I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 2 Lord of the Eternal Night!

After the lame monkey left the cabin, Chen Fan got up and began to check what was inside.

He had sent the lame monkey to solicit customers with a glimmer of hope, but he knew in his heart that it was useless. It was getting dark, and the pedestrians in the nearby wasteland had already found places to stay.

This site has been running for so long!

Perhaps there were some mysterious stones left over by the previous stationmaster, but he searched the entire wooden house from top to bottom and still couldn't find a single one.

The entire wooden house was extremely simple.

A wooden bed.

There was enough dry food and water for two people for three or four days, a table, a chair, and nothing else.

A true dead end.

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After sitting in silence for a long time, Chen Fan finally made up his mind. He noticed a small hill nearby, and the view would be better from there. He decided to go up to the hill to solicit customers after sunrise the next day, and perhaps he could attract passersby.

This approach might provoke dissatisfaction from nearby stations.

But the Chen family is not a small family. With the Chen family's reputation, they should be able to intimidate the other party. If they can't, there's nothing they can do. He's about to die anyway, so he might as well just commit suicide instead of hesitating.

at this time--

He suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitation.

Subconsciously, I pushed open the wooden cabin door and looked into the distance. Sure enough, a dense darkness was rapidly approaching from the horizon, devouring the twilight like a bloodthirsty monster.

The night falls in this world not through a gradual alternation of light and darkness.

Instead, they alternate rapidly.

It's like pouring a can of ink onto a blank sheet of paper.

After darkness falls, countless strange creatures will appear in the darkness.

"Lame monkey!"

When he first saw this situation, his expression changed slightly and he instinctively wanted to call the lame monkey into the house. However, there was no sign of the lame monkey outside. After scanning around, he finally saw the lame monkey, who was now staggering towards the wooden house in the wilderness!

The distance is a full hundred meters.

But the lame monkey was, after all, a cripple, and it seemed to be injured as well. It moved very slowly, and judging by this, it would definitely not be able to reach the cabin before darkness fell.

Behind the lame monkey was a middle-aged man in a blue robe with his hands behind his back. He walked at a leisurely pace, with a faint smile in his eyes, about a step behind the lame monkey, as if he was completely unafraid of the dense darkness that was about to envelop him.

"call"

Chen Fan took a deep breath, his face pale as he assessed his physical condition and estimated the approximate time. Without hesitation, he immediately rushed out of the wooden house and ran towards the lame monkey!

In the instant a few meters away from the wooden house.

The lingering fear instantly surged into his heart. He could even smell the strong stench of blood in the air and feel a faint, bone-chilling sensation on his back!

Under fear.

He even ran faster than usual. When he reached the lame monkey, he didn't have time to say a word. He immediately hoisted the lame monkey onto his shoulder. Fortunately, the lame monkey was thin, so although it was a bit strenuous, it could hold on.

"Grass!"

Chen Fan couldn't help but roar, as if venting his emotions or fighting against the fear of the unknown. He subconsciously turned his head to look at the dense darkness that was rapidly sweeping in from the horizon. He had no mind to pay attention to the pedestrians that the lame monkey had recruited beside him. He carried the lame monkey and ran wildly toward the wooden house!

step.
two steps
He had never felt that 100 meters was so far.

at last!

The instant he clearly felt the tangible darkness sweep past his back, he rushed into the "golden halo," his body collapsing uncontrollably to the ground. He struggled to his feet, panting and staring in terror at everything before him. Darkness completely enveloped the entire site.

The light emitted by that "ghost fire" was like a transparent golden eggshell, enveloping the entire wooden house and forming a golden halo on the ground.

Outside the aperture.

It was an extremely dense darkness with zero visibility, no moonlight, no clouds, only eerie sounds that could be heard from time to time, and the occasional flash of pale, sharp claws in the darkness.

Eternal night has fallen.

And at this time——

He then noticed that the middle-aged man in a green robe who had been following behind the lame monkey was now standing inside the golden circle, looking at the two of them with a half-smile.

"call"

Chen Fan took a deep breath. The moment he saw the lame monkey appear outside the safe house, he knew that the lame monkey must have risked his life to solicit customers on the earthen slope, where the view was good enough. But this was not the time to talk about that. He stood up and calmed himself down before looking at the man in the green robe and said in a deep voice.

"This is stop number 37 for the 'Chen Family, Jiangbei' area."

“Non-Chen family members need to pay 1 Ghost Stone for staying overnight. If you are a member of the Chen family or an ally, you need to show the Jiangbei Chen family pass token.”

He could tell that the person in front of him was no ordinary person.

"so good."

The man in the green robe took out a strange stone from his pocket and flicked it into Chen Fan's arms, smiling: "Seeing you all reminds me of those days when I was struggling. There was a time when I was just like you, fighting to the death for a strange stone."

"Is your station just one room?"

"Yes."

Chen Fan nodded: "This is an ordinary station."

The man nodded without saying anything more, then turned and went into the cabin, closing the door behind him.

Only after the man entered the house did Chen Fan forcibly suppress his excitement. He could clearly feel his heart pounding wildly, not just because he had earned a strange stone, but more so because...
His magic touch has worked!
The moment the man flicked the strange stone at him, he felt a surge of heat coursing through his body and forming an ancient bronze panel deep within his mind.
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"You have obtained a Mysterious Stone."

"Activate the Night Lord panel."

"You can upgrade, build, and strengthen various buildings within your territory by consuming Mystic Stones."

"Currently, there are already buildings within the designated area."

"Level 1 Ghost Fire": Safe range diameter is 10 meters, upgrade requires 10 Ghost Stones.

Currently, five basic building types and one special building type can be constructed.

"Level 1 Animal Trap": Can deal some damage to low-level monsters, requires 2 monster stones to craft.
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"call"

Chen Fan gripped the strange stone tightly in his hand, gazing into the dense darkness outside the circle of light, gulping in the cold air into his lungs. He looked quite disheveled, covered in dry grass, but his eyes gleamed with a sharp light!

He knew he held the key to survival in this world.

but.
It's just a key; how long he can live depends on how he uses it!

Immediately afterwards——

He walked to the "ghost fire" almost without hesitation, where three ghost stones were quietly placed in the flames.

Two of them were still intact.

The other one was somewhat dull.

Under normal circumstances, these three strange stones would be enough for him to spend three nights in the wasteland.

(End of this chapter)