng: “…”
Was it really just “a little”?
Did she mean a little in the sense of one hundred million or two hundred million?
He had estimated the area covered by the fog and felt that it was larger than half the city walls.
With strength like Chu Fu’s, what kind of undead disaster could possibly withstand her?
Still, he asked Chu Fu about the city defense battle.
This time, Chu Fu did not hold anything back. She told Li Weizheng everything she knew, including the events that would appear according to the storyline.
“I was noticed by the God of the Undead because I collected the blueprints required to upgrade a village into a town, expanded Thorn Town until each side was ten kilometers long, and brought it up to city standards.
“Then I used a city upgrade blueprint to turn it into a proper city, which triggered the city defense battle.
“Based on the intelligence I gathered, city defense battles will most likely begin two months from now.
“The exact date is the hundredth day after the game launches.
“So the city defense battles won’t take place one after another. They’ll all happen at the same time!”
The game’s regions continued to open, so the village defense battles were different for every village.
Towns only appeared after different regions were merged, so town defense battles also varied.
Cities, however, had been there from the beginning.
Each server corresponded to one city.
Linjiang City corresponded to Server 8888.
There were ten thousand servers worldwide, and China occupied one thousand of them.
If all one thousand servers faced city invasions at the same time, which city could they support?
That would depend on how each city had developed.
“If we want to change this situation, the only option is to stagger the city defense battles.
“We need to arrange things so that every major city has at least one hundred thousand level-thirty players before the two-month deadline.”
Li Weizheng carefully wrote all of this down.
After hearing Chu Fu’s words, he took a deep breath and nodded.
“I understand. I’ll report this to my superiors exactly as you’ve told me,” Li Weizheng said solemnly.
Chu Fu knew how difficult this would be.
In the timeline where Chu Feng had been reborn, this would have been impossible.
But Chu Fu had awakened, and the world was no longer the same as before.
The influence she brought with her was growing greater by the day.
As far as the overall situation was concerned, her first major contribution had been the Wangxi Village model.
She had created a perfect village defense strategy, leading China’s analysts to study and imitate it.
The authorities had stepped in and strictly prohibited verbal abuse, malicious killing, and organized monopolies in the game.
As a result, most regions opened after Region 030 had official personnel involved, and the survival rate for newcomers was around eighty-five percent.
The second major development was the recently launched “Operation to Counterinvade the Goblin City.”
China’s analysts had given it the codename Operation Dark Gold.
…
Inside China’s analysis bureau.
As soon as Li Weizheng’s message arrived, the analysts began making rapid calculations.
Before long, they had worked out a feasible strategy.
“Leader, Operation Dark Gold is currently being carried out across the country. If what Plantman said is true, then we need to target specific cities and repeatedly increase the number of Primordial-tier dungeon runs.
“The experience from Primordial-tier goblins isn’t affected by the restriction that prevents players from gaining experience from monsters more than five levels below them, and the experience rewards are extremely high.
“Assuming level-twenty-five players enter the Primordial-tier Goblin dungeon, at least sixty percent of them should reach level thirty.
“In theory, if around thirty thousand players from a single town participate in the battle, nearly twenty thousand of them could reach level thirty.
“Furthermore, a town defense battle like this only needs to be fought five times for the town to produce one hundred thousand level-thirty players.
“Nowadays, because villages opened after Region 030 have such high newcomer retention rates, most of them are merged from two or three regions into a single town.
“Under those circumstances, we would only need five towns to completely clear the Primordial-tier dungeon and gather one hundred thousand level-thirty players.
“That means we could begin the first town defense battles in as little as half a month.
“After that, we could proceed in batches and have all one thousand servers complete the process in stages.
“However, there’s still one variable…”
“What variable?”
“Whether Plantman will run the Primordial-tier dungeon.
“General Ji has already passed by that dungeon. It’s called the ‘Source of the Undead Calamity.’
“If Plantman clears it, they may be able to obtain even higher-grade equipment.
“What if the equipment from that dungeon is diamond-grade?
“That would mean at least one hundred thousand pieces of diamond-grade equipment, each at least level twenty or higher.
“With that equipment, level-twenty players could reliably clear the Primordial-tier Goblin dungeon.”
By then, they would win through sheer statistical superiority.
Of course, the other analysts were not optimistic.
“Actually, we can tell from the rewards of the town- and city-level dungeons that the increase isn’t particularly dramatic. Diamond-grade equipment is extremely rare.
“The most likely possibility is that the dungeon drops level-thirty dark-gold equipment.
“However, it would still be stronger than the level-twenty dark-gold Barbarian Set dropped by the goblins.
“Each piece adds twenty attribute points, and there are fifteen pieces in a full set. That’s a difference of three hundred attribute points, so the gap is indeed enormous.”
The head of the analysis bureau nodded.
At the same time, he rubbed his chin.
“But if the Primordial-tier dungeons are all real dungeons, then do the skeletons have equipment?”
Countless possibilities were being recorded in the bureau’s reports.
At present, the only way to verify any of them was for Chu Fu and the others to clear the dungeon.
No matter how much analysis they did, it was still no substitute for practical experience.
…
Thorn City.
Monsters surged forward like a tidal wave, only to be completely wiped out.
The battle dragged on for an extremely long time.
Repeatedly casting high-level spells emptied the players’ mana. Taking potions nonstop also increased their drug resistance, making it impossible for them to recover properly.
Most importantly, the players below level thirty who were using gaming helmets had no way to take their physical condition into account.
After playing at such a high intensity, their bladders and stomachs were both sending out desperate warning signals.
Yet every one of them persisted.
“We absolutely can’t log off! We have to follow the boss into the Primordial-tier dungeon!”
“A gaming pod only costs a million! Don’t tell me you can’t even come up with a hundred silver coins?”
“Brother, I only entered Thorn City today. My family’s on welfare. Both my parents are disabled, and I have leukemia. I really don’t have any money!”
“Don’t say another word, brother. Take these hundred silver coins. The moment you log off, go buy another gaming pod!”
“I’ve got another hundred silver coins here. Use them to arrange one for your parents, too!”
“Thank you, big brothers and sisters, but I really can’t take any more. This is enough—there’s already too much!”
“Take it. It’s our way of showing we care. Don’t worry about how you spend it. Even if you eat lobster in the real world, we won’t say a word!
“But in the game, hurry up and reach level thirty. Get your body healthy again. Once you do, come join my team. We’ll play together.”
Chu Fu noticed this too.
