"Hurry, help me find the corpses of the pharmacist and the blacksmith—rebuilding the pharmacy and the blacksmith shop is the top priority!"
Suture Saint shouted.
Chu Fu kept helping to move the corpses.
Right then, Shen Chi stepped forward again!
"Plant Girl, use those white-level equipment on the ground. I just upgraded my talent—I've got one more chance to craft!"
Shen Chi's crafting wasn't always successful. Sometimes the results were so poor they couldn't be counted as equipment and had no attributes.
But that's how invention worked.
Not every attempt was a success.
This time, Shen Chi was incredibly rough.
Countless pieces of white-level equipment were gathered as materials, fused into a giant iron plate.
On top of that iron plate were all seats.
The iron plate was thirty meters long, ten meters wide, crammed with seats.
Over five hundred seats in total.
No roof, just some railings.
A super open-top car.
Shen Chi put this vehicle into his backpack and then used a town-return scroll.
It would take a whole minute to fly back to the village from here.
But the town-return scroll only took ten seconds.
Ten seconds later, Shen Chi was back in Wangxi Village.
He summoned his mecha again and equipped the open-top transport vehicle.
With a thunderous launch, it took only about ten seconds to catch up with the main force.
After all, their flying wings were way too slow.
"Get on! Hurry up and get on!"
Shen Chi sent out a server-wide broadcast!
People naturally noticed Shen Chi's mecha—the thing made a huge noise when it flew—but when they saw its new look, they were all dumbfounded.
The mecha was holding giant chains in both hands, with a platform hanging below, covered in seats.
If it weren't so simply designed, it would have looked like a pirate ship.
Just looking at the seats, everyone understood.
Shen Chi was going to transport them with this pirate-ship-like iron plate covered in chairs—way faster than they could fly!
At their flying speed, it would take at least thirty minutes to reach the neighboring village.
The cavalry would be way too late.
"Hurry up! We only have one minute—everyone get on board!"
Shen Chi shouted while flying—time was of the essence.
Those who could take a seat would sit; those who couldn't would have to fly themselves!
Seeing this, the players pulled out all the stops.
"Leaping Slash!"
A warrior suddenly activated his skill in midair, slamming down onto the seat of the open-top car. He noticed each seat had an iron bar at the backrest that could be pulled down—just like the safety guard on a roller coaster.
"Shadow Follow!"
An assassin used a skill to instantly reach the target's back, landing on the iron plate!
"Grappling Hook!" Some players used items from the village defense phase to latch onto the seats.
A crowd flocked in, flapping their wings, looking from afar like a swarm of bats attacking a giant metal plate.
What chaos!
Shen Chi was impatient too. He maneuvered the iron plate vehicle, sharply scooping through the crowd like a slotted spoon scooping dumplings, dragging players aboard.
After loading about three or four hundred, Shen Chi didn't wait any longer.
"Ready to set off!"
Shen Chi began to accelerate.
The players on the iron plate clung desperately to their seats, then let out earth-shattering screams—you could even see right down their throats.
"Aaaaaahhhhh!"
Even though it was linear acceleration, it was way too fast!
Said it was an open-top car.
Looked like a pirate ship.
Was it really a roller coaster?
Shen Chi charged forward fiercely with the roller coaster, passing players still using their flying wings, sparking envious shouts.
"Aaaaaah! Take me with you, veteran driver!"
"Wait for me—I haven't gotten on yet!"
"Quick, throw out your grappling hooks—you can hitch a ride!"
"I never hitched a train when I was young!"
Quite a few players actually managed to grab onto the vehicle.
Speed: 360 kilometers per hour!
Under this acceleration, some players' health was dropping like crazy, and some were even thrown off.
The healers on board, once they steadied themselves, started casting heals in midair.
Time seemed to frenzy by.
After one minute and thirty seconds.
Tianhe Village had arrived!
At this point, only six minutes remained until the mission deadline.
But over five hundred players had shown up.
Their arrival was like throwing water into a boiling oil pan—crackling everywhere.
Players already had construction materials in their backpacks, and they immediately started repairing the pharmacy and the blacksmith shop.
Suture Saint had already revived the NPCs of the pharmacy and the blacksmith shop.
The blacksmith shop could stay closed for now, but the pharmacy was critical.
The revived pharmacy owner was an old, gray-haired woman.
"I need herbs—make a batch of potions—otherwise, when the beast tide comes, we definitely won't hold!"
"Stop wasting time, just tell us how many potions you need, and we'll give them to you!"
Making potions was a mandatory skill for all players, and herbs were something everyone carried.
Plus, the blood of many monsters was also a material for potion-making.
A mountain of materials was submitted, and the pharmacy's quest progress maxed out.
Chu Fu was also working there, helping craft potions.
Maybe it was because of her hidden trait as a Plant Girl—her potions often had critical hits.
When others made one bottle, she sometimes made two.
But at that moment, one person's power was limited. She was just one player among many, doing her best for the task.
[System Announcement: Tianhe Village Pharmacy has been repaired.]
The mission completed, players scattered like birds, dashing off to do other tasks—staying at the pharmacy for even a second was a waste.
"Hurry up and do the other tasks—make traps, quick!"
"Build the walls! Does anyone still have materials left? I have none left!"
"Shrink the trap perimeter—only surround the inner area!"
"Rescue the NPCs and take them to the blacksmith shop to hide."
Players swarmed the village, setting up barricades and traps.
Five hundred people did the job faster than the original three thousand players from Tianhe Village had done.
Another four minutes passed.
Shen Shi brought back another five hundred players.
Only two minutes remained before the mission deadline.
Shen Chi didn't transport any more people. Instead, he quickly released the machinery from his backpack.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Rows of arrow towers appeared, rising from the ruins of Tianhe Village.
With these towers constructed, they were worth more than a hundred barricades.
The defense fortification mission progress instantly maxed out.
[System Announcement: Tianhe Village defenses are adequate.]
[System Announcement: Newbie Village major event, Tianhe Village Counterattack, has begun!
All players in the Tianhe Village area will receive contribution points for killing monsters and completing logistics tasks.]
"We did it!!!!"
"Awesome! We are champions!"
"Ah, I'm so emotional. I feel like I've changed history—this is the thrill of gaming!"
"Don't celebrate too early. Get ready for the beast tide. Right now, we only have a thousand people."
"Mecha Guy, hurry and bring in more people!"
All the players were counting on Shen Shi, since his mecha's transport capacity was just too strong.
But Shen Chi had no intention of leaving.
"That's enough," he said.
The newly arrived players were full of confusion.
"How can this small number of us possibly be enough!"
