The players throughout Fenghe Town erupted in cheers.
“They’re here! They’re here!”
“Thank you, Plant Boss! And thank you to the big shots from the Thorn Guild!”
Chu Fu continued broadcasting through the megaphone.
[Server 0248888—Fenghe Town] [Who Wants to Be a Plant?]: “I’ll be clearing out the monsters around Fenghe Town shortly. Please be prepared, and don’t panic. Two hours from now, all members are to assemble at the east gate.”
Everyone was still wondering what she meant by “don’t panic” when they suddenly discovered that the entire area around Fenghe Town had changed.
The ground outside the city turned into a swamp.
A dense pink fog, like a sandstorm, enveloped the entire world.
It was Chu Fu’s Plague Calamity.
Against living, flesh-and-blood creatures, Plague Calamity was simply the most useful skill imaginable.
There was no need for her to control it, nor did she need to rely on amplification from the Calamity Seeds.
It spread automatically.
Goblins fell in droves.
In the end, they all became rotting corpses.
The speed at which the monsters died depended entirely on how quickly they approached Fenghe Town.
No one needed to lift a finger.
Chu Fu alone defended an entire town.
The reason she had asked everyone to wait two hours was that after each wave of monsters was completely wiped out, there was a ten-minute rest period.
It was a mandatory break, during which the goblins used their Replication Crystals to create a new army and launch another attack on the town.
But killing them only took three minutes.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
The ninth wave of monsters had been eliminated.
Everyone was waiting at the east side of the city.
Feng Huimin also sent out a megaphone announcement.
[Server 0248888—Fenghe Town] [Commander Feng Huimin]: “Attention, all players. You will be joining this battle. Do not resist or leave the formation. Otherwise, you will bear the consequences.”
[Charge Horn]
Feng Huimin blew the horn.
Then came the formation.
The players, who had originally been scattered and idle, were forcibly drawn together as if by an invisible pair of hands.
They became a perfectly ordered unit.
Almost subconsciously, they adjusted their positions and became part of the war.
At that moment, a gigantic arch appeared outside Fenghe Town, formed from roots, branches, vines, and flowers.
Shen Chi and the others were already standing in front of the rift. Chu Fu sent a Plant Spirit to follow them, then activated the Nature Spirit Passage.
That way, the players did not need to travel there themselves.
Of course, this was also because Fenghe Town had relatively few people. In a situation like Thorn City, there would not have been enough time for everyone to enter through the Nature Spirit Passage. They would have had to run there on their own.
Everyone passed through the Nature Spirit Passage and arrived in front of the Goblin Rift.
Feng Huimin issued an order.
“Enter on your own. After passing through the rift, wait where you are. Once the dungeon ends, return through the rift from the same location.
“Do not linger. Otherwise, your character will die, and you will be unable to create a new character for three months.”
The distance was only a little over a hundred meters, so Feng Huimin did not need to continue directing them.
Whether the players from Fenghe Town had heard her clearly or not, they excitedly charged through the rift, howling as they went.
They were entering a Genesis-tier dungeon too!
Standing before the rift, they saw the powerful goblins.
One billion HP!
The terrifying and savage goblins made their souls tremble. Their hair stood on end as though they had encountered a natural predator.
The next moment, another veil of pink poisonous fog enveloped the goblin army.
Whether they had one billion HP or one hundred thousand, they all collapsed on the spot.
Their HP represented only the goblins’ limit—not the limit of Chu Fu’s skill damage.
Shen Chi took out the Ground-Sucking Machine and sucked all the corpses inside.
Then the mecha rose from the ground.
Boom!
The members of the Thorn Guild flew away.
They circled around the east, south, west, and north sides, completing the trip in only six minutes.
Afterward, they reached the Goblin City and began fighting the boss.
It took no effort at all. The boss was slain.
The gap between them was simply too great.
[You have cleared the dungeon: The True Goblin Nest (Genesis).]
[Dungeon completion time: 12 minutes and 33 seconds.]
[All participating players have been granted one free resurrection. All players’ levels have increased by 1, and all attributes have increased by 10 points. (The first clear of a Genesis-tier dungeon grants 100 points; subsequent clears grant 10 points. Bonuses may stack.)]
[The system will award rewards based on each player’s performance in this dungeon. Rewards will be distributed automatically; no exchange is required.]
At the same time, the announcement was broadcast worldwide.
Although this was not the first clear, a Genesis-tier dungeon still warranted a global announcement.
It was practically spam, repeatedly ringing in the ears of players around the world.
There was no way to block it.
Aside from the players from China, players from many other countries were furious and began cursing.
“Damn it! Can’t these announcements be blocked? Why are they clearing Genesis-tier dungeons every single day?”
“It’s China every time! What are the people in our country doing? Why isn’t our government maintaining order? My home has been looted!”
“Send in spies! I want to know how they’re clearing these dungeons!”
“It’s that Who Wants to Be a Plant again. Are plant players really that powerful? I want to become a plant player too!”
“Twelve minutes? Can the people who tried it in our country even kill a single goblin in twelve minutes?”
“Are we really going to let China take first place?”
While players around the world complained, Chu Fu remained silent, doing nothing but dismantling Goblin City.
There were only twenty of them this time, so their numbers were relatively small.
After clearing the dungeon, they could remain inside for another hour—the same hour during which the tenth wave would originally have attacked Fenghe Town.
Dismantling a city roughly the same size as Fenghe Town in just one hour was still somewhat tight.
Fortunately, Chu Fu had discovered a new use for the spirits.
She recalled more than six hundred Gatling Corn Plant Spirits into the Spirit Plant Satchel, then released six hundred Giant-Mouthed Venus Flytrap Spirits.
The skirts of the Venus Flytrap Spirits resembled wide-open mouths. When they approached an enemy, the skirts suddenly spread open until they reached a diameter of two meters.
They were razor-sharp as well.
Chu Fu ordered them to swallow everything they saw.
Buildings, bones, fences, stones…
Then she activated Nature Spirit Collection, and all those things naturally fell into Chu Fu’s backpack.
Her backpack was not large enough to hold everything. Once it overflowed, the excess items spilled onto the ground.
But at that point, Shen Chi could use the Ground-Sucking Machine to vacuum them away.
“I feel like I’m missing one of those infinite-space rings from novels!”
Chu Fu sighed.
“It’s a shame this dungeon doesn’t give treasure chests. Everything here is real, and now even the divine power rewards have decreased,” said Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao.
Feng Huimin pushed up her glasses and said, “The amount of divine power being awarded probably hasn’t decreased. We’ve simply become stronger.
“If divine power is equivalent to experience points, then the experience from a level-ten-to-twenty dungeon is completely useless to a group of level-thirty-six players like us.”
“Good thing there aren’t any speed-farming dungeons on the new map. Otherwise, we would have missed out on a wave of all-attribute increases.”
An hour later.
Chu Fu looked at Goblin City, now chewed down until it was full of holes, and nodded in satisfaction. She left with the Spatial Stone.
All the rifts closed.
She did not know that, just as the dungeon ended…
The players left behind in the rift east of Windpeace Town had unexpectedly fallen into disagreement.
“We cleared the dungeon this quickly? It won’t close for another hour! Why don’t we explore a little? I heard everything here is real—even a random bone you pick up could be a dark-gold-tier item.”
Greed began to spread among the players.
