Although their levels were high—all Level 10 players—facing a Level 5 beast tide of a million, and surrounded from all sides, they were still no match!
It meant fighting on four fronts, with barely over 200 people on each line.
That was nowhere near enough.
“Damage output is sufficient!”
Shen Chi said.
He wasn't wrong, of course.
Because as the beast tide thundered in,
Chu Fu took the initiative to attack.
Each village had a different geographical location. Tianhe Village had a river on one side and a forest on the other.
Most of the beast tide came from the forest.
They were still 200 meters from Tianhe Village.
Chu Fu didn’t wait for them to get close; she flew out proactively.
Plague Spread.
A patch of crimson mist shrouded the front line of the beast tide, then expanded outward.
The monsters in front were instantly killed, their bodies radiating ominous red mist, then rotting, swelling, and exploding!
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”
The exploding corpses formed a kind of barrier, forcibly halting the beast tide.
On the side with the most monsters, Chu Fu held the line all by herself.
She chugged potions frantically, then headed to another direction.
By then, the enemy had already charged to within 50 meters of Tianhe Village.
She unleashed another Plague Spread.
Server 0308888 | [ProudButNotArrogant]: Just defend the southeast direction, leave the rest to Plant Girl, and also collect contribution points!!! I’m begging you all.
Even at a time like this, ProudButNotArrogant didn’t forget to collect contribution points.
The players of Wangxi Village had been rushing and doing quests earlier, with no time to watch the livestream. They didn’t even know what kind of ability Chu Fu had used to clear the ruins of Tianhe Village.
Now they finally understood!
Chu Fu had super-evolved!
At that moment, the players of Wangxi Village were even more excited than the livestream audience.
“Plant Master, I’m so proud to be in the same village as you!”
“Ahhhh, Plant Master, you’re so awesome! How did you do that? What happened?”
“Do you even need to ask? It must be skill enhancement stones!!! Otherwise, why would the big spender ProudButNotArrogant be collecting them?”
The viewers in the livestream couldn’t see the contribution ranking or the contribution shop.
They didn’t know what the first-place player would be rewarded with.
Most of them were players who had failed their beginner villages, or queued players who hadn’t joined the game yet.
Only a few high-level players had guessed the situation.
And besides them,
even the official team of Huaxia was watching the video without blinking.
They had made several backups, intending to go back and study it frame by frame, hoping to analyze exactly how Chu Fu had done it.
In fact, it wasn’t just Chu Fu.
Shen Chi’s mecha-making was also extraordinarily impressive.
“Plantman and Xie Lin’s situation is too strong. If this continues, won’t they be invincible? Isn’t there any monster that can counter them?”
Someone raised a question.
Everyone in the analysis department immediately turned to look at that person.
“Why are you all staring at me like that?”
“Isn’t it better for players to be strong? Why do you want to find something that counters her? Are you a human traitor?”
That person’s face instantly turned red, then he retorted loudly: “Only by identifying weaknesses can we make up for them! Besides... besides, this is a game, right? It should be fair! She’s so strong, and everyone else is so weak—that’s not fair!”
“Hah, wait until the day the game descends in reality, and then talk about fairness. See if you aren’t crying out to cling to her leg then!”
Still, that person’s suggestion was worth being cautious about.
One of them said, “Plantman is indeed very strong, almost overpowered in the beginner village. But she does have a fatal weakness: she’s a mage and summoner type.
And against an assassin ganging up on her, she could die in an instant.
For instance, the strongest assassin in Zone 001, ID Lu Xing, could likely one-shot Plantman.
Plus, this Lu Xing really enjoys killing people. He specifically targets guild players. Even though he has a disguise mask, he still wears a mask and never shows his true face.
To this day, no one has found out his background. He’s the strongest solo player in Zone 001.
If someone like that, for money or because he’s truly a human traitor, goes after Plantman, then she’s in danger!”
Huaxia had already marked Lu Xing as a triple-S-level dangerous target.
“As for the guy in a wheelchair flying on a mecha? That’s obvious. The main monsters on the Level 20 map are goblins. Goblins live in forests or caves—that mecha can’t enter caves. He’s already lost 90% of his combat ability!”
At this argument, everyone thought it made sense.
As for the others, they were also strong, but nothing special so far.
...
Tianhe Village.
10 kilometers away.
Youlong Zhuye led his group out of the beast tide’s encirclement, narrowly escaping danger.
The next moment, Youlong Zhuye’s face turned as black as charcoal.
He kept taking calls, his expression growing uglier with each one.
The disguised team that their Youlong Guild had carefully cultivated was completely wiped out.
And the ones who killed them were from Server 0308888, the Thorn Guild that had been used as their control group—who would’ve thought?
This was insane.
How could players from other servers enter their own server?
But he quickly realized what had happened.
Because the other team had completed their village defense and joined the main map, connecting with Server 0288888 to head to Fengdu Town.
Thus, their beginner villages were now linked.
Yet instead of heading to the new city, these people came to their beginner village to save those NPCs.
Meddling where they didn’t belong.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly had a bad feeling.
He immediately opened the official currency trading platform, checking the exchange rates.
The currency sold in Tianhe Village, because the village was destroyed and many players quit, had been put on the platform at an exchange rate of 1 yuan to 7 copper coins!
But now, all those high-rate copper coins had been swept clean.
Who did this?
“Damn it, we took a huge loss!”
Youlong Zhuye cursed.
Afraid that all the effort of their studio would go to waste, they had also dumped a large amount of copper coins onto the trading platform, even driving up the price with their own hands.
They had planned to scoop them all up once they left the beginner village, making a profit off the casual players.
But now, all that preparation had been done for someone else.
What hurt him most was that ten minutes later, he heard another announcement.
[System Announcement: Beginner Village Major Event: Tianhe Village Counterattack Begins.]
“What?”
Youlong Zhuye was completely dumbfounded.
What was worse, when the casual players heard the news, they first looked at each other, asked what was happening, and then learned the truth.
“It’s players from other servers coming here to help! A counterattack is possible!”
“I want to go back to the village!”
“Let’s go, hurry back! There’s still a chance!”
Half of the crowd immediately turned around, determined to return and defend the village.
Youlong Zhuye had originally planned to use these people as cannon fodder, protecting their group on the way to Fengdu Town, since the route wasn’t just blocked by beast tides but also by goblins.
Now it'll take another hour to get back to the village. Will we make it in time?
